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The most miserable one was Hall Master Chen. Now, not only did Her Majesty hate him, the rest of the Luo Family hated him as well. Because of this matter, the Her Majesty had to thoroughly investigate all the branches of the Luo Family and definitely could not allow the Luo Family to carry out any activities in private when she was unaware! When she spoke of this matter, Her Majesty said a very meaningful sentence, ”We want to know, in the end, just how many things has Luo Family been done. I want to know if this world still belongs to me!

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These words were extremely heavy, to the point of almost saying that Luo Family was planning to rebel. Luo Family were naturally anxious to prove their innocence. They cut off more than half of the various powers and relationships they had cultivated over the years, cleared out a few branches of the hall, and carried out a thorough inspection of the existing hall's entrance. This action greatly injured Luo Family but the most important thing was that he could preserve his life. Relationship could be rebuilt, information could be regathered, but Luo Family could not be destroyed! In the end, over seventy of the Great Master of the Chen family were beheaded in public. Even after dying, he didn't return to his original surname, Luo, or enter the ancestral hall, but was instead treated as a foreigner that was never mentioned again.

The only survivor of the main bloodline was his only six year old son, Chen Chu. Prince felt guilty. He had promised this child a harsh condition that he would never enter the Luo Family, which was the reason why he used an ordinary peasant child to exchange for Chen Chu the night before the execution.

After going through so much suffering, even though his Luo Family had been greatly weakened, and he had completely fallen to the bottom of the three great families, he had still managed to preserve his family's bloodline. Although the Prince had protected Chen Chu, from the beginning, his entire being's essence, energy, and divine suffered a huge blow. From then on, he lived in seclusion, no longer caring about political matters. It could be said that after these two to three years of suffering, the only thing they had gained from it was Moqiu State.

Actually, Chen Chu knew that there was another beneficiary behind this incident, and that was Huo Yanrann.

Due to losing trust in anyone, Prince treated Chen Chu as his own son. Actually, at that time, he already had an only daughter, and that was Huo Yanrann. At that time, Huo Yanrann was only two years old. Even though she was destined to be the empress of the Fire Phoenix Empire, she was still a child after all, and didn't attract too much attention. And because of Chen Chu's existence, some people had teased him and said that he was the Prince Consort that had prepared a childhood friend for his daughter in advance.

Chen Chu had followed beside Prince for many years, and slowly understood some of the inner workings. In fact, the Prince did not really like her daughter, but the reason was because of her mother.

To the clan of the Fire Phoenix Empire, bearing children was a mission, a mission that had to be completed. The successive generations of Fire Phoenix Empire's princes were also completing this mission. However, everyone's attitude towards this matter was different, because everyone knew that the crown prince did not have the right to choose the Crown Prince's consort. Regardless of whether it was the Queen or the Crown Princess, they would pass away soon after giving birth. Some princes were cold to their princesses and treated them as tools to continue their bloodline. Some princesses had a deep relationship with them, so many years later, they would still cherish them.

However, after Huo Yanrann was born and the princess consort passed away, his disappointment, sadness, and sadness all transformed into a type of anger. She even felt that if it wasn't for Huo Yanrann's birth, the princess consort wouldn't have passed away.

Even though he was extremely stubborn, what was the point in having such an extremely sad Crown Prince? On top of that, the Li family hall master's plan had failed, so the mood of Prince was extremely low right now. He was forbidden to step foot deep into the palace every day, and not only were there no guests, he didn't even see Huo Yanrann. He only grabbed Chen Chu and used all of his strength to teach him how to read and write, to teach him martial arts.

In such an environment, Chen Chu, as the son of a sinful subject, obtained the best possible royal education, and smoothly entered the Imperial Military Academy at the age of sixteen, with almost excellent results. In the eyes of outsiders, after he graduated, the Prince would have already ascended the throne and become the emperor. At that time, Chen Chu might even be able to revive the Chen Family and become the Empire's new aristocrat.

However, Chen Chu knew that all of this was impossible. The reason the Prince taught him was entirely because of his guilt towards his own father and his family, as well as because he didn't like Huo Yanrann, but because of the misplaced love he had with her. And most importantly, the condition that the Prince agreed to back then was to no longer ascend the throne and become emperor, and instead pass down the position to Huo Yanrann!

This condition that others could not understand was actually the action taken by the Her Majesty in order to protect the three great families. He understood her son's personality, and also understood the importance of the three great families. If he ascended the throne of the emperor in the future, she might even make a move against Luo Family. Although the old emperor did not like Luo Family either, because Luo Family involved many things, he had done a thousand years of meritorious service for the empire. However, if this Prince Hong Wu calls him emperor, with his personality, it would be hard to say. On the surface, it was still a Prince. Actually, there was no longer a throne to sit on, and it directly made Huo Yanrann, who was only two years old at the time, the biggest beneficiary.

This condition was agreed to by him in order to protect Chen Chu at first, and he used his imperial throne to exchange it for a friend's bloodline. This kind of thing that was unfathomable in the eyes of the bystanders, was a little unexpected in the hands of the Prince, and just by thinking about it, he could deduce one or two things about his attitude towards Huo Yanrann.

It was also because he knew about this that Chen Chu kept a very low profile within the Imperial Military Academy. He never paid attention to the teasing of his classmates about ”Prince Consort Horse” and ”Aristocratic Families”, and only studied and trained extremely hard every single day. As long as there was a mission that allowed him to participate in a battle, he would not hesitate to sign up for one. Although he had left a haughty and eccentric impression in the eyes of others, his heart had never wavered. He was working hard not for himself, but for his dead father and Prince.

In Chen Chu's heart, there was even a hidden thought that he could not tell anyone: One day, he will use his own strength to return the Prince to the throne!

Just as Chen Chu was walking step by step towards his goal, the Prince suddenly died. This accident changed Chen Chu's entire life and it also let him know some secrets about the Fire Phoenix Empire and the Mo Qiu Empire that no one knew for hundreds of thousands of years.

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