CH 117.1

“Ugh…”

Chu Yan lay on the table, looking utterly despairing.

“Ugh.”

Chu Huai slouched on the sofa, his expression troubled.

“Click.”

Chu Rong cracked open another nut, carefully extracting the kernel and placing it in a small dish, his face devoid of expression.

On the video call, Gu Yan’an, rubbing her belly, looked from one to another with curiosity. “What’s wrong with all of you? It’s good that you’re back, but instead of welcoming Qiao’s parents, you’re all moping around here sighing.”

Chu Huai and Chu Yan turned their heads towards Chu Rong at the mention. Chu Rong remained unmoved, squeezing open another nut, then transferring the kernel to the small dish. Once satisfied the dish was full, he placed it back into the food box, nodded at Gu Yan’an, and then left.

“Sigh…”

Once he had left, Chu Huai and Chu Yan sighed again, one slumping further and the other rubbing his forehead in exasperation.

Gu Yan’an was getting extremely curious. Her eyebrows raised, she teased, “If you keep sighing like this, don’t bother going home. Qiaoqiao and I will just raise bunnies together for the rest of our lives to save ourselves the headache!”

Seeing his wife genuinely annoyed, Chu Huai snapped out of his thoughts, leaned closer to the screen, and began to explain. However, recalling the situation on the ship, before he could say anything, he sighed again.

“Chu! Huai!” Gu Yan’an was convinced he was doing this on purpose!

“Don’t be upset, don’t be upset. You’re in your third trimester, getting angry will make you uncomfortable. I’ll explain,” Chu Huai hurriedly comforted her. He wanted to start explaining from where he should, but suddenly sighed again. He then kicked Chu Yan, who was clearly acting dead, and said, “Xiao Yan, tell your Dasao what happened.”

Chu Yan rolled his eyes, feeling very disdainful towards his brother who shifted the responsibility to him. “I think Qiao’s parents are going ballistic… No, I think they wanted to kill Erge.” 

Gu Yan’an frowned, realizing the seriousness of the matter. “What’s going on? Didn’t you say that everything’s going fine yesterday? You said you all had breakfast together, and Qiao’s parents weren’t difficult people? Why things today…”  

Yeah, what a good situation yesterday! Qiao’s dad and mom even let Qiao and his Erge sleep together! Although it was only for a short time, it was a big step! Unfortunately, the whole thing was ruined. 

Chu Yan suddenly felt that the place that had been “educated by love” by Chu Rong was hurting again. He raised his hands and rubbed his face. He felt anxious, unsure how to tell Gu Yan’an that his Erge was probably going to get killed. He then sighed deeply. “We suggested showing Qiao’s parents a video of Qiao’s warm life in our house, so they will accept us quickly. But Erge actually showed a video of Qiao’s life from the very start! When Erge and Qiao just met on that mining planet! Dasao, you also know how bad and difficult the Erge’s character was. At that time, Qiao’s origin was unknown, his appearance was unusual, and he had no spiritual power whatsoever. In any case, he was suspicious. With Erge’s personality, there’s no way he wouldn’t be at least a bit doubtful of Qiao’s identity.” 

In fact, it was Chu Rong’s great tenderness that he didn’t throw Qiao Zhiya directly to a cell for interrogation. 

Chu Yan got desperate again. He saw his eldest brother squeeze his brows with a headache, exaggeratedly sighing. He then continued, “I told Erge to secretly stop the video and come back. After all, Qiao’s parents don’t know how to use a photon computer…”

–But Chu Rong refused. He said that it was necessary to let Qiao’s parents know his entire life in the Federation.

“As the consequence, Qiao’s parents no longer allow Xiao Rong to get close to Qiao. They also do not come out to eat, yesterday they stayed in the room all day watching videos. Xiao Rong had sent food and snacks a couple of times, but all of them had been discarded by them.” Chu Huai added. 

Chu Huai then sighed again after speaking, and saw Gu Yan’an’s thoughtful appearance, worried that she was overthinking, and quickly reassured her, “But fortunately, Qiao’s parents are still on the ship, and they haven’t demanded to leave because of anger, there is still room for maneuver. I plan to find a time to talk to Qiao’s father and see if I can…”

“You don’t go and make trouble.” Gu Yan’an regained her senses, interrupted him after saying this, glared at him, suddenly smiled, waved her hand and said, “I think you’re just worrying for nothing. Xiao Rong did the right thing! Alright, I should go prepare the guest room, let’s hang up.”

The video call disappeared, Chu Huai and Chu Yan were puzzled for two seconds, turned to look at each other, stared at each other, and were confused.

‘Erge/Lao Er did things right? How? Why do we not understand?’

Inside a room, the recording of the Star Network Mecha Manufacturing Competition was finished, and the picture was fixed on Qiao Zhiya winning the championship, smiling and standing on the platform to welcome the applause from the audience.

Qiao Yi was proud, Mi Lai was even more excited and cried, hugged her son in her arms and kissed him wildly, excitedly said, “Baby is great! Champion! Your first time participating in the competition and you become the champion! Baby is really amazing!”

