Chapter 269
Chapter 269: The Little Brats’ Dad Is Confessing, The Little Brats Are About To Be Born
Jiang Tea Tea twisted her wrist, but his grip was tight without hurting her. His other hand held her waist, pouring spiritual power into her to soothe her and wrapping her up, as if he was afraid she would run away.
Jiang Tea Tea stopped twisting her wrist, lifted her head, and asked: “Your Highness, when you negotiate with people, do you grab their wrist like this and hold their waist?”
Chong Ming lowered his head and looked at her from under his lashes: “Of course not.”
Jiang Tea Tea shifted her body: “You treat me like this because you look down on me and do not treat me like a person?”
[She was not human, but that did not mean he could treat her as less than a person.]
Chong Ming opened his mouth to explain, putting himself in a very low position and sounding very sincere: “No. When I negotiate with others, if we cannot agree, I can flip the table and walk away.”
“Negotiating with you, you are the one who can flip the table. I am the one who hopes to work with you and can keep lowering my bottom line for you, even to the point of having no bottom line.”
“Holding your wrist and your waist is because I am afraid you will flip the table and hurt yourself, and also afraid that you will not even bother to flip the table and will not care about me at all.”
[Tsk tsk, look at that. As expected of The Empire’s Commander in Chief, the regent Prince of the Blood, decisive in killing, standing at the very top of the men in the M31 Star System.]
[His words were so beautiful that the remaining consciousness of the Fake Young Miss inside her body rose up, telling her that she was smitten. The Commander in Chief was indeed the ideal of the Mortal World, the one man in the whole M31 Star System that women and men most wanted to marry.]
[The Fake Young Miss’s consciousness declared that she loved him, she loved him. He was exactly her type. Any other man, compared to him, was completely weak with no way to compete!]
Jiang Tea Tea used her own consciousness to warn the remaining consciousness of the Fake Young Miss not to make the situation any bigger or think this was romantic.
[Romantic, my foot. As someone at the Great Demon Stage, she either had to keep up her cultivation practice and lie low until the end of time, aiming to live as long as heaven and earth, or keep cultivating, ascend, and become immortal to bring blessings to some place.]
[Love, whether for demon, ghost, fiend, immortal, or human, was something that killed whoever touched it. There were so many examples before her; she had to take warning and could not dive in headfirst, or she would not even know how she died!]
[Right now she was carrying five dragon cubs. She must not get involved in emotional debts. She had to finish the Contract with the Fake Young Miss, then do everything she could to return to the Demon Realm, or keep cultivating and ascend with her cubs, becoming a proper legend in the Demon Realm and Immortal Realm.]
[If she got stained by feelings and love, who knew what would be waiting for her? Maybe a demon clan she could never return to, and an Immortal Realm she could never reach through cultivation?]
[When he died, she would be either searching along the road of reincarnation for him, or living here alone and lonely. Just thinking about it was terrifying and miserable!]
Seeing that she did not speak, Chong Ming’s hand on her waist tightened. The possessiveness, liking, and love in his golden eyes surged toward her like waves.
“Jiang Tea Tea, whether on the battlefield or at the negotiation table, even if I am at a disadvantage, I am still the one holding the initiative.”
“Only with you have I tried many methods, wanting to attack from all sides so that I could hold the initiative. I even thought about locking you up in the Imperial Palace, waiting until you fell in love with me before letting you out.”
“Sadly, I have already failed. All my thoughts about you failed before I could even act on them. Your body and your heart, as long as you do not open them to me, I will never be able to hold the initiative.”
“Or rather, even if your body and your heart do open to me, you will still be the one holding the initiative, the one who can choose me and flip my table.”
“But…” As Chong Ming spoke, he looked at Jiang Tea Tea and smiled. There was a trace of sweetness in the bitterness of his smile. He paused, then went on: “Even if you pick me and flip my table, I am still very happy.”
“At first I wanted to take things slowly and let feelings grow over time. But later, I thought about it. I am not young anymore. I am more than 130 years older than you. If I want to be with you, to register our marriage, to openly hold you, kiss you, and have younglings with you, then I have to tell you honestly and openly!”
Jiang Tea Tea’s hand was already held by him and pressed against his chest. He let her feel his beating heart while telling her that every sentence and every word he said was serious.
Her hand felt like it was being burned. She wanted to pull it back, but he held it tightly. As their eyes met, her heart skipped and beat wildly, and the cubs in her belly rolled around with her racing heart, fierce and wild!
Jiang Tea Tea moved her lips and said: “Let go of me first. My belly feels a little uncomfortable.”
Chong Ming’s hand suddenly tightened and then loosened. He picked her up and put her on the soft sofa, then crouched in front of her, watching as she laid her hand across her belly. Her hand was even pushed up by the younglings moving inside her.
