The Way of the Empress

Moodys’s body began to gradually improve, which really relieved Zhuo Yang.

But when he woke up, it was a day and a half later. As soon as Moodys opened his eyes, he saw that Zhuo Yang had fallen asleep quietly on the head of his bed from fatigue. He was as peaceful as an angel with dark eyelashes.

Seeing the unfamiliar environment, Moodys to ask what was going on. But he was really sleeping soundly, and he was reluctant to disturb him.

Seeing Zhuo Yang was sleeping so cutely, he couldn’t help but want to kiss him secretly. Who would have guessed that he had just approached Zhuo Yang, and his mouth had not touched Zhuo Yang’s face…

Zhuo Yang, who was sleeping lightly, woke up.

Zhuo Yang: “…”

Moodys: “…”

Their eyes and breaths are very close, and their eyes faced each other. You look at me, I look at you.

Moodys immediately lost the thought of stealing a kiss, and sat back upright. Clearing his throat, he was about to ask Zhuo Yang about the current situation: “We…”

Zhuo Yang suddenly hugged him, and very fiercely kissed his lips.

Kissed on the spot, Moodys paused, and then slowly kissed Zhuo Yang back.

After a long time, the kiss was over.

Zhuo Yang looked at Moodys with tears in his eyes, and whispered, “Big brother—”

Moodys looks the same as the first time he saw Moodys… his appearance when he fell in love with him…

The way he looked when they first met.

Back then Moodys asked him to call him “Big brother.”

After many years, he finally called this name again.

“Didn’t you always call me uncle? Why did you suddenly change the name to big brother?” Moodys was unaccustomed to the sudden name, and couldn’t get used to it so quickly.

Zhuo Yang stared at him. “I don’t know who it was, asking me why I called him uncle when he clearly asked to be called big brother, when he was dreaming?”

Taken aback, Moodys immediately recalled the dream. He didn’t expect to speak those words in his half-awake state.

Feeling a little embarrassed, he immediately changed the subject. “Cough…pandora?”

“You’ve been vaccinated, and already cured. Otherwise, why do you think you can still sit here and talk to me now?” Zhuo Yang replied with relief.

Moodys said with a smile: “Isn’t the probability of successful vaccination of pandora not high? It seems that my vitality is still quite tenacious, and the heavens will not kill me.”

“It’s not the heaven that saved you, it’s me.” Zhuo Yang corrected. He then handed a mirror over.

“Yes, what I owe you in this life will not be repaid in the next life.” Although he didn’t know why Zhuo Yang handed the mirror over, he took it and took a look.

Unexpectedly, when he saw his reflection, he was stunned. “My face?”

“Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on. Probably fighting poison with poison?” Zhuo Yang said.

Moodys was stunned before he laughed and said jokingly: “It seems that since I married you, my luck has become really good.”

No one wants to have such ugly scars on their face, and worry about scaring the people around them at any time.

Including Moodys.

Especially, after marrying Zhuo Yang. He couldn’t do anything about his disfigured face, and always felt in his heart that he was not worthy of Zhuo Yang in terms of appearance.

He also thought of a lot of ways to treat it… but scars from zerg venom can’t be treated…

And now-

From now on, he finally doesn’t have to worry about this anymore.

Moodys scratched Zhuo Yang’s nose in a good mood, and joked: “Here I was thinking, why did you change my name to ‘big brother’ as soon as I woke up? In the end, it was because of my face.”

“You think too much. Even without scars, it’s not too good-looking.” Zhuo Yang retorted immediately.

Now, he can finally make fun of Moodys’ appearance, and he doesn’t have to worry about hurting him.

Moodys was speechless. “…”

In a good mood, he didn’t want to bother with Zhuo Yang.

“But you are the angel in my heart.” Zhuo Yang hugged him.

Moodys hugged him back and asked, “Where are we now?”

Compared with flirting with Zhuo Yang, he felt that it was more important to figure out the current situation.

“We’re still at Jiuwei Star. But don’t worry, I’ve already told Major General Gu Che and Major General Ding Hui, and they should come pick us up soon…” Zhuo Yang said softly.

Moodys frowned slightly. “Still Jiuwei Star, then we…”

There are too many questions. Where are they now, how did Zhuo Yang get the vaccine, are they safe now, is there any danger…

But he didn’t get the chance to ask.

“How’s the crown prince of Osphia? Is he awake yet? Great-grandson, if he doesn’t wake up, just leave him be. Let’s go out to eat and look at the scenery. I’ll tell you stories of your grandmother back then.” Feng Bai and his yellow fox quantum beast, which was losing hair everywhere, entered the room with wide strides.

As soon as Moodys saw Feng Bai, he immediately became alert. “Old Yellow Fox?”

It is impossible for him not to know the largest arms dealer in the interstellar, who occupied Jiuwei Star.

“Yo, wake up, Osphia’s crown prince’s vitality is really like an undead cockroach. It’s a scourge that will live for a thousand years.” Feng Bai strode up to Moodys, and said rudely.

