Through the book: The villain’s son’s stand-in

"Huh~"

There was wind blowing in his ears, Gu Cheng opened his eyes suddenly and found that he was in a new place again.

Gu Cheng recognized this place at a glance.

The high wall known as the Imperial Wall is also his favorite place in the palace besides the office.

Seeing no one around him, Gu Cheng came to the city wall and looked down at the imperial city below.

The first thing that catches the eye is a group of white and gold palaces.

They were built on the mountain. The top of the mountain and a large part below it were where the royal palace of the Starry Empire was located, while the buildings guarding the mountainside were the residences of various nobles.

In the early days, this construction method was used to deter enemies and was also a practical manifestation of the courtiers' loyalty to the emperor.

Now it has only symbolic meaning.

For the nobles, only those who own houses here are the real nobles with history and connotation. In their eyes, other wealthy people are just nouveau riche.

When he raised his eyes, the blue meteor adorned on the top of the palace tower came into his eyes.

Its brilliance is more dazzling than the sun. As long as you look up, your sight will be completely occupied by its light.

This is the masterpiece of Pei Yaoxi, the fifth emperor of the Fanxing Empire.

During the battle with foreign tribes, Pei Yaoxi accidentally strayed into a lost land. There was no trace of biological activity there, only the meteorite was shining brightly.

Pei Yaoxi recognized this object and even scrapped an A-class mecha to take it away.

The result was also very gratifying. The Starry Empire, which was in the midst of war, gained the friendship of that neutral race that symbolized mystery and power - the Machine Clan.

With their help, weapons were improved, and many combat robots were born.

Thirty years later, the Starry Empire finally defeated the foreign invasion and established a firm foothold in this universe.

Although less than one ten thousandth of the meteorite remains, it is still of great significance.

The jeweler Emperor Pei Yaoxi slightly polished the meteor and built a tower to show its beauty.

Gu Cheng looked at it and instantly thought of his mentally retarded brother Xiaoqi in this life.

Although he didn't understand what the Tool Clan wanted with this thing, judging from their eager attitude, the meteorite was very important to them.

Gu Cheng couldn't help but wonder: If he had it, would Xiao Qi's wisdom grow faster?

"It's a pity that this is not the real world." Gu Cheng stared at the gem with burning eyes, "But it's not impossible..."

Gu Cheng stared sarcastically at the noble mansions on the mountainside. Even just thinking of that memory made Gu Cheng feel sick in his heart.

In his fourth year as a member of Parliament, an extremely bad civil strife broke out in the palace.

The great nobles united to force the emperor to establish a prince, but the emperor was naturally unwilling. There was a fierce quarrel between the two sides, and some people even secretly arranged back-up plans. Once the goal was not achieved, it would turn into a forced palace.

In this chaotic and tense moment, a declining old nobleman wanted to fish in troubled waters and steal the meteor.

After finally getting the things, after inspection, they found that there was only an empty shell left in the meteorite, and the inside had been hollowed out.

The old aristocrat thought that someone had climbed to the meteorite early, and that person had done something wrong, so he wanted Jin Chan to escape from his shell and put all the risks on him.

Suddenly, the old noble became furious. In anger, he forcibly searched the younger nobles who were traveling with him, including their wives and servants.

How could the little nobles endure such humiliation? Seeing the decline of the old noble families, they mustered up the courage to unite to resist.

The process of the struggle is unknown, but this incident directly led to the defeat of the noble side. For the next fifty years, no one dared to mention the matter of establishing a prince.

After Gu Cheng became the chief minister, he accidentally learned this part of the secret.

As a result, the dislike for this group of nobles reached new heights.

It turned out that the culprit behind the hollowing out of the meteorite was actually the most sanctimonious group of old nobles at the top.

They bribed the soldiers guarding the meteorite, and several of them joined forces to try to hollow out the meteorite from the inside bit by bit.

This process took a full thirty years from layout to implementation.

Since the meteor represented huge interests, they adopted the most extreme method.

They trained dead soldiers from scratch and put a lot of effort into placing them in guard positions.

While completing the prerequisites, they also perfected the means of selling stolen goods, thus forming a tight chain of interests.

But less than ten years after it was launched, this matter was exposed by one of our own people. Their thirty years of efforts were in vain, but they could only suffer this dumb loss.

