Chapter 155
Chapter 155: Little Brat’s Dad Asks Little Brat’s Mom on a Date, It Was All a Misunderstanding
Asais did not believe him. She rushed in front of Aceras, grabbed the hand wearing the light-brain wrist terminal, and tapped it to play the video.
It was a one minute video. It had cuts of all thirty six bugs, how they were caught, how they died, and how their bodies were dragged away.
Aceras asked Asais: “Are you happy now?”
Asais looked back at him: “How could I be happy with this kind of humiliation? Chong Ming and I are sworn enemies. Just wait, I will go find more bugs right now and make him pay in blood.”
Aceras stopped her: “Asais, you already forgot. We are still in his territory right now.
“To scare the two of us, he sent an annihilation-class warship to escort us. Do you really think there is only one ship escorting us and no other ships around?”
Their technology was too weak. They had no way to detect whether there were other invisible ships around them.
Asais’s whole body shook. Her green eyes flickered, and she had to admit: “The invisibility tech of their warships is better than ours.”
“If the annihilation-class warship that is escorting us did not choose to show itself on its own, we would never know in our whole lives that it was following right behind us.”
“But, but Imperial Elder Brother, how long has it even been since the Zhenlin Empire and us became peaceful? How can their high tech have developed this fast?”
It was too fast. The speed of their tech updates was too fast. They had changed so quickly that she only found out now. That was wrong.
Their Insectoid Race had always been far ahead in both beast form and technology. They should have been the masters of the M31 Star System.
Even if Chong Ming now had a partner and a youngling, the golden dragon family only had three dragons. How could they compare to the Insectoid Race Imperial Clan?
Aceras let out a long breath: “Right now we have no way of knowing how their high tech developed so fast.
“The only thing we can hope for is that we can return to the Insectoid Race safely. I also hope that our other younger sisters in the Insectoid Race can behave and not covet your Crown Princess Heir position.”
Asais said fiercely: “Whoever dares not behave, I will kill when I get back. The Crown Princess Heir of the Insectoid Race can only be me. The future queen can only be me.”
Aceras gave her a deep look: “I am going to video call Atuya. If you need anything, call me.”
Asais wanted to keep talking to him, but he left without even turning his head, clearly not willing to listen to her anymore.
Asais was angry, annoyed, and unwilling. She called her attendant official, advisory council members, and secondary husband to hold a meeting.
In the classroom of the Royal Military Imperial Academies, during the last ten minutes of the morning’s final period, the teacher changed the topic and said: “Students, I have good news. Between 8:30 and 10:30 this morning, our capital planet’s Central Public Security Bureau, Special Affairs Bureau, Secrecy Bureau, and Security Department captured thirty six Insectoid Race bugs that had been buried on the capital planet.
“The Nation’s central news, the Imperial Military Headquarters, the Special Affairs Bureau, the Central Public Security Bureau, the Secrecy Bureau, and the Security Department all jointly issued a public notice.
“According to the notice, these thirty six bugs were hiding in order to infiltrate ten universities on the capital planet. They were planning to bomb the academies. It is very possible that this is connected to the invasion at our Royal Military Imperial Academies a few days ago.”
Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu looked at each other. Jiang Tea Tea spoke up: “Teacher, does that mean if the Nation’s staff members had not caught these thirty six bugs in time, we might have been blown to death?
“Thirty six bugs were preparing to bomb ten academies, and the Royal Military Imperial Academies would have been the main target. Is that what it means?”
The teacher nodded: “That is what it means. Based on the notices from all sides, among the thirty six bugs, twenty were aimed at the Royal Military Imperial Academies.
“So the imperial authorities suspect that the bugs’ final goal was to bomb the Royal Military Imperial Academies without distinction, and try to kill the Crown Prince who is disguised as a student here.”
Jiang Tea Tea immediately moved a little farther from Sui Xuan Chu. She was scared half to death. She had almost become cannon fodder buried with him. How terrifying.
Sui Xuan Chu: [!!!]
What did she mean by that?
Was she afraid he would drag her down with him?
[So disloyal!]
