Regarding the request for the meeting, the empire hesitated for a long time, and finally agreed to the other party's request.

However, before the talks, the empire put forward its own requirements, asking the other party to agree to these terms, including the immediate withdrawal of the imperial territory and driving to a designated location, and the republic's army participating in this battle being absorbed by the imperial army, and so on.

The Republic rejected this request and immediately proposed a brand new solution. That is, the Empire would release the besieged Republican army and establish a coalition government in the disputed area, and the two countries would jointly govern the affairs of the area.

In order to leave room for concessions, the Republic’s proposal is very excessive.

The empire also refused to deny this, and would never allow the establishment of a coalition government.

It took a lot of time for the two sides to go back and forth. Then, the empire gave an ultimatum to the Republic-immediately withdraw from the territory of the empire. This point remains unchanged. The other point is made concessions, agreeing to let the Republic take away the two armies, clarifying that if the other side still does not reply The Empire will immediately launch an offensive.

However, afterwards, the Republic offered an immediate interview, and the Imperial Army accepted it.

"The so-called confession is just a fig leaf." Ji Yao sneered, "I said empire, pretending to be a tough posture."

"Yeah." Wu Qiao also nodded. After such a long time, following Tan Yan and Ji Yao, he also understood a lot.

"Oh?" Ji Yao was surprised, "You know?"

In Ji Yao's eyes, Wu Qiao was extremely naive and would not understand these things.

"Understood." Wu Qiao looked at Ji Yao, "The emperor dare not say letting people go, for fear of being charged with traitorousness, so he pretends to be in a dominant position all the time to give the people an explanation. In fact, it is possible to make concessions."

Because the empire gave way every time.

Ji Yao raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile, "Your heart is darkened."

"..."

"Are you afraid that I will sue you?"

"Don't mess around." Wu Qiao turned and left. "It's time to work."

"Hey……"

Ji Yao discovered that Wu Qiao was still so serious, even speaking badly about people behind his back.

He is serious and considerate to his subordinates, and is serious and close to people... For example, on the birthday of Wu Qiao's subordinates, Wu Qiao will draw a greeting card for everyone to sign, and the paintings on those cards are always meticulous, and Wu Qiao's usual style of doing things is very similar.

Even when he posted the log online, he could see that it was carefully considered, because Ji Yao never found any typo in it.

In short, Wu Qiao, no matter what he does—whether he eats, sleeps, rests, entertains, jokes, chews the tongue... all give people a kind of "I’m being super serious." "Do this thing" feeling.

...

The talks between the two countries will be held soon.

The highest representative on this side of the empire is Sean.

By convention, the highest representative should be Tan Yan as the commander-in-chief of the theater, but Tan Yan has no experience. In order to be foolproof, the empire finally sent another five-star general, Sean, who is very good at speech.

The Secretary of Defense is a civilian. In the past, Sean always attended such negotiations. After all, before Tan Yan was promoted, Sean alone occupied the highest position in the "general" aspect.

The meeting was set up in the capital of the empire, with the highest level of security, which can be considered foolproof.

The empire's situation is superior, and it can be said that it is full of air, and the people of the Republic are directly called to the capital.

The other side was also heavily armed. The outer ship was full of people, and all the bullets were loaded. After the armed men got down, many more bullets were transported out, and some people immediately rushed to the designated high point nearby.

The two sides said it was joint security. In fact, the smell of gunpowder was very strong, and the guards of the two armies in the same place often pointed their guns at each other.

The talks on the first day were still a tug of war without any results.

Same goes for the next day.

On the third day, there was still no progress.

On the evening of the third day, Matthew, chief of staff of the Republic’s Third Space Fleet. Curtis met Celine privately, who was Sean's wife.

This incident sounds strange, but in fact it is not too strange, because Celine is his daughter.

When Celine and Sean met and fell in love, changed the nationality of the Empire and got married, the war did not start. After the signs, Celine has been desperately pinning all her hopes on the talks between the two sides, hoping that the talks can prevent the outbreak of war. On the day before the Republic officially sent troops, she still did not believe that her motherland had really invaded the empire.

