Detective Ghost Empress

Zhai Chenguang stared at the door, she did not chase after Scholar Wei like Jia Li and the others did, instead, she looked at the door with a dazed look on her face as she slowly stumbled back and slid down the floor. ” How? H..how?” She asked no one in particular as she looked around the room, her expression full of disbelief.

But even if she did not want to believe what Liu Hui Ying said, the memories of the day when she died came over to her mind flooding her vision with what happened to her and she could no longer ignore the truth at all.

On the day of the accident.

She was travelling to the city where her husband was giving a lecture, dressed in his favourite shade of pink, she packed everything that Scholar Wei liked to eat after cooking the dishes with her own hands. The city was quite a distance away from the imperial city which was why her nephew sent a bunch of soldiers with her because he was worried that she will end up getting attacked.

” Mistress, do you think that you did a good thing by leaving the palace for Scholar Wei?” Her maid who was working for her ever since she married in the Wei household asked her with a hesitation-filled expression, she seemed to be thinking about something and wanted to tell Zhai Chenguang something but something was stopping her.

Zhai Chenguang did not seem to understand what the maid was trying to say, she tilted her head to the side and then looked at the maid who was looking at her with a half-sympathetic and half-pitiful expression. Her gaze did not sit well with Zhai Chenguang but she was not a woman who would get angry at such a small thing, if she was not this gentle then her husband would have never fallen for her, who was even more soft-hearted than many women who came from the scholar family.

She smiled at her maid and then replied softly, ” Of course, it was worth it, the lord treats me well and soon we will be looking forward to having a child,” she caressed her belly with an expression full of motherly love. ” I am sure once I give birth to a child, he will definitely adore me even more.” She has been taking the medicine that the doctor from the imperial family gave to her, the doctor was renowned for his heavenly hands, it was said that he could even bring back the dead to life, which was why she was certain that the doctor will definitely help her.

Upon hearing her words the maid turned even more confused, her expression twisted slightly as she swallowed hard and then said in a soft voice, ” Mistress you will never be able to have a child.”

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This time Zhai Chenguang frowned as she looked at the maid and chided her lightly, ” What are you talking about? Are you cursing me?”

The maid however shook her head as she hurriedly dropped to her knees and then said in an apologetic voice, ” Please forgive me, mistress, my intention was not to hurt you. I am not cursing you but I want to let you know that the reason you can never become a mother is that the lord is not a complete man....he ..he is a eunuch!”

” What did you say —” as soon as the maid finished speaking and Zhai Chenguang’s eyes widened in surprise, the surrounding area around her suddenly plunged deep as if the sand was drowning in the sea of nothingness. The carriage in which she was travelling tilted to the left and then Zhai Chenguang did not get a chance to ask the maid what she was trying to say anymore, she stretched her hands out to stop herself from falling but there was no point in doing so because the carriage was falling itself, even if she tried to save herself how was she supposed to do that when the carriage in which she was travelling was already falling?

The carriage rolled down as screams burst all over the place, the soldiers who were travelling with her fell down the cliff together with her as the landslide came falling over them. The maid who was sitting opposite to her threw herself against her, she covered her body with her own as she continued speaking, ” Mistress, the lord was the one who was planning to kill you. Everything that is happening now is according to his plan. He threw me with you because he knew that I was getting closer to you, he was worried that I will mess up with his plans. That man...he approached you with an intention in his mind, he deliberately came closer to you. Mistress, I am sorry ...if I had been courageous before then you could have run away from this scheme, please forgive me and don’t blame me too much.”

” You...” Zhai Chenguang’s words were caught in her throat as the carriage came down and was crushed because of the impact that fell over the carriage as soon as it fell down the cliff.

The impact caused her mind to go in a daze but the impact was softened because of the fact that the maid who has thrown her body over her had completely covered hers. Zhai Chenguang opened her eyes once the ringing in her ears slowed down, she looked at the maid whose body was squashed by the wood and she softly called the maid, ” Meng Yi...?”

But the maid whose body was squashed by the wood did not move, the scent of blood overwhelmed Zhai Chenguang, and her eyes turned red. Even if the maid was not loyal to her all along but at least she stayed loyal at the very end and even gave her life for saving hers.

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