The Way of the Empress

“Okay, I understand. Thank you so much, my lord.” Mrs. Jenny regarded this man as the backbone in her heart, and her trust went beyond simple reliance.

The male guide smiled gently. “You are welcome, I watched your kid grow up. I like him very much, and I always think that the position of Queen Osphia is none other than him.”

The two exchanged greetings again. After the male guide courteously sent off Mrs. Jenny, his expression turned into one of impatience.

At this moment, in the room behind the male guide’s living room, another man walked out and saluted him respectfully: “President.”

Yes, president…

No one can think that in the Anti-Imperial Society – the largest reactionary organization in the planet – is actually a prominent male guide with a pivotal role in Osphia’s aristocratic circle.

The male guide looked at the news about Zhuo Yang. Such news about Zhuo Yang was being shown everywhere. He looked a little tired, and his voice was cold: “This Zhuo Yang is really beyond my expectation. I thought he was a chess piece in the palm of my hand… I planned to wait for Moodys to die, and then let his mother die. Then, tell him his life experience after he begins hating the royal family and nobles. I did not expect him to hide so deeply and safe Moodys life. Really beyond one’s expectations.”

“However, it’s good now. The more ambitious and smart he is, the better. When he and Moodys turn against each other and I tell him his life history so he can recognize his relatives, Osphia will become even more sensational.” He paused, tapping his index finger on the table.

The vice president looked at him respectfully with some puzzlement. “Life experience? What life experience? Isn’t this Zhuo Yang a child of the Zhuo family, Zhuo Hengyuan’s son?”

“Yes, of course he is.” The male guide’s eyes snapped up. “But besides that, he has another identity, one that opposes the royal family enough to be considered a bloody and deep feud…”

The vice president was still puzzled. “Huh?”

“Do you remember Xue Hanqin?” the male guide asked.

The vice president thought for a while. After thinking about it, he replied with some uncertainty: “The daughter of Marshal Xue Zhanting? Didn’t she die on Guangming Star back then?”

“Back then, that woman wanted to protect her daughter, and put her daughter in an escape pod and threw it towards the milky way. She drove the mecha and ran into the light energy cannon, turning into a charred corpse. We checked her genes and confirmed she was the woman. Duke Andrew, as an old friend of Xue Zhanting, collected the woman’s body. But the little girl was missing… No one could find it, thinking she must be dead. I thought so too…” The male guide said in an extremely slow tone. “Until two years ago, I happened to see Zhuo Yang, who was organized by the school to volunteer in an orphanage. The moment he lowered his head and looked at the orphans, smiling slightly with warmth in his eyes… he looks very much like that woman…”

“The same kind of vixen, same kind of seduction, and same kind of disaster…” Marshal Xue protected his wife very well. Few people on Emperor Star have seen his wife, but this male guide happens to be one of them.

Zhuo Yang has mixed all the advantages of his parents and grandparents in appearance, and does not look like any one of them individually. Only his demeanor of lowering his head, looking down, and smiling from the heart, is like his grandmother – a civilian female teacher from the border planet, Jiuwei Star.1Jiuwei = nine-tail. The same nine-tail as Zhuo Yang’s fox

“I became suspicious and started to investigate… After checking his genes, I found out that Zhuo Yang’s lunatic mother is the orphan of the Xue family. Her spacecraft probably landed on Nuwa Star. The Tan family had just lost their daughter and planned to relocate the family to a planet in the inner galaxy with relatives. They adopted her as their daughter and brought her to the inner galaxy. This is why all the forces at that time could not find her…” The male guide sighed lightly, without sorrow or joy. “Unexpectedly, she went away but returned to the capital where she was born, and ended up like that. It’s really pitiful… Not even a little bit of her parents’ strength of character was inherited, to be with a man like Zhuo Hengyuan like that…”

The vice president boldly speculated: “Since this Madam Tan is Xue Hanqin, is it possible that her return isn’t a coincidence at all? She actually came back for revenge, and everything is a disguise… After all, her son is very good at forbearing, and has even become the crown princess.”

“I guessed that. But, it’s a pity, no.” The male guide shook his head. “Although Xue Hanqin is crazy, when I sent a medical team to examine her, I found out that her members were artificially altered in childhood. All her memories were deleted and she was injected with a forbidden drug that restricts her spiritual strength. Her blood is still full of drug residue that masks her original genes… She should really know nothing. It might be because her childhood was so unbearable and having her memories artificially deleted, that the slightest stimulus made her crazy.”

The vice president frowned. “Xue Hanqin had all her memories deleted in childhood and was injected with prohibited drugs… And there is still residue that disguises her genes. Who did it?”

“If nothing else, it should be that woman.” The male guide pointed at Mrs. Xue.

He slowly said: “That woman has always had ideas. The reason she did this is probably to protect her daughter. After all, all the forces were searching for her at the time. Although not many people have seen Xue Hanqin, if the child retains her memory and knows her name, it is easier to find. During development, it will be strange if the child of a civilian family has such a high spiritual strength. Second, it should be because of her so-called desire to let her child be safe and happy, and not bear the weird idea of ​​living with hatred.”

He knows the woman quite well.

