Detective Ghost Empress

This was something that she needed to both accept and understand before moving on to her next step.

The flower valley was not far from the hunting grounds, after walking for a while the two of them arrived at the small grave that she had dug for Xiao Lin, the bodies from last night were obviously taken care of by Liu Dong Ming leaving the entire flower valley cleaned and filled with the sweet scent of flowers.

Ji Yu looked at the grave and then crouched down as she picked up a few white flowers and then wove a small wreath with them before placing them on the freshly dug soil which was covering Xiao Lin\'s decapitated body.

With Ji Yu laying the flowers down, Zhai Tianyu followed suit as he picked up the white flowers and then placed them on the grave. If he knew that Xiao Lin moved on he would have prayed for her peace but knowing that the maid was harping in the ears of his queen asking her to take her in, Zhai Tianyu knew that there was no point in lighting incense and offering it to Xiao Lin.

To his surprise, even Ji Yu did not offer incense as she turned to look at him and said, " Your majesty if I were to say that there are things that we have never imagined or seen walking on this very land will you believe me?"

Upon hearing her question, Zhai Tianyu was stunned. His body stiffened and then cleared his throat as he looked at Ji Yu who was crouching on the ground before saying, " What are you trying to say, imperial concubine?"

Ji Yu pushed herself off the ground as she turned to look at Zhai Tianyu, her eyes for the first time held confidence as she looked at him with a straight back. With her eyes staring at him, he did not see an ounce of infatuation in those black pupils if anything they were looking at him with a determination that he had never seen before, her rosy lips parted as he heard Ji Yu say,

" Last night something happened, when I was burying Xiao Lin…someone came to tell me that if I do something for him… he will take me to see Xiao Lin one last time."

Zhai Tianyu\'s pupils shrunk as he looked at Ji Yu, he opened his mouth to say that something like this was impossible but he could not bring himself to say such a thing when he saw the hope in Ji Yu\'s eyes, what was more behind that hope he felt another emotion which he was very well aware of now that he had fallen for Liu Hui Ying,

" Yu\'er, you…." He could not bring himself to say those words lest someone heard them. For a woman to be in love with another woman … was something that was frowned upon, though there were many concubines who found solace in each other\'s embrace, that matter was never spoken in public.

Ji Yu smiled ruefully as she looked at the grave and blinked her eyes slowly. " Aren\'t I the stupidest woman, your majesty? My grand aunt continued to fill my ears telling me that I needed to love you, that I have to stay beside you all the time and rise as the Empress to bring glory to my family and I was the foolish one who believed her words."

" I admired you but under my grandaunt\'s words, I started to believe that you were my salvation, that only with you by my side will I be able to find true happiness when the truth was that I only found peace and calm when I was with Xiao Lin… in fact, I knew it somewhere … I knew that I felt something different for Xiao Lin but always told myself that I treat her as my little sister—— only when I lost her last night, did I realise that I was a fool… I obviously loved her, she was the only one who was by my side when I had no one…not even you, your majesty and yet I—-"

Ji Yu bit her lips as she closed her eyes and willed her tears away, with her head turned to the side she calmed herself down by breathing in and out before she heaved a heavy breath and then turned to look at Zhai Tianyu with a firm glint in her eyes.

" The man told me that as long as I bring the Ji family down with him, he will let me speak to Xiao Lin … I don\'t care whether he spoke the truth or not but I… will do that, even if I cannot see Xiao Lin the last time, I will bring the Ji family down with my bare hands to avenge her."

She paused and looked at Hong Mei who was standing behind them and then turned her gaze back to Zhai Tianyu as she added, " Which is why I want his majesty to play along with me, I do understand that you love the queen and I have nothing to say about it but for the sake of my benevolence where I saved your life, pretend to be with me like you were in the past.

Let\'s act as fools since our family likes to watch clowns act so much, what do you say, your majesty?"

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