Chapter 211
Chapter 211: Little Brat’s Dad, You Can’t Just Pour Dog Food On One Person
Aceras raised his hand again toward her face and shouted: “Do you really think I cannot bring myself to hit you?”
“You can hit me. I will not dodge,” Atuya said. Her calm was like a pool of dead water, without any waves. She even leaned her face a little closer to his palm to make it easier for him to hit her.
Aceras’s raised palm fell toward her face. It looked like it was about to touch her, but it stopped short at the last moment.
His eyes turned red. His lips trembled. Resentment, unwillingness, heartbreak, and pain all tangled together in his eyes: “Atuya, I always thought you loved me and understood me. But it turns out you do not.”
“What wrong have I done? I am the eldest imperial prince of the Insectoid Race. From the day I was born, it was already decided that I would never have a chance at the imperial throne. But everyone in the whole M31 Star System still compares me to that dragon, Chong Ming.”
“They say he is outstanding. They say he is the number one dragon in all history. They say I am just a bug, a bug who will never be able to stand on the stage. Even if I am the eldest imperial prince of the Insectoid Race, I still have to marry a female bug and can never be in charge of my own life.”
“I am not willing. I want to compete with him. I want to be better than him. I want my Empress Mother to see me. I even foolishly hoped that if I am outstanding enough, even more outstanding than Chong Ming, maybe I can change the history of the Insectoid Race where females are honored and males are low.”
“I just want to be valued. I just want to be supported. I just want my Empress Mother to see me. What did I do wrong? Why will you not help me? Why?”
People say that as the first child, you will receive your parents’ special love, that you are the proof of their love.
But he had never received that kind of special love. In the royal household of the Insectoid Race, he was like a bug that could be there or not.
He had three meals a day, and there were special insects to serve him. They were respectful but fake. Their eyes were full of pity that he was a male bug. In private, they said if he had been born a female bug, and as the Queen’s first child, he would surely be the Crown Princess heir and future heir apparent of the Insectoid Race.
What a pity. What a pity. On the surface, it looked like his fate was good as the eldest imperial prince of the Insectoid Race. In truth, when he grew up, he would just be a bargaining chip the royal household sent out to draw in other outstanding female bugs.
He was not worse than anyone. He could go to war. He could make money. He could plan and command.
So why could he not be free? Why could he not control his own life?
He was unwilling. Very unwilling. Truly unwilling.
Atuya’s half face was red with a clear print of his five fingers. But her gaze was still calm. There was no heartache, no love, no deep feeling in her eyes.
From the moment she told him she wanted to break off the engagement, she had put herself in the position of a subordinate. She treated him as a superior of the royal household, as a highborn insect. She treated him neither humble nor arrogant.
Atuya spoke in an even voice and stated the facts: “I am a High General of the Insectoid Race. I have one million insect soldiers under me. I can command a large army of one to five million insect soldiers in battle.”
“If I help you, that means I am ignoring those one million insect soldiers under me. They will be dragged into this because I helped you.”
“More than seventy percent of those one million insect soldiers have parents, partners, children, and brothers and sisters. I cannot drag them into punishment and make them take the blame because of my selfishness and your selfishness.”
“Their parents, children, partners, and brothers and sisters all depend on them to live. The Insectoid Race does not give common branches of service like them many ways to live. I am the High General they trust. Their lives are in my hands. I must do my best to protect their safety.”
“I even more cannot start a war between the two nations because of your mistake, and drag more insect soldiers, common citizens, and ordinary bugs to die on the battlefield.”
“You of the royal household, you highborn insects, think that common bugs dying is just dying. You think that common bugs dying for you, dying so you can conquer one more planet, one more star system, is an honor.”
“You feel honored. I do not. I am not afraid of war. I am not afraid of death. I am not afraid of leading the charge in front. What I am afraid of is stirring up trouble for your selfish desires and then pushing us to die for it.”
Aceras did not understand Atuya, just as Atuya did not understand him. He shouted: “Soldier bugs are meant to build military merit and a career. Only with military merit can they live a better life. If there is no war, how can they become highborn insects with their low subsidies?”
“You are their High General. You have never even asked them. How do you know they do not want a war between the two nations?”
“Besides, Jiang Tea Tea is the only level SSS variable plant and animal type healer in the whole M31 Star System. With her, it is not only my supernatural ability level that will rise. All the insects of my Insectoid Race…”
“Stop being naive, Your Highness Aceras,” Atuya cut him off coldly. “With your ability, you cannot take Jiang Tea Tea.”
Aceras growled: “Do I not still have you, and the whole ship full of insect soldiers?”
Atuya did not answer him directly. She said: “I cannot take her either. The insect soldiers on this ship also cannot take her.”
“None of us can take her. We should be thankful and grateful that her subordinates showed mercy. Otherwise, we would already be dust, forever left on Ri Pan Star of the Zhenlin Empire.”
“I do not believe that…”
“Believe it or not is up to you. Are you going to keep hitting me?”
“If not, please go back to rest.”
“You…”
Aceras was so angry that his chest hurt, but in the end, his hand still did not fall.
Atuya stepped back two steps and called her Deputy Officer over. Her voice was cold as she gave the order: “If His Highness Aceras refuses to go rest, give His Highness another injection of supernatural abilities softener and sleep serum. Do not let him wake up before we reach the Insectoid Race.”