Cheng Lin Yue also followed Jiang Tea Tea and scooted away from Sui Xuan Chu.
Sui Xuan Chu was boiling with frustration in his heart.
Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting, and the other three did not know who the Crown Prince was, so they asked the teacher: “Teacher, if the Crown Prince is disguised as a student at the Royal Military Imperial Academies, doesn’t he have any bodyguards or something around him?”
“That’s right, Teacher. Usually rich and powerful families send some kids about the same age and with similar grades to school with their child, to protect them and take care of them, right?
“The Crown Prince’s status is so noble. Wouldn’t Commander in Chief Chong Ming arrange some similar people to guard him, or act as his doubles?”
Sui Xuan Chu: [???]
[These guys really watched too many dramas and read too many novels. Their imagination had gone off the rails.]
The teacher answered: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming is a completely fair person who follows the Law Code. The Crown Prince who is disguised as a student at the Royal Military Imperial Academies is just an ordinary dragon, with no special privileges at all.
“If you insist on talking about privileges, then Commander in Chief Chong Ming actually put all the special treatment on you eight. All of your courses and your chosen departments were considered, planned, and arranged by him personally.
“So you are even more fortunate than the Crown Prince. You have the privilege of Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s personal study plan. You are the first team for whom he has made a study plan. I hope you will study hard, not let down Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s expectations and trust, and work to become people who are useful to the Nation.”
With just a few casual words, the teacher greatly boosted the power of their idol and heartthrob idol. Huang Da Zhuang and the others were fired up like they had been injected with chicken blood.
Hard courses that they couldn’t learn? That just meant they were useless and not working hard enough. If they worked harder, they would definitely learn them.
Tired? Their idol, Commander in Chief Chong Ming, as the empire’s top leader, could stay busy for days without sleep and still not be tired. What right did they have to complain about being tired?
At lunch, Jiang Tea Tea was shocked to find that Huang Da Zhuang and the others had gone crazy. They were eating while chewing on textbooks and watching course analysis videos at the same time.
One, two, three, four of them were all like that. They did not waste any time. Study, study, and more study.
Some of them stopped halfway through eating to take the parts of the course analysis they did not understand and go find the teacher to ask questions. Their enthusiasm was higher than ever.
After lunch, once they finished reciting the Criminal Code, there was no such thing as a noon nap. It was all reviewing, studying, analyzing, taking notes, and doing practice papers.
Jiang Tea Tea endured them for a whole noon, then could not hold back anymore: “Hey, hey, hey, Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting, Cheng Lin Yue, all of you stop for a second. I want to ask you something.”
Cheng Lin Yue and the others stopped what they were doing right away and looked at her: “What is it? Ask quick. We still need to study.”
Jiang Tea Tea felt like, as a demon, she was kind of ruining the atmosphere: “When the teacher talked about Chong Ming today, you all acted like you were on chicken blood. Is it really that serious?”
Huang Da Zhuang glared: “Sister Tea, I do love you and I am your flunky. You are number one in my heart. But Commander in Chief Chong Ming is still my heartthrob idol and idol.
“My heartthrob idol and idol took time out of his busy schedule to make me a study plan. If I don’t act like I’m on chicken blood, who should?”
Cheng Xiao Ting and the others nodded with him: “That’s right, Sister Tea. You are smarter than us, stronger than us, and have more supernatural abilities than us. You learn faster than we do. You don’t know how obsessed we military academy students are with Commander in Chief Chong Ming.
“Commander in Chief Chong Ming is the idol of three generations in our families. My grandparents on both sides are all his fans.
“When I told my family that my study plan was made by Commander in Chief Chong Ming, they said they would treat it like they never gave birth to me. My life already belongs to Commander in Chief Chong Ming and to the Nation.
“If I don’t study well and can’t reach Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s standards, even if the Commander in Chief doesn’t look down on me, even if the teachers don’t look down on me, my own family would look down on me enough to beat me to death.”
“Sister Tea, you are our idol among girls. Commander in Chief Chong Ming is our idol among boys. We can live for you, die for you, and run into walls for you.”
