After hearing Meng Jinhuai's question, Shang Mengzhen couldn't help but take a small step back. She was wearing a pair of stilettos. When she stepped back, Shang Mengzhen's heels hit the stone floor, making a crisp sound. Because the surroundings were too quiet, the sound of the heels was unexpectedly loud.
However, as someone who had some experience in the entertainment industry and had seen big scenes, Shang Mengzhen quickly calmed herself down. She nervously smiled at Meng Jinhuai and said, "General, hello."
Probably because he had a good chat with General Kong, Meng Jinhuai seemed to be in a good mood. He smiled and nodded at Shang Mengzhen as usual, then turned to look at Duan Hengye, waiting for his answer.
Duan Hengye didn't need to think to know that Meng Jinhuai definitely remembered that he met Shang Mengzhen at the banquet a few months ago. And the relationship between him and the female lead … Although "friends" wasn't enough, there didn't seem to be a more suitable word to describe it.
So he nodded and said, "Yes."
After hearing this, Meng Jinhuai slightly narrowed his eyes. If he remembered correctly, there seemed to only be two friends that Duan Hangye had ever admitted to. One of them was the pharmaceutical genius from Amro University, Lan Jingchi, and the other was … the woman in front of him.
No matter how you looked at it, Shang Mengzhen and Lan Jingchi didn't seem to come from the same world as Duan Hengye. More importantly, in just a few seconds, the General actually found a similarity between Shang Mengzhen and Lan Jingchi – Duan Hengye seemed to have helped them out before.
In fact, when he first learned about the relationship between Duan Hengye and Shang Mengzhen, even Meng Jinhuai wasn't sure what Duan Hengye's purpose was. But now, after a few months of observation and waiting, Meng Jinhuai finally came to a conclusion: Duan Hengye was indeed helping Shang Mengzhen that day.
After hearing Duan Hengye admit that he and Shang Mengzhen were friends, Meng Jinhuai once again turned to Shang Mengzhen and said with a smile, "Is that so? Hello."
As a citizen of the Yetian Empire, Shang Mengzhen, like everyone else, often saw news about Meng Jinhuai on the Star Web. But today was the first time she came into close contact with Meng Jinhuai in person. As an artist, Shang Mengzhen was naturally sensitive.
She found that Meng Jinhuai was clearly just greeting her with a smile, but she had the illusion that he could see through her.
But … maybe this wasn't an illusion.
Shang Mengzhen didn't like to deal with people she couldn't see through, even though she still respected this legendary General of the Yetian Empire. But in her heart, Shang Mengzhen had slowly drawn Meng Jinhuai out of her future circle of communication … Shang Mengzhen thought that it was best if she didn't cause any trouble.
Duan Hengye only saw Meng Jinhuai and Shang Mengzhen look at each other with probing eyes in just a few seconds. Then, Shang Mengzhen's expression became a little strange.
Even though Shang Mengzhen was frightened by Meng Jinhuai's gaze, she still maintained her elegance on the surface. She smiled at Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai, then said, "Okay, I'm just here today to express my gratitude to Professor Duan, I won't disturb you anymore." After she finished speaking, she didn't wait for Duan Hengye to say anything else, she lifted her skirt and quickly walked in the other direction of the hall.
When Shang Mengzhen walked away, Meng Jinhuai also turned around and looked at her back. When Duan Hengye saw Meng Jinhuai turn around, he couldn't help but feel strange. In his impression, Meng Jinhuai wasn't someone who would easily be curious about "unnecessary" people.
When Duan Hengye saw this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The female lead is indeed the female lead.
When Shang Mengzhen completely disappeared into the sea of people in the banquet hall, Meng Jinhuai slowly turned around. What surprised Duan Hengye was that Meng Jinhuai frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about something.
Duan Hengye couldn't help but feel nervous.
Even though he didn't understand why he was nervous about Meng Jinhuai's expression, after a pause, Duan Hengye asked Meng Jinhuai, "What is the Marshal thinking about?"
Duan Hengye's words pulled Meng Jinhuai back from his thoughts. He glanced at Duan Hengye and didn't speak for a long time. When Duan Hengye thought that Meng Jinhuai wouldn't answer his question again, he finally heard him slowly say, "The actress just now looked like someone I know."
When Duan Hengye heard Meng Jinhuai's words, the long-awaited alarm in his head sounded again.
