Lu Lu's head was buzzing.

The punch was quite powerful, and although it was thrown by a Blue Star person, his education experience in the Tree Nest made Lu Lu understand their race and know that this kind of strength would not be held back.

He seemed to be stunned and awakened at once.

White noise appeared in his head. Lu Lu tilted his head and his eyes fell into the void for a long time before he slowly focused and straightened his head.

Lu Lu: "So that day... you were there."

Lu Lu: "That day was the time of your matching, right?"

Shi Xing felt complicated when he heard these two sentences.

He didn't really want to see Lu Lu, and the reason was simple, he felt it was unnecessary.

Let the past struggles stay in the past.

He already has a good present life, and Shi Xing chose to bury all the unpleasant things in the past and start over.

When he was in the Tree Nest, he would still have nightmares from time to time, dreams of pain and struggle.

But after matching with His Highness, leaving the Tree Nest again, seeing the wider world, and breaking free, Shi Xing did get the new life he wanted.

Not only did he get everything he wanted, he no longer fantasized about everything, such as a new and stable relationship, but fate also generously gifted him, making his life sufficient and stable now.

He walked out.

Lu Lu, on the other hand, seemed to be getting deeper and deeper.

But in just a year and a half, Lu Lu's appearance and temperament have changed a lot, from the sunny and cheerful in the Tree Nest to the young man in front of him, who seemed a little abnormal at first glance.

Shi Xing had seen this kind of Lu Lu.

In his previous life.

When he was arguing with Tan Shao, and when he was deeply in pain over family problems, Lu Lu would occasionally reveal such a crazy look behind his back.

He sighed in his heart.

He thought a lot, but it was just a blink of an eye.

Shi Xing was calm, "What does this have to do with you looking for me?"

Lu Lu's eyes were filled with emotions, his chest rose and fell for a few seconds, and he subconsciously stepped forward.

If it were the previous Shi Xing, he would not be able to get rid of it.

Now, it is naturally impossible for Lu Lu to do it again.

As soon as Lu Lu moved, he was immediately pushed away by Shi Xing's mental power for more than one meter without any explanation. It was completed in an instant, and there was no resistance. Under the suppression of this high-level mental power, Lu Lu almost fell.

Shi Xing: "If you have something to say, just say it. Don't get too close."

Lu Lu sarcastically said, "Your Majesty, don't you allow others to get too close to you?"

After a pause, Shi Xing said honestly, "I don't want you to get too close to me."

His words were straightforward and naked, tearing off the last fig leaf between the two people.

Since Lu Lu didn't want to communicate properly, Shi Xing felt that there was no need to keep giving him room.

"Really? I thought it was your majesty..."

Before he could finish his words, he was punched in the stomach. Lu Lu immediately bent over and couldn't make any sound.

Shi Xing didn't do anything, but used his mental power to cause the damage, but Shi Xing's mental power was much more terrifying than if he did it himself.

Shi Xing said in a cold voice, "Be careful with your words."

"You came to me, and what you want to talk about must be something between us."

"If you want to talk, talk nicely."

"If you don't want to talk nicely, my officers don't mind throwing you out of the palace again."

After a pause, he added.

"Your family must have taught you what it means to insult the royal family, so you don't need me to remind you."

Shi Xing didn't care what Lu Lu said to him, but he didn't want to hear him talk about His Majesty .

He didn't like it and was unhappy.

This time the beating was a bit heavy, and Lu Lu suffered a lot. It took him a long time to stand up, and he said sarcastically, "It sounds like you like His Majesty very much."

Shi Xing remained silent.

This really had nothing to do with Lu Lu.

With cold sweat all over his forehead, Lu Lu forced a smile towards Shi Xing, bitter and helpless, "Long time no see."

A belated greeting. Shi

Xing nodded his chin, "Long time no see."

Polite and distant.

Lu Lu looked at Shi Xing with a complicated expression, Shi Xing looked at Lu Lu with particularly empty eyes, looking at Lu Lu, but Lu Lu was not in his eyes.