“Atuya, you dare…”
“I will take full responsibility for anything that happens.”
“Yes, High General,” the Deputy Officer answered. He took out the sleep serum and supernatural abilities softener and shot both into Aceras’s neck.
After two shots, Aceras’s body went limp. His eyes closed, and he fell into a deep sleep.
A trace of controlled emotion passed through Atuya’s eyes. She did not go over to pick him up. Instead, she let the Deputy Officer carry him back to his room.
She stood at the window for a moment, watching the white clouds outside. Then she began to give orders to pack up everything from the space weapons expo and prepare to return to the Insectoid Race.
On the Zhenlin Empire’s side, the ones handling the aftermath were Xia Wei Yi, the garrison troops of Ri Pan Star, and the person in charge of Ri Pan Star.
They coordinated all the nations in an orderly way, helped each nation’s exhibition area, helped their own nation’s exhibition area, and also took responsibility for the safety of tourists who had not yet left.
On Chong Ming’s warship, Jiang Tea Tea once again saw karmic merit light flying toward her and falling onto her body, entering into her.
“What are you trying to catch?” Chong Ming saw Jiang Tea Tea holding her palm out to the empty air, as if something had fallen into it, making her fingers curl and close. But he could not see anything in the air, so he could not help asking.
Jiang Tea Tea dropped her hand that had closed into a fist and lied with a straight face: “I was catching a speck of dust.”
Another few threads of karmic merit light. It was really strange. Where were they coming from? She had not done any good deeds. How could she have this thing?
She had asked the consciousness of the fake young miss. She had also checked through the fake young miss’s memories. Other than donating money to the orphanage network on far off planets, there were no other great acts of kindness.
Chong Ming swept his golden eyes around. There was no tiny dust at all.
He did not expose her lie. He only said: “As long as you caught it, that is good. Come on, let us go back to the room.”
Jiang Tea Tea blurted out: “I am not hungry. I do not want to drink your blood right now.”
She had karmic merit lights. She had received some before, and now there were several more. Dragon blood was a great tonic. Karmic merit light was even more nourishing.
She had to find a way to check carefully where these karmic merit lights were coming from and why they kept coming to her and drilling into her body, one thread after another.
Chong Ming’s golden eyes sank a little: “If you will not drink blood and you are not hungry, then let us go to the simulation room.”
“Ah?” Jiang Tea Tea said. “What are we going to the simulation room for?”
Chong Ming answered: “To simulate a battle against Atuya, one of the top ten High Generals of the Insectoid Race. Her combat style looks ordinary, but in fact there is a lot to learn from it.”
“I had people simulate her style and the battles she has fought. On the way back to the capital planet, you can go try it.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s mouth drooped: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, Your Highness, I had two months of vacation. The first mission took less than ten days. The second time at the space expo took one month. Now I have less than fifteen days of vacation left. Can you not let me rest for a while?”
[So I am a demon, and you still treat me like an ordinary person to be worked to death?]
Chong Ming looked at her pitiful, little, soft act of pouting, and thought about how she had his youngling in her belly. He took a step back: “On the way back to the capital planet, the ship will not use space jump. The trip will take three days. Then we will simulate war for two days and rest for one day.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s mouth twitched: “Thank you so much for giving me one day off.”
“You are welcome,” Chong Ming replied lightly.
Jiang Tea Tea: “…”
[This life is impossible like this. Who wants to be his Commander in Chief of the Three Armies?]
Because of the contract with the fake young miss, she was famous across all interstellar space. It made countless people admire, like, and worship her and the fake young miss.
Wait. Admire. Like. Worship. Faith. Faith.
Jiang Tea Tea suddenly said: “Chong Ming, my stomach hurts. I need to go to the bathroom first. You can go to the simulation room by yourself.”
She tossed out the words and turned around and ran.
Chong Ming reached out to grab her but caught only air.
He watched her running back and could not help but laugh.
“Her little short legs sure can run,” Zhong Li He said. He was on Chong Ming’s warship with Kong Que, wandering around everywhere as if it were his own ship, poking his nose into this and that.
Chong Ming drew back his gaze from Jiang Tea Tea and looked at Zhong Li He: “That little short leg you are talking about can fight you to a draw. You still need more training.”
Zhong Li He was unhappy: “It is not like she and I have never fought. She could not beat me, okay.”
Chong Ming’s look at him was full of open dislike: “Just because she could not beat you before does not mean she cannot beat you now.”
Zhong Li He’s sapphire blue eyes blinked: “What do you mean? Do not tell me her supernatural abilities level has also gone up?”
Chong Ming raised a brow: “Congratulations, you got it right. But there is no reward.”
Zhong Li He felt extremely unbalanced in his heart: “No, she has been pregnant with your youngling for eight months. According to your clan’s traditions, as the youngling grows older, it needs more and more nutrition. The mother body gets weaker and weaker. She needs careful care and steady comfort from the father body’s supernatural abilities and spiritual power. If that is still not enough, the father body has to offer his own flesh and blood as nourishment.”
“I do not see any injuries on you. I do not see you staying by her side all day. Her body is not only strong, her supernatural abilities level has even gone up. How am I supposed to believe that?”
The corners of Chong Ming’s lips lifted. His voice was low and lazy, stabbing right into Zhong Li He’s heart and killing him with dog food: “Maybe it is because the youngling’s father, me, is the strongest, highest level Golden Dragon Clan male.”