Chapter 12

Nana16-20 minutes 05.02.2022

Edited by: Umamin 

‘Yue Zhan invited me to attend a high-level meeting and not the press conference?’ Yi Nuo thought.

However, at the end of the meeting, a reporter’s question and answer session was added. In addition to a brief report of the war situation, it was also necessary to clarify some rumors.

Yi Nuo was 80% confident that this question and answer session was specially added because of him. It wasn’t narcissism. It’s just that Yue Zhan never did this after the war, let alone accept interviews with war reporters. This was the first time.

Yi Nuo couldn’t help thinking in his heart that it was good that Yue Zhan didn’t take the initiative to attack, but once he did… wasn’t he too good at it?

His greetings and how he showed concern, inviting him to eat fresh fish, and taking the initiative to help him clarify rumors, this was so…

No, no, no, no!

This person will blacken.

Little black room warning! Fishtail warning!

After such a warning, Yi Nuo hurriedly stayed away from Yue Zhan and walked behind silently.

Entering the venue, Yi Nuo didn’t sit with Yue Zhan. Instead, he sat down in a random seat on the side.

Coincidentally, as soon as he sat down, the person next to him raised his head and greeted him with surprise, “Your Highness?”

Yi Nuo tilted his head and was stunned after he found out it was Hu Yichen.

What did he say yesterday? He wanted to win over the future bigwigs and have them under his command?

What a coincidence. Wasn’t the person in front of him one of the people he wanted to win over?

Hu Yichen soared into the sky only after entering the Imperial College for further study. However, it was no easy feat to enter the Imperial College.

Because of his mother, Queen Delan, Yi Nuo had a good relationship with many well-known professors of the Imperial College in mecha-related majors.

These people used to be his tutors, and he could recommend Hu Yichen to them. In this way, wouldn’t Hu Yichen be grateful to him?

Thinking of this, Yi Nuo couldn’t help smiling at Hu Yichen, but before he could speak, he was suddenly picked up like a chick.

Presumptuous! Who was rude and bold enough to pull up his collar and make him look short?

Yi Nuo looked back fiercely and saw the expressionless Yue Zhan.

Yi Nuo’s fierce aura instantly decreased by two centimeters. He coughed lightly and said with a serious face, “Major General Yue, your behavior is very rude.”

After making Yi Nuo stand up, Yue Zhan quickly loosened his collar and carefully straightened it. Then he said softly, “Your Highness, your seat isn’t here.”

Yi Nuo felt itchy when his neck was touched and couldn’t help shivering. His voice was no longer as solemn as before, but he muttered vaguely, “But I just want to sit with Hu Yichen.”

Yue Zhan’s eyes darkened and he directly refused, “No.”

Yi Nuo got a little angry and thought—

[If you say no, I can’t. What kind of dried fish are you? Why should I listen to you?]

Yue Zhan: “…”

He secretly commented in his heart that the little prince usually pretended to be a little adult but was actually very childish.

However, when it came to pretending, he was better than Yi Nuo.

Seeing the little prince and Hu Yichen sitting next to each other, Yue Zhan felt inexplicably uncomfortable. He thought of a high-sounding reason and said, “There will be a reporter’s question and answer session later. If His Highness is far away from me, it may be reported that we have a bad relationship. Then it will be turned into a discord between the royal family and the garrison.”

After Yue Zhan finished speaking, he patted the little prince on the head as if coaxing a small child and said, “Be obedient.”

Then, Yi Nuo was somehow coaxed away.

Hu Yichen was stunned and didn’t know if it was an illusion, but he felt that as Commander Yue left, the commander seemed to give him a warning look.

Yue Zhan did give him a warning look. He felt that the little prince got to Hu Yichen because of his delusional disorder. In order to prevent the little prince from getting deeper and deeper into an imaginary relationship, it was necessary for him to separate the two.

But when it was his turn, Yue Zhan arranged for the little prince’s seat beside him, still one of the main seats.

The others had no objection towards this. After all, Yue Zhan and the little prince had the highest status in this scenario. If they weren’t the ones to sit in the middle, who else would sit?

Once the meeting started, Yi Nuo remained silent. He was well aware of the truth of pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger1. He sat in the main seat and pretended to be at a loss.

He felt that Yue Zhan would think he was a little waste and relax his vigilant attitude against him, but in fact, he secretly kept his ears open and didn’t miss a word.

[Only by knowing yourself and knowing your enemy can you be invincible in a hundred battles. First, I need to find out the bottom line of Yue Zhan. Later, if he wants to rebel and imprison me, it won’t be so easy.]

Yue Zhan: “…” The delusional disorder is getting worse and worse.

The meeting wasn’t long. After summarizing some wartime problems and deciding how to deal with Zong Ming and other relevant personnel, the question and answer session began.

After the reporters entered the venue, Major General Lin talked about the situation in the base and answered the reporter’s questions.

