Detective Ghost Empress

” Here, right next to you–” Zhai Tianyu did not even get a chance to finish what he was saying when he saw Yu Lingyun jump in the air so hard that he sent the chair behind him flying, seeing him jump like this surprised both Zhai Tianyu and Zhai Heng, both of them looked at Yu Lingyun who was looking at the spot next to him with a terrified expression.

They were not the only ones who were startled even Zhai Chenguang who has been standing next to Yu Lingyun was also startled, she jumped in the air as well and let out an ‘ EEP’, before cupping her face as she looked at Yu Lingyun, her expression matching Yu Lingyun. She despite being a ghost was just as scared as Yu Lingyun!

” What’s wrong with you?” Seeing that his aunt got sacred because of Yu Lingyun, Zhai Tianyu could not help but shoot a reproachful look at Yu Lingyun who was standing behind Zhai Heng. ” You scared aunt by screaming like this, what are you doing, General Yu?”

” I scared her?” Yu Lingyun asked in a squeaky voice while pointing at himself. ‘Bro, you need to take another look and see for yourself who scared who because the fck you are talking about! How can I scare a ghost?’ Yu Lingyun roared in his head while looking at Zhai Tianyu but seeing that his friend only cared about his dead aunt more than his still ‘alive’ friend he decided to say nothing at all.

What a world he was living in, the dead has more importance than a living human!

Yu Lingyun was upset but he did not say anything instead he simply turned to look at Zhai Heng for support but when he saw the man looking at him with admonishment as well, he knew that he was done with this fake love for once and for all.

” Whatever,” Yu Lingyun muttered as he looked at Zhai Tianyu who was still looking at him and then frowned with a questioning expression on his face as he asked, ” What now?”

” Who is going to apologise to aunt?” Zhai Tianyu asked as he pointed to the empty space beside him and then looked at Yu Lingyun with a ‘ you better apologise now,’ expression causing Yu Lingyun to feel even more abandoned than he was earlier.

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Was this real? These guys were asking him to apologise to a ghost?

However, when he saw that both Zhai Heng and Zhai Tianyu were looking at him with impatient looks on their face, he knew that they were not joking. They were really serious! What the hell!

What was this fake love? What happened to their years of friendship huh?

However, he still smiled externally and then bowed respectfully where Zhai Tianyu was pointing and spoke in an apologetic tone, ” Forgive me Aunt Chenguang, I was startled by the news and that was why I reacted like this, if I have offended you then I will apologise to you.”

” Oh no it’s okay,” Zhai Chenguang who could now talk to Zhai Tianyu forgot that she was dead for a while and ended up getting scared like this but now that she saw Yu Lingyun bow in front of her, she realised that she was already dead what was she doing getting scared like this by a living man?

A ghost getting scared because of a human, it was a good thing that no one else saw her or else she would have been embarrassed even after death.

” There is no need for you to apologise, I was the one who was at fault here,” Zhai Chenguang replied while flailing her hands as she asked Yu Lingyun to stand up but when the latter stayed in the bowing stance she realised that only Zhai Tianyu could hear her, so she turned to her nephew and said, ” Ask him to stand up there is no need for him to apologise to me like this.”

Zhai Tianyu thought that Yu Lingyun indeed needed to apologise to his aunt but now that his aunt was asking him to let Yu Lingyun stand up straight, he could not ignore her request.

” Stand up,” Zhai Tianyu told Yu Lingyun causing the man to let out a sigh of relief and only then did he stand up straight and looked at the empty space where Zhai Tianyu was pointing before turning to look at Zhai Tianyu again and cleared his throat before speaking, ” Now what? Are we going to leave this matter in the hands of the Queen?” He paused and then added carefully, ” I know that the Queen might be willing to help you but in case the culprit behind aunt Chenguang’s killing is a member of the Liu family then what will happen?”

Zhai Tianyu knew that even if he was willing to place his trust in the queen, neither Yu Lingyun nor Zhai Heng wouldn’t be willing to, after all, they did not know that the Queen was a different person in the soul.

” I know that there is a chance that the Queen might hide a few things from me but you are forgetting that I can see aunt at the moment, even if the queen is willing to hide something from me, aunt will definitely let me know because the reason she cannot move on is that she wants to see her criminal getting punished.”

Only then did Yu Lingyun nod but Zhai Heng still looked suspicious, he looked at his brother who was willing to trust the Queen and then pursed his lips before rising from the chair in which he was sitting and then sombrely said, ” I am not saying that I do not trust your majesty but I still need to keep an eye on the queen, I will take a look at what she has to say and only then I will see whether I should leave it to her or not.”

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