Major General Alpha (19): Gu Juntian didn’t know that many people were already helping him to carry out his dream of “rebellion”.

Gu Juntian no longer made small moves toward Zhou Qinghao. He placed his hands on the conference table and looked seriously at the people in front of him.

The people sitting opposite him were the elites of the First Legion, worthy of his full attention.

Gu Juntian said, “From childhood to adulthood, I have faced seven assassination attempts. When I was seven, poisoned food appeared on my dining table. When I was twelve, a mentally unstable person who hated the royal family suddenly appeared beside me…”

He spoke slowly, recounting all the dangers the original owner had encountered, then sighed. “And these are only the dangers that reached me, the ones I could see. Behind the scenes, there must have been far more that were stopped before they got close.”

What Gu Juntian said was startling.

Those watching the livestream were amazed. “My god, has the Crown Prince’s life really been this dangerous since childhood?”

“Is this even real?”

“Who wants him dead?”

“Who else? Whoever benefits the most from his death is the one who wants him gone.”

…

Every one of those assassination attempts, no matter how they were investigated, could not be linked to the royal family. Sometimes, the assassins were even enemies of Marshal Lei.

As a result, Marshal Lei could not seek justice—he could only create trouble for the royal family after each incident.

Before the original owner entered the military academy, Marshal Lei even pulled off something astonishing—no one knew how he managed it—but he planted a small robot in the emperor’s bedchamber and poisoned the Second Prince with an unknown toxin, leaving him hospitalized for a month.

After that, there were no more assassination attempts on the original owner.

Of course, Gu Juntian was not going to mention the things Marshal Lei had done.

He continued, “Aside from occasional assassination attempts, the people around me have always harbored ill intentions toward me, to the point that I couldn’t trust anyone nearby. Back then, I was young and didn’t know what to do, so I chose to pretend to be weak and incompetent, to use that as a way to test the people around me.”

“Your Highness…” Several S-class powerhouses looked at Gu Juntian with sympathy, visibly moved. The livestream audience also felt sympathy for him.

“Over time, I became accustomed to wearing that disguise. I did it because I wanted to know the goals of the person behind it all. Then I discovered that this person truly wanted to destroy me. They placed many people by my side.”

Going through the original owner’s memories and the original plot, Gu Juntian continued, “For example, my advisor—he appeared to plan for my benefit in every way, but he constantly encouraged me to do things that would ruin my reputation. He repeatedly told me how dangerous the battlefield was and urged me not to go, telling me to hand all the dangerous missions to Qinghao instead.”

The advisor he mentioned was the very person who had first publicly accused Gu Juntian online of stealing Zhou Qinghao’s military achievements.

Netizens flooded the chat: “I used to think he was upright and righteous, but so this is the truth!”

“So cunning!”

“There are too many people around the Crown Prince who mean him harm!”

“Of course! If the people around him were trustworthy, would this livestream even be happening?”

…

“And then there’s Grimond—he was always speaking ill of Qinghao to me. This time, the coordinates for this desolate planet came from him. He wanted me to bring Qinghao here so that he’d die at the hands of the Zergs,” Gu Juntian added.

Coincidentally, Grimond was the same person who had sworn that Gu Juntian was colluding with the Zergs.

The signal source for this livestream came from him, and earlier, he had been providing commentary for it.

Netizens posted again: “I knew Grimond was no good!”

“He must be one of the Second Prince’s people!”

“I agree. The Crown Prince already said before that the Second Prince was colluding with the Zergs.”

…

“They’re all the Second Prince’s people?” asked an S-class general seated across from Gu Juntian.

When Gu Juntian had asked for their help earlier, he had already told them about the Second Prince’s dealings with the Zergs.

“Yes,” Gu Juntian replied, “but rather than say they’re the Second Prince’s people, it’s more accurate to say they’re my father’s people.”

The people across from him were all startled.

The livestream viewers were stunned as well.

“My brother doesn’t have the ability to plant so many people by my side. If it were just him, I wouldn’t have needed to hide my strength for so long!” Gu Juntian said. “Only my father has that much power. He’s still my father, so I wanted to endure it before, but I didn’t expect him to collude with the Zergs and try to kill Qinghao. That, I absolutely cannot tolerate!”

When he finished speaking, Gu Juntian stood and said to those before him, “Everyone, I’ve decided not to endure this any longer. I believe someone who colludes with the Zergs is unfit to be emperor!”

The people across from him also stood, speaking one after another:

“Your Highness, you want His Majesty to abdicate?”

“Your Highness, I will support you ascending the throne!”

“You killed the Zerg queen—I believe everyone will support you!”

“Your Highness, I’ll follow your lead!”

…

The livestream audience was confused. “What’s going on here?”

“The Crown Prince wants to usurp the throne?”

“Is this… the Crown Prince plotting with others, and we’re seeing it live?”

…

But Gu Juntian said, “No, I have no intention of ascending the throne. I think the royal family shouldn’t exist at all!”

The livestream audience was even more bewildered.

