Detective Ghost Empress

” Your highness, I know that you are upset but you should eat something at least,” Xiaolin did not know what happened three days ago on the night of the Empress’s accident, all she knew was that her mistress came back with tears streaming down her eyes. Her skin was blotchy and red, while she cried and cried for a very long time, even now her mistress would end up bursting out in tears every once in and now.

What was even more troublesome was the fact that her mistress was not eating, she was not even going out on a walk and stayed in her courtyard all day long. When she asked Ji Yu what was wrong with her, the latter would smile ruefully and start talking in a confusing manner causing her to be stumped.

She was not literate and Ji Yu’s poetry only caused her to get more bewildered.

” I am not hungry, Xiaolin,” Ji Yu replied as she picked up her brush and looked down at the blank paper but even after having her arm raised and brush clutched in her fingers all set to draw, she wanted to draw something such that she will be able to ease her mind and heart but no matter how much she tried to forget that night where she realised that the Emperor was slowly changing and getting inclined towards the Empress, Ji Yu could not do it.

Even now she could remember the sight of the Emperor running away from her without looking back even once.

” You haven’t been hungry for more than three days,” Xiaolin brought the tray with food laid on top of it and then placed it in front of Ji Yu, she looked at the latter with a concerned look in her eyes and said, ” I know that you are upset your highness but there is no need for you to be so upset that you will turn a blind eye to your health.”

” Imperial physician Shao said that you need to eat as much food as you can to dispel the poison in your body, if you keep acting like this, you will only damage your body even further.”

” I wonder if anyone will even care if that happens,” Ji Yu muttered as she kept staring at the blank piece of paper, for once even the dark thought of starving herself until her health declined came into her head, she wanted to see whether or not Zhai Tianyu would come rushing for him just like he did was Liu Hui Ying but then she pursed her lips and ignored that thought she knew that if she did something like that then she will be pushing Zhai Heng away from her again.

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” Your highness——”

” The Grand Dowager Empress is entering!” Before Xiaolin could say anything more, the guard who stood outside the courtyard announced the arrival of the Grand Dowager Empress causing both Xiaolin and Ji Yu to turn silent as they both scrambled to their feet and then waited to greet the Grand Dowager Empress.

” Long live your majesty, the grand dowager Empress!” Both Ji Yu and Xiaolin bowed down as they greeted the Grand Dowager Empress. The elderly woman was dressed in a soft peach-coloured dress with jewellery that could be counted as nothing but dainty and simple. She had a gentle smile on her face as she walked over to where Ji Yu was and said, ” You can rise.”

Both Ji Yu and Xiaolin stood up straight as they looked at the Grand Dowager Empress who was smiling benevolently at them.

” Your Majesty, why did you come here? If you wanted to see me then you could have called me, I would have come to see you,” Ji Yu looked at Grand Dowager Empress and politely smiled at him as she turned to look at Xiaolin who immediately understood her sign and then walked over to the small tea table where she cleaned up everything and started to prepare tea for the Grand Dowager Empress.

“It’s all right, I have been staying in my courtyard for a very long time, I think its only right for me to take a walk in the imperial palace every once and now,” the Grand Dowager Empress replied with a wave of her hand as she kept smiling and teasingly added, ” And a little birdie told me that you did not like leaving your courtyard these past few days.”

Ji Yu’s expression stiffened as she turned to look at Xiao Mi who lowered her head and did not look at her but she knew that it was not Xiao Mi’s fault, it must have been Xiaolin who went ahead and spoke without thinking.

“It’s nothing, your majesty… it is like this…” Ji Yu began speaking but then she was interrupted by the Grand Dowager Empress who smiled at her and said, ” Do you think that you can fool me? There is no need for you to worry about something like this.”

She then turned to look at the maids who followed her into the room and the maids who were in the room with Ji Yu. ” Leave us.”

The maids including Xiaolin did not have any other choice but to lower their heads and then leave the room without raising their heads.

Once they were gone, the grand dowager empress turned to look at Ji Yu and said, ” I have long heard what is going on between you and his majesty, that boy, he seemed to have been infatuated by the Empress. What a pity. But then again men are all like that they will fall for the new and forget their old ones, which is why….” She turned to look at Ji Yu and smiled with a hint of slyness as she added, ” You need to remember them who we are since they are such forgetful creatures. Don’t you think Ji Yu?”