The meeting was short, lasting about an hour.

Before learning about the base, Ye Xingxue and Ling Luo had already met with the high-ranking officials of various departments within the base.

At the time, everyone was only talking about business.

After the meeting, it was still early, so Ling Luo and the base's senior executives moved to a more relaxing place to chat.

Ye Qianyu went along too.

They gathered together and discussed major events that were happening in various interstellar empires or their own empire, events that could influence the future development of those empires.

These major issues encompass various aspects, including politics, science and technology, and pharmaceuticals.

Ling Luo doesn't go online and doesn't know much about major events happening in the Empire or other empires.

She couldn't get a word in edgewise while they were talking; she just listened quietly from the side.

Seeing that they had been chatting for a while without Ling Luo saying a word, Wan Ce suddenly looked at Ling Luo, smiled, and said, "Last year, when the Crown Princess was interviewed, she said that she rarely paid attention to the affairs of the empire and the people's livelihood. Is it still the same now?"

Ling Luo didn't expect him to suddenly focus his attention on her again.

She replied, "Yes."

Wan Ce asked curiously, "I heard that the Crown Princess has always been quite busy. Is she still busy researching training methods?"

Since attending a major imperial conference last year, Ling Luo has rarely appeared in the public eye again.

Many people outside the industry speculate that she may have gone on to continue researching training methods.

As the Crown Princess of the Empire, Ling Luo stated in a previous interview that she rarely paid attention to the affairs of the Empire and the people's livelihood. The outside world thought that she was probably busy researching training methods and therefore did not have time to learn about the important matters of the Empire. Therefore, after watching the interview, no one criticized her for this.

It has been ten months since Ling Luo attended the Imperial Conference last year.

If Ling Luo was still busy researching training methods during these ten months and didn't have time to pay attention to important imperial matters, it would actually be understandable.

The question about the two people, Wan Ce and Wan Cang, seems to be a way out for Ling Luo, but in reality, it is putting psychological pressure on Ling Luo.

It is common knowledge that a Crown Princess of an empire who does not care about important imperial affairs and the people's livelihood is unqualified.

Currently, everyone in the interstellar community is developing training methods based on ancient martial arts. No matter how powerful Lingluo's ancient martial arts are, one person's strength is still limited.

Many people think that Ling Luo is indeed very impressive for developing so many training methods at once, but these training methods may also be her limit.

She wants to surpass herself and develop a better training method than her own, but that would be incredibly difficult.

The training method research institutes of various empires are full of talented people. It might be easier for them to develop training methods based on ancient martial arts that are better than the training methods Ling Luo developed before.

If Ling Luo makes no progress in his research on training methods, and remains ignorant of the Empire's important affairs and unconcerned about the people's livelihood, once the outside world learns of this, Ling Luo may further "fall from grace."

Wan Ce believes this is also what Ling Luo is worried about.

He said this to further deepen Ling Luo's inferiority complex.

Previously, when she was in the Dubken Empire, there were various speculations online about her absence from the training methods seminar, and Ye Xingxue had summarized the key points and told her about it.

As a result, Ling Luo also learned how some netizens and professionals in training methods, such as Katie Fen, speculated about her in the research of the techniques.

To be honest, although she was the Crown Princess of the Lingliu Empire, she was so busy with her own affairs that she didn't have a proper understanding of her identity as the Crown Princess.

The reason why Ye Feng and his group were treated well, and why the mecha was sold cheaply to Ye Zhenyan, was only because of Ye Xingxue.

Since the last time in the Dibuken Empire, when Ye Xingxue mentioned the training method seminar to her, and she learned that some people believed that Ye Xingxue and Ye Feng had not allowed her to attend, she gained a deeper understanding of her identity as the Crown Princess of the Lingliu Empire.

But she still didn't take these things too seriously.

Hearing Wan Ce say this, Ling Luo knew he was criticizing her for not fulfilling her duties as the Crown Princess.

She didn't know what the Crown Princess's duties specifically included; Ye Xingxue and Ye Feng had never told her, nor had they ever asked her anything.

Regardless, she felt that she had to know everything that happened in the empire and post updates to show her concern; that was fulfilling her duty as the Crown Princess.

She looked down on all of the twenty-odd training methods she wrote for the Hellow Military Academy, the mechs she processed for Ye Zhenyan, the alien beast meat she sold, and the purification fluid that was about to be launched on the market, but she knew that they were all beneficial to the empire.

Compared to verbal expressions of understanding and concern for people's livelihoods, she believed that the things she had done before were of greater significance to the empire.

However, she didn't feel it was necessary for her to explain these things to Wan Ce.

Whether Wan Ce looks down on her or not is not important to her.

She was unwilling to waste her breath explaining herself to him just to gain his respect.

Therefore, she simply said, "No."

Wan Ce was surprised that she dared to answer like that, and his smile paused slightly.

Is it that she got carried away and thought the halo of the training method could protect her forever, or that she knew he had ill intentions and simply didn't bother to even appease him, letting him speculate however he wanted?

Ye Qianyu, who was standing to the side, did not say a word either.

Unlike Ling Luo, she sat in a corner and had no right to interrupt.

Seeing that Ling Luo hadn't joined in the conversation much while Ye Xingxue and Wan Ce were talking for so long, she initially thought that Ling Luo's poor background meant that even after becoming the Crown Princess, she couldn't truly integrate into the social circles of people like Ye Xingxue and the others.

Now, hearing Wan Ce say this, she realized that Ling Luo didn't pay attention to the important affairs of the Empire and the interstellar empires, which was why she couldn't get a word in edgewise.

To be honest, Ye Qianyu rarely paid attention to the politics and people's livelihood of the Empire and other interstellar empires.

She was completely confused by the deep topics that Ye Xingxue and Wan Ce were discussing.

However, even after so many years as the Crown Princess, Ling Luo still maintains an attitude of not caring about people's livelihood, which is indeed very inappropriate.

She felt that if she were Ling Luo, even if she developed such a good training method, she would not forget her duties as the Crown Princess, but would take care of everything properly so that Ye Xingxue would have no worries.

Hearing that Ling Luo hadn't fulfilled her duties as the Crown Princess, yet still dared to talk back to Wan Ce like that, Ye Qianyu felt like laughing. She also thought that Ling Luo was not only arrogant but also stupid, still not realizing her own situation.