Gu Juntian was the undisputed heir to the throne.

Even without evidence of the emperor’s collusion with the Zergs, with Gu Juntian’s slaying of the Zerg queen, the entire empire would support him becoming emperor.

Even if his character were questionable, people would overlook it.

But now he was saying he thought the royal family shouldn’t exist!

In the conference room, someone asked, “Crown Prince, what are you planning to do?”

Livestream viewers also posted rapidly:

“Crown Prince, what are you trying to do?”

“Your Highness, why rebel?”

“Your Highness, you’re the first in line to the throne—wake up!”

…

Gu Juntian said, “I believe all members of the royal family who have committed crimes should be judged. I believe the royal family shouldn’t receive so many privileges. I believe those who disregard the lives of ordinary people are unworthy of respect!”

Both the people in the conference room and the livestream audience fell silent.

In the Human Empire, the royal family enjoyed countless privileges. To name just one, many royal family properties were tax-exempt, which alone brought them immense unearned wealth every year.

As for other matters, ordinary people didn’t know the full extent.

Gu Juntian continued, “Everyone must be hungry. Let’s eat something and talk slowly.”

The original owner was a royal family member, and Marshal Lei bore a grudge against the royal family, so Gu Juntian knew many royal secrets.

For example, some royal family members kept young Omegas or Betas on private planets for pleasure, and they even targeted young Alphas.

Or that the emperor had once abused Gu Juntian’s mother.

And that royal family members, after taking a liking to a merchant’s company, would force the merchant to his death and seize the business.

By comparison, secretly manipulating the stock market to amass huge wealth was considered a minor offense.

As he ate, Gu Juntian revealed these scandals.

The entire empire joined in watching the spectacle.

They had always known the royal family wasn’t clean, but they hadn’t known the extent of the rot.

Everything that had once been carefully hidden was now being exposed by their Crown Prince.

“Holy crap! What kind of people are these?!”

“They’ve gone too far!”

“The royal family should have been abolished long ago!”

…

At this point, more and more people began attacking Gu Juntian.

The royal family members were all watching the livestream.

Now that the fire was at their doorstep, there was no way they would just sit and do nothing.

“Gu Juntian only knows how to accuse others. Does he think he’s a saint himself?”

“He still doesn’t dare make his relationship with Zhou Qinghao public, does he?”

“He says the emperor treated his mother badly, using her as a tool, but what about him? He’s been pursuing Amos this whole time!”

…

Most of the dirt on Gu Juntian had already been cleared up, but the thing people criticized him for the most now was his pursuit of Amos.

The internet was in chaos, yet Gu Juntian was still eating.

While eating, whenever he saw something tasty, he would pick it up and place it on Zhou Qinghao’s plate.

Since he had decided not to hide his strength anymore, there was no need to keep their relationship secret either.

Sure enough, someone asked, “Lieutenant General Gu, are you very close to Lieutenant general Zhou?”

Gu Juntian replied, “Of course. We’re lovers. We’ve been together for over ten years!”

The people eating froze in shock.

Both Gu Juntian and Zhou Qinghao were Alphas!

Gu Juntian was happy to tell these people about his relationship with Zhou Qinghao, so he said directly, “The first time I met Qinghao, I liked him. We started dating back in military school.”

“But Lieutenant General Gu, I heard you were pursuing Amos!” said a young A-level Alpha.

Hearing this, Zhou Qinghao also turned to look at Gu Juntian.

He had always wanted to know what was going on with that video.

Many media outlets had reported on Gu Juntian pursuing Amos, so the people in the conference room naturally wanted to hear his explanation.

The livestream audience was even more curious.

When Gu Juntian heard the name “Amos,” his heart skipped a beat.

Fortunately, he had already prepared an answer!

Gu Juntian said, “I never pursued him. I was just acting along with him. He was clearly dating my brother but deliberately approached me to get information. I went along with it to find out some things about the Third Legion… I never even held his hand. Whenever he tried to confirm a relationship with me, I made excuses to avoid it.”

The original owner had indeed made some promises to Amos—like saying he would marry him as his queen once he became emperor.

But their relationship was very pure; they hadn’t even held hands, let alone officially dated.

“He’s dating the Second Prince?” someone exclaimed.

“Yes,” Gu Juntian said. “They’ve known each other since he was very young. They started dating when he was nineteen, and they’ve been together for seven years now. That’s about half as long as I’ve been with Qinghao.”

Amos and the Second Prince had been secretly dating, with very few people knowing. But in the previous life, before the original owner was thrown onto the garbage star, the Second Prince had told him.

Thinking of this, Gu Juntian added, “He and the Second Prince used fake identities and would go out together all the time. Do you remember that incident on Capital Star? The one where an Omega went into heat in public, causing many Alphas to go wild and try to mark him, and several were injured by the Alpha beside him—two even died? Yes, the Har Mall incident… The Omega in heat was Amos, and the Alpha who killed those two people was the Second Prince. When I was listing the royal family’s crimes earlier, I forgot to mention this one. I suspect my brother tampered with his inhibitors to make him go into heat on purpose, just so he could mark him. Those two Alphas who died were truly wronged.”

