After a long wait, Little Harvey's exam was finally finished, but judging by the look on the little guy's face, the result wouldn't be too good.
The teacher marked the papers quickly, with so many important figures waiting, efficiency was at its peak. It only took a few minutes for the papers to be graded, and the results were... indescribable.
Interstellar Common Language: Thirty-five points.
Mathematics: Fifteen points.
There were other subjects as well, and the test scores were abysmal.
Lu Wanqing raised her hand and patted Little Harvey's head, her heart heavy.
Xavier also lowered his eyes to look at Little Harvey, feeling a strange sense of... this child would need to study harder in the future.
The enrollment procedures were quickly completed, and he was taken to the classroom by his homeroom teacher.
Lu Wanqing, still worried, secretly followed the little guy, only relaxing when she saw him enter the classroom with the teacher.
"Xavier, Harvey's grades aren't good."
"He's missed a lot of classes over the past few years. I'd like to hire some tutors to help him catch up on all the subjects he's fallen behind on."
Xavier looked at Lu Wanqing, then at Lu Yang beside her.
Lu Yang met Xavier's gaze, his eyes conveying a regal authority beneath their indifference.
"Mm," Xavier agreed.
"Will Harvey live in the imperial palace from now on?" Xavier couldn't help but ask.
Harvey was his son, and he had never been separated from him since childhood. Now, the little cub was going to live in the palace while he had to live outside. Did this mean they would be separated, and he wouldn't even have the right to visit his child? He couldn't accept this.
Lu Wanqing was also taken aback.
Harvey was her child, and she was currently living in the imperial palace, which belonged to her third brother. It seemed perfectly fine for Harvey to live there, but Xavier...
"Can he come out of the palace to see me from time to time?" Xavier asked again.
Lu Yang looked at Xavier and said indifferently, "If he misses you, he can come out of the palace to see you." Why so many unnecessary words?
Lu Yang omitted a sentence, but Xavier inexplicably understood. Was he inexplicably disliked by His Majesty the Emperor?
"Oh," Xavier replied, his tone neither subservient nor arrogant. It was just an imperial emperor, he wasn't afraid.
It wasn't because he could defeat the imperial emperor, but because if the emperor was Lu Wanqing's third brother, then he would naturally listen to Lu Wanqing in the future. Lu Wanqing was Harvey's mommy and would definitely protect them, so he had nothing to fear. This was his backing!
Lu Yang looked at Xavier.
Xavier also looked at Lu Yang.
The gazes of the two men met invisibly, a silent clash of swords and blades.
Leaving the school, the day's main business was concluded.
"Oh, right, Xavier, your identities in the Empire have been arranged. Do you know your identity IDs?" Lu Wanqing remembered the matter of identities and immediately said to Xavier.
Xavier was startled, then looked at Lu Wanqing.
Seeing his reaction, Lu Wanqing knew he didn't know yet. She couldn't help but look at her third brother.
Lu Yang glanced at Lu Wanqing, then at Xavier, raised his hand, and tapped a few times, sending a message to Xavier.
Xavier's light brain vibrated. He opened it and saw his identity ID in the Empire, and a brilliant smile spread across his face.
"Thank you," Xavier said sincerely. This time, it was heartfelt. With the Empire's protection, they could truly start anew.
Lu Wanqing was also happy for him and couldn't help but say, "Xavier, congratulations."
Xavier looked at Lu Wanqing, his smile as radiant as a flower, "Mm."
Lu Yang inexplicably found it dazzling. He directly commanded the hovercar to stop and said, "If you have nothing else, you can get out now."
Xavier: "..."
Lu Wanqing: "..."
Everyone was speechless, but... it seemed there really was nothing else.
"Okay, thank you," Xavier reacted quickly and said happily, then got out of the hovercar.
Xavier also knew that with his status, it wouldn't be easy to enter the imperial palace with them. It was about time to get off now. Most importantly, their identities in the Empire had been arranged, and he could go tell the brothers of the Undying Star Pirates this good news.
Xavier left, leaving only Lu Yang and Lu Wanqing in the hovercar. Lu Yang felt much more at ease.
Lu Yang lowered his gaze to Qingqing, his eyes gentle.
Lu Wanqing also looked at her third brother, her mood inexplicably calming down, but... she was also very curious.
"Third Brother," Lu Wanqing couldn't help but speak.
"Mm?" Lu Yang looked at her.
"These years..." Lu Wanqing thought, and then spoke, "I mean, from the ancient Earth era to the present, I want to ask, you... how did you survive?"
Lu Yang was stunned and then said, "Body replacement."
"Body replacement?" Lu Wanqing was confused. Could human bodies be replaced at will? Wouldn't one die after replacement?
This matter was too complicated to explain. They were in the car, and Lu Yang explained it to her bit by bit. By the time they reached the imperial palace, Lu Wanqing had vaguely accepted it.
In short, in the ancient Earth era, after many years of experimental research, they had gradually developed the method of body replacement.
These things sounded incredible, but thinking about it, during the ancient Earth era, when she was alive, humans already had organ transplant surgeries, liver transplants, heart transplants, and so on. Later, humans developed surgery for replacing organs.
However, body replacement surgery was extremely dangerous. Of the one hundred people who participated in the initial experiment, only her third brother successfully survived. Later, no one else had ever succeeded, although many had tried.
There was even a period when people went mad, establishing bases and secretly capturing people for experiments, but these experiments inevitably failed.
Later, this technology became a forbidden art, and its research was jointly banned by the entire world.
"What about you?" Lu Wanqing couldn't help but ask.
"Third Brother, you succeeded alone. What about them..."
Lu Yang raised his hand and rubbed Lu Wanqing's head, saying, "They couldn't defeat me."
With a simple sentence, Lu Wanqing suddenly understood.
More than three thousand years ago, her third brother was just an ordinary person with normal physical fitness.
But now, three thousand years later, her third brother was so powerful. Someone like Xavier couldn't even last three moves against him.
In the past three thousand years, her third brother must have suffered a lot, right?
As the only human in the world who could survive through body replacement, perhaps people were always plotting against him, wanting to capture him and force him to reveal the method of body replacement, or even capture him for research.
But her third brother did not die. He must have defeated those people, become incredibly powerful himself, and lived until now.
Lu Wanqing couldn't help but take her third brother's hand, silently offering comfort.