Later, the two countries officially entered a state of war. Celine expressed opposition to the invasion of the Republic, but did not attend political activities again. She now only reads literary books every day. Sometimes she writes some poems herself, grows flowers, grasses, fishes and birds, learns piano, paints, and studies tea ceremony and cooking-these are things she likes. However, this is the case with Rao, her embarrassing status is still often used by the media and the public as talks, especially in recent months, because her father was elected chief of staff of the Republic’s Third Space Fleet.

The chief of staff of the Republic's Third Space Fleet is a very fierce person with triangular eye sockets, slightly bulging eyes, only half of the pupils exposed, hanging on it, exposing large white eyes below, looking very spiteful and arrogant.

However, in Celine's eyes, he was not like that.

Her mother died young. It was her father who brought her up. And, from the day she lost her mother, her father decided that she would never let her lose any love compared to others, so he loved her and spoiled her twice. She, hold her in the palm of his hand, no matter what she wants, he will not refuse. In the years after his widowhood, Matthew also had countless opportunities to remarry, but he refused without exception, because he was afraid that his daughter would feel wronged after marrying again. In his own words: "I As long as my little daughter is enough.” Therefore, Celine, from appearance to character, still looks like a little princess until she grows up.

She knew how much her father paid for her.

However, Celine has not contacted her father for many years because of her identity. A few years later, the war broke out. Her father was appreciated by the Minister of Operations and was transferred from the Intelligence Department to the Operations Department. Only then did Celine know that his father was in the army and felt that some of the qualities of her husband that she admired were indeed related to her The father is very similar. Sandwiched between the Empire and the Republic, Celine must make a choice. At that time, the father again asked his daughter to go home, but Celine did not do what he wanted, but chose to stay with her husband. As the wife of an imperial soldier, Celine did not openly break with the family, but she was completely severed.

This time, she agreed to come to see her father secretly, also out of an emotion that could not be parted. In the words brought by the father, he said that he was very old when he was in poor health. Maybe one day he would be in the soil. The biggest hope is to see his daughter again. This time he finally came to the capital of the empire, hoping to get along as before.

In a remote room, Celine finally saw her father.

After decades of absence, my father is completely different from the one in my memory. Now he has gray hair, dim lips, and wrinkles on his face. Even the expression in his eyes has changed a lot. It is no longer what he used to be.

"father……"

"Celine, my little daughter." Matthew. Curtis looked at the person in front of him carefully-his daughter was not at all the gentle and demure girl back then, but was full of a mature charm that had been other people's wives for many years.

Matthew looked at the kitchen and asked, "Would you like to make a pot of tea like you did in the past? Then he said to me: The tea is ready and it's on the table in the living room?"

Celine's eyes became softer: "Of course I do, my father."

The father and daughter didn't get together for long.

An hour later, Celine looked at her watch and raised her head to continue telling her story about learning piano and painting, but her speech speed increased significantly.

Ten minutes later, Celine looked at his watch for the second time, but still did not open his mouth to leave.

But, immediately after that, she checked the time almost every minute.

Seeing more and more time exceeded the scheduled time, Celine tried to speak several times, and finally was forced to say: "Um, Dad, it seems...I...I have to go back."

She thought: How can time pass so fast?

Matthew: "..."

"My husband went to the military department to discuss peace talks. I think he will return home soon."

Celine didn't want to let Sean know what happened today, although she was very happy this hour-she had a lot of memories with her father.

"Are you going to accompany him?" Matthew thought. The daughter and the guy would meet every day, not with himself. They hadn't seen each other for a long time. However, after only an hour, the daughter wanted to be with the man again. together.

"Well, I really have to go back." Celine finished speaking, and she slowly stood up.

"... Celine." Matthew saw that he was not actually a very beautiful daughter. "Celine, you come back."

"Huh?" Celine was taken aback for a moment.

"You... come back to the Republic, there is your home."

"I……"

"You have been crazy outside for decades, and I can't help it, but now I am old, I wish I could see my daughter..."

"Dad... don't do this..." Celine hugged his old father, but did not make any promises, "Don't do this..."

Her home... is here.

Matthew watched Celine for a long, long time, before finally opening his mouth and asking, "You won't leave that man anyway, do you?"

His voice became old for a while.

"Dad," Celine lowered her eyes, not daring to look at her father: "That man... is my husband."

That's right, it is her husband, the one who said he would live and die together.

