Chapter 128
Chapter 128: Uncle, are you going to sleep with my roommate?
“Wait.” Jiang Tea Tea pointed at her own belly: “So that punch Jiang Yi Cheng gave my stomach is now one of his crimes too?”
Sui Xuan Chu hurriedly nodded: “Yeah, yeah. Trying to harm the Golden Dragon Imperial Clan youngling is the same level of crime as trying to kidnap me and murder me.”
Jiang Tea Tea lifted the wrist wearing her light-brain wrist terminal. She lowered her head and turned it on. As soon as she logged into StarNet, the trending topics rushed at her like they were free.
Explosive headlines filled her vision:
“Traitor criminal Jiang Yi Cheng adds a new charge: attempted murder of a Golden Dragon Imperial Clan youngling!”
“Golden Dragon Imperial Clan has a youngling! The entire Empire’s national idol, Commander in Chief Chong Ming, has a youngling!”
“Congratulations to the Golden Dragon Imperial Clan! Welcome the third Golden Dragon Clan youngling!”
And another one:
“Question: who is Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s partner?”
More explosive posts kept coming.
News about the Golden Dragon Imperial Clan’s youngling not only sat firmly on top of Zhenlin Empire’s trending list, it also shot up to the top of the entire M31 Star System’s hot searches.
Many Imperial Authorities from different nations in the M31 Star System either posted congratulations on StarNet, or called the Golden Dragon Imperial Clan’s Imperial Authorities to send their blessings.
Under Chong Ming’s official Imperial Authorities account, messages from fans and common citizens all over the M31 Star System flew around in every style and shape.
“Husband, how could you have a youngling behind my back? You promised we’d get our certificate in two years and spend the rest of our lives together!”
“Husband, for you, I’m about to immigrate from the Western Kingdom to Zhenlin Empire. How could you not wait for me and already have a youngling behind my back?”
“Idol, heartthrob, husband, you’ve got the guts to have a youngling, then you’ve got the guts to show us the youngling’s mom. I want to see what kind of woman could steal you from my hands!”
“Yeah, I want to see what kind of peerless beauty could make my husband, this war-machine madman, have a youngling with her!”
“I’m not unconvinced or anything, I’m just upset. Unless she’s prettier than me and better than me, I… I’ll stop being a fan of this male called Chong Ming.”
“Hahaha, our idol, our heartthrob, is 150 years old and finally not single. He finally has a youngling, so happy, so great. All those shameless vixens, hurry up and scram, don’t scare our little Your Highness.”
“By the way, is our little Your Highness male or female? How old is the little one? Does anyone have inside information? Spill it!”
“No inside information, only the charges read out by the Judicial Department of the Imperial Authorities. We don’t know if the little Your Highness is male or female, and we don’t know what identity the little Your Highness’s mother has.”
“But look, how can you be so sure the ‘youngling’ in the court reading is my idol, my heartthrob’s youngling, and not the Crown Prince’s?”
A new reply popped up:
“Raises hand and slaps the upstairs commenter, then slaps again eighteen times. How old is the Crown Prince? He only reached adulthood two months ago. With Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s personality, would he let his imperial nephew produce a dragon life before adulthood, right under his eyes?”
“That’s right, that’s right. There are so many nations and so many royal households in the M31 Star System. My favorite is still Zhenlin Empire’s Golden Dragon Imperial Clan. They’re infatuated and loyal, their relationships are simple, and there are no messy lovers, no girlfriends, no illegitimate sons or daughters.”
“The charges read out by the Judicial Department show that Commander in Chief Chong Ming is truly furious. Someone went after his cub, and he’s standing up for his cub.”
“Wow, I can’t even imagine what it’s like when a 150-year-old old bachelor dragon who refused so many high-born women finally blooms. Just thinking about it makes my scalp numb in a good way.”
“Hey, hey, hey, it’s not just you. I also can’t imagine it. What kind of woman could actually win him over?”