Zhuo Yang is his great-grandson, so he naturally loves him. But he doesn’t like Moodys, Winston’s eldest son… He feels bad that Zhuo Yang insists on guarding him every day until he wakes up.

As soon as Moodys saw him, he immediately protected Zhuo Yang behind him, and summoned his golden lion. It grinned at the Old Yellow Fox, entering a state of preparation and provocation.

Feng Bai didn’t like Moodys very much either. Seeing the lion’s provocation, his yellow fox, which looked like a wild fox, immediately entered a state of preparation, revealing sharp claws without an ounce of fear at the lion.

Sparks flew.

Seeing a war between the two quantum beasts was about to break out-

“Moodys, this is my great-grandfather.” Zhuo Yang saw that the quantum beasts of the two of them were about to fight, and quickly grabbed Moodys’ hand and introduced him.

Feng Bai is old and Moodys has just recovered. If either is injured, it will not be good.

Moodys immediately looked at Zhuo Yang suspiciously. He knew that Zhuo Yang had always had a lot of ideas, a lot of heart, and was good at acting. He couldn’t understand the situation at hand. “Huh?”

“The kind that has undergone genetic and paternity testing. Zhuo Yang knew what he was thinking, and immediately explained. “Great-grandfather gave you the vaccine, and Major Generals Gu Che and  Ding Hui were also contacted by great-grandfather…”

A few days ago, when Moodys was still in a coma, at the strong request of Zhuo Yang, they did a genetic test with the Old Yellow Fox… The result came out, and it proved that he was indeed the descendant of the Xue family, and Feng Bai’s great-grandson.

The moment the results came out, the Old Yellow Fox was so excited that his eyes filled with tears and he almost cried. And his mixed-haired yellow fox rushed out directly and put Zhuo Yang’s nine-tailed fox on its back, and started to circle around… Then, the nine-tailed fox began its tour across the entire planet, beginning to show off its power.

“Great-grandfather?” Moodys frowned, wondering how Zhuo Yang had an elder like Old Yellow Fox when he was infected with pandora.

Feng Bai looked at Moodys, and immediately snorted angrily. “Hmph—”

He is not pleasing to the eye anywhere.

“Mother is my great-grandfather’s long-lost granddaughter, and I only met my great-grandfather when I went to find a vaccine for you…” Zhuo Yang explained.

Although Moodys was confused, he could only believe and accept Zhuo Yang’s explanation. The Old Yellow Fox hated the royal family of Osphia, and the Jiuwei star was his territory. If the Old Yellow Fox wanted to kill him and Zhuo Yang while he was infected, there was no need to lie to Zhuo Yang.

But Zhuo Yang’s next sentence shocked him: “My grandfather is Marshal Xue Zhanting, and my mother is the daughter of Mrs. Xue who gave up her life to protect her child in the Heart of the Rose.”

Moodys was stunned silent.

Unexpectedly, an accident in the Heart of the Rose would lead to the mystery of Zhuo Yang’s life experience. He did not expect Zhuo Yang to be a descendant of the Xue family, and he, as a member of the Osphia royal family, actually married a descendant of the Xue family.

Previously, Moodys had never understood why the Old Yellow Fox hated the royal family so much. He only knew a little about the Xue family back then, and Emperor Winston only told him that killing Xue Zhanting was out of momentary anger. It was a wrong decision, but the choice was already made, and he could only follow through… He didn’t expect the Old Yellow Fox was Xue Zhanting’s father-in-law.

But now the dots connected. With these details, everything makes more sense.

“You don’t have to worry about the grievances of the previous generation. I’m not a hairy kid who doesn’t know anything like your father. For the justice of my daughter and son-in-law, I will naturally go to Osphia to find your father to discuss his decision that year.” Seeing that Moodys didn’t speak, Feng Bai thought that he was worried about the grievance between the two families, and was worried about him interfering with his relationship with Zhuo Yang. “My great-grandson likes you, saying that you helped him and saved him when you were a child… You just need to be with him well, the grievances of the previous generation have nothing to do with you.”

He was never willing to be the stick that beat a pair of mandarin ducks, and implicate the younger generation due to matters of the previous generation.

Especially, after hearing Zhuo Yang say that Moodys saved him and his mother’s life when he was a child… Although he still doesn’t like Moodys, Feng Bai doesn’t hate him either.

Moodys was silent for a long time. He then grabbed Zhuo Yang’s hand and promised word for word: “I will definitely help the Xue family seek justice, and return your grandparents’ innocence.”

This is what he has always wanted to do.

He told Zhuo Yang this before the Heart of the Rose accident.

Now, after knowing Zhuo Yang’s life experience, he is even more determined.

“I believe in you.” Zhuo Yang held his hand tightly.

The two looked at each other affectionately, without saying anything.

Seeing the picture of the two looking at each other affectionately, Feng Bai felt his eyes were burned. Especially, after he put on glasses and saw the sharp contrast between Moodys’s face, which can only be said to be above average, and his great-grandson’s beautiful and prosperous face. The old man suddenly said with disgust: “My good great-grandson, I can’t figure out what you really like about Osphia’s crown prince? Their royal family’s genes are really ugly, and they will simply lower the average level of our family’s genetic appearance in the future.”

