Chapter 1723: Destined to Have No Results

The Northern European royal motorcade sped along the highway in the middle of the night.

The Concorde airliner was ready for takeoff, and could take off as soon as Ye Chen arrived at the airport.

At this time, it was one o'clock in the morning in Northern Europe, and seven o'clock in the morning in Beijing time.

If everything went smoothly, Ye Chen would arrive in Beijing at noon Beijing time. After landing, he would immediately head to Mount Ye Ling to deal with those collateral members of the Ye family who had fled in the face of battle.

In the car, Helena sat beside Ye Chen.

At this time, Helena was very conflicted in the depths of her heart. She looked at Ye Chen from time to time, looked at the night view of Northern Europe outside the window from time to time, pursed her red lips from time to time, and couldn't help but bite her lower lip with her clean, white teeth from time to time.

After hesitating again and again, she finally spoke softly, "Mr. Ye, actually, compared to China, Northern Europe is really too small. The population is not even one-third of a city like Beijing..."

Ye Chen laughed, "Small is small, but it will soon become your royal territory. You are still very young now, and you will have at least fifty years of reign in the future. Fifty years, there are too many things you can do, it is still very worth looking forward to."

Helena smiled bitterly and said seriously, "Mr. Ye, to tell you the truth, actually... actually I have no interest in the throne..."

As she spoke, she looked at Ye Chen with red eyes and said, "Mr. Ye, actually my greatest hope is not to inherit the throne, but to give my mother a stable life. You sent Olivia overseas, so my mother's safety is already guaranteed. Whether I can be Empress or not is no longer important to me..."

Ye Chen asked her with some surprise, "You are going to inherit the throne in three days, why are you suddenly getting cold feet at this time?"

Helena pursed her lips, paused awkwardly for a long time, and then bit the bullet and said, "Mr. Ye, I feel that I might not be able to handle the role of Empress. Being Empress requires too much sacrifice and compromise, and... and I am not the kind of person who can be as ruthless as Olivia..."

Ye Chen thought Helena was just simply nervous, so he comforted her, "Being Empress is naturally not that easy, but it's not as difficult as you imagine. After all, for Northern Europe, your symbolic significance is far greater than your actual rule, and there are not that many decisions you need to make. Even if you don't do it so well, it won't affect the actual development of Northern Europe. So you only need to maintain the people's love for you, and this Empress is already passing."

Helena said in a low voice, "Actually... actually I feel... since Grandmother is so obedient to you now, you can completely let her be Empress for a few more years. In that case, I can also have more preparation time..."

Ye Chen looked at her and said, "Helena, if you want to truly have your own life, now is the opportunity you must grasp. The temporary inability to adapt is just a transition. If you can't even handle this transition, how will you deal with it when you encounter an enemy like Olivia in the future?"

Helena was speechless for a moment.

The reason she was getting cold feet at this time was because the motorcade was getting closer and closer to the airport, and her parting with Ye Chen was getting faster and faster.

The more this was the case, the more she could clearly determine that she did not want her intersection with Ye Chen to end here.

She did not want her life's intersection with Ye Chen to end here.

Like two intersecting straight lines, they only had an intersection at that one point, and then they went their separate ways, walking further and further away.

She wanted the straight line of her destiny to change direction at the point where she met Ye Chen, and it would be best to start from this point and tightly entangle Ye Chen's straight line, so that Ye Chen would have her company in his life in the future.

However, these words had been stuck in her throat, several times wanting to blurt out, but were suppressed by her.

It was not that she dared not confess to Ye Chen, but she was afraid of being rejected by Ye Chen.

If this suspense was kept, at least there would be a glimmer of hope to look forward to in the future.

Ye Chen did not know the real reason for her getting cold feet.

He looked at Helena and said with feeling, "Actually, a year ago, I was the same as you, both at the lowest point in life. At that time, the Ye family suddenly came to me, wanting to give me a group with a market value of one hundred billion, and at the same time give me ten billion in cash. At that time, I also had cold feet..."

Helena nodded lightly and said softly, "I heard Ye Feng mention this, he was very angry every time he mentioned it..."

"Yes..." Ye Chen smiled indifferently: "He must be very angry, otherwise he couldn't be full of hostility toward me."

