He Xiangchen, with his top wrapped around his arm, smiled politely at Angnis, who was outside the training room. Even though he didn’t mean anything else, it looked like a deliberate provocation.

 

Fei’er and William stood by in fear, wishing they could bury themselves in the ground and not come out.

 

Angnis, however, wasn’t in a hurry to lash out. His gaze landed on He Xiangchen, and a hint of amazement lingered in his deep eyes.

 

Years and years of exercise and combat had made one unable to find an ounce of fat on He Xiangchen’s body. The fight left a thin layer of sweat on his upper body, rendering his already perfect muscles full of wildness. Like the best glaze, it made people itch and want to collect him for good enjoyment.

 

“I apologize for my subordinates; it was my imperiousness that caused them to offend you.” Angnis’s voice held a hint of untraceable raspiness.

 

He Xiangchen shook his head indifferently. “I’m not offended, as long as you don’t mind me helping to teach them a lesson.”

 

“I don’t mind; I’m flattered.”

 

Angnis walked over to He Xiangchen and handed him a document. “This is proof that the general doesn’t have assets in the Demira star system.”

 

He Xiangchen took the document; he knew that by giving the thing out so plainly, Angnis wasn’t planning to keep him here to chat.

 

He tactfully spoke first, “Then I’ll go back first.”

 

He Xiangchen was about to leave, but he heard Angnis suddenly called out, “Wait!”

 

He turned back and looked at Angnis with uncertainty.

 

“Put on your clothes and wait for me in the office.”

 

“… Okay.”

 

After He Xiangchen left, Angnis locked the door of the training room again.

 

The next moment, he picked up one of the star thieves and threw him fiercely towards the wall of the training room!

 

With a loud bang, the person crashed into the wall and then fell to the ground, their life or death unknown.

 

To everyone’s surprise, Angnis didn’t ask anything, he just took action. For a moment, they were all a little terrified and lowered their heads, not daring to look at him.

 

“Now, who can tell me what happened?” Angnis stood in front of Truss, his shiny black leather boots stepping on Truss’s shoulder. “Who gave you the courage to touch my person?”

 

Truss took the pain and went down in a flash. When he hit the ground, everyone heard the crisp sound of bone cracking.

 

“Boss, we were wrong! We were just curious, curious about what kind of person the general really is… We really didn’t want to offend him!”

 

Angnis looked at the person who had spoken, and that cold, silent gaze caused the person to feel as if he had been frozen; he was no longer able to say a word in defense!

 

The air in the training room seemed to freeze with it, cold to the bone. But this pressure was enough to make their minds crack!

 

Finally, someone mustered up the courage to say, “Boss, General Yu is still waiting for you in the office!”

 

These words obviously had an effect; Angnis restrained his momentum: “This is the first and the last time. Who he is and what he wants to do is not your concern! As for you…”

 

He picked up Truss’s chin with the tip of his shoe and softly pronounced his end: “From now on, there will be no Truss in this world.”

 

Angnis’s voice was cold to the extreme, like a dirge from hell.

 

Truss’s face immediately lost its color, his lips opened and closed, but no sound came out.

 

Angnis turned around, a hint of red flashing in his eyes. He couldn’t wait to deal with Truss with his own hands; since he dared to covet his general, it seemed he was really tired of living!

 

But he couldn’t do that.

 

With his hands covered with bloo-d, how could he still go see the general? He had only left for such a short while, and the general had revealed his body to so many people! As soon as he thought of this, he couldn’t help but want to dig out all these people’s eyes! Sure enough, he should have kept the general by his side all the time so that he could reach out and touch him.

 

With this thought in mind, Angnis slowly quickened his pace, leaving the training room filled with panic and despair.

 

 

Angnis’s office followed the style of his bedroom, equally simple to the point of being shabby.

 

“What are you thinking about?”

 

Angnis naturally sat next to He Xiangchen, squeezing onto the sofa with him.

 

“I’m thinking about why you chose to be a star thief, “He Xiangchen moved to the side, “and why you want to squeeze on the sofa with me.”

 

The close proximity of his body did well to soothe Angnis’s earlier outburst of anger. He sat diagonally on the armrest and looked at He Xiangchen with downcast eyes.

 

He didn’t know if it was the light, but this image actually made He Xiangchen feel a little warm.

 

“It wasn’t my choice to be a Star Pirate. To survive here, I could only go robbing. However, becoming the Star Pirate leader was for you, General.”

 

“For me?”

 

He Xiangchen was stunned, and his first reaction was that Angnis was lying.

 

However, it seemed that Angnis didn’t intend to continue this topic; he even lazily skipped over his second question, “Did you see the document?”

 

“I read it,” He Xiangchen whispered, “Thank you.”

 

This document was too important; with it, it would crush that testimony about the proof of property. Even if it wasn’t enough to prove his innocence, it was enough to make the military court reopen the case.

 

“No need to thank me, as long as the general doesn’t forget the payment I was promised,” Angnis smiled playfully. “Also, pack up; I’m going to take you with me to the Imperial Star.”

 

“Hmm? Why?”

 

“Because I don’t feel comfortable leaving you here.”

 

Angnis narrowed his eyes as he looked condescendingly at He Xiangchen, moving closer to him until their foreheads were pressed against each other. “However, you need to make a slight change.”

 

He Xiangchen suddenly had a bad premonition.

 

This premonition turned into reality before he stepped onto the starship.

