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There was no doubt that Collimin had the bloodline of the royal family. Although his bloodline was very thin in this generation, his birth certificate clearly showed that he was undoubtedly a descendant of the royal family.
However, he did not feel very proud. His ancestor, who had succeeded the throne after the Empress announced her abdication, had been looked down upon by the nobles because of his cowardice.
Now, when he casually flipped through an ordinary history book and flipped to the page of the year 1031, he could still see the sarcasm of historians:
"… They came. During the war, amidst the roars of cannons, just like in the legends, they descended upon the human world. His Majesty, no, the Emperor was still a prince at that time, shivered and hid underground …"
Every time he read these words, he would feel extremely ashamed, to the point that he did not want to continue reading them.
Ever since he was young, his grades had been very ordinary. He had worked hard, but there seemed to be an upper limit to his intelligence, which made him feel helpless.
However, even if he was ordinary, his parents were satisfied. His father's grades in education could only be described as terrible, and there was only a small blemish in his ordinary grades, which was his grades in medieval history. It was the only outstanding grade he had obtained in his ordinary life, but because of this, not only did his father not punish him, he even seemed to be relieved …
However, countless times, when he saw those words, he would look into the distant starry sky and think that if it was him back then, he would definitely have the courage to stand together with his subjects and face the unknown danger.
It was a pity that he was born a thousand years later, and he would never have such an opportunity again. Moreover, he was only a descendant, a descendant with a thin bloodline.
However, his ordinary and ordinary life, as well as his royal bloodline, made him unable to help but fantasize every time before he slept. If he could travel back to 1031 years ago and become his ancestor, how brave and intelligent he would be, how he would lead his subjects to create an even greater era, and how he would be collectively praised and worshipped by those mean historians …
It was these fantasies that gave him some strength in his ordinary self. It made him feel that with his own ability, after his education, he would definitely be able to seek an enviable job.
Indeed, he did so. He coolly rejected his father, who made him feel that he was vulgar, and came to an unfamiliar new surface city, preparing to start his ideal life. However, he was badly beaten. In the end, in a small office, because he could no longer bear the ridicule of his superiors who treated him like trash, he finally became hot-blooded and showed the pride of his royal bloodline. After he angrily resigned, he found that he was homeless — he did not pay the rent on time, and was evicted by the city's 701st street management office.
Until now, he still remembered that on that cold night, he relied on borrowed money and carried his heavy luggage. When he returned home, he was cold and hungry. When he saw his mother rushing out of the house in surprise, he burst into tears. Before that, he thought that men should not cry.
Just three days later, his father, who was always talking about bloodline and vulgar, used the inheritance of his ancestors in the imperial capital — bloodline and connections — to find a job that countless people could not get in their lifetime. He entered the richest and most powerful space department, the Space Department, and became an enviable and promising space observer.
Not long after, he got a chance to take revenge.
His superior, who had ridiculed and ridiculed him, went to the department he was in, trembling with fear. At the moment the dignified conference room of the Space Department opened, the expression on his superior's face was so wonderful that he felt a kind of joy that he had never felt before!
However, he did not succumb to his father's theory and vulgarity. He continued to resist fiercely because he fell in love with a new intern girl.
She was a top student of Fang Mingcheng University, the best university in the imperial capital. She was a proud child who had almost full marks in all subjects, including Fang Mingcheng University, which was known as the best university in the world. She had all the beautiful and delicate features of the human race. She was kind and intelligent, and almost all unmarried men who met her had fantasies of conquering her.
He had many competitors, so many that he couldn't even count them. It had never been so intense, but at the same time, he had almost no competitors. That was because he was a girl from a commoner's family, and his countless competitors were basically from commoners as well. It was like a chasm, dividing him and the other competitors on both sides of the field.
His vulgar father fiercely opposed it, and there was no room for discussion. Although there were some small aristocrats, or even big aristocrats, who married commoners, they were very rare and not common. On the other hand, he had the noblest royal bloodline. No matter how outstanding the girl was, in his father's eyes, it would be a blasphemy and stain!
The future wife that his father had arranged for him was a descendant of the Star Emissary from thousands of years ago. Her ancestor was a member of the Hou race who had been adopted by a Emissary.
The marriage between the descendant of the aristocrats who controlled power and the descendant of the Emissary who controlled the source of knowledge was the most perfect combination. Even the current royal family was no exception. This was their glory, power, and duty.
