C34 – Neglect
by UntamedSWhile he was talking, the ladder between the spaceship and the ground had already been built.
One, two. Xiao Yu counted the number of people coming out until he reached the tenth.
Good lord, the arrangement was so big.
Xiao Yu subconsciously wanted to withdraw his hand; there were too many people. If he were still holding hands with Cang Hai, he felt that the situation wouldn’t feel right. It was a bit like the lovers who eloped and escaped from the marriage, and together they faced the parents who came after them and held hands to express their protests.
The more he thought about it, the more awkward he felt.
However, Cang Hai didn’t seem to think so; instead, he held his hand tighter and tighter. Cang Hai’s slightly calloused fingertips lingered on his, silently soothing his emotions.
“Chief, you’re back.” Among the ten people, the woman at the head of the group bowed respectfully to Cang Hai, and the rest of the people were also half-kneeled, their left hands clenched in fists against their right shoulders, their movements neat and tidy.
Chief?
Xiao Yu chewed on that word: In the interstellar era, there weren’t many chiefs. He remembered that in the original novel, in several major forces, only Ji Canghai’s independent army retained the title of chief.
Canghai didn’t know that he had made Xiao Yu suspicious. In order not to reveal his true identity and to give Xiao Yu a bit of a buffer, he had specifically instructed his subordinates not to call him by his full name.
His name was too attention-grabbing; even if Xiao Yu had never heard of him when he was on the Desolate Planet, he would more or less hear about him when he returned to the Independent Planet in the future.
When he thought that the little mermaid might alienate him because of his name that had been spread around, his emotions became extremely irritable.
Xiao Yu who was beside him didn’t know why Cang Hai suddenly gripped his hand a few points tighter, but after thinking for a moment, he also followed Cang Hai’s action and pinched the other party’s hand.
Such a small action obviously pleased Cang Hai.
The corners of his mouth rose slightly, then he said to the crowd, “Get up; everyone has worked hard; let’s go up and talk.”
Cang Hai led Xiao Yu forward, and the crowd hurriedly made way for a passage. Xiao Yu naturally assumed the duty of leading the way and walked ahead with Cang Hai.
“Xiao Yang, is that the future chief’s wife?”
“You were the first one to come down; have you inquired about any news?”
Faced with the crowd’s inquiries, Yang Yongning couldn’t hold back: “I wasn’t much earlier than you guys either, and I was even punished by the boss because of this. But I can tell you, the boss cares about our sister-in-law; since I saw them, their hands have never been separated.”
The crowd looked incredulous, and Liu Yilian looked even more stunned. “Chief really got the hang of it this time? Really, an iron tree can still blossom.”
[TN: an iron tree blooming is a highly improbable or extremely rare occurrence]
They all thought that Ji Canghai was completely different from normal people when it came to relationships, and they had all tried to introduce him to someone, but no matter how good the girl was, Ji Canghai wasn’t interested.
They had even introduced a boy to Ji Canghai, and the person they introduced was directly abused by him for a whole day at the training ground.
So much so that they all agreed that Ji Canghai was destined to be a loner, but the chief had come back from his disappearance and brought back a boy along with him!
“Don’t let your mouths slip,” Liu Yilian reminded the crowd. “When the chief spoke to us, he specifically instructed us not to reveal his identity. Now it seems that the chief’s wife doesn’t know that the chief is Ji Canghai. We must remember to address the chief properly in front of the chief’s wife. If I find out anyone ruined the chief’s good deed, I won’t wait for the chief to punish him; I’ll directly take him to the training ground to practice for ten hours and half a month.”
Their expressions immediately became fearful. Liu Yilian was the person with the highest force value in the entire independent army, besides the chief.
Her mecha was a class 9 mecha, second only to the chief’s mecha, codenamed “Feng Sheng,” and she herself was a strong mecha warrior. Looking at the entire galaxy, there weren’t many people who would be her rivals.
Xiao Yu walked ahead, not yet knowing that he had already been included as a key target of precaution by the crowd of the Independence Army. Of course, this precaution referred to the precaution of him learning that Cang Hai was Ji Canghai and nothing else.
“Is it really appropriate for your subordinates not to follow you closely?” Xiao Yu glanced back; he didn’t know what was going on with these people; they gathered together but didn’t follow up.
Cang Hai, that is, Ji Canghai, knew the virtues of his subordinates like the back of his hand and only smiled faintly when he heard this: “Don’t bother with them; you’re now my boyfriend, and you have to learn to ignore them just like I do.”
Ignore …… That word was a bit too cruel.
After all, from what he had seen, Xiao Yu could see that these people cared about Cang Hai.
It was possible that their way of caring wasn’t quite right. It wasn’t good to whisper behind someone’s back. If they had anything they wanted to ask, it would have been great for them to ask directly.
Xiao Yu looked back again.
Xiao Yang, who had just been punished by Cang Hai, was waving his hand desperately towards him; his presence was overwhelming.
He looked towards Cang Hai in confusion; perhaps ignoring them wouldn’t be as easy as he thought.
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