If this were in the past, Yu Chen would never doubt whether Yun Xunlan had special sexual fetishes.
After all, hadn’t Yun Xunlan chosen him precisely because he made that socially mortifying statement “fuck people into dogs” during the guard interview?
When he first learned about this, Yu Chen was quite shocked for a while and almost swore a poisonous oath that he would never kiss Yun Xunlan again in this lifetime.
Who knew that now Yu Chen had finally let go of his mental burden, progressing from questioning the Third Prince, to understanding the Third Prince, to finally joining the Third Prince, and was even willing to kiss the young man again, but Yun Xunlan suddenly told Yu Chen at this moment: he had no special fetishes.
Everything needs evidence.
Since Yun Xunlan had provided evidence, Yu Chen also spoke to him with evidence: “But whether we’re doing it or not, I can’t see that you don’t have special fetishes.”
—The young man, regardless of whether in bed or out of bed, always wanted to hear him say those dirty words, and would feel uncomfortable if he didn’t hear them for even one day. How was this like someone without special fetishes?
After being scolded by the system, Yun Xunlan wouldn’t contradict Yu Chen anymore and quickly said repeatedly: “Yes, yes, yes, I do.”
Hearing this, Yu Chen propped himself up with one hand on the bed, his gaze falling down as he looked at Yun Xunlan for a moment, then suddenly curved his lips, though the smile didn’t reach his eyes: “No, you don’t.”
“I do, I really do.” Yun Xunguang reached out to circle Yu Chen’s nape, pulling the man’s broad shoulders into her embrace. The tongue tip with the blue sapphire piercing slowly licked across Yu Chen’s jaw, trying to divert the alpha’s attention, her voice slightly hoarse as she whispered: “I really like being played with by you like that.”
Yun Xunlan had hinted to this extent—if Yu Chen didn’t give some reaction, he definitely had physiological problems.
However, although Yu Chen gave a physiological reaction, his thinking wasn’t overwhelmed by desire that had taken a large amount of blood from his brain. His tone was certain: “If you really had it, you wouldn’t say you ‘don’t have’ it.”
“Just like when I confessed to you, I wanted to be lovers with you, but you said you wanted to be brothers with me.” Yu Chen finally connected both incidents: “Because you don’t have special fetishes, you really wanted to be brothers with me then.”
Yun Xunlan: “!!!”
He guessed this too?
The system was shocked: “He’s so perceptive.”
Yu Chen still had a smile at the corner of his mouth. He used his other hand to pinch Yun Xunlan’s chin, making the young man open his lips like a red clam being forced to open its protective shell. But instead of producing round pearls, Yun Xunlan could only stick out the blue sapphire tongue piercing that seemed to come from Yu Chen’s permanent marking.
“Keep talking, why aren’t you speaking?” Yu Chen tapped that tongue piercing with his middle fingernail. “My Highness.”
“Ow, my leg hurts so much, it’s been broken by your dragging!” The system was also wailing for its phantom limb in Yun Xunlan’s mind. “Quick, coax Yu Chen and reattach this scholar’s leg!”
—Both person and system were urging Yun Xunlan to speak.
“Baby.” Yun Xunlan calmed his mind, starting with the pet name for his lover: “If I only wanted to be brothers with you, why would I date you?”
“Because I can score full marks on ‘War Psychology,’ while you’re a top talent who can anger away eight tutoring teachers in a year. You need to keep me to tutor you.” Yu Chen’s smile deepened: “You never really wanted to date me at all. You just wanted me to tutor you.”
“I can testify for you that this is slander,” the system said. “Hire the Jian family’s lawyers to help you with the lawsuit. They’ve never lost.”
Yun Xunlan: “…”
A lawsuit? Wasn’t things between Yu Chen and him chaotic enough already?
Seeing that being stubborn was useless, Yun Xunlan could only use his last resort: “Baby, it doesn’t matter if I don’t have this fetish. You can have it.”
Yu Chen: “………..”
Yu Chen first laughed at Yun Xunlan’s words, then was so angry he wanted to curse.
He had just gotten “I fucking have a dick” to his lips, then remembered he really did have one, so he swallowed it back.
“It’s perfect since you don’t dislike it, and I really like it too.” Yun Xunlan was still holding Yu Chen’s neck and coaxing him: “We can just continue like before.”
Yu Chen was expressionless: “Like before how?”