His father could tolerate him getting bad grades, and could tolerate him returning home after suffering a setback from causing trouble outside. However, this time, he could not tolerate him marrying a commoner into their family.
If the trouble only came from his father, Collimin would not have a headache. Ever since he was young, he had gotten used to fighting with his father. They understood each other very well, knew each other's weaknesses, and knew how to deal a fatal blow to each other.
The real problem was that the new intern girl did not like him and had clearly rejected all of his pursuits. However, he did not lose his last hope. This dramatic hope came from the girl's parents.
After finding out about his bloodline and identity, the girl's parents very much hoped that they could help them get married. The girl's relatives formed a strategic circle, wanting to see the two of them get married immediately. They were extremely welcoming of him!
Thus, this strange cycle was formed. He liked the girl, but the girl did not like him. His father strongly opposed it, but the girl's parents were very supportive.
He was in this kind of torment every day. He was confident that he could defeat his father in the end, but the girl's parents were not fanatical relatives. Although they were very supportive, they still respected the girl's final decision.
The war in his family caused him to move to the Space Department's space station dormitory in outer space. Because he did not want to go back and persevered in his cold war with his father, he frequently took over the shift of other colleagues, killing off his boredom. As a result, he had recently received a commendation for his positive work.
Today was supposed to be his rest time, but as usual, he replaced a colleague who was rushing back to the surface to attend a banquet to monitor the starry sky.
The banquet was held in a garden square outside the palace, and the theme was to commemorate the birth of the first steam engine. The precious first steam engine that had been preserved to this day stood in the square, and the banquet was held around it, giving it a retro feel.
He had also received an invitation and was qualified to go, but after his attempt to invite the new intern girl to be his female companion was unsuccessful, and he was afraid that he would meet his father, who always attended banquets, he lost interest. He felt that it would be better to look at the beautiful starry sky through a space telescope.
He skillfully turned on the control panel and carried out the routine procedures. He scanned the nearby starry sky, recorded everything carefully, and reported any abnormalities to the headquarters at any time.
This task had been strengthened after the New Exploration Domain No.56 successfully returned from a scientific examination site three lightyears away a few decades ago, becoming one of the most important observation points.
Now, it was even more important and burdensome. Seventeen years ago, the first most advanced deep-space exploration spacecraft was launched. Its target was an unknown world ten lightyears away, and it had a crew of nine.
One of the exploration spacecraft's main tasks was to set up a safety alarm system ten lightyears away. Once danger was detected, it could send a warning back to the planet in advance and buy enough time and space to travel ten lightyears away.
The starry sky was filled with danger. Ever since the emissaries arrived, it had always been a sharp sword hanging over everyone's heads. However, as time passed, and after a thousand years of peace and stability, many people had gradually forgotten about this danger. Even those who were clear-headed believed that it would not happen in the near future, and that prosperity and safety would last for at least another thousand years.
In reality, the progress of science, at least since the formula of universal gravitation, had gradually fallen into a strange cycle. There were no stars, no revolutions, and not even natural satellites. People could not observe celestial phenomena that could prove the correctness of the formula of universal gravitation. Furthermore, the technology used to observe galaxies that were too far away was not enough, and they could only understand the formula in an abstract and mechanical manner. They could not observe and prove whether the theory was correct or not.
Fang Mingcheng had said that it was the formula of universal gravitation, and that it was correct. It was the truth.
Reality had proven that it was indeed correct.
In the center of the imperial capital, among the group of emissaries that had stood tall for hundreds of years, the tallest and most majestic statue of Fang Mingcheng was the greatest respect and worship people had for this great man of the era. They were grateful to him and his companions for bringing knowledge to the people, and for driving away darkness and ignorance.
Ke Liming was born in the imperial capital, so he had naturally seen this statue often. According to his vulgar father, there was still a painting of the true form of the Starry Sky race that had been personally drawn by the empress in the palace. Those who were not directly related to the royal family would not be able to see it. Ke Liming had never seen it before, so he did not know whether it was true or not.
He had only heard his father chatting with his father's friend, saying that the Starry Sky people in the painting were very, very beautiful. That friend had even said something in a very low and wretched voice that he could not understand at his age at the time.
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The first chapter would be followed immediately by the second chapter.
^ (To be continued.)
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