Golden Lake Palace at night.

A man and a woman, two fierce quarrels came from the depths of the palace's inner court, accompanied by the occasional sound of ceramic vessels breaking on the marble floor.

In the past, such an indecent thing would never have happened in the palace.

But this quarrel was a family affair of the Valstad royal family, the Midknights, and not only did the royal chamberlain and the guards stay away, but even the ministers and marshals were curious not to interfere.

Emperor Sarantos Midknight's right hand was clenched into a fist, the back of her white hand was covered with green tendons, the iron hook on her left arm smashed angrily on the table, her silver-gray one-eyed eyes were wide open and bloodshot, and her voice trembled with anger:

"You wayward bad boy! When I was your age, I had already fought for my country for many years, but what about you? Indulge in wine and have fun, never think about the country! ”

Prince Maxim, who was standing opposite her, was equally excited, and his lilac eyes contained tears:

"Your Majesty! I'm fed up! Don't tell you all about your youth! I'm tired of hearing it! Don't hold your child to the test of your standards! I was born free! I live only for myself! ”

The emperor took a step, and because of anger and excitement, the veins and tendons on her slender neck swelled, and she gritted her teeth and said:

"No, you're wrong! Maxim!

You are not a child of a civilian family, you are not qualified to do whatever you want! From the moment you were baptized, from the moment you got the surname Midknight, you have lost your freedom! Wake up! You can't live only for yourself!

You were born in the royal family, as the prince of a powerful empire, you shoulder responsibilities, the honor of the family, the interests of the country, you must take into account, you must not be so selfish! ”

"Your Majesty, it seems that the differences between us are much more serious than I thought." Prince Maxim kicked the ceramic shard on the ground, which he had broken in his anger to break the vase on the ground.

"Anyway, this matter is not negotiable, the female spy must be guillotined, and I can't obstruct the enforcement of the law for the sake of your lover"

After saying this, the emperor coughed a few times, she picked up the cup, and drank an herbal pill from this hot water, which was prescribed to her by the imperial doctor of the palace to relieve pain.

Seeing that it was hard to come, Maxim began to change his method and lied to his mother:

"Mom! Please! I've fallen in love with that person in my life, and if she dies, I won't be able to live! ”

(Mom?) Hearing this affectionate title like a commoner, Emperor Sarantos's heart was shocked, and she was a little shaken, and she thought:

(Yes, he called me Mom, he is my oldest son, a piece of meat that fell from my body after ten years of hard work to conceive!) ）

Everyone in the palace knows that the empress eats this set of family offensives the most.

Every time this son made a big disaster, as long as he showed weakness and begged in front of her, the emperor's mother would forgive him with family affection, and it was precisely because he understood his mother's weakness of eating soft and not eating hard that Maxim could repeatedly escape punishment.

It worked every time, but this time it was different.

The person that Prince Maxim wants to protect is a female spy of the Solan Kingdom, and the Solan Kingdom is the number one rival of the Valstad Empire in the world today, and it is impossible for the Emperor of Sarantos to forgive this foreign woman, in that case, it will make all the citizens of the empire feel cold.

The emperor's tone was slightly gentle: "Maxim, don't beg me like this anymore, no matter how much you have to spend it, it's useless, this bad woman from the Solan Kingdom has been convicted of espionage by the court, and she is dead." ”

Hearing the Emperor's tone soften, Prince Maxim smelled a glimmer of hope, and he knelt down in front of his mother, clasped her thighs with both hands, and began to plead:

"Mother! Please don't call her that cold, okay?

She's not a bad woman, she's Lady Grancy Steinerberg, she's a wandering troubadour, and if you hear her singing voice and see her screaming, you'll love her as much as I do! ”

The emperor said coldly: "What's the difference?" A drama that runs the rivers and lakes? What about even great artists? You have to find out, my stupid son, that this woman has bad intentions, and that she wants to use your true innocence to harm you! to endanger our country! ”

"Mother, you are wrong! She is not from the Solan Kingdom at all, but the aboriginal of the Yawen Continent, she is forced by life to be a spy, and most importantly, she has long given up her spy mission. ”

The emperor remained unmoved: "So what? Even if it's true, it only shows that she is a poor person, and it doesn't justify your love. ”

"She loves me! I love her too! Isn't that enough? ”

"Oh! Na! The emperor waved his hand in disbelief, hugged his son and said, "My stupid boy! You fall into the gentle trap laid by the woman, and you can't move.

Seducing an immature big boy like you with talent and lust is exactly what a female spy like her is good at.

Moreover, she is not pretty, she is still old, and she has even given birth to children, ah! I really don't understand why you idiot is so obsessed with her!

Why don't you consider the foreign princesses I introduced to you? They are all virgins of noble blood, which one is not both talented and beautiful? Which one is not a hundred times stronger than that woman? More importantly, it can also bring an alliance to our country. ”

Maxim bit his lip: "What about being young and pretty?" What about noble bloodlines? I'm not interested at all! I've been there a long time ago! I don't love those foreign princesses! Unconvinced, he argued against his mother:

"In terms of appearance, who is better than you when you were younger, and who is better than Sister Rosemary, and my twin sister Edgar, who is beautiful and beautiful, but I am not interested in those external things.

I fell in love with Ms. Grancy not because I loved her looks or her origins, but because I loved everything about her!

Her temperament, her singing voice, her dancing posture, the way she lies asleep on the bed, her smile......

In short, how to look at how pleasing to the eye! I won't marry her in my life! Mother, if you really love me, let me and her go! Fulfill our pair of hard-working mandarin ducks! All right? Please! ”

Emperor Salantos Midknight stood up straight, she looked down at her son Maxim holding her boots, and for a moment she was really moved by the child's words.

(Yes, true love, what young person doesn't pursue it?) She thought.

How could she not be the same when she was the princess of military costumes, Sister Saratos?

At the graduation party of the National Military Academy, the noble princess in military costume danced with the little-known Tadjavi poor son Dali Einfurt, which was the love she had chased in her youth.

But all that good things were just a passing moment, and for the sake of the country, she eventually committed herself to a political marriage and married a businessman who was older than her father.

(O fate!) Destiny! ）

The Emperor looked up and sighed, tears welling up in his eyes.

She sympathized with her son, but the responsibility was on her shoulders, and as a mother and a monarch, she could only give a heartless answer:

"My answer is still - no!"

Seeing that his mother refused to eat, Maxim became anxious, he had no time, because in one more time it would be the day when the spies would be guillotined, and he had no choice but to use his killer weapon - to force him to death:

"Her Majesty," he said.

"How can you be so callous and turn a blind eye to my bitter pleas...... I am your son!

If Sister Grancy dies on the guillotine, then I will go with her. ”

Then there was a few minutes of silence, with the mother standing and the son kneeling, maintaining an embarrassing silence.

Maxim thought of a thousand answers, yes, persuasion, or tactful no, but to his surprise, the emperor uttered a sentence that made him despair:

"Silly boy, do you want to learn from the protagonists in those bitter dramas, and learn from their martyrdom? You don't want a family, you don't want honor, as long as that woman wants to give her a funeral? Well, live or die, whatever you want! ”

The prince looked up in disbelief at the cold face of his emperor's mother, and watched as she pushed himself away and walked out of the room.

The towering gilded door was slammed shut, leaving Maxim alone on the carpet in a daze.