Faced with the mother he had never seen since he could remember, Zhou Ye showed no awkwardness. If anything, he was poised and generous.
Yalveth, on the other hand, was facing her son for the first time and seemed somewhat unaccustomed to it. Zhou Ye controlled the rhythm of the conversation from start to finish, and in just a few words, he dug up every last detail about her.
"So that's how it is. The Female Warrior Tribe can only have girls, and all the boys born to them are sent away."
Zhou Ye wore an expression that said, I understand now.
"But Mother really was foolish. If you'd submitted to Great Zhou from the start, we wouldn't have had to be separated."
"..."
That brat's smug manner is exactly like Zhou Xu's.
Still, children were children, and they ultimately saw many things as far too simple.
Your mother was doing just fine when she was queen!
Who could have imagined back then that Great Zhou would swallow the Holy Roland Empire and grow into such a colossal behemoth?
Her decision to lead the Female Warrior Tribe in submitting to Great Zhou was, in a sense, a choice made after she had run out of options.
"Then, Mother, are you going to stay in Black Moon City from now on?"
Zhou Ye gazed at Yalveth with a pair of dark, sparkling eyes.
Perhaps it was a mother's instinct, but at that moment, seeing the anticipation in Zhou Ye's eyes softened something inside Yalveth, and even her voice grew gentler.
"In a few days, I still have to return to the Female Warrior Tribe's territory to take care of something."
Hearing this, Zhou Ye instinctively felt a trace of disappointment. Seeing this, Yalveth abruptly changed tack.
"But your sister Xigluen will