The little brats were pushing so obviously and were so unusually lively, as if they were all thrashing around and bumping against her belly.
Her hand across her belly could not cover the area where the cubs were moving at all.
Her belly visibly bulged out here one moment and there the next, with several places bulging at the same time.
Chong Ming stared, his pupils shrinking, his voice trembling a little: “Jiang Tea Tea, are you sure there is really only one youngling in your belly?”
The cubs were too active, so active that her belly hurt.
Jiang Tea Tea held her belly and bent over, blocking his view. She said: “I feel a bit unwell now. I do not want to argue about anything else with you. Please leave.”
She hurt so much that her face was a little pale and her eyes were a little red. Chong Ming looked up at her and asked in a negotiating tone: “Let me call Cheng Yuan and Cheng Lin Yue to come over and check your body. I will not look at the test result. I just want to make sure you are alright.”
If she did not say it, he would not ask.
Jiang Tea Tea was silent for a moment, then said: “Okay.”
The five little brats in her belly were far too unruly today.
They moved and burrowed around in her belly, making it ache.
Chong Ming had thought she would refuse. He did not expect her to agree.
He froze for a second: “Wait a moment. I will call them.”
He stood up, walked to the side, and called Cheng Yuan.
After the call, he opened the wooden house’s permissions to Cheng Yuan and Cheng Lin Yue.
Then he took off his military coat, rolled up his sleeves, took out a cup and a blade, and cut his wrist.
The cut was very deep. Dragon blood flowed down his wrist into the cup, and in just a moment the cup was full.
He sprayed healing mist onto his wrist, lowered his sleeve to cover the wound, then picked up the cup and half knelt in front of Jiang Tea Tea again: “Here, drink!”
Jiang Tea Tea’s gaze moved from the dragon blood at her lips to his eyes, where worry and care were shining. She said: “I cannot drink it right now. Put it aside first.”
Chong Ming covered the cup of blood and put it aside. “Cheng Yuan and the others will get here within fifty minutes. Shall I carry you to the bed to rest for a while?”
The bed was neither far nor close to where she was sitting and was similar in style to the one Chong Ming had in the Imperial Palace, shaped like a half oval nest.
Seeing Jiang Tea Tea look toward the bed without answering, Chong Ming stood up and carefully lifted her.
At the moment he picked her up and she leaned against him, the cubs in her belly quieted down. They stopped rolling around and stopped being lively.
Jiang Tea Tea: “…”
[The little brats in her belly were supposed to be on her side, but now they were completely on Chong Ming’s side. She was very angry and would have to teach them a lesson later.]
Jiang Tea Tea was carefully placed on the bed and covered with a thin blanket.
Chong Ming sat by the bed, pouring out his supernatural abilities and spiritual power to soothe her, watching her hold her belly and curl up. He blamed himself for being too aggressive and pressing her too hard.
Jiang Tea Tea curled up and held her belly mainly so she could better move her spiritual power and check on the cubs inside.
The five little cubs in her belly were now all curled up together, incredibly well behaved. They had grown little fleshy horns and little dragon claws and had grown from the thickness of a pinky finger to the thickness of a ring finger.
[Jiang Tea Tea was a bit angry. Just now they had rolled around and made her belly hurt, and now all five were acting unbelievably well behaved. What, had all that tossing around been to make her accept dating their dad and registering their marriage?]
[They were not even born yet and their little dragon claws were already turned outward. Once they were born, would they not pounce on him the moment they saw him?]
In her consciousness, Jiang Tea Tea began a silent, satisfying round of pua on the five cubs, telling them who was the sky, who was the earth, and who was the one that controlled their little lives.
The five cubs seemed to understand her subconscious pua. They curled up even tighter together like a ball of yarn, small and pitiful.
After finishing her pua, Jiang Tea Tea suddenly sat up: “Chong Ming, my belly is fine now. It does not hurt anymore. I am alright. You can go.”
She startled Chong Ming. He had already reached out to support her, but when he heard what she said, his hand stopped in midair and slowly dropped. “We agreed to stay together tonight. You and the younglings both need my supernatural abilities to soothe you.”
Jiang Tea Tea reminded him: “I never agreed to stay with you tonight, and I did not agree to a romance with you that has registering marriage as its goal.”
Chong Ming’s hand on the bed curled its fingers slightly: “Whatever it is, we can talk after Cheng Yuan and Cheng Lin Yue finish examining you.”
Jiang Tea Tea urged him to leave: “Leave my room now. I want to be alone for a while.”
