“Fast… Fast bullied Luo. He called Luo an idiot.”
Luo looked toward Gu Yuan with wide, innocent eyes as the other man’s expression visibly darkened further and further. Not forgetting to add fuel to the fire, he continued softly:
“He also said Yuanyuan doesn’t like Luo anymore. Luo feels really sad… Luo wants to go home.”
Gu Yuan didn’t say anything.
From the other end of the video call came the sound of chair wheels scraping across tiled flooring. A moment later, the camera shook violently and all Luo could see was the lower half of Gu Yuan’s body.
The crisp sound of military boots striking the floor echoed clearly.
Gu Yuan was obviously already heading for the door.
His voice was low and heavy. Although Luo couldn’t see his expression anymore, he could easily imagine that the man’s face had already gone cold.
“Wait there for me. I’m coming to pick you up right now.”
The office door was pushed open. From outside the camera’s view came faint sounds of surprise.
“General? Didn’t you say you’d be processing documents until this afternoon? May I ask if you need lunch prepared now, or- ”
“I’m going to pick the child up and bring him home.”
Gu Yuan strode forward quickly, so impatient that he didn’t even wait for the other party to finish speaking before already walking away. Leaving behind only that abrupt and unexplained sentence, he exited the military headquarters in large hurried steps.
All the military females in headquarters: …?
The General got off work early?
What exactly was this, the extinction of insect nature, or the collapse of morality?
Only Wu You, who had been secretly slacking off while watching the livestream during work hours, slowly poked his head out from the side.
“Everyone can disperse now. His Highness Luo got bullied at school, so the General went to pick him up.”
The moment those words fell, the entire office sank into deathly silence.
The Central Military Headquarters was not a place just any insect could enter. At the very least, most of those present had graduated from the Empire’s First Military Academy.
So what was this situation supposed to be?
Had they seriously ended up witnessing gossip connected to their own people?
After a long silence, a military female finally spoke in a faint, ghostly tone:
“Who bullied him? I’ll go eliminate my own family members for the greater good right now.”
Meanwhile, the livestream chat had already descended into utter chaos.
【Holy shit, why is it Fast?? I already rushed out of the classroom, ahhhh but I seriously don’t dare hit him!!】
【Coward. I don’t dare either…】
【I couldn’t understand before why anyone would bully Luoluo but if it’s Fast then that actually explains everything.】
【Hahaha, considering how much he likes the General, it’s no surprise. He literally confessed not long ago and got rejected. Then suddenly the General starts raising a little cub right afterward. Of course he can’t accept it.】
【Come to think of it, this is the first male in Imperial history to actively confess and still get rejected, right?】
【AHHH stop making such dark jokes already! Be careful or the young master’s going to cry on stream for you hahaha】
Fast had only just climbed back to his feet while baring his teeth in pain when he caught sight of the mocking barrage flooding the livestream comments.
For a moment, humiliation and anger surged through him simultaneously. Just as he was about to rush over and shut the livestream off, Gu Yuan’s voice suddenly came from Luo’s side of the video call.
“Be good and wait for me at school. Stay with Principal Charles and don’t run around. I’ll be there soon, understood?”
Gu Yuan’s tone sounded exactly like someone coaxing a small insect cub and his voice carried a gentleness Fast had never once heard before.
Lowering his head, Fast looked at his own dusty and miserable appearance.
For some reason, overwhelming grief suddenly flooded his chest and he genuinely felt like crying.
Principal Charles hurriedly shot Ye Wen a meaningful glance, signaling him to take Fast away first. Then he personally walked over to Luo’s side.
“Your Highness Luo, none of us expected today’s events to happen either. We sincerely apologize for this. Let me take you somewhere else first. We’ll wait for Gu Yuan there together, alright?”
Maintaining his pitiful little victim persona perfectly, Luo nodded aggrievedly.
Meanwhile, Ye Wen crouched down beside Fast, who looked so bullied he was practically on the verge of tears already.
“Alright now, Your Highness Fast. Isn’t today your very first day at school? I’ll take you to change into a fresh set of clothes and afterward we can walk around the campus together, how does that sound? Ah, right, would you like a summer fruit?”
As he spoke, Ye Wen seemed to perform a magic trick, pulling another green summer fruit out of his pocket and stuffing it into Fast’s hands.
Fast looked surprised.
“Why are you carrying so many summer fruits around with you?”
Summer fruit wasn’t particularly rare but very few insects carried it around casually on their person, much less two of them.
Ye Wen scratched the back of his head sheepishly.
“Well, General Gu Yuan said that His Highness Luo likes eating these. I just bought some on my way to work this morning. Do you like them too? I still have plenty more.”
Fast: …
Why did that somehow make him want to cry even more?
.
