Detective Ghost Empress

343 The events of past ——” Are you saying that I am here because of a woman who died years ago?” Liu Hui Ying looked at the ghost of the witch who was looking at the flames that were flickering in the stove that was burning in front of Liu Hui Ying. She heard the ghost of the witch hum as she raised her head and looked at her with a rare solemn gaze. ” It might look nonsense to you but this is the truth, sometimes the events of the past become so messy that they keep dragging to the future even when the others try to stop them. But when humans believe they can go further than the powers of nature, disaster is bound to happen.”

Liu Hui Ying was even more confused upon hearing what the ghost of the witch said to her, just what kind of incident can make the past and the future intertwined like this? Seeing the confusion in Liu Hui Ying’s eyes the witch sighed and then said in a soft voice, ” It happened years ago, the grand dowager of that time gave birth to a prince, but while giving birth, she injured herself making it impossible for her to get pregnant again. This was why she kept her child close since she was afraid that someone will harm her son.”

” But the more she kept him safe the more the others wanted to harm her, and one day when the grand dowager empress fell sick, the Concubines found a way to kill the heir of the throne. They pushed the child into the pond leaving him to drown and they succeeded, when the crown prince was dragged out of the pond, he was claimed to be dead.”

The ghost of the witch pursed her lips together as she took another sip of her soup and then smacked her lips as she lifted her head and looked at Liu Hui Ying who despite having a frown on her face was hanging to every word that she was saying it both amused and gratified the ghost of the witch. It has been a long time since she had someone to talk with, and even though the girl acted as if nothing bothered her, she was like a coconut.

Hard on the outside but soft on the inside, she whined and complained a lot but she was someone who would still help those who were in need.

” Of course the then grand dowager empress could not accept it, she brought the corpse of her son and summoned a black art practitioner. She asked the black art practitioner to bring her son back to life.”

” But that’s impossible, no one can bring the dead to life,” Liu Hui Ying remarked as she looked at the ghost of the witch who nodded her head and said, ” You are right, the dead can never be revived, if it was possible then the balance of this world would be long tilted to a side.”

The ghost of the witch then turned to look at the tomb that was covered in gold and then continued to speak as she licked her front teeth with her blackened tongue which was most probably because of the poison that she drank before dying, ” The grand dowager offered a handsome amount to the black art practitioner who was swayed by the money in front of him, of course, he did know that there was no way he can revive the dead. Which was why he summoned an evil demon and let it possess the body of the crown prince but neither of them noticed that there was another evil spirit that escaped when they were summoning a soul for the crown prince.”

The ghost of the witch turned her head and looked at Liu Hui Ying as she spoke in a whisper, ” The evil spirit occupied the body of the next person in the room and that was the brother of the grand dowager empress.”

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Liu Hui Ying followed her gaze and looked at the tomb of the grand dowager empress who ruled this country years ago.

” What happened then?” She asked the witch who turned to look at wanting to know what kind of incident caused her tragedy.

” What do you think will happen? With two evil spirits in the castle, things went haywire the second they took control of the bodies. Deaths, untimely and horrid started to happen all over the castle, sometimes it will be animals who were killed but then the killing moved to the humans and one by one the concubines were killed.” The ghost of the witch had a severe look on her face as she remembered the days of the past.

” I was invited by the emperor who knew that something was wrong, he asked me to exorcise and take care of the evil spirit that was haunting the palace to which I agreed but the Dowager Empress seemed to have realised that something was wrong,” she tilted her head and drank the rest of the soup before putting the bowl down on the ground. ” When I arrived at her castle, I saw the evil spirit and thus went to exorcise it, the grand dowager was scared that the soul of her son will be sent back and he will die again because of these thoughts, she ordered her guards to capture me and later on poisoned me such that her secret will never be revealed.”

A smile etched on her lips which were more mocking than evil as the ghost of the witch smirked and then added, ” The only difference was that I never wanted to exorcise the crown prince, the spirit in his body was evil but she was a child, she could not do a lot of damage. The spirit I wanted to take down was the one that was occupying the body of her brother who came to see her that day at the imperial palace. That foolish woman lost her only opportunity to keep her life safe.”