Mermaid [Interstellar]

"Philip—" Pearl looked at the crown prince of the empire, who was wearing a coarse cloth coat, holding a forked wooden staff, and was concentrating on the fruit on the tree.

Hearing her words, Fei Li didn't look back: "What's the matter?"

Pearl: "When are you going back?"

"Back to where?"

"Of course I'm going home. The empire has already sent people over."

Seeing that the fruit was hanging too high, Philip couldn't catch it no matter how hard he tried, so he had no choice but to give up.He patted the dust off his body: "Who did you send?"

"Alice... the Duke."

"It's her." Philip clapped his hands, "Then I won't go."

"What? Won't you show up and tell her to wait?"

Philip closed his eyes half-closed, and cast a slanted glance at Pearl. This little mermaid was too innocent, and didn't understand the current political situation of the empire at all.

Although he doesn't care about things most of the time, he is clear about the intricate relationship between these people in many cases. This is probably the reason why he can't handle things well when things come up.

Philip thought with a little melancholy, what a wise man should worry about.

"That woman is not easy to fool. Besides, she was engaged to my brother, although..."

Pearl suddenly exploded: "Engagement?!"

Philip was a little overwhelmed with reaction: "It's an engagement. They kept it a secret and not many people knew about it...but my father told me a long time ago, you...are you okay?"

The little mermaid's face was pale and her eyes were dull, as if she had suffered a major blow.

Pearl forced a smile and said, "It's okay, I just feel uncomfortable, probably...it's too hot."

"Today is cloudy." Philip looked up at the sky speechlessly.

Pearl: "Was Alice engaged...Duke Alice was engaged? To your younger brother, the Second Prince?"

Philip: "That's right, but it seems like we broke up after disarming them."

"It's a breakup." Pearl repeated, "Can you elaborate?"

Philip smiled "hehehe": "I also want to know this gossip, but no one involved is willing to talk about it, so I don't know."

Pearl: "..."

Philip Stone left the wooden stick on one side, walked to the beach, looked at the fish swimming in the water, and then at Pearl beside him, thinking to himself: This mermaid should not object to him eating her own kind, right?

Pearl was not in the mood to pay attention to Philip's mental activities, she was full of confusion: why didn't she hear that the duchess was engaged?I have clearly read all the common sense of the empire...

Moreover, Pearl felt inexplicably angry and felt betrayed. Fortunately, he still felt that although this Duke Alice was in a high position, his attitude was amiable...

Thinking of the headache and not being able to figure out why, Pearl decided to put it aside: "Since you don't want to go back, when will you fulfill your promise?"

Philip looked away from the big fat fish: "What?"

"You said that I saved you, and you will repay me by giving me an invitation letter for admission to some college."

"..." Philip paused. At that time, he was just talking casually. Naturally, the natives of these backward planets wanted to run to the higher civilization planet, and the emperor planet was the most advanced planet in the empire. As the royal family, he Members have the right to recommend candidates who are exempted from the exam to the Royal College of Imperial University-in fact, this college is a gold-plated college that spends money, but it is affiliated with the Imperial University and named Royal.

Pearl didn't want to let go of this opportunity: "When do you want to cash in? You don't want to go back, do you?"

Philip was silent.

"Aren't you lying to me? Are you a liar at all?"

"No!" Philip said loudly, "You don't know at all, that woman Alice, she and my brother Cyril are of one mind, although they have broken up now, who knows if she will tip off to Cyril? ? She doesn't like me anyway!"

Pearl: "..." So this is a bloody love triangle?

"Since when is Alice yours?!"

Philip: "...a slip of the tongue, who wants to marry that woman? Marry her home and confess?"

Pearl: "What do you mean who is going to marry her? You don't like her and some people like her!"

Philip: "...Which side are you from?"

Pearl: "..." She was silent for a while, realizing that her emotions were a little abnormal, she cleared her throat, "Anyway, don't bring up the topic to irrelevant people!"

"That woman—" Looking at Pearl's fierce eyes, Philip changed his phrase, "Well, Alice—Duke Alice, she is not irrelevant, she is the star field master of the Davis Star Field , governing one-fifth of the territory of the empire, the power of the empire, "

"You may have heard that she is called the 'Duke of Roses'. This title is not only because she looks good. Although roses are beautiful, they have thorns, and if you don't pay attention, they will prick your hands..."