 

“Why do you want me to disguise myself as a woman?” He Xiangchen stared incredulously at the dress in Angnis’s hand. “Don’t you have a camouflage device? Can’t you disguise me as another man?”

 

“I can.”

 

Just as He Xiangchen had a glimmer of hope, Angnis mercilessly destroyed it: “But I prefer to see the face of the general.”

 

“Is there a difference?”

 

“It looks good; I feel comfortable looking at it.”

 

He Xiangchen’s ears went hot; the upright general probably couldn’t resist such straightforward praise. He had no choice but to turn his face away, avoiding Angnis’s gaze.

 

Angnis held his shirt for him and casually brushed his fingers over his warm neck. “Put it on; the camouflage device can only disguise genes and modify body shape. Your appearance is too eye-catching and easy to recognize,” he concluded.

 

He Xiangchen hesitated for a moment before reluctantly changing into the dress. The disguise trimmed his physique quite a bit; his waist became slimmer, and his complexion became much fairer.

 

This appearance made even Angnis a bit unable to hold on.

 

His gaze ran over He Xiangchen’s body recklessly, and he even went an inch further and put his hand on He Xiangchen’s waist.

 

“Let go!” He Xiangchen frowned.

 

Angnis, however, had a righteous expression, as if he was doing it for his own good: “We’re going to the Imperial Star, and you’re playing the role of my wife. General, in order to blend into the Imperial Palace, I can only ask you to get used to the feeling of being my wife.”

 

“…… I don’t think I could ever get used to it.”

 

“You can,” Angnis laughed triumphantly, “and I will help you, Miss Alice.”

 

“……”

 

Although He Xiangchen had long been accustomed to being called by all sorts of names, being called “Miss Alice” still made him a little ashamed.

 

“Don’t call me that.”

 

“Oh,” Angnis nodded submissively, “or would you prefer me to call you darling or baby?”

 

He Xiangchen turned around indifferently, not intending to talk nonsense with Angnis anymore. Yu Qiming had spent ten years in the military, and wa-r had taken up the vast majority of his time, so emotionally, he could be said to be a blank slate. In this regard, He Xiangchen was quite similar to him.

 

He was similarly ignorant of emotions.

 

Angnis’s gaze followed He Xiangchen; as he greedily gazed at the admiral’s back, he felt increasingly dissatisfied, like a wild beast wanting to break through a precarious cage.

 

He struggled to restrain himself, afraid of scaring his long-coveted prey. At the same time, unable to resist being tempted by the prey, he frequently extended his claws to probe.

 

Until now, this star pirate leader had never been so conflicted.

 

Angnis thought that He Xiangchen might avoid him for a while, but he didn’t expect that the general would be the first to break the silence.

 

“If I remember correctly, you traveled back and forth from Lancelot to the Imperial Star, and it took less than six interstellar hours to complete the mission. So why haven’t we reached our destination even though it’s already ten interstellar hours now?”

 

Facing He Xiangchen’s questioning, Angnis explained good-naturedly, “I chose a route with looser guards.”

 

He Xiangchen was half convinced, but he couldn’t think of any reason for Angnis to lie to him.

 

At this time, Angnis suddenly laughed.

 

“What are you laughing at?”

 

“I thought that the general wouldn’t talk to me anymore.” Angnis’s gaze warmed slightly. “It seems that I was being petty; you’re not angry with me, thank goodness.”

 

He Xiangchen’s expression became even more stern. “As long as you don’t make that kind of joke, I naturally won’t be angry.”

 

The serious-looking general spoke to him with a stern expression; he was clearly shy, but he still tried to maintain his composure; it was simply too cute to describe.

 

Angnis swallowed hard; well, fortunately, he remembered that the purpose of his painstaking efforts to adjust the route wasn’t just to spend more time with his general.

 

“General, look outside the starship.” Angnis suddenly pointed out the window, “It’s a rare stellar explo-sion!”

 

He Xiangchen looked in the direction of his finger, and just as Angnis said, not far from them, a star instantly bloomed with a dazzling light. It was like a ball of extremely brilliant fireworks that fell in the vast starry sky.

 

Only it was much more spectacular and earth-shattering.

 

“Legend has it that the two people who can see the star explode will receive the star’s bequest and have a love that is as unchanging as the star for all eternity.” Angnis said the lines he had prepared but saw He Xiangchen staring blankly at the nebula without saying a word.

 

“What’s wrong?” Angnis didn’t understand.

 

He Xiangchen turned to Angnis and suddenly asked, “Do you think that when a planet is on the verge of extinction, it will have something to tell others? If you say that the explo-sion of a star is a legacy, does it also have its own consciousness?”

 

“I… don’t know.”

 

He Xiangchen wasn’t surprised by Angnis’s answer; even he himself didn’t know why he had such absurd thoughts. Moreover, blue stars were planets that didn’t explode; they were engulfed by the brilliance of their stars.

 

Waiting passively for death like this was also a form of torture.

 

“You seem very sad.” Angnis raised his hand, and his warm fingertips brushed against the corner of his eye. “I’m sorry.”

 

He Xiangchen was taken aback and asked, “Why are you apologizing?”

 

Angnis blinked, with a rare tenderness in his eyes. He couldn’t describe the feeling; it was as if his heart was clenched tightly, and the pain spread throughout his chest.

 

“Perhaps I just don’t want to see you sad.”

 


TN:

I missed this update week, sorry about that, my family loves holidays so I was busy with them. I’ll post the remaining two tomorrow ✌️

 

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