Helena looked at Ye Chen and asked, "Mr. Ye, how did you convince yourself to accept these gifts from the Ye family later?"

Ye Chen mocked himself, "I was penniless at the time, my savior was waiting for money to treat her illness, and my wife was always bullied in the family. Even if I had some ambition as a poor boy, reality simply didn't allow me to refuse."

As he spoke, Ye Chen sighed lightly and said with emotion, "I thought at the time, even if not for myself, even if for my savior and my wife, I had to accept the Ye family's gift. So, I took over that group, and used the ten billion cash from the Ye family to pay for my savior's medical expenses, and then I walked step by step to today. And I owe my success today to the gift from the Ye family back then."

Helena said seriously, "Mr. Ye, the Ye family only gave you a group and ten billion in cash back then, but your current strength is far beyond what these assets can compare to. So I think, whether or not there was this gift from the Ye family, you would have been able to succeed!"

"Not necessarily." Ye Chen shook his head and said seriously, "Helena, destiny is sometimes very magical and subtle. Although I can't see how destiny exists, I feel that the destinies of everyone in this world are inextricably linked. It is truly said that pulling one hair affects the whole body..."

As he spoke, Ye Chen added, "Have you ever thought that a trivial decision you make in your daily life might subtly change your own life, or change the life of someone else?"

Helena said blankly, "Mr. Ye, I don't understand destiny and fate..."

Ye Chen said indifferently, "If you see someone crossing the road and being hit to death by a taxi, you can try to push the life trajectory of this person who was hit to death and the driver forward by ten seconds, ten minutes, ten hours, or ten days."

Helena asked in confusion, "Mr. Ye, what does it mean to push the life trajectory forward?"

Ye Chen said indifferently, "It means what they were both doing before the incident."

After a pause, Ye Chen added, "It is possible that ten seconds before the incident, you happened to pass by the side of the road, and the driver was distracted because he was attracted by your beauty, thus triggering the car accident."

"It is also possible that ten minutes ago, you and someone else were taking a taxi together, and the driver chose to stop in front of you because he thought you were more beautiful. After you got in the car, you asked him to drive to the vicinity of the accident site, so he had that car accident."

"It is also possible that ten hours ago, you uploaded a video of yourself on a short video platform. The pedestrian's friend saw it and forwarded this video to him. After watching it, he felt you were very beautiful, so he kept thinking about your short video in his mind, and even when crossing the road, he was still thinking about your short video, which caused him to be distracted and hit by a car."

Speaking of this, Ye Chen shrugged his shoulders and said, "This is what I mean by destiny, but the actual situation might be far more complex than the kind I said. For example, if I hadn't accepted the money from the Ye family back then, I would never have been able to afford a BMW car to give to my wife. If I hadn't bought that car, my father-in-law wouldn't have occupied it. If he hadn't occupied it, he wouldn't have asked me to be his driver and let me drive him to see an expensive antique vase..."

Speaking of this, Ye Chen shook his head and smiled, naturally omitting the fact that he had accidentally obtained the "Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra" at Jiqingtang back then, and continued, "If it weren't for these, you and I would never have any intersection in this life, let alone sitting in the same car at this very moment."

In his view, destiny is just so magical.

Everything is influencing each other in the dark, and no one knows what kind of impact one of their decisions will have on their future.

Helena naturally couldn't understand the relationship behind Ye Chen's words.

She said blankly, "Mr. Ye, I don't understand why you want to link your destiny with a BMW car, or even an antique vase..."

Ye Chen smiled slightly, "You just need to know that if it weren't for that BMW car, if it weren't for that antique vase, we would never have known each other in this life."

Helena was confused, but looked at Ye Chen with some shame, and gathered her courage to ask him, "Mr. Ye, your three comparisons just now, each one seems to be because of my beauty that triggered that car accident... Do you really think I am very beautiful?"

Ye Chen didn't think much and said casually, "Very beautiful. Whether from the aesthetic point of view of Westerners or the aesthetic point of view of Easterners, you should be considered very beautiful."

Helena turned her body, stared closely at Ye Chen from a close distance, her big eyes rippling in the night, and gathered her courage to ask him softly, "Mr. Ye... if... if you really think I am very beautiful, then... would you... be willing to... kiss me?" ===== CHAPTER 1724 =====