Chapter 140
Chapter 140: You Like Me And Want To Marry Me, How Can You Be So Full Of Yourself?
Sui Xuan Chu: “!!!!”
[A proposal scene?]
[Was he really acting as the witness dragon while his uncle proposed to his roommate?]
[Imperial Father, Imperial Mother, Beast God, when other people propose, at least they buy some kind of token, right? A rare ore ring, a limited edition flying device, a house, a planet, a mine, a land deed, or at the very least a pretty bouquet.]
But his uncle was something else. This proposal felt like he squeezed it into the one blink of free time he had between sips of water, just to deal with some unimportant side task.
[With this kind of proposal ceremony, any girl who already wore filters for him would probably say yes, but his roommate? No way.]
Jiang Tea Tea clicked her tongue, lifted her hand to pat at the air like she was brushing off something dirty, and mocked: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, the way your abacus is clicking to grab everything and eat everything… the beads are about to bounce right into my face.”
She went on: “How about I clap for you and call you super awesome?”
One moment he said he would not fight her over the little brat.
The next, he said he wanted to register their marriage and take responsibility for her.
[This is taking responsibility?]
No. This was him openly and righteously trying to snatch her little brat.
Jiang Tea Tea was a demon tree. Her contract with the Fake Young Miss had already tied her to this era.
If she registered her marriage with him and formed a marriage contract, it would be like stamping a tethering brand between her and this world.
Once that tethering brand was stamped, she might never be able to go back to the demon clan and would have to spend this whole life here.
Her life was very, very long. Long enough to outlive a hundred of him.
In a few hundred years, he would close his eyes, his tail would droop, and he would die, clean and neat, while she would be stuck here, not knowing how long it would take for that tethering brand to fade.
If she was unlucky and the karmic tie of their marriage contract turned eternal, with immortality to all lifetimes, then she would have to keep looking for him in his next lives.
[The days of searching in the future would be wild and endless, extravagant to the point of madness.]
[Forget it, forget it, she could not live that kind of “exciting” life.]
She decided to learn from her maternal grandmother: only fall in love, only sleep with male immortals, male ghosts, and male demons, but never sign a marriage contract and never take responsibility. You happy, me happy, everyone happy.
Chong Ming was not surprised by her rejection. He ignored her cold sarcasm and spoke with great sincerity: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, in this era, single women giving birth and raising younglings alone is completely normal.”
“You also have very outstanding supernatural abilities. Even without me backing you up, you could still give the youngling a wealthy life.”
“But the one in your belly is a golden dragon clan youngling. No matter where it goes, it will be the center of attention. People will keep their eyes on it.”
“Asais sent bugs into the royal military Imperial Academies for one purpose, to locate the crown prince and kidnap him, so she could use the crown prince to threaten the Zhenlin Empire.”
“So, if you and I register our marriage, we can avoid a lot of…”
“Stop, stop, stop!” Jiang Tea Tea interrupted him and reminded him: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, registering marriage with you would not avoid unnecessary trouble. It would make unnecessary trouble come straight to my door.”
“And also, you say my youngling is golden dragon clan, so it is golden dragon clan? I can say it is white dragon clan, blue dragon clan, patterned dragon clan, or even not dragon clan at all.”
“Technology is so advanced, medical standards are so high, there are so many forbidden drugs. My roommate can transform into a red-black dragon, so why can’t my child also transform into a red-black dragon?”
He tried to get close to her by saying he could help avoid this and that, but she was not a freshly formed baby demon, clueless about the world, who would grab his leg and run with him just for a piece of candy.
She was at the Great Demon Stage. Before she even became a demon, she had gained spiritual intelligence and grew for several hundred years before forming into a demon, and then cultivated for a very, very long time after that.
Anyone who tried to pour her mind-control soup to steal her cubs, she would fight them to the death. Her cubs were hers. Whoever tried to take them, she would go crazy on them, even the little brat’s birth father.
Chong Ming’s golden eyes flashed as he said: “Jiang Tea Tea, you are right. There are indeed potions that can change a dragon clan’s scale color and blood color.”
“But those are usually used on dragon clan younglings between five and ten years old. Younglings that have just been born cannot use these potions.”
Jiang Tea Tea was completely unmoved: “What you say are all minor details. As long as I have money and have ability, I believe I can find someone who can make a color-changing potion that can be used the moment the youngling is born.”
“You really do not need to worry about me. We two will go back to walking separate roads. You go your way, I cross my bridge. If we meet again, a nod will be enough.”
Chong Ming’s eyes grew deeper and deeper as he said: “Jiang Tea Tea, whether you admit it or not, I am the youngling in your belly’s royal father.”
“As the youngling’s royal father, my upbringing will not allow me to ignore it or refuse to take on a father’s responsibility.”
Jiang Tea Tea narrowed her eyes and looked him up and down: “You really want to take on a father’s responsibility for it?”
Chong Ming nodded: “Yes.”
A sly light flashed in Jiang Tea Tea’s dark eyes: “Then lend me 1 billion to spend first?”
Sui Xuan Chu: “!!!!”
His uncle was very tight-fisted with him and had always raised him poor.
There was no way he would casually give his roommate 1 billion to blow.
[Roommate, you are really daydreaming in the middle of the night.]
Chong Ming lowered his head and opened his light-brain wrist terminal as he said: “I remember I shared my Empire bank account with you. Did you close it on your own?”
“???” Jiang Tea Tea was stunned.
His bank account and her bank account were shared? When had that happened? Why did she not know anything about it?
Sui Xuan Chu: “!!!!”
His uncle only gave him a bit of pocket money each month and topped up his meal card.
He always said males had to be raised poor.
