Chapter 54 Fate's Domineering Rich Woman Falls in Love with Me.

After calming His Majesty, who was troubled by her absence for several days, and his pet, Shi Wei met a visitor.

When the servants mentioned Miss Moran from the Tira family, Shi Wei was still quite confused, but as soon as they mentioned the Tira family, she immediately perked up.

The Tira family is the wealthiest noble family in Manra, a noble family that has existed for nearly a thousand years. It is said that the first Duke of Tira had Asta's genes—this is based on a report issued by NGT, the most authoritative genetic testing agency in the universe. The term "descendant of Asta" has always been regarded as the gold standard by the Tira family.

Although the royal family of Manra is the true descendant of Asta, and many people have doubted whether the report was based on money, most of the heads of the Tira family have excellent money-making abilities, which is quite similar to Asta.

The first Duke of Tira famously said, "There is no problem that the Tira family's money can't solve; if there is, then there is no answer." Although arrogant, it was indeed true. At its peak, the Tira family was richer than the royal family.

Therefore, Shi Wei had great respect for this Miss Mo Lan—she was happy for several days after Jiang Chuge's marriage to her fell through.

She couldn't stand that Jiang Chuge had hooked up with a rich woman.

There have been rumors that Miss Moran has a terrible personality. When Shi Wei saw her, she remembered that she seemed to have seen her at a banquet some time ago.

It looks familiar, but I can't remember where I've seen it before.

She hasn't attended many banquets either.

"I saw you at the Summer Festival banquet and have been thinking about you ever since. It's a pity we didn't get to chat much that time." The beautiful silver-haired girl sat elegantly, her eyes also a pale gray. She had probably dressed up specially for the palace, her hair exquisitely styled, making her a pleasing sight.

Oh! It's that beautiful girl from that day!

Shi Wei finally remembered that she had been tricked by His Majesty into drinking too much that day and seemed to have talked quite a bit with this young lady—damn it, she hadn't said anything nonsense, had she?

"I drank too much that day, please forgive me if I offended you."

Shi Wei sincerely said that she was still very obsequious to the beautiful young rich woman.

She genuinely couldn't remember what she said, but since this young lady was willing to come see her, she probably wasn't angry.

“Don’t say that—” Miss Moran took the tea brought by the little robot and smiled lightly, “After the banquet, I wanted to invite you to my home for afternoon tea, but you were away on official business and hadn’t found an opportunity… Yesterday, the palace sent an invitation, so I came immediately.”

Shi Wei was flattered and surprised. She then realized that she had not received a notice of the visit. It turned out that it was Sklag II who had invited her.

It seems she drank too much that day, and the words he said to comfort her weren't just empty words.

However, for normal invitations between nobles, unless the relationship is very close and they can invite each other at any time, they should normally be invited a week in advance.

However, this does not apply to His Majesty.

Shi Wei smiled apologetically: "It was presumptuous of me to invite you here. To be honest, after meeting you at the last banquet, I also had a good impression of Miss Moran, so I said a few words to His Majesty. I didn't expect him to invite you here directly."

Most of what he said was empty talk, but at this moment, Shi Wei was sincere.

Miss Moran's smile softened even more. Both of them were eager to befriend each other and quickly became acquainted.

After arriving in Manla, Shi Wei almost lost contact with her former friends, although she had very few female friends to begin with.

For some reason, the Shi siblings have very different personalities; one is aloof and the other is gentle, but neither of them has many friends.

The friend Shi Wei sees most often now is still the doctor who is in charge of her health.

If I could have another wealthy female friend, that would be wonderful.

Later, Shi Wei met Miss Mo Lan a few more times. It was almost always Miss Mo Lan who initiated the meetings; most of the time Miss Mo Lan would come to the palace, and sometimes they would go out to play.

"It's so good to be rich; you can clear out an entire commercial district," Shi Wei sighed. Because she maintained her online popularity so well, going out became increasingly troublesome, and she had to plan ahead every time.

However, things are simple when you're with Miss Moran. The most prosperous commercial district in the capital is divided into several zones, such as A, B, C, and D. Zone C is owned by the Tira family and is completely closed off.

