Detective Ghost Empress

167 a hypocrite

” You may rise,” when Liu Hui Ying saw that Ji Yu was actually willing to lower her head in front of her she was half-convinced that she was planning something because there was no way a chicken would come looking for the weasel for no reason at all.

Li Gang: It’s good that you know that you are a cruel weasel and that girl is a delicate chicken–

Liu Hui Ying who could hear his thoughts waved her hand and caused Li Gang to spin like a top as he looked at her in shock and surprise while his head lolled from one side to another. Only then did Liu Hui Ying turn to look at Ji Yu who was now sitting in front of her and then asked in a soft voice, ” Is there something that concubine Ji wants from me?”

Ji Yu stared at the table instead of looking at Liu Hui Ying, she pursed her lips and then hesitated for a while before raising her head and looking at Liu Hui Ying with a soft look in her eyes as she said, ” I am here to see her majesty because there is something that I need you to ask you.”

” I see? And what is it that you need to ask me ?” Liu Hui Ying did not see any need for Ji Yu to be here and much less ask something from her but she still went along with the woman and asked what she wanted to say, after all, she did not think that Ji Yu would say anything too shocking.

Big mistake on her part.

Because the next second she heard Ji Yu say, ” Your majesty, are you trying to steal his majesty from me because of what happened to your sister?”

Liu Hui Ying has taken just a sip of her soup when she heard Ji Yu’s question, she immediately choked upon hearing this and then looked at Ji Yu with an incredible look on her face. She has expected a lot of things but she did not expect Ji Yu to be this straightforward, she wiped her mouth with the tablecloth that was sitting on the side and then looked at Ji Yu with a slightly different expression on her face as she asked, ” So you received a concrete answer of what happened back then right?”

Ji Yu did not reply to this question but her silence was enough, she did not believe a word that Liu Hui Ying told her back then which was why she immediately wrote a letter to her family when she returned to the courtyard. She was expecting to receive a letter that would bash Liu Hui Ying and her overly smart imagination but what she received was a confirmation.

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Her father knew that now that Liu Hui Ying and her were in the same palace, some secrets cannot be hidden from her which was why he confessed in his letter that what Liu Hui Ying was telling her was the truth. It was just as Liu Hui Ying told her, her brother was not the only one who was killed back then, they too have killed Liu Hui Ying’s sister and after having her defiled because they wanted the Liu family to keep it under wraps such that they will still continue to have the trust of the Emperor while pitting the Liu family as cruel and vile.

” Ah, this is funny,” Liu Hui Ying commented when she saw that Ji Yu was not saying anything and then chuckled softly. ” So when are you going to tell the emperor about the truth?”

Hearing Liu Hui Ying’s words, Ji Yu snapped her head up and looked at Liu Hui Ying who was looking at her with an amused expression on her face. ” What do you mean?”

” I mean what you think I mean,” Liu Hui Ying was not someone who would be gentle with someone just because they believed that they were supposed to be pampered. Ji Yu was a delicate lady and she indeed had her wits at moments but she was too much of a damsel in distress waiting for her Prince Charming to save her.

It was honestly quite pathetic to watch, a girl who could have been a wonderful woman lose herself because of so-called love.

” You said that I am taking his majesty away from you, which is what you should have of course deduced on your own,” Liu Hui Ying said as she picked up the slice of chilled cucumber and placed it in her mouth and chewed it properly. ” I couldn’t care less about his majesty but if this is what you think, you can always defeat me by telling him the truth, can you not sweetheart?”

How can she tell Zhai Tianyu the truth? If she was to tell him that her family was just as scheming as the Liu family, Zhai Tianyu will lose all his trust in her and what will be left of her? Ji Yu thought in her head as she bit her lip and then clenched her fingers, there was nothing that she could say at the moment.

” Oh, it looks like you cannot tell anything to his majesty,” Liu Hui Ying continued to speak as she looked at the woman who had her head lowered and then laughed lightly as she said, ” Do you know how you look right now?”

Ji Yu raised her head and looked at Liu Hui Ying whose eyes were colder than ice. ” You look like a hypocrite, you are quick to judge me because you think that you are losing something important, strictly speaking, you and I both are the wives of the Emperor, I have as much right on him as you do but you don’t want to lose your sole position. Your family has wronged mine for so long and have created a chaste appearance in front of the Emperor, the same could be said for you, you could have said the same thing to the Emperor, asked him to pay more attention to you but instead you came to me because you don’t want the Emperor to know how jealous and vain you are, right?”