Lu Lu was not a fool, he naturally knew what this calm look meant. They

hadn't seen each other for more than a year, and they were only a few steps away from each other, but they seemed to be in different worlds.

Oh yes, Shi Xing is now the partner of His Majesty, they are indeed not from the same world.

Lu Lu wanted to resist, but he couldn't.

Knowledge would not allow him to pretend to be ignorant.

"You... have grown taller, and your facial features have also grown more."

It was just a plain statement, but Lu Lu felt that his words were particularly pale, as if he was trying to find a tiny intersection between two completely different worlds.

"You too."

Seeing that Lu Lu had calmed down a little, Shi Xing got straight to the point.

"When we were at the border, you were circling around the mother ship. Since you have always wanted to see me, just say whatever you want to say."

After a pause, he said bluntly, "Next time you ask for a meeting, I may not give you this opportunity again."

Lu Lu: "You have changed a lot."

Shi Xing: "No one remains unchanged, and you have changed a lot."

Shi Xing: "At least the young master Lu I knew before would not bother to argue so much."

This sentence seemed to have touched Lu Lu's sore spot, making his expression gloomy for a moment, and then quickly returned to normal.

Lu Lu closed his eyes, "You're right."

The emphasis was on his words. Apart from the matter of Shi Xing, his words should also contain the pain he felt about the Lu family's affairs.

For a long while, neither of them spoke.

The wind blew in from the sky, brushing Shi Xing's cheeks and hair with reluctance, and then quietly went away.

Thinking of someone, Shi Xing felt particularly calm.

"How... did you know about my family?"

Lu Lu asked after a long time.

He wanted to ask when he was in the Tree Nest, but the strong sense of powerlessness brought by his family at that time almost drove him crazy. Now, after a year and a half, he asked again, and he was no longer impulsive. His emotions became numb. He asked only because he was too obsessed and wanted to fulfill his wish.

The answer is not important to Lu Lu.

At a certain moment, both of them thought so.

Lu Lu had a kind of resigned pessimistic mood.

Shi Xing talked about the matter at hand.

"Is it important?"

Shi Xing asked back indifferently.

For a moment or two, Lu Lu felt a sense of oppression from Shi Xing that he had never experienced before. The other party only looked at him quietly, but gave him a strong illusion of being looked down upon.

Shi Xing said this from a high position, even though he himself did not realize it.

Lu Lu's throat slid, and sadly, "I want to know clearly."

This sentence touched Shi Xing.

Lu Lu also said this to Tan Shao when the Lu family and Lu Li incident broke out.

It's just that conversation almost destroyed Lu Lu's perception of the Lu family.

Shi Xing breathed a sigh of relief as he turned sideways to glance at the scenery between the palaces.

"Tan Shao, your mother is nominally the youngest daughter of the Tan family, but the Tan family actually had another little daughter, who died young. Her peers know about it, but your father's generation, who is five years younger than Tan Shao, does not know about it."

"Compared to your eldest brother, your second sister actually likes military life more and likes to command killing on the battlefield. Her mental strength is one level lower than yours and your eldest brother, but she is very good at using weapons to achieve the effect of suppressing others. The team she leads now is also equipped with the weapons she commands."

"Finally, your eldest brother... has a burn on his arm, a very small one, and he has never been to the hospital for treatment. It was left by blocking the boiling water for you when you were a child."

"There is nothing much to say about Wen Xi. He has a good personality. Even though he is not liked by Tan Shao, he still tries to reconcile the relationship between your elder brother and your mother. But your elder brother sees clearly that his reconciliation has no effect."

Every time Shi Xing said something, the shock and storm brought to Lu Lu's heart increased exponentially.

These are all private affairs of the Lu family. Those who have not been exposed to them will definitely not know.

Lu Lu's voice was hoarse and he was stunned, "You..."

"Why do I know?"

