TVLMS Chapter 57

Gu Xiyu’s expression almost cracked at the words ‘sister-in-law’. He tried to adjust his mood and said to Wen Ruo, “Just call me Gu Xiyu.”

Wen Ruo seemed a little disappointed: “Well, it looks like my brother isn’t that good; he hasn’t caught you yet.”

Gu Xiyu: “…”

The four of them spent several days on this small planet, living an idle and simple life in this new technological era.

Lu Feng was one of those who hated aliens, but probably because of Wen Ruo’s influence and the discovery of what the Empire was doing in private, he was now less repulsed by them. On the other hand, Xie Mingan’s displeasure was more obvious. He didn’t get much sleep from trying to monitor him, and he was even warier of Wen Ruo.

However, their relationship had eased up a bit after all the bickering.

“I got this meat from hunting this morning. I’ve just roasted it, try the taste.”

“Your Highness, it’s better to check it first, what if it is poisoned?”

“Xie Mingan, are you trying to fight again?”

Gu Xiyu was preparing some food on the side when he heard Wen Ruo and Xie Mingan, who were sitting around the stone table, arguing again. Lu Feng sat between them, his eyes in a trance, as if he were deep in thought.

It was only when Wen Ruo and Xie Mingan moved away to fight that he brought the vegetables to the table and said, “You look very worried.”

Lu Feng hesitated and answered with a frown. “Yes, I’m quite worried about the situation on the main star.”

In order not to be discovered by Lu Yan and his people, Lu Feng had thrown away his communicator after escaping the attack. A while ago, he was able to regain contact with Xie Mingan by getting a device that could send signals to people in a distant area and managed to send him a notification.

“The plan to close the portal was my idea. The alien race is too powerful compared to the current human race; there is no chance of winning against them.” When he said this, he suddenly looked at Gu Xiyu, his eyes somehow complicated.

Half a second later, Gu Xiyu heard him say, “I was dealing with this matter before the attack.”

“I’ve met your father.” Lu Feng locked eyes with him, his tone a little heavy.

With just this one sentence, Gu Xiyu got a general idea about everything and why Lu Feng could accept his presence so easily. Otherwise, given his status as the crown prince, he would only trust Wen Ruo but would still be more or less wary of other alien races.

Gu Xiyu pursed his lips and spoke in a low voice, “Then he should have told you the method to close the portal.”

Lu Feng did not say anything in return, which could be regarded as a tacit acknowledgment.

His reaction was quite calm, and he said to Lu Feng in a consultative tone, “This was why I made a trip over here, the beast race also dislikes unnecessary struggle, and we agree that closing the portal is the best option. However, there is one more thing I need to accomplish before I can close the portal.”

Lu Feng was silent for a moment, and then he asked, “You’ve seen what happened at the royal palace; the humans don’t have much time left, can you—can you give me a rough time frame?”

Gu Xiyu looked at the system panel.

“Six months.”

Lu Feng frowned, and before he could speak, Gu Xiyu added, “I’ll try my best to ensure the empire doesn’t suffer a devastating disaster within those six months, and if my estimated time is wrong, I’m willing to cooperate with you to finish this plan ahead of schedule.”

The two of them had just finished discussing the closure of the portal when Xie Mingan, who should have been engrossed in the fight with Wen Ruo, suddenly walked in and looked at him with a displeased expression. After a few seconds, he gave a tsk and said, “When you said that someone would come to pick us up, you meant your fiancé, right? “

Gu Xiyu walked out and saw a small white spaceship parked in the distance. The man with the iconic black hair and blue eyes was standing in the distance, not taking the initiative to come over, but only quietly gazing at him as if he were waiting.

Waiting for him to take the initiative to go over, waiting to take him home.

Lu Feng saw him too, and his expression sank. He did not follow Gu Xiyu’s pace toward that spaceship.

“Caesar?” He glanced at Xie Mingan with a questioning gaze, clearly unable to trust their Imperial Admiral.

Of course, Lu Feng didn’t trust Wen Yu. From all the evidence he had gathered, many of Lu Yan’s orders were secretly handled by Caesar. The admiral was obviously from the Second Prince’s faction and probably knew a lot about the secret experiments, so he would rather trust the military than board Caesar’s ship.

Xie Mingan’s expression was also a little hesitant: “I only found out now.”

Wen Ruo stared at the two people in the distance, patted Lu Feng’s shoulder, and calmly said, “It’s okay, there won’t be any problems.”

Lu Feng didn’t say anything, but Xie Mingan cast over a scrutinizing gaze, like he was examining a suspect. “What makes you so sure?”

That sharp look showed he suspected she was connected to ‘Caesar’.

Wen Ruo raised her eyebrows: “Lieutenant General Xie is single, so it’s understandable why he can’t figure out many details. Mr. Gu is the admiral’s fiance; the admiral would certainly not joke with his lover’s life. Moreover, the side Mr. Gu stands on is very clear; I believe in his character, and he will not let the admiral have the opportunity to do anything bad.”