Once again, he quickly recalled the current storyline of "Toppling Stars". As the female lead who was charmed by thousands of people, Shang Mengzhen had an inexplicable relationship with many of the male supporting characters in the book. And in this book that has yet to officially announce the final male lead, Marshal Meng Jinhuai is an extremely popular person and is recognized by the readers as having the male lead halo.
Just as the readers of this novel were guessing whether Meng Jinhuai was the male lead, the author suddenly appeared and directly denied this speculation. Her original words seemed to be: "As an author with extremely high moral values, I have no intention of making Meng Jinhuai the male lead."
So … if Meng Jinhuai wasn't the male lead in the book, then why did he feel a sense of familiarity with Shang Mengzhen? What does this have to do with the author's moral values?
Duan Hengye felt that his imagination wasn't enough.
But in the next moment, after seeing Meng Jinhuai's serious expression, Duan Hengye suddenly had a very strange guess in his heart.
It can't be … it's really as I imagined, right?
Meng Jinhuai was silent for a while, then said to Duan Hengye: "… Shang Mengzhen, she looks very much like a deceased elder in my family." After saying this, Meng Jinhuai stopped and adjusted his expression. He looked at Duan Hengye and said: "It's okay, I'll investigate this matter in private."
A deceased elder in the family?
Meng Jinhuai's words actually matched Duan Hengye's inexplicable imagination!
As the female lead in a somewhat Mary Sue novel, how could Shang Mengzhen not have a noble background that ordinary people can't imagine … This novel's early description of her background was very vague, it really could be a surprise waiting for the readers.
Suddenly realizing that he might have discovered the truth, Duan Hengye's feelings were very complicated …
As time passed, the atmosphere of the banquet finally became lively little by little. Perhaps because of the appearance of the female lead, Shang Mengzhen, people slowly came over to talk to Meng Jinhuai.
Now, the people who came to see the marshal were basically people who were closer to the military. They knew that no one could accurately grasp the balance between Capital Planet and Nan zhuxing. Instead of carefully walking on a tightrope, it was better to directly stand behind one side.
Although they didn't directly state their position, it was very obvious that they were taking sides.
Because they had to talk about official business, Meng Jinhuai once again left this relatively quiet corner of the banquet hall. After Meng Jinhuai left, finally, an uninvited guest slowly walked over.
It was Empress from the Yetian Empire.
"Dean Duan, good evening." She held a wine glass in one hand and gently placed her other hand on the elbow of the other. When Empress spoke, her body leaned back slightly, looking a little careless.
Although Duan Hengye was the dean of the Yeti Empire Mecha Research Institute, ordinary people still called him "Professor Duan". Very few people would directly call him dean.
This title, coupled with Empress's tone of voice, was difficult to not notice the sarcasm in her voice. Unlike Meng Jinhuai, who tried to lower her voice, Empress's voice was very penetrating, and she deliberately raised her voice when she spoke.
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to her.
Although it was known that Duan Hengye was raised by Empress's family, in fact, if one carefully recalled the public events that the two attended together, one would realize that they almost never communicated.
Now that the relationship between Nan zhuxing and the royal family was delicate, why did Empress suddenly come here?
Perhaps most people present didn't understand, but Duan Hengye understood the meaning behind her words. Just like what Su Mingge always thought, Duan Hengye's previous achievements were actually not enough for him to take on the heavy responsibility of being the dean of the Yeti Empire Mecha Research Institute at such a young age.
In fact, the reason why the original host was able to reach this position in such a short period of time was because of Empress's family.
On one hand, it was to divide the power of the royal family and to seek greater benefits for the family. On the other hand, perhaps it was because of Meng Jinhuai …
In fact, there was a reason why the royal family chose Duan Hengye as the other party of this political marriage. As a diamond level bachelor in the galaxy, countless people paid attention to Meng Jinhuai's relationship problems. The more people asked, the more they could naturally get a glimpse of his ideal type … Coincidentally, Meng Jinhuai, who had always been thinking about the person he met when he was young, described the person as Professor Duan.
Seeing this scene, Empress simply went with the flow and continued to perfect Duan Hengye's image. He also helped behind the scenes and pushed him to the position of dean.
Now that Empress mentioned the word "dean" in front of Duan Hengye, it was undoubtedly to remind him that he didn't get to where he was today by himself.
In fact, Duan Hengye was not a thick-skinned person. If he encountered this kind of situation when he first transmigrated, he would definitely feel guilty. But unfortunately, Duan Hengye had been in this world for a while, and now he had his own achievements — although he hadn't announced them yet.
