Douluo: I am ready to leave the Spirit Hall. The system will come.

Although Ning Fengzhi had made a decision, the implementation of it was left to Ning Rongrong.

This is not something that will produce results in the short term.

While Ning Rongrong had not yet enrolled in Shrek Academy, Zhu Zhuqing had already returned to the Xingluo Zhu family.

"Second Miss!?"

In the Zhu family's territory, the guard guarding the main gate of the Duke's Mansion was driving his car and was daydreaming. Suddenly, he saw Zhu Zhuqing's face and was shocked and stood at attention.

Like the Zhu family and the Dai family, the Zhu family has maintained a brutal competition mechanism internally since ancient times.

However, like the Dai family, the Zhu family is a large family with a long history on the Douluo Continent. This kind of competition mechanism within the family is often regarded as a sensitive topic by the family's top leaders, and measures have always been taken to keep it confidential.

This custom is not a secret among high-ranking aristocratic circles, but for ordinary people, even the security guards guarding the gate of the Zhu family, it is still a secret.

So the guard was just wondering when Zhu Zhuqing ran outside and why she ran back now.

"Ah."

Zhu Zhuqing nodded, and the guards quickly made way and let the second young lady enter the Duke's Mansion.

Zhu Zhuqing did not bring any soul beasts, but returned alone.

Of course, to be on the safe side, You Chen still silently disguised himself as You Xing and hid nearby, but there was no need to tell Zhu Zhuqing specifically.

Whether it is to prevent the Zhu family from not arranging Zhu Zhuqing as expected, or to prevent Zhu Zhuqing from showing the characteristics of a Douluo and betraying for no reason, at least when it has not been confirmed that she has completely turned to the Beast Soul Alliance, surveillance in the name of protection is very necessary.

Naturally, no one else could do this job except You Chen himself.

Although it took up a little time for cultivation, just like monitoring Tang San, You Chen knew that this trouble could not be omitted.

A little effort now can save you a lot of trouble in the future. Youchen can certainly make such a deal.

"Mother."

After returning to the Zhu family, the first thing Zhu Zhuqing did was to visit her mother.

Inside the Zhu family's study room, which was filled with a sense of history and bookish atmosphere, next to the desk, sat a stunningly beautiful woman who looked 70% like Zhu Zhuqing.

Although she is almost forty, she still maintains the youthful charm of a twenty-year-old. Her face is delicate and flawless, her skin is as smooth as jade, and most importantly, her S-shaped curves are exactly the same as Zhu Zhuqing's, which will make any opposite sex chuckle when seeing her.

Coupled with the elegant black dress that looked like a fragrant orchid blooming in the night, and the intellectual black-framed glasses on her nose, she looked like a young woman who had traveled through time from the modern fashion world.

With such a face, especially the plump and proud round breasts in front and back, You Chen took a look and knew that it must be his biological mother.

In order to continue the inheritance of the Netherworld Spirit Cat's martial spirit, the Zhu family has always had a strong female and weak male family. They arrange for males from outside to marry into the family, and the family is dominated by women, who occupy the position of duke.

Some people may be confused.

Looking at the life-and-death struggle between Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun, the Zhu family is just like the Dai family, in which only one person in each generation will ultimately win.

So what is the relationship between the current head of the Zhu family and the current emperor? It can't be the queen, right?

Wouldn’t that be a mess?
But if this is not the case, then what is the relationship between this head of this family and the current queen?
First of all, the sisterhood is denied.

If they are sisters, then why would Zhu Zhuyun go after Zhu Zhuqing?
The Zhu family, like the Dai family, has always had a death competition mechanism.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand.

Because the death competition only exists among the family head's lineage, that is to say, such a competitive relationship only exists between the most outstanding bloodlines.

Because of the inheritance issues of the Evil-Eyed White Tiger and Netherworld Spirit Cat martial spirits, the bloodlines of the two families were forbidden to flow out, but naturally they were still passed down among the Xingluo royal family.

If there is no one among these royal relatives who is qualified to be the head of the Zhu family, then the position of the head of the Zhu family will be concurrently taken by the queen, and she will then choose the next prince consort for her son from among the many collateral bloodlines of the Zhu family.

On the contrary...it's still a cruel competition to the death.

First, we select the best from the best and choose a group of outstanding talents.

Then continue the process of survival of the fittest and select the most outstanding bloodline to inherit the position of head of the family.

The current head of the Zhu family, Zhu Lanyan, is the current emperor's younger sister based on blood relationship.

This is actually a relatively peaceful succession process.

