Detective Ghost Empress

"Do I need you to speak?" Liu Hui Ying said to the assassin who was lying on the ground. When the assassin heard her voice, he felt his heart skip a beat as he raised his eyes and looked at the woman who seemed to be wearing the skin of a human despite being a devil.

He seemed to have picked up her meaning which was why he warily asked Liu Hui Ying, "What…do you want to do?"

"What do you think?" Liu Hui Ying asked back with a sinister grin. She clutched the sword that she was holding in her hands even more tightly before raising it in the air. The eyes of the assassin went wide as he sensed what Liu Hui Ying had in her mind which was why he relied on his strength to get away from her but it was as if a boulder was pressing on his back.

No matter what he did, he could not move!

Terror filled his eyes as he swept his gaze at the sharp blade though he had been trained to give up his life at any point, he did not think that the time would come so soon. Now that he was at the door of death, he felt fear well up in his heart as he screamed,

"It wasn't me! I did not want to kill you! I was ordered! I was ordered by Her Majesty the Grand——" the assassin's shout came to a sudden halt when Liu Hui Ying pierced his mouth with the sword that she was holding in her hand.

Blood splattered on the ground as the assassin's eyes went wide, Nanny Gong who had never seen such a painful and tragic death before closed her eyes and covered her mouth with her hand as she did not want to throw up on the spot.

It was scary. So scary.

The sight of that man's throat getting pierced and then the sword appearing from the other side of his throat was really a traumatic sight to behold.

Nanny Gong trembled as she saw Liu Hui Ying pull out the sword that she was holding in her hand from the assassin's mouth and murmur, "She attacked Hui Ying… I will kill her."

And this 'her' was none other than the Grand Dowager Empress!

Nanny Gong's eyes widened when she heard Liu Hui Ying's sudden exclamation. She could see that Liu Hui Ying was not lying when she said that she was going to kill her majesty the Grand Empress Dowager.

However, even if it was the Grand Empress Dowager they could not kill her just because they wanted to!

"No, Your Majesty! You cannot kill Her Majesty, the Grand Empress Dowager!" Nanny Gong screamed but Liu Hui Ying did not hear her seemingly too lost in her murderous haze. Seeing this Nanny Gong immediately stretched out her hands in front of Liu Hui Ying and said, "Your majesty, you cannot kill her majesty the Grand Dowager Empress! If you kill her then your entire family will be facing execution!"

However, Liu Hui Ying did not see it as troublesome. She turned to look at Nanny Gong and then said, "If they kill my family then I will kill everyone who tries to kill them."

Nanny Gong: "…" That is a fantastic desire but it's impossible to achieve, your majesty.

Outside the Phoenix Palace, Xiao Ai rushed to the palace that belonged to Zhai Tianyu. Upon seeing her rush inside the palace, the guards reached to stop her.

"Where are you going? His Majesty is with Concubine Ji tonight. You cannot barge inside the palace like this." One of the guards stopped Xiao Ai who cursed the Emperor for being too much of a pervert. Why did he have to go picking concubine every night? Could he not stay in his palace for once?

Though Xiao Ai was really upset with the Emperor, she did not know whom to ask for help. She could not go to the Empress Dowager as she was worried that if she was to tell the Empress Dowager that something like this happened to Liu Hui Ying, then Liu Dong Ming might kill her missy because she became a danger to the Liu family.

The reason she rushed to his majesty's palace was that she thought that Zhai Tianyu liked Liu Hui Ying even though she had an allergy towards men and yet he continued to pester her. If he could accept her with her allergies, surely he could accept her in this form as well?

"I am not trying to disrupt, his majesty! Something terrible happened to my missy and I want him to help her," Xiao Ai said anxiously to the guards, hoping that they would understand her situation.

Unfortunately for her, this tactic was used by many concubines and thus the guards did not believe her. Instead, they looked at Xiao Ai and then one of them said with contempt, "Little maid, do you think that we are fools? This tactic has been used by many concubines and his majesty has punished us each time when we sent word to him."

"That's right, we are not going to make the same foolish mistake twice," the other guard said with a low voice as if he was afraid of disturbing the Emperor even if was not outside in the garden but inside the palace.

Xiao Ai felt her nervousness exceed. She could not understand why these guards were being so stubborn, did they think that she would be here if her missy was not in problem? Anyway, it was his majesty who chased after her missy and it was not her majesty who chased after his majesty!

"I am telling the truth right now! My missy is in pain and she needs help! You can at least send the word to his majesty even if he does not want to help, telling him about her majesty's condition is your duty!" Xiao Ai complained with an annoyed expression. " Her Majesty is the Empress and the official wife of his majesty! How can you ignore her like other concubines?"

However, the guards stayed where they were and refused to move. It was all because his majesty, the Emperor had been visiting and calling Ji Yu ever since Liu Hui Ying was locked up in the cold palace. They thought that even if Liu Hui Ying was out of the cold palace, she had lost favour with his majesty as he did not visit her and only gave her the renovated Empress Palace.

Though many did not believe the rumour that it was only to placate the Liu family, guards like them believed it. They had seen his majesty visiting and looking for Ji Yu frequently these past few days and thus they were certain that Zhai Tianyu now liked Ji Yu more than Liu Hui Ying.

Thus, they did not feel wronged when they refused to listen to Xiao Ai.

"Ho…How could you! I am telling you that my missy is in pain and her life could be lost, how could you ignore me like this?" Xiao Ai was speechless when she saw how the guards were blatantly showing her disregard even if she was the maid of the Empress!

When the guards saw that Xiao Ai was making a fuss, their brows scrunched up as one of the guards reached out and pushed her on the shoulder.

"Shut up! Can't you understand something so simple? His Majesty called Concubine Ji and not the Empress. It means that he is over the Empress, how dare you act imprudent?" The guard said as he pushed Xiao Ai away.

"AH!" Xiao Ai was stunned as she did not expect the guard to push her away like this, she could not stabilize her footing and fell to the ground with a painful scream. "You bastards!"

Her scream was loud enough to attract Yu Lingyun and Zhai Heng who had returned from the training at the training ground. They were lightly discussing another attack tactic with one another when they heard Xiao Ai's scream.

At first, they thought that they were imagining it but when they climbed the path that led to the Emperor's Dragon Palace, they were stunned to find Xiao Ai on the snow while glaring at the guards.

"What happened?" Yu Lingyun furrowed his brows when he saw Xiao Ai sitting on the ground. He rushed over to where Xiao Ai was and helped her up by stretching his hand for her to take. He looked at her flushed palm and blew a warm breath over her hands when he saw that her skin had turned red due to the snow.

When the guards saw that Yu Lingyun was actually supporting Xiao Ai, they felt a sense of foreboding rise in their hearts. They looked at one another before turning to look at Yu Lingyun, they wanted to say something but Xiao Ai beat them to it as she said to Yu Lingyun,

"They are refusing to let me meet his majesty even when her majesty is attacked by assassins!"