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In the home textile shop
Jun Ye had a poker face as he watched Joshua gesticulate with pillows of different heights and sizes around his waist. He glanced up and his gaze swept over several female Zergs nearby who thought they were hiding well. Seeing the envious or jealous expressions on their faces made Jun Ye feel like a mouthful of blood was stuck in his throat.
“Do we really need to buy so many pillows?” Jun Ye looked at the long list of pillow codes that the store clerk had noted down next to him. He inexplicably felt an itch in his teeth, perhaps needing something to grind on.
“Of course, pillows are important,” Joshua smiled ambiguously and handed the pillow in his hand to the clerk. He happily ran to choose pillowcases nearby.
The store clerk noted the number and couldn’t help but look at Jun Ye with envy: “You two have such a good relationship as a husband and wife.” It was rare for a male Zerg to accompany a female Zerg to buy these marital supplies.
Married couple… and he was the wife…
Jun Ye listened, feeling quite distressed.
Joshua, not knowing what came to his mind, dropped the pillowcases and ran over to pull Jun Ye into a corner.
Seeing the other’s blushing face and gleaming eyes, Jun Ye knew it couldn’t be good. As expected, Joshua asked, “Jun… do you think we should buy some enlargement tools?”
It felt like being struck by an arrow.
Thinking about the size of the young master’s hand, Jun Ye nodded solemnly, “It’s necessary.”
After all, it wasn’t like male Zergs could secrete lubricant automatically. It was better to have supplies prepared.
“So… when should we go to the store to choose?” Joshua, rarely displaying a hint of shyness, lowered his head and only occasionally glanced up at Jun Ye with a smile at the corner of his mouth.
Jun Ye: “…”
Jun Ye adjusted his expression and said, “No need, I’ll buy it online. I have a better understanding of sizes.”
“Okay,” Joshua chuckled lightly in response. He thought that Jun Ye was being shy, considering it was such an intimate matter. Moreover, the second half of Jun Ye’s sentence made his cheeks burn with heat.
With the task entrusted to him, Joshua happily dragged Jun Ye around the bedding store.
Jun Ye felt that Joshua was simply showing off. They always ended up going to places with a lot of Zergs. If eye contact could cause physical harm, Jun Ye would probably be left with only a layer of bloody skin by now.
However, the young master seemed in high spirits, and he was busy flaunting like a little peacock in this place full of other Zergs. Jun Ye glanced at the several items of personal goods he had sneaked into the shopping list, wondering if Joshua would notice.
It was close to noon when they came out of the home textile store. They had bought so many things that they had to rely on the shop for delivery. Joshua and Jun Ye came out empty-handed, but the young master insisted that going back with nothing was as good as not going out shopping at all, so he refused to leave.
Jun Ye glanced at the sign behind the young master—Sweet Ice and Snowy Bowl—and instantly understood. He resignedly walked into the store and bought a couple’s set of ice cream bowls.
When he came out, he was met with the smiling young master.
Joshua held the ice cream and scooped a small spoonful into his mouth. The coolness exploded on his tongue, enveloping him in a sweet fruity fragrance and another kind of sweetness in his heart.
“Just now, I heard some say that female Zergs don’t understand the needs of male Zergs and can’t fall in love with them,” Joshua squinted his eyes and walked side by side with Jun Ye, lightly brushing his arm against Jun Ye’s. If Jun Ye lowered his gaze, he could see the faint curve of Joshua’s lips.
Joshua continued, “But you always know what I want. We must be meant for each other.”
Jun Ye was at a loss. He had just bought an ice cream bowl. What was this big illusion about?
“Jun!” Joshua suddenly became excited, looking up at Jun Ye, blinking his pair of crystal blue eyes with anticipation. He asked, “Do you remember our fateful encounter?”
Can I say that I don’t remember?
But the young master was right; their encounter did feel like it was a play of faith.
