Chapter 19
Chapter 19: She doesn’t have my dragon scent, she’s not the female I’m looking for
As soon as Jiang Tea Tea finished speaking, she received looks from all directions. Everyone stared at her like she was an idiot.
Of course, there was also an exception. A gaze that was extremely sharp and full of pressure swept toward her. She couldn’t ignore it. She lifted her eyelids and looked up, meeting the eyes of its owner: His Highness Chong Ming, commander in chief of the Three Armies and prince regent of the Zhenlin Empire.
Golden long hair, golden dragon horns, golden eyes, broad shoulders, a narrow waist, long legs, outstanding presence, a powerful aura. No wonder Big Dog Huang, as a male, could come up with that ridiculous idea of having monkey babies with him.
Huang Da Zhuang’s scalp tingled. He shook Jiang Tea Tea’s arm and spoke through clenched teeth in a low voice: “Jiang Tea Tea, are you crazy? I was just making an example, daydreaming a little, getting excited. How could you say it out loud?”
[Ahhh, getting to welcome his idol, his heartthrob idol, was like smoke rising from his ancestors’ graves. The smoke had barely puffed twice before Jiang Tea Tea stomped it out. Just what kind of grudge did she have against him?]
Jiang Tea Tea was shaken so hard the bouquet in her hands was about to fall to the ground: “If you like him, then you like him. If you love him, then you love him. Whether you’re male or female, you have the right to chase love. Here, the flowers are yours. Hurry up and offer them to your heartthrob idol and confess your love to him.”
The flowers were stuffed into Huang Da Zhuang’s arms. He quickly let go of Jiang Tea Tea’s arm and caught the bouquet, his head buzzing.
Seeing that he wasn’t moving, Jiang Tea Tea gave him a casual shove and urged him: “Hurry up and go. Why are you dawdling?”
Huang Da Zhuang: “…”
The academy big shots were all stabbing him with their eyes.
[Would it still be in time if he went and died right now?]
The headmaster, vice headmaster, and dean of students were already sweating. After all their thousand reminders, how could something this unreliable still have happened?
His Highness Chong Ming was a top tier beastman. For a pure human little female like Jiang Tea Tea with no supernatural abilities, the volume of her voice was basically like chirping right into his ear.
Huang Da Zhuang looked like his heartthrob idol had just died, so Jiang Tea Tea couldn’t help pushing him again: “Hurry up and go. Everyone is waiting for you.”
Huang Da Zhuang was like a warrior riding a tiger, sweating cold. Hugging the bouquet, under the stares coming from all directions, he walked step by step toward His Highness Chong Ming like a soldier going to battle who would not return unless dead.
Chong Ming’s sharp, oppressive gaze was fixed on Jiang Tea Tea. Then it slid past Sui Xuan Chu beside her and drew back, turning instead to look at Huang Da Zhuang.
In the total silence, under countless stares, Huang Da Zhuang’s heart beat faster and his blood boiled as he finally came to stand in front of his heartthrob idol.
No one knew if he suddenly short-circuited or if he was just too excited. Holding the bouquet in both hands, he lifted it up and stuck his butt toward Chong Ming in a ninety-degree bow: “Your Highness, this is for you. Welcome to the Royal Military Imperial Academy for review and inspection.”
Chong Ming took the flowers and spoke in a low voice: “Thank you. You’ve worked hard.”
Huang Da Zhuang’s eyes went perfectly round. He snapped his hand up in a salute: “It’s not hard, Your Highness. I am willing to give my life for Your Highness and for the Empire, to die for the country without regret!”
Chong Ming casually handed the flowers to his deputy officer Ai, then, like an elder, said to Huang Da Zhuang: “Schoolmate, you are a student right now. You must study hard. As for protecting your home and country, once you graduate and have real skills, all the major army corps will welcome you anytime.”
[He got to give flowers to his heartthrob idol, stand this close to him, and his idol even said so much to him and placed hopes on him. This was pure happiness.]
In his heart, Huang Da Zhuang screamed like a marmot. Out loud, he said in a powerful voice: “Yes, Your Highness. I will not let Your Highness’s expectations down. I will study hard and improve every day!”
Chong Ming reached out and patted his shoulder: “Keep it up. I have high hopes for you.”
Being patted on the shoulder by his heartthrob idol made Huang Da Zhuang’s eyes turn red with excitement.
Jiang Tea Tea felt she couldn’t even bear to watch. She tilted her head and muttered to Sui Xuan Chu: “Roommate, you’d better not be as useless as Big Dog Huang later.”
Sui Xuan Chu lowered his gaze to her: “Are you talking about yourself?”
Jiang Tea Tea narrowed her eyes: “I’m reminding you.”
Sui Xuan Chu said: “I’m very promising, thanks.”
Jiang Tea Tea said: “I’m also very promising.”
