Detective Ghost Empress

Chapter 533: Not allowing me to enter

"Do I need you to speak?" Liu Hui Ying said to the assassin who was lying on the ground. When the assassin heard her voice, he felt his heart skip a beat as he raised his eyes and looked at the woman who seemed to be wearing the skin of a human despite being a devil.

He seemed to have picked up her meaning which was why he warily asked Liu Hui Ying, "What...do you want to do?"

"What do you think?" Liu Hui Ying asked back with a sinister grin. She clutched the sword that she was holding in her hands even more tightly before raising it in the air. The eyes of the assassin went wide as he sensed what Liu Hui Ying had in her mind which was why he relied on his strength to get away from her but it was as if a boulder was pressing on his back.

No matter what he did, he could not move!

Terror filled his eyes as he swept his gaze at the sharp blade though he had been trained to give up his life at any point, he did not think that the time would come so soon. Now that he was at the door of death, he felt fear well up in his heart as he screamed,

"It wasn't me! I did not want to kill you! I was ordered! I was ordered by Her Majesty the Grand——" the assassin's shout came to a sudden halt when Liu Hui Ying pierced his mouth with the sword that she was holding in her hand.

Blood splattered on the ground as the assassin's eyes went wide, Nanny Gong who had never seen such a painful and tragic death before closed her eyes and covered her mouth with her hand as she did not want to throw up on the spot.

It was scary. So scary.

The sight of that man's throat getting pierced and then the sword appearing from the other side of his throat was really a traumatic sight to behold.

Nanny Gong trembled as she saw Liu Hui Ying pull out the sword that she was holding in her hand from the assassin's mouth and murmur, "She attacked Hui Ying... I will kill her."

And this 'her' was none other than the Grand Dowager Empress!

Nanny Gong's eyes widened when she heard Liu Hui Ying's sudden exclamation. She could see that Liu Hui Ying was not lying when she said that she was going to kill her majesty the Grand Empress Dowager.

However, the guards stayed where they were and refused to move. It was all because his majesty, the Emperor had been visiting and calling Ji Yu ever since Liu Hui Ying was locked up in the cold palace. They thought that even if Liu Hui Ying was out of the cold palace, she had lost favour with his majesty as he did not visit her and only gave her the renovated Empress Palace.

Though many did not believe the rumour that it was only to placate the Liu family, guards like them believed it. They had seen his majesty visiting and looking for Ji Yu frequently these past few days and thus they were certain that Zhai Tianyu now liked Ji Yu more than Liu Hui Ying.

Thus, they did not feel wronged when they refused to listen to Xiao Ai.

"Ho...How could you! I am telling you that my missy is in pain and her life could be lost, how could you ignore me like this?" Xiao Ai was speechless when she saw how the guards were blatantly showing her disregard even if she was the maid of the Empress!

When the guards saw that Xiao Ai was making a fuss, their brows scrunched up as one of the guards reached out and pushed her on the shoulder.

"Shut up! Can't you understand something so simple? His Majesty called Concubine Ji and not the Empress. It means that he is over the Empress, how dare you act imprudent?" The guard said as he pushed Xiao Ai away.

"AH!" Xiao Ai was stunned as she did not expect the guard to push her away like this, she could not stabilize her footing and fell to the ground with a painful scream. "You bastards!"

Her scream was loud enough to attract Yu Lingyun and Zhai Heng who had returned from the training at the training ground. They were lightly discussing another attack tactic with one another when they heard Xiao Ai's scream.

At first, they thought that they were imagining it but when they climbed the path that led to the Emperor's Dragon Palace, they were stunned to find Xiao Ai on the snow while glaring at the guards.

"What happened?" Yu Lingyun furrowed his brows when he saw Xiao Ai sitting on the ground. He rushed over to where Xiao Ai was and helped her up by stretching his hand for her to take. He looked at her flushed palm and blew a warm breath over her hands when he saw that her skin had turned red due to the snow.

When the guards saw that Yu Lingyun was actually supporting Xiao Ai, they felt a sense of foreboding rise in their hearts. They looked at one another before turning to look at Yu Lingyun, they wanted to say something but Xiao Ai beat them to it as she said to Yu Lingyun,

"They are refusing to let me meet his majesty even when her majesty is attacked by assassins!"