CH 48

Ch48 - Meeting the parents

Fuck, why did he feel like he got caught cheating?

Still, he could take advantage of this change. In this omegaverse setting, wasn’t it that an omega couldn’t sleep with someone else after they were marked by an alpha? With this kind of reason, Roris should give up on those improper thoughts!

Shao Ci’s mood cheered up. He said in a low voice, “Your Highness, you can tell too… You’re right. I’m someone who doesn’t think ahead. I’m not faithful, and I’m weak to handsome faces. I’ll fall in love at first sight. I even like omegas.”

In order to make Roris change his improper thoughts, Shao Ci already started putting himself down. It didn’t matter even if he put himself down even more.

Anyways, what he said about liking an omega was the truth →_→ Even if Shao Ci hadn’t even seen a single omega before.

“Your words,” Roris said, “instead make me think that we’re quite well-matched.”

Shao Ci: “?!”

“I’m fed up with this plain, ordinary life. You always bring me new surprises,” Roris said. “You can’t change my mind with these words…”

“…I-it’s fine even if I mess around all the time?!”

“Of course not.” Although Roris had a slight smile, his eyes were cold. “No matter who you like, from beginning to end, you can only stay by my side… And you can only keep your eyes on me.”

“…Then what if someone else gets close to me?” Shao Ci said.

Roris said, “Isn’t it fine if I just kill the people who get close to you?”

Shao Ci: “….” Hey! With these kinds of thoughts, you really are worthy of being a villain, aren’t you?! Then what if that person’s your younger cousin!

When he thought about it, Shao Ci had the feeling that Roris really could do something like killing off his younger cousin.

“Still, I won’t force you.”

Shao Ci knew that villains like this would begin to threaten people right after saying something like this. He immediately braced himself.

“I know everything about your parents,” Roris said. “The reason they had you pretend to be a beta should also be to protect their noble title. As long as you marry me, they’ll be able to continue their clan, and they’ll also be able to rise up to high society.”

Shao Ci: “!” Fuck, he even brought out the parents! He already said he wouldn’t use force, but as expected…

“But if you turn me down, things will probably take a turn for the worse,” Roris said. “You need to make your decision carefully.”

With a heavy heart, Shao Ci thought about how the other party was his capture target. Finally, he made his decision. He grabbed Roris’s hand, looking up at his face earnestly. “I’ve thought it over.”

“Oh?”

“Actually, I admire Your Highness a lot,” Shao Ci said. “Please let me stay at your side.”

Morals? Just let them die in the wind.

And he wouldn’t bother with how an omega would be together with another alpha after being marked!

–

Edwin didn’t even know how he got back to his room. When he returned to his senses, his things were already strewn everywhere. Even the photo album in his cabinets where scattered.

When he lowered his head, Edwin could still see the press photos of his older cousin’s graduation that he had specially collected in the photo album.

The Roris in the pictures was gentle, but even so, because of his face, he was still dazzling.

…He was so dazzling that he was instead harsh and blinding.

No matter what, Edwin had never expected that he would encounter such a situation when he came home.

Of course, Edwin would never blame Shao Ci no matter what.

Besides, Shao Ci had always seemed completely willing… But why did he fling him aside like that later? Was he led astray by that face?

Yes, it was all Roris’s fault. If he hadn’t suddenly appeared, things wouldn’t become like this…

As long as he could die, everything would be just like it was in the beginning.

Edwin was shocked to discover that when he thought about killing his own cousin, the one he had always worshipped, his emotions were calm.

It was already late. After straightening out his feelings, he walked to the shower.

But under the illumination of the moonlight, a photo album was laid bare on the ground. A sparkling silver dagger was stabbed through the face of the charming young man in the photo.

–

After going back, Shao Ci found out that Selena had arranged for him and Roris to share a room… After all, Selena thought of the them as an engaged couple. It was a perfectly normal arrangement.

