Crossing the stars, I live-streamed my cultivation in kindergarten

Chapter 404 Aksu Family

Irwin family.

With Hilcher absent, the elder in charge of family affairs rejected the cooperation request from Aksu family patriarch Kronos for the seventh time.

"I don't know where my Aksu family has offended the Elwin family, that they would suppress my Aksu family like this?"

“I am willing to offer half of my fortune in the hope that the Elwin family will calm their anger.”

Kronos couldn't understand why, despite some overlap in business activities, the Aksu and Elwyn families had kept to themselves for the past thousand years.

The Elwin family holds a prominent position in interstellar space, producing numerous powerful figures throughout history, with one patriarch even leading an empire.
Based on the Erwin family's consistent style of doing things, they would not take advantage of someone's misfortune, nor would they actively provoke conflicts between the various families.

Therefore, the Elwin family's unilateral and proactive pursuit and suppression in business left Kronos both bewildered and panicked.

To his bewilderment, he couldn't figure out what he had done to offend Hilcher.

What's alarming is that if Hilcher insists on suppressing them, the Aksu family has no power to fight back—whether it's the Aksu family in its heyday or now, innocently being suppressed by various forces.

The elder repeated, "Please return. This is an order personally given by our clan leader; I am powerless to disobey."

After saying that, he turned and left.

He's angry.

Since its founding, the Erwin family has always placed great importance on the upbringing of its descendants.

This is also why the family has been able to stand strong.

Therefore, the elders couldn't understand how the Aksu family could raise their own child to be so vicious.

Even the female partner she chose, the matriarch of a large family, was...

They actually want to seek cooperation and support?

Not to mention that the Elwyn family would never stand against the Star Beastmen, even without the patriarch's order to deal with the Aksu family, they would not ally with such a family.

Because of disdain.

The young clansman following behind the elder sneered, "Clan Chief Kronos, what are you thinking? Keep your Aksu family's wealth to yourself; our Elwyn family doesn't care. Do you really think our Elwyn family is a den of bandits?"

Even among the top noble families in the interstellar world, the Elwin family is at the very top of the pyramid, a level that ordinary top nobles can't even dream of.

As an elite member of such a large family, he had the confidence to say that he disdained half of the Aksu family's wealth.

Offer up half of your wealth?

It has to be something their family approves of.

Many families are willing to offer up their entire fortune to seek the protection of the Erwin family.

A mere minor noble family on the Imperial Star? How dare they even speak?

Moreover, they did such heinous things.

Cronus didn't want to leave empty-handed, so he tried to stop the departing elder.

"Elder, please wait..."

Upon seeing this, the orc who had come with Kronos also spoke up loudly: "At least let us know why Chieftain Hilcher wants to deal with the Aksu family? Is there some misunderstanding?" He was the middleman that Kronos had found.

If it weren't for him, Kronos wouldn't have had the chance to speak with the elders face-to-face, let alone enter the Elwyn family's gates.

Kronos: "My Aksu family does not believe that we have offended Patriarch Hilcher in any way."

The elder did not pause because of their words, and left without looking back.

The young orcs, however, were not so lucky.

He was being held tightly by the arm by Cronus. "Chief Cronus, please, let go!" His upbringing prevented him from simply throwing the man away.

After a stalemate lasting half an hour, the young orc had no choice but to hand him a vial of liquid and whisper a few words.

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Upon returning to his family, Kronos immediately gave the order: "Where is the young lady? Whatever she is doing, bring her to me immediately."

The words of advice from the young orc of the Elwynn family echoed in Kronos's ears.

What does it mean to manage both the clan and one's own offspring?
Also, what does it mean to pay attention to the person you share your bed with?
The words the other person whispered in his ear still send shivers down his spine.

Kronos gripped the liquid tube Elder Elwin had given him tightly, his chest heaving rapidly.

Christine arrived quickly.

"I met my father."

She kept her head down, completely concealing the crazy energy she displayed outside.

Kronos's voice was authoritative and cold: "How is your study of mental purification with Lady Bai Piaopiao going?"

His marriage to Elena was devoid of affection; it stemmed solely from an accident.

Before he had a relationship with Elena, he had a female he liked and they were at the point of discussing marriage.

However, an unexpected incident at a banquet resulted in Elena becoming pregnant after having a relationship with him, forcing him to marry her.

The interstellar beast race faces difficulties in reproduction, and neither his family nor he himself can abandon this unexpected offspring.

That little beast is Christine.

It was only after Christine came into his life that he began to slowly accept Elena.

Although he didn't like Elena, he genuinely loved Christine and valued her more than anything else.

This is why Christine's status in the Aksu family is several times higher than that of the matriarch, Elena.

This is also why Elena wants to hold onto Christine tightly, using Christine to increase her influence within the Aksu family and achieve her desired goals.

Cronus, of course, knew all of this.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

If Elena wants a better life and to gain a foothold in the Aksu family, she must treat Christine well.

He believed that as long as Elena wasn't an idiot, she would take good care of Christine.

He can also confidently devote himself to the expansion of the family's territory.

But now...

Christine lowered her head and quietly reported on what she had been learning recently.

She was afraid of Cronus.

From childhood to adulthood, the only person by her side was her mother, Elena.

What Cronus left her with was either a cold and stern reprimand or a merciless turn of his back.

Every time her father left, her mother would hug her and cry, saying things like, "I'm sorry, don't blame your father. It's all my fault. That's why your father doesn't like you and why he came to scold you. If I hadn't made a mistake, you wouldn't be suffering your father's dislike as well..."

Gradually, she went from hoping for her father's attention and trying to cause trouble to get his attention, to being afraid of seeing and spending time with him, to... resenting him.

She resented him; if he didn't like her mother, why did he have her with her mother? She resented her father; why did he still hate her when she was his only child?