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Chapter 10: It's Too Late to Surrender

In the 23rd century of this universe, no one has taken the so-called specific royal title seriously. Even if someone wants to name the child "Crown Prince" or "Your Majesty", that's OK.

The reason why a title has a special meaning is not because of the speciality of the text that constitutes it, but because of the power, wealth, social status or power it represents...

In the Qing Dynasty, the words "Prince" and "Belle" were completely different from those mentioned in the New China. What appeared in people's minds and feelings in their hearts.

Similarly, on a planet where the federal system has been implemented for more than a hundred years, words such as "princess", "principal", and "elephant" will inevitably be less valued than "director", "director" and even "director".

Suzu and Solid naturally didn't take the name "Prince Masakonai of Morimiya" very seriously. Even if they asked them to call Masako "Queen", they didn't mind because it didn't mean anything.

Masako herself understands this.

In fact, she hates the name...

If anyone in this world cares about this so-called orthodox title of royal family, it is Masako's father.

This man named "Chonggong Lianren" claims to be the "Emperor of Houdongshan" and has a year name. Even though he is terminally ill now and is lying on the hospital bed every day with instruments to maintain his life, as long as his consciousness is still clear, he may never give up these things that seem like jokes to others.

The sense of superiority that humans can obtain from bloodline is actually very strong, because wealth and power can be obtained through acquired efforts, and strength and knowledge can also be accumulated through exercise and learning. However, the sense of superiority from bloodline does not require any cost and can accompany you throughout your life.

That's why...area/racist discriminators can never be completely eliminated, at best, using social pressure and rules to curb their numbers and behaviors.

This is why... the rulers of ancient feudal dynasties, whether they inherited or not, had to make up some stories about their purely noble bloodline or the gods descending to earth.

Chonggong Lianren is undoubtedly such a person. Compared to the foundation he has laid in this life, he cares more about his own bloodline and his "royal tradition" that can be passed on.

Unfortunately, he was not lucky. At the age of 22, he found out that he was infertile and had no treatment plan. This was a fatal blow to a person who valued the inheritance of blood.

But he did not give up. He chose to wait...wait for the advancement of technology while actively looking for solutions.

He even signed an agreement with a medical institution. If there was no way to cure his infertility before he was forty-five years old in the world, he would be ready to throw himself into the freezing chamber and freeze it, and wait until there was a way to thaw it.

Perhaps fate was going to joke with this man, just when he was forty-four years old, he got news that there was an assistant professor in Sakuranobu's laboratory who was still in college and invented a special medicine for his disease, and that medicine had obtained good data in animal experiments.

However, just when Chonggong Lianren was igniting hope and preparing to contact the young man's university, another message poured him a basin of cold water - the assistant professor was wanted for doing human experiments privately without knowing his ethics committee and his whereabouts are currently unknown.

How could Chonggong Lianren give up this only life-saving straw for this reason? Fortunately... the federal government was corrupt enough at that time. Lianren spent a little money through layers of relationships and successfully obtained the experimental data left by the assistant teacher and the laboratory samples seized by the police.

Later, Lian Ren hired a group of world-leading medical authorities for a large amount of money to help him study the formula left by the young man.

But... the progress is not going well.

According to the original words of an authoritative person: "While my words may be inappropriate, I must admit that the wanted criminals who invented this formula have talents that all of us here can't compare to."

When a scholar who no longer needs to prove himself speaks such words, it means he has completely surrendered in academic terms.

Of course, there is nothing we can do about this; Tony Stark could build a fist-sized ark reactor in a cave, but a large group of scientists of his time could only build a water tank in the laboratory, which was not as effective as the small one.

Lian Ren also understood that even if these people were allowed to continue researching, they might not be able to make the formula more perfect and safer, and he would not have so much time to waste.

So, Lian Ren directly used the original recipe left by the teaching assistant...

He found five pregnant women in total, and only one person finally successfully conceived; nine months later, Masako was born.

It was the happiest period of Lian Ren's life. He loved this daughter like a pearl in his hand, and he wanted to take care of her in a sterile environment, for fear that she would suffer any harm.

What he didn't expect was that fate had not ended yet, but the joke was delayed for a long time.

Sixteen years later, Lian Ren and Masako themselves gradually realized a problem: Masako's appearance has not changed much in the past few years, because she is in adolescence, and the gap between her and her peers has widened almost every year at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The faint anxiety gradually turned into real worries and fears.

When she was eighteen, the fact that her daughter's appearance was around thirteen was very clear. Although she had to undergo several careful physical examinations almost every year since she was born... but there was no sign that such a thing would happen.

Even after the symptoms were clear, the doctors could not give a practical explanation or solution, but only speculated that she had some "undetectable congenital chromosomal abnormality".

This year, Lian Ren was almost sixty-four years old, and at this time he had no chance of leaving behind descendants.

It was from this year that he became paranoid... He hoped that Masako could do everything possible to leave offspring in her lifetime, just like him.

But Masako is different from her father. Not to mention that her body does not have the conditions for childbirth, the pressure she has taken in this long life also makes her hate her so-called "royal blood". She even thinks this is a curse that accompanys her family, which is better for her generation.

The conflict between father and daughter became increasingly deep. It was not until when Lian Ren was 75 years old that an acute illness made him unable to do anything except thinking and speaking (he could not eat, could only inject fluids, and excrete without self-consciousness).