Yun Xunlan showed his true colors: “Say to me every day…”
Yu Chen raised his eyebrows: “Say those words you love to hear most, right?”
“I love hearing anything you say.”
Having coaxed people many times, Yun Xunlan had grasped some techniques. He touched Yu Chen’s face: “But what I love most is only you.”
Yu Chen silently stared at Yun Xunlan for a while, then also spoke: “I love you too.”
“My Highness—”
He lowered his neck, bending down to place a kiss on Yun Xunlan’s forehead. This kiss traveled downward, landing on the young man’s nose tip, finally pressing onto Yun Xunlan’s lips.
During the kissing interval, Yu Chen’s Adam’s apple rolled as he said word by word: “My. Little. Slut.”
After saying this, he raised his face and carefully observed all the expressions on Yun Xunlan’s face.
The young man slightly lowered his lashes. That little red mole hidden in the fold at the corner of his eye was like a spark, igniting him to chase after Yu Chen. So after Yu Chen was kissed, he also tasted the feeling of that small gemstone tongue piercing scraping across his palate, tongue tip, and teeth.
The pheromones of seawater and lychee rose suspended in the air, intertwining and surging.
Yu Chen learned from what Yun Xunlan had done to him, similarly licking the red mole on the young man’s eyelid, collarbone, and other places. The liquid mixed from love and desire flowed on their bodies, melting into the night.
The next day, Yu Chen resumed the schedule that guards should follow, assembling at six in the morning.
The first thing he did upon arriving at the assembly hall was check whether Gui Yan had changed his hair color.
Good news: Gui Yan had changed it.
Bad news: He changed it to green, and it was a heart-stopping shade of green.
Yu Chen’s mood, which had been neither good nor bad, tilted toward bad after seeing Gui Yan’s hair color. He asked Gui Yan: “Why is it green?”
Gui Yan was very pleased with his green hair: “Didn’t you say any color except silver was fine?”
Yu Chen had a cold face: “Green doesn’t work either.”
Gui Yan: “?”
Gui Yan: “Green also bothers your eyes?”
Of course it was bothersome.
He and Yun Xunlan were together, and Gui Yan went and dyed his hair green. What did he mean by that?
Yu Chen gritted his teeth: “Change your hair color again.”
“I won’t.” This time Gui Yan refused to change no matter what: “If you don’t like looking at it, then you go dye yours green too. You’ll get used to it after looking long enough.”
Yu Chen: “…”
Yu Chen would never dye his hair green. Besides, he didn’t need to dye it to be greener than Gui Yan, because he vaguely felt that Yun Xunlan still had the perverted little fetish of liking to play dirty talk.
Actually, liking to play with such things wasn’t a big deal.
Yu Chen could accept it and was willing to play along, even if it might cause grass to grow on his head—like that perverted sex maniac online called “Fish-Keeping Expert.”
But that was all other people’s fault. What did it have to do with the Third Prince who loved him deeply?
Yu Chen would doubt everything except his lover’s love for him.
Yun Xunlan had even gotten a tongue piercing for him. How could Yu Chen still doubt that the young man didn’t love him?
The only thing Yu Chen couldn’t understand was why Yun Xunlan refused to admit he had special little fetishes.
Could it be…
Yun Xunlan had some secret related to this little fetish that he couldn’t tell him?
Yu Chen decided to investigate secretly.
Yun Xunlan was completely unaware of Yu Chen’s plan. He slept peacefully until naturally waking up at 9:30.
Today was his last day of recuperation. Starting tomorrow, Yun Xunlan would have to leave Yaoguang Fifth Space Station and go to various rocky planets near the third border line to investigate traces of Severir insectoids.
Yun Qihe had set out at seven this morning. Nearly three hours had passed, and no Severir insectoid traces were found on the planet he landed on. Other soldiers who had withdrawn from the front lines and were similarly poisoned by insect venom either hadn’t reached their destinations yet, or the planets they were on similarly hadn’t detected any hidden Severir insectoids.
After a simple wash, Yun Xunlan got dressed and checked his light brain bracelet, seeing an additional transfer notification in his sub-account—from Jian Wenxi, with the transfer note: Shika Mercenary Group deposit.