Shi Xing turned his face.

The moment he saw his expression clearly, Lu Lu seemed to be awakened by a basin of cold water.

From that familiar face, he saw absolute calmness.

Shi Xing talked about his family's affairs, but not his own affairs. Shi Xing was narrating these things with the eyes and tone of an outsider.

These things have nothing to do with him.

Shi Xing: "Lu Lu, I had a dream."

"I chose you."

Sensing something, Lu Lu was panicked, "What do you mean?"

Shi Xing looked directly at Lu Lu, his clear blue eyes were the same as before, but this time, Lu Lu felt the coldness seeping out of his blue bones.

"Literally."

"I don't think it's false."

"I also know all this from my dream."

On the way out of the Senate and onto the airship, Chi Yao suddenly raised his head and caught a gust of wind blowing towards him.

Chi Yao felt Shi Xing's breath.

Looking at the communicator, the wind direction in the imperial capital today is indeed from the palace to the Senate.

What is worthy of Shi Xing's mental power?

It's not healing mental power. The wind

was so strong that it blew so far, but it didn't blow away the breath.

"Return to the palace at full speed."

Chi Yao ordered after getting on the airship.

At Chi Yao's request, Xu Jin reported later, "Fu Qing said that a classmate of Xingxing came to see him."

"Classmate?"

Chi Yao blurted out subconsciously: "Shi Ran?"

In his memory, there was only one classmate of Shi Xing who was close to him.

Xu Jin was stunned for a moment, lowered his head to confirm, and shook his head after seeing that it was indeed not him.

"It was Lu Guangyu's youngest son, Lu Lu."

Chi Yao frowned for a moment and remembered, "He had problems with his spiritual sea before, and applied to go to the tree nest to receive the spiritual power of the mother tree?"

Otherwise, how could he be a classmate of Shi Xing.

Xu Jin nodded, "That's right."

Chi Yao always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't remember it.

The story started beautifully, but ended in failure. Lu Lu almost couldn't stand after listening to it.

"In the end, what happened in the end?"

After the wedding, Lu Lu hoped to hear some different endings.

But Shi Xing did not satisfy him.

"I died."

"In the snow."

"Open your eyes again and you will wake up."

Lu Lu suffocated, closed his eyes deeply, and couldn't breathe.

Even if he had not really experienced it, the behavior of each person described by Shi Xing, the reaction of each person in the Lu family, can match their real personality, including some details in life, they can match, all exactly the same.

How is it possible, how could it be...

Lu Lu raised his head again.

Knowing what he wanted to ask, Shi Xing said, "Maybe, it's a world I really experienced."

"Impossible!" Lu Lu said subconsciously.

The denial was pale and powerless.

The wind gently blew across my face. Shi Xing said, "The Blue Star people have the power to control the laws of time. We are life forms based on energy. Maybe when I died, I absorbed too much energy from the crystals and couldn't release it. I was unwilling to give up, so I started over again?"

Shi Xing: "If I remember correctly, you have a gemstone with the same color as my eyes, not an energy stone, but with a special meaning. You were going to give it to me after I agreed to you, right?"

Lu Lu was speechless for a long time.

That's true.

And, he was sure that only he knew.

So...

Shi Xing: "It doesn't matter if it's a dream or an unknown time branch. The key is not here."

"The key is, Lu Lu, we are not suitable."

"What do you think?"

The last four words were like a brand that burned deeply into Lu Lu's heart. His skin was burnt and his flesh was rotten, but he couldn't utter a word of rebuttal.

Lu Lu was in a trance, muttering, "But, nothing..."

Shi Xing: "Not long after I left the tree nest, I couldn't absorb ordinary crystals anymore."

Shi Xing waved his hand in the air, and the wind followed his request. The red ore on the desk was pulled by his mental power, and a piece of it floated down, swaying and landing in Shi Xing's palm.

Shi Xing played with it for a while, and threw it to Lu Lu.