The two very “promising” people saw the headmaster, vice headmaster, dean of students, and a group of academy big shots leading His Highness Chong Ming toward them. At once they lowered their eyes and went quiet, acting like well-behaved babies.
Chong Ming stopped in front of Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu. The headmaster hurried to introduce them respectfully: “Your Highness, these are the student representatives. This is Jiang Tea Tea, a pure human who has not awakened any supernatural abilities. She is in the First Year Pacification Division. Her theory foundation is solid, and her exam results are in the top five of her year.”
“This is one of the twin top students of the First Year Combat Department, Sui Xuan Chu of the black Dragon Clan, a beastman with lightning element affinity. He has defeated the top students of every department in both the First and Second Year.”
Chong Ming nodded to the headmaster, then reached out his hand to Jiang Tea Tea.
Jiang Tea Tea hadn’t expected him to shake hands with her. She hesitated for a moment, then saw the vice headmaster behind him winking hard at her, urging her to hurry up and shake.
She reached out and held Chong Ming’s hand: “Hello, Your Highness Chong Ming. It’s nice to meet you.”
Chong Ming returned her grip: “I am also glad to meet you. As a female without any supernatural abilities, your attitude toward learning and your lively spirit are worth learning from.”
She was an ordinary human female. There was no fluctuation of supernatural ability or spiritual power on her body, and there was no dragon scent that belonged to him. She was not the female he was looking for from the First Hotel.
Jiang Tea Tea’s lips curved a little: “Thank you for the praise. I’m also very satisfied with my own attitude toward learning. In the future, if you need your spiritual power soothed, you can come find me. I’ll give you twenty percent off.”
He had deliberately restrained his powerful oppressive presence, but even the dragon might that leaked out without him meaning to still made people feel a strong sense of pressure.
She was a little curious: if he let his aura fully loose, would he crush all the people with supernatural abilities present into dust?
Chong Ming’s gaze narrowed slightly and fell on her curved lips: “All right. I’ll wait for you to finish your studies and help comb through and soothe my spiritual power.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s smile deepened: “It’s a deal.”
The Fake Young Miss wanted to become the very top Soothing Specialist in the whole M31 Star System. It was simple: study well, soothe this big golden dragon, and use the top big shot’s advertising effect to cut decades off her path.
[She really was a genius. She gave herself a thumbs up for her own cleverness.]
Chong Ming let go of her hand and turned to Sui Xuan Chu.
Sui Xuan Chu shook his hand.
What Chong Ming said to him was also mostly words of encouragement.
After he finished encouraging him and let go, he reached out to shake Chong Xing Qi’s hand.
Just like that, Chong Ming shook hands with every student who had come to welcome him, repeating his encouraging words again and again.
Just as Jiang Tea Tea thought the welcome ceremony was about to end and she could go back to class, she heard Chong Ming’s low voice from not far away: “In the past, whenever I came, it was the academy leaders who took me around the academy. Today, let the First Year students act as guides and show us around the academy.”
The headmaster, vice headmaster, and dean of students of the Royal Military Imperial Academy, once they heard that, immediately waved at the top students from each First Year department. What were they still standing there for? Hurry over and act as guides for His Highness Chong Ming. Especially that Jiang Tea Tea. Why was she standing there like a fool, not moving at all?
All the First Year top students from every department went over. Only Jiang Tea Tea, Huang Da Zhuang, and Sui Xuan Chu were left standing in a straight line like wooden stakes. You look at me, I look at you. No one moved.
Chong Ming lifted his brows: “You three don’t want to be my guides to show me around the Royal Military Imperial Academy?”
Huang Da Zhuang: “!!!!”
[He was willing, super willing, but since Sister Tea hadn’t moved, he didn’t dare move either.]
Sui Xuan Chu: “…”
He had graduated from the Royal Imperial Academy himself. He had walked back and forth through it eight hundred times and seen it eight hundred times. He knew it better than anyone. Having someone guide him around felt as useless as taking off your pants just to fart. It was completely unnecessary.
Seeing that the males on both sides weren’t speaking, Jiang Tea Tea blurted out: “Your Highness Chong Ming, I’m not familiar with the Royal Military Imperial Academy, so I can’t be your guide to show you around. Please find someone else to take you.”
The sweat on the headmaster, vice headmaster, and dean of students hadn’t even dried yet before it burst out again. This wasn’t some pure human little female without awakened supernatural abilities. This was a living ancestor bouncing on their foreheads!
Chong Ming’s thin lips curved slightly. His sharp gaze swept across Sui Xuan Chu and Huang Da Zhuang: “You two also aren’t familiar with the academy?”
“Very…”
“Not that familiar…”
Before Sui Xuan Chu and Huang Da Zhuang could finish, a sharp, urgent alarm sounded from inside the campus: “Warning, warning! Twenty-five level five aberrant beasts have broken through the academy’s back gate and entered the academy. All units, attention, all units, attention!”