Even if he wanted to explain, he had no idea how he would explain it. Shao Ci could only brace himself to sleep in the same room as Roris.

He didn’t even have time to carry out his original plan to go online and explain what happened to Edwin.

And Shao Ci didn’t know how he should explain. Things had already gotten to this point. Why not just let Edwin think it was real then?

Luckily, the bed in the room was big enough. After he finished bathing, Shao Ci went straight to lay down on the furthest edge, still struggling to accept what he found out earlier… How exactly was Roris related to the Zerg!

“You’re thinking about why I appeared on the planet back then?” Roris asked. He suddenly leaned in, looking into Shao Ci’s eyes.

Shao Ci was so shocked he nearly fell off the bed. He nodded. “That’s really important to me.”

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“I can tell you. Because I like you a lot, you know.” Roris pressed himself closer to Shao Ci lazily. He said, “Those were actually bodies cloned from my genes. Of course, those bodies don’t have my will. When I want to go somewhere, I can use them whenever I like. They’re quite convenient.”

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Shao Ci: “!” The fuck, why’d you say something like this so out of the blue? He had the feeling he was going to be silenced, okay!!

“It’s a joke.” Roris reached out to poke Shao Ci’s cheek, smiling slightly. “You actually believed it? You really are naive. It’s easy for people to cheat someone like you.”

Shao Ci: “…”

No, with his experience from years of reading novels, this was absolutely real… But if it was true, how exactly was Roris a Zerg?

It was impossible that he inherited from the emperor. After all, Pei Shijian was also the emperor’s son. In that case, this novel would also become a record of a Zerg’s counterattack.

But if it was from the empress, then didn’t that mean the Heimann family was all… and Edwin was also…

No, that shouldn’t be right. Maybe it was just that Zerg genes had been introduced to the cloned body for some need. This sounded a bit more reasonable.

Shao Ci immediately sighed a breath of relief. He felt like he could finally explain everything.

Just at that moment, the time hit midnight. The system sounded right on schedule. [Daily task refreshed. The current task is [Kiss the capture target once]. Host, please do your best.]

Shao Ci: “…” There was actually a difference between a forced kiss and a kiss? The kiss didn’t need to be lip-to-lip now?

[Correct.]

He really never thought that the system would release a task with so much kindness. Shao Ci felt unexpectedly moved.

If the system released a healing task, he would be able to test whether or not Roris was a Zerg… Wait, even if the system didn’t release a task, he could still try it out.

Shao Ci turned his head. Roris had already fallen asleep next to him at some point. This was a golden opportunity to test out his theory.

Nothing bad happens nine times out of ten, Shao Ci reasoned. He lowered his head towards Roris, slowly leaning in.

Just as his hand touched Roris’s shoulder, the other person’s eyes suddenly opened. His azure eyes were closer in color to ice blue, as though he was completely emotionless. He said, “What are you trying to do?”

“It’s a… good night kiss… Yes, a good night kiss!” Shao Ci was nearly scared out of skin, but he gathered his wits and blurted out an excuse before leaning down and pressing a kiss on Roris’s cheek.

He could even finish off his daily task while fooling him. He really was a genius.

Roris grabbed his hand, pressing Shao Ci into the bed and raising one eyebrow. “Ever since earlier, I’ve been controlling myself, but you’re still seducing me.”

“I just—I just couldn’t control myself because you’re too good-looking,” Shao Ci said quickly.

“Oh?” Roris bent over, whispering into his ear, “Do you know what happens to omegas who have been marked by an alpha but can’t get married to them?”

“No.”

Shao Ci thought this setting was a pain in the ass. After an omega was marked by an alpha, they couldn’t be marked by anyone else. Wouldn’t it be a bother if the alpha didn’t take responsibility?

Although the empire’s laws dictated that alphas had to take responsibility in these circumstances, there was nothing they could do if a powerful and influential scumbag alpha didn’t want to take responsibility.