That day, he was still in his original world. It was like the end of the world, and spiritual energy could be used. As one of the few awakened individuals with special abilities, Jun Ye served in a national organization. He led a team assigned to capture a radical activist who had taken control of the Three Rivers Hydroelectric Station. The activist was a Level 4 lightning-type ability user.
With his teammates providing cover, he aimed the tranquilizer sniper rifle. The lightning-type ability user didn’t have strong physical defenses. With his heightened senses, Jun Ye was confident he could take down the opponent with one shot. But just then, a bolt of lightning descended from the sky and struck him directly.
Afterward, Jun Ye couldn’t understand. The opponent was just a Level 4 ability user and was already preoccupied by his teammate. How did he manage to release an attack with a power comparable to natural lightning?
Of course, none of that mattered then. When Jun Ye opened his eyes, he was in an entirely unfamiliar dark alley. In front of him, someone who clearly didn’t have an East Asian heritage was wielding an iron rod and was about to strike him. The posture was so threatening that if he were hit, he would be either dead or severely injured. What’s more, there were a group of clearly malicious companions behind this “person”.
Years of combat experience allowed Jun Ye to dodge without thinking. After a few exchanges, he was surprised by the opponent’s physical strength, comparable to a Level 2 power-type ability user. It was only by strengthening his five senses that he beat the other party and his companions to the ground.
After defeating these attackers that came to him with no explanation, Jun Ye was about to drag one of them to extract some information from them. But then, he saw a blond child moving out of the shadows in the alley. He had little color on his delicate face, and he appeared clearly panicked. Despite all that, his eyes were bright.
It was difficult for Jun Ye to describe the feeling he had back then, the feeling that the world lit up when he appeared, like… a warm yellow street lamp, illuminating the dark alleyway. That person was just like a light source.
At that time, the little young master, who didn’t even reach his waist stood timidly in front of him, looking up and saying something.
The young master didn’t speak Mandarin or any language Jun Ye was familiar with, but it didn’t matter to Jun Ye what the young master said at that time. The soft and tender voice made Jun Ye realize, within a few seconds, that he was actually someone who appreciated voices a bit too much!
Afterward, Jun Ye realized that this place was no longer the world he belonged to. He couldn’t even find the existence of the solar system and humanity in this interstellar system. The dominant species here were the Zergs, a race that looked humanoid but was completely different from human beings.
Thinking of what happened back then, Jun Ye looked at the young master standing next to him, who had grown taller and more refined. He thought of a question he failed to ask numerous times before and immediately asked, “What did you say to me back then?”
Joshua bit down on the spoon in his hand and his eyes drifted nervously. He lowered his voice and said, “That was such a long time ago, who would remember…”
“Oh? Is that so?” Jun Ye’s voice took on a teasing tone. The young master’s emotions were written all over his face, and with just a glance, Jun Ye could tell how guilty he was.
“I’ve already forgotten since a long time ago!” Joshua lightly bit his lower lip, turned his head in frustration, and left his nape exposed to Jun Ye.
Jun Ye didn’t mind. He leaned down, brought his face close to Joshua’s ear, and whispered softly, “But I really want to know. Maybe you, as my Lord Husband, can think about it for me?”
He called me My Lord Husband!
Joshua’s face, which had just cooled down, flushed once again. His heart pounded rapidly, and the words “Lord Husband” were flashing in his congested mind.
This was the first time Jun Ye had called him that. Joshua originally thought this would only happen after they held their wedding ceremony. He had even imagined making Jun Ye dizzy from pleasure during his coming-of-age ceremony, so that he could coax him into calling him Lord Husband early and achieve both of his firsts1He means being called that and his first sexual experience at the same time!
But now, he unexpectedly received the long-awaited acknowledgment so suddenly. The dizzy Zerg had turned into Joshua himself.
