The Way of the Empress

The power of idols and role models is infinite. At the call of Zhuo Yang, Allen, and a group of noble guides, guides on more than 100 planets in Osphia plucked up the courage and spontaneously organized to go to the mental institutions on their respective plants and help soothe those mentally disordered sentinels.

Suddenly, contribute one’s own power to society as a guide, and going to the medical hospitals to help mentally disordered sentinels almost became a fashion statement for guides to demonstrate and advertise their abilities.

Zhuo Yang, as the initiator of this call and the crown princess, has also undergone such positive changes, and became very busy. After the press conference, he accepted interviews from many media.

“I’ve noticed that because of the recent call by me and some other nobles in our capital, many guides are volunteering to help mentally disordered sentinels to channel their spiritual power. Our country is becoming more and more united. Us guides with the weakest physical abilities can also contribute our strength to the country… I am very happy seeing this. This is a very good phenomenon.” Zhuo Yang first highly praised the guides who are willing to come out and contribute to their own on the talk show. Their spiritual guidance helps many disordered sentinels restore normalcy in their lives.

Immediately afterwards, he added another social issue that he had paid attention to recently: “But there is one thing, I have also noticed, that I have to talk about. That is, I have recently seen many people using public opinion to criticize and kidnap those guides are unwilling, demanding to provide compulsory counseling for mentally disordered sentinels… Otherwise, those who are unwilling to do so or charge a fee will attract attacks from the public.”

“Such behavior makes me very sad. I hope you can also pay attention to your own words. The call and initiation of this activity is entirely voluntary. Although the number of guides is scarce, people are not tools or resources… They can also be busy with other things, and are are not obligated to help sentinels to channel their spiritual power for free. After all, this is very time consuming… Many civilian guides have no other sources of income, and they rely on such fees from helping sentinels to channel their spiritual power to maintain their livelihood. You can’t ask all guides to help sentinels out of goodwill, just because some have taken the lead.” As a guide, Zhuo Yang still considers the problem from the perspective of a guide. “But there are some guides whose physical condition is really not good, and are not very suited to help channel a sentinel’s spiritual power… I hope everyone can deal with this problem calmly. In fact, seeing so many guides willing to stand up and help after I announced this call to action, I’m very happy and grateful.”

He has to look at the other side as well.

No matter what the original intention of anything is, once it is too extreme and fanatical, there will be no good results.

The moral kidnappings and public opinion attacks of many angry youths did force many noble guides who were unwilling to wade in such waters participate, allowing him and Moodys to achieve a very good effect in a short period of time. However, Zhuo Yang is unwilling to look at society as a materialized guide, and use public opinion to attack the guide from another aspect…

In the long run, such behaviors will only lead to bad outcomes, so he chose to stand up and stop it.

As soon as Zhuo Yang’s interview was published, it became widely circulated online.

Because of his outstanding appearance, popularity, spiritual strength, and crown princess identity, many people regarded him as an idol and male god online. Many angry youths attacked other guides under the banner of being his fans, accusing them with words such as “what about the crown princess” and so. It even attracted many Zhuo Yang fans to follow and like them enthusiastically.

After Zhuo Yang said these words, the angry youths who were unreasonably attacking those unwilling guides immediately turned off their fire. Zhuo Yang fans also calmed down and began to consider others, no longer morally kidnapping guides or persecuting with public opinion.

Those guides who were originally reluctant to go out and help, or helped after being forced, have a better impression of Zhuo Yang after he stood up to say these things. It relieved a lot of pressure on him, and let them see the crown princess put himself in consideration of their situation.

And those guides who were originally relying on charging sentinels for spiritual guidance to make a living, after Zhuo Yang said these words, they no longer shrank back and were afraid of being attacked or abused for charging a fee… They stood up generously and began to treat their behavior of charging fees to help with spiritual counseling as a normal, upright and non-shameful job.

Everything is thriving, developing in the direction expected by Moodys and Zhuo Yang.

The empire’s television and entertainment also responded to the government’s call. The themes in TV series no longer advertised that guides should stay at home and depend on their sentinel, remain filial to one’s parents-in-law, and take care of children. It was the other way around. They began to praise the guides that learned self-reliance, so as to help other sentinels channel their spiritual power, help the government save people, and contribute their own strength to society.

And those who who were originally seen as normal on TV, such as keep your mouth shut and I’ll raise you, guides should not have a job and stay home, or you have to listen to me, type of sentinel cancer sentiments were blocked. The Imperial Television Bureau also began to uncharacteristically start criticizing them, making them in the image of foils, male seconds, or male thirds, as sentinels who should not be able to find a guide for a lifetime, and are not worthy of any guide.

A good sentinel is a sentinel who respects their guide, understands their guide, and treats their guide as a person equal to oneself, rather than a tool to channel their spiritual power.

As for those, there are many sentinels in Osphia who have ordinary people as lovers. Because the lover is an ordinary person or sentinel, and can’t channel their spiritual power, they chose to marry a guide, but didn’t love them. Instead, they continued to entangle with their previous lover, and make them feel wronged. They feel that if a guide could not channel their mental strength, they will never marry them. Through the televised movies and dramas, this kind of sentinel received many accusations and attacks, creating a very disgusting image on these people…

It aroused aroused accusation and hot discussions of many viewers…

No gender is born to be oppressed. Even if one is brainwashed into thinking their gender is stronger and pretended to be superior, it was only because they were foolishly blinded to think they were born like that, and think they should be treated as such.

Once you give them a little chance, a little light, and let them understand that all people are created equal… No one is lower than anyone else, no one is born lower than anyone because of their sex.

They will awaken, and they will stand up and fight for their rights.

