Bai Lixin went to the king, who looked him up and down carefully and nodded his head in satisfaction.
“Good.”
It was just one simple word, but what did it mean?
If this were anyone else, they would have been too embarrassed to ask.
But the old king had met Bai Lixin, a good student who was eager to learn.
Bai Lixin: “What’s good?”
The king’s face was visibly stunned for a moment, then he adjusted his tone slightly and said, “My dear son, you look good in that outfit.”
“I think if you dress like this, you will be able to confuse the evil dragon’s greedy eyes, and the evil dragon will not take you away.”
A question mark went through Bai Lixin’s mind, “Dragon?”
With a crisp “clang,” the knife and fork that the substitute was holding finally fell to the ground.
The sound of the fine silver fork and knife hitting the marble white floor immediately drew everyone’s attention.
Three pairs of eyes immediately looked at the substitute, who was so pale that his body could not stop trembling, and his eyes were filled with horror.
The Queen’s original gentle expression froze as she stared at the substitute with cold eyes, looking at him like a lamb.
The king gave him a casual glance and spoke lazily, “Pick it up, you have no etiquette; what a clown.”
The substitute stood up abruptly and bent down to pick up the knife and fork with a pale face.
One of the attendants came up behind him with a blank face and, with great courtesy, helped pull back his chair. The substitute gulped and trembled as he sat back down.
The hand holding the knife and fork was white from the effort.
After taking in the individual expressions, Bai Lixin then turned back to the majestic king.
As his eyes moved, he happened to meet the queen’s gaze.
The queen still had a stiff, icy expression on her face. She tried to change it to a gentle one but failed, and the corners of her mouth finally pulled out a stiff fake smile.
King: “Alas, my poor child, you seem to have forgotten everything after falling into the water yesterday.”
“The witch dominates the forest, the evil dragon rules the mountain tops, the sea monster peers out from the water, all these evils covet our kingdom and you.”
Bai Lixin asked the system in his head: [How did an evil dragon and a sea monster come about?]
Escape System: [Uh, I don’t know either.]
Bai Lixin: [Sister system, your current business skills are getting worse and worse, you will get fired if you continue like this.]
The escape system felt a cold sweat running down its head: [Master Bai Lixin, I, I will check again for you.]
Bai Lixin: [Okay, you check again.]
While Bai Lixin was talking to the system, an unfamiliar husky voice rang out, “Your Majesty, it’s almost time for you to take your medicine.”
Bai Lixin followed the voice and looked at the Queen. Her pupils were pure black, and you could barely distinguish between the pupil and the border around the pupil.
The whites of her eyes were relatively small, taking up only a quarter of the eye.
Bai Lixin surveyed the queen; her fingers were slender and fair, and her tall and lean body was in an exquisitely ornate court dress of the ultimate nobility and luxury.
——————–
In the live broadcast room.
[‘Husband, it’s time to drink the medicine’, Family, I want to ask you, does that sound like the same tone!]
[Are you suspecting that something is wrong with the Queen?]
[Why do I think all three are weird? Why is that substitute so scared?]
[How is that surprising? He’s now the prince’s substitute, the one who will die in his place. The curse will take effect in two days, so he only has two days to live, of course, he must be afraid.]
[You’re right, it’s human nature. Anyway, let me first lick our God Xin’s appearance first; ahhh, God Xin, you have finally come out! I was almost dying if you hadn’t come out. Wuuu, do you know how I’ve been living for more than two years without you?!]
[How were you living? Steamed bear paws, steamed deer antlers, skewers for hot pot?]
[…… Get out of here; I’m in the middle of an emotional scene, don’t spoil it.]
[Fuck! I really missed this kind of atmosphere. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen viewers engaged during the live stream. Sure enough, God Xin’s live broadcast room is so relaxed that it is like opening a small chat room.]
[Who is God Xin? Is he really that powerful? But if he was that powerful, why would he fail the mission and get punished? He’s definitely not as good as Little Overlord.]
[Get lost, don’t come to our God Xin’s live room and swipe other people’s names. If you like Little Overlord, go watch your Little Overlord. When our God Xin was famous, your little overlord was still wearing diapers. You don’t even know what you’re talking about, God Xin could have easily completed that mission if he wanted to, he just didn’t want to go against his principles.]
[Is that unscrupulous Little Overlord of yours even worthy to be compared with our God Xin?]
[God Xin: It’s bad luck!]
Li Cangsgan looked at the live stream that was about to erupt into a fight and seized the opportunity to send Li Cancan a message: [Sister Cancan, who is Little Overlord?]