Lu Lu identified it, "Campbell red ore."

Shi Xing: "This is the crystal I absorbed in the first stage of maturity."

Lu Lu's pupils trembled.

"Your Majesty bought from Campbell..."

Shi Xing: "Buyed a red ore star."

Lu Lu raised his head again, he understood every word, but he didn't seem to understand the meaning, and his face was full of confusion.

Mine... star? !

Shi Xing: "The royal family cannot be controlled by others."

"If we just buy a large amount of red ore, Campbell Star cannot be ignorant over time, so make sure I have sufficient supply of crystals and there are no mistakes during the maturity period. In the end, Your Highness bought a mineral planet."

"Now this mineral planet has been pushed into the empire's satellite orbit. I have passed the maturity period, but the mineral energy has not been fully mined. Your Highness and I have discussed that these red ores will be distributed to high-level mature Blue Star people in the name of the empire."

Shi Xing stepped to the side, looking at the flowers and plants outside the palace as if appreciating the scenery, and said again.

"Since entering the mature stage, most of the star beasts I attract are above level 2s, and most of them are mutant star beasts."

"I encountered a space-type mutant star beast in the north before."

"Recently, you were there, and you saw the situation at the border."

"Even in the video of the star network, those star beasts are all coming for me."

"Even if the dream is fake, these are always real. In this case, where do you think we are suitable?"

Shi Xing looked at Lu Lu again.

The sea blue eyes were no longer gentle in Lu Lu's heart, and it was a biting coldness that pierced him.

Shi Xing walked towards Lu Lu.

"Do you think the Lu family can buy me a mineral star, or can Tan Shao let you go into such a dangerous environment?"

"Or, do you need me to lower my level a bit, like in the dream, disregarding my own body to fulfill this friendship."

"Lu Lu, what do you think?"

As Shi Xing stepped forward and asked questions one by one, Lu Lu took a step back unconsciously.

Cold sweat covered his head and back.

These four words again.

This time Shi Xing handed the choice to him.

But, but...

Lu Lu clenched his fist, the veins on the back of his hand bulged, and the veins on his forehead also throbbed.

Shi Xing was clearly talking about a dream, but Lu Lu couldn't help but confuse it with reality.

It was as if the missing puzzle piece he had been looking for was finally completed, and Lu Lu saw the "if" he had been exploring.

If they were really together...

but the loneliness and failure of the ending was not something he could accept.

Lu Lu was already confused, and collapsed and repeated, "It's just a dream, stars, maybe..."

"Lu Lu!"

Shi Xing shouted loudly, breaking Lu Lu's thoughts.

"I'm asking you about reality, the red ore and the star beast problem, how can you solve it? Even, can you solve it for me?"

Lu Lu opened his mouth without saying a word.

Shi Xing just stood in front of him like this, with a firm eyebrow, but he... Lu Lu once again realized the gap between the two people.

A year and a half has passed, has it been that long?

... It's been that long.

It was long enough that Shi Xing grew up to be strong enough, and long enough that as a peer, he could also give him a sense of oppression.

His rationality had been defeated.

But his emotions were still tormented and could not be relieved. Lu Lu felt that he was being torn apart.

Shi Xing also saw it.

Lu Lu listened to most of the words, but it would take some time for him to accept it.

But he did not have that much time for Lu Lu.

Shi Xing cruelly chose the most direct way.

Explain the original intention of seeing Lu Lu.

"With my current status and the power I hold, I don't want to see you. You can't enter the palace or get close to me."

"Yes, you can think of a way, but what if I let Lu Li transfer you away?"

"Lu Guangyu might resist me and not accept my advice. What do you think of your elder brother, such a calm and rational man? If I tell him everything about your behavior and our relationship, can't I throw you to the border or even further away?"

"If one year doesn't work, then two years. If two years don't work, then four years."

"Year after year, day after day, you will figure it out."