Because the incident had happened so suddenly and because it involved the young male of the Prestige family, Charles, after discussing things briefly with Luo, ignored the wailing protests flooding the livestream chat and directly shut down the broadcast.
Continuing the stream now would benefit no one.
The best solution was to wait until Gu Yuan, the Male Protection Association and the Alvin family had all negotiated together and released a joint statement, allowing both parties to reconcile publicly while minimizing the impact of the situation as much as possible.
Thinking of this, Charles couldn’t help sighing quietly.
He had clearly promised Gu Yuan that he would help look after Luo but everything earlier had happened far too quickly. They hadn’t even recovered from the shock of Luo’s strength before the entire situation had already spiraled out of control.
And in the end, it still became Gu Yuan’s responsibility to clean up the aftermath.
Luo, however, knew absolutely nothing about these complicated relationships.
His mood was extremely good as he softly urged the Gu Yuan on the other side of the call:
“Then you have to come quickly.”
“Mm.”
By now, Gu Yuan had already boarded his aircraft. His deep voice answered steadily.
The expression on his face hadn’t changed at all but from the speed at which the scenery outside the window was flashing past, it was obvious he had increased his speed by far more than double.
Charles timely interjected:
“I’ll bring His Highness Luo to the principal’s office first while we wait for you. Be careful on the way.”
“Be careful?”
Luo repeated Charles’s words with confusion.
“Flying an aircraft… is dangerous?”
Wasn’t it just a tool that flew very fast?
Only then did Charles finally gain a genuine sense that the other party was truly just a hatchling who had recently broken out of his shell.
He pulled up several pictures of traffic accidents on his optical brain and patiently explained them to Luo.
“Because aircraft travel at extremely high speeds, collisions can lead to very serious accidents. If the female inside doesn’t have enough time to partially transform and use his wings to protect himself, there’s a high chance he could die either from the impact itself or from falling from high altitude.”
Luo froze.
Were insect lives really this fragile?
Could they actually die from collisions like that?
From the other side of the call came Gu Yuan’s amused laughter.
“Principal, please stop scaring Luo.”
Then he turned his attention back to Luo.
“It’s alright. Don’t be afraid. I pilot mechas on the battlefield. How could I possibly get into an accident while driving an aircraft?”
“And even if an accident did happen, there’s no way I wouldn’t be able to open my wings.”
“Oh…”
Luo nodded slowly.
But very quickly, his attention was caught by the word “wings” in Gu Yuan’s sentence.
“Luo wants to see Yuanyuan’s wings!”
A female insect’s wings were an extremely private part of the body.
If Gu Yuan showed his wings to him, then from that point onward, he would belong only to him forever.
Gu Yuan’s hand suddenly slipped.
The aircraft gave a violent shake, nearly causing an actual accident on the spot.
Both female and male insects had wings attached near their shoulder blades. However, male wings were usually soft and weak, while military females possessed broad, powerful wings that could transform during battle into blades harder than steel.
Not only could those wings protect them, they could also mercilessly harvest the lives of enemies.
These wings were the means by which they flew.
But even more importantly…
They were also the most sensitive part of a female insect’s body.
Under normal arousal, a female’s wings would soften completely. If a male wished, he could pry apart those trembling wings and slowly stroke upward from the tail vertebrae all the way to the vulnerable shoulder blades, kissing and licking the softest hidden flesh protected beneath countless layers of armor.
Of course, most males preferred to tear apart military females’ wings through cruel abuse instead.
But Gu Yuan believed Luo would never do something like that.
He would only use those sticky little mental tentacles to cling to him from behind, carefully tracing every inch of his back from top to bottom without leaving even the slightest gap untouched.
Just remembering how the little male had wrapped around him before, remembering the tingling numbness that spread through his body when those tentacles crawled across his back, was enough to make Gu Yuan’s ears flush red.
Merely touching his back had already reduced him to this state.
He didn’t even dare imagine whether he could still maintain his final shred of rationality if his wings truly fell into the other party’s hands.
And besides…
Asking to see someone’s wings…
Wasn’t that basically the same as asking to bite someone’s gland?
At that point, it practically counted as harassment, or courtship.
Did Luo even understand what he was saying?
Gu Yuan took a deep breath. He still hadn’t figured out how to explain to Luo that this absolutely was not acceptable when Charles’s teasing voice suddenly rang out from the other side.
“Oh, that’s easy enough. Once you get home, Luo can just ask Gu Yuan to show them to you. His wings are an especially beautiful shade of blue. Gu Yuan likes you so much, he’ll definitely agree.”
Gu Yuan: ?
He had absolutely no intention of agreeing!!
But after hearing that Gu Yuan’s wings were beautiful, Luo became even more excited. He stared eagerly at the insect on the other side of the video call.
“Want to see!”
Gu Yuan fell silent, instinctively trying to avoid the topic.