Li Cancan: [Little Overlord is a player who appeared in the copy two years ago, he has a strong ability when clearing levels and climbed from level 0 to level 600 in just two years. The nickname “Little Overlord” was given to him by his fans because he is very domineering when clearing copies, every time he entered the copy, the copy was always destroyed at the end.]
Li Changshan: [But doesn’t every copy God Xin enters get blocked after?]
Li Cancan: [It’s not the same. God Xin clears copies in a much gentler way. He is also capable of destroying copies, but he takes care of them as if they were children. He will first explore them to find the root cause, and directly destroy it to get the copy back on track.]
Li Cancan: [But Little Overlord is brutally destructive from the start. If an NPC appears in front of him, he will kill all except those required by the mission.]
Li Cancan: [You can say God Xin is the redeemer, and Little Overlord is the destroyer.]
Li Changshan: [Then if God Xin and Little Overlord pk, who do you think would win?]
Li Cancan: [I think it’s still God Xin. It took Little Overlord half a year to rise to the 250th floor, and God Xin took two months.]
Li Changshan: [Ohh, you’re right. God Xin is better.]
Li Cancan: [Actions are better than words, you can figure it out by watching God Xin’s live stream.]
[If I “figure out” God Xin’s routine?] Li Cangshan asked quickly, [Will I be able to enter the Core Fire Guild?! ]
Li Cancan was dumbfounded, [You seem quite attached to the Core Fire Guild, do you admire God Xin that much? Don’t worry, he is easy to get along with, you will eventually meet him.]
Li Changshan in front of the computer coughed lightly: [*Drunkards don’t want to drink.]
*Idiom to mean “the original intention is there, but there are also ulterior motives”.—————–
The king glanced at the queen and said, “Go to the study.”
His hawk-like, sharp eyes swept a glance at the substitute and asked, “Are you full?”
The substitute’s shoulders immediately tensed up, and he faltered as he replied, “Yes, I’m full.”
The King: “Then go back to the prince’s chambers and do not come out without orders.”
The dismissed substitute breathed a sigh of relief and timidly stood up from his chair. He bowed his head, silently waiting for the king and queen to leave before he could finally exit the room.
As he watched the king and queen leave, Bai Lixin called to the king, “Father.”
The King and Queen, who were walking ahead, stopped their pace at the same time and looked back at Bai Lixin with frowns.
The king had a displeased expression, “What is it?”
Bai Lixin: “Why did the witch curse me?”
Since the system didn’t even know, it should be quicker to ask the person concerned.
The King’s sharp eyes stared at Bai Lixin for a while before saying, “Because we violated a taboo.”
“My dear, you must know. You are the offspring I fought tooth and nail to have. I never had any children back then, but a commoner found a seed from the forest, and it was said that if we ate the seed, we would have children of our own.”
“We just thought of trying it out,” the Queen continued, “but to my surprise, not long after eating it, I conceived a child with His Majesty.”
“At that time, we believed that it must be because we prayed day and night and moved the gods of heaven to send this child for us.”
“But what we didn’t know was that the seed was guarded by the forest witch. Your birth caught the witch’s attention, and the witch harbored a grudge, and she cast a curse on you.”
The queen cursed through clenched teeth, “That witch is simply too much! The seed was from the forest, which is the common property of the family. Anything there belongs to the royal family, and yet she had capriciously taken it for herself. If His Majesty hadn’t been so kind, he would have sent troops to wipe out the forest and kill that damned witch!”
The king patted the queen’s shoulder reassuringly, and his gaze, which had been sharp throughout, softened for a moment, “It’s okay, we have a magician in the kingdom too. As long as I live, I will keep our child from being threatened.”
Bai Lixin: “Did the magician say anything about lifting the curse?”
The King and Queen looked at each other, both with hesitation.
The King had a twinkle in his eye and said, “Don’t worry, just leave everything to the magician. Don’t be afraid, child, these are the most crucial days. Although we want to be with you, we need to keep our distance and our relationship in order to be able to cheat the curse.”
“Stop calling us ‘Father’ and ‘Mother’ for the next few days, and don’t come to us unless we summon you. I know it’s hard on you and wrongs you.”
“Go back when you have finished your breakfast here.”
With these words, the king left with the queen.
Then the other squires and attendants also withdrew from the room, and in a few moments, only Bai Lixin and the substitute were left in the dining room.
With the departure of the king and queen, the substitute’s face eased and his trembling lessened.
Bai Lixin walked up to the substitute and looked at him carefully.