And it was also illegal if an omega reached a certain age and hadn’t gotten married yet. They had to pay an incredible sum in fines, and their families could even force the omega to get married or something like that… This was just a feudal society, dammit.

Although the status of an omega had risen quite a bit in the last few years, and it wasn’t like in the past when they had no rights at all and they were considered solely a part of an alpha’s riches, they still had to stay at home and couldn’t leave.

“Those omegas will be forced to marry someone else. Even if they were already marked, they’ll be forcibly possessed by that other person… You know, don’t you? It’s incredibly painful for an omega to couple with someone who didn’t mark them,” Roris remarked. “And their spouse would detest them. When their child is born, they’re worthless. There would be no one asking after their life or death.”

Shao Ci’s face turned white in terror. “!!” Fuck, system, hurry up and think of a solution!

[There’s no need to worry. To prevent a situation like this, when the host transmigrated into this body, the system already transformed the body. Still, an accident occured because of a lack of familiarity with this world’s world consciousness.]

“What accident…” Shao Ci had a bad feeling.

[Although the host himself can let anyone mark him without minding, the alphas who marked the host will never be able to mark another person again… Still, this doesn’t matter to the host. Host, you can mess around without worries.”

Shao Ci: “…” What kind of roast was this?! And he didn’t even mess around.

When he saw Shao Ci’s ugly expression, Roris thought he was scared. He said, “Don’t worry, I won’t do anything… Recently, the research institute has begun to investigate an alteration medicine. It’s almost become successful. In the future, it can resolve this problem.”

Shao Ci sighed a breath of relief. Science truly benefited mankind, though there was no way for the people who slept with him to benefit.

No, actually he didn’t want to go sleeping around with other people, okay! Even if it was someone as attractive as Roris!

“Then what if there’s no medicine?” Shao Ci asked. “What will happen?”

“What do you think?” Roris smiled slightly, patting Shao Ci’s cheek.

Shao Ci felt uncomfortable all over. “…” He didn’t want to think about something like that!!

And even though he didn’t show much on his face, in reality Shao Ci was still afraid of Roris. After all, he was the villain, and he had that crazy mother. In front of him, Shao Ci felt like his life was at risk.

–

Despite that, when Shao Ci immediately spotted Roris’s beautiful face in the rays of early morning light the next day, he felt he had nearly turned gay.

“He really is too terrifying.” Shao Ci twisted his head away quickly, feeling a some lingering fear. It was just a waste for this face to be on a man!!

If he had transmigrated around fifteen years ago, he would probably have been able to see the number one beauty, the empress.

Shao Ci simply couldn’t understand the emperor’s sense of aesthetic. He didn’t like someone as beautiful as the empress, but instead liked a pretty face with a vicious heart… Well, that could just be his taste.

After they got out of bed, Roris brought Shao Ci to a restaurant to eat.

Edwin was already waiting for them. His expression looked exactly the same as normal, and his eyes also looked normal when he looked at Shao Ci. He didn’t like someone who had been cheated on yesterday night.

Selena felt a bit worried after she hadn’t been able to find Edwin when she went looking for him yesterday, but when she saw her son’s current attitude she relaxed.

When Edwin saw the two of them approaching, he stood up to speak. “Yesterday, I was too shocked to process the circumstances. I truly apologize for leaving the way I did.”

Roris smiled slightly, as though he had absolutely no idea what his cousin was thinking. “That’s great.”

Shao Ci sighed in relief. It would be for the best if Edwin could think things through. But how would he tell Edwin about what the system said yesterday?

The system had dug a deep hole for Edwin. The bootlicking system was so good to the capture target that it even made  the host a little jealous, but its attitude to the previous capture target was terrifyingly indifferent.

The system certainly wouldn’t bother with a capture target like Edwin who had a modification trap set up for them… In other words, Edwin had been bound to Shao Ci.

Still, the circumstances were a little better than in the original novel. After all, in the original novel, the person Edwin liked was even more scary and even more scummy.

