CHAPTER 209: A LIFE CHANGING DECISON.

Jingzhe’s beseeching gaze looked to the front, hopeful that any of the Jun’s or Chi’s on the plane would come and rescue him from the insane empress mother.

Jingzhe was adamant to consider her as anything other than insane because she was back at it. Asking him to help her plan the murder of the empress.

"Empress mother, I thought we were just throwing out random ideas." He laughed nervously. "You have so many people that you employ, I am sure that one of them can come up with ideas...."

"Shhh!" The empress mother placed her hand over his mouth to keep him from talking. "But I only want you boy wonder."

Jingzhe shuddered. The words sounded so wrong, and very frightening.

The empress mother threw her head back and she laughed. "You are so easy to tease. Don’t worry, I don’t want you in a romantic or sexual way, I mean that I want your brains. I want you to work for me.

I have called you boy wonder because that is exactly what you are, or maybe I should just say genius. We all know that you are one.

By age three, you taught you had taught yourself how to read. You went on one of those brainy Tv shows, aced all the questions and won a prize of four million yuan. It made news of course and you rose to fame quickly.

This brought your biological father out of the shadows and he claimed you. He wanted you to go on more shows and help him become rich quickly. You refused to do so and you run away from home often.

Your stepmother abused you. Your mother Qiqi took pictures of your wounds and she threatened to go to the police which brought an end to the physical abuse."

She paused and sipped some juice through a straw.

"I don’t want to discuss that. I am more impressed with your accomplishments. By age seven, you hacked into the a local Tv station and played re-runs of your favorite movie all day.

At age nine, you were hacking into the ministry of education and selling test papers to students preparing for the College entrance exams.

At age ten, you were tutoring university students online under the alias, Professor Go You. Some of your former students are actually university professors today, some own their own businesses. Some are children of the royal family. Your identity as professor Go is still a secret and you retired it at the age of fifteen."

"Why are you telling me about my life experience?" Jingzhe asked her.

She smiled and answered, "Because I want you to understand that I am on your side. I appreciate your genius. You hacked the servers of Huaqi telecommunications because they cancelled your mother’s monthly plan and would not reimburse her money.

With forks and a chicken feather you created an antenna and taught Huaqi a lesson by providing an entire city with free Huaqi high speed internet for a week. They made hundreds of millions in losses."

Jingzhe cleared his throat and scratched the back of his neck. There was no chicken feather involved and he did not want this story out in the world. Huaqi could sue him.

The empress mother giggled. "But that is not the best one. Your education website used to be homework express. An underground academic empire you created where smart kids could connect with not so smart kids and help them do their homework in exchange for money and other things.

The only reason you were caught is because some smart kids got lazy and sold the same articles to children in the same school. You shut down the website as soon as unauthorized parties tried to access it."

"It is not a crime to share knowledge." Jingzhe muttered.

The empress mother shrugged. "We will never know now as this happened a very long time ago. Your list of mischief goes on and on. This includes three fake passports, one in which you had a very interesting beard."

Jingzhe grimaced.

The empress mother giggled. The taste of her juice was suddenly sweeter than before. "All of this was put on a pause when you were sent to juvenile detention and then signed up to go to Sword island."

Jingzhe clenched his jaw.

The empress mother detected the change in him and she raised her hand, urging him not to say anything. "Don’t worry, I will not say a word about the island or what you experienced there. I was aghast when I found out about that place. I am glad that it is gone. However I do wish to acquire your services as one of my advisors.

Should you say yes, you will get special privileges in the empire. If you wish to hold an office, I will make it possible.

Hear me out before rejecting me, Jun Meilin comes from an honorable titled house, her mother is Princess Chi Lian. I don’t even need to tell yo who her father is or her uncles and aunts.

You are an ordinary man. There will be occasions where you cannot sit with Meilin because you are not from the same class. She will sit with royalty and you will be somewhere in the crowd with other ordinary people.

There will be parties she must attend and you will not be able to go with her because you are not allowed to, legally. She can dine with princes of other nations, men that can give her even more than what you can give her.

Jun Meilin is extraordinary. She turned her back once on who and what she was for a man. I do not think that she will ever make such a stupid decision again. She even changed her daughter’s name to Jun.

If you want to be with her fully, you have to become extraordinary. I will help you get a title and you will officially ascend into aristocracy. You will be able to match her in status. You will not be her weakness but another source of strength."

"But only if I work for you." He said slowly.

The empress mother leaned back in her seat and got comfortable. A male flight attendant with a wide smile that was pushing a cart with fresh pastries, Juan teas and more juice approached them.

The empress mother requested for a chocolate and cherry bun and more juice. Jingzhe asked for cinnamon buns and mint tea.

Both received their orders and picked up their conversation from where it had stopped.

The empress mother went first. "This is a life changing decision. One that you will need to ponder on seriously and discuss with your mother. But I believe that it is a good thing. Jingzhe, everyone would kill for such an opportunity, don’t turn it down just because of fear or pride."

"I am not afraid." He said strongly. "I just don’t want a repeat of sword island."

His genius would never be used to accomplish the evil goals of others, ever again.