Chapter 97
Chapter 97: My Imperial Mother used a bullet to die for love
Jiang Tea Tea coughed until her face turned red and her ears burned. Her lungs felt like they were tearing, and she almost broke her branches from coughing before she finally stopped and rolled her eyes hard at Sui Xuan Chu: “You say I secretly like your uncle. Why don’t you say I secretly like you?”
“Secretly like me?” Sui Xuan Chu spread his hands, rebellious yet very clear about himself: “I know myself. Never mind that I haven’t reached adulthood yet. Even when I reach adulthood, compared to my uncle, any woman would fall in love with my uncle with that mighty and domineering beast form that’s two to three hundred meters long, not me, whose beast form as a youngling is only a dozen meters long.”
Jiang Tea Tea gave him a thumbs up: “You really do know yourself. I don’t secretly like your uncle, and I have even less desire to be your aunt. Thanks!”
Sui Xuan Chu smacked his lips, reached back to feel around, took out a box of milk, poked the straw in, and took a sip.
Seeing this, Jiang Tea Tea asked: “You also have a space knob storage device?”
Sui Xuan Chu shushed her: “Invisible space knob storage device. It’s for holding milk. Do you want a box?”
Jiang Tea Tea’s mouth twitched. No wonder he was the crown prince. He was really good at hiding things.
“Fine, give me a box.”
[If she didn’t drink it, it was a waste. Something she asked for herself definitely wouldn’t be poisoned.]
Sui Xuan Chu took out another box and handed it to her.
Jiang Tea Tea took it, snapped the straw in, and took a sip.
As the milk flowed from her mouth down into her stomach, she even felt a gentle energy slide down her mouth into her belly, making her cubs excited and lively again.
Jiang Tea Tea thought it was her imagination, so she took another big gulp and swallowed. She was sure it wasn’t her imagination. There really was energy in the milk.
Jiang Tea Tea quickly finished the half-jin box of milk and, without any politeness, said to Sui Xuan Chu: “Your milk tastes pretty good. Give me a few more boxes, and send me the link. I’ll buy some too when we go back to the academy.”
Sui Xuan Chu watched her drain the milk in one breath, waited until he swallowed the milk in his own mouth, then said: “I only have two boxes in total, and you still want me to give you a few boxes? Are you a water bucket? How can you drink so much?”
Jiang Tea Tea glared at him: “So you’re insulting me now?”
Sui Xuan Chu shouted that he was wronged: “No, there’s no bad meaning. It’s just a comparison.”
Jiang Tea Tea said: “Then split the two boxes and give me one.”
Sui Xuan Chu took out a whole box of milk for her and did not forget to warn her: “Drink a little less. This is specially formulated milk. It’s rich in energy made for Dragon Clan younglings. If you can’t absorb it, you’ll feel uncomfortable.”
Jiang Tea Tea tossed the empty milk box into the trash and counted on her fingers: “Your scale color-changing potion is special, your blood color-changing potion is also special, and now even the milk you drink is special. No wonder. You really have a lot of crown prince privileges, Your Highness.”
Sui Xuan Chu did not accept her words: “Stop mocking me. I’m not an adult yet. Being a bit addicted to milk is normal.”
“It’s you who has no common sense and doesn’t know that from the day Dragon Clan younglings hatch, the milk they drink is all one-on-one custom made.”
“The empire has special subsidies for this. Even though I’m the crown prince, I’m also a resident of the empire. This isn’t enjoying privilege. I’m enjoying resident benefits.”
“Besides, our Gold Dragon Imperial Clan isn’t as fertile as the other Dragon Clans to begin with. I drink a bit of milk, and you talk to me about privilege?”
Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes narrowed. She had been about to reach into the box to take another carton, but she pulled her hand back: “Wait. What do you mean that your Gold Dragon Imperial Clan isn’t as able to give birth as the other Dragon Clans?”
Once again, Sui Xuan Chu suspected that his roommate was actually a bug clan member in disguise, a spy from another country who had no basic knowledge of the Zhenlin Empire at all.
Jiang Tea Tea saw the constipated look on his face, full of unspeakable thoughts, and urged him: “Put away that look that says you suspect I’m a traitor spy. Your uncle already dug through my ancestors for eighteen generations.”
Only then did Sui Xuan Chu pull his expression back and speak seriously: “The Dragon Clan is divided into groups by color. Among them, black, white, and red are the most common, and gold is the rarest.”
“The other Dragon Clans find partners, marry, and get pregnant with eggs. Sometimes they conceive within five years, sometimes within ten years, and sometimes within twenty years.”
“Basically, it’s one clutch of two dragon eggs or one clutch of one egg. Within three years of laying the eggs, they’ll definitely become pregnant again.”