Sui Xuan Chu saw Jiang Tea Tea staring at her light-brain wrist terminal and ignoring him. He tiptoed over to peek: “Oh ho, roommate, StarNet is really lively this round.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s voice turned cold and gloomy: “What is your uncle trying to pull?”
Sui Xuan Chu let out a little “ah” and pretended to be dumb: “What do you mean, what is he trying to pull?”
Jiang Tea Tea let her hand with the light-brain wrist terminal drop: “Stop pretending. Who allowed him to expose my cub?”
Sui Xuan Chu blinked and hurried to defend his uncle: “He didn’t expose your cub. He exposed his own cub.”
Jiang Tea Tea almost got a heart attack from anger: “What do you mean his cub? He doesn’t have any damn cub. This is my cub. Mine.”
Remembering what his uncle had told him, Sui Xuan Chu looked at her and gave way, coaxing her gently: “Right, right, yes, yes, it’s your cub, your cub. Don’t be mad, don’t be mad.”
Jiang Tea Tea was still furious: “Tell him to clarify that he doesn’t have a cub!”
Sui Xuan Chu was shocked: “You want him to clarify? Roommate, that’s not really appropriate, is it?”
“How is it not appropriate?” Jiang Tea Tea glared.
Sui Xuan Chu hurried to explain: “Right now Zhenlin Empire, and even the entire M31 Star System, all know he has a cub. If he comes out to clarify, won’t that be like waving a flag saying, ‘Yes, I really do’? That will just make everyone even more sure he has a cub.”
“If he doesn’t clarify, StarNet friends are only guessing he has a cub. They’re also guessing the cub is yours anyway, right? Right?”
Jiang Tea Tea opened her mouth in warning: “Tell your uncle to stop secretly announcing that he has a cub. That little brat has nothing to do with him. The little brat is mine.”
“A rabbit will bite when it’s forced. A dog will jump over a wall when it’s desperate. What do you think I’ll do? Understand?”
Sui Xuan Chu nodded again and again: “Understood, understood. By the way, do you want to go watch Jiang Yi Cheng’s execution?”
Jiang Tea Tea refused right away: “No. I still have class tomorrow.”
Sui Xuan Chu answered: “Okay, I’ll tell my uncle then…”
The only answer he got was a loud bang of the door slamming shut.
Sui Xuan Chu stared at the tightly closed door and felt his uncle had been right. If his uncle wanted a cub and the cub’s mother, the road ahead was long and hard.
Jiang Tea Tea went back to her room, downed two cups of dragon blood in a row, and her whole body relaxed. Her hunger disappeared. She pulled off her shoes, fell onto the bed, and went straight to sleep.
On StarNet, the news that Commander in Chief Chong Ming had a cub grew hotter and hotter, stirring up even more curiosity from the masses.
The other Dragon Clans in Zhenlin Empire all started emergency family meetings, talking about why none of them had heard even a whisper about Commander in Chief Chong Ming having a cub and a partner.
The leaders of the Black Dragon Clan and the White Dragon Clan roared through their meetings. They had been waiting for the last two Golden Dragons of the royal household to die off so they could take their place.
They never thought another Golden Dragon Clan youngling would show up. A single Golden Dragon Clan member could live three to five hundred years. With another one born, the Golden Dragon Clan could easily last another thousand years. The Golden Dragon Clan would not disappear.
The hope they had waited for so long would be pushed back another thousand years. And in those thousand years, the Golden Dragon Clan’s youngling would have younglings of its own. Generation after generation, they would still be beneath the Golden Dragon Clan, never able to turn things around.
No way. They also wanted a seat at the table. They also wanted to become the Imperial Clan, to make all beasts bow, and to rule Zhenlin Empire.
“Trash. You failed to find the Crown Prince at Zhenlin Empire’s Royal Military Imperial Academies. We lost a lot of our insectoid operatives, and now you’ve drawn Chong Ming’s attention.”
