Chu Rong: Marshal ML.
Ren Mo: aka Master Ren. A mecha master making full manually-piloted mecha.
Fan Xiangnan: ML’s second-in-command.
Tan Shengwei: A captain in ML’s army.
Zhuang Yu: A doctor in ML’s army.
Chu Yan: ML’s younger brother. Is the same age as MC.
Chu Huai: ML’s older brother, he’s in politics.
Gu Yan’an: Chu Huai’s wife. She’s a doctor.
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Yuan Xiu: Chu Yan’s bestfriend.
Xiang Kun: Chu Yan’s mortal enemy. Xiang Hui’s younger brother. Mecha manufacturing student.
Sang Bu: MC’s roommate. Transferred from Information System to Mecha Manufacturing.
Yun Xiachu: MC’s ex-classmate, about first-grader age, but skipped a couple of grades to match MC’s pace.
Ning Kongran: Ning family current heir. Studying mecha manufacturing, unlike his family.
Ning Kongting: Ning Kongran’s female cousin.
Ning Tianxing: Ning Kongran’s father, Ning Tianya’s older brother.
An Leen: Imperial Princess.
An Tyn: Imperial Prince, An Leen’s twin brother.
An Lita aka Ning Kong’an: The Emperor’s nephew, born from Prince An Xei and Ning Kongran’s aunt. Studies pharmacy.
Feng: The Imperial High Advisor.
Jian: Feng, the Imperial High Advisor’s son. Studies History. Now has a forced amnesia.
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An Lunn: Feng’s dead boyfriend. Jian’s biological father, the current Emperor’s second younger brother.
The next day, Jian came to the Chu family’s house to visit Qiao Zhiya, and Chu Rong sought an opportunity to chat with him for a while.
That night, Chu Rong talked to him about confession and the past after feeding Qiao Zhiya a glass of milk. He found that Qiao Zhiya had no memories of that. It’s as if Qiao Zhiya’s brain was automatically cleaned once, so some memories were lost, unlike his situation.
Chu Rong thought that his oblivion had something to do with “reclaiming” power of the Imperial High Advisor, so he was relieved. After coaxing him to sleep, he got up and went to the study to give the news to the Imperial High Advisor.
In the Empire, he finished dealing with Chu Rong, and instead contacted Jian.
Jian has been waiting for this contact. He immediately asked, “Dad, why do you deceive and mislead Chu Rong? Qiao’s memory is obviously forged by you. I think Chu Rong’s concern for Qiao Zhiya is genuine. Even if he knows Qiao Zhiya’s blood is special, he won’t do anything to him. Why did you become this bad guy and make Chu Rong misunderstand?”
“I just don’t want the tragedy to repeat itself.” He looked at his son with a gentle look, but with a trace of sadness. “Chu Rong may indeed accept Qiao Zhiya, but in case someone will extract Chu Rong’s memory like what happened to your father back then… then, who can bear the consequences? Will Chu Rong choose to kill himself like what your father did to protect us?”
Thinking of the past, Jian was silent.
“Jian, in the future, try to keep a distance from the Chu family.” Seeing that his son was so busy, the High Advisor said, “Wait for me to pick you up. At most, it will take two years.”
Jian looked at his father who seemed to be haunted by something. He nodded obediently. “Okay, I will.”
–
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Chu Yan felt that he couldn’t stay with this family at all. The atmosphere was too suffocating.
In the living room–
“Can these two styles be used for the suits? Xiao Rong wears black, you wear white, and all the accessories use ice crystals. I didn’t use the ice crystals you gave me last time, so you can use it this time instead.” Gu Yan’an turned around with a booklet on her head, asking Qiao Zhiya carefully.
Qiao Zhiya blushed, looking at the two sets of suit in the booklet that were very similar in style but different in color. He imagined what Chu Rong would look if he put it on, and nodded shyly.
