Shen Mengting was born in a family of generals, and from the moment she was sensible, she heard rumors such as her father being a national hero. At first, she didn't understand what 'big hero' meant.

Then, almost as soon as she had developed her own opinions, and several of her playmates were all admiring her father with envious eyes, she decided to go home and find out.

"Mom, what is the big hero?" Shen Mengting asked directly when she saw her mother.

The mother didn't react at first, but after a few blinks, she quickly responded with a smile: "The great hero is the object of everyone's worship in the country." ”

"So, is my father like that? Listening to a few of my friends, it seems that my father is very good. ”

"Of course he is a hero! Your father can be said to be the pride of our kingdom of Saran, and the pride of our mother and daughter. After speaking, her mother also gave Shen Mengting a hug.

Shen Mengting was very excited about this, and she was proud to have such a father.

In fact, when she was very young, she knew that her family was extraordinary. The things at home are always the best, whether it's food or clothing.

The place where she lives is also a three-story mansion surrounded by four high walls. There were many servants in the house, as well as a considerable number of soldiers. Soldiers stood guard at the entrance of their house every day, and a few patrolled from time to time.

Shen Mengting once thought that the Saran Kingdom lived like this from house to house, until her mother took her to her grandmother's house and passed through a slum area, Shen Mengting didn't know what the poor meant. These people often don't even have enough to eat, let alone have a good material life.

My mother sometimes went to help the poor, but this was a drop in the bucket, and the bread that was thrown out was snatched away in a matter of minutes. And then the poor will become hungry again.

Shen Mengting had never tasted what it was like to be hungry, and she knew that the reason why she was like this was all due to the fact that their family had a heroic father.

's father, Shen Haiteng, is a middle-aged man who does not smile in Shen Mengting's image, whether he is away or at home.

Shen Mengting rarely saw her father laugh, and listened to several of her father's subordinates, mainly because her father was worried that a powerful country in the east would invade Saran again. My father always suggested to the old king that he should strengthen the army and rejuvenate the country in order to ensure the security of his country. But the old king has not implemented it well. Gradually, my father gradually felt that he was marginalized.

"The situation in our country is deteriorating, and if it continues. I estimate that within 20 years, most of our young people will fail even the primary occupations. At that time, how will our country resist foreign aggression?"

In a communication with a subordinate, my father asserted this. Now that I think about it, that was a very accurate prophecy.

As Shen Mengting grew older, she felt more and more pressured, because every time she went out, she would be treated as Shen Haiteng's daughter.

The word 'excellent' has also been completely printed on her body, and her life has been completely condemned.

Of course, why she also knows very well that she must work hard to become a talent, otherwise she will become a tool for others to smear her father. For this reason, at a very young age, she took off the princess dress that her mother had prepared for her.

She was like a boy, galloping through the streets and alleys of the aristocratic area of Kiyose City. Her friends and playmates have also become the sons of dignitaries rather than daughters. Shen Mengting doesn't like those little princesses who are twisting and pinching, let alone weak boys. Shen Mengting hopes to become the leader of the children, and finally enter adulthood in the form of a leader.

Time was still ticking, and when she was about seven years old, something happened in her family.

The mother is pregnant.

This means that a new child will be added to the family, and Shen Mengting also understands that from now on, her parents' love for her will be divided into half.

A year later, my mother gave birth to a cute little brother. When my father heard the news, he rushed back from the barracks. You must know that his father has never left his post before, even if his mother and Shen Mengting are seriously ill, he will not be seen to return home. However, on that very day, my father returned.

From the first moment my father stepped into the house, he anxiously asked where his brother was. Then he went into his mother's room and picked up the newborn doll.

Suddenly, Shen Mengting saw the smile on her father's face, which had never been seen before.

In an instant, Shen Mengting's heart underwent earth-shaking changes. The worldview she once had was completely shaken. Her father has always treated her with a serious and tense face, but he is so kind to the newborn little guy.

His father named his younger brother Shen Menglin, and a few days later feasted most of the officials of Qingse Castle. The father announced to everyone present that he would train the boy to become the first swordsman of the kingdom of Saran in order to inherit his mantle.

The officials of Saran congratulated their father, and even the old king said that he would marry his little prince and his younger brother as brothers of the opposite sex. Not to mention how happy the father was, the whole banquet seemed to be crowning the glory of the younger brother.

Shen Mengting was very lonely in the crowd of people, and she simply walked out of the house. Took a few breaths in the backyard and was comforted by someone.

This person is Uncle Yang Jiening.

Uncle Yang Jiening is also a familiar customer to Shen Mengting. Shen Mengting regarded him as a respectful elder parallel to his father.

My father used to be nervous to everyone, but he rarely smiled when he treated only one person, and that person was Yang Jiening, who was known as the first magician of Saran.

I heard that my father and Yang Jiening knew each other earlier, and the two were almost equal in terms of both ideas and strength. Perhaps because of this, two arrogant people can come together and have a long talk.

