Chapter 164
The entire hall seemed to have been muted. The nobles were stunned for a long time before they remembered that there was another protagonist besides these three upstarts.
When they turned around, they found that Her Majesty the Queen was standing there in a daze, holding the big head of Colonel Wen Shi's spirit body in her arms.
——The polar bear seemed to have sensed its owner's confusion. Its dark eyes and the Queen's dark eyes all looked in the direction of the official.
This uniform bewildered expression made the nobles vaguely believe that this spirit was born by Her Majesty the Queen.
The official continued passionately:
"...Your Majesty, Her Majesty actually hid such an important matter from you, and even openly contacted these three people. This is simply a sign of rebellion!"
The official said this with an expression of grief, indignation and loyalty.
The expression on his face could compete for the Best Actor award - he'd definitely land a good role in a political drama.
But unfortunately, reality is not a political drama, and the nobles on the scene are not those shrewd people in political dramas who can speak in a roundabout way.
When they came to their senses, their first reaction was to burst into even more heated whispers.
"How is this possible?" an elderly noble whispered with his eyes wide open. "Viscount Cecil, the captain of the guard, and Colonel Wen Shi? The three of them?"
"Fate has played a huge joke on us," his companion whispered back, the corners of his mouth curling up uncontrollably. "I bet the Queen Mother must be regretting letting the Queen live this long—after all, the Queen Mother only wanted to control Your Majesty, not to undermine His Majesty's imperial power."
These old nobles were all smart people, and they naturally realized that if these three adopted sons really had a relationship with Her Majesty the Queen, then the situation would be completely different.
——You should know that even adopted sons of the royal family have the right of inheritance.
that is……
The old nobles turned to look at their old friends with sympathetic eyes, and as expected, they saw the despair on their faces.
——If these three children are really the adopted sons of Her Majesty the Queen, this will undoubtedly tie the entire family to the chariot of the Queen Mother.
However, wealth and honor are achieved through risk. Who knows, if you take a risk, you might be able to succeed?
But this kind of thing has nothing to do with them.
...They just want to be rich people quietly, but don't want to get involved in something that could cost them their lives.
The old nobles thought about it and decided to wait and see how His Majesty the Emperor would respond.
And their wives and husbands were not idle either.
In another corner, several ladies and husbands dressed in gorgeous clothes gathered together and began to discuss His Majesty's expression in low voices.
"A love rival becomes an adopted son. There's probably no more exciting reversal than this." A lady in luxurious clothes said with a little excitement.
In fact, there was some more explosive garbage in her mind - something about adoptive father and adopted son, something about adopted son becoming lover, something about being forced, and why was it forced?
——It would be impossible for Her Majesty the Queen to act like a puppet without any force, right?
But she didn't dare say it out loud.
Besides, it's too ridiculous, so I can only think about it in my mind.
What the other people present said was much healthier than her thoughts.
"I want to laugh when I think about how His Majesty was comparing his looks with the younger generation just now - does he really not know how old he is? He doesn't look as young as Her Majesty the Queen, and can only rely on various jewels to be more dazzling than the others in a physical sense." Another husband who was dressed exquisitely laughed.
The nobles were whispering to each other; this royal gossip had given them plenty to eat tonight.
While they were eating melons, the scene gradually became chaotic. There were conflicts after the nobles who wanted to come forward to inquire about the news were intercepted, and there were conflicts between the royalists and the queen mother's faction.
There's even a photo shooting sphere for those who want to snap a few photos.
——If the camera ball had not destroyed its chip the moment the guard saw it, this camera ball and the owner behind it would definitely have to bear the wrath of His Majesty.
Even if it's fake.
After all, no one would doubt what His Majesty would do to divert everyone's attention from the royal scandal.
However, the nobles could understand that His Majesty was not very angry about Her Majesty the Queen's situation, and even looked a little confused.
——After all, even though they had just said so much, they were still a little confused in their hearts.
Who would have thought that the three adopted sons announced by Her Majesty the Queen earlier really existed, and were even the hottest newcomers in the entire imperial capital!
Just as the nobles were sighing, Gu Jing, who seemed to have finally come to his senses and was standing beside the emperor, stepped forward and said with a frown:
"Your Excellency, what you say is not very credible. After all, everyone knows that Her Majesty's three adopted sons were given to her by her husband. Isn't it a bit too much for you to associate yourself with the heirs of several noble families?"
Gu Jin spoke seriously, immediately shifting everyone's attention to him. Even some nobles looked at him with admiration.
'This person seems to have a better grasp of the situation than their Majesty, who is still standing there in a daze.' The nobles who had already realized these things, but had kept their doubts to themselves, not wanting to be the first to stand out, thought.
