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Protostar

[Rkdewi][Lyingliars][Paola N. F.][Robert K.][Marron1]

Red Star

[Ai Shasha][Elaine K.]

Orange Star

[Yly][Stumblelina S.]

Neopolitan Yellow Star

[Celeste S.]

White Dwarf 

[Kang V.][Luag N. M.][Luthién][Karize Guevarra][Ron Arnold][Luria][GingerClanger][Monica A.][Kameli K.][Corey S.][Chin K. Y.][Bushra I.][Fubaurutsu][Rika P.][Ankan G.]

Black Hole

[Jordan][John P.][Mar][Shufen]

In the Royal Palace of the Lan Yue Dynasty, the Lan Yue Dynasty's king had a frown on his face.

In the main hall, below the throne, Qu Rui was grieving with snot and tears on his face.

It had been seven days since the soldiers of the Lan Yue Dynasty returned. Qu Rui had been reporting to the palace every day since seven days ago and cried as if his liver and guts were cut to pieces.

At first, the king had also comforted him many times, but after seven days, the Lan Yue Dynasty's king only wanted to strangle this worthless member of the second generation to death!

"Your Majesty, you have to take action for my father, ah! That Shen Yanxiao didn’t think of my father's life and death, threw him out from The Rising Sun City and left him alone to be eaten by the demon beasts. It’s simply insane; you must give my father justice, ah!" Qu Rui cried at the top of his voice in the hall. Crying for seven days in a row, his eyes were now swollen into walnuts, and his throat was already hoa.r.s.e, yet he still didn't give up.

He learned that his father had lost his life in the Barren Land from the mouths of the soldiers that returned. For Qu Rui, who had always relied on his father's prestige, this was simply a bolt from the blue!

Without his father, who was he going to rely on in the future?

The king stared at Qu Rui silently; he wanted to get up and beat him up.

What did he mean, Shen Yanxiao didn’t think of Qu Xun’s life and death? Did Qu Rui in the end not know what his father was supposed to do in the Barren Land!

He took the soldiers to attack Shen Yanxiao. Forget that Shen Yanxiao would not save him; even if Shen Yanxiao wanted to kill him herself, that also would be a matter of course.

When the soldiers came back from war this time, the Lan Yue Dynasty, from top to bottom, felt miserable.

No to mention that the damage their military strength had suffered was disastrous, among the commanders of the four countries, only the commander of the Lan Yue Dynasty had died. Now, Qu Rui was crying all day long in the main hall, and the Dukes and Marquises at the side had been wagging their tongues nonstop.

"Qu Rui, your father died for his country. Lan Yue dynasty will definitely not forget your father's sacrifice. You go back to rest now." Looking at the emperor’s face, which was about to explode, a first rank prince[1] hurriedly opened his mouth to persuade Qu Rui.

[1] Qinw.a.n.g (親王): Prince of the first rank. Usually the sons of the emperor. More info here. Will be discussed more down below. 

However, Qu Rui, this idiot, did not realize that he had already provoked the anger of the crowd and was not willing to accept others’ words. He said, "My father died so terribly! Everyone had entered The Rising Sun City, why is it that he was left alone? That Shen Yanxiao clearly has a vicious heart! She hates me, hates my father, and left him alone to die!”

Qu Rui could not understand. There were so many soldiers sent out by the Lan Yue Dynasty, and there were tens of thousands of people that came back, but why was his father, who was the commander, the only one that died?

In his opinion, if there were only one man from the Lan Yue Dynasty to survive, that should be his father.

"Those soldiers, they actually deserted their posts! They dared to commit treason! Your Majesty, you can't let them off lightly, ah! Otherwise, who will dare to lead the troops after this day." Qu Rui resented Shen Yanxiao, resented the soldiers who came back alive. As soldiers of the Lan Yue Dynasty, how could they leave their commander alone in a dangerous place!

If Qu Xun did not enter the city, those people should also not have entered the city at all!

If there were soldiers to act as s.h.i.+elds, perhaps his father could have survived.

Like his father, Qu Rui never looked at the soldiers as human beings. In his view, the soldiers should fight to protect his father's safety. So what if they died? How could their lowly lives be compared his father's life? 

Qu Rui hated that he was unable to make the king kill all those soldiers immediately.

The king’s expression was very unsightly. They had investigated the things that happened in The Rising Sun City very clearly. The fact that Shen Yanxiao could put aside her former hatred and take in the soldiers of the four countries surprised the upper echelon of the Lan Yue Dynasty. This degree of magnanimity, even he could not show it.

Note: Regarding the Qinw.a.n.g or First Rank Prince. In this case (the story) they are not sons of the emperor but a n.o.ble t.i.tle that is carried on from their first generation, who helped in founding the Lan Yue Dynasty. Since we call their highest leader as “king”, we’ll try our best to keep translating the n.o.ble/official t.i.tles in Lan Yue into their western counterparts.