Disclaimer: All characters, dynasties, names and everything else in this book is imaginary. Any correlation is simply a coincidence.
Li Gang immediately pulled Liu Hui Ying back with her collars as he murmured in her ears, " I don't want to tell you this but those are the real deal, if they passed by you …then we will be holding your funeral tomorrow."
Listening to his words Liu Hui Ying stiffened as she took a step back voluntarily and looked at the swords that were aimed at her and said, " This is the most unlucky day of my life…I swear."
" Your majesty," a deep voice with a timbre that was hard to ignore echoed in the wooden corridor and Liu Hui Ying looked over her shoulder to see who this 'your majesty' was when Jia Li turned her head in the front and said, " You are the one wearing a crown, what are you looking back at for?"
" Have you lost your investigation skills along with your observation? Why are you making so many mistakes one after another?" said Grandma Lan Fen as she stared at Liu Hui Ying with concern. " You must have seen the crown in your head when you looked in the mirror right now, right?"
" You are talking like I transmigrate every day," murmured Liu Hui Ying in a low voice. " And with a poisoned wine waiting for me."
" I think we can still take this many men," said Li Gang rolling his right shoulder while cracking his neck. " We can just go bam and then whoosh and then bam, I am sure they will be down."
Jia Li rolled her eyes at him. " Do you think that its that easy? From what I can see, we are in a completely different place and era. We transmigrated here so surely the way of going back lies in this very place, if we were to leave then how will we go back huh?"
When Jia Li said those words, the lock on Liu Hui Ying's mind finally opened and she punched her right fist in the palm of her left hand. Jia Li was right, if she wanted to go back then she will have to look around for clues and see if there was any invisible path that led her back to her world. Just as she was thinking about how to go back to her world, a hand reached out to her followed by a very foul smell and she immediately dodged it.
" Uh oh," said Li Gang with a shake of his head. " You have to be kidding me."
" That's what I think it is, right?" said Grandam Lan Fen as she peered at the face of the newcomer.
Jia Li winced. " Yes, it's a man."
" Your majesty," the man dressed in black hanfu with armour on his chest looked at Liu Hui Ying and spoke cordially, " This general is afraid that you cannot leave your room——"
He was still speaking when Liu Hui Ying closed the door on his face and turned her back to the figure standing outside before striding in and rubbing her temples. " What is that doing here?"
" You might be forgetting but we aren't in our house anymore," said Li Gang with an amused voice. " Man, you should see your face, you look like you have stepped in shit or something of the sort."
" Well, men are no different from trash anyway," said Liu Hui Ying feeling an itch almost crawling on her skin.
" Hey, I am a man too, you know?"
" You don't count."
Li Gang placed his hands on his waist and said, " How so?"
"You are a ghost and…" her eyes flashed before she shook her head and said, " I can take you on if you try anything ."
Seeing that her expression has turned really bad, Li Gang said nothing. On the other hand, Jia Li sympathetically floated towards Liu Hui Ying and said, " Just take a deep breath and think of him as a potato or something, just like you did when you went to work and nothing more."
Liu Hui Ying sucked in a breath and sat down on the bed with a circular opening, her fingers drumming on the edge of the wooden frame. " What we need right now, is someone who will let us know what kind of mess we are in at the moment." She blinked her eyes, her curled eyelashes fanning her cheeks as she looked around the almost empty room before coming to a stop at the poisoned wine. " Or else, I will have no chance but to take the most extreme step. Because no way I am getting executed like the old way …I heard that dying like that hurts a lot."
Grandma Lan Fen nodded. " A few years ago I met with a traitor general's soul and he told me that when he died, he was literally begging for death to take him. I don't see you begging but you never know.." she trailed off when Liu Hui Ying looked at her.
Getting up from her seat, she started pacing around the room. " I think you three——"
" I am telling you that my mistress is innocent and if you want to give her a prejudiced death then so be it! I will die together with her!" A female shouted outside the room causing Liu Hui Ying to pause and turned to walk back into the front hall from her bedroom and stare at the black silhouette that was outside the paper sliding door.
" Qui Ai, listen to me——"
"I don't need to listen to you general Yu Lingyun, I have decided my fate. If death is what awaits my mistress then I will happily follow her!" After saying that the female silhouette threw the hand of the man outside and pushed open the door.
" What the, she looks like she is sixteen or something," said Liu Hui Ying taking the small tear-stricken face with round eyes. Two bouncing buns were tied on the head of the maid and she was dressed in a pink blouse with a sky blue skirt, her steps unsteady because of how much she was crying.
Jia Li looked at her and pointed out. " You don't look that old either, seventeen at most."
"The Emperor must be a pervert," sneered Liu Hui Ying as she stared at the maid and clapped her hands. " But who cares about him, I got what I want."
Grandma Lan Fen turned to look at the maid and said, " You wanted a servant? Are we not enough for you? Did we make a mistake?"
