Detective Ghost Empress-Chapter 386: Who is the one at fault?

At first, Jia Li did not understand what Li Gang was saying but that was until she peeked out of the boulder and immediately hid behind the big stone and pulled Grandma Lan Fen who was trying to see what was going on with her lest the elderly one was caught and ended up creating a mess for them as well.

" I knew that something was wrong with that man," said Jia Li in a voice that was so soft that even Li Gang was having a hard time listening to her words. " The last time he was looking at us but we were foolish to think that he was looking at someone else!"

" Don't lump me with you, I might have not known that the man was crazy as fck but I did say that there was something weird going on with that man," Li Gang hissed at Jia Li while hiding behind the boulder, now he wished he did not chase that maid, there was no need for him to chase that woman.

With such a deadly weapon in the Liu family was there even a need for them to do something so foolish as to look after Liu Hui Ying?

" Umm..

if that man knows about that maid, does that mean he also knows about Liu Hui Ying?" questioned Jia Li as she raised her hand and looked at Li Gang who turned his head to scold her but when he heard her question all the blood drained from his body as he whipped to look at the man whose yin and Yang energy was creating such a whirlpool that he was almost sucking him up and then turned to look at Jia Li with terror in his eyes before squeaking like a duck, " We are so fcked."

This sentence was exactly what was going on in the head of Xiao Lin as she looked at Liu Dong Ming, just now when she was running away she did not pay attention to where she was going which was why she bumped into Liu Dong Ming who was waiting for her here as if he knew that she was going to dash past this path, she looked at the man whose eyes were staring down at her coldly and then trembled as she bowed her head and knocked her forehead on the surface of the ground.

" Please let me go, I was lost … I was lost just for a moment, I did not mean to do it but before I knew something came over me," As Xiao Lin apologised she continued to knock her head on the ground, this time she felt raw fear quaking in her body since she knew that there was no way she will be able to get away from Liu Dong Ming unless he allowed her to leave.

She did not feel this much fear when she was killing that maid but now that she was standing in front of Liu Dong Ming who was staring at the top of her head, she was so terrified that she was almost on the verge of crying and fainting.

" I …NO, PLEASE!

IT…IT HURTS, PLEASE DO NOT HURT ME!" Xiao Lin screamed as Liu Dong Ming pressed his foot on her hand that was clenching the pouch with poison tightly, Xiao Lin wanted to keep it in her hands such that no finger will ever point her missy but as Liu Dong Ming pressed his foot on her hand such that he almost broke her fingers, Xiao Lin had no other choice but to loosen her hold on the pouch.

" My and what might this be?" Liu Dong Ming asked as he snatched the pouch which Xiao Lin was trying to hide from him and raised it in front of his eyes, with his gaze he was able to detect the exquisite embroidery as well as the expensive fabric and clicked his tongue, " And here I thought that there was a little lamb in the house of wolves but turns out that the little lamb was also a wolf in sheep's clothing?

To think that the imperial concubine would be daring enough to kill the Empress."

Xiao Lin snapped her head when she heard the words of Liu Dong Ming, her eyes widening in surprise as she fervently shook her head and then said, "It's not her highness! I was the one who did it alone, this has nothing to do with her highness! I was in this plan alone, she does not even know that I am here."

Liu Dong Ming looked at Xiao Lin with amusement in his eyes as if he was watching her struggle cute and then said in a low voice, " Do you really think that your missy is innocent? If so then why is this pouch here? Don't tell me that there is this new trend of keeping poisonous flowers being used in the imperial court these days, I will have to ask his majesty what he thinks about this."

" You can't!" When Xiao Lin heard that Liu Dong Ming was going to go to his majesty she scrambled on her feet and tried to snatch the pouch from him as she shouted at the top of her lungs, " Its not my fault and nor is the fault of my missy, if …if her majesty did not use underhanded methods and stole his majesty away from my missy then this would have never happened!

I would have never done something like this ever in my life—-Ah!"

Xiao Lin screamed when she was kicked by Liu Dong Ming who stared at her in disgust as she rolled down on the ground a few times, her arm clutching her waist as she breathed in and out heavily while her face was contorted in nothing but pain as she tried to focus her gaze at Liu Dong Ming but was failing miserably since she was hit so heavily.

" And this is why I hate your Ji family, you all have the habit of victimising yourself despite being criminals!"

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Xiao Lin gritted her teeth as she tried to stand up but she was kicked back down on the ground by Liu Dong Ming, she wanted to say that she was not wrong and their family was not criminals and it was the Liu family who was always getting involved in matters that were not supposed to be touched and were the evilest one out of all but she could not even get one word out because of the pain that she was in at the moment.

" You were not at fault then what happened to my niece? Was she killed for no reason? Or did the Liu family kill her? And if you were not at fault then why did you kill that maid who was not even in the correct state of her mind?

Do you know, that you have killed the only family member of the maid who worked in the kitchen imagine how touched she will be when she finds out that you killed her sister just because your missy was useless!" Liu Dong Ming ruthlessly stripped one mask after another that Xiao Lin was wearing causing the latter to glare at him in anger as she said, " I am not in the wrong!"

She breathed heavily as a flare lit up in her chest when she heard the man call her missy useless, how was she useless? Her missy was the kindest woman of the imperial harem! She had never done anything wrong!

If not for the fact that the Empress caused her so much trouble, her missy would have never done anything like this —— after all, if her missy failed in becoming the Empress of this imperial city then she was worried that the one who will suffer the most would be her missy since Lord Yang and her majesty the grand dowager Empress will never let her off!

" You will never understand the pain of my missy, if not for her majesty, she would not have been abandoned by her father." Xiao Lin gritted out while trying to get up from the ground and trying to snatch the pouch from Liu Dong Ming but no matter how much she jumped.

She could not get hold of the pouch in the end she looked at the man with hatred and helplessness in her eyes. " Because of her majesty, my missy will lose everything!"

Liu Dong Ming however did not look at all bothered by what Xiao Lin said, he looked at her with a calm look in his eyes and then smiled in a manner which scared her so much that she almost cried.

With a quick raise of his feet, Liu Dong Ming took a step closer to Xiao Lin and then said in a soft voice, " The reason your missy is going to be abandoned is that your missy's father is nothing but a good for nothing selfish man if there was someone else instead of him then he would have protected his daughter instead of throwing her away."