The Way of the Empress

After the ‘Prince Hannibal Incident’ 75 years ago and the ‘Marshal Xue’s unjust case’ 50 years ago, the entire Osphia has begun to rot from the core, from the insides, and could be easily defeated by external forces. Even the ‘anti-imperial society’ and countless interstellar pirate organizations wanting to overthrow the royal family of the decadent empire and rebuild the banner of Osphia swept the galaxy near the empire’s border. The most powerful one was still under the banner of Marshal Xue, who died unjustly in the past, the Xue family army, who has been preaching injustice under the banner of young general Xue, who was hugely popular on the border planets.

Most residents on border planets love them far more than the government… At the beginning, if the Dawn Legion hadn’t happened to meet Moodys who took them back, they might have almost belonged to the Xue family army.

These organizations regularly cause chaos, riots, and brainwash people.

Posts that slander the royal family and various nobles and members of the royal family have been shared from time to time since Moodys born.

After the ‘Hannibal Incident’ that year, the royal family was completely unable to deal with the plague and chaos of the outer galaxy. On the other hand, in order to stabilize the people’s mind and avoid riots, it cut off the network of the residents of the outer planets with the inner planets. News was also blocked, and could not be transmitted back at all. Unless there was a war… Otherwise, even the center of Osphia would not be able to near from those border planets.

If not, most people have only seen and lived in the comfortable surroundings of the Osphian empire. They are so dumb and sweet, and will not believe such news at all.

Only those who have experienced deep despair on the edges of the galaxy will believe and hate and resent this country with these cult-like organizations.

Regarding such posts and public knowledge, the public relations team of the royal family, the government, and network police, handled them all very well. Not long after they were sent out, they immediately blocked posts, deleted posts, and closed accounts. There were even many comments that emotionally attacked the royal family and the government, which were blocked and deleted at the same time. The entire network prohibited such news.

The government and royal family plagued with doubts did not need to respond at all, treating it as never happening, and continued with their calm days.

The network police will check the IP addresses, and invite these posters back to the bureau for tea and ideological education.

Of course, most of the people who are invited to drink tea in the bureau and hate of the nobles and royal family, are ordinary people. As for the anti-imperial organizations, they are well-organized and their actions are premeditated. Some of their members are high-level officials or nobles… there is no way to find their IP and catch such people.

The royal family is also helpless about this.

Many interstellar pirate groups outside Osphia are in collusion with the major legions and have shared interests. The royal family knows this, but because too many forces are involved, and this tangled relationship will affect everything, they can’t touch them at all. No one knows that the consequences will be.

They can only open one eye and close one eye, letting them exist, and pick those soft persimmon nobles and the most arrogant nobles to kill chickens and monkeys.

Everything is a mess that can’t be easily sorted out.

Even Moodys is the same.

The posts were been deleted, but Moodys checked the snapshot records of these posts and comments previously left on his personal account. His heart was mixed and very sad.

Although the post was originally made by a well-known slanderer and conspiracy-theory monger, he could not deny that the things many people stated are true…

Whether it is the matter of the border planets, or Marshal Xue’s case 50 years ago, or the fire incident… or the rape and murder of civilian girls.

The country has long rotted from the core.

Zhuo Yang walked to him. Seeing Moodys’ taciturn, solemn expression, he glanced down at the contents of his optical brain. Taking his hand, he said softly: “Don’t be sad, everything It will be all right. Haven’t we already begun to make changes? One day, this country will regain its original glory… From the start, we planned to completely eradicate those rotting aristocrats and noble forces who suck the blood of the people.”

“The country will eventually belong to the people. Even if we can’t do it, our children and grandchildren in the future, and the next generations can always do it.” He said.

He fully understands Moodys’s sadness and silence-

This is why he loves Moodys.

Although he was from a noble origin, he is also a child of a commoner teacher… He also hates the corrupt nobles that overshadow the skies while people on the border planets can barely survive… the country should be a country of the people.

Moodys held his hand tightly back, but still remained silent without saying a word.

“By the way, what’s the matter with Marshal Xue? Did he really commit treason back then? Is he really dead?” Zhuo Yang inadvertently scanned the message about Marshal Xue and immediately asked curiously.

Regarding this Marshal Xue, Zhuo Yang has always been very curious—

He is 20 years old this year. At the time of his birth, Marshal Xue, Xue Zhanting, had been dead for 30 years. Since his birth, he heard the marshal was convicted of treason and died, and the country continued to propagate news that he is a traitor and a villain. But for so many years, there are always people who, no matter how the country explains, believe that he was unjustly killed, that he did not commit treason, and have always believed in him. Even many people in the aristocratic circle feel this way… this is quite strange to Zhuo Yang.

What kind of person is this?

Zhuo Yang was very curious and searched for this marshal. Unfortunately, since he was convicted, all photos, videos, and positive news about the former marshal have been deleted. Only traces can be found… there is one very vague picture of the marshal wearing a prison uniform with a straight back…

Although the photo is very vague, the marshal can still be faintly recognizable as handsome. With sharp eyebrows and star-like eyes, he is a handsome man whose appearance is comparable to movie stars.

Moodys opened his eyes, looked at the three words Marshal Xue on the screen, sighed, and said in a deep voice, “Although I was not born when the Marshal Xue had an accident, but I have carefully inquired and analyzed the incident… If nothing else, he should have been wronged…”

“Huh?” Zhuo Yang frowned slightly, very curious about this hidden story.

