Ye Chong also didn’t expect to encounter a student here. He asked in rare surprise, "What are you doing on Musse Star?"
"Just so personal matters." Su Ruan replied vaguely, then looked at the man standing beside Ye Chong with a bit of curiosity in her eyes.
The man had a big beard, looking quite ssy, but his hair was neatly combed. Although his clothes seed worn, they were very clean, without a single wrinkle, indicating that their owner took good care of them.
The man gave Su Ruan a very strange feeling, as if he were soone who should be affluent but was trying to disguise as a wanderer, and yet due to his inherent etiquette and pride, he couldn’t give up cleanliness, thus exuding an extrely contradictory aura.
Ye Chong noticed his student staring at Old Qin beside him and cheerfully introduced, "This is Old Qin, you can call him Uncle Qin."
"Uncle Qin." Su Ruan nodded slightly at him to show her respect.
Qin Cheng nodded slightly in response.
Su Ruan withdrew her gaze and looked at Ye Chong again, "Teacher Ye, why did you co to Musse Star?"
"Just to take a look." Ye Chong said lazily, wearing slippers, in a voice that sounded like he had just woken up. There was a sense of sadness in his murky eyes.
Su Ruan didn’t ask much, just nodded and said, "Then Teacher Ye, Uncle Qin, have fun."
Su Ruan bid farewell to the two of them, but she didn’t expect to run into Uncle Qin again a few hours later.
This ti, Qin Cheng was alone; Ye Chong was not by his side.
Qin Cheng stood alone at the edge of the bridge, beneath which torrents flowed fiercely. More than half of his body leaned out of the bridge, as if he would fall into the rapids at any mont.
Su Ruan quickly walked over, not daring to raise her voice for fear of startling him, and gently called out.
"Uncle Qin."
Hearing the voice, Qin Cheng stood upright, turned sideways, and looked at Su Ruan.
"Ah, it’s Su Ruan." He said as if with a sigh.
"Is Xiao Nian also on Musse Star?"
Su Ruan: ...
She finally realized where that sense of incongruity was coming from.
Everyone knows that the current Your Majesty has the surna Qin, so the person before her, is he the current Your Majesty?
"Your Majesty?" She took a cautious step forward, lowering her voice even further, almost to a whisper.
Qin Cheng nodded and still said with a smile, "Just call Uncle Qin."
"Uncle Qin." Su Ruan nodded and called, "Why did you co to Musse Star?"
"Just to take a look." Your Majesty turned around again, looking far along the river.
Fearing he might do sothing foolish, Su Ruan cautiously approached him, imitating his posture, and placed her hands on the bridge rail.
The autumn wind swept by, carrying a slight chill.
After a few seconds of silence, Qin Cheng spoke, "When do you and Xiao Nian plan to have children?"
Su Ruan: ???
Is Your Majesty now extending his concern to such matters?
"That’s not sothing we can really control." Su Ruan said, with a slight blush on her ears.
Your Majesty nodded knowingly.
The birth rate in the Federation has always been very low; so people have children only after turning over a hundred.
Although the average human lifespan is now 200 years, it’s quite long to wait over a hundred years to have children.
"When I was with Xiao Nian’s mother, she beca pregnant quickly."
Qin Cheng reminisced, "Her pregnancy caught off guard, and I panicked, which led to make many mistakes afterward."
So mistakes, once made, can never be undone.
Su Ruan: !!!
It seed she just heard so extraordinary gossip!
Did Brother Lu’s biological mother have a history with Your Majesty? Does that an Brother Lu is actually Your Majesty’s child?
This matter was beyond Su Ruan’s expectations.
Because whether in the past life or this life, Su Ruan had never heard Lu Shinian ntion his father.
Even when Your Majesty passed away in the previous life, Lu Shinian did not attend the funeral.
"Brother Lu’s mother, she..."
She rembered he had said his mother passed away.
"They say she left." Qin Cheng’s voice carried a hint of madness, "I don’t believe it."
Su Ruan fell silent.
Qin Cheng looked into the distance, seeming absent-minded, not knowing what he was looking at or thinking about.
After a while, Qin Cheng spoke again, "Want to hear a story?"
Without waiting for Su Ruan’s response, Qin Cheng began telling a story on his own.
The story was clichéd, yet unexpectedly lodramatic.
In his youth, Qin Cheng had a white moonlight, but that white moonlight did not like him.
He couldn’t win her over, and because of an accident, he t Lu Shinian’s mother, Lu Zhiya.
He treated Lu Zhiya as a stand-in for his white moonlight.
Unconsciously, the stand-in beca important in Qin Cheng’s heart over ti, but at that ti, Qin Cheng was proud and had just inherited the throne, brimming with arrogance.
Arrogance blinded his eyes and heart.
Later, when he realized he had fallen for the stand-in, the stand-in disappeared.
He searched for a long ti but never found her.
Until more than a decade ago, when Lu Shinian entered the military academy, he realized that she and his son had grown so much.
Unfortunately, Lu Shinian didn’t intend to acknowledge him as a father or ride his coattails to success.
Lu Shinian entered the then most challenging Third Legion, rising step by step through his own efforts, reaching his current position.
After finishing the story, Your Majesty let out a deep sigh.
"I miss her dearly."
Perhaps it’s human nature to only cherish what’s lost.
After hearing the story, Su Ruan let out a sigh. It turned out the older generation had such a past.
"Did Brother Lu’s mother resemble your white moonlight greatly?" Su Ruan asked curiously.
Qin Cheng shook his head, "Not at all, actually."
"Speaking of which, the white moonlight had the sa last na as yours."
Qin Cheng seed to recall sothing, a confusion flashed in his eyes, "Her na was Su Hanjing. About twenty years ago, if I rember correctly, she contacted once to change her na to Su Ling."
"Probably to hide from soone, though I don’t know the details. By then, we hadn’t been in touch for years."
Su Ruan’s body jolted.
Su Hanjing... Isn’t that her biological mother?
This...
Su Ruan was at a loss on how to describe the shock in her heart.
"But it doesn’t matter anymore." Qin Cheng’s voice was low, "It’s all been too long."
Staring at the torrents, he suddenly asked, "Do you think if I jump from here, I’ll see her?"
Su Ruan snapped back to reality, her pupils widening.
A figure leaped from the bridge, falling rapidly.
"No!"
Su Ruan shouted, her spiritual power becoming tangible, rushing straight towards Qin Cheng.
As Qin Cheng’s body was about to hit the water, it hurriedly supported him.
Su Ruan manipulated her spiritual power to pull Qin Cheng back up.
Qin Cheng’s body was stiff, incredulously staring at Su Ruan, his pupils still holding traces of shock.
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