D-level males reached the pinnacle of life by living off women.

"What method?" Rhine's father asked.

"Bet on both sides. I will separate from the family and remain on the side of the eldest prince, who is also the crown prince, while you, Father, will lead the family to stand on the side of Duke Norton. This way, no matter which side wins, the victor can protect the loser and ensure the continuation of the Hatton family," Rhine said.

Rhine's father hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"How can we let you leave the family? Why don't you find another insect in the family to join the Crown Prince?"

Rhine's father said this because he also knew that the reason why Duke Norton valued the Hatton family so much was largely because Rhine controlled the Third Army.

If Rhine is not present, the Hatton family's importance to the Duke of Norton will be greatly diminished.

"Father, you should be able to bet on both sides naturally. It's perfectly reasonable for me to continue following the Crown Prince. But if you were to find another scoundrel in the family to join the Crown Prince at this critical juncture, do you think the Crown Prince and Duke Norton would be so stupid as not to see through your scheme?"

"Don't let yourself capsize before the outcome is even decided," Rhein said.

"But Duke Norton wants to use the Hatton family to plant his own bugs in the Third Army. If you're not here, the Hatton family is useless to Duke Norton."

"Father, please don't underestimate yourself. I know there are still many other forces in the family that Duke Norton needs. In addition, Lucas will soon graduate from military academy. I will find a way to get him into the Third Army, so that the family will still have influence in the Third Army."

Lucas is the younger brother of Rhine, who shares the same father. Doing this can be considered as giving an explanation to the father.

Rhine's father sat in the chair, silently considering for a long time before finally speaking.

"So, what method do you plan to use to leave the family?"

Rhine looked at his father and smiled.

"Naturally, it will be done in a way that will not affect either me or my family."

......

After a long while, Rhine finally came out of the study, and immediately boarded the aircraft to head home.

After arriving home, Rhine sat on the aircraft for a while longer, waiting for all the schemes and plots to fade from his mind before disembarking.

Upon entering the living room, Rhine was surprised to find that Lu Yuan was not inside. After checking Lu Yuan's location, she discovered that Lu Yuan was actually in the yard.

Upon entering the yard, I found Lu Yuan with Wall-E. Wall-E looked like he was working diligently, while Lu Yuan was squatting on the ground with a small shovel in his hand, seemingly playing in the mud.

"My lord, what are you doing?" Rhine asked.

Upon hearing the sound, Lu Yuan raised his head, flashed a big smile at Rhine, and extended two jet-black claws to greet her.

"Rhine, you're back. I'm planting flowers with WALL-E."

No, it was WALL-E who planted the flowers, you were just playing around. However, Rhine didn't say this out loud, because a virtuous empress should know how to save face for her lord in public.

"Why did you suddenly think of planting flowers? There are already flowers in the yard," Rhine asked.

"The last time I watched TV, you praised the sunflowers for being beautiful, right? I happened to see that sunflower seeds were being sold online, so I bought some and planted them in the yard," Lu Yuan said.

The Zerg Empire's sunflowers, in Lu Yuan's eyes, are actually just sunflowers.

When I was watching TV with Rhine before, there was a picture of a field of sunflowers on TV, and Rhine said it was pretty.

Lu Yuan didn't pay much attention at first, but later, when he was buying something online, he happened to see sunflower seeds for sale. For some reason, the scene of Rhine praising the sunflowers for being beautiful popped into his mind.

Thinking that Rhine would be happy to see beautiful sunflowers in her yard every day, Lu Yuan clicked to buy sunflower seeds.

The seeds were delivered today, and since Rhine was away at the Hatton family manor, Lu Yuan took Wally with him to the yard to plant the seeds.

As an all-around household chores robot, WALL-E naturally has the skill of growing flowers.

Lu Yuan also asked WALL-E to plant the sunflowers in a heart shape, and even though WALL-E bluntly said it was old-fashioned, Lu Yuan insisted on not changing it. Lu Yuan said, "I'm a country bumpkin and I'm proud of it."

"Is this a gift from the lord? Should I return the favor?" Rhine said with a smile.

"Go back, but you'd better tie yourself up with a bow and come back to me," Lu Yuan joked.

"I'll offer the lord a title," Rhine said.

Lu Yuan thought Rhine was joking with him, so he continued talking along with Rhine's words.

"Alright, then we'll be nobles too. We'll be the new generation of nobles, the first to open a new chapter in the family tree. We'll have to think carefully about the name of this family. We should choose something like Rothschild or Medici, names that sound powerful and imposing. Hahahaha."

Rhine placed his hand on his chin and thought seriously for a while.

"The name Rothschild sounds nice; we can consider it."

"That's great! That's a family that has thrived for hundreds of years and is known as the 'world's behind-the-scenes boss.' I didn't expect Rhine to be so supportive." As Lu Yuan was thinking this, he saw Rhine's serious face, and his laughter stopped abruptly.

"It's not Rhine, it was just a joke, why are you taking it so seriously?"

"I'm not kidding, I really want to get you a title."

Lu Yuan was so shocked that he dropped the small shovel from his hand. He, Lu Yuan, a commoner for nine generations, had never imagined that one day, something like a noble title would be associated with him.

"No, why are you trying to give me a title? I don't need it."

"My lord, what I really need is to break away from the family."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yuan didn't ask what the relationship was between the two, but instead looked at Rhine with a pained expression.

Although Rhine had never formally discussed matters concerning the Hatton family with Lu Yuan, after living together for a long time, through Rhine's snippets of conversation and overheard conversations between Rhine and her male and female fathers, Lu Yuan could deduce that Rhine's male and female fathers treated her badly.

Every time they called, it was to ask Rhine to do things for them. They never cared about Rhine at all. As for the other insects in the family, they never contacted Rhine either.

Therefore, after reaching this conclusion, Lu Yuan never mentioned visiting the Hatton family to Rhine again.

Now that Rhine wants to break away from the family, Lu Yuan will only support her; he just wants Rhine to be happy.

Lu Yuan stepped forward and gently hugged Rhine.

"Do whatever you want. If you need my cooperation, just let me know. From now on, I'll be your family."

Rhine didn't say anything, but simply rested her head on Lu Yuan's shoulder, and the two insects quietly embraced each other in the yard.