Detective Ghost Empress

Liu Hui Ying plopped down on the soft bed with her arms spread out and her legs dangling from the edge of the bed.

She released a sigh of comfort as soon as she felt the soft mattress under her, Liu Hui Ying had been sleeping in the hard bed for the past three days and though she was not uncomfortable as she had lived in even harsher conditions when she was a special detective, who wouldn't like comfort?

She was a human too.

"This is what I call life," Liu Hui Ying hummed as she looked up at the roof of the four-poster bed that was covered with curtains on the side while the side was left open for her to climb inside.

Nanny Gong looked at Liu Hui Ying who was acting like a slob and then shook her head before saying, "Your majesty, even if you are alone you should take care of yourself. How can you not wipe your hair before lying on the bed? You will get a cold."

As she spoke, Nanny Gong walked over to the bed and reached her hand to help Liu Hui Ying up. She then picked up the towel which she had placed on the cabinet next to the bed and started patting Liu Hui Ying's long hair.

Her hands gently patted Liu Hui Ying's hair while Xiao Ai prepared the drying incense to take care of the moisture in Liu Hui Ying after the wiping.

"You are still very much like a child. In the past, you used to do the same thing," Nanny Gong spoke with a reminiscing look on her face as she sighed. "You would lay down on the bed with your hair dripping wet and then you will refuse to let me wipe it. One time you even got a fever because of your stubbornness but you have never changed your habits."

Liu Hui Ying chuckled. She was glad that the previous owner was similar to her or else she would have given away her identity.

She then leaned back such that her back was leaning against Nanny Gong and then said in a babyish voice, "But what can I do? I have you by my side and you will always take care of me."

Nanny Gong was so amused that she wanted to hit Liu Hui Ying lightly on the bottom like she used to when she was young. She was already married and was about to turn eighteen very soon and yet she was saying that she was still a baby?

"Your majesty, I did not know that you can act spoiled," Nanny Gong shook her head but her eyes were even gentler than before as she helped Liu Hui Ying. Because Liu Hui Ying lost her mother when she was very young, she was the one who raised Liu Hui Ying from the second she was born, Liu Hui Ying also treated her like her mother but then she grew up and started to distance herself from her.

However, now that Liu Hui Ying was back to her usual self Nanny Gong felt touched.

She knew that her missy was still the same even if she was cold and gloomy on the surface.

Liu Hui Ying smiled at Nanny Gong's words. It was not that she did not want to act spoiled, instead, it was that she did not have anyone to act spoiled with. After her sister was gone, she lost her only family member and she was left alone in the world.

With whom could she even act spoiled? What was more everyone thought that she was the one who killed her sister, thus Liu Hui Ying was more or less like a monster in their eyes.

This was her first time getting doted on by someone other than her sister.

'But you should not get used to it as you will have to go back very soon,' a voice told her and all the happiness that was bubbling in her heart soon went down. That was right, this love and affection did not belong to her, she had only borrowed it for a while. Sooner or later she would have to return it all.

This thought caused Liu Hui Ying to feel a bit unsettled. She really did not want to leave such warmth but what could she even do? Since this body did not belong to her, Liu Hui Ying knew that sooner or later she would have to return it after all she wanted to go back right?

Right?

Of course, she did!

Liu Hui Ying said to herself but inwardly she could not help but feel tormented by the decisions that she was making these days.

Nanny Gong and Xiao Ai helped Liu Hui Ying dry her hair and then let her lay down in the bed. Even though Liu Hui Ying told them that they should go back and sleep in their beds, the two of them did not go to the slaves' quarters to sleep instead they sat down on each side of the door and stayed up guarding her.

They did not tell Liu Hui Ying but only by staying at her side, they felt relaxed and at ease.

The two of them glanced at one another before giggling lightly.

"Her majesty is going to be angry with us when she finds out that we stayed outside her room," Xiao Ai said to Nanny Gong who also had a doting smile on her face as she covered herself with a blanket. She turned to look at the moon that was shining in the sky and then hummed, "That's why we need to make sure that we wake up before Her Majesty."

Xiao Ai chuckled softly upon hearing Nanny Gong's remark. It felt a bit exciting while playing around like this and she hoped that this peace could stay like this without anyone tarnishing it.

Poor Xioa Ai had no idea that no sooner did she finish making that wish, three shadows rushed past the corridor when she was not paying attention.