The clothes were simple and neat, and they were all suitable for Chu Rong— No, it’s more like Chu Rong looked good in anything. If he wore this simple-styled clothing, he would shine brightly.
Gu Yan’an looked at him side by side, and finally couldn’t help raising her hands and smacked her forehead, jokingly said, “What are you ashamed of? These are all necessary procedures. If you are dissatisfied, tell us. Let’s change them. Engagement and marriage are only done once in life.”
“I know, I know, thank you Dasao.” Qiao Zhiya’s face turned redder. His head even lowered as he squirmed in place. He looked ashamed and wanted to run away.
Gu Yan’an was amused by his reaction and turned to laugh.
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In the courtyard–
Chu Rong stood at the place where the original small guest house was located, researched the layout, and ordered, “Change this place into a flower house, get a few more layers of protection. After the external battle hall’s barrier has been repaired, you need to strengthen the protective layer again. All supporting facilities have been replaced with the latest ones, and now they are too useless. “
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Every year, the old butler was the one who replaced the supporting facilities of the battle hall. He nodded solemnly. “…Yes.”
In training hall–
Fan Xiangnan commanded the private squad that was transferred over, and kept commanding, “You can’t keep equipment here, on the day of the engagement this place will be converted into an activity room, it has to be rearranged…… Don’t move it into that room either, lock it up. That’s the lab that Qiao usually uses to make weapons… Don’t bother Master Ren, he’s doing research…. Wait, this is where the flower pots are to be placed, empty it out.”
In infirmary—
Zhuang Yu greeted her assistants. These young men and women gathered together, flipping through the potions book while saying excitedly, “What’s the name of the new relaxing agent I told you about last time that has the effect of making people happy? Quickly, help me look for it, I’m going to prepare a big bucket of it so that everyone will be happy that day.”
“But isn’t this drug hasn’t passed review yet…” muttered one of the female assistants.
Zhuang Yu harshly glared at her and said, “It’s just a general relaxing agent. There’s no need to pass any review, it’s not an actual drug. Unless, you don’t believe in my craft?”
The female assistant shut up immediately, and followed her through the potion book.
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In the guest house—
Lin Zhen, who was called to help, took an photon computer and directed a dozen housekeeping robots. This army of robots quickly cleaned the guest houses, and then they were put away and set off towards the newly-cleaned banquet hall.
Chu house’s courtyard–
Tan Shengwei counted the members of the team with a serious face and ordered them, “Our task today, in conjunction with the housekeepers here, is to check the security settings of the entire Chu house. We need to be extra detailed, understand?”
“Understand, Captain!” The team members responded in unison, all imposing and disciplined.
Tan Shengwei nodded with satisfaction and said with a wave of his hand, “Then start with area A1!”
Since before dawn, everyone was busy with their own tasks. Chu Yan could see people preparing the engagement banquet wherever he went. The whole family has only one idler left– oh no, there was one more.
He looked numbly at Chu Huai, who was sitting next to the rattan chair and flipping through the documents. His lips lined up and asked, “Dage, you don’t help?”
“What can I help?” Chu Huai looked at him strangely and said, “This is the Lao Er’s engagement banquet. He can do whatever he wants, as long as it’s not illegal. I won’t step in. When you have your own engagement banquet, you will prepare it yourself. Lao Er and I will not intervene. But I reckon your Dasao and Qiao will want to help you.”
“……”
Turning the page over again, Chu Huai didn’t wait for Chu Yan’s wail. He looked at him with a surprised look, and asked, “You finished?” Isn’t Chu Yan usually as talkative as a chatterbox, unable to stay still for a moment? What happened today?
Chu Yan looked at him with a pair of salty fish eyes, then laid by the table.
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Chu Huai was amused by his appearance and poked at him, saying, “From today, everyone will be busy until the day of the formal banquet. Now it is only in the early stage, so everyone is as busy as a bee. And I know the intensity will only increase as it goes on. If you are bored, go to Yuan Xiu to play. Qiao should not be able to accompany you.”