There is no need to compete with other side branches, and with the support of the royal background, he can ascend to the throne directly.

Generally speaking, every emperor would give birth to many children, trying his best to produce a princess who would inherit the spirit of the Netherworld Cat, so that she could serve as the head of the Zhu family.

After all, the offspring of the emperor and empress are selected from the best of the best. They do not need to compete with those of the side branches and are often the most talented.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing are cousins. (I remember the original novel said they were cousins)
In order to ensure the purity of the martial spirits of their descendants, it is not uncommon for large families like Douluo to marry cousins.

As for the problem between Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong.

Excluding the factor of the original author's self-contradiction, the biggest reason is still the purity of the martial soul.

Both of them have mutated martial spirits. If they continue to combine, no one knows what will mutate into. Whether it is for the sake of the family reputation or to prevent the pollution of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex bloodline.

Yu Luomian had reasons to prevent the two from getting together.

Some people may say, what's the point of polluting the bloodline? Wouldn't it be fine as long as the children they give birth to don't mate with the descendants of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family?
The person who said this must have a very simple mind...

Firstly, if their descendants are not allowed to join the social circle of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family, there is no way to ensure that their bloodline will not leak out. Maybe their descendants will combine with normal people and mutate back into the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex martial spirit...

And if their descendants are allowed to integrate into the family social circle, who can guarantee that they will not develop romantic relationships with children from other families?

In addition to this, there are also cases like Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, who got together without each other's knowledge.

All in all, it is very difficult to deal with, so it is best to just cut it off and be done with it.

At this moment, hearing her daughter's voice, this intellectual young woman finally came to her senses. She turned her head sharply, and after seeing Zhu Zhuqing's face clearly, she was stunned.

"Why are you here?" Zhu Lanyan blurted out.

A look of loss flashed across Zhu Zhuqing's face, but perhaps because she had become much more mature after experiencing her sister's pursuit, she concealed her emotions very well.

He concealed his loss and buried deep in his heart the stronger determination generated by his mother's attitude.

Zhu Lanyan also realized that she had said something wrong, but she did not apologize, she just looked at Zhu Zhuqing with a very complicated expression. Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing were sisters, and their voices were somewhat similar. In addition, Zhu Lanyan had been a little anxious and exhausted recently, and she was immersed in the documents in her hands, so she made a misjudgment for a while.

What's more, in Zhu Lanyan's eyes, Zhu Zhuqing was actually a dead person.

Zhu Lanyan asked, "You dare to come back?"

This was the first sentence Zhu Lanyan said to Zhu Zhuqing after she realized that the person in front of her was Zhu Zhuqing.

Royal families have always been ruthless since ancient times. The Zhu family may seem to be just a duke's family, but they have consistently produced and selected queens from generation to generation. In a sense, they are completely tied to the royal family and can be considered an alternative royal family.

As the current emperor's sister, Zhu Lanyan is even more aware of this.

It was natural that she would not invest too much affection in the younger daughter who was born later than her two daughters and was almost destined to die in the competition.

It is also because of this that Zhu Zhuqing developed such a cold and indifferent personality.

Apart from her sister, she has never felt much love since she was a child.

Now, even the sister who once cared for her has betrayed her and is dead, Zhu Zhuqing's heart has become even colder.

After hearing what Zhu Lanyan said, Zhu Zhuqing understood that until this moment, Zhu Lanyan probably had not thought about the possibility of her eldest daughter's death at all.

Therefore, in Zhu Lanyan's eyes, it was probably Zhu Zhuqing who escaped from Zhu Zhuyun by herself and then returned to the Zhu family's Duke's Mansion.

In Zhu Lanyan's eyes, this was naturally a meaningless action.

After all, they were her daughters, and she really didn't want to see them killing each other under her nose. But in other words, it was precisely for this reason that she allowed so many followers to help Zhu Zhuyun hunt down Zhu Zhuqing.

"Why are you coming back after running away so hard? You can't be begging me to save your life, right?"

Zhu Lanyan felt sad for her daughter, but also a little amused.

This is only natural.

Zhu Zhuyun's own strength is higher than Zhu Zhuqing's, and she has so many helpers around her. No matter how hard Zhu Lanyan thought, she could not have imagined this possibility.

"Since childhood...you, no, you have been like this." Zhu Zhuqing suddenly spoke.

She stared at Zhu Lanyan's stunning face with natural charm and elegance, and for the first time she felt that the mother who made her fearful and timid was actually not a big deal.

