CH 77.1

The media reported the ‘Angelina Cruise Ship scandal,’ causing a stir throughout the Empire.

As the individuals involved in the incident were all influential aristocrats and wealthy merchants, they were subsequently taken away by the police, and the owner of the luxurious cruise ship, Grand Duke Basalom, was also brought in for questioning.

Repeated disappointments fueled the anger of the Empire’s citizens, leading to protests and demands for the Empire’s government to severely punish these nobles and wealthy merchants who violated human dignity.

On a deeper level, some common Empire citizens began discussing the necessity of the aristocratic system and advocating for learning from the federal system, which operated without a nobility but maintained the functioning of the country.

The loud outcry from the public and consecutive strikes and protests sparked a skyrocketing controversy, causing the nobles to panic and worry. Even King Edmund was overwhelmed by the situation.

The support for the king, the Empire’s government, and other credible organizations plummeted among the citizens.

This meant that the Empire’s citizens no longer trusted the ruling elite, and the accumulation of negative social factors left the entire Empire in a state of turmoil and unrest.

Kyle was brought back to the palace by Edward for treatment, and during this time, various unsettling news circulated.

To stabilize the turbulent situation and appease the people, his father, King Edmund, dealt with many troublesome noble merchants. Even Edward, as the eldest prince of the Odysseus royal family, was busy running around all day. Consort Katie, in order to free the Basalom family from this incident and ensure her brother, the Grand Duke Basalom, escaped punishment, had no time to spare for her severely injured son, Kyle.

Kyle spent half a month recovering before he could leave his sickbed. During this period, he felt like an abandoned person, dragging his crippled body and undergoing more than fifty surgeries, large and small.

Now he had become skeletal beyond recognition. The palace doctors installed a semi-mechanical artificial lung to treat the gunshot wound that pierced his lungs.

Despite the doctors’ best efforts, Kyle’s condition remained critical several times, and he was barely saved each time.

His frail and diseased body subjected him to another unbearable torment: the piercing pain with each breath due to his leaky lungs, legs devoid of sensation, and even relying on servants for basic tasks like going to the bathroom.

What Kyle found most unbearable was the spinal nerve damage he sustained during one of the surgeries, which left him unable to control normal excretion.

As a young and strong S-class Alpha, someone admired by countless imperial subjects, he was now tormented by illness, confined to a sickbed, humiliated by wearing adult diapers. His clothes carried the scent of urine no matter how many times they were changed.

The strange looks and mocking laughter from the servants made Kyle stare blankly countless nights, hiding in the sealed basement.

With doors and windows sealed shut, a dim yellow light illuminated the pitch-black basement. Kyle experienced a mix of panic, wondering how long he could survive and when Si Huaixi would come to kill him, while his spirit swayed on the brink of collapse, contemplating cutting his wrists and drowning himself in the bathtub.

Kyle desired to escape through death. He refused to accept the fate of wasting away like this. He clung to his hatred for Edward, relying on it to survive in this desperate and gloomy existence.

And then, on this day, Kyle locked himself in the dark basement as usual. But his mother, Katie, who hadn’t come to see him since he returned to the palace, brought someone along.

Looking at the elegant and beautiful Omega, Bai Huaiyu, standing beside Consort Katie, Kyle’s disheveled and pained body seemed to be reflected in his clear and astonished pupils.

Kyle lowered his head in desolation and pain, his broken body seeming to remind him of how useless he had become as an Alpha. For the first time, he tasted the bitter flavor of inferiority and couldn’t bear to meet the Omega he had once admired and cherished.

Consort Katie smiled and said to him, “Kyle, forgive your mother for being busy these past few days. After all, mother has put a lot of effort into dealing with the Basalom family, just to save your uncle…”.

A flicker of desolation appeared in Kyle’s dim eyes. It was only normal for his mother to blame him for causing trouble to the Basalom family.

However, deep within Kyle, there was a glimmer of hope. He thought that perhaps his mother had brought Bai Huaiyu to care for him, to soothe his pain with this kind and gentle Omega.

Consort Katie continued, introducing Bai Huaiyu. Her seductive eyes glanced at Kyle, the useless son, revealing a trace of disdain and contempt. She smiled meaningfully and said, “Kyle, since your father no longer cares about you, your mother and the Basalom family won’t just let you go… I know you have a liking for Bai Huaiyu. Your mother wants him to be your second prince consort.”