“It’s enough if you’re happy.” Edwin looked at Shao Ci, looking incredibly genuine.

“Of course I’ll bring him happiness,” Roris said, smiling slightly.

His attitude made it seem like he had some hidden intention. Still, looking at his warm smile, there was probably no one would think he was doing it on purpose…

Shao Ci: “…” Hey, this guy was simply insane! No wonder Edwin was betrayed in the original novel. He probably felt real happy making his little cousin despair…

They began to eat breakfast. Of course, everyone was immersed in their own thoughts. Other than Shao Ci, not a single person could enjoy the flavor of the delicious food.

After they finished eating, Roris said, “I’m planning to bring Xiao Ci home today.”

“So soon?” Selena was a bit shocked. “Your Highness, won’t you stay here a little long?”

In reality, Selena wanted to send His Highness the Crown Prince away as soon as possible. When His Highness the Crown Prince first came, it was something to be proud of, but who knew it would cause something like this to happen… Even if Edwin was perfectly normal right now, who knew if he would do something irrational?

“No… The purpose for my visit was to pick up Xiao Ci and leave.” Roris smiled slightly. “Now this purpose has been accomplished, we can leave.” As he spoke, he even turned to look at Shao Ci.

Shao Ci had no choice but to speak up. “Yeah, I think we can leave now too.”

In fact, Shao Ci really wanted to try out the hot springs, but how could he say it now?

If it was the past Edwin, he might have been so disgusted that he lost his appetite. Now, though, he still looked calm, as though he didn’t care about what was happening at all.

After finishing his food, Shao Ci was taken out the door and straight onto Roris’s private airship.

Shao Ci was very nervous. He didn’t know where he would be taken.

Roris said, “Mm, it’s time to meet Mother-in-Law and Father-in-Law.”

Shao Ci: “Huh!?”

So when Roris said they were getting married, he was actually being serious?! Would others really have no objections… Still, when he thought about it, with the emperor’s attitude of turning a blind eye towards Roris, the emperor would probably be ecstatic if he heard that Roris was randomly getting married to someone from an impoverished noble family.

As for other people, even the chief of the Heimann family Selena couldn’t control Roris. What could anyone else do?

At that moment, the airship sailed towards the planet that Shao Ci thought he would never visit again.

Shao Ci felt a bit disturbed. After all, last time he even brought Edwin home. Besides, Mother Shao and Father Shao really liked Edwin. They practically thought of Edwin as his future partner. Wouldn’t it cause any problems if he brought another person?

After they got out of the airship, they should have taken an aircar straight to their destination. However, Roris suddenly had the strange idea to take a look around Shao Ci’s hometown. No matter how Shao Ci tried to persuade him, nothing worked. He took Shao Ci straight out from the port.

In moments, the two of them drew the surrounding crowd’s attention.

Roris was incredibly attractive. Even if he wasn’t the crown prince, he would still be someone that people paid attention to. Although he was currently wearing a pair of sunglasses to conceal his identity, in reality there wasn’t much of a different compared to if he wasn’t wearing them.

After everyone got over their shocked, they became incredibly excited. “It’s His Highness the Crown Prince?!”

“Why would His Highness the Crown Prince be here!”

“Ahhhh am I dreaming?”

Immediately, the port became a mass of chaos. Huge numbers of people squeezed closer. Still, nobody dared to come close to the two of them, and there were still two hundred meters around Roris left empty. Outside of those two hundred meters, a sea of people had already gathered.

Shao Ci was intimidated. The spectacle made him feel like he was going to be trampled in the next second. At his side, Roris looked like he was already used to it and didn’t have the slightest bit of anxiety. Instead, he waved at the people around them with a slight smile, making everyone begin to shriek.

Because they were right outside the port, what happened completely affected the port’s normal operations. People around them who didn’t know what happened even thought there might be some kind of riot.