“Did Lord Husband remember?” Jun Ye’s paw rested on Joshua’s waist, as if afraid that he would stumble while walking. However, by hugging like this, they were extremely close to each other, close enough to feel each other’s body temperature.
Joshua felt a bit suffocated. He opened his mouth several times to take a breath before finally lowering his head and speaking with a trembling voice, “I remember. I was asking you back then, if you were willing to be my Female Monarch…”
“Really?” Jun Ye gently pinched Joshua’s waist.
Joshua tensed up, took a deep breath, and nodded seriously, “Really!”
Jun Ye let his hand fall down, unsure whether to believe it or not, and sighed, “How old were you back then? Gee, I treated you as a child, and yet you wanted to sleep with me?”
“No, it wasn’t like that.” At that time, he didn’t think about sleeping together, he just liked Jun Ye, really liked him, and wanted… to hug him.
Joshua lowered his head even more, and if nothing stopped him, he would soon bury himself in Jun Ye’s clothes.
In fact, what he had asked Jun Ye back then was not if he wanted to be his Female Monarch, but rather, “Do you still need a Lord Husband?”
Joshua couldn’t help but feel that those words sounded like self-offering. It was too immodest, and he couldn’t let Jun Ye know that he wasn’t like the other Zergs out there….
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When they returned home, the Zergs in charge of leading the Lindsay family had already gathered together.
Jun Ye saw the head of the Lindsay family, who was also Joshua’s male father.
He was a male Zerg whose specific age was difficult to discern. He exuded a sense of stability that comes with the passage of time. He rarely smiled or laughed, and his gaze was neither gentle nor indifferent.
Jun Ye had only met the head of the Lindsay family a few times, and over the span of more than ten years, the person before him remained unchanged, just as he remembered. Even the scrutinizing gaze directed at him was exactly the same.
Jun Ye wondered if this kind of gaze from an elder, examining a cub’s partner, was exclusive to the Lindsay family or if it was the same throughout the Zerg race.
It was akin to evaluating the features of a massager2It’s the…sexual type of massager lol to see if it’s worth buying. No, in the eyes of the Lindsay family head, he wasn’t even worth being compared to a massager. Perhaps he was more like an aircraft cup3It’s a m*sturbation cup meant for men?
Jun Ye’s lips curled up slightly, and he calmly met the gaze of the head of the Lindsay family.
Suddenly, a Zerg stood in front of him, and Jun Ye looked slightly surprised at the young master. From his angle, Jun Ye could only see his lightly curled golden hair, but he could sense a subtle change in the expression of the Lindsay family head across from them. He imagined that the young master’s current appearance definitely couldn’t be described as obedient.
“Little cub4It can mean child or little animal. It’s a cuter endearment for their children and I was going to call him baby first, but I ended up going with this instead!, what are you doing?” The expression of the Lindsay family head showed some displeasure, but it was all directed at Jun Ye. In response to this provocation, his gaze towards Joshua unexpectedly softened a bit. “Did some Zerg say something to you?”
“No, I saw it all by myself!” Joshua’s voice carried a hint of coldness. He stared directly at the head of the Lindsay family, and stressed, “Jun is my fiancé.”
If they were to pause here, this would be a scene from a fairy tale where a male Zerg rebels against the oppression of the elder in his family to protect his beloved female Zerg.
However, the young master gritted his teeth and added with resentment, “You are not allowed to spy on him!”
At that moment, Jun Ye and the head of the Lindsay family exchanged a glance, both feeling a little embarrassed.
Me, peacefully translating : ヽ(o＾▽＾o)ノ
Also me when the author suddenly made a comparison by using adult toys: (⊙_⊙) ???
(This situation can also be applied to Master Lindsay who suddenly was accused by his child haha)
1He means being called that and his first sexual experience2It’s the…sexual type of massager lol3It’s a m*sturbation cup meant for men4It can mean child or little animal. It’s a cuter endearment for their children and I was going to call him baby first, but I ended up going with this instead!