The first time Feng Shixu met Shen Que was because of An Luya.

That day, he had just finished class and was slacking off in the training ground, practicing swordplay.

The princess, who rarely dressed up, dragged him from the training ground all the way to Carolina's private garden and whispered, "I have a little brother!"

Then, she pulled aside the hanging vines, allowing Feng Shixu to see the little ball in Carolina's arms in the garden.

He lay quietly on Carolina's shoulder, his skin so white and translucent that people couldn't help but want to kiss it.

Carolina put the child on a stool, gave him a cookie and asked him to hold it and eat it.

"He's so good, isn't he?" Luya's eyes sparkled. "Mom will definitely pay more attention to us because of him, right?"

An's focus is always on whether her mother will pay attention to her for some reason.

She was like a child always chasing the sun, and Carolina was her sun.

Feng Shixu still remembered the first time he and An went to the fleet headquarters as a child. As they watched the Queen sitting atop the Star Tower, conducting fleet drills, An excitedly said to herself, "Mother is so handsome! When can I be as handsome as her?"

Her eyes were so bright that Feng Shixu rarely answered seriously: "How about we go ask His Majesty?"

After the drill, An dragged him to find Carolina, but the Queen was busy as she was meeting with the parliamentarians.

They waited for a long, long time, from the time the sun set in the west until the sky was full of stars.

Until Chu Yang came out of the council hall and said to the little princess: "Your Majesty allows you to play by yourself, don't disturb her."

An lowered his head: "But... I just want to tell my mother that she is very handsome..."

Chu Yang touched her head and said, "It's not important."

When An introduced Shen Queshi to Feng Shixu, her eyes were bright, just like An after watching Carolina's rehearsal.

She felt that since Chen Que was so well-behaved, her mother would definitely spend more time and effort taking care of them.

At that time, Feng Shixu thought that "brother" was just a nickname, and this child named "Chen Que" should be another study partner that Carolina found for the princess, or a future assistant minister.

He thinks this is good.

Feng Shixu disliked Chu Yang, who was closest to them, and those old parliamentarians who always mentioned the old emperor.

Ann was always sad because of what they said, and neither he nor Tina could comfort her.

A new member might change all that.

Yet nothing changed.

Shen Que soon left the imperial court and did not return until many years later.

By then, Feng Shixu had already established his own intelligence network, and was moving among all kinds of people wearing a false smiling mask.

By chance, he saw a photo of the old emperor that had been destroyed throughout the empire and which looked 70% like Shen.

And learned that name.

"Shenlu".

After all this time, it turns out to be his younger brother.

After Shen Que returned to the imperial court again, Feng Shixu and An had fallen into a very complicated situation.

On the one hand, they have deeper connections with Chu Yang and the old parliamentarians.

Many of the industries that An tried to develop depended on them to continue.

She wanted to achieve something great and go to the Sea of ​​Life to see her father whom she had never met.

She thought maybe seeing her father would change something.

But Carolina didn't want her to see Shen Lu.

The gap between them deepened.

Those parliamentarians used An's name to compete with the Queen, forming a complex faction.

On the other hand, Feng Shixu slowly discovered Chu Yang's problems.

He nominally withdrew from the parliament, but still kept in touch with many members of parliament. Although he was concerned about public welfare, he had been secretly promoting research on the sea of ​​life.

Everything he said seemed to have a deep meaning. When they were little, they were cute and stupid and couldn't understand what men said.

When Feng Shixu realized something was wrong, he was already too deeply entangled with this man.

Connections, relationships, positions, money.

Chu Yang was like an invisible hand, firmly grasping their lifelines. He knew that An's obsession was family, and he also knew that Feng Shixu's weakness was that he had no backing.

They are like an isolated island, surrounded by abysses, and only they can save themselves.

Feng Shixu decided to save himself.

After Shen Que's return, the Queen's control over the fleet became even stronger.

It didn't take long for His Royal Highness the Prince of the Empire to become the first commander, resolve the second Zerg tide, and completely stand by the Queen's side.

Feng Shixu discovered that from then on, Chu Yang's eyes when he looked at them became even darker.

And the person he was staring at was another person named Shen Que.

On the day the First Team was defeated, Feng Shixu actually did not receive any distress signal.

During that time, he happened to find a breakthrough. He learned that the laboratory sponsored by Chu Yang paid special attention to the phenomenon of space-time turbulence, so he had been sending people to monitor it.

That day, his men happened to monitor a space-time turbulence near the Eden system.

After arriving at that coordinate, Feng Shixu was stunned.

The universe is filled with dense mecha wreckage and torn human bodies.

The scarlet blood danced wildly in the weightless space.

It's like the end of the world.

Finally, he found Shen Que dying on an asteroid.

Shen Que seemed to still be conscious, his eyelids trembling constantly.

Feng Shixu walked up to him, squatted down, lifted the back of his neck, and saw the needle hole that was still bleeding.

"Can you still survive?" Feng Shixu seemed to be asking him, but also seemed to be asking himself.

The killer didn't kill him completely.

Maybe he thought it was fun, or maybe he just wanted to make Carolina sad.

Feng Shixu didn't know whether Chu Yang was the mastermind behind this.

He didn't even know what the First Fleet was going to do or why they were going to the Eden system.

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