Chapter 6

“Your Majesty—” Song Lian stood upright and gave Xia Yan a deep bow.

“What is it?” Xia Yan’s tone carried a hint of fatigue.

Song Lian carefully observed Xia Yan and noticed that the Empress was in a bad mood, yet he couldn’t suppress his smile.

“I have some good news to share with Your Majesty.”

Xia Yan was momentarily stunned.

“Oh? What good news?” Her face showed a hint of anticipation.

“Earlier, Your Majesty asked me to enter General Zheng information into the main system for marriage matching, right? Well, just now, the system has found a suitable match for General Zheng.”

Xia Yan was taken aback.

Immediately, her expression changed to one of delight.

“Really?!” She leaned forward, her body slightly out of control.

General Qin Zheng was her nephew.

The young man had caused her just as much trouble with his marriage issues as her own son.

She had pushed him several times, and only then did he finally relent and set some conditions.

But when she thought of those conditions now, they still made her headache.

First, the female must be under thirty.

Second, the female’s spiritual power must be no lower than grade A, or her mental potential must be no lower than grade S.

Third, the female must not have more than three beast companions.

These three conditions seemed simple, and she could find plenty of females who met one or two of them.

However, when combined, even as the Empress, she couldn’t find a suitable match.

Females under thirty, with spiritual power at grade A or mental potential at grade S, were extremely rare. And these females were all extraordinary talents.

Since they were talents, it was normal for them to have beast companions.

Even if they had three beast companions, that was considered normal.

With no other options, she had asked Song Lian to find a way to match her nephew with a female who met these requirements.

Unfortunately, Song Lian couldn’t find a suitable match either.

In the end, she had agreed to let Song Lian enter her nephew’s information into the main system and try their luck.

The main system’s marriage matching project had been running for years, but very few females had joined the matching pool.

She didn’t have high hopes, but unexpectedly, just a month later, Song Lian had told her that a match had been found.

“Is it true?” Xia Yan asked, her voice tinged with excitement.

Song Lian smiled. “It is indeed true.”

“Quickly send me the female’s information!”

“Please wait, Your Majesty.” Song Lian nodded and opened the data on his holographic screen.

Xia Yan quickly received the information.

She opened it to view.

Chu Ning, 20 years old, physical fitness A, spiritual power grade C, mental potential S, currently unmarried.

“Chu Ning’s biological information matches General Zheng’s by 96%, and she meets all of General Zheng’s requirements. I took the liberty of having her background checked.” Song Lian said to Xia Yan.

Xia Yan glanced at Song Lian, then asked, “What’s her background?”

“Chu Ning turned 20 just yesterday. She originally had three unmarried beast companions. But yesterday, those three beasts came to her to call off the engagement, and she broke off the engagement with them.”

“She must have joined the marriage matching system because of this.”

Xia Yan paused for a moment, then continued reviewing the data.

“Her mental potential is S, and she’s quite attractive. Why did her beast companions break off the engagement?” Moreover, this happened on her 20nd birthday—was it deliberate?

“She was framed.”

“Your Majesty, if you check her background and the video I sent, you’ll understand the reason,” Song Lian said, his face expressing clear approval of Chu Ning.

Xia Yan didn’t ask more questions and continued reading the materials.

After reviewing the written data and videos, she finally understood the situation.

“That Chu Xin is really foolish. She abandoned her own extraordinarily talented biological daughter and chose to favor an opportunistic adopted daughter.” Perhaps because she thought of Chu Ning as her niece, Xia Yan felt some sympathy for her.

“Chu’s family has declined a lot in recent years. Chu Xin probably thought that by cultivating that adopted daughter, she could restore the family’s former glory.” Song Lian continued.

“Heh.” Xia Yan sneered.

“Relying on an B-grade female to revive the Chu family, she’s overestimating herself.”

Song Lian then shared more information about Chu Yan, the adopted daughter.

This girl’s talent was indeed good—only 20 years old and already a B-grade in spiritual power, a genius—but not a prodigy.

The top noble families of the Federation remained strong not just because of their deep heritage, but also because of their S-grade or even double S-grade beast companions.

Many years ago, the Chu family had ranked among the top families, but after the death of their S-grade alchemist, their decline began.

Chu Xin’s desire to revive the Chu family was understandable, but abandoning her own S-grade biological daughter for an B-grade adopted daughter could only be described as foolish.

“She probably didn’t know that Chu Ning’s mental potential is S,” Song Lian remarked.

Xia Yan nodded.

“A month ago, Chu Ning’s spiritual power was E, and her mental potential was C. Now her spiritual power is C, and her mental potential is S. How did she achieve this…?”

“It’s possible that her last test results were inaccurate, or perhaps… Chu Yan tampered with the results,” Song Lian speculated.

“Chu Yan didn’t stop scheming against her after Chu Ning returned to the Chu family.”

Xia Yan pondered for a moment, agreeing with this view.

She put away the holographic screen and looked back at Song Lian.

“Chu Xin is clueless, so it’s better for us to take Chu Ning.”

After a pause, she continued, “Chu Ning matches with three beast companions.”

“Qing’er is one of them. Also… please match her with my son, Ye’er. If the match reaches more than 70%, then consider my Ye’er as one of the options.”

Chu Ning’s conditions were good, and she was also going to be Qin Zheng’s wife.

Ye’er and Qin Zheng had a good relationship, so maybe they could both marry her. Qin Zheng might accept it after all.

Song Lian looked up at Xia Yan.

The Empress was openly asking him to make an exception.

A future S-grade master aligning with the royal family through marriage was certainly a good thing for the royals…

However, the Empress wasn’t asking him to directly arrange the match; instead, she mentioned that the match between her son and Chu Ning must be over 70%, which was reasonable enough.

“Understood,” Song Lian responded.

Xia Yan smiled.

“The third option…”

“The third option will be assigned by the main system,” Song Lian suddenly interrupted.

He bowed deeply, unwavering.

Some principles had to be upheld.

Xia Yan’s smile faded slightly.

After a moment of silence, she nodded.

“Alright.”

“Your Majesty is wise,” Song Lian quickly said, bowing once more.

The two continued their conversation for a while before Xia Yan dismissed Song Lian.

Two hours after Song Lian left, Xia Yan received another message from him.

Her youngest son’s biological information had a match rate of 90% with Chu Ning.