NOVEL NEXT Chapter 8 - Conspiracy
Three young soldiers were discussing each other, and the leading young officer was quietly watching the girl in the video, thinking.
An older soldier sitting next to him said to him, “Your Highness, the skill of Miss Lucy in killing the mutant wolf is definitely not something that can be cultivated in a training room. Even the fourth-class soldiers in our army are not as good as her.”
“Hmm!” The young officer called His Highness hummed softly, his eyes still focused on the girl’s every move in the video.
“Although Miss Lucy’s skills are good, her strength is too small, so she can’t fight against higher-level monsters.” The older officer continued.
“Your Highness should remember Miss Lucy. Mrs. Xi took her to a court banquet last year and wanted to recommend her to the dandy boy of the Bai family. At that time, I thought, what’s the big deal? The Bai family is not much stronger than the Xi family. It was not until the matter of the real and fake daughter came out that I understood what was going on.” said the young officer who spoke at the beginning.
“So, the Xi family master and his wife knew about the real and fake daughters, but it was not revealed until a month ago.”
“I think it should be like this, and it is possible that the Xi family master and his wife did the child swap.”
“No way, isn’t it said that the fake daughter’s father did it?”
“When Miss Lucy was born, her father was already critically ill and had never seen Miss Lucy. Miss Lucy’s mother also disappeared after Miss Lucy’s father died, and then Miss Lucy was taken back by the Xi family to be raised.” The older officer said.
So it was definitely not the fake daughter’s father who swapped the two children. Someone else swapped the two children.
Everyone present was not a fool. After thinking about the key, they felt that this was impossible because it didn’t make sense.
“Adjutant Chen, how do you know so much about the inside story!”
“Since the real and fake daughter’s story broke out, I have been asking people to investigate this matter.” Adjutant Chen said.
Adjutant Chen is the first adjutant of His Highness. He took the time to investigate this matter, which means that His Highness asked him to do it. Adjutant Chen said these words in front of His Highness, which meant that he had solid evidence.
“Why, as the head of a noble family, would he swap his daughter with the daughter of an illegitimate child?” This kind of operation is really hard to understand.
Adjutant Chen looked at His Highness, who was still watching the replay video, with a dull expression, so Adjutant Chen said:
“Eighteen years ago, His Highness was assassinated. Miss Lucy’s biological father, Mr. Atom Xi, accidentally helped His Highness block it. Atom Xi was only slightly injured at the time but died of illness shortly afterward. For more than ten years, His Highness has always had someone take care of Miss Erica.” Adjutant Chen said.
Erica Xi is the real daughter. Before she restored the identity of the daughter of the Xi family, she was the daughter of Atom Xi.
The three young officers were also children of noble families. After hearing what Adjutant Chen said, what else was there to understand.
The Xi couple probably wanted Erica Xi to get close to their Highness by using the identity of Atom Xi’s daughter and catch the big fish of His Highness.
Even so, they still couldn’t believe it: “Why? At that time, the two real and fake daughters were only a few months old, and the couple thought so far ahead.”
“As long as people are greedy, it’s not surprising that they do anything.” Adjutant Chen said.
“That’s not right. Since the Xi family husband and his wife had planned this, why did they reveal the matter of the real and fake daughter? They were so sure that His Highness would not change his attitude after knowing Erica Xi’s true identity.” This man said this while stealing a glance at His Highness’s expression.
It was not that he was nosy and had to ask, but he had to see clearly what His Highness meant; otherwise, he would not know if he made a mistake. He regretted that he had called Miss Lucy a fake daughter without restraint.
Although His Highness has changed a lot since he narrowly escaped death five years ago.
Especially when it comes to women, he has changed his previous temperament of pitying women and has an attitude of superficial politeness but actual coldness towards those young women.
But if it was His Highness five years ago, it would be hard to say. If Erica Xi was stunningly beautiful, this might really be possible.
“It was not the Xi family head and his wife who broke the news. After discovering that things were out of control, the couple began to manipulate the direction of the rumors and pushed Erica Xi to the top by stepping on Miss Lucy. “Adjutant Chen said.
The three young officers only heard Adjutant Chen address the real and fake daughters, and they knew the prince’s attitude toward the two girls.
“The Xi family master and his wife are really crazy, bullying Miss Lucy because she has no parents to support her.” The young officer said it indignantly.
“Yes, Miss Lucy has just come of age, and I don’t know how much grievance she has suffered.”
“I heard from my sister that she heard some young children of the Xi family complain that the Xi family couple didn’t even help Miss Lucy pay for the tuition of the Imperial University, so Miss Lucy signed up for this survival game.”
After hearing this, the young prince looked back at the young officer who said this and then looked at Adjutant Chen.
Adjutant Chen explained with some sweat: “This should be just a misunderstanding. Mrs. Xi once wanted to help Miss Lucy pay for tuition, but Miss Lucy refused. Miss Lucy doesn’t care about the identity of the daughter of the Xi family master and wants to be independent. But Miss Lucy doesn’t have many credit coins in her hand—not enough for a school year’s tuition—so she signed up for the survival game. ”
“The tuition fee for one school year in the Blue and Black Empire is only 150,000 credit coins. My sister’s monthly pocket money is more than this amount. Miss Lucy doesn’t even have these little credit coins. Could it be that the Xi family has fallen on hard times?”
“Needless to say, the Xi family must be a little harsh on their daughter.”
Seeing the girl on the screen neatly using wood to build a small tree house, everyone couldn’t help but marvel.
“Miss Lucy is so deft. How could she know these things? This must be her first time participating in this kind of survival game.” The three officers exclaimed.
After the young prince replayed the footage of the girl piecing together the tree house, he said to Adjutant Chen: “Adjutant Chen, find a chance to see the wooden house built by Miss Lucy. Her technique should be a skill from the era of the mother planet, which has now been lost. This technique is indeed effective in construction. Ask someone to help her apply for a patent for ancient cultural restoration.“
The Ancient Culture Restoration Patent is an award program set up by the Ancient Culture Research Institute to encourage the people of the Blue-Black Empire to study ancient culture. The reward money is not much, but it is very beneficial to her reputation.
Miss Lucy has been ridiculed for so long. If she is not the first to be eliminated in this survival game, as long as she persists for ten days or so and then gets this cultural restoration patent, it will be of great benefit to her reputation.
Others understood that His Highness was looking for an opportunity to clear Miss Lucy’s reputation. They looked at each other and knew what they should do.
“Yes!” Adjutant Chen said.