Everyone was busy, how could he possibly be idle?
Chu Yan rolled his eyes, seeing Qiao Zhiya ran out of the main house and fell into Chu Rong’s arms. He thought of something. He straightened up his posture and looked at Chu Huai, who was still immersed in his own document. He whispered, “Dage, are those people from the Empire really planning to wait until after attending the engagement banquet before returning?”
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Chu Huai looked at him again, simply closed the file and put away his photon computer. He sat upright facing him, nodded and said, “This is what the old Emperor meant. He was originally going to attend in person, but since the situation in the Empire isn’t stable, he’s needed there. So he asked his children to give us his blessings in his stead.”
“That …” Chu Yan trailed off, looking warily at his surroundings before continuing, “I heard that after the engagement banquet, the Federation will send someone to escort Prince An Tyn and Princess An Leen back to the Empire. Who will be sent to do this?”
Chu Huai looked at his suspicious behavior and raised an eyebrow. “You want to volunteer yourself?”
Chu Yan shook his head frantically. He was not stupid. Wouldn’t it be too dangerous to visit the Empire during this time? The Chu family is currently in the spotlight. It’s better to stay at home honestly.
“Then, why are you asking this?” Chu Huai asked as he tidied up his documents.
Chu Yan quickly held his arm and said quickly, “I just heard a bit of gossip. That is, the Ning family recently became strangely close to Prince An Tyn. This is just between the juniors, or is the elder als— Ah!! What are you doing to me!!”
“I’m hitting you so you won’t think about this useless thing all day.” Chu Huai retracted his hand, gave him a warning look, and said, “You go to your school well, and stop caring about who gets close to who. This kind of superficial hearsay is the most unreliable thing. It’s the end of the year, and the New Year’s festival theme is about to be voted on. Instead, you worry about other things.” After shaking his head, Chu Huai got up and left.
Chu Yan watched him go away, frowning in doubt.
‘Festival theme? Isn’t there more than a month left? Why worry about that thing this early?’
A few days later, the team leader who escorted Prince An Tyn and his entourage back to the Empire was finalized. The team leader was Ning Tianxing – he’s Ning Kongran’s father, and someone who had a degree of kinship with the Imperial family.
On the second day after this news, this year’s festival theme voting event was launched suddenly, more than a month earlier than in previous years. The reason given by the President for this move was that this year’s theme options are more important, so he hoped there would be more time for people to think about their choice.
After a round of screening, there were five options left to the public to choose from:
The cost of pharmaceutical products, proposed by the Ning family; The regulation of mecha manufacturing material’s cost, proposed by the Xiang family; The reorganization of the army, proposed by the Wei family; Promotion of ancient martial arts, proposed by the Chui family; Lastly, the adjustment of public holidays, proposed by the Presidential Palace.
Each topic was important in its own way, and it really required a long discussion to choose which.
In the Chu family house, Chu Yan pulled Qiao Zhiya, who had just finished trying on a suit. He found it difficult to stay idle while everyone was busy with something. He told Qiao Zhiya about this matter and then proceeded to give his opinion. “The topic brought by the Xiang family and the Wei family are obviously aimed at our family. It is normal. The president wants to pull the citizen’s votes, so they use this topic to please the masses. What is the Ning family doing? Do they think the price of medicine is not high enough? ”
Qiao Zhiya, who often listened to Zhuang Yu’s medical woes, knew about the many deformities of the current Federation pharmaceutical industry. He frowned and said, “This one has the most votes, and everyone seems to think that drugs in general is very expensive.”
“That’s because the masses think that this topic was about how pricey the drugs are, so the cost would be regulated and lowered. But this is absolutely impossible – the Ning family is just playing with the wording. That family wanted to raise the drug prices even more.” Chu Yan groaned, feeling a headache forming. “The Ning family has been jumping more and more recently. I always think that there is a conspiracy behind all of this. Qiao, has Erge disclosed any tidbits of information to you?”
