The Way of the Empress

“Mom…”

“I’m sorry, little uncle. My mother’s situation is a little unusual. We’ll leave first. Please bear with me.” After the medical team arrived, both Zhuo Yang and Feng Bai were in no mood to continue the banquet and bid farewell directly to Dean.

Dean was obviously also frightened, but he still said politely and thoughtfully: “It’s all right, Your Highness, please go ahead. It is better to see to Hanqin’s illness first.”

With the understanding of the host, Zhuo Yang didn’t stay any longer, and followed the medical team and Tan Yuzhi, and left.

Looking at their backs, Dean’s heart sank inexplicably. At this moment, his communicator suddenly rang. Frowning, he quietly walked to the corner to open it. He didn’t know who sent the message. It was a mess of garbled characters, as if someone was playing a prank on him.

However, after seeing this string of garbled characters, Dean’s face suddenly became ugly…

With the comfort of the medical team, Tan Yuzhi quickly controlled her emotions and fell asleep. Zhuo Yang and Feng Bai watched her settle down and fell asleep. While relieved, they were worried about her unstable mental condition.

“Uncle, why, why…” At this moment, Tan Yuzhi, who was sleeping, didn’t know what was going on. She seemed to be in some terrible nightmare. Tears were shed in her sleep, as she murmured.

Startled, Zhuo Yang immediately approached her and asked, “Mom, what did you say?”

“Hanqin, what’s the matter with you?” Feng Bai also approached Tan Yuzhi worriedly.

At this moment, Tan Yuzhi seemed to be frightened by something. Her voice became louder, as she asked clearly, “Uncle, why? Why did you hurt my mother? Don’t you like me the most?”

Before Zhuo Yang could hear what Tan Yuzhi said, Feng Bai grabbed Tan Yuzhi’s hand and asked nervously, “Hanqin, who are you talking about? Who wants to harm your mother?”

“Uncle, why? Why harm my mother and me…” Tan Yuzhi couldn’t answer anything, and just repeated this sentence in a murmur, as if she couldn’t hear what they said at all.

Pressing his eyes, Feng Bai asked, “Who is uncle? Who is going to harm your mother?”

Seeing that Tan Yuzhi was in a bad condition, Zhuo Yang quickly called the medical team over. With the help of the medical staff, Tan Yuzhi quickly woke up and returned to normal, but she doesn’t remember what just happened, or what she said…

Who is uncle? Who is going to hurt her mother?

Why did Tan Yuzhi become like this after seeing Changdi Qing? Was what she said in her dream a memory of when she was Xue Hanqin, or after she became Tan Yuzhi?

Was the mother who was killed by her uncle referring to Feng Chu, or her adoptive mother? It became everyone’s biggest mystery…

“Can my granddaughter’s lost memory and limited mental power really be restored?” Feng Bai wondered. He had to ask the attending physician in charge of Tan Yuzhi’s physical condition.

The attending physician shook his head gently. “Theoretically, it is possible, but there are certain risks…”

“How so?” Zhuo Yang asked immediately.

The attending physician: “If Mrs. Tan’s mental condition was never stimulated, with our current medical technology, we try to restore her mental power and artificially deleted memory. This is not difficult… Because the people who deleted her memory and limited her mental power was obviously very concerned about her physical condition, they did not use strong medicine…”

“But her mental condition was stimulated, and she even had a mental disorder… Brain and nerves are very sensitive and fragile. If madam was never been mentally ill, it will be cured once her brain is stimulated. But since she was insane for so long, if she stimulates her brain again at this time, her original mental strength and memory may be restored, but it is also possible that she is stimulated and fall into a state of mental disorder again, and it is unknown if it will never recover… There are certain risks, and you need to be mentally prepared, and then decide whether to restore madam’s mental power and memory…” The doctor’s words were very cautious.

Zhuo Yang and Feng Bai originally hoped that Tan Yuzhi could restore her mental strength and memory, because she was the only survivor of the Xue family’s massacre, and the only one who knew the situation at the time… There are many mysteries and puzzles around the current Xue family that need someone to help answer.

But now, after learning about the risks to restore her mental power and memory, and risk for Tan Yuzhi herself, which may leave her mentally unhinged, Zhuo Yang and Feng Bai hesitated.

“No need, we won’t do it. Hanqin’s mental power and memory do not need to be restored.” After hesitating for a long time, Feng Bai made the final decision.

Even if he wants to know what happened back then and how his daughter died, he can’t take risks with his granddaughter who is still alive…

Zhuo Yang has no objection.

Just when they decided to end the conversation, Tan Yuzhi suddenly opened the door. “No, I’m going to do this operation, I want to restore my mental strength and memory.”