But to his roommate, it was account sharing?
[So who is the real blood relative here?]
After checking, Chong Ming lifted his head to look at Jiang Tea Tea: “Our shared account has not been closed. It is still active.”
“If you want to spend money, you can spend straight from my side. No threshold, no limit. If you want to spend 1 billion or 2 billion, do as you like.”
Jiang Tea Tea raised the wrist with her light-brain wrist terminal, opened her personal account, and saw that the 1 billion in compensation from the Jiang family had already been donated by her, and the 100 million the insectoid race had paid her today had also been donated. Her account was completely empty.
Sui Xuan Chu leaned over, wanting to see how much private money his uncle had, but to his surprise Jiang Tea Tea did not even know how to look.
He silently reached out and tapped twice on her light-brain wrist terminal account, pulling up the shared account between her and his uncle.
Jiang Tea Tea stared at the string of numbers in the balance, counted and counted, and still could not count clearly. She turned her head to Sui Xuan Chu: “Your uncle is so rich!”
Sui Xuan Chu hummed: “I only know my uncle is so rich because I’m basking in your light.”
Jiang Tea Tea asked again: “If I donate all his money, will he jump up and butcher me?”
Sui Xuan Chu was bold to the point of heaven-defying. He reached out, grabbed the back of Jiang Tea Tea’s head, twisted, and turned her face toward his uncle: “The person involved is right in front of you. Ask him. Why are you asking me?”
Jiang Tea Tea blinked: “If I donate all your money, what will you do?”
Chong Ming let out a long sigh and said helplessly: “The moment I opened the joint account between us, it was for you to spend as you wish, donate as you wish. You do not need to ask me.”
He was really that generous?
Leaning against Jiang Tea Tea, Sui Xuan Chu whispered: “Roommate, send me an 880,000 star credits red packet to try it out first?”
Jiang Tea Tea replied with three words: “In your dreams.”
Sui Xuan Chu rolled his eyes: “Why are you so stingy when it is my uncle’s money?”
Jiang Tea Tea casually closed the account sharing: “You know it is your uncle’s money. If you want to spend it, go to him. Why are you coming to me?”
She only refused to touch cause and effect with money she did not earn herself.
Money spent from someone else’s shared account came with cause and effect attached.
She did not want to get entangled with this old mud loach Chong Ming because of cause and effect.
It was like that scholar who saved a fox spirit. The fox spirit then owed him a life debt, worked itself to the bone cultivating, finally entered the half-immortal ranks, and then the Heavenly Dao said, you still owe someone a life.
With a crash, the fox spirit had to go repay the favor. After years of give and take, the fox spirit suffered in body and heart and might even die.
[Not worth it, not worth it. Way too dangerous. Completely different from what a tree spirit of the new era should be doing.]
Hearing the sound of the account sharing being closed, Chong Ming looked at Jiang Tea Tea in confusion and asked: “Why close the shared account? Do you not need money?”
Jiang Tea Tea waved her hand and tipped up her chin: “If I need money, I will earn it. I do not want to spend your money and then have you point at me and say you paid for raising the cub, so the little brat has to belong to you.”
“In order to stop you from going back on your word, I will not spend even one cent of your money. Also, send me back to the Academy. I am not going to the Imperial Palace for a check-up. Thanks.”
Chong Ming kept a blank face, his sharp features the same face that drove hundreds of millions of males and females crazy, as he said: “If you are that afraid of a physical exam, then you should know the Academy’s equipment is not safe. The test results could leak.”
“The Imperial Palace’s Medical Wing has the top equipment in all interstellar space. Its security level and tightness are the highest, and the ones examining you will be Cheng Lin Yue and her uncle Cheng Yuan, whom you trust.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s voice sank: “So what you mean is, you will not take me back to the Academy but will forcibly take me back to the royal…”
“Roommate, roommate.” Sui Xuan Chu grabbed Jiang Tea Tea’s arm and cut her off: “Don’t be angry, don’t get worked up. It is just a check-up, just to see whether my younger brother or younger sister is healthy. Little thing, just a little thing.”
Jiang Tea Tea yanked her arm back and cursed: “You traitor whose elbow bends outward.”
Sui Xuan Chu swore his loyalty: “For the sake of my younger brother or younger sister, I can bend my elbow toward you. Please believe me.”
A golden dragon clan youngling was very rare.
He was about to get a younger brother or younger sister. Of course he had to coax his roommate first. Nothing else was important.
Jiang Tea Tea shot Chong Ming a knife-like glare: “I will go back to the Imperial Palace with you this once. Next time, get as far away from me as you can.”
Chong Ming lowered his voice and let out four words: “We will discuss that.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes flared with anger: “What do you mean?”
Chong Ming replied: “Nothing. Do not misunderstand.”
Looking at his steady, proper face, she really wanted to tear it apart. But she could not beat him, so she could only endure it and think hard.
Since she could not escape the check-up, then she had to think about how to get the biggest benefit out of it.
She absolutely could not let this old mud loach Chong Ming know that she had several cubs in her belly. He already wanted to fight her over one cub. If he found out there were several, he might just pull a “discard the mother, keep the cubs” move.
When Chong Ming saw that she refused to speak to him, his face turned dark with annoyance. He opened his mouth again: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, I hope you will think about my suggestion to register our marriage.”
He still wanted to register their marriage. He still was not giving up.
Jiang Tea Tea’s mouth twitched, and she casually asked the question of her soul: “You want so badly to register our marriage. Is it because you like me?”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes suddenly darkened. He stared straight at Jiang Tea Tea, thought for a moment, did not deny it, and generously admitted: “Yes. I like you.”