The scenery outside the window was rapidly receding, and now the steam train was two or three miles away from the imperial capital.

The number of simple houses built along the hill is rapidly decreasing, and there are few traces of human beings.

Correspondingly, the forest is getting thicker and thicker, and almost some of the branches are sticking out.

Ji Yan continued to flip through the newspaper, wanting to see why Jack became the king of the Lancy Kingdom.

After all, he is also an employee under his own hands, and sometimes he still has to understand the situation and care about the physical and mental health of employees.

Let's see what difficulties the employees have encountered in the development of the company, and whether they need the support of their own boss.

Of course, if you don't need it, it's best.

As for five insurances and one housing fund, vacations or something...... Let's convert it into employee benefits.

Thinking about it this way, I should be considered a qualified boss.

After all, what boss cares so much about the condition of his employees, and he doesn't want to see any employees have mental health problems.

It's just that the editor didn't describe it in detail, so maybe this is an insider.

Instead, he incessantly lashes out at Jack, profoundly demonstrating the arrogance of a pedigree.

What a pariah body, despicable blood, ridiculous speech......

The line is almost full of prejudice against Jack.

Then the editor speculated in the article that if it were those people of noble blood who came to power, they would definitely be blessed by the gods and loved by the people......

You could tell he was jealous of Jack.

Jealous that a commoner can become an unattainable king, jealous of why the lucky one is not himself.

Ji Yan thought about it for a while and found that it seemed that it was not impossible for Jack to become the king of the Lanxi Kingdom.

The first is that the previous royal family of this kingdom wanted to rebel against the three major empires, which had already aroused their malice.

Then there were the few Huiyue powerhouses who he subdued by force, and they all saw that he was carrying Jack.

So under this premise, the three empires want to change an obedient person to power, and these Huiyue are secretly fueling the trouble, making Jack the king of this kingdom.

However, this is only Ji Yan's speculation, and he doesn't know much about the actual situation, only Jack's desire to change the country.

But now Ji Yan doesn't need to know how much compromise and collusion there is, as long as the result is determined.

What's the *** annoyance and the confused lord can get to the bottom.

At the end, Ji Yan found that Jack had a lot of policies after coming to power.

One of the most important points is the announcement of the mystery.

He directly unveiled the mystery that was gradually disappearing and showed it in front of everyone.

Let them know that there is such a group of people.

When fantasy is no longer a fantasy, but is reflected in reality.

You can imagine what an exciting scene it was.

Later, Jack took the hot iron to announce the order of national testing qualifications, and new mysterious schools were being built everywhere.

This editor is not a novice who doesn't know anything, and obviously knows the existence of the mystery.

At the end of the article, he said that those commoners whose blood was inferior to the nobility were certainly not qualified to learn the mysteries.

It is better to recruit the children of the nobles directly, at least to win support from them, so that he will not become a bare-bones commander, and he will not even be able to give orders out of the royal city.

Ji Yan is not too worried about this.

Jack is not a bare-bones commander, he is also a priest of the Lost Order.

There are at least three Morning Stars under your command.

As long as there are no outside forces interfering, it is enough for him to do anything in one kingdom.

Ji Yan continued to look down, but found that they were all interesting things on the mysterious side, just like ordinary gossip daily.

This is a newspaper from the mysterious side?

Ji Yan turned to the homepage, but saw that the inscription said "Gray Tower" was produced and printed.

He checked it in his memory, he was a member of a second-tier force, and he heard that he had been developing towards a first-tier force.

This newspaper is supposed to have been accidentally dropped by a warlock.

No wonder it is full of mysterious events.

Ji Yan put the newspaper on the table and looked at Alice on the side.

only to find that she had put her head on her hands and fell asleep peacefully.

It seems that I was so excited last night that I couldn't sleep all night.

Luckily, he bought a private room, not a noisy seat.

Set up a silent enchantment casually, and Ji Yan also took advantage of his free time to cultivate.

After all, there were still two or three days to go, and without a mobile phone and computer to pass the time, he only had one way to cultivate.

Ah, another day of nostalgia for the Internet.

The thrill of having your whole brain filled with a lot of meaningless knowledge is really hard to refuse.

……

Imperial capital, imperial palace.

"Christine, you're leaving here lately, aren't you?"

At this moment, the two figures were walking in the courtyard.

A middle-aged woman smiled, vaguely showing her youthful demeanor.

And the cold girl who accompanied her showed a smile.

It was Christine, and the middle-aged woman next to her was her mother, the Queen.

She was finishing the final business in the ghetto, waiting for the eldest prince's men to take over, and then returned to the palace to prepare for the trip.

As a result, I didn't expect to meet my mother by chance.

"Mother, where did you hear that?"

Christine has always disliked calling the queen the queen mother, and feels that it is more affectionate to call her mother.

"Where did I hear that...... You can still hide it from me since I was a child?"

The queen looked sideways at the girl who had been completely opened, her delicate body was concave and convex, exuding a different kind of charm.

Especially with those cold eyes, it is even more obsessive.

"You're like when I was younger, with the same longing in those eyes, the same desire to get out of here."

The queen's smile was gentle and full of nostalgia, as if she was reminiscing about her youth.

"That's why I was deceived by your father."

"He said he could take me out, but he took me out directly."

"Now it's okay, the entire imperial capital knows about this, and knows that a prince broke into the manor for the sake of a young lady from a big family."

"I didn't have much to do at that time, so I had to marry him under pressure......

Although the words were full of helplessness, the queen's face was full of intoxicating tenderness.

Christine blinked, as if she didn't expect her father, who had always been calm, to have a past.

And his gentle and elegant mother will also have rebellious thoughts when she is young.

You can imagine how ugly the faces of those people in the family were when they watched their father abduct their mother.