Qiao Zhiya shook his head, glanced at him, and replied a little with embarrassment, “Chu Rong has recently stopped me from paying attention to this. He told me to not be stressed and take a good rest, treat this as a vacation.”
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–as he told the youth that, he also always gave him some soothing concoctions to drink, saying that he was afraid that he would be nervous. In Qiao Zhiya’s honest opinion, the nervous one was Chu Rong instead. But he didn’t dare to say that, because he know it would annoy Chu Rong even further.
Chu Yan froze, watching his face flushed with joy and shyness. He gazed at the distance, feeling like he had just seen the truth of the heavens. ‘Sure enough, I’m now “alone” in this family.’ the family.
Time passed in a blur. Discussions were again booming due to the festival theme’s voting.
In this case, the Chu family’s situation was a complete opposite to last year’s. After giving the topic, they concentrated on preparing Chu Rong’s engagement banquet. They were not disturbed by other forces. They did not care about the five issues raised. Aptly, their topic was also the one with the least number of votes.
The other three Great Families were unable to wait for the Chu family’s follow-up response, and finally determined that this family was really not ready to join the fun this year. So they set aside the Chu family for the time being and started a confrontation between themselves.
The Starry Sky Forum became particularly lively. Today, a hot discussion about the sky-high pricing of drugs despite its low-cost production broke out. Tomorrow, they would condemn many Mecha Masters’ price gouging. The next day after that, they would raise the question about whether or not the Federation army would let the Empire’s spies come in. The camps of the people were torn apart, and the festival atmosphere was gone.
Qiao Zhiya stayed at Chu family’s house and made various preparations for the engagement. In addition to occasionally listening to Chu Yan’s rant, he didn’t have time to pay attention to outside affairs. Coupled with being supervised by Chu Rong, he only focused on eating, drinking, and sleeping. Instead of worrying about other affairs, he was fattened up by the Chu family.
The day before the engagement banquet, the number of votes for the Chu family was still at the low-bottom. The Xiang family suddenly emerged, and the number of their topic’s votes suddenly increased, rising to the same level as the Ning family’s topic. At present, the theme of this year’s event should have emerged from these two topics.
Chu Rong took Qiao Zhiya’s photon computer away. He bent over and hugged him to put it on the bed, and said, “We have to wake up early tomorrow. Let’s sleep now.”
“But it’s only 9 o’clock now…” Qiao Zhiya retorted boldly, expressing a slight protest against Chu Rong’s behavior of raising him like a pig during this time.
Chu Rong didn’t answer, he bowed his head and kissed him, hugging him and slowly falling to the bed.
‘Again…?’ Qiao Zhiya stretched his arms around his neck and couldn’t help but bit him.
Chu Rong acted suddenly, deepened the kiss, and his hands began to naughtily explore the youth’s body. He slipped through his back, pulled up his clothes, then probed around.
“Mmh… no.” He blushed and stopped.
During this period, Chu Rong often touched him all over until he climaxed. But each time, Chu Rong clearly wanted more, and yet, he always refused Qiao Zhiya’s offer to do the same to him. But he really wanted Chu Rong to feel the same pleasure he got, and he wanted to give Chu Rong that pleasure1this passage has been decensored because the censored version is kinda silly sounding.
But this time, instead of their usual routine, Chu Rong held his hand and bit his ring finger. Then, he whispered, “It’s only 9, just enough time for us to do something else.” he whispered, Instead, Chu Rong held his hand, pulled back a bit and bite him, and whispered, “It’s only nine o’clock, just enough for us to do something else.”
After saying that, he skillfully pulled the pants off his waist.
So all the protests inside Qiao Zhiya’s throat were choked back. His thoughts became fragmented, he didn’t know what to say.
That night, even though they didn’t go all the way, they still reached harmony together.
1this passage has been decensored because the censored version is kinda silly sounding
Chu Rong: Marshal ML.
