() "Xingke!?" Jiang Lihua subconsciously shouted after hearing Li Xingke's name.

"Lihua, it's not okay to call other men by their names in front of my dear." Seeing this, Kagura Ye on the side lowered his head and lectured Jiang Lihua.

"I'm sorry." Jiang Lihua looked carefully at Ito Cheng who was standing next to the eunuch Tong Lun and whispered.

"Sir, I know." At the same time, Tong Lun, who also heard the inquiry, immediately clasped his fists and bowed towards Ito Cheng.

"Li Xingke was born into a family of lower-level officials. He is proficient in martial arts and strategy. He once studied in the Federal Military Academy and was promoted to military attache due to his outstanding performance. He is now on standby and temporarily serves as Gao Hai's bodyguard." Then Tong Lun said in a serious manner. Introduced to Ito Cheng.

"I didn't see it, but you know him quite well." Ito Cheng said with a sidelong glance at Tong Lun.

Tong Lun, who was unclear about the meaning of Ito Cheng's words, responded with silence.

"Go and find Li Xingke and a woman named Zhou Xianglin." Ito Cheng didn't care about Tong Lun's silence. He turned around and ordered while walking towards the emperor.

"Yes." Tong Lun responded respectfully. Then he didn't even raise his head, and just kept the saluting posture and exited the room. Then he straightened up and found a nearby guard, asking him to summon Li Xingke and Zhou Xianglin to the palace.

"Is that person named Li Xingke very important to you?" Ito Cheng, who slowly walked back to the emperor, lowered his head and asked Jiang Lihua.

"I just had an agreement with him." Jiang Lihua looked up at Ito Cheng and said.

"Have you made an engagement?" Kagura asked from the side.

"No, it was an agreement made six years ago to go abroad." Jiang Lihua shook her head slightly and said.

"Oh." Kagura looked at Jiang Lihua meaningfully and said in a long tone.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Lihua asked, feeling a little uncomfortable with Kagura Ye's strange eyes.

"It's nothing." Kaguraye's expression changed and he said playfully. Then he leaned forward, put his face in front of Jiang Lihua, and continued seriously, "But Lihua. You have already made an engagement with my dear, and you cannot mentally think about other men, even if that person is with you." Even what was promised before is not allowed. Do you understand?"

"Oh." Jiang Lihua responded with some confusion, "I know."

"Well, that's right." Kagura, who stared at Jiang Lihua quietly for a few seconds, put a smile on her face again, straightened up, and turned around to Ito Cheng's side. She said holding his arms in her arms.

Ito Shige, who fully understood the meaning of what Kagura did just now, raised his left arm, gently placed it on Kagura's head, and started rubbing it gently.

Kagura, who had her head rubbed, closed her eyes as comfortably as a kitten. Leaning his head on Ito Cheng's arm, enjoying Ito Cheng's rubbing.

Then Ito Cheng retracted his palm, and with Kagura almost hanging on him, he came to sit next to Jiang Lihua, waiting for the arrival of Li Xingke and the woman named Zhou Xianglin.

Time did not pass long, just over twenty minutes, Li Xingke and Zhou Xianglin, dressed in traditional costumes of the Chinese Federation, walked into the emperor's palace under the leadership of the eunuch Tong Lun.

Li Xingke, who walked into the palace, frowned and glanced at Ito Cheng who was sitting next to the emperor. At the same time, he unconsciously tightened and opened his palms several times. Then, together with Zhou Xianglin, who was half a body behind him, he knelt on the ground and saluted the emperor, "I, Li Xingke (Zhou Xianglin), have met His Majesty the Emperor."

"You two are equal." Jiang Lihua, who saw Li Xingke again after many years of absence, first turned to look at Ito Cheng who was sitting next to her, and then said to Li Xingke and Zhou Xianglin who were kneeling on the ground.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Xingke and Zhou Xianglin thanked him in unison. Then he stood up from the ground.

"I don't know why Your Majesty is waiting for this recruitment..." Li Xingke looked at the eight eunuchs standing on both sides of the palace, who looked like loyal slaves, and said to the emperor.

"It's not me who invited you here this time, but the person next to me, Ito Cheng." The emperor explained, because he was familiar with Li Xingke, so he didn't feel much fear.

After hearing the emperor's words, Li Xingke and Zhou Xianglin looked up at Ito Cheng at the same time. But compared to Zhou Xianglin's simple inspection, Li Xingke's eyes were much sharper and more murderous.

"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Ito Cheng, and I am the person who has made an engagement with the emperor." Ito Cheng said quietly while looking at Li Xingke and Zhou Xianglin.

"What!?" Li Xingke's face showed anger when he heard this, and he suddenly turned his head to look at the eight eunuchs standing on both sides. Obviously in Li Xingke's heart, Ito Cheng had reached some private deal with them. bastard.

"You don't have to look at them. What happened this time has nothing to do with them, but the emperor's own wishes." Ito Cheng, who roughly guessed what Li Xingke was thinking from his actions, said quietly.

"Is it true? Your Majesty the Emperor?" Li Xingke looked at the Emperor after hearing this and asked with a frown.