Although the offline economy has shifted from selling goods to selling human services and there are very few customers, this is the capital city!

Even a steamed bun thrown in the capital city could hit a nobleman.

Moreover, those who come to this commercial area to spend money are almost all wealthy people. Ordinary people wouldn't spend 888 star coins to buy a plate of stir-fried vegetables. The taste is nothing special. What's special is that you can see the chef making it.

Ordinary people have to buy even the 8.8 Star Coin pre-made vegetable packs only when they're on sale.

The Shi family had a few years of financial difficulties. At that time, Shi Chuan went to serve in the military, Shi Wei needed money for school, her mother developed health problems requiring long-term treatment, and Shi Wei's father quit his job to care for her, leaving the family without income.

It was around that time that Shi Wei started making short videos to earn a living, which was also the starting point for her later production of historical short animations.

"I didn't earn much, just enough to survive. I couldn't afford a food processor to cook my own meals, so I would buy lots of discounted vegetable packs and I lost a lot of weight." When talking about those days when she was so busy that she didn't even know what she was eating, Shi Wei's expression was surprisingly relaxed.

"Looking back, don't you find it very difficult?" Miss Moran asked her.

"Of course it's hard work. At first, I was very confused. I'm a history major, do people really watch this kind of video?" Shi Wei said with some emotion, "Can the audience really feel what I create, these naive and immature ideas, and the images I want to express?"

She looked at Miss Moran and smiled: "Actually, I still don't know if I've succeeded, but many people have watched the videos I posted, and many people have given them good reviews. I've also earned some income, which makes me very satisfied."

It was then that she understood why Imperial public universities made students' ability to be independent a graduation requirement.

In this resource-rich universe, larger imperial alliances and their various organizations provide excellent welfare for their citizens; a few hours of work are enough to guarantee survival.

Therefore, many public schools teach very superficial things, and elite schools teach even less.

Shi Wei's ex-boyfriend once mentioned that there were no aristocratic schools in Fran, and many nobles attended ordinary schools just like commoners, so these nobles did not acquire survival skills from schools.

“Our family is our school, and the other noble children are our classmates, our friends, and our competitors.” He spoke of this indifferently, explaining to Shi Wei, “The circles are fixed. We will not integrate with the commoners because we can decide their fate.”

Although this was true, Shi Wei still couldn't accept his invitation—she didn't want to become part of their circle.

Shi Chuan rose step by step to a high-level position in a large company, making him an outstanding young man, one in ten thousand, for an ordinary person.

However, noble Omegas would not consider Shi Chuan first, even if he was so outstanding that they knew about him, they would not easily consider him.

When the conversation turned to her brother, Miss Moran asked with great interest, "Does your brother look like you?"

Huh? What's the question?

Shi Wei scratched her head, hesitatingly saying, "It should look somewhat similar, right?"

But it seems no one has ever said that before, so Shi Wei found a photo in her personal computer and it popped up. Miss Moran looked at it carefully and looked very disappointed: "It doesn't look like it."

Shi Wei coughed awkwardly: "Maybe he looks like his grandparents."

Shi Chuan still doesn't seem to be looking for a partner, which is making Shi Wei, who once planned to remain single but is now tied up, start to worry. She asked Miss Moran, "Do you know any Omegas who are eager to get married? I'm planning to find him a partner."

"An Omega eager to get married?" Miss Moran said listlessly, fiddling with the flower arrangement on the table. "Me?"

Shi Wei dared not even entertain such a thought, and quickly waved her hand, saying, "No, no, that's too much to ask."

Miss Moran was puzzled: "Why do you say I'm marrying above my station? My father has been worried about my marriage for a long time. He's looked at all the noble young men in the capital, and they all say I'm desperate to get married—"

Shi Wei remembered that she seemed to be about ten years younger than her, and asked in surprise, "You're not even fifty years old yet, why are you in such a hurry to get married?"

Miss Moran poured herself a glass of wine and said indifferently, "I was born late, and my father was worried that he would pass away early and I wouldn't be able to manage the family business on my own, so he wanted to find a reliable in-law."

