Chapter 39 Onset
After what happened last night, Huo Qi almost couldn't sleep the whole night.
My mind was filled with a tangle of thoughts. I managed to sleep for a while, but what appeared in my dream was my mother's desperate roar before she died...
The next morning, before daybreak, Huo Qi stood at Mu Jiao's door, fully dressed. He stared at the door of Mu Jiao's bedroom for a long time before turning around and leaving the villa...
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Time passed quickly at her fingertips, and in the blink of an eye, Mu Jiao had been on Chengtong Star for more than a month.
Her optical computer had long been restored to normal use, but her identity information had changed to a first-class noble in the Mingao Empire.
The social status of the Mingao Empire is divided into four major classes: slaves, citizens, nobles, and royal family, and each class is divided into three levels.
Mu Jiao's current status as a first-class noble makes her the top noble among the nobles.
In the Mingao Empire, slaves had a low status. The luckier slaves would be bought by nobles to do hard labor. If they were even luckier, they would be noticed by nobles and kept by their side to serve.
Those who are less fortunate will be sent to areas with harsh conditions to engage in dangerous mining and development work.
Most of these slaves were descendants of traitors and criminals who had been in the empire for many years, and some were descendants of enemies who refused to surrender after being conquered.
These traitors, criminals, and enemies were often executed outright, and their descendants were enslaved for generations. Unless pardoned by the royal family, they would always be inferior to the people and at the mercy of the buyers.
Aside from slaves, those who surrendered and had their status changed by the Empire were considered third-class citizens. While third-class citizens held a higher status than slaves, at least they had personal freedom. However, they were restricted in many areas and could not enjoy many of the Empire's citizen benefits.
Most of the imperial citizens are second-class citizens. Second-class citizens enjoy various welfare benefits of the state. Second-class citizens who join the army or make contributions to the country can be upgraded to first-class citizens.
The first-class citizens are also the white-collar class of the empire.
If first-class citizens want to go further and become nobles, they need to make outstanding contributions to the country.
Today, the empire's aristocracy is divided into two factions, the old clan and the new clan.
The old clans were made up of the empire's established aristocracy, while the new clans were promoted from the empire's first-class citizens. There were many conflicts between the old and new aristocratic groups, and neither of them would submit to the other.
The old tribe has a solid foundation, while the new tribe has the ability. Neither side is willing to give in.
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Mu Jiao also had a brief understanding of the empire's hierarchy from the imperial history books and some videos in her brain.
Therefore, people like her who were directly promoted to nobility, and even top-level nobility, can be said to be real "people with connections".
What Mu Jiao didn't know was that as a prince, Huo Qi had three chances in his lifetime to confer the title of nobility on others. However, since Mu Jiao was promoted to a first-class noble from an ordinary person, Huo Qi directly wasted his only three chances.
First-class nobles are different from second- and third-class nobles. Their status is second only to the royal family. Nowadays, the first-class nobles of the empire are mostly leaders of new and old nobles and special talents of the empire, and their number is small.
Huo Qi has become very busy in the past month. He usually only comes back once every three to five days. Every time he comes back, he only sees Mu Jiao briefly, or sometimes he doesn't even see her.
Mu Jiao didn't know what he was busy with. She thought that as a prince, he must have a lot of things to deal with.
Huo Qi rarely came home, but Mu Jiao's life was well-organized by him. In addition to studying every day and strolling around the garden, Mu Jiao also sent people to deliver various medicinal foods to Huo Qi three times a day as usual. Her life was very fulfilling.
During this period, she also studied various high-end ingredients and applied them to her own medicinal cuisine.
Of course, she also made a significant discovery: Medicinal food made with high-quality ingredients was significantly more effective than that made with ordinary ingredients.
Mu Jiao had also read a lot about gene collapse disorder over the past month and had gained a lot of understanding about it.
Now the medicinal herbs she had were almost used up. In the next two days, she planned to talk to Huo Qi about going out for a walk. Chengtong Star had such a good geographical environment, there should be a lot of medicinal herbs growing in the wild.
However, plans cannot keep up with changes. In the morning, she contacted Huo Qi and said that she wanted to talk about something. Huo Qi said that he would come back for lunch at noon.
But Mu Jiao excitedly prepared a medicinal snoring beast soup for him. However, now, it was already past two in the afternoon, and Huo Qi still hadn't returned. Even the optical computer couldn't contact him!
Sitting on the sofa in the hall, Mu Jiao felt that something might have happened.
Unable to sit still any longer, Mu Jiao told the chief steward that she wanted to go see Huo Qi.
"Miss Mu, please wait patiently. His Highness must have been delayed by something, and I don't know His Highness's whereabouts..."
Before the chief steward could finish his words, Huo Qi was surrounded by several of his trusted followers and carried to the North Courtyard Hall.
Without any warning, Huo Qi's genetic breakdown syndrome broke out almost two months later.
When Huo Qi was carried back, he was still conscious, but now he was completely exhausted. His beautiful face had lost all its color.
The person who treated Huo Qi this time was a young man. Mu Jiao heard that he was Huo Qi's exclusive light therapist. He had been with Huo Qi since Huo Qi fell ill. Since he was in the Imperial Star before, he just came back these few days.
Huo Qi was in a very bad condition and urgently needed to rest. He had been moved to the bed, but he was still thinking about what Mu Jiao wanted to say to him, so even though he was exhausted, he still tried hard to keep his eyes open and look at Mu Jiao.
"Brother Qi, what I want to say is not a big deal. You should take a rest for a while. I will tell you when you wake up."
Mu Jiao sat by the bed, covered Huo Qi with a blanket, and patted him gently like a child until Huo Qi fell into a deep sleep...
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After Huo Qi fell asleep, everyone left the room, leaving only Mu Jiao and the light therapist.
"Hello, Miss Mu Jiao, I am Xikai E Peizhen." The man extended his hand and greeted Mu Jiao.
"Um... hello. But how do you know my name?" Mu Jiao asked as she shook his hand.
"Of course I'm asking the Madam Housekeeper. You should be the second prince's fiancée as rumored by the outside world, right?" The man's voice was a little cold.
"...Is that so?" Regarding the matter of this fiancée, the Empire Star Network has been in an uproar and the popularity has remained high.
Mu Jiao only found out about Huo Qi's fiancée when she was browsing the news after her computer had recovered. Naturally, she was completely bewildered. After all, she was only eighteen, still a minor in the interstellar world.
However, she rarely saw Huo Qi during this period. Even if they talked on video, she didn't know how to ask about this matter, so she kept delaying it.
Mu Jiao looked at the handsome young man in white. He was polite and gentle, but she could sense a hint of hostility in his dark grey eyes. Why was that? Was this their first meeting?
Although the butler seemed a little disdainful of him, at least he didn't have such strong hostility as this man?
I'm completely confused...
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