"Yes." Jiang Lihua looked at Ito Cheng and Kagura Ye beside her, then at Li Xingke who was standing there, and confirmed softly.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me for being so presumptuous." After hearing the emperor's confirmation, Li Xing lowered his head and respectfully apologized. Then, without waiting for the emperor to speak, he looked directly up at Ito Cheng, slowly pulled out the sword from his waist, and shouted sternly. He asked, "Who are you? What's the purpose of coming to our Chinese Federation? Why are you so close to the Emperor? If you can't give me a satisfactory answer, I will show no mercy to you."

"Li Xingke, you are really presumptuous." Ito Cheng squinted at Li Xingke and said coldly, "Let's not talk about who I am, what is the purpose of coming to the Chinese Federation, or why I am close to the emperor, but just My current status as the emperor's betrothed is not something you can question rudely. What's more, as a minister, what status do you have to question the emperor's decision."

"Ito Cheng, Xingke..." Seeing that the atmosphere between the two had changed in vain, Jiang Lihua called to the two with a worried look.

"Things between men are not something we women should get involved in, let alone in this situation." Kagura Ye, who was sitting next to the emperor, said to Jiang Lihua in a low voice with a smile.

"Those who serve must be loyal to the emperor! As a minister of the emperor, even if I have a bad reputation, I must eliminate all threats around me for the emperor!" Li Xingke, who was making sword gestures, stared at Ito without blinking. Cheng said in a deep voice.

"Haha, what a minister, you should be loyal to the emperor." Ito Cheng slowly stood up from the emperor's side and sneered. Then while walking towards Li Xingke, he asked in a cold voice, "Is it what a minister should do if he decides on the emperor's private affairs? And dancing with a sharp weapon in front of the emperor, is this what a minister should do? Relying on one's own decision." Determining the fate of the emperor, this is what a minister should do? Are you kidding me!?"

Following Ito Cheng's questioning, Ito Cheng, who was standing one meter away from Li Xingke, pounced on Li Xingke's body with a concentrated momentum.

"The emperor is young, his ambitions are not yet fulfilled, and there are eunuchs around him who influence the emperor's hearing, so it is easy to be deceived by false appearances. Therefore, as ministers, we should use clear words to correct the emperor's mind, and we should use clear reasons to rectify the emperor's ears and eyes. As the emperor, I will protect the people around me, even if the history books of later generations are written on paper, I will not hesitate!" Li Xingke, whose body trembled slightly under the pressure of Ito Cheng's momentum and sweat appeared on his forehead, relied on the loyalty in his heart to persist in himself. Without falling, he looked at Ito Cheng with bright eyes and said.

Ito looked at Li Xingke so quietly for a moment, and then he let out a cold "hum". When Li Xingke vomited blood and fell to the ground due to his cold snort, he withdrew the momentum that was pressing down on him, turned around and started again. He walked back to the emperor and sat down.

"...Xingke..." The emperor looked at Li Xingke who was vomiting blood on the ground and shouted with worry.

"Karen, come back." Ito Chengcheng and Zhou Xianglin greeted Kallen who was facing each other.

Karen, who heard Ito Cheng's greeting, did not hesitate and slowly retreated to Ito Cheng's side.

"For the sake of your loyalty to the emperor, I can tell you my purpose, but if you want to block my career with your own person later, even if Lihua is sad because of this, I will kill you on the spot!" Ito! Cheng looked at Li Xingke, who was standing up from the ground with his hands on his chest and holding a sword, and said coldly.

"Hmph." In the brief confrontation, Li Xingke, who lost inexplicably, knew very well that he was no match for Ito Cheng, so he did not refute, and just snorted coldly and listened to Ito Cheng's plan with Zhou Xianglin.

"My purpose is very simple. With the help of the Chinese Federation, we can unify the world. Then we can establish a new central government and proclaim ourselves emperor!" Ito Cheng said as he looked at Li Xingke with squinted eyes.

"You are pushing the Chinese Federation to the brink of annihilation!" Li Xingke's expression changed when he heard this, and he said coldly.

"That's just because you haven't seen my power. Once you see my power, you won't think so." Ito Cheng sneered after hearing this.

"Then what do you plan to do to the emperor?" Li Xingke did not dwell on the so-called power in Ito Cheng's mouth, but directly asked what he was most concerned about.

"She is my betrothed and will naturally become the princess of my new empire." Ito Cheng said matter-of-factly.

"Don't you think your plan is a bit ridiculous?". Li Xingke looked at Ito Cheng with a mocking look on his face and said, "With the power of the Chinese Federation and the rights of the emperor, in the end, the emperor was only given the position of princess. Your abacus is loud enough."

"It doesn't matter what you think, that's my purpose. And the purpose of calling you here today is to ask you if you are willing to join me and dedicate yourself to me or to Lihua, who will definitely become my princess in the future. With the power, I can realize my great cause!" Ito Cheng looked at Li Xingke and asked in a broad voice.

Li Xingke looked at Ito Cheng, and then at the emperor who was sitting next to Ito Cheng, who was looking at him with concern on his face, and fell into deep thought. (To be continued.)