Detective Ghost Empress

” Oh dear,” Ji Yu who was holding the teacup in her hand muttered apologetically as she looked at Zhai Tianyu who was sitting opposite her. ” Please do forgive me, your majesty.”

“It’s all right,” Zhai Tianyu waved his hand as he asked the eunuch to call a maid and clean the shards of the broken teacup. ” This is not something that you need to apologize for.”

Even though he said that a frown was etched on his face, in his heart something like the slipping of the teacup and it getting broken into multiple pieces was something really small but for some reason, he felt the sound of the teacup breaking deep into his heart as a bad premonition rose in his heart.

‘ is everything going well with her majesty?’ He questioned in his mind as he turned his head and looked out of the window that was overlooking the courtyards of the harem. Should he go and check on her?

Ji Yu watched the maid clean the shards of the broken teacup, she even gently smiled at the maid before thanking her for her hard work causing the little maid who was responsible for cleaning the shards to feel gratified as she left the room, for the little maid someone like Ji Yu thanking her was something really grand and it caused the little maid to feel really respectful towards Ji Yu who was both gentle and kind irrespective of her position.

What the little maid did not know was that Ji Yu deliberately thanked her, back when she stayed in the Ji mansion she would do something similar to this as well and Zhai Tianyu would find her more and more intriguing and kind, this was the reason why she chose to thank the maid. As for whether or not she was respectful of maids like the one who cleaned the shards of the teacup, only Ji Yu knew it well in her heart.

As the maid left the room, Ji Yu turned to look at Zhai Tianyu all set to see the same adoration and respect in his eyes as he used to when they were young but as soon as she turned to look at Zhai Tianyu, she was surprised to see that the man was not even looking at her! Even though he was sitting right in front of her, he was clearly lost in his own thoughts and was not even paying attention to her.

When she saw that Zhai Tianyu was looking at the harem even though she was sitting in front of him and they clearly finished eating a very cordial and friendly dinner, Ji Yu understood that he was thinking about Liu Hui Ying. She did not have to think twice about why Zhai Tianyu was not paying attention to her and was instead paying attention to something else, after all, in the current time his majesty was getting more and more involved with the Empress!

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Ji Yu bit her bottom lip as she looked at Zhai Tianyu and then somehow managed to curl her lips into a smile even though her fingers were clenched in her lap as she looked at the man who was slowly getting further and further away from her. She could not understand why and when Zhai Tianyu started to drift away from her but what she did know was that she could not allow Zhai Tianyu to get any further away from her because this man was the only person who she had in her life, if she lost him too then she will have nowhere to go.

Her father did not care about her and he only saw potential in her as she was close to Zhai Tianyu and her mother was not a good person either. After her late brother only Zhai Tianyu has given her peace, he was her anchor, the one person that was holding her down or else she would have killed herself long ago after losing her brother who cared for her when she was young.

” Your majesty, you seem to be distracted,” she suddenly spoke causing Zhai Tianyu to turn and look at her in confusion. He seemed a bit lost in a daze and that only caused Ji Yu to clench her fingers even more tightly in her lap as her nails started to dig into the flesh of her palms but she kept her smile intact and adoring as she said, ” What’s wrong? Am I boring you?”

” Oh no,” Zhai Tianyu snapped out of his thoughts and then shook his head as he turned all his attention to Ji Yu who was sitting in front of him. ” I was just thinking about something …earlier in the afternoon, the court and everything that happened…nothing else, my apologies.”

Ji Yu knew that he was lying to her, even Zhai Tianyu did not know that he had a tell when he was lying and no one else other than her knew about it, she has been so in love with him for so many years that she, of course, knew everything about him. Just like how she knew that every time Zhai Tianyu lied he would rub the back of his hands with his thumb, it was a small gesture but she who always paid attention to everything that he did, of course, caught this small action of his as well.

But for the time being, she was willing to be lied to because she knew that if she was to ask for the truth then she might receive an answer that she will not like or even be willing to hear, which was why she did not question him even though her heart was churning.

All her life she wished for just one thing and that was —— that no one will take Zhai Tianyu away from her and yet …

” Should we go to the garden as we used to your majesty?” She asked while looking at Zhai Tianyu who was sitting in front of her with a smile. ” It has been so long and the two of us haven’t gone for a walk.”

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