Chapter 492 The Imperial Princess and the Rebel Leader 5
In front of the emperor, Cha Jiu pretended to be quite interested in talking to the boy.
She took a look at the food on the table without even taking a bite, then suddenly waved for the boy to come over.
"Eat it." She threw a piece of tender steak on the ground in front of him, raised her chin slightly, and spoke in a contemptuous tone, as if she was treating it as a very cheap thing.
The boy was used to not having enough food. He could pick up a piece of black bread that fell on the mud and eat it without batting an eyelid. What's more, he could not eat a piece of high-quality steak that fell on the dusty floor.
He quickly picked it up with both hands and gobbled it up.
The other servants saw his appearance and felt both contempt and pity.
Pity about the food.
You know, in the interstellar space, only the royal family and the nobles can enjoy the freshest ingredients instead of bland nutritional supplements. Usually, the leftover food of Her Royal Highness the Princess will be shared by the servants.
Now it's a good deal for this beggar-like guy.
Seeing the young man being treated like a dog, Lehman and Isaac were furious and gritted their teeth as they whispered, "This Princess Silis is always flaunting her power and humiliating people."
Only Lance looked indifferent and said nothing.
The emperor observed for a while and confirmed that his daughter was only playing with the boy, then he turned off the call with satisfaction.
As soon as the communication was disconnected, the smile and interest on Cha Jiu's face suddenly disappeared. He also lost his appetite for the remaining food on the table and got up and left.
The silent Lance finally responded and followed him, saying to his subordinates, "If you want to know a person's true intentions, sometimes you can't just judge by her words, but you have to look at the final result."
Lehman and Isaac were both stunned.
Normally, the leader hates using power to humiliate people. Why is he acting so abnormal today?
On the way back to the room, Cha Jiu suddenly raised his lips and asked, as if on a whim: "Do you think I am shameless and bullying others by touching a 16-year-old boy and throwing food on the ground to humiliate him?"
You already know this, but you still ask
The outspoken Lehman rolled his eyes at the sky from an angle where she couldn't see.
"But you kept him alive and gave him enough food to fill his stomach, didn't you?"
Unexpectedly, Lance spoke, and explained the result of the incident from Cha Jiu's perspective.
The two confidants were surprised.
Cha Jiu also stopped and looked at him with an inquiring look.
Lance's eyes were a deep black, so dark that they seemed to have no boundaries. When he lowered his head and looked at Cha Jiu, he seemed to be able to see through her disguise and reach the truth deep inside her heart.
"This is the best possible outcome for a man who was sentenced to death by trial. You don't have to blame yourself for not doing better."
While in the restaurant, Lance noticed that Cha Jiu was looking away when he threw the food to the boy.
This was an expression of intolerance, and she did not want to see a person's dignity being trampled upon in front of her.
But that was the only way to leave food for the boy - servants who had enough food every day would not covet a piece of dirty steak that fell on the ground, and people who were often hungry would not care about these things.
"You are quite smart. I will take back what I said about your body being more attractive than your brain." Cha Jiu chuckled and continued walking forward.
"My mother was born into the common people. When she was alive, she was very keen on helping the poor people, as well as those who were driven out of their homes and displaced by the invaded planets. But in the end, all the donations were taken back, and she was also reprimanded and imprisoned by my father."
"Do you know why?" Cha Jiurao asked with interest.
But before Lance could answer, she spoke again, as if this was a self-entertaining catharsis.
"Because the royal family does not allow two different voices to exist. My father represents the interests of the noble class, so there must not be anyone in the royal family who stands against him. Sympathizing with refugees, opposing aggression... these are all heinous crimes."
"So I realized a truth a long time ago: if you really want to save the enslaved people, you must first become a member of the enslaver class and act according to their rules. Maybe you will have a chance of success."
Cha Jiu said with a smile, but there was already a hint of coldness in his eyes.
Isaac shook his head and sighed silently.
Although Lehman was slow-witted, he now understood the real intention behind Cha Jiu's actions. He couldn't help but lower his head, feeling sorry for the vicious insults he had just said to her in his heart.
After getting used to the brutal rule of the emperor and the two princes, they had long since tacitly accepted in their hearts that all members of the royal family were the same, evil people with rotten hearts.
But only now did I remember that there was a kind-hearted commoner princess who was willing to speak up for those of them whose homes had been invaded.
Princess Silis is her only bloodline, and she must have inherited some of the princess's kindness.
And she is smarter than her mother and knows how to use false appearances to disguise her true intentions.
Thinking of this, the two people who originally had prejudices against Cha Jiu felt less disgusted and resentful towards him, and even felt some admiration and sympathy for him.
Lance knew that Cha Jiu was different from the other good-for-nothings in the royal family as early as when she proposed the plan to upgrade the starship's defenses.
She is very smart and has a long-term perspective. She is not the kind of person who would humiliate the weak for fun, waste time, or have low tastes.
Moreover, when they first met, she stepped forward to save the maids who were being hunted by the stinging bees instead of hiding in the safe cabin alone and waiting for others to die. This was enough to show that she did not regard human life as worthless.
It was just that my heart was blinded by preconceived prejudices.
Now that he thought about it, Lance realized how foolish it was to make conclusions about a person without knowing the whole story.
Cha Jiu walked into the room first, and Lance followed closely.
Lyman and Isaac stopped outside, looking at each other in shock.
No, the princess went back to her room. Why did their leader follow her in?
However, the sensor door was closed and they had no way of seeing what was going on inside.
…
Lance was thinking about something and was distracted, so he actually followed Cha Jiu into the room.
When he stood on the soft and expensive carpet, he realized what an embarrassing and stupid thing he had done.
"I..." His face flushed slightly, and he was ready to find an excuse to leave.
Unexpectedly, Cha Jiu completely ignored him, walked to the wine cabinet, took out a bottle of champagne, opened the cork with a "pop", poured it into the wine glass and tasted it carefully.
As if that wasn't enough, she opened another bottle of whiskey.
The light golden wine flows slowly in the transparent glass and finally disappears between the bright red lips and snow-white teeth.
The person who tastes it seems unable to adapt to its violence all of a sudden. At the moment of swallowing, his eyebrows are slightly frowned in pain, his eyes are closed, and his butterfly-like eyelashes tremble slightly.
She didn't open her eyes until she swallowed it completely. The corners of her eyes were red and a little wet.
Lance had never seen anyone who could make drinking as good as sex.
But he knew the other party didn't mean it.
He is the one with dirty thoughts.
But despite this, he couldn't move his eyes away, and his Adam's apple rolled up and down.
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