The remaining nobles suddenly realized.
Indeed, these three are all the treasures of their families. How could they not have undergone genetic testing? It is absolutely too much to say that the three are adopted children without any basis.
——After all, they are the most promising heirs among the three noble families!
He is even the only heir!
God knows how desperate those noble families were before these three returned home. If someone tried to snatch their children away, those three nobles would definitely be the first to be furious.
Thinking of this, the nobles turned their attention to the three noble families, and indeed found that after they came to their senses, they were ready to fight as soon as possible.
Their idea was very simple. No matter whether what the official said was true or false, the important thing to do was to take this opportunity to beat him up.
But unfortunately, what happened faster than them was the official's words.
He stiffened his neck, widened his eyes, and said as if he was humiliated:
"Your Excellency, I never lied!"
"Then how do you explain their bloodline issue?" Gu Jin said with his arms crossed over his chest, but he tapped his arm twice with his index finger.
The official understood immediately and said:
"There is indeed no problem with the bloodlines of those three. They are the bloodlines of the families they currently belong to, but..."
"They have no blood relationship with the Queen's ex-husband!"
The official raised his head and spoke openly.
As he spoke, everyone's attention shifted to Her Majesty the Queen, their eyes filled with a look of seeking confirmation.
Her Royal Highness the Queen was silent for a while, her face pale, but for some reason not looking as pitiful as before.
——Nodded.
Beside him, the three people who had just been stunned suddenly had some changes in their expressions, and these changes also spread to their spiritual bodies.
The polar bear stopped letting them be held, the snow wolf stopped whimpering, and the snow leopard stopped meowing. They all went straight back to their owners.
Then they made the same expression as their owner.
——It was a look that seemed to contain hatred, but also contained some emotion.
The party ended decently that day.
After all, the three of them did not cause any disturbance at the banquet, and they even talked to others at the banquet politely and decently.
The other people at the party would not expose it. At most, a few people who were jealous of them would ask why the three brothers had not been in contact before.
"…We were too young to remember when we separated."
As they spoke, their expressions were either calm or impatient. Of course, the captain of the guards just had a decent smile on his face without moving.
Instead, those who asked this question were looked at with accusations by the people around them.
After all, although the expressions on those three people's faces seemed normal, their spiritual bodies all looked depressed.
The snow leopard stopped wagging its tail and began to sob through its nose.
The snow wolf lay directly on the ground, looking like an abandoned puppy. It didn't breathe, but its eyes became wet.
A ball as big as a polar bear sat on the base next to the pillar and sighed in a humane manner.
Weak, pitiful, helpless, but huge.jpg
As for the noble families to which these three belonged, the people who came this time were heartbroken to see their family treasures so sad.
They wanted to go forward and comfort them, but they didn't know what to say. They also didn't understand what the three of them were thinking about Ye Wangxing now.
One can only observe them cautiously.
Her Majesty the Queen, the source of everything, stood there at this moment, looking at the three of them with a complicated expression. She looked even more vulnerable, but for some reason, she didn't tremble as if she was about to faint like before.
On the contrary, he stood there with a firm body movement. Although his face was as pale as a doll that was about to break, he inexplicably revealed a sense of life.
In the end, it was the maid beside him who helped the man upstairs first.
Perhaps the only person in a good mood at the scene was Gu Jin.
Gu Jin's expression throughout the banquet was somewhat awkward when he saw Ou Che, but before Ou Che arrived, his expression had always been natural, even...
——A little happy.
Gu Jin didn't expect that he was worrying about how to maximize the benefits of the things he had investigated in the past half month, but he got a pillow when he felt sleepy.
Gu Jin shook the wine glass in his hand, his expression calm, but he was extremely happy inside.
——This is in stark contrast to his mood half a month ago.
Half a month ago, he received news that the people he sent to investigate Ye Wangxing's three adopted sons were attacked. He immediately realized that there was definitely something wrong with the person who reported the three adopted sons.
As expected, nine years ago, the three adopted sons and their kindergarten teacher had been scattered due to the operation to capture the rebels and could not be found at all.
The four people now were just put together to get the job done.
Gu Jin almost twisted off the head of the person who was responsible for this matter on the spot.
But it wasn't far off, Gu Jin directly threw the man into prison.
Fortunately, the four people back then did not clean up the mess too thoroughly. After all, they were Black Star people, so Gu Jin quickly found the four people.
