Detective Ghost Empress

And she continued staring at her feet until the Emperor walked away, only when the Emperor was far from the private room did Xiaolin raise her head and walked inside the private room where her mistress was on her knees, her eyes twinkling with tears as she stared at the door from where the Emperor left just now.

” Missy?” Xiaolin saw that her mistress mood was not good which was why she approached Ji Yu tentatively and then crouched down as she tried to help her mistress up from the floor. But as she reached for Ji Yu’s hand, she saw that his mistress was clenching her fingers so hard that she was digging her fingernails into her palm until she caused her palm to bleed.

” Your highness, you ... you are bleeding!” Xiaolin screamed in panic as she hurriedly tried to get her mistress up from the ground but the second she tried to help her mistress up from the floor, the latter snatched her hand from Xiaolin and said, ” Let me bleed! Let me bleed to death! What is the point of my life when the man I have adored for so long, no longer holds any affection for me!”

Ji Yu was the daughter of the Ji family and in the Ji family, it has always been her brother and cousin who been treated affectionately by her parents, Zhai Tianyu was the first man who adored her for her skills and wits but now... that man was no longer looking at her with as much admiration as he used to, if she lost his affection as well, then what was the point of staying in the palace and waiting for that man to love her again.

It was better for her to die!

” Your highness please snap out of your daze!” When her thoughts took an even more gloomy outlook, she was snapped out of her daze by Xiaolin who spoke to her by her shoulders looking at her with worry in her eyes. ” Please snap out of your depressing thoughts! There is no need for you to hurt yourself, as long as you are alive and know what you are doing, you will have a chance to come back!”

Xiaolin did not understand what happened between the Emperor and Concubine Ji but she knew that something severe must have happened or else her missy wouldn’t have said such a thing to her. But she knew that she couldn’t let her missy think of a such thing like this, if she continue like this then her mistress will lose her true self in the schemes of the imperial palace and become what she shouldn’t.

As her sister, she has to make sure that her mistress wouldn’t be able to lose her path.

.....

” Xiaolin...”Ji Yu softly spoke and allowed her maid to help her up from the ground and then sat down on the chair where she was sitting and then watched as Xiaolin fussed over.

“Your highness, now you are a concubine, you shouldn’t lose your temper like that and even if you lose your temper then you should never hurt yourself, see what you did to yourself!” Xiaolin scolded Ji Yu sternly as she walked to the small cabinet of the private room and started searching for the ointment that was kept all over the palace lest any member of the imperial family gets hurt.

Once she found the ointment, she picked it up from inside the cabinet drawer and then walked back to where Ji Yu was and then crouched down on the floor as she opened the screw of the ointment bottle and then started rubbing the ointment on the injuries of Ji Yu.

” What are you going to do if I leave your highness?” Xiaolin shook her head as she sighed and then blew air over the scratches where she applied the ointment. ” Without me, you will get injured every second day.”

” What are you saying? Where will you go? Don’t forget that you always have to be by my side.” Ji Yu’s heart calmed down after listening to Xiaolin’s scolding, her maid was right. As long as she was alive, she will be able to regain the affection she has lost and it wasn’t as if she was any less than the Queen, now was she?

...

” Achoo!” Liu Hui Ying sniffed while looking down at the man who was having a poetry competition with his friends and was smiling happily, next to him was a maid who was standing quietly on the side. While staring at the man, she clicked her tongue as she turned to look at the two men who were sitting next to her. ” Are you sure that he is the disciple of Scholar Wei?”

” He is indeed the disciple of Scholar Wei,” replied Yu Lingyun as he pointed to the young and dashing man who was sitting next to his friends while chatting about poetry and something else.

” I thought that this man would turn out to be something else,” Liu Hui Ying muttered, she was expecting the man who was under the wing of Scholar Wei to be a woman but now that she was seeing the abundance of Yang energy in his body, Liu Hui Ying couldn’t deny the fact that this man was a hundred and ten per cent male.

If he was a man then who was the woman involved in the killing? She tapped her fingers on the table and then lifted her gaze such that she was looking at the woman behind him. ” And what about that woman?”

———