755: Chapter 755 Meeting the Empress!

The Queen was stunned.

"This is not..."

"She said before that she wanted to pursue a man from the Dragon Country. I thought she was just saying it, but she was serious?"

"And she actually brought him straight back to the palace?!"

"As an unmarried princess, she declared in public that she wanted to pursue a man, and then brought him home to live here. If this gets out, the royal family's reputation will be trampled into the dirt!!!"

The butler kept his head lowered, not daring to even breathe loudly.

The Queen paced back and forth a dozen times, then suddenly stopped and turned to look at the butler. "Who is that man?"

The butler swallowed hard.

"According to those on the front lines, he is a man from the Dragon Country named Ye Chen."

"Ye Chen?"

The Queen's brows furrowed sharply. The name sounded familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere before.

She searched her memory for a moment, and suddenly her pupils constricted.

"Ye Chen? Could it be the same Ye Chen who wiped out the Nordic Saint Hall and turned South Korea upside down?!"

A fine layer of cold sweat beaded on the butler's forehead. "It should be him."

The Queen's mouth twitched several times.

She had originally thought Euphemia had just found an ordinary person.

But as it turned out...

She had found such a terrifying god of plague!

He wiped out the Nordic Saint Hall, killed the second master of the Manluodi Family, and single-handedly suppressed the Jin Conglomerate in South Korea...

Even if she did not approve, she would not dare to easily offend such a person.

The Queen took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and sat back in her chair.

"Where are they now?"

"They have already entered the palace."

"What? They are already inside???"

The Queen nearly jumped out of her chair again. "Who allowed it? What are the guards at the gate doing? How could they let them in?"

The butler smiled bitterly. "The guards did not dare to stop anyone brought in by Her Royal Highness the Princess."

The Queen gritted her teeth in anger, but soon forced herself to calm down again.

"Go, bring them to the assembly hall. I want to meet this Ye Chen in person."

The butler nodded quickly, turned, and walked out briskly.

The Queen sat in her chair, tapping her fingers on the armrest, her expression flickering between gloom and uncertainty.

She wanted to see what this man from the Dragon Country, who had Euphemia so infatuated, actually looked like.

...

The doors to the assembly hall were pushed open.

Euphemia walked in, arm-in-arm with Ye Chen, wearing a bright smile like a cat that had stolen a fish.

Yi Yue stood on Ye Chen's other side, also holding onto the man's arm.

She had no expression on her face, but her gentle eyes faintly betrayed a trace of displeasure.

How could she be happy?

Who would be willing to just push their own man away like this?

As for Qian Duofu?

He had followed along as well.

He had never imagined...

That he, a small-time import-export trader, would one day be able to set foot in the Eagle Country's royal palace?

If he told anyone, who would believe him?

The Queen sat at the head of the table, her gaze landing on Ye Chen like a blade, looking him up and down several times.

White T-shirt, casual pants, sneakers.

The entire outfit probably did not even cost ten pounds.

The Queen's brows furrowed so tightly they could crush a fly.

She had imagined the scene of Euphemia bringing a boyfriend home countless times.

In her imagination, the man should be dressed in a suit, elegant, with every movement exuding aristocratic temperament.

But what about now?

He was dressed like someone selling roasted sweet potatoes on the street.

The Queen took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in her heart, and forced a reluctant smile onto her face.

"You are Ye Chen?"

Ye Chen nodded. "And you are Euphemia's mother?"

The Queen's smile froze on her face.

She had lived for more than half her life and had heard countless ways people addressed her.

Your Majesty, Her Majesty the Queen, Your Highness...

Never had anyone addressed her as "Euphemia's mother."

This was the most casual address she had ever heard.

Euphemia stood to the side, covering her mouth to stifle a laugh.

The Queen glared at her and looked back at Ye Chen, the smile on her face completely gone.

"Mr. Ye, I will get straight to the point."

"I do not approve of the matter between you and my daughter."

The air in the assembly hall suddenly froze.

Euphemia's smile froze on her face.

"Mother, what did you say?"

The Queen did not look at her, her gaze firmly locked on Ye Chen as she spoke word by word. "I said, I do not approve."

Euphemia's expression changed instantly. "Mother, on what grounds do you not approve?"

"On what grounds?"

The Queen sneered, stood up, and looked down at her daughter.

"Just because he is from the Dragon Country!"

"You are the Princess of the Eagle Country, the future Queen. Your husband must come from a prestigious family and must be worthy of your status!"

"Him? A Dragon Country man who kills without blinking—what right does he have to marry you?"

Euphemia's face flushed red, and she was about to retort...