Qiao Zhiya was embarrassed by the praise, shyly curled his tail, stretched out his claws to hug his mother. He then glanced at his father who seemed to be in a very good mood beside his mother, and tentatively said, “Actually, at that time, most people thought I would be eliminated early, but Chu Rong has always trusted me and supported me, so… “

As he spoke, he carefully observed his parents’ expressions, seeing that their smiles faded a bit, he paused in his words, quickly stopped talking, and vigorously rubbed his mother’s face again, not daring to speak well of Chu Rong.

Yesterday he woke up and saw his mother and father looking sad and crying softly after watching a video on a photon computer. He became directly confused. Before he could understand what was going on, his mother woke up and cried bitterly, wiping tears on her eyes. His father was also upset and constantly comforted him with magic power, sighing and apologizing.

He was confused and anxious, and began to comfort his parents, but before he could say a few words, there was a knock on the door. At that time, his mother’s expression changed immediately, and his father flew away with a magic power, shaking the door.

The room was quiet, and then Chu Rong’s voice sounded at the door.

His mother held him tightly and didn’t let him fly up, and his father got up to open the door, but didn’t allow Chu Rong in. Instead, he waved his hand and did something, then closed the door again.

At that time, his parents’ aura was really terrible, and he was confused to the extreme. He was worried about Chu Rong outside the door for a while, then got worried about his parents inside the door. His brain tangled, thinking about what had happened. In the end, he wanted to ask, but was afraid of making his mother more sad, so he just secretly observed himself. As a result, he never dared to mention Chu Rong in front of his parents again.

There was no other way. At that time, the photon computer screen was playing the video of Chu Rong’s interrogation of him when he had just been rescued. Chu Rong was fierce and evil-looking in the video, looking extremely hateful. His parents had always loved him. Seeing this kind of video, it was no wonder that they had such expressions.

He wanted to help Chu Rong explain, but he couldn’t speak, because his parents immediately clicked to play the next video, and there was no intention to communicate. Later, he secretly used the internal communication of the room to contact Chu Rong, and finally knew what Chu Rong had done while he was asleep.

Then he calmed down, stopped trying to explain, quietly accompanied his parents to watch the video, occasionally supplemented with some things that were not recorded in the video, so that his parents could understand more about his life during those two years.

He vaguely understood Chu Rong’s intentions and believed that his parents were not arbitrary people.

The relationship between people is developmental, and the relationship between him and Chu Rong in the videos also gradually transformed. Chu Rong’s attitude changed from initially cold and harsh to later being tolerant and caring. Many things happened in between that cannot be detailed in words.

These videos can let parents understand his life over the past two years and also allow them to have a deeper understanding of Chu Rong’s temperament.

Currently, Qiao’s parents dislike Chu Rong because they only see Chu Rong’s initial shortcomings towards him. As they see later scenes of Chu Rong taking care of him, their perception of Chu Rong will naturally change.

In fact, Qiao Yi and Mi Lai have indeed gradually changed their views on Chu Rong.

After leaving that terrible mining planet, Chu Rong brought Qiao Zhiya home, first clarified his background, arranged for him to go to school, helped him adapt to life in the Federation, introduced him to the Chu family, unconditionally supported his hobbies, and learned to take care of him step by step.

Setting aside Chu Rong’s poor emotional management and expression of feelings, his care for Qiao Zhiya is impeccable.

Many times Chu Rong’s way of caring for people is tough and his attitude is very bad. Mi Lai was angry several times and almost went out to confront Chu Rong, but watching Qiao Zhiya gradually integrate into the Federation, facing Chu Rong’s attitude changing from cautious to natural, with more and more smiles on his face, gradually forming his own social circle and achieving small successes, Mi Lai and Qiao Yi’s tense hearts slowly relaxed, and then completely softened.

Their son lived well under Chu Rong’s protection, although there were some difficulties and disappointments, they all passed smoothly. It was completely different from the scenes they had worried about before. After arriving in this strange world, except for the first one or two months of adaptation, their son has been doing well.

Qiao Yi and Mi Lai glanced at each other, looked at their son who stopped praising Chu Rong halfway, remained silent for a while, and Mi Lai reluctantly spoke first, touching her son’s small wings, saying, “That Chu Rong… is okay.”

Qiao Zhiya was stunned when he heard this, then his eyes lit up and he excitedly replied, “Mom, Chu Rong is really good. Although he looks fierce, he is actually very gentle and kind. Besides Mom and Dad, he is the best person in the world!”

Mi Lai frowned again, not feeling happy, holding down his small body, murmuring, “Where is he gentle and kind? Baby, you are too easily trusting. This is not good…”

Qiao Zhiya flapped his wings, just smiled and rubbed her hand, not saying anything — his mother’s attitude obviously softened, and he was very happy.

Qiao Yi patted his wife comfortingly, always concerned about the dangers Qiao Zhiya encountered in this world. His fingers were about to move to the next video when the door was knocked again.

The three people in the room were all stunned, and then Qiao Zhiya looked up hopefully at his mother, and then gently hooked his father’s wrist, carefully said, “It should be Chu Rong coming to deliver dinner…”

Qiao Yi looked down at him, picked him up, and walked towards the door.

‘Huh?’

Qiao Zhiya hurriedly grabbed his sleeve, looking expectantly towards the door — was Dad planning to let him meet Chu Rong? So Dad has gradually accepted Chu Rong?

Mi Lai watched her husband carry their son towards the door, glanced at the screen, snorted, and did not stop them.

“Click” the door opened.