"Disobeying the order?" Lan Shuang chuckled and raised her chin slightly. "I didn't say I wouldn't go back to the palace, but I want to walk back on my own. There's no need for you to arrest me. I'm the eldest princess of the Moduo Kingdom. I haven't done anything wrong. Why should I be arrested?"
"That is the king's will."
The captain of the guard frowned and said, "If you are dissatisfied, please go back and tell the king."
"I will naturally tell the king, but you have no right to arrest me. Get out of the way—"
Lan Shuang's tone was harsh. The captain was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said, "Grand Princess..."
"Don't you understand?"
Louis pointed the tip of his sword at the captain of the guards: "The eldest princess is the crown prince. As long as the king doesn't order her, no one can disrespect her. Who do you think you are?"
"You—" The captain of the royal guard felt the people around him looking at him, his face burning with heat. He gritted his teeth and asked, "General Louis, what do you mean now? Doesn't the Louis family never take sides? Are you planning to openly side with the Grand Princess and His Majesty to fight against her?"
"Watch your words." Lan Shuang stepped forward, her aura fully revealed, her eyes intimidating, and the captain of the guards unconsciously stepped back.
"The king and I are father and daughter, never enemies. How can you say that defending me is the same as opposing the king? Or did someone instruct you to say this, to sow discord between me and the king in public?"
Lan Shuang's words immediately aroused the approval of the people.
The captain of the guard was choked and stunned. "I didn't! I am the captain of the king's guard and I obey His Majesty's orders wholeheartedly! I will never be bribed!"
"Oh?" Lan Shuang sneered, then asked sharply, "Do you think General Louis, who defends his country, can be easily bribed? Are you insulting the meritorious service of past generations?"
This was a serious charge, and the captain of the guard was stunned. Before he could refute, Lan Shuang pressed on: "Since you are the captain of the king's guard, you should understand that I am the crown prince of Mordo. It is your unshirkable duty to protect my image and honor. General Louis was just doing his job. What doubts do you have?"
"I..." The captain of the guards was speechless and felt that nothing he said was right.
The next moment, Lan Shuang strode forward and pushed him away: "If you have nothing to say, get out of the way."
The captain of the guards staggered after being pushed, and the people around him immediately made way, their disgust evident in their words.
When Los passed by him, he glanced at him coldly, which made him feel uneasy.
In the end, he couldn't stop anyone and could only follow behind, watching them swagger into the palace.
…
"Where is the king?" Lan Shuang asked the captain after entering the palace.
The captain pointed in the direction of the main hall with frustration: "In the meeting hall."
Lan Shuang nodded and pulled Los over.
The guards outside the council hall widened their eyes when they saw Lan Shuang and the man coming in hand in hand, but they didn't dare to stop them or move around. They just watched them go in and gossiped with each other with their eyes.
The captain of the guards took a look and whispered, "Behave yourself. Why are you making faces?"
"yes!"
Only after the guards stood up straight did the captain of the guards breathe a sigh of relief. He followed Lan Shuang and others in and saw the king sitting on the throne, his chin supported by one hand, his face dark and his eyes sinister.
"Didn't I have someone bring you back? Who allowed you to walk in so brazenly?"
Before Lan Shuang could even open her mouth, the king took the initiative to attack.
"Lan Shuang greets His Majesty the King."
She did not call herself daughter, nor did she address him as father, which made the king even more unhappy.
"Oh, you've grown so strong after your trip that you dare to talk to me like that?"
The king slapped the armrest and stood up, shouting, "Kneel down!"
Lan Shuang did not move, but stood there with her back straight, looking at the king without looking away.
"No."
"You—you are rebelling!" The king's eyes widened, like a lion on the verge of going berserk.
Los stood beside Lan Shuang and looked at the king carefully, but found that Lan Shuang and the king had almost no similarities. He turned his head away in disgust. Could such a mediocre person really be Lan Shuang's father?
The king naturally noticed his look and pointed at him fiercely and asked, "Who is he? What do you want to do by bringing him back? To show off to me, huh?"
Lan Shuang was calm but a little puzzled: "Why is the king so angry?"
The king laughed in anger: "Shouldn't I be angry? You did such treasonous things, talked back to your father, and eloped with someone, so shouldn't I be angry? You have disgraced me, and the face of my country, Modor!"
"Heh." Lan Shuang laughed contemptuously: "Really?"
"When you brought my mother back, why didn't you feel ashamed? I just did the same thing as you, why are you so angry, Your Majesty?"
Lan Shuang's counter-question was like a slap in the face, hitting the king hard.
"What are you talking about?!"
Lan Shuang didn't bother looking at his eggplant-like face. Her gaze fell on the throne and she said indifferently, "If you don't feel ashamed, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Besides, the laws of Modor Country stipulate that the Crown Prince does not need to kneel when meeting the King. This is the Crown Prince's right. This law was set by the Great Emperor back then. Do you have any objections?"
"Don't use the Emperor to pressure me! I'm your father. Do I need the law to tell me what to do when I'm teaching my daughter a lesson? Don't I even have this little right?"
The king was so angry that he almost jumped up and down. Louis and the captain of the guards behind him tried to minimize their presence to avoid being affected by the artillery fire.
Lan Shuang said calmly, "Calm down first. Don't get yourself into trouble by getting angry. It's not worth it."
"The law can't stop you from disciplining your daughter, but the prerequisite is that you fulfill your obligations as a father. Ask yourself, have you done so? You have neglected my mother and imprisoned her in a high-rise building. I grew up with my mother, and you have ignored her."
"After my mother died, I left home, but you still ignored me and let me grow up wild in the palace."
"You think I need to get married, so you just randomly arranged a marriage for me. Did you ask for my opinion?"
"You think I'm not as good as Lan Sisi. When you belittle me outside, have you ever thought about the fact that you are my father? Have you ever thought about how I have lived these years?"
"When I was tricked into going out to sea and pushed overboard, do you know how desperate I was? You don't even know how I survived a near-death experience to stand before you. Yet you keep questioning me. It's really laughable that your father would do this to you."
"You even sent your personal guards to arrest me, in public. You don't feel ashamed this time."
She bombarded the king with questions, and he couldn't get a word in. He was completely stunned.
The captain of the guard took a quick glance and observed two seconds of silence for the king in his heart. He had just experienced this kind of thing and was still scared.
Lan Shuang thoughtfully gave the king time to react, pausing for a moment before continuing, "To sum up, what obligations have you fulfilled as a father?"
king:"……"
There was a dead silence in the hall, and Los slowly raised his hands and clapped.
"Pah pah pah."
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