Detective Ghost Empress

And soon those words that were spoken behind her back started to get spoken in front of her. Even though the people who were throwing mud at her knew that she was too young to do something like killing a grown-up woman but they still liked calling her a murderer. People did not have anything good to do, they might even be struggling to meet their everyday needs but they will still find the time to talk nonsense about others.

She has gotten used to such gazes, now it did not matter to her —— they could talk behind her back as much as they want, what mattered was whether they had the guts to do it in front of her or not.

But just as she was thinking about turning a blind eye to all the gazes she suddenly felt those gazes that were locked on her back vanish, stunned she turned to look at what was going on, how come not one or two but all the gazes vanished? As soon as she turned her head, she saw Zhai Tianyu who was standing beside her looking at the people around them and as he turned his head to glance at everyone who was looking at them one by one every person dropped their gaze, lowering their head in submission.

” You don’t have to do that,” she told him realising that he was standing up for her, a part of her was slightly stunned when she saw that someone and that too a man stood up for her, trying to protect her instead of looking down at her. Shouldn’t he be making fun of her by telling her how weak she was without him or trying to take advantage of this opportunity? That was all the man who stood up for her wanted.

They either wanted to feel gratified for sake of being the one who tied her down or else they wanted to bring her to their rooms in return for their help. But Zhai Tianyu did not seem like he wanted either of those things from her so why was he helping her?

But her experience with men had taught Liu Hui Ying that a man never does anything without any reason which was why she did not want to take his help.

” Why wouldn’t I need to do that?” He questioned her in return as he turned to look at her, his voice was quiet enough for her to hear only which was why no one turned to look at the two of them. It was as if they were the only ones who were walking in this graveyard even her ghosts who were supposed to stay by her side all the time, were out having fun —- sucking the yin energy that was floating around in the graveyard.

” Because I am not going to be of your help, even if you think that I will help you, you are wrong… I am not going to be of any use to you. So you shouldn’t be so kind to me either.” Liu Hui Ying’s words were just as cold as her face as she stared into the front, she did not say anything else instead she just adjusted her dress as she tried to make sure that she will not fall on the ground but maybe her thoughts jinxed her at that very moment because her feet got caught into the hem of her long white dress that was dragging on the ground behind causing her to lean forward as she started to fall on her face.

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‘Damn this is why I hate these dresses!’ Liu Hui Ying thought in her head as she tried to stop herself from falling but as soon as she tried to stop her fall, her feet got only more entangled in the hem and she stumbled. Seeing that her feet were not getting out from the cloth in which they were jumbled up, Liu Hui Ying closed her eyes and was prepared to fall on her face, when suddenly someone caught her by her arm and then pulled her back so suddenly that she was standing back on her feet.

Startled Liu Hui Ying opened her eyes not expecting Zhai Tianyu to help her when she said such sharp words to him but to her surprise, the man indeed help her. He was holding her by her sleeve making sure that his skin will not touch her, then before she could ask what he was doing she heard him say, ” Take a long breath, my queen and don’t breathe for a little while.”

She did not know what he was saying but she did as he said and no sooner he took a long breath, than she watched the man go down on his knees causing the people around them to gasp. But Zhai Tianyu pretended not to hear them as he helped her disentangle her feet from the hem of her clothes as she placed her hand on his shoulder when she felt his hand lift her feet with the help of her shoe.

Zhai Tianyu untangled her feet that were caught in the long dress and then stood up ignoring the hissing and gossiping that was going around them and then proffered his arm to her. ” You might want to hold onto the edge of my sleeves my queen, we can’t have you falling on your face like that again.”

He paused and then added, ” And there is no need for you to think so much, not everyone helps others just because they want something from them. Sometimes kindness comes from the bottom of people’s hearts without a hint of malice or desire of taking advantage of someone. My queen.”

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