After that, Masako became the actual controller and operator of the Shenwu Association.

On the surface, the Shenwu Society uses the giant enterprise "Izumo Group" as a cover to open various businesses around the world with the gambling industry as the core; and in the underground world, the Shenwu Society is the recognized leader in all gambling circles, and Masako is also a legendary gambler.

Of course, this information... except for the relevant parts of Masako's appearance that she would not grow up, Sakura and Solid also knew the rest.

Only gamblers understand gamblers, and only gamblers can truly defeat gamblers.

Today, Suo came to defeat the "Legend".

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"By the way, since I have bet on the entire Shenwu Club, I believe you should also come up with the corresponding bets, right?" On the way to the gambling location, Masako raised this very important question in a leisurely and casual tone.

"Sakura's Palace." And Suzu replied to these three words almost without thinking.

This bet was not decided by him, but was promised by Zi Lin before coming.

"Ha?" Masako's steps stopped, "What does it mean if you tell me a place name?"

"It means that if you win, not only will you not have to agree to our conditions, but in the near future, after the Confederation is settled, Sakurano Mansion will belong to your family." Suzu replied, "Considering your family background... I think even your father will be interested in this bet."

"Ha...you wait first." As soon as this said, Masako couldn't help but sneer, "You mean, you should bet on something that doesn't belong to you at all?" She paused, "And, let's take a step back, according to your statement, it seems that without the help of my Shenwu Society, you can still achieve great things?"

"That's right." Unexpectedly, Suga responded in a natural tone, "So now we are actually giving you a chance. If you are willing to cooperate... we are more efficient in doing things. The organization will not forget every effort you put into it. At that time, the things you can get... will be more than a mere Sakura Palace. If you refuse, it will not affect our goal. However, in that case, we cannot guarantee that we will live in peace with you. If Shenwu blocks our way, you should be mentally prepared."

"Hahaha..." Masako smiled even more and continued in a sarcastic tone, "Then according to what you said, this bet is not fair to you... If I win, I don't have to take any risks and guarantee a Sakura Palace; even if I lose... I will join you, and I will reward you in the future and be bound by the territory."

"Yes." Suzu knew that the other party was talking nonsense, but he was not shaken at all.

"What is it!" Seeing that this boy was so shameless and looked like he was about to talk to the end, Masako immediately pulled her face down, "I have been talking for a long time and this bet is based on the fact that you will definitely overthrow the Federation in the future. This kind of bet is not good... Huoka!"

When she finished speaking, she simply turned around, as if she no longer planned to continue to go to the gambling location.

"Okay, okay, you want something substantial, don't worry...some." Suzu replied.

"Oh?" Masako had lost her patience a little, "What is it?"

"I don't know either." Suka's answer seemed very nonsensical once again.

Finally, Masako got angry. She looked calm and began to walk back. Just as she was about to let the bodyguards following behind "send out" the cell phone in one of the bodyguards' arms suddenly rang.

This mobile phone is obviously not the bodyguard's personal belonging. If so, just by carrying private communication equipment during working hours, his job will be ruined; this is actually a "line phone". There is only one person who will call this mobile phone...

"Miss Masako, the call from the master." Two seconds later, the bodyguard respectfully came forward and held the phone in front of Masako with both hands.

By the way, the names "Miss" and "Master" were specially changed by Masako. When her father was in power, she strictly required her subordinates to give herself various royal gifts in private places and used the title of "His Majesty the Emperor".

This sudden call, coincided with the timely call, made Masako feel a little strange; Suzu and Solid looked at each other and tacitly understood what both of them already knew.

Masako answered the call a little long, and she seemed to have a dispute with her father during the process, but in the end, although she was angry, she still compromised.

"What did you promise him?" Masako hung up the phone, then turned around and said this to Shizuo and Solid with a questioning attitude.

"Didn't I say it just now? 'I don't know either'." Suzu shrugged.

At this time, Masako came back to the real meaning of the sentence.

"No one above will tell us everything..." Solid said at this time, "But we did know before we came. Someone will negotiate with your father and give him some more 'real' bargaining chips. After all... as long as he doesn't die for a day, he will still be the 'supreme emperor' of the Shenwu Society."

Masako took a few seconds to calm down her emotions, and calmed down again and continued, "Since you can do this, is it necessary to bet with me?"

"Yes." Suo continued, "After the matter... after the cooperation relationship is established, you will be the leader of the Shenwu Society who is really dealing with us." He pretended to be relaxed, "So, it is only one thing to make your father nod, and it is also necessary to make you 'convinced' yourself."

Before he finished speaking, Solid added: "You don't have to worry about using your father to put pressure on you after we lose, because... no matter whether you win or lose, the conditions for giving your father will be given. Our deal with him is just to ask him to 'requir you to take this bet'."

"Hmph..." Masako nodded, with a hint of anger between her eyebrows, and a little expectation, "It seems... you think that as long as I am willing to bet, you will not lose, right?"

"Yes." When it comes to gambling, Suzu has always been very arrogant.

"You don't even know what I want to bet with you, wherever you bet, how you bet... You don't know! You know!" Although Masako was one more head shorter than Suzu, she still pushed her over with aura, looked up at the other party, and said with a sharp voice, "So you dare to say 'yes'?"

Not only was Suo not overwhelmed by this momentum, he also showed a firmer and more relaxed expression, repeating the word: "Yes."
Chapter completed!
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