Chong Ming did not want to go. He wanted to stay here with her, to hold her and look at her. But when he met her dark eyes, he finally gave in. “Alright. I will go downstairs to meet Cheng Yuan and Cheng Lin Yue. If you need anything, you can call the smart monitoring system in the house, 123. It can pass any message from you down to me.”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Got it.”
Chong Ming stood up, took two steps back while looking at her, then turned and left.
He did not take his military coat with him. It was left on the sofa, as if announcing that he was another master of this place.
Hearing the sound of him going downstairs, Jiang Tea Tea flopped back onto the bed and started slapping her belly hard. The cubs inside were so scared they did not dare move.
After she finished slapping her belly, her hand moved up to her heart. Faced with Chong Ming, that old mud loach, so serious in his confession of love to her, whether she admitted it or not, she was no longer as unmoved as before.
Her heart skipped beats, her heart was in chaos, and her heart started to imagine the blueprint he had spoken of.
Earlier today, when she heard Kong Que say that the princess of Sky Vault Star and the princess and prince of the merfolk clan were coming over to meet with him, she had felt unwell and uncomfortable in her heart.
At the time, her interest in gossip had pushed down that discomfort, but whenever she thought back on it, the feeling of unease still lingered.
[Could it be that she had started having improper thoughts about her Emergency Rations, her Tonic Dragon, and no longer wanted to kill him and bury him under her tree roots, but instead was greedy for his body and wanted to sleep with him?]
Jiang Tea Tea was shocked by this realization. She flipped up from the bed, ran out of the room, and stood by the railing on the third floor, looking down.
Chong Ming was sitting in the middle of the hall on the first floor. As if hearing her movement, just as her gaze looked down, he raised his head to look up.
One on the third floor and one on the first floor, neither too high nor too low. Their gazes met across the space between them…
Cheng Yuan and Cheng Lin Yue had said they would arrive within fifty minutes, but in fact they got there in thirty five. If anyone asked why, it was because besides proper healing, studying dark medical arts, and working on all kinds of potions, Cheng Yuan also researched modifications for flying devices.
His flying device looked like an old model, the kind no one would pick up even if it was thrown on the road. But after high quality modifications, when it flew at full speed it was even faster than the newest models on the market, so he could arrive in thirty five minutes.
“Sister Tea, how are you? Where do you feel uncomfortable?”
After saluting and greeting the Commander in Chief, Cheng Lin Yue headed straight to the third floor, came to Jiang Tea Tea, and asked with worried concern.
Jiang Tea Tea glanced downstairs. Cheng Yuan was walking upstairs with Chong Ming at a steady pace.
She answered Cheng Lin Yue in a low voice: “I am fine. It is just that half an hour ago my belly suddenly cramped with pain.”
Cheng Lin Yue moved closer to her on reflex and asked in a low voice: “When your belly suddenly cramped, did it feel like it was dropping downward?”
Jiang Tea Tea shook her head: “No.”
Cheng Lin Yue patted her chest: “Good, good. It probably is not time to give birth yet. Maybe you are too tired, or maybe they are just too lively inside.”
“But it is alright. In a moment my uncle will come up and give you a full check to see what is going on before we decide what to do.”
In her belly there were five golden Dragon Clan younglings, a case that neither her uncle nor she had ever seen before, so they could not treat it like something normal.
Chong Ming escorted Cheng Yuan up and then stopped on the second floor instead of going higher. He stood by the railing on the second floor and looked up.
Jiang Tea Tea met his gaze, then turned and went into the third floor bedroom. She closed the door and said: “Cheng Lin Yue, help me check if there is any surveillance system in the room.”
Only then did Cheng Lin Yue remember that she had made a fatal mistake. She had come to a strange place and talked with Sister Tea about the child yet had not checked for a surveillance system.
Now that she had been reminded, she got busy at once, taking out all the good tools her uncle had given her and starting to scan and search.
Cheng Yuan took a diagnostic scanner out of his space knob storage device and adjusted the instrument. Only after Cheng Lin Yue finished checking and confirmed there was no surveillance system or listening device, and after they had placed all kinds of shielding devices in the room, did Cheng Yuan tell Jiang Tea Tea to lie down on the machine.
The machine scanned over Jiang Tea Tea’s belly, and the younglings inside her appeared clearly on its screen.
Cheng Yuan watched the screen of the machine and all the data, and his expression grew more and more serious. When Jiang Tea Tea sat up, he looked at her and said in a deep voice: “Miss Jiang Tea Tea, judging by the test results and the data, the five younglings in your belly are completely at the state a Dragon Clan youngling would be one year after breaking out of its shell, except that their bodies are small.”
“Before, we said that two of the younglings were a bit small. Right now, other than still being a little smaller, there is no problem at all. It is just that from the state of the younglings, they seem to be ready to be born at any time!”