"For this, give up my father and give up the country?"

"I don't want to participate in politics..."

"You don't need to participate, you just need to go home."

"Dad, we must have a day that we can see often." Celine said again, "There must be. When the war is over, I will go to see you in the first second."

"That's what you said decades ago... But I've been waiting for so long. How many years can I wait for you?"

"Dad...I...I can't imagine that I can't see him."

"Celine." After a few seconds of silence, Matthew continued, "If I say...this is your only chance to go home, will you continue to stick to your decision?"

"...What?" Celine really didn't understand.

"If I tell you that your husband, he won't survive today, you still want to let him go?"

"What are you talking about?!"

Matthew did not answer.

Celine thought for a while, then screamed, rushing madly at the door.

But the door was tightly locked, and Celine couldn't open the door anyway.

"Celine..."

"You let me out!" Celine yelled desperately, "You are too despicable! You did this kind of thing! Are you afraid of retribution?!"

Planning to assassinate her husband? !

"Retribution?" Matthew looked at his crazy daughter.

Celine knew that he had made a mistake, and did not answer this question, just kept hammering the door: "You let me out! I'm going to save him!

"Are you really my little daughter?" Matthew's eyes lost focus, "Celine...you know, you marry so far, I miss you every day, sometimes at home I will hum about you when you were a kid The song I sang for you. I am always guessing whether you regret it and whether you want to come back... But today, I understand, you never regret it, never want to come back. I don’t understand, really I can’t understand... Your mother had an accident when she gave birth to you, so from the moment you were born, our father and daughter are dependent on each other. Even if you want the stars in the sky, Dad will do everything possible to give you. The relationship between our father and daughter It’s so deep. But why, suddenly, a man you’ve only known for a few days can take your heart away? How can he make you willingly and even happily follow him to tens of thousands of light-years away Another country outside? That’s all... But, why on earth... After you understand our hostile relationship, you still chose him? Even then, you have only known each other for a few years! That's it! You are my daughter, what kind of man do you want? If you choose a husband again, he will treat you very, very well, but there is only one dad anyway... As long as you get married again, you don't have to choose anymore. , You will live a happier life, why don’t you understand?"

He really hates it.

In the past, I hated that man, but now I hate his daughter even more, hate his daughter's love and ruthlessness. He wanted to take out his heart to his daughter, but the daughter caused him so much pain because of a stranger.

Is your daughter really cool by nature?

I don’t even want to do it to myself...

What do you want this daughter to do?

Isn't this kind of daughter better than not having it?

"I don't want to choose...I don't want to choose!" Celine also yelled out of control, "I want you all to be well...I want this **** war to end quickly..."

"Celine." Matthew. Curtis restrained her from behind Celine, begging her for the last time, "I beg you, I beg you. Come back, don't die with him... He can't live today, don't you gone back."

"Dad!" Celine knew that the only thing she could save her husband was her life. "If he dies, he will never live anymore, because it doesn't make any sense. I do what I say!"

"..." Matthew's eyes gradually turned gray.

Both Sean and Tan Yan must be killed. This is for the ultimate victory. The Republic must not lose. If it loses, it will be subject to the Empire.

"Don't kill him, don't kill him...! He is my husband, my favorite person! Please take it for my sake, don't carry out your plan!"

"Do you like the one you love the most..." Matthew said softly, "Celine, close your eyes."

However, Celine still struggled to get out.

Matthew covered her eyes from behind her.

It was suddenly dark in front of her eyes, and Celine stayed for a while.

However, the fingers were very warm, and they were indeed father's hands. They touched her very carefully, just like when they were young, for fear that she would hurt.

"..."

Then Celine felt a pain in her neck and something was injected into her neck.

"……Ok?"

Soon, Celine felt dizzy and blurred, and she was out of her control all over her body.

"what is this?"

"It doesn't hurt, you won't be in pain..." Another father murmured in his ear, "Close your eyes, take a nap, and it will be better."

"..." Celine was speechless. She struggled to take out the communication equipment, and, at the moment when she heard her husband's voice and knew that he was still alive, she completely lost consciousness.

Matthew helped his daughter close her eyes.

Then, he put his daughter's body on the sofa.

Another woman who looked exactly like Celine came out from the inner room and asked, "Then I went?"