Damn, he's the same as His Majesty.

One has a throne to inherit, the other has billions to inherit; it's only natural that they're forced into marriage at such a young age.

But that's not how it works. Shi Wei comforted him, "The Tira family is already rich enough. They've managed so many businesses so well. It's impossible for your father to be managing them all by himself. If you don't want to deal with these matters, just have him find you a good agent."

Miss Moran's expression grew even more indifferent. She said, "He doesn't manage as many businesses as I do. Ever since he announced his plan to retire at 100, I've been handling most of the household affairs."

Shi Wei respected Miss Mo Lan even more, and was even more glad that Jiang Chuge hadn't hooked up with this rich woman.

Good heavens, I thought he was just a pretty face from a noble family, but compared to him, I think I'm probably more of a pretty face.

"Then what's there for him to be in such a hurry for?" Shi Wei asked, puzzled.

Miss Moran glanced at her as if she were a child and said, "Because I'm an Omega."

Shi Wei was struck dumb, and asked incredulously, "What does this have to do with whether you can inherit the family business?"

If Shi Chuan were to die unexpectedly, all the family's money would be hers!

Miss Moran explained, "Because noble Omegas are required to marry, but if they marry an Alpha of equal status, they become the wife of another family and have to manage their husband's family's business. Moreover, they will soon have to have children after marriage. If they have two children, they won't have time to manage their own business for ten years."

Indeed, having a child is easy, but raising a child is the most troublesome thing.

Shi Wei hesitated for a moment, then couldn't help but ask, "Why must you marry into a noble family of equal social standing? What if you found someone of slightly lower status, like someone from an ordinary family?"

Although young, Miss Moran had a broad perspective. She countered, "Why do you think that backward compatibility will necessarily lead to a voice?"

Shi Wei was taken aback.

The beautiful young woman said disdainfully, "Even if we are willing to be compatible with our husbands, we still cannot guarantee that we will have the rights we deserve in our husbands' families. Reality is very complicated. Pheromones and hormones will interfere with our rationality, and rules will restrict our freedom."

"Laws and social norms deliberately ignore the requirements for entering into a marital relationship, while setting up numerous obstacles to even considering marriage, because those who make the rules want us to get married and have children—"

"They want a higher AO-to-AO pairing rate. Although they talk about ABO equality and encourage AOs and Betas to be together, they actually want more Alphas and Omegas," Shi Wei sighed. This is how the laws are in all countries.

Falling in love is easy to get carried away with, yet there are no restrictions on marriage, while divorce requires a lot of calm and reflection.

“No country doesn’t do this, because everyone wants a good birth rate. Look at the Chaotic Starfield, the mercenaries practically have ‘Do whatever you want, we’ll take responsibility if anyone dies’ written on their recruitment ads.” Miss Moran also looked down on mercenaries and complained.

Shi Wei had seen the mercenary recruitment ads, and could only describe them as a mixture of violence and desire, utterly devoid of any artistic merit.

“It takes twenty days for black-feathered chickens to be ready for market, and each newborn only needs twenty years to be sent to the battlefield and factories,” Shi Wei said. Even though robots have replaced many humans, there are still some jobs that humans need to do, and the poorer the place, the more manpower is needed.

Miss Moran's marriage, Shi Wei's sister-in-law, remained unresolved in this discussion.

"What do I care about the difficulties in birth rate and marriage rate? My life has been full of difficulties for a long time," Miss Moran concluded.

She joked with Shi Wei, "Could you talk to His Majesty and move the legal marriage age for Omegas back by twenty years?"

"His Majesty will kill me," Shi Wei joked. Even if His Majesty were to lose his mind and agree, the nobles and officials would not.

When Queen Asta changed the legal marriage age for Omega from 28 to 48, the entire government and public debated it for a full ten years.

Most ordinary people support it, and they don't care about the Beta version; they'll just support it anyway.

But Alpha and the nobles were arguing fiercely. Even when she led mercenaries to fight Manra for more than ten years, the amount of criticism she received was not this great.

