Detective Ghost Empress

” I only like the result not the process!” countered Li Gang as he pointed to the sun and impatiently said, “When you started getting ready it was twelve in the noon and now it’s one past fifteen minutes! I have been waiting for you for an hour and fifteen minutes and that too just because I want to go on a walk!”

As a ghost, it was dangerous for them to go anywhere alone without the permission of their celestial master. In case they meet with the grim reaper then they will have to go through all the processes of verification and whatnot including giving him proof that they belonged to a celestial master and had a decent job.

And this happened in their world, if they were to be caught by a grim reaper from this world who knows what might happen to them, that was why neither of them wanted to go around looking at the palace without Liu Hui Ying.

Not unless it was extremely dangerous, or else they would have to bring the grim reaper to Liu Hui Ying and have him meet her like a naughty kid being caught by the neighbourhood’s strict old man and then brought back to their parents for complaints.

Li Gang was sure that he couldn’t live the same humiliation all over again!

The day he was caught by the grim reaper because he ran away from home after fighting with Liu Hui Ying was one of the days he wished he could forget. Honestly, the way the grim reaper was complaining about him to Liu Hui Ying...it was like attending the parents’ teacher meeting all over again.

Liu Hui Ying studied him for a while before she nodded and said, ” Now I understand why you are not getting a girlfriend.”

” What does this have to do with me not being able to get a girlfriend?” He demanded in anger while Jia Li and Grandma Lan Fen shook their heads and one by one said, ” You are indeed a bit too much, Ah Gang.”

.....

” With that temper of yours, you deserve to stay single.”

” You...all shut up!”

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Li Gang was in a very bad mood even when he got out of the courtyard but then he caught sight of the maids walking into the palace and his eyes lit up. ” Well, Well, well would you look at this? It seems like the maids here are all little beauties.”

” Of course they are,” said Jia Li knowledgeably. “I have seen in the palace drama that a king is allowed to have uncountable numbers of bed maids. Apart from having a queen and four royal concubines and several lower-rank concubines. Surely, the officials must have chosen these maids and sent them to the palace in hope that they will be able to get close to the Emperor.” She looked at the well-dressed maids and their palm-shaped faces that were dreadfully decorated with makeup and added, ” A few days ago after that concubine Shen was killed, there is an empty slot in the lower ranks of concubines, surely they are all trying to gain the attention of the Emperor.”

” Wow,” said Li Gang suddenly sounding sour as he rolled his eyes and spat in the air. ” This is what I call having your ten fingers in a pot of butter and your head in the vat, that man was born with such a stroke of amazing luck. These women are all looking forward to catching his attention and when I used to show attention to women, they all would turn around and run away like I was a monster! What an unfair world!”

Jia Li simply rolled her eyes at him, she wanted to let him know that it wasn’t the world that was unfair. It was his luck, not only was he born poor, even his facial features were so scary that any woman would run away after taking a look at his face.

But seeing that he was getting annoyed and was mumbling curses under his breath, she decided to keep her thoughts to herself.

Liu Hui Ying, on the other hand, was looking at the maids who immediately lowered their heads when they saw her walk by, she could see that some of them were trembling as to why, but she did not stop to ask. After all, she was pretty sure that the woman was not a cruel woman and she has never been to the palace before getting married, so most probably this had to do with the surname ‘Liu’ who lived in the palace.

“They really,” Nanny Gong too caught the maid trembling as if her mistress was walking towards them with a sword and looked at them in a disapproving manner but before she could scold the maids, Liu Hui Ying stopped her. ” There is no need, even if you scold them, it’s not like they will learn anything.”

Fear was something that no human was able to rein on unless they wanted to, clearly, these maids did not have enough guts to face their fears.

Even if Nanny Gong was to scold these maids, they will simply apologise and then go back to hating and fearing her again.

Nanny Gong pursed her lips but she obeyed her mistress’s orders, as the three of them walked past the maids they heard several maids heaving breaths of relief.

Immediately, Nanny Gong and Qui Ai’s faces turned black, their miss clearly has not done anything to anyone. Yet they were treating her like she was a monster!

” Your majesty...” Nanny Gong was worried that her fragile missy will be hurt, she wanted to say some good words to her missy but she was stopped by Liu Hui Ying when the latter smiled at her and said, “It’s all right.”

She was used to such reactions when she was young, she did not know that people feared ghosts or the dead. She would often tell them what she saw and it was after a very long time did she realise that her classmates and friends started to fear her.

Back then she was alone and she had to face all sorts of bullying, compared to that...this wasn’t even worth mentioning.