At the end of the session, a reporter mentioned Yi Nuo, got up, and asked, “Your Royal Highness, what work have you mainly carried out after leading the delegation to the base? What do you think of Zong Ming, the former chief engineer of the technical department, being dismissed? He was interviewed just after being dismissed and made a few comments on you. May I ask if this matter has anything to do with you?”

After speaking, the reporter paused and then threw out the last sharp question. “Excuse me, did you really take advantage of your status to unreasonably request the mecha soldiers to play an exhibition match for you before the war? Moreover, did Commander Yue agree to this?”

Even if Yi Nuo was angry, he didn’t show it in front of everyone.

Although he seriously doubted that the reporter was probably sent by one of his royal brothers to make trouble, he kept his smile as he listened to the reporter. Once the reporter finished, Yi Nuo was ready to answer the question (and teach the reporter how to behave with integrity).

Unfortunately, Yue Zhan was one step ahead of him and said, “I can answer these questions.”

Yue Zhan glanced at the reporter coldly and said in a slightly cold voice: “After His Royal Highness arrived at the base, despite the previous attack and injury, and without taking a rest for a moment, he inspected the mecha armed forces and weapon depots and found that nearly 70,000 z-series mecha were at risk of losing control during wartime, saving the lives of tens of thousands of mecha soldiers.”

“For this, the officers and soldiers of the base are extremely grateful and respectful to His Highness.” Saying this, Yue Zhan paused slightly and gave a secret signal to everyone.

The officers at the scene and the technical department’s staff headed by Hu Yichen immediately clapped enthusiastically.

Yi Nuo couldn’t help blushing, feeling really embarrassed.

He wasn’t injured when he was attacked. However, the lack of water made two scales fall from his fishtail.

After two minutes of applause, Yue Zhan raised his hand to stop them and continued, “As for the ‘mecha exhibition match’, dozens of mecha soldiers stayed awake all night and fought dozens of matches just to find the reason why the Z-series mecha would get out of control. How did it become an ‘exhibition match’ when it reached your mouth?”

When he said these words, Yue Zhan’s eyes fell on the reporter, which was quite a stressful affair.

The reporter didn’t dare to look at him at all. Just thinking of his purpose, he still bit the bullet and said, “But Mr. Zong Ming said…”

The person who instructed him to ask this question obviously didn’t know the real reason for Zong Ming’s dismissal and detention.

Although Yue Zhan was expressionless, the coldness in his eyes increased. It wasn’t because of the reporter but because of Zong Ming and the Zong Family.

Upon seeing this, Major General Lin hurriedly took over and said, “I’ll also briefly inform you about Zong Ming’s situation. On May 27, 3027, Zong Ming, at the instigation of the Zong Family, took advantage of the position of Chief Engineer of the Technical Department and upgraded 70,000 z-series mecha systems without authorization, resulting in a 97.7% possibility of the mecha getting out of control…”

The reporters in the venue were in a sudden uproar. A 97.7% probability of the mecha going out of control. If this had happened on the battlefield, the Empire would have been defeated this time!

Everything was a fiasco!

Why did Zong Ming and the Zong family do this? Did they betray the country and cooperate with the enemy?

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The reporters instantly concentrated on writing down the information as they listened, wishing to send out the news as soon as possible.

“May I ask how the Zong family responded to this?”

“Has the patriarch of the Zong family in the Imperial Capital Star been arrested?”

“The home of the Zong family is in a branch planet of Blue Star…”

Everyone knew that compared to the so-called ‘little prince making trouble in the technical department’, this Zong family was the real breaking news.

This was a noble family. One of the top three big financial groups of the Empire—was suspected of treason?

Will the Zong family collapse? Will the pattern of the Imperial Capital Star change because of this? Will the emperor let go of this opportunity to clean up the nobles and big enterprises?

As they expected, after the news was reported, it quickly caused a heated debate on the internet.

After all, the war was over, there was no need to worry about the Federation attacking again, and everyone was in the mood to eat melons again.

[Oh my god, oh my god! When I saw Zong Min criticizing the little prince so righteously before, I thought he was a good person. I never thought of it!]

[This rubbish man actually wanted to kill so many mecha soldiers, go to hell! Why didn’t Major General Yue kill him on the spot?]

[Has the struggle between the Emperor and the nobles begun again? Which side will win this time?]

[The Zong family collapsing? I don’t think it’s possible. They are one of the great noble families of the Imperial Capital Star. It’s estimated that the Zong family will recover soon.]

Of course, there were also people with a very special painting style2.

[God, am I the only one who noticed that the little prince was also present? This is the little prince’s first public appearance, right? He’s so beautiful and lovely, ah, prprpr3]

[Thank you for the compliment. Let me introduce you, this is my husband.]

[The person upstairs is really shameless. It’s clearly my husband (screaming loudly)!]

[The reporter’s words were really annoying. The little prince just became an adult, and now he must be just the facade of the delegation. How could someone, who had no real power dismiss Zong Ming from his post?]

[God, your words changed so fast. A few days ago, you said the little prince was a bear child.]