Xie Mingan’s face darkened as if he wanted to continue arguing again, but Wen Ruo added before he could speak, “Besides, you don’t have anyone you can trust in the Empire apart from yourselves. Aren’t you worried about the main star? If you don’t leave now, who will come and pick you up?”

On the other side, Gu Xiyu had just walked up to Wen Yu when the other party reached out and patted his head. He was startled, and he looked up to meet Wen Ruo’s eyes; the other party seemed to have done this incredibly familiar action very smoothly.

“You’re really amazing.” Wen Yu said with a light chuckle, “I told you to stay at home, but you simply ran away from the main star.”

“…… It was an accident.” Gu Xiyu explained.

Wen Yu raised his eyes and glanced in the direction of the grotto, his eyes lingering on Wen Ruo for a few more seconds before withdrawing, “I know, if it wasn’t an accident, you would be dead by now.”

His tone still sounded gentle, but Gu Xiyu could feel that he was very serious.

The Great Demon of this world really had no heart; he couldn’t even see a trace of Ji Chen or Lu Ziqing in his eyes.

He knew that this was normal and that this was how the soul fragments of the mission worlds should be, but he didn’t understand why he felt uncomfortable. It was a strange feeling, a bit like how that ghost of a system made him frustrated, yet not exactly the same.

He and Wen Yu fell into silence after that. He didn’t know what Wen Ruo said to Xie Mingan and Lu Feng, but the two, who were clearly exuding resistance, dutifully boarded Wen Yu’s spaceship with her.

Unexpectedly, there were no other guards or military personnel inside, and all those working were robots, including the robotic chefs who prepared their food.

This lowered Lu Feng and Xie Mingan’s vigilance a little, until Lu Feng noticed that they were not flying to the main star.

“Admiral Caesar, aren’t you going to give an explanation why the destination of our flight is different?” The atmosphere in the flight cabin was a little stiff, and Lu Feng threw a direct query at Wen Yu.

Gu Xiyu had also just realized this, so he was quite puzzled as to why Wen Yu was doing this.

Wen Yu, who was questioned, calmly took out his tablet, opened the news page, and threw it in front of everyone: “I forgot to tell His Highness and Lieutenant General Xie that something happened in the main city during your absence. The disaster has subsided for now, and the Empire has responded to this unexpected incident.”

“The Royal Palace released evidence and explanations to the public, saying that the incident was caused by an experimental error. At this point, the experiment of fusing human and alien genes has also been completely exposed, and the Royal Palace has made it clear that His Highness the Crown Prince and Lieutenant General Xie are the ones responsible for this incident.”

To put it simply, Lu Yan took advantage of the time when both Lu Feng and Xie Mingan were away from the main city to dump all the blame on them after noticing that the underground experiments had been exposed by the outside media.

“The Crown Prince and Lieutenant General Xie are now the targets of a crusade led by the people of the entire empire, so I thought it would be inappropriate to send the two of you back to the main star at the moment.”

Lu Feng’s face darkened as he picked up the tablet and began to browse through the pages Wen Yu had opened. As if he were worried that they were fake, he went to the Empire’s official website and some of the media sites that cooperated with the officials and were highly trusted to confirm the authenticity of the reports.

Lu Feng didn’t speak for a long time afterward, sitting in the corner with a frown on his face and the tablet in hand.

Gu Xiyu followed Wen Yu into the lounge, and only after the door closed automatically did he speak, “How was the matter of the zergs handled?”

Wen Yu smiled. “Although I don’t like the human race, I hate the zergs even more.”

The implication was that it had already been dealt with.

He stood by the door, watching Wen Yu take his jacket off, and asked again, “Did you participate in that incident framing Lu Feng and Xie Mingan?”

There was a lot involved in trying to turn something you had done into something someone else had done, and Lu Yan alone would not be able to shake the pot off so beautifully.

Wen Yu hung up his jacket neatly before looking back at him and saying, “I don’t think you’d believe me if I said I didn’t.”

“Lu Feng is a wise ruler, and I don’t want him to go back to ruling the human race.”

“What’s more, don’t you like him and want him? Now that they’ve put such a charge on him, he can’t go back to the royal palace, that’s all the more reason to keep him by your side. I can also prepare a metal ring for you so that you can keep tabs on him at all times.”

Gu Xiyu clenched his fist and said in a cold voice, “I don’t like Lu Feng; I just don’t want you to hurt him.”

Wen Yu seemed puzzled, “Why?”

‘Because he is the main protagonist,’ Gu Xi Yu replied silently in his heart.

He forgot that Wen Yu could read minds and received another question from him: “The main protagonist? Like in a TV drama?”

Gu Xiyu took a deep breath, not intending to continue to delve deeper into this topic with him, and said, “What upsets you is that the human race invaded your domain. If I had a way to close the portal and isolate the possibility of the two sides meeting, would you be willing to stop?”

“No.” Wen Yu answered him in a very polite tone.

Gu Xiyu’s face was expressionless, not surprised by this answer.

Wen Yu walked up to him and skillfully caressed his face before lowering his head to do what he should do after their “reunion”. Gu Xiyu’s eyelashes trembled lightly with the movement of his eyelids, and for the first time, he reached out and pushed the man away.