Ye Chen reached out, pressed down on her shoulder, and shook his head.

Then.

He looked at the Queen and spoke calmly.

"First of all, I do not have those kinds of thoughts about Euphemia. I am only passing through the Eagle Country; she was the one who insisted on picking me up."

"Secondly, I do not care for your status. Even if you wanted to marry your daughter off to me, I would not necessarily marry her."

"Finally..."

He paused, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned. "What makes you think cheap goods are no good? It is not like the clothes you are wearing are necessarily any better than cheap goods."

The Queen's face turned completely black.

She had been Queen for so many years, and no one had ever dared to speak to her like this.

This man from the Dragon Country not only contradicted her but also dared to say he did not care for her status?

"Insolent!"

The Queen slapped the armrest of her chair, her voice filled with rage. "Do you know who you are talking to?"

Ye Chen looked at her and spoke calmly.

"I know, the Queen of the Eagle Country."

"But in my eyes, you are no different from an auntie selling vegetables on the street."

"It is just that you sell power, and she sells cabbage."

There was a deathly silence in the assembly hall.

The butler stood in the corner, his legs turning to jelly.

He had lived for so many years, and this was the first time he had seen someone dare to tell the Queen to her face that she was no different from a vegetable-selling auntie.

Qian Duofu felt a chill run down his neck.

He felt that he might not be able to walk out of this palace today.

If he had known it would turn out like this, he would not have come.

He should have just slipped away at the pier...

The Queen was trembling with rage, her finger pointing at Ye Chen shaking.

Euphemia stood to the side, watching her mother's flustered and exasperated appearance, and felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction in her heart.

From the time she was a child, her mother had only ever given her orders, never consulted her.

Today, someone was finally able to make her mother suffer a setback.

The Queen took several deep breaths before she could barely suppress the anger in her heart and sat back in her chair.

"Good, very good."

She gritted her teeth and growled word by word.

"Since you have such backbone, do not blame me for being impolite."

She raised her right hand and waved at the guards at the door.

"Someone, lock him up for me!"

The guards immediately rushed in and reached out to grab Ye Chen's arms.

However.

Ye Chen just turned his head and glanced at the guards.

Just one glance.

The guards' movements stiffened suddenly, their legs went weak, and they all knelt on the ground in unison.

They did not know why they knelt, but those eyes...

Were too terrifying.

The Queen's expression changed completely.

"You... what did you do?!"

Those guards were elites she had carefully selected, each one battle-hardened, yet in front of Ye Chen, they could not even stand steady.

Ye Chen withdrew his gaze, looked at the Queen, and spoke calmly. "I did not do anything; their legs just went weak on their own."

The Queen: "..."

Ye Chen continued, "Besides, I am the Chief Instructor of the Dragon Group. Your daughter understands the way of hospitality, yet you do not?"

The Queen: "???"

Ye Chen seemed to have thought of something and looked suddenly enlightened. "That is true. With 'cheap goods' on your lips all the time, what kind of hospitality could you possibly have?"

The Queen: "!!!"

She never expected...

That Ye Chen would actually use his official position in the Dragon Country to pressure her?

And even go so far as to say that their Eagle Country lacked hospitality?

It was too much!!!

The Queen was trembling with rage.

"You... you..."

"Do you think I will be afraid of you just because you are the Chief Instructor of the Dragon Group?"

"This is not the Dragon Country; this is the Eagle Country!"

"No matter how powerful you are, can you defeat a whole country?"

"My Eagle Country Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Army—tens of thousands of elite soldiers, hundreds of fighter jets, dozens of warships!"

"With what will you fight me, a single person?"

The Queen stood up and looked down at Ye Chen, her eyes full of arrogance and disdain.

"I admit that your personal strength is very strong. You can fight, you can kill, you can take on a hundred, or even a thousand."

"But can you defeat an army of thousands?"

"Can you defeat missiles, tanks, and fighter jets?"

"With just one command from me, you will not be able to walk out of this palace!"

Euphemia's face turned pale instantly.

She knew her mother too well.

The Queen was a person who usually seemed gentle, but once she was truly enraged, she was capable of anything.

And she was right...

This was the Eagle Country, their territory.

No matter how strong Ye Chen was, it was impossible for him to truly fight against a country.

"Mother!"

Euphemia panicked, quickly blocking in front of Ye Chen, spreading her arms to protect the man behind her like a mother hen protecting her chicks.

"You cannot do this!"

"He is my savior! Have you forgotten? If it were not for him back then, I would have been in trouble!"

"Not only are you not thanking him, but you also want to kill him? What kind of logic is this?"