Matthew just looked at Celine's face quietly and nodded slightly.

The woman asked again: "Is she dead?"

Matthew did not speak.

After that, the man walked out.

Matthew did not expect that the clone he secretly created because he feared that his daughter would suffer from the same disease as her mother would cause multiple organ failures would come in handy at this time. At the beginning, the significance of the existence of this clone. Obviously it is just a provider of spare organs for her daughter. After this incident was exposed, not only did the high-level officials of the Republic not pursue it, they were ecstatic, because they finally had the possibility of assassinating the imperial general, and Matthew was even promoted to chief of staff. In the past, because of his daughter, he couldn't be a higher-level figure no matter how successful he was.

The content of the plan is, if Celine is willing to come back, then bring her back, if she is not willing to come back, then in case things leak, it is best to stop her mouth.

Originally, Matthew was confident that he could persuade his daughter to go back, but he did not even think about carrying out the latter order. However, just now, watching his daughter abandon him very firmly, the anger completely overwhelmed his reason for a moment, his hands were trembling, and his brain was numb. I just wanted to let the three of them die together, so that his daughter could no longer irritate him. he. The more you care, the more irrational. The emotions accumulated over the past few decades have all exploded. He is like a balloon that is full, and when someone takes a needle, it explodes immediately.

After being broken into pieces, he realized what he had done.

He felt that he couldn't understand why people can lose control to this degree.

After half an hour, Sean returned home.

He saw his wife from the back as he passed the kitchen.

"Really tired these days." Sean sighed while sitting on the sofa. "It's more tired than fighting."

Two days later, he heard Celine in the kitchen say to him: "The tea is ready and it's on the table in the living room."

"Oh." Xiao En took a look, and sure enough, there was another cup of tea. He picked up the tea and took a sip. "By the way, you just contacted me and didn't speak after the connection. Did you call it wrong again? ?"

"..." "Celine" did not speak.

Sean took a few more sips of tea: "How do you feel that it tastes different? It's a bit like the taste you brewed decades ago."

"..."

Only a few seconds later, the drug effect occurred.

There was blood coming out of his nose and mouth.

"..." Sean looked at the blood on the palm of his hand in shock.

Someone poisoned! ! !

How can it be? ! How did the poisoner succeed? !

"Celine...Celine..." He wanted to stand up, but fell on his knees, calling his wife's name, "There is a problem with tea! Call someone!"

"Celine" walked out of the kitchen and squatted down in front of him.

"...?" Seeing Celine didn't respond, Sean looked up at her laboriously, "...!!!"

This is not Celine! Although they look exactly the same, he knows it's not Celine!

He can't tell the difference, but he just knows the difference!

Is she the one who poisoned? No wonder she was able to do it... because no one would doubt that she was not the real Celine.

"Where's Celine...?" Sean stretched out his hand to catch the opponent.

"Celine" took a step back.

Sean tried to pounce, but he fell on the carpet instead.

"What happened to Celine? What did you do to her?!" He lay on the carpet and crawled forward.

The other side took a step back again.

Sean continued to crawl forward.

However, his strength was getting weaker and slower and slower and slower, and in the end, he could no longer move forward anymore.

"..." "Celine" sighed and said to herself, "Matthew thought wrong... It turns out that his daughter is really loved, not just a tool used, from From this perspective, I really envy her."

Matthew has always thought that every year's genetic pairing can be worthy of hundreds of people, Sean will always be with his daughter who is neither beautiful nor good, just to humiliate her motherland.

...

—— Sean and his wife were assassinated in their own home. This incident shocked the entire empire and even the Republic.

Matthew, chief of staff of the Republic’s Third Space Fleet. Curtis was also distraught.

Soon, Xianglongzhiyi announced that the incident was the work of the rest of the party, but refused to give specific details.

On the tenth day when the truth came to light, Matthew. Curtis announced his resignation from the post of Chief of Staff of the Republic's Third Space Fleet, and the former chairman, who had retired, re-appointed. Thanks Matthew. Curtis only stayed in this position for a few months, so his decision did not have a big impact. On the fifth day after leaving office, Matthew committed suicide by swallowing a gun at his hometown.

For the empires, what they didn't expect was that after Sean's death, the situation in the empire would take a turn for the worse.