Detective Ghost Empress

” Ah, that’s right, that’s right,” Zhai Tianyu did not know why Liu Dong Ming did not make use of his small lapse in attention to do something other than use it for Liu Fei Fei who was already dead, as far as he knew Liu Dong Ming did not care about Liu Fei Fei at all, he has never even spent some time with Liu Fei Fei after she was sent to his family.

Did he do it because he wanted to help him? Or was this an act of a little bit of kindness for Liu Fei Fei who lost her life?

Zhai Tianyu looked at Liu Dong Ming and realised that he could not understand the man at all, it would be wrong of him to say that Liu Dong Ming was a good man because he wasn’t, he has done a bunch of things that should have been enough for him to lose his life but at the same time whenever Zhai Tianyu marked him as an evil man, Liu Dong Ming will turn around and do something nice and confused him.

He was neither black nor was he white.

Liu Dong Ming was grey…..completely neutral.

” I was too upset after losing my concubine and lost my head for a moment, I apologise,” Zhai Tianyu did not want to embarrass Liu Fei Fei after she died as well, even though he has never accepted her as his wife, he was willing to give her the respect of one. ” Where were we?”

As he asked he turned to look at Yu Lingyun with an innocent expression pretending like he was a harmless kitten. If Liu Hui Ying saw him at the moment, she would have called him shameless.

” We were discussing the incident that happened yesterday, your majesty,” the right prime minister Ji Yang spoke as he took a step forward in front of the ministers and looked at Zhai Tianyu with a polite expression on his face. ” I was just discussing that the incident did not look like a suicide, as far as I know —— Consort Liu has been treated really well by you, for her to suddenly commit suicide, doesn’t it strike as something really unbelievable?”

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It was clear that Ji Yang was trying to target the Liu family by questioning the authenticity of the news that has been sent out to everyone.

” The only thing that strikes me as unbelievable, Prime minister Ji is—— that you are paying too much attention to my daughter,” Liu Dong Ming was not one to be messed with either, he calmly and stoically raised his head and looked at Ji Yang without the slightest flicker or change in his expression as he spoke, ” I know that with your long and hooked nose, you want to poke it in other people’s businesses but I can assure you that you do not want to poke your nose into mine. I have lost my only family member and I do not appreciate your meddling especially when my daughter is yet to be buried.”

According to the customs, those who died were buried after three days during this period of time the family of the deceased would keep vigil from the very next day once the funeral rituals were performed and they were usually performed in the day instead of the night given that it was believed that the light of the day would guide the dead to the path of the underworld instead of being lost in the world. Thus, Liu Fei Fei who died in the evening was only cleaned and her body was kept in the coffin as for the funeral rituals none of them were held at the night.

Ji Yang’s face twisted when he heard Liu Dong Ming talking back to him, what was more, he was actually attacking him outright. A part of him was eager to slap Liu Dong Ming in the face while the other half was still terrified of this man’s means.

Last night, more than twenty bloodied corpses of maids were found in the bedchambers of the women of the Ji family, no one knew how and who snuck inside the house but Ji Yang knew that the one who was behind this incident was none other than Liu Dong Ming, he was angry and enraged at the fact that the Ji family tried to target the Liu family again and thus sent a warning.

But even though he was scared of Liu Dong Ming, Ji Yang understood the fact that even if he was to stop now Liu Dong Ming won’t, Liu Fei Fei was his daughter and the reason why Liu Dong Ming kept her by his side was simple he still had use for that woman, but because of his interference Liu Dong Ming’s plans were disrupted and with his understanding of Liu Dong Ming, Ji Yang knew that he was a man who would never suffer a loss without proper retaliation.

Most probably the man will attack him again in the future and this time worse than before which was why he did not want to give Liu Dong Ming a chance to retaliate against him, he has to make sure that the man would be too busy to care about the Ji family while being engrossed in his own family matters!

” I am not trying to pull anything by asking such questions, prime minister Liu,” stated Ji Yang with a smile as he looked at Liu Dong Ming with a smile on his lips. ” I was just trying to say that the reason you are actually stopping me from investigating the death of consort Liu…. Is it because you are worried that her majesty, the Queen will be targeted?”