Detective Ghost Empress

Nanny Gong wanted to say something scathing in response but she held herself back even though what Yu Lingyun said did not sound pretty, what he said was not wrong either, Liu Hui Ying was still looking pale and her body was just as cold as it was earlier, if not for the fact that Qui Ai was with her and watched Liu Hui Ying wake up, she would have thought that she was hallucinating because of her old age.

” Her majesty really did wake up,” Nanny Gong answered Yu Lingyun who was looking at her with a suspicious look in his eyes. ” She woke up and screamed ‘Damn old man Tao’ before she fainted again, I think she was a bit too excited and the blood ended up rushing in her head which caused her to faint.”

At least that was what Imperial physician Shao told her earlier.

” Old man Tao?” Zhai Tianyu has been waiting for Liu Hui Ying to wake up silently on the side, when he heard Nanny Gong say that she woke up only to scream a single name and that too of a man, his eyebrows couldn’t help but rise as he looked at Nanny Gong and asked, ” Who is this damn old man Tao?”

” This one has no idea, your majesty,” replied Nanny Gong as she lowered her head and apologized to Zhai Tianyu, she did not have any responsibility for this question, in fact when it came to her majesty these days, she truly did not have any responsibility regarding anything! What kind of name was ‘damn’ anyway?

Zhai Tianyu too did not understand the word ‘damn’ but he did understand that Liu Hui Ying fainted because of someone surnamed Tao and there was indeed a Tao family in the imperial city. He turned to look at Zhai Heng and asked in a soft voice, ” If I am not wrong then there is an official Tao working in the imperial court, right?”

Yu Lingyun was staring at Liu Hui Ying who was sleeping on the bed with his hands on his hips when he heard Zhai Tianyu’s question, stunned he turned to look at Zhai Tianyu with a very slow turn of his neck. His turn of the neck was so slow that it made a creaking sound as he widened his eyes and looked at Zhai Tianyu with a questioning expression and asked, ” What are you going to do to official Tao hmm, your majesty?”

Zhai Tianyu pursed his lips and replied with a frown, ” Her majesty called his name, so don’t you think that I should——”

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” No, I don’t,” Yu Lingyun interrupted him as he looked at the man with a stunned look on his face. He did not think that his friend was this deep in love with the Queen, he was actually going on a human hunt just because his woman called the name of a man in her dream.

With his hand still on his hips, he raised one hand and pointed at Zhai Tianyu and stated, ” You are not going on a killing spree just because the queen called the name of minister Tao, what are you going to justify his death with? That he offended the queen in her dreams and thus he deserves to die.”

Zhai Tianyu paused and pondered for a while before he slowly asked, ” I ca…cannot do that?”

” Of course, you can’t!” Yu Lingyun looked at his friend with a confused and disbelieving look on his face. No wonder people said that women were dangerous creatures, look at this only a few months and his intelligence was going in minus.

He turned to look at Zhai Heng and said, ” Say something to him!” He pointed to Zhai Tianyu while demanding Zhai Heng take the reign of his younger brother.

But he was doomed to be disappointed because the elder one turned to look at him and asked in the same hesitating voice, ” We really can’t?”

Yu Lingyun was speechless, was this really, all right? He was supposed to be the one who was all brawn and had no brains right? How come he was the intelligent one in this group all of a sudden?

But before he could say something snappish to the two idiots in front of him, he heard soft moaning behind him and then he turned to look at Liu Hui Ying who was slowly waking up, his eyes lit up when he saw that Liu Hui Ying was awake and he immediately rushed to her side as he said, “Your majesty, I am so glad that you are up!”

He originally did not have any good feelings towards the queen but now that the supernatural was after his life, he could only rely on this woman as long as she was up and about, he doesn’t have to fear those spooky things which were why he needed to whitewash himself in front of the queen such that she will protect him when needed!

However, as soon as he rushed towards the queen’s bed, he paused and then turned to look at Nanny Gong before he asked, ” Do I look saddened? Aggrieved?”

Nanny Gong looked at his face which was shining like he was looking at a plate of gold waiting to snatch it and shook her head. ” You look rather …excited, my lord.”

Yu Lingyun blinked his eyes that were shining at the sight of his golden backer and then cleared his throat before he pulled a very sad expression and then lowered his head to look at Liu Hui Ying as he said, ” Your majesty! I was so worried about you!”

But before he could finish speaking he felt a stinging pain in his cheek as he stumbled on the ground while clutching the side of his face.

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