Detective Ghost Empress

238 She is your enemy!

Zhai Tianyu did not say anything regarding Liu Hui Ying, he was just as conflicted as the others and did not have any answer to this question either, was the Queen worthy of all the sacrifices that will come with this decision that he has made? He did not know, there was no way he would be able to measure her worth when he did not even know what she meant to him.

Did he think of her as a woman? Or did he think of her as an acquaintance? Or a partner in crime? There was no answer to these questions that he had in his mind which was why he couldn’t even bring himself to answer the questions that Yu Lingyun was asking him.

” Maybe if you were looking at the situation in the court carefully without your biased beliefs then you would have seen that the Ji family was actually trying to get the Empress’s name deliberately dragged in the matter,” Zhai Tianyu replied since he could not do anything and he could not reply to the question that Yu Lingyun was asking him then all he could do was to change the direction of the conversation. ” I have no qualms in handing the case to the Ji family but the bottom of the matter is that they wanted to use this case as a means to drag the Queen down.”

” I do not wish to use someone’s death as the base for dragging the Liu family down. If I do that then what is the difference between me and the people from the Liu family.”

” Are you out of your mind?” Yu Lingyun could not care that the person who was sitting in front of him was the Emperor, at this moment he was looking at Zhai Tianyu like he was looking at an idiot and said in exasperation, ” You think that the Liu family will hand another opportunity like this to you? They will only get even more cautious after being caught off guard like this, surely they will keep their guard up in the next few months, do you think that there will be another golden opportunity like this one presented to you again?”

Yu Lingyun was right, the power of the Liu family was increasing day by day, that family has given the imperial city a lot of Empresses and thus it was given that their power would be on par with that of the imperial family, if they did not do anything to stop the growing strength of that family then surely they will definitely lose a lot of lives and years of sacrifices that they have made.

” I understand what you are saying,” Zhai Tianyu understood this fact better than anyone else, he knew that if he was to lose this chance surely he might never get another opportunity to drag the Liu family down but he has promised Liu Hui Ying that he will protect her. Even if his fight was against the Liu family, he will not win that fight at the price of losing the Queen.

” But I am not going to use the Queen as a wager to win against the Liu family, I will win against them and that too with my own skills,” he raised his head and then looked at his brother who was staring at him with an assessing look in his eyes while Yu Lingyun looked at him with nothing but shock in his own. ” If I was to use a woman to win against the Liu family then surely I do not deserve to sit on this throne.”

” Then why did you marry that woman!” Yu Lingyun was frustrated with the headstrong attitude of Zhai Tianyu, he was the one who wanted to use Liu Hui Ying as a chess piece to control the Liu family and ruin them together with Liu Hui Ying if he was to take a step back and do nothing to Liu Hui Ying then what was the point of agreeing to that marriage?

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Zhai Heng on the other hand understood his brother a bit too well than others, he pursed his lips and then looked at Zhai Tianyu with his eyes darting from left to right, ” Is the Queen the one who is making you hesitate?”

He asked knowing that if this was before then Zhai Tianyu would have definitely not chosen the path that he did this morning, the reason he was willing to take this decision and stick to it must have been because of the Queen.

His eyes flickered slightly with a cold glint in them as he took a step closer to Zhai Tianyu and said, ” You told me that you will never let the Queen impact your choices and goals, yet you are willing to put all your cards on the table for her?”

” I am not putting all my cards on the table!” Zhai Tianyu clenched his fingers when he saw that his brother and Yu Lingyun were not willing to understand what he was trying to say, he raised his head and looked at Yu Lingyun and Zhai Heng before he continued speaking, ” The Queen helped me and my aunt if not for her then we would have known that we were raising a wolf under us, it was because of her that I was able to find the truth behind the death of my aunt and you want me to use her as a wager against the Liu family?”

” I did not know that you two had these thoughts for me.”

Zhai Tianyu paused and then added, ” And yes the Queen is making me think over those decisions of mine that I wouldn’t have before.”

His words caused both Yu Lingyun and Zhai Heng to stiffen as they looked at the man who once swore that he will bring the Liu family down, especially Zhai Heng whose entire face turned ashen as he banged his fist on the study table before gritting out through his teeth, ” She is the daughter of the Liu family, the same Liu family who killed our father! You want to romanticise her?”

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