Finally, the governor of the planet hurried over. At first, he just wanted to find out who was causing the disturbance, but when he realized the person who had come was His Highness the Crown Prince, he was so excited his hands began to tremble. He immediately invited Roris onto his aircar.

When Roris was gone, the crowd dispersed quickly, but they couldn’t calm down. They quickly posted the pictures they took onto the virtual net.

And the person next to His Highness the Crown Prince in the photos drew the other people’s attention.

–

On the aircar.

Shao Ci remembered from the original owner’s memories that the governor was high and mighty. He had never been polite. Unexpectedly, now that he was in front of Roris, he changed completely.

“Could I ask what Your Highness is doing here?” Along with his excitement, the governor felt completely off-balance. He was afraid that the things he had done in the past had been exposed. “I-Is there something we’ve done poorly here?”

One of his subordinates, who was pouring tea on the side, was extremely nervous. Several times, he nearly poured tea outside of the cup. Even when he tried his best to maintain his calm, he couldn’t stop his trembling hands.

“No, I just wanted to come see my future in-laws… But things turned out like this.” Roris sighed. “I also feel very troubled.”

Shao Ci: “…” Actually, this guy should be real happy. He was as happy as however much of a mess he made. He wouldn’t care what other people were thinking.

When the governor heard him, he was stunned.

The Crown Prince’s in-laws?! How could someone with such a high status be on this planet? He knew very clearly that although the planet was relatively closer to the capital planet, it wasn’t some kind of tourist planet. Other than a few nouveau riche who wanted to be a bit closer to the noble circles, there was only a few downtrodden nobles who resided on the planet.

The person next to the governor saw Shao Ci’s face clearly. Immediately, he froze. “This young man is the Shao family’s…”

The governor suddenly recalled that he hadn’t thought about the young man at all, though he thought Shao Ci looked familiar,. After all, the Shao family was such an impoverished noble family. How could they know someone as awe-inspiring as His Highness the Crown Prince? Now that his subordinate reminded him, he suddenly remembered.

“It’s been a while since we last met,” Shao Ci greeted, although he didn’t really want to explain his identity.

The governor thought that Shao Ci was just one of the crown prince’s followers, but that position alone was enough to stun him. He didn’t expect that a mere beta from a rundown noble family would be able to lick the crown prince’s boots. If he had known earlier, he would have had his own child get on friendly terms with him.

In the next moment, Roris pulled Shao Ci right into his arms, announcing their relationship openly. “Actually, Xiao Ci is my fiancé. In the last few years, he’s received your care.”

The governor was stupefied. He wished he could go back an time. He completely regretted that he hadn’t gone to cozy up with the Shao family.

But the subordinate at his side was as white as paper. He tugged at the governor’s clothing cautiously.

This was their signal. Immediately, the governor smiled apologetically, saying that he had something to care of, and walked out to the hallway.

The governor looked at his subordinate with worry. “What in the world is it? Quick, spit it out.” He was in a rush to seize the opportunity to show his kindness to His Highness the Crown Princess. If he wasted this change, he wouldn’t have such a precious opportunity again.

“Sir… You must have forgotten.” His subordinate’s face was pale. “Recently, sir, you agreed to some of the Shao family’s requests… Now, they might already have…”

The governor went stiff. He suddenly remembered.

Some people in the Shao family’s side branches had gotten him some benefits. They seemed to have plans to do something to the main branch, so he pretended that he didn’t see them and allowed them to mess around on the Shao family’s territory. Anyway, a family as downtrodden as the Shao family could’t cause any ruckus.

He didn’t expect that now the supposedly downtrodden Shao family’s Shao Ci had managed to cling onto such a powerful person. He had no idea how Shao Ci had managed to become the crown prince’s fiancé. Was he done for?!

The governor nearly fainted. His subordinate quickly caught him. The governor took a long time before he came back to his senses, and he hoarsely rasped, “Hurry and stop those people quickly. We can’t let His Highness find out…”

If he got found out, there was no need to mention his future. He might not even be able to keep his current position!

