The Witch's Taste

Chapter 190
Vaguely, memories flooded in again like a tide.

Not those "future" memories, but from her past.

Xia Qingyu had never seen his father since he had memories.

According to the mother who raised her, her father was a certain high-ranking prince whose pure and noble blood was not something that a distant branch of the lineage like her mother could reach.

The Xia clan's royal family basically only valued two things: bloodline and ability.

In essence, although the latter is valued, ability usually lacks a quick measurement standard, so the first impression will be judged based on blood, that is, the distance between you and the current emperor's relatives.

The reason is: the gene optimization and genetic screening of the royal family is only aimed at the direct children of successive emperors, and they are operated on when they are in the embryonic stage.

Then compete, the strongest prince will become the emperor, and his sons and daughters will continue to be genetically optimized.As for the brothers and sisters who were eliminated, they were included in the royal family lineage, and the Zongzheng government uniformly arranged internal intermarriage and reproduction.

Although the internal intermarriage of members of the royal family can ensure that external inferior genes will not be mixed in, they are only arranged in pairs with each other, which is definitely not as good as the emperor's line that is optimized and changed.

Therefore, the farther your blood relationship with the current emperor is, the lower your gene version (impure blood), the weaker your status and power in the royal family, and the less restraint you are subject to.

As for the blood relationship between the mother and the current emperor, it must be traced back to the No. 17 emperor, as far away as the relationship between Liu Bei and Han Lingdi.

Such a remote branch of the lineage was originally not qualified to marry any prince. In addition, her mother kept her father's affairs secret, so that for a long time, Xia Qingyu thought that "father is a prince" was only a matter of mother's marriage. It's just fabricated bragging capital.

It wasn't until her mother left without saying goodbye one day, and the emperor's secret agent went to the house in person, that she realized that although her mother was usually dissolute, she had never lied to her about this matter.

She is the daughter of Xia Qiwen, the No.14 son of the current emperor.

An illegitimate daughter, to be exact.

His father was the most noble prince in the royal family (second only to the emperor), while his mother was the lowest in the distant lineage of the royal family, which made Xia's royal family quite critical of Xia Qingyu's existence.

For the royal family, genes are the most precious resource.The Zongzheng government arranged internal intermarriages, which were also matched according to the distance of the genetic version.

Xia Qingyu, a product of violations, should be executed according to the law and her genes should be recovered.

The fourteenth prince, Xia Qiwen, entered the palace overnight, pleaded guilty to the emperor Xia Chonghuai, claiming that he had "never had an affair with anyone" and "had no knowledge of the gene leakage", and implored his father to "handle it impartially".

The emperor didn't comment on this, but called Xia Qingyu into the palace at night, and let the father and daughter question each other.

The questioning process is absolutely confidential, and only the emperor knows what the father and daughter said, and the final ruling shocked the entire royal family:

The fourteenth prince Xia Qiwen was "mean and ungrateful", imprisoned in the back room of the cold palace for life, and was eliminated from the throne contest ahead of schedule.

The illegitimate daughter Xia Qingyu was formally included in the royal family lineage, and was granted the title of princess. Because "both parents are gone", he ordered Dazong Zhengxia Jinyan to take care of her, which is equivalent to the emperor's own admission that "this is my granddaughter".

After a short period of confusion and confusion, the Xia clan finally reached a new consensus, that is, Xia Qingyu, a girl who must be so awesome that she can defeat her father in just one night of criticism and questioning, and let the emperor judge her. "Her value is above that of the prince", and even made the shocking decision of "leave the father and keep the daughter".

However, only Xia Qingyu knew that when he was still young at that time, there were actually not many outstanding things that were worthy of others' admiration.

Because she was ruthlessly abandoned by her biological mother first, and then faced her biological father who wanted to kill her, she didn't say much in front of the emperor that night, but stared indifferently at the strange man named "father" in front of her. man.

The whole person exudes a strong sense of despair, dead silence and hatred.

It's a pity, what I didn't know at the time was that the person I should hate the most was not the father on the other side who was only thinking about self-protection.

It's the grandfather who has been watching the scene of father and daughter killing each other all the time, and has used cruel calculations, intrigues and darkness to arrange her life properly.

... His Majesty the Emperor who is fanatically worshiped, admired, feared, and cursed by the entire human empire.

"Qing Yu, we're here." A gentle voice sounded from the side.

Xia Qingyu opened his eyes, got up from the seat silently, and looked at the man next to him.

Da Zongzheng of the imperial family, Xia Jinyan.

The current identity is her uncle.

"Did you sleep well?" Xia Jinyan asked with a smile.

"Very bad." Xia Qingyu replied.

"Well, you can't say that to the outside world later." Xia Jinyan reminded her, "If you don't sleep well, you either have poor physical fitness, or you are not good at regulating emotions and rhythms. No matter what the reason is, you will Tell other royal families to look down on you."

"Do they dare?" Xia Qingyu said contemptuously, "Show contempt in front of Dazong?"

"Of course they don't dare." Xia Jinyan said hehe, "but they will laugh at you in their hearts."

"Using violence to force others to submit is a very simple thing; but to conquer others psychologically is a goal that really requires a lot of hard work and may not be achieved for a long time. The so-called "thief in the mountain is easy, thief in the heart is broken" Difficult’, that’s the reason.”

"But you should know that I don't care what they think."

"Of course I do, so I'm trying to convince you to change your mind."

"It doesn't make sense." Xia Qingyu said with a sneer, "If you want to convince me, how about sorting out the logic first?"

"Don't just focus on the interests in front of you." Xia Jinyan said leisurely, "Their perception of you is really meaningless at this moment, but who knows if it will come in handy in the future?"

"There are too many things that may come in handy in the future. If you have to keep everything in mind, you are like a scavenger looking for garbage. Sooner or later, you will be crushed by the increasing weight. Instead of placing large bets on uncertain things , how about spending energy on identifying the things that really affect the future?"

"So, what are the things that will really affect your future?"

Xia Qingyu didn't answer, but silently took out her phone.

Received an interstellar mail from Yuuki Izumo.

"I have to go back to Gaotianyuan." Xia Qingyu said suddenly.

"Okay." Xia Jinyan didn't ask much, but after seeing her mobile phone screen, he guessed what happened in an instant, "You go first, and I will explain to the royal family meeting."

However, after Xia Qingyu left, Xia Jinyan did not rush to the meeting, but also took out his mobile phone.

"..."

"...It's me, Your Majesty."

"...Until now, His Highness has not shown anything suspicious."

"...Yes, I have already arranged for an investigation."

"...But the suspicion cannot be completely ruled out, because Your Highness..."

"... is so good at disguising that it is difficult to see through her inner thoughts."

"...Understood, nothing will be done next."

"... Regarding the matter of Gao Tianyuan, we will unconditionally cooperate with any arrangement of His Highness."

"...everything is subject to your will."

(End of this chapter)