" Shii," making an annoyed sound, Liu Hui Ying looked at Grandma Lan Fen and said, " I meant that I got my information ticket," while peering out of the room, she pointed at the girl and said, " She is going to be our informant."
" Your majesty!" Qui Ai saw Liu Hui Ying peering out of her room and immediately shrieked in delight before running towards her as if she was preparing to launch herself at Liu Hui Ying causing the latter to take several steps back. Right now, she saw that the maid was being held by that man keeping guard outside, she immediately retreated and looked around before her gaze fell on a ceramic water bowl with a washcloth, though there was no water in the bowl, the cloth looked wet enough.
Picking it up, she threw it at the maid, the second she tried to throw herself at Liu Hui Ying.
" Sheesh, what are you doing?" Jia Li reprimanded her with a harsh tone. " Do you think she is your servant or something like us? How can you treat her so harshly?"
" Well, in a way she is my servant," said Liu Hui Ying with an awkward expression.
" Liu Hui Ying!"
" All right, all right," she snapped before turning to look at the little maid that was staring at her in shock and cleared her throat before stretching her neck in a way to look impressive as she said, " Its because you were touched by a man outside, why don't you wipe that hand, and come at me after you are done wiping?"
The maid named Qui Ai stared at her before she burst out in tears, nonetheless even after bursting out in tears she still wiped her arm that was held by General Yu.
" Oh..why is she crying?" Liu Hui Ying was an orphan after her parents died while dealing with a particularly evil spirit and ever since then she was raised by her aunt. Because she could see spirits, she was often ostracised by her classmates and hardly any friends other than the ghosts she talked with every day, seeing a woman cry in front of her, all of a sudden, startled Liu Hui Ying so much that she almost jumped back. " There is no need to cry is it?"
" Girls are delicate things you see?" with the generous amount of dating experience, Li Gang immediately gave his two-piece as he looked at Qui Ai. " She announced outside that she was willing to die with the owner of this body, clearly she likes the owner a lot but then you threw a wet cloth at her, she might have been hurt by that action, all right?"
" I don't want to hear it from you, have you forgotten that six months ago you were awarded as ' Mister Bachelor' on the fortune occasion of you being single for more than four hundred years?" hissed Liu Hui Ying. " Even ghosts younger than you are getting a chance at dating and what about you?"
Li Gang immediately shut up but Jia Li who was standing next to him patted Liu Hui Ying on her shoulder and said, "No, I think, he is onto something… he might be right."
" You might have really hurt, that little girl with your attitude, my dear," said Grandma Lan Fen with a slight nod at the maid.
Seeing that they were still going on and on about how she hurt the maid, Liu Hui Ying sighed and looked at the maid as she said, " Hey listen, I think——"
" How hurt you must have been, your majesty," finally done wiping her arms, Qui Ai threw herself at Liu Hui Ying and cried out. " You love the Emperor so much that you aren't even willing to touch another man indirectly and yet the Emperor locked you up without thinking about it even once, he is such a …such a …such a …"
" A jerk?" said Liu Hui Ying helpfully, Qui Ai in her arms stiffened before nodding against her.
" And what did that jerk do?" asked Liu Hui Ying promptly, given that Qui Ai was so agitated by the Emperor, then she will surely tell her everything that she wanted to know.
" The jer—— The Emperor ordered you to be locked in your courtyard after Concubine Shen complained that her abdomen was hurting and later on she lost her child and indirectly blamed you, your majesty saying that you might have mixed something in her drink at the congratulatory banquet where the concubines were asked to pay their respects to you and that too right before your wedding night, your majesty." Qui Ai said everything in one breath before taking a pause and said, " But you already know this, your majesty, why are you asking me this again?"
" Ah, this is because…"
"WHAT?!!!" After listening to what Liu Hui Ying said Qui Ai screamed out loud causing Liu Hui Ying to shush her down. " Don't shout, do you want everyone to know that I lost my memory wouldn't they take advantage of the situation."
Immediately, Qui Ai shut up and looked at Liu Hui Ying before asking in a soft voice. " Did you really forget everything, your majesty?"
" Would I lie to you if I didn't," said Liu Hui Ying as she turned around and sat down on the bed before pointing at the wine in the cabinet. "What is the scene with the wine?"
Qui Ai looked at the jar of the poisoned wine and answered, " The Emperor bestowed it on you, saying that he will be merciful and give you three days to end your life."
" And if I don't?"
" He will end it for you."
" Fucking bastard," cursed Liu Hui Ying with a sneer. This was why she will never trust men, they just have their eyes on so many women and wouldn't care about hurting anyone. She rolled her tongue in her mouth before she leaned forward with her elbows on her knees and asked, " Qui Ai, do you have a dress similar to what the general outside is wearing?"
Qui Ai stopped crying and nodded. " I do, but what do you want to do with the dress, your majesty?"
" I have my plans regarding that dress, just get me one and I will show you what I can do," said Liu Hui Ying with a smile before turning to look at the three ghosts standing behind her and added, " And if you don't mind, can you bring it as quickly as you can?"
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