That teacher was easy to find. After leaving Black Star, he opened a cram school with a partner and worked as a teacher and accountant. However, because it was a marginal planet, they did not earn much. Coincidentally, some time ago, due to the operation to capture the rebels, the people on their planet were directly transferred to the capital planet, so they followed along.
Although it seems to have some loopholes, it is actually a more realistic resume.
Gu Jin didn't care about it. Anyway, his subordinates had already reported to him about the rebels they had captured and even showed him the rebel leader.
A burly man with a fierce look on his face.
At that time, when Gu Jin looked at this familiar face, he immediately felt relieved and quickly instructed to detain the man. After all, this person was very good at escaping in his previous life.
After the teacher finished the investigation, the only ones left were the three adopted sons.
But back then, Black Star was a mixed bag, with people from all over the place, so it was really hard to gather information.
However, after finally collecting the information, Gu Jin really couldn't believe it.
——After all, the probability that those three adopted sons are actually children of noble families is too low.
But genetic testing reports cannot be falsified.
Plus, the noble who fell to Black Star was indeed a bit strange. The noble with silver hair and golden eyes in the photo didn't look like an ordinary person. How could he willingly marry a Black Star person, leave behind three children, and then die?
This seemed strange no matter how he thought about it, and then Gu Jin had a guess.
——Could it be the rebels?
After all, he abducted the illegitimate child of a noble and fled to Black Star. Even his dying body was living a comfortable life on Black Star. It seemed a bit of a waste to say that such a person was not a rebel.
But unfortunately, the man has been dead for at least ten years, and Gu Jin really can't find any information about this man, so he can only focus on those three.
After collecting enough information, he began to worry about how to maximize the benefits of this matter. After all, this matter was indeed a royal scandal.
——Especially the three adopted sons will shake Ou Che’s throne.
but……
This will make Ou Che feel a sense of crisis and he will desperately want a child of his own to inherit the throne.
It is absolutely easy to propose dethronement or divorce at this time.
Moreover, the three adopted sons must have some resentment in their hearts about Ye Wangxing abandoning them. Even if they didn't, these three adopted sons would make Ye Wangxing stand against the Empress Dowager.
The Queen Mother just wanted to keep the power and not have it taken away by others.
Especially since this person is Ye Wangxing, the queen whom she had always used as a chess piece!
That's why Gu Jin specially chose today.
There are enough people and the management is a bit chaotic, which is the best time to release this news.
Gu Jin waited until the banquet was over and then sent a maid to deliver the official the reward he deserved.
——An opportunity.
As for whether he can get to the top, it depends on his skills and abilities.
This official was not one of his subordinates, but just a discarded pawn. However, it was precisely this kind of person who was most suitable for doing such a thing.
He would not be like Ou Che, who would let his trusted men do such a thing as being the first to be shot.
Count André has not been out of the house for a month.
Gu Jin thought about it, and then he began to wait for the next public opinion - and was ready to manipulate it at any time.
And the facts were just as Gu Jin expected.
The pursuer becomes the adopted son, this kind of dramatic thing attracts attention wherever it goes.
The tabloids even described the entire process of the banquet.
——It was as if they were hiding under the table, and the tone of their conversation was perfect.
It's just not authentic.
After all, these tabloids even have psychological activities when they are written.
But public opinion throughout the empire was mobilized.
After all, the people of the Empire have become accustomed to the style of these tabloids, which never stop until they say something shocking.
This also led to a very high level of acceptance among the imperial people.
but……
"What's wrong with this tabloid? The headlines they write lately are getting more and more shocking."
The student muttered quietly, secretly glancing up at his tutor who was tutoring him but who wasn't looking at him, and immediately opened the smart brain and began to flip through the pages.
—and then he almost screamed in class.
An interstellar ethical drama unfolds at the Imperial Palace banquet! — Is His Majesty the Golden Toilet's plan to depose the Queen completely hopeless?
The students' eyes lit up instantly.
"Our pitiful and weak Queen—who married, widowed, and had an adopted son ten years ago—has been revealed to have a 'special parent-child relationship' with three upstarts in the Empire! According to insiders, Viscount Cecil, who controls interstellar logistics, the Captain of the Royal Guard, and the newly minted combat hero, Colonel Wen Shi—are all adopted sons secretly abandoned by the Queen on Black Star ten years ago!"
"God knows these three once passionately pursued Her Majesty the Queen. Back then, I was wondering if Her Majesty the Queen was some kind of succubus. But now it seems like this pursuit is more like the attraction between a father and a son—just kidding, what father and son would use their breasts to treat their father's face like a sticky rice cake?"
"However, this news obviously dealt a heavy blow to the three of you—not because the man you were pursuing became your adoptive father, but because Her Majesty the Queen left Black Star in such an undignified manner."