–

Meanwhile, the Shao family was gloomy.

Recently, a side branch of the Shao family produced an extremely outstanding alpha named Shao Tianyang. He was a few years older than Shao Ci, and he was measured to be a genius when he was born. After Mother Shao had her accident, she had thought about adopting Shao Tianyang, but it had been left unsettled for a variety of reasons.

Recently, Shao Tianyang had succeeded in becoming subordinate to a patriarch of one of the Heimann’s branch families. Although it was just a branch family, they suddenly had unprecedented influence and power. Afterwards, they began to make moves towards the Shao family’s title.

At first, Mother Shao and Father Shao put out a huge price for the people who were coveting their position. But even though the Shao family was in dire straights, their only child Shao Ci was still an omega pretending to be a beta. They had no way to resist Shao Tianyang, someone under the Heimann family’s protection.

Although Edwin had visited the other time, Father Shao and Mother Shao were completely in the dark about his identity. They had even less of an idea about the heir of the distant Heimann family coming to pay a visit that day. They still went to the kitchen and cooked, thinking that it was just one of Shao Ci’s average classmates.

“What exactly is the best way to go forward?” Mother Shao couldn’t stop her tears. Her health had finally recovered, and Shao Ci was doing much better in school. She thought that they could finally shake off their difficulties. She had never expected that something like this would happen.

“When you think about it, it’s all this title’s fault.” Father Shao sighed. “We might as well just turn it over. Shao Tianyang shouldn’t treat us poorly in the future… This way, Xiao Ci will be able to be a normal omega.”

“You’re right…” Mother Shao said.

They were about to continue discussing when the front door was flung open. It was haughty young man with a forehead full of sweat and a huge group of people. He walked in, swollen with pride. When the people behind him were inside, they began to pound on the walls around the room.

“What are you doing?” Father Shao hastily shielded Mother Shao, looking at Zhao Tianyang with fury.

“Gosh, Uncle Shao, didn’t I say that the decorations in this house were too awful?” Zhao Tianyang sat right down on the sofa, his attitude lazy. He raised an eyebrow, looking at Mother Shao and Father Shao. “Anyway, this house is going to be mine in the end. Why don’t I start putting things in order now? It’ll make it easy for me to move in quickly.

“You…! I haven’t agreed yet. Hurry up and stop!” Father Shao gritted his teeth. Although he was an alpha, his natural talents were mediocre, and he still wasn’t very strong today. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have let his family fal to such straits.

“Oh?” Zhao Tianyang looked indifferent. “Does it matter whether you agree or not?”

“We’re all relatives. Why go to such extremes?” Father Shao said furiously. “Don’t think that you can do this just by taking advantage of the Heimann name.”

“Gosh, Uncle, you’re already so old, don’t get too angry. It’ll be bad if your health is affected,” Zhao Tianyang sneered. “Still, Uncle, what you mean is that you want to go against the Heimann family with your strength alone? You really make people shocked by your courage… I admire you.”

“You…” Father Shao had no choice but to admit it. Forget about fighting back; the Heimann family could flatten them with the strength in their little finger.

“If you kiss up to me quickly, I can still look after you until you’re old,” Zhao Tianyang said coolly. “At first, I didn’t value this stupid title too much.”

“We don’t need you to look after us until we’re old…” It was obvious that even if Mother Shao was planning to hand over their title on a silver platter, the other party wouldn’t treat them well. She gritted her teeth. “We have a heir ourselves.”

“Oh? An heir?” Zhao Tianyang had naturally investigated before coming, but he only knew that the dukedom had servants.

Zhao Tianyang didn’t dare to offend the duke, but a duke’s servant had the courage to resist the Heimann family? He said with disdain, “That Shao Ci guy… Isn’t he just a beta? He’s just useless trash.”

Suddenly, a voice came from the door. “Who did you call useless trash?”