Detective Ghost Empress

Chapter 490: A cliff and a rock

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" Achoo!" Zhai Tianyu sneezed causing Ji Yu to look at him with slight disgust, she raised her head from the painting that she was making and then said, " Was it necessary for you to come here, your majesty? There are more than fifty concubines in the harem who would have loved your presence."

Zhai Tianyu wiped his nose and then leaned on the couch. His eyes fell on the portrait that Ji Yu was making and tilted his head before saying, " Yeah but compared to them, you are the safest at the moment. Is that Xiao Lin? How come I never knew that she was this beautiful?"

" She might not be beautiful in your eyes, but she is in mine," stated Ji Yu as she added a few strokes to her painting. Once Xiao Lin's face was etched on the paper, Ji Yu's eyes softened as she softly traced the face that was smiling down at her with her fingers. " But why are you here? I don't think that I have done anything that would make you visit me."

" You didn't but your father did," Zhai Tianyu smiled with a tired expression. He raised his head and then placed them on the table in front of him before heaving a sigh which showed how annoyed and frustrated he was, seeing Ji Yu frowned before getting up from the floor and walking towards the cabinet.

She took out a porcelain bottle and pulled open the stopper before walking towards Zhai Tianyu. Her hands tilted slightly as she poured the oil into her palm and then started to massage Zhai Tianyu's forehead, this was something that she used to do when they were young and thus her habits were still the same even after growing up.

" Did my father find trouble with you again?" She questioned while her fingers rubbed the space between Zhai Tianyu's brows and then down to the side of his forehead.

" No, this time he found trouble with the entire Liu family," replied Zhai Tianyu as he explained what happened to Ji Yu.

" This had to be the work of a ghost," Jia Li stated with furrowed brows. " I bet there was an end-to-end array drawn on the box."

An end-to-end array allowed two different poles to be attached with a portal between them. Thus a person despite being at another place could touch and take things from a completely different location. It was a difficult array to draw but if a ghost's cultivation was high then they could draw the array with ease.

Liu Hui Ying narrowed her eyes, her guess was the same but——

" The box is inside the Yamen office and even if I were to use an array to bring back the money, it might lead to another rumour which would further cause trouble for the Liu family," said Liu Hui Ying. Bringing the money back was not difficult, the thing was to show the world that the taels without showing any supernatural element added to it.

If the taels were to surface because of a talisman then it would just throw another pile of blame on the Liu family for doing black magic. Ji Yang and his officials would certainly make things difficult for the Liu family.

" I have to admit that ...that man is really smart," Liu Hui Ying sneered as she thought about how she was trapped by Ji Yang his fraction. If she left the taels unfounded then she would be dethroned and if the taels were found then she would be killed along with her family.

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Either way, it was going to be her death sentence!