“Right, Sister Tea, be good, don’t get jealous. We still love you the most. Mwah!”
Looking at their bright, firm eyes one by one, Jiang Tea Tea suddenly understood why her own heart beat faster, and why she felt both greedy and hungry when she faced Chong Ming in his half-dragon, half-human form.
It turned out… he was a top-tier magic charm. He was the kind of being that made everyone who came into contact with him, and even those who did not, feel attracted to him.
Her maternal grandmother had told her before that top-tier magic charm of the Demon Race, in modern terms, was the “universal heartthrob” setting.
Chong Ming’s top-tier magic charm = universal heartthrob.
So as a demon who wanted to turn him into fertilizer, she would naturally be confused by him, have a racing heart, and feel greedy and hungry when she looked at him.
Sui Xuan Chu waved a hand in front of her eyes: “Roommate, what is wrong with you?”
Jiang Tea Tea came back to herself: “Nothing. I just think you are right. Commander in Chief Chong Ming is very attractive.”
Sui Xuan Chu’s eyes went wide like a cow’s. Quietly, he turned on the recording function on his light-brain wrist terminal: “Roommate, what did you say? You are also charmed by Commander in Chief Chong Ming?”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded hard: “Of course. His charm is so strong that it is very easy for people to be charmed by him. I am no exception.”
The charm of a top-tier magic charm and universal heartthrob meant that a racing heart, feeling hungry when looking at him, and drooling over him was a normal mental and physical reaction.
Before, she had worried that, as someone at the Great Demon Stage, there was something wrong with her for drooling over his half-dragon, half-human appearance. Now that she knew there was nothing wrong with her, she could relax. She no longer had to worry about her heart racing and her mouth going dry around him.
Sui Xuan Chu recorded his own question and Jiang Tea Tea’s answer, then sent it straight to his uncle. He did not forget to answer Jiang Tea Tea: “I am also charmed by him and see him as my lifelong idol.”
Given the occasion, Jiang Tea Tea was too embarrassed to say anything. He did not act like someone charmed by his idol at all.
Jiang Tea Tea said perfunctorily: “Fine, fine, you are right. Go study.”
Sui Xuan Chu chuckled twice, then, with his back to Jiang Tea Tea, sent a message to his uncle: “Uncle, tonight I will be the only one sleeping in the dorm. You can come pick up my roommate.”
Chong Ming replied: “Tonight I will pick up both of you as usual. You can skip one hour of training.”
Sui Xuan Chu: “Uncle, my roommate is charmed by you. I already told you. Can’t you let me have the dorm to myself for one night?”
Chong Ming: “No.”
Sui Xuan Chu puffed up like a blowfish from anger. If he had known, he would never have sent his uncle the recording of his roommate being charmed by him. It made him so mad he could explode.
After finishing a meeting and returning to his office, Chong Ming listened to the recording Sui Xuan Chu sent him three times in a row. In the middle of his busy schedule, he even snuck a bit of time to browse the pure human women’s forum…
Jiang Tea Tea and the other seven had classes all afternoon. The teacher told them that starting tonight and for the next three days until summer break, there would be no evening classes.
Huang Da Zhuang and the others were surprised, happy, and excited. They planned to finish their homework and, if they still had time, go out for a walk.
Jiang Tea Tea’s idea was different. She wanted to go wander around the back mountain of the academy. The cubs in her belly were already seven months along. It had been a long time since she had put roots into the ground.
She needed to root herself in the earth, absorb some of Mother Earth’s nourishment, and provide it to herself and the cubs in her belly.
Just as she was thinking of what excuse to use to slip away, her light-brain wrist terminal rang. She looked at the caller ID, saw “Old Mud Loach,” and hung up. Then she sent a message back: “What is it?”
Chong Ming replied instantly: “I am at the academy gate. Come out.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “??? You being at the academy gate has nothing to do with me. We agreed that I am not going back to the imperial palace to sleep tonight. I am not coming out.”
Chong Ming: “Come out, I have something to tell you.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “What is it?”
Chong Ming: “A date.”