No one knows who is the first person in Salan, father or Uncle Yang Jiening, and maybe they themselves don't understand it. But it doesn't matter. For as long as they are alive, the safety of the kingdom of Saran will be guaranteed. And the swordsmen and magicians brought up by them are also first-class sticks.

Shen Mengting had seen the duel between her father and Uncle Yang Jiening in private, but because it was just a boring discussion, the two of them were to the point. The strength of the two is equal, no matter how many times they fight, there is no one who is stronger and who is weaker.

Uncle Yang Jiening also often came to his father's place as a guest, and the content of the conversation was both official and private.

In terms of business, Uncle Yang Jiening has always supported his father's proposition, believing that the Saran Kingdom has not been well prepared, and will only become fish to be slaughtered by others.

In terms of personal affairs, Uncle Yang Jiening will take special care of Shen Mengting.

It's like at a banquet celebrating the birth of a younger brother. Uncle Yang Jiening held the staff in his hand and comforted Shen Mengting not to be discouraged. But Shen Mengting couldn't raise the emotions that fell into her heart, she knew that from this day on, she was no longer the core of the family.

A few days later, Uncle Yang Jiening visited their home again, and he proposed to his father that Shen Mengting be taken as an apprentice and that Shen Mengting be trained to become the first magician of Saran.

The father was quite happy when he heard this, he called Shen Mengting and asked him for his advice as if he knew his daughter very well.

Because, being photographed by Yang Jiening basically means becoming a talent. Different from those trials in ordinary trial grounds, after Yang Jiening's guidance, it will exceed the results of other people's ten years of hard work. It is no exaggeration to say that from the moment you become Yang Jiening's apprentice, the expert-level magician is already beckoning to you.

However, that time Shen Mengting categorically refused. This probably surprised my father and Uncle Yang Jiening.

Puzzled, her father asked Shen Mengting why she refused, wasn't it also her dream to be Yang Jiening's apprentice since she was a child?

But Shen Mengting's answer was: "Because I don't want to be a magician, I hope I can be a swordsman." ”

She replied to her father with her head held high. Since her younger brother was born, Shen Mengting has had a dream in her heart that she wants to become a top swordsman like her father.

If her dream succeeds, this will not only prove her ability, but also declare a truth to her father: she is the closest bloodline to her father, and she is the one who truly inherits her father's mantle.

As if paranoid about proving something, Shen Mengting gave up the idea of becoming a magician all along, and chose a swordsman instead.

After hearing this, his father frowned, and he didn't seem to be satisfied with Shen Mengting's answer.

"What? You said you were going to be a swordsman......? Isn't it nice to learn a legal profession? Besides, you've always said you want to be a magician. ”

"Yes, I used to say I wanted to be a magician. But now, I just want to be a swordsman. Shen Mengting made a serious fist salute, and her tone was quite tough.

When the father saw it, he hesitated for a while, and then he looked at Uncle Yang Jiening: "Look at my daughter, I really don't know what to do." The whole country doesn't know how many families are going to send you to learn magic, but she's not even going to refuse. Tell me about this little girl! Probably because the life she usually gives her is too good, and she doesn't know what suffering and competition are!"

His father's number was not supported by Uncle Yang Jiening, but he still waved his hand: "Alas, don't say that, you need to have your own willing foundation to learn any profession." Since Meng Ting wants to learn swordsmanship, it is also her own decision. We should respect her ideas. ”

The father shook his head helplessly.

Since then, Shen Mengting has officially positioned the swordsman from the magician.

When sending Uncle Yang Jiening out, Uncle Yang didn't forget to ask why Shen Mengting changed her mind. Because when Shen Mengting was very young, she decided to become a magician and worship Yang Jiening as her teacher.

Moreover, it seems that women are indeed more suitable to study related legal professions. The surrounding officials and wealthy people, their daughters are all magicians and physicians. Not to mention daughters, some boys are reluctant to work on swordsmen and archers that are easy to get their hands on.

Shen Mengting naturally didn't dare to show her true thoughts to Yang Jiening, so Yang Jining didn't ask much when she saw this. However, when leaving, he still reiterated his decision to support Shen Mengting.

"Don't think about it, it's your freedom to do whatever you want to be. Today's children are so assertive, and it is really commendable that they use their brains not to listen to the path that their parents have made. So, no matter what, Uncle is there for you. Yang Jiening said and slammed his staff to the ground.

Shen Mengting listened warmly.

After that, Shen Mengting also successfully entered the swordsman training class in Qingse City. Because his father is the marshal of Saran, he is not at home all the year round, and his mother is not worried about letting Shen Mengting go to the military camp on the front line. Therefore, Shen Mengting can only choose the path of the trial ground. And this year, Shen Mengting was exactly ten years old.

At the age of ten, no matter where you are in the country or race, you are considered young. But Shen Mengting just entered the proving ground. At that time, most of the children in this class were sixteen years old.

