Detective Ghost Empress

257 The blood in your veins.

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Zhai Heng did not say anything instead he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. In fact, he too thought that there was no way Liu Hui Ying will be attacked either as well, in his eyes, she was a woman who was capable enough to rip the heart of a woman, there was no way she will get hurt.

He foolishly thought that she will be fine which was why he left her alone and in the end forgot that she was a woman too …no matter how strong he should have been by her side! This was not only his responsibility as a man but also as the head of the special army! How could he have done something so foolish as leaving Liu Hui Ying alone?

“It’s my fault, no matter how you make it sound,” Zhai Heng opened his eyes and then looked at the floor under his feet, even now he could hear the splash of water that rang behind him when he turned his back on Liu Hui Ying and they left to look somewhere else and the sight of her blood dyeing the water red, it was such a horrible sight that he did not even want to be remembered about it. ” I should have stayed with her but I was a fool and thought that she will be fine, it was my lack of attention that caused the Queen to be attacked like this, if I was paying more attention then maybe nothing like this would have happened.”

” I am sure Tianyu thinks the same as well.”

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” What do you mean you cannot wake her up!” Zhai Tianyu heard the scream of the dowager Empress as soon as he came to a stop in front of the room where the Empress lived and paused in his stride when he heard the latter screaming at the top of her voice.

Honestly, he was indeed in no mood to deal with his mother at the moment but his worry for Liu Hui Ying exceeded his hesitation to see his mother and thus he nodded his head at the guard who announced his arrival.

” His majesty, the Emperor of the Imperial city is entering!” The guard shout brought a sudden halt to the screeches of the Dowager Empress who was standing inside, and Zhai Tianyu closed his eyes as the maids behind him went to open the door for his entrance.

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‘Stay calm,’ he told himself, he knew that now that he and his mother was going to be in the same room, his mother was going to use her barbed words as soon as he will take a step inside the room.

” Oh look at that,” sure enough, as soon as the door was pushed to the side, he heard the sarcastic voice of his mother who was standing inside the room with a curl of her lips that looked more mocking than anything. ” Who got time out of his busy schedule to come and see the Empress.”

He watched his mother tilt her head to the side as she looked at him and asked, ” What happened? I heard that you were with that precious imperial concubine of yours and could not take time off, you finally got time to put your pants on your majesty?”

The imperial physician who was kneeling on the floor shivered as he furtively looked at the Dowager Empress. Was this okay? Was it okay for him to listen to something like this? Was he going to get killed because of this? He did not want to die just because he heard the Dowager Empress scold her son!

Zhai Tianyu closed his eyes, he was used to his mother using such words for him anyway. For some reason even though his mother fought to get him to sit on the throne and even refused to let his big brother take the throne instead of him, she has never liked him. But at least he could say that his mother treated him like a son, his big brother…. He was treated like a downright dead dog by his mother.

” Imperial mother,” he greeted the Dowager Empress as per the etiquettes and did not even feel the slightest bit of hurt when he heard his mother scoff in response, instead he turned to look at the imperial physician and asked, ” How is the queen?”

His voice was calmer than the water in the pond that was left untouched, he knew that if he was to show any emotions on his face, his mother might take advantage of it which was why he did not show any emotions on the surface even though he was dying out of anxiety.

Can’t wake her up? He did hear his mother say that the imperial physician could not wake the Empress up…. Was she simply exaggerating or was it the truth?

“Look at you, your majesty,” The Dowager Empress smirked as she drawled and then walked forward after snapping the hand fan in her hand with a flick of her wrist. ” Looks like you finally learned to care about your official wife, or else I thought that the blood flowing in your veins will show whose son you are, after all your father was the same, doting on his concubine while the official wife was dying. Looks like my blood helped you to gain some moment of clarity?”

” Mother, is this the time for you to say such words?” Zhai Tianyu wanted to ignore his mother as he looked at the woman who gave birth to him but did not once fulfil her responsibilities as his mother when he heard her talk badly about his father. That man might have been not the greatest ruler but he was a great father at least he knew when to step up and take care of him and Zhai Heng when his mother did not. ” Her majesty is already in such a condition——”

” And whose fault is that!” The dowager Empress picked up the vase that was sitting next to her on the cabinet and hurled the entire content that was inside it on her son. ” Only the concubines and the Empress of the Liu family did not have a personal guard and were left as vulnerable as a lamb in the den of lions, what did you expect to happen to them? Or you are so deeply infleunced by your concubine that you don’t even know that you need to take care of others as well?”