Same light

The huge dormitory was suddenly quiet.

In the blink of an eye, Alfred looked at Xiu's bewildered face, and suddenly realized a cruel fact - he didn't know.

Xiu, he didn't even know that he was not a member of the royal family...

"No, I mean..."

Alfred reflexively wanted to remedy it immediately, but before he could figure out how to remedy it, Xiu had already reacted.

"What paternity test?" Xiu asked eagerly, "Who is the kinship tester?"

A great fear suddenly seized him, as if his subconscious already knew what was going on, but his brain refused to admit it.

Alfred stammered, "No, no, I'm talking nonsense..."

"At that time, you couldn't get other people's blood at all, only your own blood." Xiu murmured, "It's your and my appraisal, isn't it?"

Unable to hide it, Alfred could only admit: "...Yes."

Xiu said absentmindedly, "Aren't we... blood brothers of the same father and mother?"

There is no need for Alfred to answer, Xiu also knows that it must not be.If so, Alfred would not have always thought he had learned some terrible secret.

"So we're... half-brothers?"

"Yes." Alfred nodded immediately.

"Lie." Xiu stared at Alfred and said palely, "You always look like this when you lie. Are we cousins?"

Alfred didn't dare to dodge his gaze, fearing that the answer would be seen through at a glance, he almost forced himself to look at Xiu, but he looked like he was about to cry, reached out and grabbed Xiu's arm, and said, "Brother... "

"Not even cousins." Xiu Wu nodded, "Not even cousins... There is no blood relationship at all."

Alfred had never seen Xiu in such a state of despair, he forced himself to say calmly: "Don't rush to collapse. The test results only show that you and I are not related by blood, maybe I am not the prince? You see , you have the same hair color as the emperor—”

This is pure nonsense, after all, Alfred has golden pupils, and if there is a fake prince between the two, it can only be Xiu.

Even Alfred couldn't continue halfway through his speech. When he was thinking about other words in a hurry, Xiu asked, "Where is the real eldest prince?"

Alfred froze for a moment, and asked, "What real eldest prince?"

"The baby who was replaced by me back then was the first child of the empress... the first empress and Your Majesty." Xiu said, "Did he die young?"

"No..." Alfred hesitated for a moment, but the words have come to this point, and there is no point in covering up any more. If Xiu wants to know, he will find out sooner or later, then he might as well tell him.

Alfred pursed his lips, and said truthfully: "There is no eldest prince. There is a queen mother..." At this time, the title suddenly became a little harsh, and Alfred paused, "...she My old servant told me she was only pregnant once."

"……once?"

"It was the time when I was born 22 years ago." Alfred said, "28 years ago, she was not pregnant at all. At that time, she announced that she was not in good health and needed to avoid guests to rest in order to better cover up the false pregnancy... ...In fact, her body is really bad, and she is not suitable for childbearing at all, so one childbirth will kill her."

Xiu just thought it was absurd.

Ever since he could remember, Xiu had known that he had a genetic defect, and was inferior to ordinary people. It was a part of the gene that would be eliminated naturally in the process of civilization. For the empire in the early years, it was not safe to leave it to nature. Civilizations are forced to survive against natural selection.So they enacted laws and made human intervention.

Most of the genetic defects are caused by failed genetic experiments. For human civilization, they have no credit or hard work, but for the sake of the overall situation, they still need to be abandoned.

Although the decree "Prohibition of reproduction of genetically deficient persons" was abolished decades ago, the reason for the abolition is that after so many generations of prohibition, the number of genetically deficient persons has become extremely small, and the total number is far from enough to have an impact on the entire human civilization.

That said, while it is no longer illegal for people with genetic defects to reproduce, the official stance is still discouraged.

Follow the example above, and even genetic defects in folk marriages are taboo.

Some people once wrote novels based on this theme. The hero and heroine fell in love, but because the hero was a genetically defective person, he was hindered by all kinds of secularism.This novel was once a banned book in the last era. Although the relevant concepts have been opened up a lot as the survival crisis is far away, no one dares to openly sell this famous banned book on the market.

Even folks are so taboo about choosing a partner, not to mention the royal family choosing the crown prince.

Xiu knew from a young age that he was not worthy of the throne because he had a genetic defect.He was able to sit on the crown prince without being discriminated against. It was all the result of the first empress caring about her child and trying her best to cover it up for him.

The Empress Xian told him many times that her prenatal check-up was not good and her physical condition did not allow her to be pregnant. Many people advised her to abort the child and conceive a healthy one after she recovered.But she was reluctant to bear the child in her womb, so she gave birth by force, which hurt her roots.

For more than 20 years, Xiu has been blaming himself for Empress Xian's dystocia and death, thinking that it was because she hurt her body when she gave birth to him—Empress Xian herself told him so before she died.

For this reason, he dedicated his flawed life to the former queen.

But now he is told that the first queen was not even pregnant 28 years ago.

The deep maternal love that gives life to the child regardless of oneself, and the painstaking love of licking the calf to protect him from discrimination are all lies.

He was just a tool used by the former queen to pave the way for her children.

Now, the beneficiary of this big lie is in front of him, having just finished eating his deformed body.

"I thought you knew it." Alfred tried to explain palely, "You told me on Xueli that you knew it since you were a child, I thought..."

"I see."

Xiu laughed miserably at himself.

"No wonder, your attitude was so fierce that day. So you thought I was a foreigner who was stealing the throne... No, this is not wrong, it is true, I am a foreigner."

"Big brother-"

"I'm not your big brother." Xiu said, vaguely remembering Alfred's first words when he met him at the Starship Port on Sheryl.

——You can talk nonsense, brother, don't misunderstand.

So that's what he meant at that time.It's ridiculous that I don't know anything, and I thought it was just a simple provocation.

"I'm not your eldest brother." Xiu said again in a daze, "Your only brother has already been killed by me."

"He died well! Originally, I hired someone to shoot him, but I never found a chance to do it—you are my only brother!" Alfred held his hand and said fiercely, "Foreigner What's wrong with the tribe! I will marry you and make you my queen, and you are still a legitimate member of the royal family!"

Alfred had never had such an idea before, but this sentence just came out of his mouth. He said it without thinking, as if he had already had such an idea, but he didn't even realize it .

Obviously, Xiu didn't expect Alfred to say that, his eyes widened, and he looked much more lively than the stable and self-retaining crown prince in ordinary times.

"...Men and men are not allowed to marry."

"When I become emperor, I will revise the code." Alfred said, sounding strangely calm and reliable.

Xiu said again: "I am a person with a genetic defect."

"Then what happened?"

Xiu was stunned for a moment, and realized that Alfred was not just talking, no matter whether he could do it or not, but at this moment, his heart was real.

Xiu softly reprimanded: "Fool, even the emperor cannot amend the code at will."

As he said, he pulled his hand out of Alfred's hand, and Alfred's heart went cold, but the next second, Xiu raised his hand, and his cold fingers were on the place where Alfred was slapped by him just now Gently caressed, his expression moved slightly.

"It's okay, it doesn't hurt." Alfred said quickly.

Alfred has always been very vindictive, and Nient tried to kill him several times, although he almost never succeeded, once Alfred gained power, he would kill him without hesitation.Xiu slapped him across the face, but he hastily returned to comfort Xiu.

He held Xiu's hand again, preventing him from paying attention to the red marks on his face.

"Brother." Alfred asked as carefully as possible, "What genetic defect do you have?"