The little prince, who vanished at birth eight years ago, has returned to the Empire. The whole country is celebrating.
Boundless wealth and power, the Empire's sole heir, and the great Emperor's boundless affection. His very existence is enough to make countless people envious.
"The little prince must have suffered so much out there, sob! But he's had all the suffering of his life in these eight years. From now on, it's all sweetness. (Bitterly jealous)"
"That's right. This may sound harsh, but children don't remember much. If he's well cared for, once the little prince grows up, he won't remember what happened to him out there when he was young."
"And he won't remember that his 'death' back then was actually the result of His Majesty weighing his options, right? What a cold-blooded political monster." (Deleted)
Soon after, the Emperor suffered the most serious assassination attempt of his life. The person who attacked him was his own child.
The reason was simple: not every place is prosperous enough to take in a random abandoned baby and have the resources to raise them while they eat for free for over a decade.
The day after his adoptive father found him, the boy had already struck a deal with an underground mine on a junk planet. One dose of a cheap, effective growth-accelerating drug, long since banned on every planet, turned the abandoned baby into a fifteen-year-old boy: low-grade labor with an estimated useful life of three years.
Later, this boy, whose body and age did not match, fled into the most chaotic star region under the accusation of killing his adoptive father, until he was captured personally by the Emperor.
In a room with the highest security level, the Emperor watched the wary boy huddled in a corner and bent down, reaching out a hand.
"My dear child, I'm your father. You can trust me a little more."
"I know what a father is," the boy said coldly. "A corpse I'll kill."
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