Crown Princess Consort 3

Empress Lutetia turned pale with horror. "How can that be? She's Zeonen's only hope!" If her precious son's heavenly destiny turns murky and becomes filled with hardship from associating with the girl, then how would he overcome the roadblock of his stagnant celestial energy?

Would he remain the laughing stock of the Seven Realms for life? Even eternity would become an unachievable dream for him!

The implication of such an outcome was too devastation for Empress Lutetia to handle. She staggered back and fainted on the spot.

"Empress! Empress! What's wrong with you!?" Seeing his wife lose consciousness, Emperor Cosom panicked. "Servants, come! Move the Empress to her chamber! Zeonen, go call the healer!"

"Yes...Yes, Father Emperor!" Equally startled and alarmed, the Crown Prince raced out of the Selection Pavilion towards the Medical Wing.

The pavilion fell in a momentary chaos as female servants streamed in and hastily carried the Empress away, while the realm gods and goddesses pulled their children to their sides.

Laila ran to Yusria's side and grabbed her hand, her expression filled with fear as she watched the heavenly family leave the pavilion. She was younger than her sister by 10 celestial years, many things often too complicated for her to understand. However, it wasn't difficult for her to figure out that her sister won the Crown Princess Consort competition, and her parents weren't happy with the outcome.

From the look of things, they even offended the heavenly family?

"Father, what's going to happen now? Will the Emperor hurt our family?" She sullenly asked.

"No, because we did nothing wrong. However, we won't be able to go home for a while." Sighing tiredly, Sky God Lucien looked at his wife. "Ida, let's go and see how the Empress is doing."

Though unwilling, Goddess Ida nodded and grabbed her daughter's other hand. The family of four followed the group of Gods and Goddesses to the Empiral Residence and waited outside the golden gates.

The Crown Prince returned with the Divine Healer, and the two entered the room without sparing the anxious crowd a glance.

"What is this? A good Crown Princess Selection Ceremony was ruined by the remarks of an insensitive couple! If something happens to the Empress..."

"Pah! Watch your words! The Empress is an origin goddess. A little shock won't do her any harm. Besides, not everything is as it seems on the surface."

"No matter. The Sky God shouldn't have reminded the Emperor of his daughter's ominous destiny. It's because of him that the Empress is out cold right now."

The gods and goddesses were dissatisfied with the sudden development and cold reception. They scolded the Sky God and Earth Goddess to vent their irritation, as they couldn't blame the heavenly family.

Destiny Goddess Rhea felt increasingly stifled. She was the one who prophecized the future of the Sky God's daughter. But the future of God Children were hard to predict. Many factors influenced the direction of their destiny, and aside from the line of darkness she glimpsed into, she couldn't read anything else in the girl's destiny.

As such, under the current situation, there was nothing she could do.

"Sky God, Destiny Goddess, the Heavenly Emperor and Empress seek your presence."

Right at this moment, a female servant exited the Empress's chamber and bowed at the two deities.

Yusria withdrew her hands from her mother and sister's grasp and grabbed her father's. "Father...I want to go with you." She said in a pleading tone.

Her mother instructed her to perform badly. She was supposed to sit and do nothing, wait until the competition ended, so they could go home. But because she couldn't control herself, she became the winner of the selection. The Heavenly Empress fainted, and now, the Heavenly Emperor requested for her father.

Was he going to punish him?

When she thought of this possibility, she couldn't help but feel worried.

"Yusria, behave yourself. This isn't the FloraFauna Realm." Goddess Ida sternly reprimanded her daughter and moved to pull her back to her side. But Yusria evaded her reach and clung onto her father's arm.

"Mother, I created this mess, so I should personally apologize to the Empress. If nothing else, I can plead with the Emperor to not punish Father too harshly."

"You! This isn't an issue a little kid like you should concern yourself with. Come here!"

"Let her be, Ida. You know her." Lucien's lips stretched into a faint smile at the stubborn expression on his daughter's face.

"But..."

"If Yusria insists on something, no one can change her mind. Would you rather let her go with me, or wait for her to make a great escape?"

Goddess Ida visibly stiffened. She was well aware of her daughter's nature. And now that the Empress was unconscious, Yusria probably held herself responsible. Until she saw Goddess Lutetia with her own eyes, she wouldn't rest easy.

"Let her come, Goddess Ida. This matter concerns her, and it's only right for her to be present." Rhea nodded at the Earth Goddess. "Don't worry, she'll be fine." She assured.

"Alright, then. I'll trouble you to look after her for me."

"It's no trouble at all. You can say Yusria and I were fated to meet. It's only right that I look after her."

Walking towards the golden door, Goddess Rhea rubbed the girl's head and strolled into the room.

The Empress's chamber was bright and wide. A cloud bed floated in the middle of the room, with the Crown Prince and Heavenly Emperor chatting with the conscious Empress on either side.

Sky God Lucien and Destiny Goddess Rhea paused at the foot of the gold cloud.

"Empress, how are you feeling?" Lucien tentatively asked.

"I'm well, Lucien."

"Empress, I'm sorry. You fainted because of my father. But I'm the reason he stepped out. If you're not feeling well, you can punish me. But can you forgive my father?"

"Yusria..."

"It's fine, Lucien. I'm not offended. She's a sensible child."

The Empress's gaze inadvertently fell on the veiled girl. Compared to the Water Goddess's daughter, she was more fond of this little girl.

"Rhea, when you said she can't have a relationship with any male aside from her father, what did you mean?" Father and daughter shared the connection of blood, so it wasn't anything significant for them to be close.

"Empress, Princess Yusria is different from ordinary god children. Her celestial universe isn't condensed out of golden liquid, but silver light. This enables her to easily absorb celestial energy, raising the speed of her cultivation. However, because of her silver light celestial universe, she easily attracts darkness. Any male who becomes close to her will become a target of dark energy."

The slight bit of color that returned to Empress Lutetia's face instantly receded at these words.

Zeonen's heart constricted at the sight of his Mother Empress's pale face. "Mother..."

Lightly patting her son's hand, Lutetia suppressed her anxiety and stared at the Destiny Goddess. "Rhea, I want Yusria to become Zeonen's Crown Princess. There must be a way to thwart her fate. After all, fate isn't absolute."

And she refused to accept her son's fate was to remain stuck in the celestial path forever.