In the reception hotel, the insectoid race’s crown princess heir Asais stood in front of her subordinates and unleashed a storm of curses.
“Now that disgusting bug Chong Ming has a youngling, I would still be in the dark if he hadn’t exposed it himself. What were you useless things even doing?”
Dozens of attendant officials under Asais lowered their heads and admitted their fault humbly: “Yes, Your Highness, we are useless. We failed to notice in time that Commander in Chief Chong Ming already had a partner and a youngling.”
“Please rest assured. We will find out as soon as possible how old Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s partner and youngling are and what identities they have.”
Asais forced herself to take a deep breath and press down her anger: “Besides finding out, if you can capture his partner, or capture the Crown Prince, or capture that mutated Level S healing master, the advantage will be ours.”
These three were all heavyweights. As long as they got their hands on any one of them, Chong Ming would not only send her Imperial Elder Brother back, he would also give up several star systems and sign several unfair treaties.
The attendant officials answered in unison: “Please rest assured, Your Highness. We will definitely find Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s partner and youngling in the shortest possible time, find the Crown Prince, and capture the mutated Level S healing master Jiang Tea Tea!”
Asais said coldly: “Stop making so many empty promises. Bring me real results.”
“This time I’m staying in Zhenlin Empire for eight days. Two days have already passed. You still have six. In these six days, I want results.”
The attendant officials replied: “Yes, Your Highness!”
Late at night, when everything was quiet and still, an invisible warship appeared in the sky above the Royal Military Imperial Academies.
Sui Xuan Chu was jolted awake from his sleep by the vibration of his light-brain wrist terminal. He never in his life imagined that his uncle would show up in person and ask him to open the window for him.
Still in shock, he crawled out of bed, went to the living room window, and opened it.
In the next moment, a golden dragon as thick as a man’s arm and over a meter long flew in from outside. It landed and changed into human form. It was Chong Ming.
Wearing his pajamas, with messy black hair sticking up, Sui Xuan Chu whispered like a thief: “Uncle, my roommate went into her room to sleep before five in the afternoon. Before I went to bed I even pressed my ear to her door to listen. She was sleeping really well. Nothing seems wrong.”
Chong Ming looked at the tight-closed door to Jiang Tea Tea’s room and answered Sui Xuan Chu: “After you left, I went to consult several top healing masters and asked them about Jiang Tea Tea’s condition.”
“All the healing masters agreed that a Dragon Clan youngling cannot be born from a womb. But they did not rule out a special miracle. They all said they hoped to see the youngling and the mother’s body so they could examine them.”
Sui Xuan Chu swallowed and asked with some difficulty: “So you came here to grab my roommate and show her to those so-called top healing masters?”
Chong Ming’s gaze never left that shut door: “No. What Cheng Lin Yue said was right. In Zhenlin Empire and even across all interstellar space, the best healing master is Jiang Tea Tea herself.”
“I only asked them a few questions and they started arguing. They insisted this kind of thing could not exist. When I said it might, each of them had that look in their eyes, like they wanted to pin this miracle down on a dissection table.”
Sui Xuan Chu said softly: “So now you understand why my roommate hid it from you, why she won’t admit the little brat is yours, and why she no longer trusts you?”
Chong Ming nodded: “Yes. In the eyes of those healing masters, she is a medical miracle, a case to study.”
“She herself has a variant plant-type ability and supernatural abilities. She knows the situation in her belly better than anyone else.”
“If I were in her place, I would also hide it. I wouldn’t let anyone know I was pregnant with a miracle.”
Sui Xuan Chu finally let go of the tight knot in his chest. [Uncle understands my roommate. Long live understanding. Long live understanding.]
After cheering in his heart, he carefully asked: “Then why did you come so late at night…”
Chong Ming answered: “To comfort the youngling and Jiang Tea Tea’s supernatural ability spiritual power.”
Sui Xuan Chu cried out in shock: “Uncle, are you going to sleep in the same room as my roommate?”