Ren Mo: aka Master Ren. A mecha master making full manually-piloted mecha.
Fan Xiangnan: ML’s second-in-command.
Tan Shengwei: A captain in ML’s army.
Zhuang Yu: A doctor in ML’s army.
Chu Yan: ML’s younger brother. Is the same age as MC.
Chu Huai: ML’s older brother, he’s in politics.
Gu Yan’an: Chu Huai’s wife. She’s a doctor.
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Yuan Xiu: Chu Yan’s bestfriend.
Xiang Kun: Chu Yan’s mortal enemy. Xiang Hui’s younger brother. Mecha manufacturing student.
Sang Bu: MC’s roommate. Transferred from Information System to Mecha Manufacturing.
Yun Xiachu: MC’s ex-classmate, about first-grader age, but skipped a couple of grades to match MC’s pace.
Ning Kongran: Ning family current heir. Studying mecha manufacturing, unlike his family.
Ning Kongting: Ning Kongran’s female cousin.
Ning Tianxing: Ning Kongran’s father, Ning Tianya’s older brother.
An Leen: Imperial Princess.
An Tyn: Imperial Prince, An Leen’s twin brother.
An Lita aka Ning Kong’an: The Emperor’s nephew, born from Prince An Xei and Ning Kongran’s aunt. Studies pharmacy.
Feng: The Imperial High Advisor.
Jian: Feng, the Imperial High Advisor’s son. Studies History. Now has a forced amnesia.
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An Lunn: Feng’s dead boyfriend. Jian’s biological father, the current Emperor’s second younger brother.
The next day, Jian came to the Chu family’s house to visit Qiao Zhiya, and Chu Rong sought an opportunity to chat with him for a while.
That night, Chu Rong talked to him about confession and the past after feeding Qiao Zhiya a glass of milk. He found that Qiao Zhiya had no memories of that. It’s as if Qiao Zhiya’s brain was automatically cleaned once, so some memories were lost, unlike his situation.
Chu Rong thought that his oblivion had something to do with “reclaiming” power of the Imperial High Advisor, so he was relieved. After coaxing him to sleep, he got up and went to the study to give the news to the Imperial High Advisor.
In the Empire, he finished dealing with Chu Rong, and instead contacted Jian.
Jian has been waiting for this contact. He immediately asked, “Dad, why do you deceive and mislead Chu Rong? Qiao’s memory is obviously forged by you. I think Chu Rong’s concern for Qiao Zhiya is genuine. Even if he knows Qiao Zhiya’s blood is special, he won’t do anything to him. Why did you become this bad guy and make Chu Rong misunderstand?”
“I just don’t want the tragedy to repeat itself.” He looked at his son with a gentle look, but with a trace of sadness. “Chu Rong may indeed accept Qiao Zhiya, but in case someone will extract Chu Rong’s memory like what happened to your father back then… then, who can bear the consequences? Will Chu Rong choose to kill himself like what your father did to protect us?”
Thinking of the past, Jian was silent.
“Jian, in the future, try to keep a distance from the Chu family.” Seeing that his son was so busy, the High Advisor said, “Wait for me to pick you up. At most, it will take two years.”
Jian looked at his father who seemed to be haunted by something. He nodded obediently. “Okay, I will.”
–
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Chu Yan felt that he couldn’t stay with this family at all. The atmosphere was too suffocating.
In the living room–
“Can these two styles be used for the suits? Xiao Rong wears black, you wear white, and all the accessories use ice crystals. I didn’t use the ice crystals you gave me last time, so you can use it this time instead.” Gu Yan’an turned around with a booklet on her head, asking Qiao Zhiya carefully.
Qiao Zhiya blushed, looking at the two sets of suit in the booklet that were very similar in style but different in color. He imagined what Chu Rong would look if he put it on, and nodded shyly.