Yun Xunlan immediately sent a message to Jian Wenxi: 【Wenxi, didn’t the Shika Mercenary Group hit the Corona Empire’s repair transport ship?】
【Jian Wenxi: They hit it, but the problem is that they hit it. The Shika Mercenary Group leader told me that the captain of the starship we designated for attack has exceptional command and piloting abilities. With his skills, they shouldn’t have been able to hit it.】
The repair transport ship sent by the Corona Empire had Kos Telo as captain, but anyone who had actually dealt with that fleet knew that Kos Telo was a captain in name only—the real person in charge was Beta Captain Lydon. The “captain” the Shika Mercenary Group leader mentioned was most likely Lydon.
The Shika Mercenary Group leader didn’t understand the intricacies involved, but he was clear about one thing: the Corona Empire’s repair transport ship had deliberately concealed its capabilities and allowed itself to be hit.
Combined with the recent widespread rumors about the Galactic Empire’s Third Prince staging an assassination to crack 3S mecha blueprints and extensively recruiting mercenaries and interstellar pirates to block Corona Empire mecha repair technicians from arriving, the Shika Mercenary Group leader instantly understood that he absolutely couldn’t take this job. Once he did, his entire mercenary group could be dragged into the conflict between the Corona Empire and Galactic Empire.
So after landing a harmless shot on the Corona Empire’s repair transport ship, the Shika Mercenary Group leader hurriedly ordered a ceasefire and fled without stopping.
He was afraid that if he ran too late, the Corona Empire would use him as a scapegoat, pinning today’s, previous days’, and even future attacks on him—if the Corona Empire couldn’t deal with the entire Galactic Empire, couldn’t they deal with his small interstellar mercenary group?
【Jian Wenxi: Yun Xunlan, do you have some military secrets you can’t tell me? The Corona Empire’s current behavior is too strange. They’re acting like they’re helping me have enough time to crack the 3S mecha blueprints. Even the second and third repair transport ships they sent were all attacked. At this rate, I even suspect the assassins you encountered on the experimental insect planet were sent by the Corona Empire.】
【Yun Xunlan: There are no military secrets I can’t tell you. Actually, I’ve been suspecting your last guess too.】
【Jian Wenxi: ???】
【Jian Wenxi: My god! Why? To smear your reputation?】
【Jian Wenxi: But at the cost of risking the leak of 3S mecha blueprints, just to smear you? This logic doesn’t make sense either. It would be better to find more AI robots to be online trolls.】
【Yun Xunlan: I have a guess, but I can’t confirm it yet. I’ll find a way to investigate. Too much is involved—don’t worry about this matter for now.】
After ending his conversation with Jian Wenxi, Yun Xunlan raised his hand to touch his chest—his heartbeat was becoming rapid and irregular due to the terrifying guess in his mind.
He wanted to make a video call to Yun Xunguang, but just as his finger was about to press the button, Yun Xunlan changed his mind and called for attendant Ni Chun: “No need to wait until tomorrow. Ni Chun, help me prepare. I want to leave Yaoguang Fifth Space Station at 2 PM this afternoon to investigate Severir insectoid traces.”
Ni Chun was stunned: “But Your Highness, your body…”
“My medical examination values have all returned to normal ranges.” Yun Xunlan had made up his mind. “Leaving this afternoon versus tomorrow morning doesn’t differ much in time—just the difference of one sleep. I can rest the same during starship jump travel.”
Ni Chun could only comply: “Yes.”
However, this sudden change truly alarmed many people.
At that time, Dike was discussing with Yu Chen in his small office: “Yu Chen, you know the frontline situation is tense. Originally, after you reached 3S level, you weren’t quite suitable to continue serving in the guard army. But your relationship with His Highness is special, and His Highness’s physical condition requires a 3S-level alpha nearby at all times. So the Crown Princess wants you to continue maintaining 2S level externally and not publicize your level increase for now.”
Yu Chen had no objections: “Alright.”
The moment the word “alright” finished, Ni Chun’s revised itinerary notification was simultaneously sent to Dike and Yu Chen’s light brains.
“Huh?” After reading it, Dike looked up at Yu Chen and asked, “Why does His Highness suddenly want to leave this afternoon?”
Yu Chen was now Yun Xunlan’s pillow partner, so sometimes even Dike, his superior, had to ask Yu Chen for explanations about matters concerning Yun Xunlan.
But this change came without warning. Yu Chen hadn’t heard Yun Xunlan mention it last night either. He guessed this should be a decision the young man had just made.