In this era, inhibitors were so advanced that public heats were almost nonexistent for Omegas.

If an ordinary Omega went into heat in public, it wouldn’t have much impact.

But when an S-level Omega had a violent heat in public—especially one made worse by drugs—the Alphas nearby were inevitably affected.

From what the original owner learned, the Alphas affected that time had already lost all reason and didn’t know what they were doing.

While injuring them to protect the Omega could be understood, killing them was going too far.

Especially since that heat was most likely deliberately engineered for the sake of a “hero saves beauty” moment to mark Amos.

The people on the StarNet were once again shocked.

“Amos was already dating the Second Prince?”

“In the video Amos released, the Crown Prince said Zhou Qinghao was too jealous, so he didn’t confirm their relationship. So that was just an excuse.”

“The Crown Prince said he’d marry Amos if he became emperor, but he never even planned on becoming emperor…”

“The main characters of the Har Mall incident were Amos and the Second Prince?”

“Those Alphas really lacked self-control, but killing them—wasn’t that too much?”

“I remember one of the Alphas killed was only sixteen, in pheromone instability, which makes them especially reactive to Omega pheromones… He really was wronged.”

…

Gu Juntian went on, “Speaking of the royal family’s crimes, that battle where Qinghao killed four advanced Zergs was clearly orchestrated after certain people made a deal with the Zerg queen. At the time, someone even stopped me from going to support him. If I really hadn’t gone, Qinghao would’ve died, and his base would’ve been wiped out by the high level Zergs. Who knows how many people would’ve died.”

At this point, Gu Juntian gave a detailed account of that battle, with the five A-level Alphas who had fought alongside him adding details.

The First Legion soldiers under Zhou Qinghao immediately posted combat footage from that time online, including a video of Gu Juntian piloting a warship to kill a high level Zerg.

There was also video of Gu Juntian commanding the five A-level Alphas in battle against a high level Zerg.

When Gu Juntian was hated across the entire net, Zhou Qinghao’s subordinates had also disliked him intensely.

But now…

Their Lieutenant general and the Crown Prince were openly affectionate—why keep fighting? Just support them.

“The situation was really critical back then.”

“At the time, Zhou Qinghao was the only one who posed a threat to the Zerg queen, and he almost died!”

“I suddenly wonder… Could the Crown Prince’s past habit of stealing Zhou Qinghao’s achievements have been to make him less conspicuous, so the Zerg queen wouldn’t notice him?”

“That’s really possible! In history, many warriors with outstanding records died surrounded by high level Zergs!”

“Why are you still talking about this? Go vote in the referendum to abolish the royal family!”

“Yes, the royal family shouldn’t exist!”

…

The Human Empire’s political system was a constitutional monarchy.

There was a monarch, but the constitution limited the monarch’s powers.

Even so, from time to time, people had called for the abolition of the royal family.

In the past, public opinion of the royal family had been fairly positive, so they remained in place—but now things were different.

At this moment, everyone felt that the royal family truly shouldn’t exist.

They also believed that people like the Second Prince must be tried.

Gu Juntian had no idea that the “rebellion” he dreamed of already had many people working toward it.

After eating his fill, he began to feel restless and wanted to do something to Zhou Qinghao.

Because Amos had been mentioned earlier, he was a little worried Zhou Qinghao might be angry, so he decided to test the waters.

Gu Juntian took Zhou Qinghao’s hand again, and when he saw that Zhou Qinghao didn’t resist, he happily gave it a few extra squeezes.

The people in front of them were too shocked by his barrage of revelations to notice his little gestures.

Right now, they didn’t even have the mind to think about Gu Juntian and Zhou Qinghao’s Alpha-Alpha romance—they only wanted to see those who colluded with the Zergs punished.

“The Second Prince’s collusion with the Zerg queen must be thoroughly investigated!”

“They’re betraying all of humanity!”

“If it weren’t for Lieutenant General Gu, not only would Zhou Qinghao have been in danger, but countless soldiers would’ve died on the battlefield!”

…

“Yes, it must be investigated thoroughly!” Gu Juntian agreed. He was no longer content with just holding Zhou Qinghao’s hand with one hand—he clasped it with both.

Netizens: “…” Your Highness, at such a serious moment, while we’re all out here fighting for you, pushing a referendum to abolish the royal family, you’re over there holding hands—do you think that’s appropriate?

At that moment, Gu Juntian added, “Everyone, I had the battle between me and the Zerg queen recorded by an AI robot. When we get back, I’ll have it properly publicized to rally public support for me and Zhou Qinghao. Then we’ll expose the royal family’s crimes. I believe that by then, all the wrongdoers will be punished! Next, we can discuss what to do moving forward.”

He wanted to discuss with them how to publicize his relationship with Zhou Qinghao.

And they needed to plan carefully how to target the royal family.