"Based on the evidence from the time and some reasonable speculation, we can conclude that Her Majesty the Queen married her first husband with the intention of leaving Black Star. After all, judging by Her Majesty's behavior over the years, our dear Queen is not much braver than a mouse."
"It's perfectly normal for Her Majesty to want to escape Black Star, but she abandoned her three adopted sons because of this. One can only imagine how much hardship these three upstarts went through before finally standing before our beloved Her Majesty. It's like the beginning of some bloody revenge drama, but Her Majesty has once again surprised us."
"He didn't deny it, nor did he panic. Instead, he stood there and looked straight at the three children who once belonged to him. What was going through his mind at that time? Was he thinking about how tall and big they had grown? Or was he regretting his act of abandoning them?"
"I fled the nightmare hell of Black Star like a panicked rat, but I left three children behind. When Your Majesty looked at them, what was on your mind, Your Majesty, was that your hidden past was about to be exposed..."
"Or are you thinking back to when they were little and relied on you?"
The student felt so jealous when he saw this that he didn't even notice that the tutor on the stage had turned his gaze to him.
Having written this, the article is nearing its end.
Even the reporter did not forget to mock the emperor at the end. It seems that this reporter really has a grudge against the emperor.
"...Finally, let's request a song, 'Green Light,' for His Majesty Ou Che, who wears the emerald crown. Our golden toilet king, busy encrusting his nostrils with diamonds, clearly didn't anticipate the epic backlash his plan to depose the queen would encounter. Let's wait and see what kind of upheavals the emergence of three adopted sons will bring to the royal succession. (Don't forget to follow!)"
The student finished reading the article with great interest, and without saying a word, he clicked the "follow" button, waiting for the next opportunity to watch the show. However, as soon as he clicked the "follow" button, his smart brain was taken away, and the student looked up tremblingly.
He happened to meet the tutor's face, which was as dark as the bottom of a pot.
Student: ...I wish I could see the emperor’s subsequent reaction.
He really wanted to know how the emperor would react to such public opinion!
"Ye Wangxing and the three of them are meeting here today?"
Ou Che spoke with some curiosity. Although he had been ridiculed for a while after the tabloids reported those things, more people still cared about what was going on between Ye Wangxing and his adopted sons.
Gu Jin brought Ou Che here specifically, and Ou Che really wanted to know what the three of them and Ye Wangxing would talk about. However, what he didn't expect was that his dress delayed them a little, and by the time they arrived at the box, the conversation in front had already begun.
And through the extremely concealed camera ball, they could clearly see the expressions on the faces of several people.
Viscount Cecil had a cold, mocking expression on his face, while the captain of the guards beside him, though still gentle and polite, had a rather cold expression on his face. As for Colonel Wen Shi...
He was so angry that he almost wanted to fight with Master Ye Wangxing!
"...Where were you when we were being hunted? Where were you when my brother and I were separated? You're talking about wanting to make amends now? How do you want to make amends, and can you even make amends?!"
Wen Shi seemed to be the one who had the most affection for Ye Wangxing, and he was the most excited person in the entire box.
And Ye Wangxing...
Gu Jin turned his head and found that Ye Wangxing's lips were tightly pursed, with complicated emotions in his eyes, but he did not tremble. On the contrary, he looked very calm.
——A calmness that was totally inconsistent with his character.
It was completely different from the way his hands would tremble after he spoke a few words before.
Before Gu Jin could figure out why Ye Wangxing's behavior was different from before, he saw Ye Wangxing call up his holographic screen.
——Apparently he asked the Queen Mother to remove the restrictions of the holographic screen before coming out.
Ye Wangxing did not hesitate. He immediately controlled the holographic screen and generated two lines of words on it.
"I'm sorry, I will make it up to you. After all, what happened was my fault, and I won't run away."
"Whatever you do to me is what you should do."
He wrote silently on the holoscreen.
Then he gently closed his dark eyes.
As if waiting to be killed.
Gu Jin saw the words written by Ye Wangxing and his actions:...What vicious words are you talking about!
But before Gu Jin could finish his words, a voice came from the side.
"I never thought that my cowardly queen would actually have some sense of responsibility as a father at this time. He may not be good at being a queen, but he does have the sense of responsibility of a father."
Gu Jin turned his head suddenly, and his neck suddenly made a cracking sound.
But Gu Jin couldn't care less. He looked at Ou Che in shock and sighed, his face full of disbelief.
"No, the three of them are almost carrying Ye Wangxing onto the highway, and you're still standing here in Makabaka?"
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