But even so, Shen Mengting still maintained her top results. She even showed better learning results, and even the coaches in the class praised her.

In less than three months, Shen Mengting passed the trial of a junior swordsman. This news shocked the entire Qingse City, and some people made a prediction, saying that the next Shen Haiteng was born again.

It was under this aura of praise that Shen Mengting entered the intermediate swordsman trial class.

That year, everyone in the family was celebrating Shen Mengting's passing of the junior swordsman assessment, and her mother was the most smiling among them. She regretted that she had strongly opposed Shen Mengting's desire to learn swordsmanship at that time. Now, the mother seems to be completely relieved that her daughter will follow the path of a swordsman.

"Oh yes! At the age of ten, she passed the primary assessment, and she really deserved to be Haiteng's daughter. "My grandfather was also very active at the celebration.

Others also expressed congratulatory messages to Shen Mengting. But Shen Mengting was not very happy, she knew that there was still a long way to go?

Passing the primary assessment is nothing at all, because that's how it should be. In the future, the senior or expert level is the most important. Even, Shen Mengting will use this as a pedal in the future to hit the master level before the age of thirty-five.

The master swordsman is her target, and the other lower ranks are just pedals.

Besides, there have been some bloody examples before, saying that some people, after simply passing the primary assessment, complacently thought that the subsequent trials would be smooth. However, the ruthlessness of reality hit these people hard. They soon reached a learning bottleneck after passing the elementary level. Eventually, their professional level will stay at the beginner level or the intermediate level one step higher.

Shen Mengting doesn't seem to be one of these people, she always reminds herself that no matter what, she can't be too complacent. Because every step up the level means that the difficulty increases tenfold. In terms of jumping from advanced to expert, it is 50 times more difficult to pass than intermediate to advanced.

That's it, so Shen Mengting must not be complacent.

Of course, there was another reason why she didn't show any joy. Her father didn't bother too much about her passing the primary assessment. Although it was true that he rushed back for a day, he hurriedly praised a few words and returned to the barracks dozens of kilometers away.

This is the polar opposite of my father's feelings for my younger brother a few months ago. At that time, in order to calculate what department of swordsman to study for his younger brother, my father specially invited several subordinate generals to comment. 's father really poured too much affection into his younger brother, and Shen Mengting felt a little left out because of this.

After that, Shen Mengting gradually realized that no matter how hard she tried, her status in her father's mind could not catch up with her younger brother. Even, everyone in the family seems to be more concerned about the younger brother. Especially her mother, after her younger brother grew up, her mother always stayed by her brother's side, and Shen Mengting lacked contact with her mother.

The words of the mother are: "Mengting has grown up, it's time to leave her parents." And Menglin has just learned to walk, so he must need his mother to accompany him. ”

Shen Mengting would not have any objections to her mother's words, but as she put more and more of the high scores she achieved in the trial field in front of her mother, and her mother and her younger brother were happily grimacing each other, Shen Mengting realized that her mother was no longer the mother.

As always, my father only came home once in a few months, but every time he came back, he had to run to his brother's room first and say a few warm words to him. Although his father will indeed come to Shen Mengting for a trip in the future, he will indeed give his father's help and encouragement, and even buy some special products outside Qingse City. However, Shen Mengting always felt that her status in the hearts of her elders was always a little shorter.

Another point is that when his father faces others, including Shen Mengting, most of them are with a straight face. But only to his younger brother, he is very kind. Shen Mengting could see that her father really liked her younger brother very much. His father seemed to be counting on his younger brother to come and be his next him.

Then, this care became a little complicated after a few years. The father no longer smiled at his younger brother Shen Menglin, and their family has also undergone earth-shaking changes.

When a doctor examined his brother's body, he seemed to find that he was sick. In several subsequent tests, the doctor's idea was also confirmed.

The younger brother seems to have something wrong with his heart, which causes him to gasp for air after a few quick steps. In that case, let alone any swordsman trial, he couldn't even lift an ordinary thing.

Shen Mengting's family fell into a shadow because of this.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, my younger brother seems to have always been in a state of illness. He learned to walk a year later than his peers, and when he was about four years old, his younger brother would stattle a few steps. The younger brother's strength seems to be very small, and he can't lift the bench or anything like that. Another thing, the younger brother doesn't seem to be smart at all.

Although IQ feels normal as a whole, it always seems to make people feel that they have to slow down ordinary people. During the day, he was stupid at home, and no emotions could affect him.

Over time, the father stopped smiling at his brother and turned to avoidance. This evasion deepened over time, and when the father returned, he stopped stepping into his brother's room and never talked to his brother in person. Even, sometimes my father didn't even look at his younger brother.

The younger brother is still young, and he doesn't seem to know the changes in his father's feelings for him. However, Shen Mengting saw it clearly. She knew her chance had come.

She had expected her father to shift all his hopes to her body in the future. However, in what happened next, she realized that she was completely wrong.