Detective Ghost Empress

‘Must be the air,’ she thought in her head and then turned to look at Liu Yu Yang who was standing by her side and asked softly, “Don’t you have somewhere to go? You don’t need to stand by me like this, I am fine.”

She really could not understand how and why this man started to follow her, all she said was that she came to the graveyard alone and Zhai Tianyu did not come with her and ever since then this man has been following her. Was this matter that big? She might be a woman but can’t she arrive in the graveyard on her own? Why does she need to have a patron following her?

What Liu Hui Ying who lived in the modern world as an independent woman can never understand was that even though she was the Empress, her title held no respect without the Emperor. Even if she was the mother of the nation, if it was rumoured that she has been abandoned by the Emperor then she will lose every bit of value that she had in the eyes of others.

Liu Hui Ying did not understand it but Liu Yuyang who was trained as the heir of the Liu family understood everything too well. He glanced at one of their uncle who was looking at Liu Hui Ying with a judgemental look in his eyes and narrowed his gaze glaring at the man in return until he turned around and looked somewhere else.

‘I want to leave as well but if I leave then you will be swallowed whole by these people.’ Liu Yuyang who was standing beside Liu Hui Ying remarked in his head but he did not say anything to the young girl. As he turned to look at Liu Hui Ying who was blinking her eyes at him, he couldn’t help but remember the time when the latter was too young and naive, the first time he saw her when he was brought home by Old master Liu who was his adoptive father and Liu Hui Ying’s biological father.

Back then Liu Hui Ying was not as corrupted by the talks of the servants and she cared for him as well, when she was young, she would follow him like this as well and the way she looked at him was the same too. Naive and innocent without any hint of malice in her eyes as she stared up at him.

“You don’t need to worry, your majesty,” Liu Yuyang answered Liu Hui Ying as he turned his head away from the young woman who was looking at him with that innocent gaze of hers. When he was brought to the Liu family, his adoptive father introduced him to Liu Hui Ying as his future wife, he told him that he was being raised as the heir because he was going to marry Liu Hui Ying and then become her husband who will take on her name.

But when Liu Hui Ying turned thirteen and started hating him and everything that he did along with their eldest uncle coming with the plan of marrying her to the Emperor instead of keeping her at home, that small idea of his adoptive father was scraped completely.

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Back then Liu Yuyang did not think that it was a pity or a problem on his part, in fact, he was quite relieved when he found out that he would not have to look after the spoiled and bratty Liu Hui Ying all his life but now that the latter was looking at him with those eyes that shone like countless stars in the midnight sky, why was his heart aching at the thought that this woman can never be his?

Maybe it was because of the funeral, as the heir of the Liu family and now the adopted brother of Liu Hui Ying, he tried to brush away those thoughts from his head.

“I am just feeling a bit sentimental at the thought of losing one of my sisters, if you don’t mind then please allow me to stay next to you,” And let me silently protect you, he added in his head quietly. He will not be able to stand next to Liu Hui Ying in his entire life since that spot now belonged to Zhai Tianyu.

However, it was such a pity —— the owner of that spot did not care for this place at all.

Liu Hui Ying did not say anything when she heard Liu Yuyang say those words, instead, she thought it was quite good as well because she could see that many people in her so-called family wanted to talk to her but she had no desire to talk these people whose gazes looked nothing less than unfriendly.

” Why are we not moving on with the ceremony of paying respects?” She asked not liking the gazes that were turned in her direction every once and then, they lingered on her back as if they had every right to do so.

Liu Yuyang turned his head and glared at those women who were casting suspicious and malicious gazes at Liu Hui Ying from behind and only when they turned away did he turn to look at her and replied, ” The head said that we are going to wait for his majesty. You might not know this, your majesty ….but the Ji family is holding the same ceremony for Ji Xianglan. Now everyone wants to see whose family will his majesty attend first, which is why the entire family is waiting for him to arrive such that we will be able to move to the next part of the ceremony.”

‘Isn’t it obvious where he will go?’ Liu Hui Ying questioned in her head as she rolled her eyes. Zhai Tianyu’s sweetheart was surname ‘Ji’ surely he will go looking for her right? These people.... they were only wasting time by waiting for that jerk——-

“His majesty is entering!” Liu Hui Ying was still cursing Zhai Tianyu in her head when she heard the guards at the door of the graveyard shout at the top of their lungs.

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