“Mom…”

“…Hanqin.” Zhuo Yang and Feng Bai spoke at the same time, frowning in disapproval, trying to dissuade Tan Yuzhi from this idea.

But the always weak Tan Yuzhi’s attitude was unusually firm this time…

Tan Yuzhi said with tears in her eyes: “I want to know how my parents died, and only I know. If I can’t recall these things, I will never feel at ease my whole life.”

There was an obsession in her heart telling her that she must do this.

The biggest mystery of the death of her parents is hidden in her memory which was artificially deleted by her mother.

Feng Bai and Zhuo Yang took turns to persuade her to no avail. In the end, they could only compromise in the face of Tan Yuzhi’s insistence. Zhuo Yang could only arrange the best medical team in Osphia to perform this memory and mental power recovery operation for Tan Yuzhi.

At the same time, Moodys and the others followed the clues left by Duke Andrew to investigate the truth behind the Xue family’s case. They found many clues to other things as they dug deeper. Including the Anti-Imperial Society who participated in and led the Xue family’s case back then, which was conducting those inhuman human experiments that Prince Hannibal used to do on Emperor Star…

This discovery is very serious. Moodys immediately intensified and conducted a thorough investigation. He followed the clues to investigate, and actually captured a high-level figure of the Anti-Imperial Society…

All relevant information was immediately transmitted to Moodys’ personal terminal. Before Moodys could read it, his personal terminal communicator rang.

“Your Royal Highness…” The person looking for him was Gu Che.

Moodys straight to the point: “What’s wrong? Anything new?”

“I found something, and I may need to meet you in person and report to you.” Gu Che’s tone was unusually solemn.

Moodys frowned slightly. “What?”

Gu Che was silent for a while before speaking: “I suspect that the one we caught is not the real organizer of the Anti-Imperial Society. The real organizer of the Anti-Imperial Society may be related to or deeply involved with the royal family. They may even come from the royal family…”

“I’ll go look for you now.” Moodys’ tone immediately became solemn.

Moodys just turned off the communicator on his side. Somewhere else, Gordon was wandering around with a cigarette in the palace of the Changdi Qing.

He was very annoyed. Dean asked him here, but he didn’t show up on time for some reason. He just left him here…

Everyone in Emperor Star said that Dean deeply loved him, a lover who was several decades younger. If he wants stars, he gets stars; and if he wants the moon, he gets the moon. There is nothing obvious, but Gordon knew very well in his heart that Changdi Qing’s feelings for him are elusive, and are not that deep at all… Although he ‘loves’ him, that ‘love’ is limited, and feels more like taking him as a substitute for someone else.

Gordon turned around in Changdi Qing’s mansion, and suddenly turned to the door of Changdi Qing’s bedroom.

After having been with Changdi Qing for so many years, Gordon has never been in his bedroom. Even if they have sex, it is in another room. Changdi Qing never let him in. He also asked him if there was anything hideous in his room, but Dean just smiled and never answered him, and never let him inside.

It’s not that Gordon didn’t try the door, but it was always locked, so he just let it go.

Turning to the bedroom door again, Gordon pushed the door of the room without hope.

Unexpectedly, this time it actually opened.

Driven by curiosity, Gordon walked into the door, only to see a man lying on the bed. No, to be precise, a corpse. A handsome male sentinel corpse, very well preserved, lifelike, and on the side, he looked a bit like Gordon.

Gordon was taken aback and didn’t understand why Changdi Qing kept a male corpse in his bedroom.

Is this some unknown fetish?

“…Xue…Xue Zhanting?” Gordon glanced at the corpse again, and suddenly recognized who it was.

He was so young so he had never met with the marshal, but recently, because he was busy investigating the Xue family’s case, he had accidentally seen the marshal’s photo.

Hasn’t Xue Zhanting been dead for 60 years? Isn’t Changdi Qing his friend?

How could his corpse be here? What did Chang Diqing collect his corpse for?

Gordon’s heart skipped a beat, as if he had discovered some big secret. He subconsciously wanted to leave, restore everything as it was, close the door, and pretend that he had never been here.

“Since you entered the door and saw my secret, you still want to leave?” At this moment, the door to the bedroom in front of him suddenly closed. A dark room seemed to open in the bedroom, and a voice he was very familiar with came from behind.

He was very familiar with the owner of this voice, so familiar that he once slept with his neck revealed, but when he heard this voice now, he trembled with fright…

Gordon trembled involuntarily: “De…Dean…”

“Didn’t you just arrive? What are you doing in such a hurry?” Dean walked out of the dark room, and a robot for restraining prisoners arrived at Gordon’s side. Using a restraint that could control dozens of elephants, it forcibly bound him, controlled his mental power, and dragged him to the wall.