“On average, a newlywed dragon husband and wife will at least have three eggs and end up with three to four dragon cubs.”
“The Gold Dragon Clan is different. Gold Dragons are born as kings, their supernatural ability level is high, and it’s easy for them to awaken two supernatural abilities.”
“The Beast God is fair. The higher the supernatural ability level and the more abilities you awaken, the harder it is to reproduce.”
“My Imperial Father and Imperial Mother were married for fifty years before they had me. My grandfather and grandmother were married for thirty years before they had my Imperial Father, and twenty years later, they had my uncle.”
“I was hatched in my uncle’s hands, held in his pockets, in his mouth, and under his body.”
“My uncle was hatched by my Imperial Father and Imperial Mother. After having me, my Imperial Mother really wanted to have a younger brother for me who would be as powerful as my uncle, so that we could take care of each other and have someone to discuss everything with.”
“But my Imperial Father charged and fought on the battlefield and died there. In her grief, my Imperial Mother had a preterm birth and gave birth to me.”
“My Imperial Mother loved my Imperial Father deeply and couldn’t accept his death. She gave me to my uncle, and before her body even recovered, she went back to the battlefield.”
“She fought the insectoid race as if she didn’t want her life, killed the insectoid full general who chopped off my Imperial Father’s dragon head, tirelessly wiped out millions of insectoids, and left the last bullet for herself. With a bang, she shot through her own heart and died for love!”
Jiang Tea Tea’s pupils shrank in shock: “Your Imperial Mother died for love and left you still in your egg shell behind?”
[Dying for love was an ancient legend in the demon realm, god realm, and human realm. She never thought she would see it in the interstellar era.]
Sui Xuan Chu’s eyes turned slightly red, but the corners of his mouth lifted in a proud smile: “Yes. She loved me, but she loved my Imperial Father even more.”
“She was a red-black female dragon. Her dragon form was 198 meters long, with ice element ability and water element ability supernatural abilities at S-level 9. She was the empress and also a general.”
“My uncle said that when my Imperial Father fought with her, whether in beast form, human form, or with supernatural abilities, he couldn’t beat her.”
“My uncle said my Imperial Father clumsily chased her for a long time and signed many unequal agreements before she reluctantly married him.”
“My uncle said that if my Imperial Mother and Imperial Father hadn’t died, the Commander in Chief of the Three Armies position would have been my Imperial Mother’s. My Imperial Mother was my Imperial Father’s strongest warship and his most lethal firepower.”
“My uncle said my Imperial Father’s proudest and happiest thing was chasing and marrying my Imperial Mother.”
“My uncle also said that whenever my Imperial Father had free time, he would drag my uncle along and tell him how he shamelessly chased after my Imperial Mother.”
“I’ve never seen her, never seen my Imperial Father. I’ve only seen their photos and their images.”
“My Imperial Mother was really beautiful, cool, fierce, and full of power. My Imperial Father had a hard time chasing her, and that was how it should be. When I look at my Imperial Mother’s photos, I also feel that my Imperial Father didn’t deserve her.”
Jiang Tea Tea took her feet off the coffee table. In the fake young miss’s memories, she faintly remembered that the first empress of the empire had the surname Sui.
That meant Sui Xuan Chu had taken the name Sui Xuan Chu, dyed his scales red-black, and even changed his golden dragon blood to red-black to remember his Imperial Mother and to never forget her.
Jiang Tea Tea lowered her voice and asked: “So your golden Dragon Clan isn’t like the other races, with one egg and two cubs, or two cubs in three years and three cubs in ten years?”
Sui Xuan Chu nodded: “Yes. It’s very hard for our Gold Dragon Clan to conceive and reproduce. The fact that my grandparents had two male Dragon Clan children is already a miracle that hasn’t happened for thousands of years.”
“For tens of thousands of years, the Gold Dragon Clan has basically always had single births. If not for our born king bloodline that presses down the other Dragon Clans, with our numbers, we would’ve already been chewed up and eaten by the other Dragon Clans.”
Jiang Tea Tea paused and then asked: “I mean, if, for example, your Gold Dragon Clan had one birth with two cubs, three cubs, four cubs, or five cubs, what would happen?”
Sui Xuan Chu sniffed and wiped his eyes: “What would happen? Roommate, do you hear what you’re saying?”
“One birth with five cubs. Never mind five cubs, even one birth with two cubs would be the kind of person everyone would spoil to the sky, give stars but not the moon, give the moon but not the sun…”
“Wait. Why are you asking me this? What, when you told me before that my uncle was looking for a woman, does that mean there really was a woman who spent one spring night with my uncle, got pregnant with dragon cubs, and ran off with the cubs?”