The clothes were simple and neat, and they were all suitable for Chu Rong— No, it’s more like Chu Rong looked good in anything. If he wore this simple-styled clothing, he would shine brightly.
Gu Yan’an looked at him side by side, and finally couldn’t help raising her hands and smacked her forehead, jokingly said, “What are you ashamed of? These are all necessary procedures. If you are dissatisfied, tell us. Let’s change them. Engagement and marriage are only done once in life.”
“I know, I know, thank you Dasao.” Qiao Zhiya’s face turned redder. His head even lowered as he squirmed in place. He looked ashamed and wanted to run away.
Gu Yan’an was amused by his reaction and turned to laugh.
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In the courtyard–
Chu Rong stood at the place where the original small guest house was located, researched the layout, and ordered, “Change this place into a flower house, get a few more layers of protection. After the external battle hall’s barrier has been repaired, you need to strengthen the protective layer again. All supporting facilities have been replaced with the latest ones, and now they are too useless. “
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Every year, the old butler was the one who replaced the supporting facilities of the battle hall. He nodded solemnly. “…Yes.”
In training hall–
Fan Xiangnan commanded the private squad that was transferred over, and kept commanding, “You can’t keep equipment here, on the day of the engagement this place will be converted into an activity room, it has to be rearranged…… Don’t move it into that room either, lock it up. That’s the lab that Qiao usually uses to make weapons… Don’t bother Master Ren, he’s doing research…. Wait, this is where the flower pots are to be placed, empty it out.”
In infirmary—
Zhuang Yu greeted her assistants. These young men and women gathered together, flipping through the potions book while saying excitedly, “What’s the name of the new relaxing agent I told you about last time that has the effect of making people happy? Quickly, help me look for it, I’m going to prepare a big bucket of it so that everyone will be happy that day.”
“But isn’t this drug hasn’t passed review yet…” muttered one of the female assistants.
Zhuang Yu harshly glared at her and said, “It’s just a general relaxing agent. There’s no need to pass any review, it’s not an actual drug. Unless, you don’t believe in my craft?”
The female assistant shut up immediately, and followed her through the potion book.
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In the guest house—
Lin Zhen, who was called to help, took an photon computer and directed a dozen housekeeping robots. This army of robots quickly cleaned the guest houses, and then they were put away and set off towards the newly-cleaned banquet hall.
Chu house’s courtyard–
Tan Shengwei counted the members of the team with a serious face and ordered them, “Our task today, in conjunction with the housekeepers here, is to check the security settings of the entire Chu house. We need to be extra detailed, understand?”
“Understand, Captain!” The team members responded in unison, all imposing and disciplined.
Tan Shengwei nodded with satisfaction and said with a wave of his hand, “Then start with area A1!”
Since before dawn, everyone was busy with their own tasks. Chu Yan could see people preparing the engagement banquet wherever he went. The whole family has only one idler left– oh no, there was one more.
He looked numbly at Chu Huai, who was sitting next to the rattan chair and flipping through the documents. His lips lined up and asked, “Dage, you don’t help?”
“What can I help?” Chu Huai looked at him strangely and said, “This is the Lao Er’s engagement banquet. He can do whatever he wants, as long as it’s not illegal. I won’t step in. When you have your own engagement banquet, you will prepare it yourself. Lao Er and I will not intervene. But I reckon your Dasao and Qiao will want to help you.”
“……”
Turning the page over again, Chu Huai didn’t wait for Chu Yan’s wail. He looked at him with a surprised look, and asked, “You finished?” Isn’t Chu Yan usually as talkative as a chatterbox, unable to stay still for a moment? What happened today?
Chu Yan looked at him with a pair of salty fish eyes, then laid by the table.
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Chu Huai was amused by his appearance and poked at him, saying, “From today, everyone will be busy until the day of the formal banquet. Now it is only in the early stage, so everyone is as busy as a bee. And I know the intensity will only increase as it goes on. If you are bored, go to Yuan Xiu to play. Qiao should not be able to accompany you.”