Bai Lixin went to the king, who looked him up and down carefully and nodded his head in satisfaction.
“Good.”
It was just one simple word, but what did it mean?
If this were anyone else, they would have been too embarrassed to ask.
But the old king had met Bai Lixin, a good student who was eager to learn.
Bai Lixin: “What’s good?”
The king’s face was visibly stunned for a moment, then he adjusted his tone slightly and said, “My dear son, you look good in that outfit.”
“I think if you dress like this, you will be able to confuse the evil dragon’s greedy eyes, and the evil dragon will not take you away.”
A question mark went through Bai Lixin’s mind, “Dragon?”
With a crisp “clang,” the knife and fork that the substitute was holding finally fell to the ground.
The sound of the fine silver fork and knife hitting the marble white floor immediately drew everyone’s attention.
Three pairs of eyes immediately looked at the substitute, who was so pale that his body could not stop trembling, and his eyes were filled with horror.
The Queen’s original gentle expression froze as she stared at the substitute with cold eyes, looking at him like a lamb.
The king gave him a casual glance and spoke lazily, “Pick it up, you have no etiquette; what a clown.”
The substitute stood up abruptly and bent down to pick up the knife and fork with a pale face.
One of the attendants came up behind him with a blank face and, with great courtesy, helped pull back his chair. The substitute gulped and trembled as he sat back down.
The hand holding the knife and fork was white from the effort.
After taking in the individual expressions, Bai Lixin then turned back to the majestic king.
As his eyes moved, he happened to meet the queen’s gaze.
The queen still had a stiff, icy expression on her face. She tried to change it to a gentle one but failed, and the corners of her mouth finally pulled out a stiff fake smile.
King: “Alas, my poor child, you seem to have forgotten everything after falling into the water yesterday.”
“The witch dominates the forest, the evil dragon rules the mountain tops, the sea monster peers out from the water, all these evils covet our kingdom and you.”
Bai Lixin asked the system in his head: [How did an evil dragon and a sea monster come about?]
Escape System: [Uh, I don’t know either.]
Bai Lixin: [Sister system, your current business skills are getting worse and worse, you will get fired if you continue like this.]
The escape system felt a cold sweat running down its head: [Master Bai Lixin, I, I will check again for you.]
Bai Lixin: [Okay, you check again.]
While Bai Lixin was talking to the system, an unfamiliar husky voice rang out, “Your Majesty, it’s almost time for you to take your medicine.”
Bai Lixin followed the voice and looked at the Queen. Her pupils were pure black, and you could barely distinguish between the pupil and the border around the pupil.
The whites of her eyes were relatively small, taking up only a quarter of the eye.
Bai Lixin surveyed the queen; her fingers were slender and fair, and her tall and lean body was in an exquisitely ornate court dress of the ultimate nobility and luxury.
——————–
In the live broadcast room.
[‘Husband, it’s time to drink the medicine’, Family, I want to ask you, does that sound like the same tone!]
[Are you suspecting that something is wrong with the Queen?]
[Why do I think all three are weird? Why is that substitute so scared?]
[How is that surprising? He’s now the prince’s substitute, the one who will die in his place. The curse will take effect in two days, so he only has two days to live, of course, he must be afraid.]
[You’re right, it’s human nature. Anyway, let me first lick our God Xin’s appearance first; ahhh, God Xin, you have finally come out! I was almost dying if you hadn’t come out. Wuuu, do you know how I’ve been living for more than two years without you?!]
[How were you living? Steamed bear paws, steamed deer antlers, skewers for hot pot?]
[…… Get out of here; I’m in the middle of an emotional scene, don’t spoil it.]
[Fuck! I really missed this kind of atmosphere. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen viewers engaged during the live stream. Sure enough, God Xin’s live broadcast room is so relaxed that it is like opening a small chat room.]
[Who is God Xin? Is he really that powerful? But if he was that powerful, why would he fail the mission and get punished? He’s definitely not as good as Little Overlord.]
[Get lost, don’t come to our God Xin’s live room and swipe other people’s names. If you like Little Overlord, go watch your Little Overlord. When our God Xin was famous, your little overlord was still wearing diapers. You don’t even know what you’re talking about, God Xin could have easily completed that mission if he wanted to, he just didn’t want to go against his principles.]
[Is that unscrupulous Little Overlord of yours even worthy to be compared with our God Xin?]
[God Xin: It’s bad luck!]
Li Cangsgan looked at the live stream that was about to erupt into a fight and seized the opportunity to send Li Cancan a message: [Sister Cancan, who is Little Overlord?]