Zhu Zhuqing looked at him without any reflection, but questioned her mother instead. For the first time, she felt angry at this beautiful woman, and the corners of her mouth curled up unconsciously: "I killed my sister, so I came back."

Looking at Zhu Lanyan's face filled with astonishment and shock, Zhu Zhuqing had never felt so happy!
The mother who always seemed to have everything under control, like the sky of the Zhu family, was, in the face of a more powerful force, just an ordinary, shocked and disoriented woman.

"impossible!"

Zhu Lanyan's beautiful face twisted slightly, with a hint of urgency and disbelief, and then looked at Zhu Zhuqing with a stern look: "How could you possibly be able to do such a thing?"

Zhu Zhuqing was too lazy to argue with her and directly threw Zhu Zhuyun's already stiff head out from the storage soul guide device.

“You actually, really…!?”

Zhu Lanyan looked at the frozen corpse. Her motherly intuition confirmed that the head was not fake. Her heart seemed to have experienced a magnitude 9 earthquake, and she blurted out, "She is your sister!"

Hearing these incomprehensible words, Zhu Zhuqing was stunned for a rare moment, and then burst into laughter.

"Hahaha! Sister!? Now you tell me she is my sister!?"

Zhu Zhuqing laughed sadly, laughed happily, laughed crazily, and laughed until tears came out.

It is completely different from the cold and aloof attitude of the past.

Zhu Zhuqing looked down at her mother, who seemed to be nailed to the desk with a panicked look on her face. She laughed even more happily, "That's it! That's it! I wanted to see your expression right now, hahaha! Are you in pain? Are you sad? Are you panicked? This is your retribution! You deserve it!"

"What do I deserve?" Zhu Lanyan was unusually confused.

Zhu Zhuqing stopped laughing. She just curled her lips and moved closer to her mother, less than five centimeters away. She sneered and said, "Always... you always act as if you have everything under control, but in fact, you haven't done anything. Since you chose to stand aside and watch from the beginning, don't wait until things don't develop as you expected before you start to cry! My stupid and useless mother!"

After saying this, Zhu Zhuqing finally distanced herself from him and turned to walk out the door.

Just as she was about to walk out of the study room, she suddenly seemed to remember something she had forgotten. She turned around and smiled at the distraught Zhu Lanyan, "I almost forgot, mother, I came here to tell you - I'm back. From now on, there will be no second young lady in the Zhu family. There will only be me, Zhu Zhuqing!"

Not long after Zhu Zhuqing left, a handsome and elegant man walked in with several guards behind him.

The two did not conceal their argument, and Zhu Lanyan naturally had to be protected by guards while she was working.

The reason why they didn't rush in to stop it was simply because this was a conversation between Zhu Lanyan and Zhu Zhuqing, mother and daughter, and as servants, they were naturally in a dilemma.

What's more... according to Zhu Zhuqing, from now on, she is the successor. They dare not offend her blindly.

So until this moment, they dared to come in.

The handsome and elegant middle-aged man, who was obviously not dressed as a guard, approached Zhu Lanyan with a worried look on his face and said, "Madam, are you okay? It's natural for Zhuqing to feel resentful. I will go talk to her later. This family rule was not set by you. No matter what, she should respect you as a mother..."

Zhu Lanyan suddenly raised her head and looked at her handsome husband, but the more she looked at him, the weaker he seemed.

There was no place to vent the resentment caused by Zhu Zhuqing, and now the best punching bag was delivered to the door...

"roll!"

Zhu Lanyan shouted angrily, and her soul power vibrated, directly blasting her husband against the wall of the study, and he slid down like a painting.

"master!?"

The two guards were horrified and rushed forward to check on the elegant man's condition.

Fortunately, although Zhu Lanyan was venting her anger, she still held back a bit. Plus, the man was able to marry into the wife's family as a son-in-law, and as the biological father of high-quality offspring, his qualifications were not too bad, and he only suffered minor injuries.

Zhu Lanyan didn't even look at the middle-aged man lying on the ground, holding his chest and gasping for breath, and began to give orders to the two guards.

She first looked at Zhu Zhuyun's head with an unbearable pain and said, "Ask the head maid to come and collect Zhuyun's...body."

Then he added: "Pass my order to Zhu Zhuqing and ask her to wait for me in the main hall."

When she said this, Zhu Lanyan's expression had completely regained its composure.

Although she was indeed shocked and at a loss just now, Zhu Lanyan had been a duchess for decades after all, and she knew very well that what she should do now was not to immerse herself in pain and shock, but to respond normally in time. (End of this chapter)