Gordon was so frightened that he couldn’t say anything, he could only keep calling his name: “Dean, Dean…”

“Did you want to ask who the man on the bed was?” Dean walked over to him. Lifting his chin up, he followed his gaze to see Xue Zhanting on the bed, and his voice softened instantly. “I tell you, that’s my lover, the person I love the most in my life.”

His voice was extraordinarily gentle, but Gordon felt horrified.

Dean looked at Xue Zhanting on the bed tenderly. “But, he didn’t love me, he fell in love with another person, so I killed him… I am a person who has a strong desire for monopoly. What I can’t get will never be someone else’s. Even if it is the garbage I throw away and the things I used, I will destroy it. I will not allow others to pick it up!”

“I am loyal to you, and I will be loyal to you for the rest of my life, to be you. I’ll be your dog, Your Highness Changdi Qing…” Gordon sensed danger from his voice, and quickly showed his loyalty, begging him to let him go.

He thought that the most terrifying guide he had provoked in his life was Zhuo Yang. He never expected that there was a more terrifying one lurking in the dark, that he knew nothing about.

He also regarded the other party as a little white rabbit who he could step over.

Dean smiled and patted his face. “What a smart boy. It’s a pity, I’m leaving Emperor Star, and I can’t take you away. You are also something I used, so in order to prevent others using you, I have to destroy you.”

“No, no, I’m willing to go with you, I’m willing to run away with you. I love you, I love you. Your Highness, Changdi Qing, I’m willing to give up everything I have to go with you…” Gordon kept shouting.

Dean enjoyed his dying struggle, and he took out an injection from the drawer and walked to Gordon. “I want to take you away too…”

Gordon kept shaking and struggling, but he couldn’t get rid of this robot. “No, no…”

“Unfortunately, my spaceship can’t hold anything else. Since you’ve been with me for so many years, I’ll make you die more comfortable, like my lover. I’ll let you die the same way, and will remember you, good boy.” Dean ignored his struggle and firmly stuck the syringe into Gordon’s body.

Gordon’s face was grim, his face was livid and he shouted: “No, don’t…”

But after a while, the deadly toxin took his life, and his hand fell softly to one side in an instant.

However, Dean didn’t even look at the man who had been in bed with him for decades. He took his personal terminal directly from him, easily cracked the password, and sent a message to Zhuo Yang in Gordon’s name.

 

—–

 

At eight o’clock in the morning, Tan Yuzhi underwent surgery on time, but Zhuo Yang did not arrive for some reason.

Feng Bai stayed in the operating room for a long time. As soon as Tan Yuzhi came out of the operating room, he greeted her: “Hanqin…”

He didn’t know what happened to his granddaughter, whether he recovered her mental strength and memory smoothly or went completely Insane.

“Xue Hanqin, I’m Xue Hanqin…” Tan Yuzhi burst into tears as soon as she came out of the operating room and hugged Feng Bai. The first thing she said was: “Grandpa, Uncle Dean, it’s Dean. Uncle… it was he who ordered the shooting, he looked at his mother viciously, wanted her to die, and wanted to kill me and my mother…”

Feng Bai was immediately shocked. “Ah?!”

At the same time, after an overnight review, Moodys finally found out the true identity of the culprit behind the scenes. Unexpectedly, his younger uncle, Changdi Qing, Dean, was the real organizer of the Anti-Imperial Society.

“Your Highness, what should I do now?” Gu Che asked immediately.

Moodys gave the immediate order: “Arrest, immediately arrest the Changdi Qing, Dean Bricania, and investigate those who have had close contacts with him, detain them, and investigate one by one.”

“Yes!” Gu Che and Ding Hui accepted the order in unison.

But before they could convey the order, someone urgently contacted Moodys. Moodys’s eyelids jumped as he accepted the communication. On the other end, came the anxious voice of his secretary-general, Hathaway. “Your Royal Highness, it’s not good, His Highness, Dean, Changdi Qing’s mansion went on fire last night, The whole mansion was burnt down…”

“His Highness the Crown Princess, His Majesty Winston, Secretary-General Gordon and His Highness Changdi Qing have all disappeared.” Hathaway reported hurriedly.

Moody’s heart sank immediately.

He didn’t expect that while the Anti-Emperor Society was being cleaned up, Dean would have the ability to take the first step and disappeared with Zhuo Yang and Winston.

Changdi Qing schemes are really deep.

 

Two more chapters left to go!

 

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