“Then you telling Zhuo Yang his life and experience will make him recognize his relatives? The Xue family has long been destroyed. Where can he find any relatives?” The vice president suddenly thought of something.

The male guide smiled weirdly, and said in a light tone: “This is the second thing I want to say. Duke Andrew is Xue Zhanting’s best friend. After the Xue family’s accident, he immediately rushed to Guangming Star, but was a step too late. After being bombarded into a scorched corpse, under his insistence, the vultures from the Lightning Legion did not take away the woman’s body after confirming that she was dead.”

“It may be that woman was guarding her belly firmly until the moment of death. Andrew took out a seven-month-old fetus from her corpse by caesarean section. The fetus had a weak heartbeat and the brain was still alive. Andrew put the fetus into a static biological instrument for repair. I don’t know what method he used to make this child’s body age ten years younger than his birth age. Then he raised the child to inherit everything he had. That child is the commander of the Wild Lion Legion, Chu Lie2T/N: I mistranslated Chu Lie’s name as Chu Yu before. Tried to find any other occurrences, but might not have caught them all. If you see any, please let me know. (I blame MTL!)…” The

The vice president  president thought of the neutral Wild Lion Legion that kept a distance from the royal family and nobles alike. “Then… does Chu Lie know his life experience?”

“Does he know his life experience? I don’t know… but I’m sure Chu Lie hates the royal family and nobility very much. Maybe it’s because of Andrew’s profound influence. Whenever encountering star thieves on missions, he will leave a hole in the net.”  The male guide continued, “In order to cover up the fact that the fetus was still alive, Duke Andrew cremated the woman’s body and scattered the ashes on Jiuwei Star.”

The vice president became a little excited. “This…this is big news. If it is exposed, it will make Osphia stir up a bloody storm.”

“Not only that, the woman’s father is still alive, and deliberately trying to avenge his beloved daughter.” The male guide added quietly.

The vice president frowned again in confusion. “President?”

Even if Mrs. Xue’s father is still alive, isn’t he a 200 year old man?

What can an old man do?

“Do you know the old yellow fox?” The male guide tapped his index finger on the desktop.

Although the vice chairman did not know why, he still answered: “The old yellow fox of Jiuwei Star? The largest arms smuggler in the entire interstellar?”

“That woman is the only daughter of the old yellow fox.” The male guide said with some emotion. “Back then, because Xue Zhanting knew that the woman was the daughter of an arms dealer, they had to pretend that the woman was a civilian to marry. This is why the emperor suspected that Xue Zhanting was in collusion with the arms dealer and intended to rebel.”

The vice president was stunned.

The male guide laughed. “This was far more impactful to the emperor than any so-called evidence sent by the Alliance. This is why Xue Zhanting had to die… Let’s wait, this family still is very useful to our great cause.”

……

After sending away the vice chairman, it was late.

The male guide took a bath and immediately returned to his room. His room was specially made, and the air temperature and various conditions were particularly suitable for the preservation of the corpse. The male guide opened the door and walked to the bed where there was a man lying down.

No, it’s a corpse to be precise.

People who knew Marshal Xue Zhanting back then would have recognized this well-preserved body with elastic muscles. The corpse without a heartbeat was Marshal Xue himself.

Xue Zhanting died by drug injection, so his body is perfectly preserved and still handsome.

The male guide lifted the quilt and lay down on Xue Zhanting’s side. He dropped a kiss on his lips and whispered like a lover: “Your grandson is really not a fuel-efficient lamp. He is too much beyond my control. But, it doesn’t matter, I will make him my best pawn anyway.”

Xue Zhanting’s body did not respond.

“It’s a pity that none of your daughters, sons, or grandsons has one-ten thousandth of your style from back then. It must be that woman’s humble blood that tainted you. Don’t worry, they will all be destroyed. Any evidence of you having been with that women will be erased…” The male guide didn’t care as he rubbed Xue Zhanting’s handsome cheeks lovingly. “We have been together since childhood, growing up together. Why did you choose that woman instead of me? That woman is just a civilian. She has also been a volunteer on the border – don’t know how many sentinel’s spiritual power she has channel, and is not clean. It’s disgusting.”

“Why do you choose her? If you didn’t choose her, you wouldn’t have to die. You know me. What I can’t get, even if it is destroyed, no one else will get it.” He gently shook shook Xue Zhanting’s already stiff hands. “Do you know? At that time, Winston already regretted it. He changed the order and asked not to kill you. It was I who acted first, and killed you one second before the order was delivered. That’s what caused the current situation. The vultures and Lightning Legion wanted to capture that woman alive, and didn’t want to kill her. I was the one who caused her to be blown into a scorched corpse. See how beautiful this vixen is now?”

“Hehe, it’s nice that you are dead. You can stay by my side forever, and never think of anyone else.” He smiled.

 

Zhuo Yang’s backstory!

And a psycho villain… Ugh, necrophilia.

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1Jiuwei = nine-tail. The same nine-tail as Zhuo Yang’s fox2T/N: I mistranslated Chu Lie’s name as Chu Yu before. Tried to find any other occurrences, but might not have caught them all. If you see any, please let me know. (I blame MTL!)