Kyle felt extremely surprised as he looked at the smiling face of Bai Huaiyu beside his mother. It was as if the pure white sparrow had returned to him.

Kyle’s exhausted and melancholic sapphire eyes couldn’t help but become infatuated as they sought the last bit of warmth.

Within his self-deprecating and desolate heart, a glimmer of hope ignited. If Bai Huaiyu became his, he wouldn’t mind his current appearance.

Upon hearing Consort Katie’s words about Bai Huaiyu becoming his second prince consort, Kyle became selfish. This time, he wanted to keep Bai Huaiyu by his side.

Consort Katie continued, “Bai Huaiyu is an outstanding A-class Omega. Your mother had the doctors confirm that your pheromone compatibility rate is as high as 90%. Any children you have together will undoubtedly be high-quality Alphas…”

Kyle’s eyes lit up with anticipation. He was eager to try what Consort Katie mentioned. He hoped Bai Huaiyu could bear his children.

But the smile on Bai Huaiyu’s face gradually stiffened, and a hint of malice flashed in his seemingly exquisite almond eyes.

In front of him stood the Second Prince Kyle, now a disabled waste of an Alpha without his position of prince, and he is still notorious death-row prisoner.

The outside world believed that the Second Prince Kyle had been secretly executed, but Bai Huaiyu didn’t think so. How could the Odysseus royal family allow their prince to be sentenced to death? It was merely a way to deal with the Third Prince, who wore a black mask. And indeed, Kyle, the Second Prince, was hidden away well by the royal family.

The K108 spaceship hijacking incident was orchestrated by Kyle, the Second Prince. Bai Huaiyu thought back to how he cleverly killed the Star Pirate King, Ke Yan. If it weren’t for that, he might have ended up as a corpse. Later, he wandered over to the Sinful Star, where, due to his Omega identity, he almost got captured and sold!

After going through so many difficulties to return from the Sinful Star to the capital, all of it was caused by the useless Alpha in front of him, he still had the audacity to let him, an A-class noble Omega, become his second prince consort?!!

It was said that Bai Huaiyu would become the Second Prince’s consort, but people outside believed he was dead, which meant that Bai Huaiyu was going to marry someone who was confirmed dead by the outside world.

The engagement between them couldn’t be made public, so Bai Huaiyu had no status and had to give birth to an heir for Kyle. He became nothing more than a lover treated as a reproductive machine.

How could he accept this?!

Bai Huaiyu maintained a stiff smile, but his back teeth were biting down until they bled.

He couldn’t accept this. But, Consort Katie had evidence of him killing Ke Yan, and she even knew about his most secret pheromone ability. His pheromones were a type of plant pheromone that had long been extinct. In ancient times, the rulers had burned it on a large scale because the plant called ‘poppy’ caused addiction and harm to the human body.

The poppy pheromone became his most advantageous weapon, allowing him to eliminate numerous opponents, directly or indirectly causing the deaths of five or six alpha and beta lives.

If Consort Katie were to expose this evidence, Bai Huaiyu’s reputation would be utterly ruined.

Those timid alphas would never imagine that their gentle and obedient omega wife would be a ruthless murderer.

Even if Bai Huaiyu claimed that he killed Ke Yan in self-defense, those arrogant and conceited alphas would still think that he, an omega, was too brutal and that his resistance was too extreme.

The gentle, elegant, and noble omega image that Bai Huaiyu had painstakingly constructed in the past would transform into the image of an omega who killed alphas, a cruel, cold-blooded, and insane omega.

Consort Katie had seized this point to threaten Bai Huaiyu.

But what made Bai Huaiyu laughably dubious was that since Consort Katie knew he was a ruthless omega who even killed alphas, wasn’t she afraid that he would impulsively kill her son?

Later, Bai Huaiyu truly came to know that Consort Katie didn’t mind at all. As long as the child Bai Huaiyu bore possessed both the bloodline of Odysseus and Basalom, ultimately becoming the heir to the Odyssean Empire, her own biological son, Kyle Odysseus, would become a discarded child.

Consort Katie and he were of the same kind.

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