[I suspect it is the first prince’s navy hhhh4]

[Am I the only one who thinks the picture of the little prince and Commander Yue sitting together is so harmonious? They’re a perfect match!]

[Match, match, even their handsomeness match!]

At the Imperial Capital Star, inside the Xi Zhao Palace.

Emperor Scott put down the written report handed by Yue Zhan and looked at the news on the internet.

After reading them, he closed his personal terminal. Then he said in a flat tone to Prime Minister Harris, who was sitting beside him, “It seems that Yue Zhan is indeed a little protective of Yi Nuo.”

Harris wasn’t sure of the Emperor’s meaning. He replied, “Yes,” and after thinking about it, he carefully commented,

“His Highness is well-behaved and lovely. He is really likable.”

Scott didn’t speak, his eyes were fixed on the written report.

Although he was already in his fifties, he was still considered young and handsome in the interstellar era when the average human age was 250 years old. His expression often carried the dignity of a superior.

Harris secretly glanced at the Emperor from the corner of his eyes and quickly retracted his gaze. He didn’t dare to guess the emperor’s meaning.

After another two minutes, Scott finally said, “Set up an investigation team to investigate the problem of the Zong’s mechas. Starting from the Zong family base in the Imperial Capital Star and the Blue Star respectively. Zong Qing Xu… keep an eye on him first and don’t arrest him for the time being. Yi Nuo and Yue Zhan are responsible for the investigation team on Blue Star.”

After finishing speaking, the Emperor thought to himself: although Yi Nuo is not my biological son, I didn’t expect him to be useful. If the other party could really marry Yue Zhan and help the royal family win over the Yue family, it wouldn’t be in vain for him to wear a green hat.

Prime Minister Harris sighed in his heart that the Emperor didn’t detain the Zong family’s patriarch. It seemed that His Majesty was still uncertain.

After Scott ordered this, he let the Prime Minister leave and went back to the inner hall with a beer belly.

Entering the bedroom, he reached his hand into his belly and touched a mermaid egg of the size of a small cantaloupe. The beer belly disappeared in an instant.

He carefully put the bright and flawless mermaid egg into the incubator. His expression changed from majestic to loving, and he sighed, “Dear boy, dear boy, your father has incubated you for 23 years. When will you be willing to break the shell?”

“Is it because your mother isn’t here? Alas, your father misses your mother too…”

Thinking of the beautiful mermaid princess, the Emperor looked a little disappointed. But he soon started nagging at the mermaid egg again.

At this moment, he was like a nagging old father. If Prime Minister Harris saw this scene, he would be shocked.

But what the Emperor didn’t know was that his mermaid egg had actually been swapped.

*

Inside the Blue Star base, Yi Nuo still looked for an opportunity to contact Hu Yichen after the meeting and said, “Chief Hu, how’s your work recently? Are you busy?”

Hu Yichen blushed when he saw him and explained shyly, “Your Highness, I’m not the Chief Engineer yet.”

Yi Nuo waved his hand and said, “Sooner or later, you’ll be. After all, you are so competent.”

Hu Yichen was stunned by Yi Nuo’s boast. He didn’t expect the little prince to acknowledge him so much.

He couldn’t help feeling a little excited. Thinking that the current opportunity was given by the little prince, he promised, “Thanks for His Highness concern. I, I will definitely work harder.”

Yi Nuo was stunned. Why did he feel that Hu Yichen was particularly excited? He didn’t seem to say anything.

Seeing this scene across the crowd, Yue Zhan suddenly had a headache.

The little prince was really… attractive without knowing it.

Fortunately, Yi Nuo didn’t tangle with the problem that Hu Yichen’s reaction was abnormal. He remembered his purpose and got straight to the point, “Yichen, do you want to go to the Imperial College for further study?”

Unable to call him Chief Hu, Yi Nuo chose to call his name directly. He felt that this would shorten the distance between them.

Hu Yichen’s face turned red again. He naturally wanted to go, but he felt he wasn’t qualified.

“It doesn’t matter, I’ll recommend you. You have the experience of handling the z-series mecha incident at the base. This is a bonus point, and you’ll definitely be admitted.”

Yi Nuo assured him but thought in his heart: after you’re successful, you must remember to stand in my camp.

Yue Zhan originally wanted to step forward to interrupt, but when he heard this, he stopped abruptly.

Letting Hu Yichen go to the Imperial Capital Star? This wasn’t a bad thing, after all.

Thinking of the letter of appointment issued by the Emperor, Yue Zhan thought to himself: this is just right, the little prince won’t be able to return to the capital for a while, and Hu Yichen will enter the Imperial College, which will separate the two. This will prevent the little prince from having frequent contact with Hu Yichen and further aggravating his delusional disorder.

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But Yue Zhan seemed to have forgotten that according to his logic, he would also have to separate himself from the little prince.

To act lower than what you actually are, to achieve a certain aim during a particular stage.

Style of speaking, style of doing things.

It means that a certain character is so cute that saliva is drooling out.

hahahaha