With Zhuo Yang taking the lead in calling for guides to stand up and contribute their spiritual guidance to the country, Allen’s words that looked down on them, feeling they were unclean, all kinds of TV dramas that began to harshly criticize sentinel cancers and straight man cancers appeared…

With official support, the status of women and guides who were originally disadvantaged rose unprecedentedly.

Women and guides who had been brainwashed for many years began to wake up, and the feminist and guide rights of Osphia suddenly rose.

Originally, because they didn’t have a job and or poor health, and could only be raised at home by the sentinel cancer, guides with spouses who did not love them and were accused of having low mental power, could only bear it for their children. These oppressed guides suddenly awakened… Thinking of the outside, there are still so many sentinels who can’t find a guide, and they also have the ability to do spiritual guidance. These guides are no longer willing to bear it, slapping the faces of those sentinel cancers and announcing a divorce…

Osphia’s law is still biased towards proposing the weak side. For guides, as long as they propose to divorce, they can get a divorce under normal circumstances. Not to mention they can get a lot of property and custody of their children.

It’s only that in the past, the large number of sentinel cancers used public opinion and other methods to oppress and brainwash guides to think as long as they left the sentinels they married, they would never find another one. That guides helping more than one sentinel with spiritual guidance are dirty, broken shoes… The whole social environment is like this. Sometimes guides and women were even brainwashed by the environment into oppressing their own kind. How can those oppressed guides have the courage to take the step and go out, or face the attacks and pressure from public opinion?

However, this time Zhuo Yang’s call to action for guides freed them. He refuted the belief that guides who channel more than one sentinel’s spiritual power are unclean, but it instead is a power for them to save the lives of their fellow compatriots.

Everything became different–

Guides are human beings, not animals that are accustomed to being enslaved by oppression. After knowing that some concepts are ignorant and wrong, how can they be willing to continuing living their oppressed lives like before?

Suddenly, the divorce rate in Osphia was soaring. Spreading from the civilian circle, guides began to resist… Originally, because conditions were good, those sentinels with cancerous thoughts who ate, drank, prostituted, and gambled outside, with guides at home, and were the cause of other sentinel’s jealousy, instantly reverted to bachelors again, without a guide.

Those sentinel cancers didn’t respond at first. They thought that their guides would return after a few days of hard work outside. Unexpectedly, their guides left them for a better time. By the time they reacted and wanted their guide back, their guides were not cheap anymore, and refused to go home with the sentinel.

Many sentinels like this change very much. Originally, there were few guides, and it was difficult for them to find a guide. Now a large number of guides have divorced and are single again, and they have another chance…

The sudden divorce fever also spread to the aristocratic circle. Many guides who seemed to be close to their own sentinels, but were only making do, gained infinite courage from it and chose to divorce.

Zhuo Yang was quite stunned to find out. He couldn’t imagine that so many sentinels in Osphia that their guides were dissatisfied with across all of Osphia.

Under Chu Lie’s suggestion, the government set up a special “Freedom Contribution Award” for those guides who volunteered to help soldiers in the border before the call began. Their lives are difficult, but they have saved the lives of many border soldiers. These guides, who were unclear about the situation were invited a program group of a certain TV station of Emperor Star to praise and recognize them. They were seen as the “Top Ten People of the Year to Move Osphia” and “Great Figures of Influence and Change”.

Set them up as role models for the people to learn and respect.

After Zhuo Yang was interviewed by several programs, a program planning team aiming to  promote guide and women’s rights felt that Zhuo Yang’s thoughts were very consistent with them. Given how eye-catching the status of the crown princess and royal family is, if he participated and shared his opinion, they tentatively sent an email inviting Zhuo Yang to the program. It will certainly make a great impact in promoting guide and women’s rights if he attends.

At the beginning of the email, the program planner just asked tentatively. He didn’t expect Zhuo Yang to really come to participate in their show, and didn’t actually expect the crown princess to see the email.

But unexpectedly, by chance, Zhuo Yang saw this email when he was sorting his mailbox.

“Do you want to accept the invitation to participate in this show?” Moodys asked Zhuo Yang when he saw Zhuo Yang reading this email carefully, and took a look.

Zhuo Yang raised his lips with interest. “I think it’s a little bit interesting. If this program has a good response and arouses the audience’s love, I think it should be able to help the royal family’s image and increase popular support…”

“After all, the credibility of the royal family and government has long been inferior in the eyes of the public. This can be a good opportunity to redeem it.” He added.

The implication is that he is very interested and eager to accept the invitation to participate.

Moodys looked at him, touching the short hairs on his temples with great indulgence. “If you want to go, you can go.”

“I really want to go, but I’m just afraid of the Elder Council and Cabinet…” Zhuo Yang frowned with a headache.

The Elder Council and Cabinet are quite strict. They are in charge of the words and deeds of the royal family members outside. A princess’s dress was too exposing a few decades ago, and the two forced combined and accused her for a long time of corrupting the image of the royal family.

And he, the crown princess, now wants to participate in the show like a star. The cabinet and elders are so old-fashioned, can you agree?

“The times have changed. It’s time for those old-fashioned people to change those ideas which are accumulating dust.” Moodys can be said to be very indulgent, to the point of omnipotence. “Go if you want. Don’t worry about the rest. Just leave it to me to deal with the cabinet and elders.”

Zhuo Yang smiled immediately. “Okay.”

With the promise and support of the crown prince who could even settle those politicians and family heads when proposing such reforms, Zhuo Yang immediately became unscrupulous. He became the first member of the royal family to appear on an entertainment program in Osphia’s history, exposing his own life as a member of the royal family to everyone.

The entire image of the noble and glamorous Osphia royal family instantly became grounded and approachable.

It is also more popular among the people.

 

Lots of large exposition/paragraphs/speeches coming up…

 

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