"Of course, it doesn't matter if you can't figure it out. The empire is not the only way out. It doesn't matter to me whether you come back or not." "Do

you think it's difficult for me to do all this?"

Lu Lu was still speechless.

But deep down, he knew that with Shi Xing's skills, it should be easy nowadays.

Shi Xing: "It's just a matter of one sentence."

"I can even let my general do it. Fei Chu has royal family connections, so he can't get anywhere in the imperial capital. He just wants you not to return to the imperial capital. I believe he has thousands of ways I can't think of waiting for you."

After a while, Shi Xing let out a long breath.

The world is vast, and feeling the flow of energy in the world, Shi Xing said slowly but firmly, "But I didn't do that."

"In fact, I wouldn't do that either."

"Do you know why?"

Lu Lu was in a trance, his eyes were red, and he repeated Shi Xing's words, "Why?"

Shi Xing: "Because I don't want to be the second Tan Shao."

This statement was earth-shattering.

"Tan Shao's love is conditional and limited. Her children can only live in an area that she can accept and enjoy the motherly love she gives them."

"I always felt that her way of raising children was very familiar, but I didn't know how to describe it until I saw the gardener pruning the branches, and then I understood."

"You are the saplings she planted, and all growth needs to proceed according to the way she pruned them. Branches that are out of her plan are not allowed to exist. She will forcefully prune these parts of you, regardless of whether you are willing or not, whether you like it or not, whether you accept it or not... or even whether it will hurt."

"But people are all different, and they have their own unique shapes."

"It is impossible to shape them according to other people's wishes."

"Tan Shao feels that people can be kneaded at will. Within the range of her control, she can decide everything."

"I don't think so."

Shi Xing looked directly at Lu Lu. His gaze seemed to have some kind of magic that would not allow Lu Lu to avoid it.

So he just went forward.

Shi Xing said: "Lu Lu, the source of your pain comes from your family. I am just the stone that punctured your family's harmonious lies. It is not as important as you think."

"Whether you are with me or not, you need to accept your family as it is, instead of thinking that if you make the relationship between you and me a reality, everything will go back to the starting point."

"Everything can never go back to the starting point at the beginning."

"In my dream, I can feel the pain you feel when Tan Shao is controlling you, so I am in the same position and don't want to treat you in the same way. There is no need and it is too cold to do so."

Shi Xing pointed directly to Lu Lu's deepest pain with every word, peeling off layer by layer, revealing Lu Lu's true heart that was buried deepest and never seen the light of day.

Full of cracks.

During this year and a half, he was constantly tortured by the cracks in his family relationship.

All harmony was false.

All happiness was also fabricated.

The Lu family was never perfect, but he had never seen the deep cracks under the family before.

"In my memory, Master Lu was sunny and cheerful, always full of vitality, and not afraid of difficulties."

At least this was how Lu Lu felt before he broke up with Tan Shao and was pushed to the brink of despair by Tan Shao step by step.

"Perhaps the happy family that raised Lu Lu is fake, but you are not fake."

"Whether you want to be trapped in the unsolvable relationship of the Lu family or to walk out a new path of your own is entirely up to you, Lu Lu."

Lu Lu fell to his knees with his fingers sinking into the flower mud, and tears fell silently.

Shi Xing: "I beat you, and it was you who counted down three times. I'm done, and this matter is cleared."

"Don't come again from now on, and I won't see you again."

"Don't let me hear you talking about His Highness in private, otherwise..."

He paused for a moment, and Lu Lu's back was once again suppressed by Shi Xing's mental force, and sweat was all over his forehead.

"I don't mind letting you see some of the power of the royal family."

Shi Xing left without any hesitation.

Lu Lu felt that he was seen through, and that he was completely broken again from the cracks.

Something poured in from the gap in his heart, causing him extreme pain.

After a moment of trance, Lu Lu realized it belatedly.

It was reality.

At this moment, he finally felt thoroughly the insurmountable gap between him and Shi Xing. He

felt that... he was not worthy of Shi Xing.