After all, at that time, his father had no hope of ascending to that supreme position.

However, in order to protect his face, he finally had to pinch his nose and admit this marriage.

said that the two sides were in love with each other, and there was no such thing as forcibly breaking into the manor.

Probably the main reason is that his father really took his mother out.

Mother's family obviously can't afford to lose that face.

Looking at the starlight in the queen's eyes, Christine seemed to be able to think of that scene.

In the midst of the heavy guards, the father broke through the manor alone and left the cage-like place with the mother.

Such a feat naturally won the heart of a simple girl.

But if my father didn't have the identity of a member of the royal family, it is estimated that the family would even have the heart to cut people.

Christine's thinking is a little divergent, and she has never heard these things in her previous life.

"I see you now, like

I saw me back then."

"You should be leaving today."

The queen gently stroked the girl's soft hair, and the figure in her eyes seemed to overlap with the shadow of her youth.

"Hmm."

Christine nodded, she didn't need to hide it from her mother.

"Are you going to see a boy?"

"Huh—"

Christine's eyes widened slightly, and she looked at the queen with a clear look on her face in amazement, as if wondering why she would ask this.

Her brows furrowed slightly, and her voice was as cold as a mountain spring.

"Mother, don't tarnish people's innocence out of thin air."

"Am I guessing wrong? You've rejected so many suitors before, I thought a boy had come into your heart."

Christine looked at her mother, who was smiling and covered her mouth, and suddenly her head was full of black lines.

She knew that the queen was urging herself.

Sighing secretly, Christine immediately stopped answering and was silent.

"Are you angry?"

At this moment, the queen does not have the serious temperament in front of outsiders, and when she covers her mouth and smiles, she seems to have a hint of vitality.

"Forget it, let's talk about it then."

She seemed to mean something, and then grabbed Christine, feeling that it was no longer the small palm it used to be, and continued.

"I know you might be annoyed by what I said, but that's the way the world is, and even without me, there will be others."

"Christine, you should know that you are the princess of the empire, and fate will not be on your side......

The Queen's gentle smile began to fade into a faint one, and then dissipated into the air with a lament.

I don't know if I'm sighing about her life experience, or the fate she has to bear.

Christine didn't know the consciousness in her mother's words, but she was no longer the little child who needed to worry about everything.

She had wandered alone for a long time, and perhaps the things that the queen had experienced were not as rich as her wanderings in a year.

Marriage, which was extremely important in the eyes of her mother, was not a necessity for her.

And the responsibility of the princess of the empire is nothing more than marriage.

A mother can do whatever it takes to sleep for herself, but even so, she will inevitably be influenced by the ideas of the times.

This is a bondage from the mind, and it does not conflict with her maternal love for herself.

After all, her mother was also a girl who wanted to get out of the cage, but the times changed her.

"What if I'm no longer a princess of the Empire......

Christine's voice was so soft that it was hard to carry away even a breeze.

But the queen heard the whisper.

A burst of sourness and pity instantly surged in her heart, holding Christine's hand tightly, and there were a thousand words in her heart, which in the end only turned into a few words.

"Since you're leaving, let's go, and I'll hold you back from your father."

"Take a good look at the outside world during these months, and don't leave any regrets."

"This is my ...... I owe it to you."

The queen's lips trembled slightly, and then she whispered, with unspeakable guilt in her tone.

Christine just smiled calmly, then held her palm with her backhand.

"Mother doesn't owe me anything, I owe more."

She put the queen's hand on her cheek and rubbed it, closing her eyes to feel the warmth from her mother's palm.

There is a rare trace of nostalgia in my heart, as if I want time to stop.

But Christine knew that she couldn't have such extravagant hopes now, so she restrained her emotions.

At this moment, the queen also took the initiative to put her hand down.

"Let's go now, and have fun for a few months."

Hearing this, Christine just smiled helplessly,

She didn't go out to play this time.

On the contrary, they have to work hard for a long time for the development of their own forces.

But it's going to be worth it.

As long as you have the strength, then you will also have the capital to settle down.

And not in the transition of the times, with the ups and downs of the waves, not understanding where their fate will be.

"What if...... It's not bad to meet someone you like."

When the queen said this, there was a hint of hidden expectation in her eyes, and she didn't know what she was expecting.

Christine just smiled, as for the heartbeat......

She had never met her in half her life, and it was even more impossible now.

On the contrary, there are a lot of heart-pounding scenes, and almost every time you are just one step away, you will fall into death.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it dances on the tip of the knife.

Until the end, Christine was used to seeing this, and her mood was almost indifferent.

But when I was on the verge of death, I did seem to have someone I wanted to see.

"Christine, I'm actually lucky compared to everyone else."

"Now I hope to transfer that luck to you."

The Empress muttered in a low voice, her gaze looking in one direction, which was where the Emperor dealt with government affairs during the day.

At least he loved himself when he was young, and was willing to break into a family residence for her.

Christine listened to the queen in silence, as if at the time of parting, everyone had endless words.

In the end, she said goodbye to the queen in a reluctant mood.

A moment later.

"Your Highness, everyone is ready to go."

"Hmm."

Christine had packed everything up, and this time she was out herself, not a puppet.

She also needs to mention her strength again.

Looking at the members of the White Night who were following him in front of him, it was not in vain that he had spent so much.

"Let's go!"

"Yes!"

……

Due to the large number of people, they took the steam train to their destination in batches.

In the carriage, Christine pulled out a detailed map of the empire.

There are three major powers in the north, one is the Marquis of Kruger in the northwest, the second is the Duke's family of Arendelle in the north, and the third is the Marquis of Malik in the northeast.

And now the situation is that two marquis are teaming up against a duke.

Christine's destination this time is the territory of the Marquis of Kruger, located in the northwest.