But Luo refused to let him escape, continuing to cling to the video call while acting spoiled toward Gu Yuan.
“Yuanyuan, Luo wants to see wings. Luo will let you see Luo’s wings too, okay?”
Even though he didn’t actually have wings, he still had plenty of ways to shamelessly muddle through things with spoiled acting.
“Yuanyuan, Luo wants to see wings. Luo will even let you touch Luo’s tail hook.”
Even though he didn’t have a tail hook either, he just really, really wanted to see wings, QAQ.
“Yuanyuan…”
At last, Gu Yuan completely surrendered beneath Luo’s endless stream of “Yuanyuan.”
Face burning red, he finally opened his mouth to stop the other party’s blatant harassment.
“…Fine. I’ll show you.”
Then, after a pause, he asked in a low voice:
“Wings… tail hooks… who exactly taught you about these things?”
Gu Yuan asked the question through gritted teeth.
Did Luo even understand what these things meant to a male insect?!
Were these the kinds of things that could casually be offered up in exchange?!
Luo, who had spent the past few days diligently researching all kinds of educational materials, immediately shifted the blame without even blinking.
“The livestream chat taught Luo!”
Exactly the answer he had expected.
Gu Yuan let out a cold laugh inwardly.
The weather was getting colder.
It was about time the empire launched a proper internet cleansing campaign.
A bunch of female insects spending all day teaching bad things to a little male in livestream chats, what kind of disgraceful behavior was that?!
As they spoke, Luo had already followed Charles to the entrance of the principal’s office.
Charles opened the door for him first.
But just as Luo was about to step inside, a distant and ethereal voice suddenly echoed from above him.
【Luo Xivide.】
Luo abruptly lifted his head.
Who?
Who was calling him?
Charles looked at him strangely.
“Your Highness Luo, you can continue your video call inside the office as well. There’s no need to stand outside while talking to Gu Yuan.”
Luo asked doubtfully,
“You didn’t hear a voice just now?”
Confusion appeared on Charles’s face.
“Other than you, Gu Yuan and myself, there aren’t any other voices here.”
At the exact same moment, the voice sounded again from above.
【Luo Xivide.】
The sound was distant and hollow, as though it had traveled across millions of light years before finally reaching his ears.
A message meant only for him.
Luo Xivide.
【Author’s Note】
Since everyone said it wasn’t enough to read, I wrote three thousand words today!!!
“Luo Xivide” is an honorific title. Luo later gives himself a real name and his full name has only two characters. Everyone can keep guessing, www.
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ChaptersChapter 1 · It’s Hatching!Chapter 2 · Mealtime!Chapter 3 · Angry!Chapter 4 · F.. Found Out!Chapter 5 · SpeakingChapter 6 · RiceChapter 7 · Live BroadcastChapter 8 · XiongbaohuiChapter 9 · Bullet CommentsChapter 10 · I’m sleepyChapter 11 · WrongedChapter 12 · Going to SchoolChapter 13 · ChoiceChapter 14 · Knock KnockChapter 15 · NoisyChapter 16 · AccidentChapter 17 · WingsChapter 18 · CrowChapter 19 · General is blushingChapter 20 · RiotChapter 21 · The Insect EmperorChapter 22 · Good BoyChapter 23 · UnconsciousChapter 24 · DisappearanceChapter 25 · Tail HookChapter 26 · ReturningChapter 27 · DepartureChapter 28 · ReunionChapter 29 · Played with by tentaclesChapter 30 · Moist, Damp EyesChapter 31 Part 1 · Gu Yuan, do you like me?Chapter 31 Part 2 · Gu Yuan, do you like me?Chapter 32 · Don’t cry, sweetieChapter 33 · Reproductive tentaclesChapter 34 · Even if you kill me, I won’t grow backChapter 35 · Lord Evil GodChapter 36 · Why not refuse?Chapter 37 · He can cry; he’s not a monster.Chapter 38 · Some alternative ways of boiling waterChapter 39 · Why aren’t you kissing me?Chapter 40 · Here, my command is the highest orderChapter 41 · The Evil God’s Disguise Makes its Grand DebutChapter 42 · Be the breeding ground for my eggs.Chapter 43 · Carrying EggsChapter 44 · MasterChapter 45 · CryingChapter 46 · InterrogationChapter 47 · LikeChapter 48 · The TruthChapter 49 · ConfessionChapter 50 · Identity ExposedChapter 51 · BackgroundChapter 52 · SuspicionChapter 53 · The Feeling of HungerChapter 54 · SleepingChapter 55 · The NameChapter 56 · Memories (1)Chapter 57 · Memories (2)Chapter 58 · Memories (3)Chapter 59 · Gu YuanChapter 60 · A Falling KissChapter 61 · MonsterChapter 62 · RabitChapter 63 · Bathroom