“Don’t do that again.” He’d always thought that whatever needed to be done in conjunction with the target didn’t matter as long as it facilitated the completion of the mission, it was just a false pass for him.

But now he suddenly realized that some things did matter, even if pandering could facilitate the progress of the mission.

There was no anger in Wen Yu’s eyes, only disbelief.

Gu Xiyu adjusted his mood and said calmly, “Intimate touches can only be done by those who like each other.”

Wen Yu: “You are my fiancé, and I like you, so it is allowed.”

He looked into Wen Yu’s deep, bottomless blue eyes, gave a rare smile, and said, “You don’t like me.”

With those words, he gently pushed away Wen Yu’s hand that was touching his face and turned to leave the lounge.

The moment the temperature disappeared from his palm, a boundless, eerie coldness immediately swept over Wen Yu and enveloped him. He watched in disbelief as Gu Xiyu, who looked slightly unhappy, disappeared outside the door, and a strange feeling of emptiness suddenly came from his heart—something similar to the feeling he had every time he woke up from a dream.

He subconsciously switched on his communicator, and the still-flashing red tracking signal calmed him down a little.

It didn’t matter; there was no way Gu Xiyu would get away from him.

Not long after Gu Xiyu had left, Wen Ruo came in. She stood by the door, her expression a little uncomfortable, as she coughed lightly a few times and called out, “Brother.”

Wen Yu looked at the girl in front of him, and only after a long time did he ask, “Are you sure?”

In front of her brother, the aura from Wen Ruo’s body softened considerably. She stood on tiptoe on one of her feet and drew a few small circles on the floor, saying, “I’m sure, and I don’t regret it.”

The voice was small, but the tone was very firm.

Wen Yu and his sister, Wen Ruo, were relatively special beings, born in the form of a consciousness without a fixed form. But this was not eternal; there was a way for them to acquire a specific form, like other species. They only had one chance in life, and they won’t be able to change it once the decision is made.

There were many more powerful and beautiful alien races in the universe, but his sister wanted to take the most fragile human form.

Wen Yu pulled back the curtain of the lounge and stared out at the vast sea of stars in silence for a long time. Just when Wen Ruo thought she would be lectured, she heard him say calmly, “Just don’t regret it.”

Wen Ruo didn’t expect the showdown with her brother to go so well; after all, it was a very important decision, and Wen Yu had always watched her very closely and would disagree with some of her decisions. She was happily preparing to leave when Wen Yu called out to her again.

“You seem very experienced; can you tell me exactly what it is to “like”?”

Wen Ruo was stunned by his question, then she saw him frown and say, “I never forget to give him care and gifts every day, and I’ve tried my best to give him what he wants, yet he says I don’t like him.”

As soon as Wen Ruo heard this, she knew that her brother and her ‘sister-in-law’ were at odds: “What do you mean by what he wants?”

Wen Yu seemed a little dissatisfied: “He said that he wanted to protect Lu Feng and was also very close to Xie Mingan, so I thought he liked these two people, and he didn’t deny it. Then I went to great lengths to send them all to him, and now he’s saying he doesn’t want them, and he’s angry with me.”

Wen Ruo: “……?”

She was afraid her brother was a fool.

——–

Gu Xiyu had almost zero communication with Wen Yu after that. He spent more time with Lu Feng and the others, and didn’t even respond to the intelligent system that sensed he was in a bad mood and reached out to him.

It was this day, when they gathered for breakfast, that Lu Feng, who had sensed that the atmosphere between him and Wen Yu wasn’t quite right, suddenly spoke up, “Speaking of which, I didn’t expect you to be Admiral Caesar’s fiancé, Xiyu.”

“I remember your father saying that you have a fiancée at that time I was lucky enough to make a trip to the Beast Race.”

At these words, Xie Mingan and Wen Ruo, who were both quietly eating with their heads down, both raised their heads in unison and looked over in Gu Xiyu’s direction.

Gu Xiyu was also a little surprised.

He didn’t know about this matter, but the original owner was a young prince of the beast race, so it didn’t seem impossible to have a fiancée.

Only Wen Yu was still eating elegantly at the table.

The throbbing in Gu Xiyu’s heart had already faded away a few days ago. He glanced at the people around him and said, “Since you all already know my identity, there’s something I should make clear.”

He took out the brooch that was in his pocket and put it in front of Wen Yu. The other party raised his eyes to look at him, and he said, “Actually, I accidentally picked up this brooch. The admiral did have a previous encounter with me, so after recognizing me, he was worried I’d be in danger in the empire, so he went along with the whole fiancé thing.”

“Lord Admiral, the Prince promised to help me stay on the main star when I return to the main city. This brooch will now be officially returned to you. It is better to give important things to those who are most important to you.”

Xie Mingan looked dazed. Lu Feng looked at them thoughtfully for a few moments, but his attention was soon drawn away by Wen Ruo, who had accidentally choked beside him and was coughing violently, “Are you alright?”

Wen Yu looked at the silver brooch that was placed in front of him, and the eggs in his mouth suddenly didn’t taste good.