He had not paid attention to the fate of the old nobleman, but he never heard the surname Li again at the banquet after that.

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There are no four seasons in Capital Star, only spring and autumn, so it has suitable hot and cold conditions, making it a good place to live for a long time.

Gu Cheng closed his eyes, feeling the warm wind of Capital Star passing through his body.

Suddenly, the wind stopped, and a hot breath came to his ears.

Turning around, he saw a long-haired young man wearing gorgeous and complicated clothes standing not far behind him.

The light blond hair was well taken care of, revealing the young man's smooth forehead and dark green eyes.

The young man's height is less than 175.3 meters. To be more precise, he is only meters tall. With his noble and elegant temperament, his aura directly soars to three meters.

"Your Majesty!" Gu Cheng accidentally spat out this title.

In the year since his rebirth, this was the first time he dreamed of His Majesty the Emperor, Pei Mingxu, who regarded him as a close friend and relative.

His Majesty the Emperor stood quietly on the high platform, staring at the corner of the passage.

Gu Cheng was a little confused. He had a hunch that his previous life was about to appear, but when was this meeting?

The two of them had been to this high platform that was used as their secret base too many times.

"Tap!"

The sound of footsteps came slowly, and after a while, a young man with black hair and blue eyes was walking towards him with a smile.

"Your Majesty, I have kept you waiting for a long time." The young man leaned forward slightly to apologize, but before he could bend down, he was lifted up by the emperor.

His face was still expressionless, but from a third-party perspective, Gu Cheng saw the corners of his mouth twitching slightly.

The cold-faced and selfless Emperor actually smiled!

Gu Cheng couldn't help but bend down and get closer, widening his eyes to make sure he was being deceived.

But the next second, His Majesty the Emperor's smile disappeared very quickly.

Turning around, I saw that he had already raised his head.

"So Your Majesty is secretly laughing at me while I lower my head!" As soon as this guess came out, the only thought in his mind was that he was laughing at me.

Gu Cheng has been a child for more than a year and has always been cared for and pampered by Gu Pan. He has never been so angry.

Coupled with the fact that he realized that this was in his dream, he became so bold that he raised his hand and punched the emperor in the face.

As expected, the emperor was not hurt at all, and he was still talking leisurely with him.

Just when Gu Cheng was thinking about whether to punch him again, and when the emperor couldn't resist, he punched him a few more times to vent his anger, the emperor turned his head and looked at him from a distance.

Gu Cheng subconsciously stopped his hands and put them behind his back, not daring to make any mistakes.

Gu Cheng was a little afraid of the emperor.

It's not out of fear of the emperor's identity, but fear of Pei Mingxu.

His cold face was one of the reasons. What frightened him even more was the way he played with people's hearts.

As his right-hand man, he naturally knew the emperor's resentment towards the nobles, so he didn't mind becoming the blade in his hands.

But after seeing the emperor's exquisite layout and ruthlessness, even though his expectations were high enough, he couldn't help but be amazed.

"Your Majesty, I thought..." The wind blew the young man's hair and brushed his forehead, captivating the young man's eyes.

The young man brushed away his hair with his hands without caring, and continued to stare at the emperor with a smile in his eyes as he replied.

But Gu Cheng watched carefully as a bystander. From then on, the focus of the emperor's eyes was no longer on the young man's face, but instead on the strand of black hair that was blown around. He only gave a perfunctory hum when the young man stopped.

The young man found nothing, and continued to report on his own.

In this situation, Gu Cheng suddenly noticed something subtle, but he didn't dare to think about it deeply.

This dream ended quickly.

After the conversation ended, he looked at the distance between the two of them, which was only a fist apart, and fell into deep thought.

"Zai Zai, it's time to get up and drink milk. You slept for a long time today."

Gu Pan's voice came to his ears. Gu Cheng slowly opened his eyes and moved his hands and feet a few times in response.

He yawned a little, rubbed his eyes with his little hands, and naturally climbed up Gu Pan's neck, enjoying her gentle comfort.

He gradually woke up and his eyes became completely clear.

But the next second his pants were taken off.

Gu Cheng was ashamed and annoyed. He recalled the tall and mighty self in his dream and thought bitterly: When will I grow up?