Everyone was busy, how could he possibly be idle?
Chu Yan rolled his eyes, seeing Qiao Zhiya ran out of the main house and fell into Chu Rong’s arms. He thought of something. He straightened up his posture and looked at Chu Huai, who was still immersed in his own document. He whispered, “Dage, are those people from the Empire really planning to wait until after attending the engagement banquet before returning?”
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Chu Huai looked at him again, simply closed the file and put away his photon computer. He sat upright facing him, nodded and said, “This is what the old Emperor meant. He was originally going to attend in person, but since the situation in the Empire isn’t stable, he’s needed there. So he asked his children to give us his blessings in his stead.”
“That …” Chu Yan trailed off, looking warily at his surroundings before continuing, “I heard that after the engagement banquet, the Federation will send someone to escort Prince An Tyn and Princess An Leen back to the Empire. Who will be sent to do this?”
Chu Huai looked at his suspicious behavior and raised an eyebrow. “You want to volunteer yourself?”
Chu Yan shook his head frantically. He was not stupid. Wouldn’t it be too dangerous to visit the Empire during this time? The Chu family is currently in the spotlight. It’s better to stay at home honestly.
“Then, why are you asking this?” Chu Huai asked as he tidied up his documents.
Chu Yan quickly held his arm and said quickly, “I just heard a bit of gossip. That is, the Ning family recently became strangely close to Prince An Tyn. This is just between the juniors, or is the elder als— Ah!! What are you doing to me!!”
“I’m hitting you so you won’t think about this useless thing all day.” Chu Huai retracted his hand, gave him a warning look, and said, “You go to your school well, and stop caring about who gets close to who. This kind of superficial hearsay is the most unreliable thing. It’s the end of the year, and the New Year’s festival theme is about to be voted on. Instead, you worry about other things.” After shaking his head, Chu Huai got up and left.
Chu Yan watched him go away, frowning in doubt.
‘Festival theme? Isn’t there more than a month left? Why worry about that thing this early?’
A few days later, the team leader who escorted Prince An Tyn and his entourage back to the Empire was finalized. The team leader was Ning Tianxing – he’s Ning Kongran’s father, and someone who had a degree of kinship with the Imperial family.
On the second day after this news, this year’s festival theme voting event was launched suddenly, more than a month earlier than in previous years. The reason given by the President for this move was that this year’s theme options are more important, so he hoped there would be more time for people to think about their choice.
After a round of screening, there were five options left to the public to choose from:
The cost of pharmaceutical products, proposed by the Ning family; The regulation of mecha manufacturing material’s cost, proposed by the Xiang family; The reorganization of the army, proposed by the Wei family; Promotion of ancient martial arts, proposed by the Chui family; Lastly, the adjustment of public holidays, proposed by the Presidential Palace.
Each topic was important in its own way, and it really required a long discussion to choose which.
In the Chu family house, Chu Yan pulled Qiao Zhiya, who had just finished trying on a suit. He found it difficult to stay idle while everyone was busy with something. He told Qiao Zhiya about this matter and then proceeded to give his opinion. “The topic brought by the Xiang family and the Wei family are obviously aimed at our family. It is normal. The president wants to pull the citizen’s votes, so they use this topic to please the masses. What is the Ning family doing? Do they think the price of medicine is not high enough? ”
Qiao Zhiya, who often listened to Zhuang Yu’s medical woes, knew about the many deformities of the current Federation pharmaceutical industry. He frowned and said, “This one has the most votes, and everyone seems to think that drugs in general is very expensive.”
“That’s because the masses think that this topic was about how pricey the drugs are, so the cost would be regulated and lowered. But this is absolutely impossible – the Ning family is just playing with the wording. That family wanted to raise the drug prices even more.” Chu Yan groaned, feeling a headache forming. “The Ning family has been jumping more and more recently. I always think that there is a conspiracy behind all of this. Qiao, has Erge disclosed any tidbits of information to you?”