After all, the war won't reach their manor gates anytime soon, and with the legal marriage age being postponed, they might really not be able to marry a young Omega.

In the end, everyone compromised, and Asta dismissed three high-ranking nobles, changing his age from 48 to 45.

At that time, there were fewer than twenty nobles in the entire Manla. If the age were to be changed back to 28, both sides would have to compromise by twenty steps each—clearly, there weren't enough nobles.

About eight hundred years ago, due to a significant decrease in population during the war, the age of 45 was changed to 25. However, as soon as the population returned to normal, the emperor immediately changed it back—rumored to be that he was given a dream by the emperor.

Shi Wei speculated that it might not be a nightmare, but rather that he had been beaten.

Judging from the information about Asta that she secretly accessed using His Majesty's authority, the Queen Mother may still be protecting Manra—otherwise, how could the Manra royal family have lasted for two thousand years?

If Asta were still alive, the so-called blessing of the Queen Mother in the monument would be quite thought-provoking. This place is said to have been visited by emperors throughout history, who would gain enlightenment with a single bow, as if divinely aided.

Is there some secret inside?

The only emperor in history who had never visited the sacred monument replied, "There are no secrets, but I cannot tell you such things. Royal regulations forbid the disclosure of information about the sacred monument to non-royal personnel."

King Scolari II emphasized the last few words, but Shi Wei failed to understand his deeper meaning and regretfully said it was alright.

She decided to secretly use His Majesty's privileges to check information again next time.

Playing the lute to a cow, casting a seductive glance at the blind emperor, he sighed deeply in his heart.

A few days later, Shi Wei found new information: only AOs with the same "source blood" can achieve a high degree of compatibility and give birth to 'blue-eyed' offspring.

This document contains two strange terms: What is "Source Blood"?

She could understand blue eyes, but so what? What was so special about them? His Majesty's parents weren't blue-eyed.

She searched for the word "source blood" under various categories on the seventh floor of the library, but couldn't find a suitable answer.

She felt like she had a lot of words in her head that could be strung together, but she couldn't find the thread that connected them.

This problem was like a maze, trapping her thoughts and keeping her distracted for days.

Even Miss Moran, who is very wealthy, tried to subtly inquire, but the other party didn't respond.

Lost in thought, Shi Wei, who had just finished her affair with a man and was fast asleep in her blankets, suddenly dreamt that someone patted her head several times, and a peculiar female voice spoke in her mind:

"Idiot, 'Source Blood' refers to my bloodline! I am Blue Eyes!"

Shi Wei woke up with a start. She stood there for a few minutes, then woke the sleeping man beside her, exclaiming in horror, "Asta is still alive?"

For a fleeting moment, Sklag II, or rather Anos.

He felt like he had traveled back eighty years.

He instantly regained his senses, and the illusion vanished in an instant. The palace was no longer the dull palace; the room was decorated in an elegant style, and a faint fragrance surrounded him. It was not that hateful night.

He looked very sleepy, revealing a large expanse of his chest muscles. He reached out and pulled her into his arms, asking dismissively, "What kind of dream did you have?"

Shi Wei had just woken up and spoke without thinking, her voice blank: "I dreamt that Asta told me that her bloodline is the Origin Blood, and her blue eyes are her mark—"

As soon as she finished speaking, she realized she had let something slip, but King Sklag II seemed not to have heard her clearly and yawned, saying, "Well, my source blood concentration is indeed very high. Maybe it really was her who appeared to you in a dream."

"He can even send messages in dreams?" Shi Wei asked in shock. Had she been discovered fooling around with this guy a few hours ago?

King Sklag II closed his eyes and frowned: "Go to sleep, go to sleep. Stop studying her all day, or she might curse you in your dreams."

"It can even curse?" Shi Wei asked in horror.

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Author's note: Your Majesty: Yes, she is very petty.

Shi Wei (Ye Gong's love of dragons): I'm so scared.

Your Majesty: But becoming royalty will absolve you of the curse.

Shi Wei (suspiciously): I feel like you're lying to me. How do you know she can curse people? Have you ever been cursed?

His Majesty:……

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