Everyone only saw Duan Hengye, who was wearing a white shirt, walk to Empress, then slightly bow to him. Now Duan Hengye's expression was still as indifferent as usual, but people could see a bit of carelessness in his movements.
Miraculously, no one thought that Duan Hengye was rude at this time. Instead, they perceived a bit of elegance.
If the previous Duan Hengye was a perfect, flawless silver plate on the 15th day of the lunar calendar. Then now, this white moonlight turned into a crescent moon. With an elegant and careless arc, it was no longer perfect, but it had a more charming silver hook.
After all, Empress had known Duan Hengye for many years, so she could see his attitude at a glance.
Seeing this scene, the woman walked to a position very close to Duan Hengye, then lowered her voice and said to him, "Long time no see, have you forgotten your identity?"
Although Duan Hengye was wearing high heels, he was still a lot taller than the woman in front of him. He looked down and instantly felt a sense of oppression that couldn't be ignored. Empress instinctively wanted to take a step back, but the instinct cultivated from years of being in a high position made her stand still.
Duan Hengye gently shook his head at the woman and said, "Your Highness, I'm a spy sent by the royal family to Nan zhuxing."
"… You!" Empress was choked by Duan Hengye's words. After hearing his words, the woman in red couldn't help but look around in panic. After seeing the curious but not shocked gazes around her, she let out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, Duan Hengye's words weren't heard by others.
"Are you crazy!" She lowered her voice and asked sternly.
Hearing this, Duan Hengye slightly bent his waist, but in an instant, the distance between the two shrank again. Although there were countless secrets in his heart, the strange thing was that Duan Hengye's eyes always had a child-like clarity. His eyes were very light, and at this time, under the illumination of the hall's lights, it gave the illusion of a light golden color.
It was like a shallow stream at sunset.
At this moment, the onlookers read a different temperament from Duan Hengye's body, and that was — — sexy. A kind of sexiness formed by the intersection of naivety and complexity, purity, alienation and unruliness.
"No. Your Highness. Your Highness Empress, I'm just answering your question. "
Empress had never been played by a spy like this. At this time, she looked at Duan Hengye as if she was looking at a crazy person. As an ordinary person, Empress of course didn't think that Duan Hengye was a different person from the one she knew before. She instinctively blamed the other party's change on the recent torture of the poison, which made Duan Hengye start to hate the royal family.
As a spy who had stolen military secrets countless times, Duan Hengye's own dark history was deep enough. Empress didn't think that he would choose to die together with her in order to take revenge on her.
So the woman calmed down a little, and then said to Duan Hengye, "If you show us some sincerity, the royal family will of course not let you be poisoned again. If not, don't forget that you still have a family member on the royal family's side. "
… Wait a minute, if Empress didn't say this, Duan Hengye would have forgotten that he had a good-for-nothing brother.
To be honest, Empress's threat was really bad.
After hearing Empress's words, Duan Hengye slowly stood up straight.
Even though Duan Hengye still had that cold expression on his face, the woman had the illusion that he was sneering at her.
Duan Hengye said to Empress, "Don't worry, I will show you sincerity." When Duan Hengye said this, he had a serious expression on his face, but in his heart, he was secretly laughing at the other party.
The royal family underestimated Duan Hengye's professional skills. What they didn't know was that during this period of time, Professor Duan had already made a move to delete everything he shouldn't have in the imperial family's Star Web system ….
Seeing that Duan Hengye agreed, Empress finally let out a sigh of relief, but before the woman could say anything, Duan Hengye said, "Then, can the royal family also show me some sincerity?"
"Of course, I know the antidote …" Before the woman could finish speaking, she saw Duan Hengye slowly shake his head and say, "Not the antidote."
"Then what else?" The Empress, who had always liked to be aloof and enjoy the sight of others panicking, finally had a taste of being pressured by others step by step.
The people who were secretly looking in this direction discovered that after chatting in a low voice for a while, the Empress suddenly couldn't help but take a step back. Even though Duan Hengye was wearing a white shirt and looked like he didn't care about anything, the aura on his body was about to burst through the roof.
As expected of Professor Duan … For some reason, a lot of people exclaimed in their hearts at the same time.
"Nothing," Duan Hengye casually shook his head and said, "I just suddenly remembered something from when I was young, about that experimental accident …" Duan Hengye spoke very slowly while staring into the woman's eyes.