Qiao Zhiya shook his head, glanced at him, and replied a little with embarrassment, “Chu Rong has recently stopped me from paying attention to this. He told me to not be stressed and take a good rest, treat this as a vacation.”
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–as he told the youth that, he also always gave him some soothing concoctions to drink, saying that he was afraid that he would be nervous. In Qiao Zhiya’s honest opinion, the nervous one was Chu Rong instead. But he didn’t dare to say that, because he know it would annoy Chu Rong even further.
Chu Yan froze, watching his face flushed with joy and shyness. He gazed at the distance, feeling like he had just seen the truth of the heavens. ‘Sure enough, I’m now “alone” in this family.’ the family.
Time passed in a blur. Discussions were again booming due to the festival theme’s voting.
In this case, the Chu family’s situation was a complete opposite to last year’s. After giving the topic, they concentrated on preparing Chu Rong’s engagement banquet. They were not disturbed by other forces. They did not care about the five issues raised. Aptly, their topic was also the one with the least number of votes.
The other three Great Families were unable to wait for the Chu family’s follow-up response, and finally determined that this family was really not ready to join the fun this year. So they set aside the Chu family for the time being and started a confrontation between themselves.
The Starry Sky Forum became particularly lively. Today, a hot discussion about the sky-high pricing of drugs despite its low-cost production broke out. Tomorrow, they would condemn many Mecha Masters’ price gouging. The next day after that, they would raise the question about whether or not the Federation army would let the Empire’s spies come in. The camps of the people were torn apart, and the festival atmosphere was gone.
Qiao Zhiya stayed at Chu family’s house and made various preparations for the engagement. In addition to occasionally listening to Chu Yan’s rant, he didn’t have time to pay attention to outside affairs. Coupled with being supervised by Chu Rong, he only focused on eating, drinking, and sleeping. Instead of worrying about other affairs, he was fattened up by the Chu family.
The day before the engagement banquet, the number of votes for the Chu family was still at the low-bottom. The Xiang family suddenly emerged, and the number of their topic’s votes suddenly increased, rising to the same level as the Ning family’s topic. At present, the theme of this year’s event should have emerged from these two topics.
Chu Rong took Qiao Zhiya’s photon computer away. He bent over and hugged him to put it on the bed, and said, “We have to wake up early tomorrow. Let’s sleep now.”
“But it’s only 9 o’clock now…” Qiao Zhiya retorted boldly, expressing a slight protest against Chu Rong’s behavior of raising him like a pig during this time.
Chu Rong didn’t answer, he bowed his head and kissed him, hugging him and slowly falling to the bed.
‘Again…?’ Qiao Zhiya stretched his arms around his neck and couldn’t help but bit him.
Chu Rong acted suddenly, deepened the kiss, and his hands began to naughtily explore the youth’s body. He slipped through his back, pulled up his clothes, then probed around.
“Mmh… no.” He blushed and stopped.
During this period, Chu Rong often touched him all over until he climaxed. But each time, Chu Rong clearly wanted more, and yet, he always refused Qiao Zhiya’s offer to do the same to him. But he really wanted Chu Rong to feel the same pleasure he got, and he wanted to give Chu Rong that pleasure1this passage has been decensored because the censored version is kinda silly sounding.
But this time, instead of their usual routine, Chu Rong held his hand and bit his ring finger. Then, he whispered, “It’s only 9, just enough time for us to do something else.” he whispered, Instead, Chu Rong held his hand, pulled back a bit and bite him, and whispered, “It’s only nine o’clock, just enough for us to do something else.”
After saying that, he skillfully pulled the pants off his waist.
So all the protests inside Qiao Zhiya’s throat were choked back. His thoughts became fragmented, he didn’t know what to say.
That night, even though they didn’t go all the way, they still reached harmony together.
1this passage has been decensored because the censored version is kinda silly sounding