Li Cancan: [Little Overlord is a player who appeared in the copy two years ago, he has a strong ability when clearing levels and climbed from level 0 to level 600 in just two years. The nickname “Little Overlord” was given to him by his fans because he is very domineering when clearing copies, every time he entered the copy, the copy was always destroyed at the end.]
Li Changshan: [But doesn’t every copy God Xin enters get blocked after?]
Li Cancan: [It’s not the same. God Xin clears copies in a much gentler way. He is also capable of destroying copies, but he takes care of them as if they were children. He will first explore them to find the root cause, and directly destroy it to get the copy back on track.]
Li Cancan: [But Little Overlord is brutally destructive from the start. If an NPC appears in front of him, he will kill all except those required by the mission.]
Li Cancan: [You can say God Xin is the redeemer, and Little Overlord is the destroyer.]
Li Changshan: [Then if God Xin and Little Overlord pk, who do you think would win?]
Li Cancan: [I think it’s still God Xin. It took Little Overlord half a year to rise to the 250th floor, and God Xin took two months.]
Li Changshan: [Ohh, you’re right. God Xin is better.]
Li Cancan: [Actions are better than words, you can figure it out by watching God Xin’s live stream.]
[If I “figure out” God Xin’s routine?] Li Cangshan asked quickly, [Will I be able to enter the Core Fire Guild?! ]
Li Cancan was dumbfounded, [You seem quite attached to the Core Fire Guild, do you admire God Xin that much? Don’t worry, he is easy to get along with, you will eventually meet him.]
Li Changshan in front of the computer coughed lightly: [*Drunkards don’t want to drink.]
*Idiom to mean “the original intention is there, but there are also ulterior motives”.—————–
The king glanced at the queen and said, “Go to the study.”
His hawk-like, sharp eyes swept a glance at the substitute and asked, “Are you full?”
The substitute’s shoulders immediately tensed up, and he faltered as he replied, “Yes, I’m full.”
The King: “Then go back to the prince’s chambers and do not come out without orders.”
The dismissed substitute breathed a sigh of relief and timidly stood up from his chair. He bowed his head, silently waiting for the king and queen to leave before he could finally exit the room.
As he watched the king and queen leave, Bai Lixin called to the king, “Father.”
The King and Queen, who were walking ahead, stopped their pace at the same time and looked back at Bai Lixin with frowns.
The king had a displeased expression, “What is it?”
Bai Lixin: “Why did the witch curse me?”
Since the system didn’t even know, it should be quicker to ask the person concerned.
The King’s sharp eyes stared at Bai Lixin for a while before saying, “Because we violated a taboo.”
“My dear, you must know. You are the offspring I fought tooth and nail to have. I never had any children back then, but a commoner found a seed from the forest, and it was said that if we ate the seed, we would have children of our own.”
“We just thought of trying it out,” the Queen continued, “but to my surprise, not long after eating it, I conceived a child with His Majesty.”
“At that time, we believed that it must be because we prayed day and night and moved the gods of heaven to send this child for us.”
“But what we didn’t know was that the seed was guarded by the forest witch. Your birth caught the witch’s attention, and the witch harbored a grudge, and she cast a curse on you.”
The queen cursed through clenched teeth, “That witch is simply too much! The seed was from the forest, which is the common property of the family. Anything there belongs to the royal family, and yet she had capriciously taken it for herself. If His Majesty hadn’t been so kind, he would have sent troops to wipe out the forest and kill that damned witch!”
The king patted the queen’s shoulder reassuringly, and his gaze, which had been sharp throughout, softened for a moment, “It’s okay, we have a magician in the kingdom too. As long as I live, I will keep our child from being threatened.”
Bai Lixin: “Did the magician say anything about lifting the curse?”
The King and Queen looked at each other, both with hesitation.
The King had a twinkle in his eye and said, “Don’t worry, just leave everything to the magician. Don’t be afraid, child, these are the most crucial days. Although we want to be with you, we need to keep our distance and our relationship in order to be able to cheat the curse.”
“Stop calling us ‘Father’ and ‘Mother’ for the next few days, and don’t come to us unless we summon you. I know it’s hard on you and wrongs you.”
“Go back when you have finished your breakfast here.”
With these words, the king left with the queen.
Then the other squires and attendants also withdrew from the room, and in a few moments, only Bai Lixin and the substitute were left in the dining room.
With the departure of the king and queen, the substitute’s face eased and his trembling lessened.
Bai Lixin walked up to the substitute and looked at him carefully.