Seeing that Yu Chen looked as surprised as himself, Dike waved his hand: “Alright, alright, go quickly and ask His Highness what’s going on.”
Yu Chen left Dike’s office and found Yun Xunlan on the aerial walkway of the mecha storage bay.
He walked over, inconspicuously glanced at the mecha Jian Xing Chen, then focused all his attention on the young man: “Your Highness.”
“Baby?” After Yu Chen came to his side, Yun Xunlan turned his head to continue looking at Jian Xing Chen. “Dike sent you to ask why I want to leave early, right?”
Yu Chen nodded: “Yes.”
“I’ll tell you.” Yun Xunlan didn’t drop his act in public, and as he spoke, light flickered from his tongue tip. “But don’t tell Dike yet, because this is just my speculation. Is that okay?”
Hearing the serious tone in the young man’s voice, Yu Chen had no romantic thoughts and directly agreed: “I’ll listen to you.”
“I suspect that the assassins who attacked me on the experimental insect planet were all arranged by the Corona Empire.” Yun Xunlan stared at Jian Xing Chen’s damaged and wide-open maintenance hatch, saying gravely, “And the lead assassin piloting the 3S mecha was Kos Telo.”
Though Yun Xunlan’s words weren’t long, he spoke them in two segments, each containing a large amount of information.
Yu Chen thought Yun Xunlan had deduced the first statement from the second, so he first asked: “Lanlan, how did you identify that assassin as Kos Telo?”
But Yun Xunlan asked Yu Chen back: “Have you heard the term ‘forced override of piloting authority’?”
This was mecha piloting terminology. As the chief mecha pilot from Anlos Military Academy, Yu Chen had not only heard of it but understood it well.
Before all mechas are handed to mecha pilots for use, they must do one thing—use their biological genes to activate the mecha to obtain first piloting authority, preventing the mecha from having its control seized by nearby omegas using mental power.
But this biological lock isn’t foolproof.
When an omega’s mental power level exceeds that mecha by two levels, they can forcibly override that mecha’s first piloting authority.
For example, an omega with SSS-level mental power can forcibly override the first piloting authority of all S-level mechas within their mental power range, even if there are mecha pilots inside.
Unless the mecha pilot and their S-level mecha can maintain perfect resonance at all times, leaving no opportunity for omega mental power invasion.
“Baby, do you remember when we encountered the hyena mecha group attack near Feihai on the Imperial Star?” Yun Xunlan brought up a past incident to Yu Chen. “I used forced override of piloting authority to disrupt the hyena mecha group formation.”
For hyena mechas with less than 100% resonance, Yun Xunlan’s mental power invasion of their mecha control systems was like entering an unguarded territory. Those with 100% resonance were more troublesome—Yun Xunlan had to have Yu Chen snipe them first, causing the resonance between mecha pilot and mecha to briefly drop due to violent shaking from the attack, before he could find invasion gaps to forcibly override their first piloting authority.
However, since he couldn’t expose that an alpha like himself possessed such powerful mental power, Yun Xunlan’s overrides were very restrained, only making observers puzzled without finding specific reasons.
Yu Chen knew Yun Xunlan was an alpha who could achieve perfect resonance with 3S mechas using mental power. No matter how numerous those hyena mechas were, they were only B-level, so being forcibly overridden by the young man was normal. But the mecha they were discussing now was also 3S-level—
“After that 3S mecha sniped me, it exposed its coordinates. I used mental power to detect that it and its mecha pilot only had 72% resonance—the same value as Kos Telo.” Yun Xunlan said. “At first I just found it strange and didn’t suspect him, but after news of his serious injury came out, I became seventy percent certain it was him.”
When he turned and instantly sniped back in retaliation, Yun Xunlan was certain he had hit the 3S mecha piloted by Kos Telo. If not for that Leviathan insectoid bursting from the ground to save him, Kos Telo definitely wouldn’t have been able to escape alive.
Yun Xunlan sighed: “He was lucky.”
But Yu Chen noticed another deeper meaning revealed in his words: “You can… override Kos Telo’s mecha piloting authority?”
The young man said casually: “Yes.”
Yu Chen was silent for a moment: “That’s a 3S-level mecha.”
Yun Xunlan lowered his gaze and smiled: “3S is merely the highest peak that a human with a lifespan of around 200 years can reach.”
—But not his highest peak.
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(advanced chapters available on kofi)