"Rose... I thought it was a crinoid..." Pearl murmured.

Hearing her words, Philip thought for a while and said, "Sea Lily, you mean the flower that grows in the sea unique to Yun Haixing?"

"Unique to Yunhai star? Blue star also has it."

Philip didn't care much about this question, and said perfunctorily: "Blue Star also has it, that's not the point. The sea lily is the family crest of the Davis family - it used to be a rose. I always suspected that she was because I heard others call her Changed it for the 'Dukes of Rose' - what a deep thought she is!"

Pearl frowned: "What does this have to do with the appellation, don't put your random guesses on others!"

Philip looked at Pearl seriously: "To tell you the truth, you are actually a fan of Alice, right? I know that woman is liked by many people, and they really follow her as an idol."

Pearl: "..."

"Let's talk about the invitation letter, don't you think we've gone off topic?"

"Admit that I won't laugh at you. To be honest, I heard that the woman has a special team, and she hired a trooper to create fans on the Internet. Although the fake image project——"

"Shut up! Let's talk about the invitation letter!"

"If you change the subject again, I'll eat you! Mermaids in ancient times were cannibals. I've been a mermaid for so long, and I've eaten all kinds of fish, but I haven't tasted a human yet." Pearl smiled with white teeth. When he got up, the tip of his teeth gleamed coldly, and he had a rather gloomy smell.

Philip: "..."

"Okay, let's talk right away. When do you want to study? Which major..."

……

Alice was sitting across from Erwin, and the two had a detailed discussion on why the emperor sent Cyril to come.

"As far as I know, His Majesty the Emperor had a conversation with Cyril after you got engaged to him."

Alice didn't raise her eyelids: "What can we talk about, there are only two results, either tie me up to death, or throw me away quickly."

Erwin smiled slightly: "What would that be?"

The relationship between these two people is closer than hers, and when Jie came to ask him, Alice was annoyed and said, "I have to ask your Highness, he didn't tell me when the engagement was dissolved. "

"Ahem——" Erwin coughed a few times, "Actually, I'm not completely unclear. It seems that His Highness heard that you had a marriage contract before. In order not to commit bigamy and for the beauty of adults, Cyril He gave up his own happiness."

"It's the happiness of power." Alice lazily said, "Stop putting gold on your Highness's face."

Erwin didn't mind Alice's attitude at all, and continued: "Now that I think about it, he did ask me secretly—" He paused deliberately, and looked at Alice.

Alice didn't even want to give him a look.

"Over the years, I have always wondered why you went to Yunhaixing back then?"

"none of your business."

Alice didn't want to talk any more: "My old man died there, I can't collect the body!"

"Uh——" The death of the old duke is a sensitive topic, and even His Majesty the emperor on the Emperor Planet doesn't like to hear it brought up by others.

Alice: "No matter what the emperor decides, I just need to guarantee that he doesn't know our plan. After all, I'm taking such a big risk—you think so?"

Erwin wiped off the non-existent cold sweat on the back of his neck: "You're right, the emperor doesn't like others to mention Yunhaixing now. Yunhaixing's money consumption is so great, he may doubt it, but he will only talk about it in private. Li Cha, on the surface, he will not send someone to investigate, let alone go to Yunhaixing to investigate in person!"

"He travels too much at night, and he has a guilty conscience—" Alice left these words lightly, and left.

Erwin smiled and added Alice's unfinished sentence: "I'm afraid of hell." He sat for a while, and saw that Alice hadn't come back, so he sent a message to the other side through the terminal:

Regarding the death of the previous Duke of Davis, find a way to spy on the emperor's attitude.

"Miss, Dr. Julie said that she will give Pearl a physical examination in advance."

Alice listened to George's report and knocked on the table: "George, Pearl and I made a private decision back then, right?"

George was slightly dazed, looked at Alice's serious face, made sure that she was not joking, and said slowly: "If you consider that you ran away from home and disregarded the objection of the old duke - it was indeed a private decision for life. "

Alice: "..."

She was alone for a while, and murmured: "You don't have to be so nervous. I have figured it out for so many years. There is a reason why Dad didn't agree with me and Pearl... I don't blame him, really. of."

George responded with a low voice, and quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.