Moodys thought for a while and said: “The Xue family was a family of generals in Osphia back then, full of loyalty, and even more lofty than the Gu family today. This Xue Zhanting, Marshal Xue, was the most powerful in the entire empire since he was young. A sentinel with the highest spiritual power, the only SS-level sentinel in Osphia in 500 years. When he was 17, his father, Marshal Xue, died in the hands of the Alliance. Since then, he swore a vow to avenge his father… After finishing his career in the military academy, he went to the battlefield and was invincible, becoming the idol and military god of the entire empire…”

“His quantum beast is still a very rare five-clawed blue dragon. His limelight at that time should have been more more than mine now. People who are too outstanding are always prone to jealousy. At that time, many aristocratic children hated him. There were countless rumors when he was at its peak. Some even said that the dragon was a symbol of the emperor, the reigning emperor from the ancient earth period. His quantum beast was a dragon, which meant that he would change the country, bring new patterns and changes… At that time, not long after the ‘Prince Hannibal Incident’, many people were very disappointed with the royal family. Instead, they believed in this young and energetic young marshal who cared for the people… He did not do anything arrogant because of his military merits, and he was very humble in front of my father. But because he was too beloved and had too many followers, my father still had suspicions and grudges against him in his heart.”

“At the time, this Marshal Xue Zhanting Xue was really a national idol. It is said that he was very handsome, he was like a darling of god and the favored son of heaven. At that time, many aristocratic daughters had blatantly pursued him to show love to him including my aunt. For this reason, my uncle hated him very much… My father, the emperor, had also thought of bringing him together with my little uncle…” Moodys continued to say: “But in the end, the marshal did not choose a noble girl. Instead, he chose to marry a civilian female teacher at the border.”

Zhuo Yang listened quietly, involuntarily fascinated by this man’s unforgettable life.

“When Marshal Xue and his wife were married for less than 15 years, the incident of treason and slander occurred. After all, someone in the aristocracy slandered him out of jealousy and hatred. Multiple parties were involved, and there is no way to verify it.” Moodys said slowly: “It is said that as soon as the incident happened, his subordinates received the news and asked him to leave immediately, but he felt that if he escaped this time, he would be scolded by the empire, and unable to explain clearly. He believed my father, and chose to stay, letting his subordinates leave with his pregnant wife and daughter who was less than 5 years old… ”

“My father had strong evidence at the time, coupled with the persecution of various forces… I guess he might actually fear that Marshal Xue will really overthrow the Osphia royal family, and chose to order him to be killed.” When Moodys mentioned the unjust death of the marshal, his heart was full of lament.

Emperor Winston was indeed very incompetent, he listened to the slander.

Zhuo Yang paid more attention to something else: “What about his daughter and his wife? Is the interstellar pirates called the Xue family army set up by his descendants?”

“Dead.” Moodys sighed deeply. He sighed, and shook his head: “At that time, as soon as Mrs. Xue left Osphia, the Lightning and Vulture Legions sent troops to chase after him. Seeing that they could not catch up, they fired directly at the mecha where Mrs. Xue was. In order to protect her daughter, Mrs. Xue put her daughter in the escape pod and threw it out the mecha. She was scorched into a corpse when she was seven months pregnant…” Moodys’ eyes were reddish. “Marshal Xue’s little daughter is missing. But a little girl less than 5, even her mother was burned to death in such a bombardment… how could she survive?”

“All parties have searched, and there is no news…”

The whole family is loyal, defending the country, and how sad is their ending?

Shortly after he killed Marshal Xue Zhanting’s family back then, Emperor Winston discovered that he had actually done something wrong and wronged the Xue family. But in the end he considered the internal and external troubles. Marshal Xue’s national support was too high and he was wronged. If the case broke out, it would affect the entire royal family and cause turmoil and chaos… The matter was forcibly suppressed, and a treasonous hat was slapped on Xue Zhanting. For this hypocritical peace, not only was he never exonerated, he insisted on labeling him a traitor, and even wiped out his merits…

After Moodys knew about this, he often wondered if he was not a crown prince, according to his temperament and his military merits… where would he end up in such a country?

Will it be Xue Zhanting all over again?

Zhuo Yang was also silent when he heard this. In ancient times, there was a saying called “guilt does not include wife and child”. Even girls less than five and pregnant women were not spared. These so-called noble families are really too much.

Zhuo Yang paused for a while and asked in a low voice: “Marshal Xue’s daughter should be quite old if she is still alive?”

“If she is alive, she should be 54 years old, much older than us.” Moodys replied.

Zhuo Yang sighed: “It’s a pity that is the same age as my mother.”

The two fell silent for a while. Zhuo Yang recovered his mind first, holding Moodys’s hand, and said with relief: “The past is the past. In the future, everything will be fine… Now the great burden and responsibility falls on us. The only thing we can do is never let this happen again in the future.”

“Don’t you agree? Moodys.” He squeezed Moodys’s hand.

Moodys looked at him, as if gaining infinite power from Zhuo Yang: “En.”

He knows that the road ahead is difficult, and he doesn’t know whether he can succeed or fail on this road, but as long as there is Zhuo Yang was with him, and such a person walked with him…

Moodys thought he was fearless.