Of course, Duan Hengye didn't just casually bring up this topic. In fact, when Duan Hengye was erasing traces of his past in the royal family's galactic network system, he accidentally found a very old set of information that was closely related to him.
It was an accident investigation report, and the content of the investigation happened to be the experimental accident that changed the original owner's life many years ago.
In fact, not long after Duan Hengye transmigrated into this world, he had already downloaded the official report about that incident on the internet. But when Duan Hengye opened the accident investigation report stored in the royal family's intranet, he finally realized that this report was completely different from the one that was widely circulated on the galactic network.
Unfortunately, the latter half of the report seemed to have been deliberately stopped halfway through the investigation.
Duan Hengye still didn't have any memories of that time, so he said this to trick the other party.
Sure enough, Empress's expression was very strange. The wine glass in the woman's hand couldn't help but shake. The bright red wine collided with the glass wall, revealing the momentary panic in her heart.
Empress looked up at Duan Hengye. Perhaps she had always looked down on Duan Hengye before, thinking that he was just an ordinary spy who didn't know how to use his intelligence. But now, in her eyes, Duan Hengye suddenly seemed to be enlightened, and it was terrifying.
"What … did you remember?" She held the wine glass in her hand and asked Duan Hengye.
It was different from what she imagined. After hearing Empress's words, Duan Hengye suddenly shook his head and said, "Nothing, just some fragmented memories."
When Empress heard Duan Hengye's words, she couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. She asked him, "Then what do you want the royal family to do?"
Duan Hengye recalled the incident investigation report that he only saw half of it, then he said almost word by word, "I want to ask, does Your Highness know who the third person in the laboratory was?"
This royal birthday banquet started with a bang, but it ended with a bit of a mess. The guests and reporters all noticed that from the moment he entered, Emperor Zhuo Yan had once again disappeared without a trace as usual. After the conversation with Duan Hengye, Empress, who was originally in a good mood, was suddenly in a bad mood.
The media didn't take a picture of Duan Hengye and Empress talking, so in the end … the most popular woman at the banquet was the new movie queen, Shang Mengzhen. She seemed to know Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai?
Regardless of the entertainment industry, overall, even though the banquet was a bit unexpected, it went smoother than expected.
After leaving the noisy banquet hall and boarding the starship, Duan Hengye suddenly felt relieved.
Although he looked very confident just now, Duan Hengye himself knew that as a person who rarely communicated with people face to face, he was actually very nervous when he spoke.
Although Meng Jinhuai was talking to someone just now, he didn't hear the conversation between Duan Hengye and Empress. However, Yu Xinlan, who had been silently paying attention to this side, went to Meng Jinhuai's side before the banquet ended and told him what had just happened.
Meng Jinhuai could feel the pressure on Duan Hengye's body gradually decreasing, but in the banquet hall, the marshal didn't show his doubts.
It wasn't until they boarded the starship that Meng Jinhuai finally walked up to Duan Hangye, who had taken off his armor on the way back and exposed his fragile and conflicted side. At this time, Duan Hengye was sitting on a sofa by the window. Although he was looking at the Milky Way outside, his attention was obviously not on it.
"A Heng, what's wrong?" Meng Jinhuai sat next to him and asked softly.
Because Duan Hengye was lost in thought, he didn't notice Meng Jinhuai's arrival. After being awakened by the other party's words, Duan Hengye paused for a moment. In the end, he slowly moved his gaze away from the window and then told everything he found out.
"… I want to investigate the experimental accident back then." Duan Hengye said to Meng Jinhuai. He didn't say this in a negotiating tone; he simply wanted to inform him.
In fact, Duan Hengye could have started to leave the royal family, but the report he found in the system made him stay for the time being. He wanted to follow the royal family and find out the truth of that year.
Although in Duan Hengye's memory, the original owner's parents were only a very vague existence, and sometimes he even had to spend a lot of effort to remember their appearance. But Duan Hengye still felt an inexplicable force driving him. He wanted to find the truth and comfort the original owner's parents.
The relationship between the royal family and Nan zhuxing was very complicated now, and any small matter was enough for both sides to diverge. The accident investigation was completely carried out by an organization under the royal family. It was reasonable to say that Meng Jinhuai wouldn't be able to intervene so easily. It might even cause unnecessary trouble.
But after hearing Duan Hengye's words, Meng Jinhuai was silent for a moment, then slowly reached out his hand and hugged Duan Hengye.
"I'll go with you." Meng Jinhuai said softly.
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