In all fairness , Moody’s facial features are by no means ugly, but there is still a distance from good-looking.

“Although, your grandmother refused to listen to me, and ran away with Xue Zhanting, but Xue Zhanting still has a good face. What do you like about this crown prince?” Feng Bai was perplexed and couldn’t understand the aesthetics of his great-grandson.

He just felt that this child must have lacked love since childhood, and he must treat him better in the future.

Zhuo Yang replied helplessly, “great-grandfather…”

He wasn’t looking at his face.

“…” Moodys felt that he should be thankful that he didn’t meet Feng Bai when half of his face was covered with scars from zerg venom.

 

—–

 

Moodys woke up less than an hour before Gu Che and Ding Hui led the army to Jiuwei Star. Because they knew that this was the territory of the Old Yellow Fox, who hated the Osphia royal family deeply, they were almost ready to go to war to rescue Moodys.

Unexpectedly, the Old Yellow Fox not only did not open fire, but also vacated a place for their warships to land, and sent someone to greet them with Moodys.

Although Gu Che and Ding Hui were confused and wary, seeing the large number of people, they still parked the warships.

The moment he saw Moodys, Ding Hui immediately stepped forward and hugged Moodys with red eyes. “Boss, I knew you wouldn’t die! It’s good that you are still alive.”

“Yes, ah, I’m still alive.” Moodys patted him on the shoulder and released him.

Gu Che saw Moody’s face immediately. “Your Highness, your face?”

“It’s a blessing in disguise.” After hearing complaints of his ugliness from the Old Yellow Fox several times, Moodys could finally raise his face in front of his subordinates, and regained his confidence.

Zhuo Yang also stepped forward and greeted them. “Major General Gu Che, Major General Ding Hui, Lieutenant Colonel Liu Erya, long time no see.”

“Your… Your Highness, you… are you all right?” Liu Erya was paying attention to Moodys and didn’t see Zhuo Yang until he spoke.

Seeing her so surprised, Zhuo Yang suddenly smiled. “What about me? Or do you think it’s normal for your crown prince to survive after being swept up by the vortex, but I should be twisted into pieces?”

“No, no, don’t you have pandora?” Liu Erya shook her head repeatedly.

Before, she really thought Zhuo Yang was swept into the vortex. Since His Royal Highness isn’t dead, then Zhuo Yang shouldn’t be dead. Plus Zhuo Yang tried to spy on Gu Che before, but…

Her voice fell.

Both Zhuo Yang and Moodys voices sharpened: “Pandora?”

Moodys just rescued his life from the pandora virus, and how he got it was still unclear…

“Your Royal Highness, after you were swept away, we found a traitor in the logistics department. They secretly added the latent pandora virus to His Highness’s daily nutritional supplements… It was planned long ago, so we don’t know why they did this. It may be to kill the crown princess, as only His Highness’s supplements were drugged.”

Gu Che immediately reported: “But before Ding Hui and I could cross-examine them, that person committed suicide.”

In the army, they all eat nutritional supplements, which are made by machines based on each person’s body weight.

They will never be mixed up, or incorrect…

Liu Erya said: “We thought that, after taking such a nutritional supplement, His Highness will be infected with pandora, but we didn’t expect His Highness to be fine.”

“Before we received news from His Highness, we also struggled to get a vaccine,” she added.

Zhuo Yang’s heart immediately sank. He didn’t expect that Moodys acquired the virus because of him… When Moodys was unconscious, he fed his own blood.

Who on earth wanted to put him to death?

“Of course he won’t get infected.” Before Zhuo Yang could understand, Feng Bai strode forward and said coldly, “In the beginning, when the pandora vaccine was developed, it was because a doctor discovered some people’s genes and blood can resist pandora virus… I was the first group of volunteers who provided genes and blood to research a vaccine. It’s destined that genes of our family will not be infected with pandora. These things extracted from blood cells will become the pandora vaccine after a high degree of purification and processing.”

This is the origin of the pandora vaccine and the reason why there are so many vaccines in Jiuwei Star.

When a few people were infected later, it was because he was seriously injured and it was not suitable to extract large volumes of blood for the vaccine.

Unexpectedly, someone in Osphia actually wanted to use pandora to kill his great-grandson…

“It seems that these people and Felman had a plan, conspiring to kill us.” Moodys frowned. “What about Emperor Star? How is Emperor Star now?”

He suddenly had an ominous feeling.

Sure enough, at the mention of Emperor Star, Gu Che and Ding Hui immediately showed sad expressions on their faces.

“Your Highness, now the entire Emperor Star, no, the entire Osphia is in chaos.”

 

Hahahaha my 2nd fav bit.

[Moodys] Turns out you called me brother due to my face.

[Zhuo Yang] Your face ain’t anything special.

[Moodys] …

Then Feng Bai tosses more salt on the injury.

 

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