Knock knock knock. Lan Yu heard a knock on the door from Lu Rankong's side, and a male voice calling Xiaofan.

Lu Rankong turned his head and looked at Lan Yu, then said, "My brother is here..."

Seeing Lan Yu raising her hand to turn off the terminal, he said, "We'll continue chatting tonight."

"Okay..." Lan Yu agreed.

Lu Rankong went to open the door and called out "Brother". Gu Jun didn't say anything, just opened his arms. Lu Rankong walked up to him and hugged him tightly.

Both brothers inherited their parents' excellent looks and look very similar. It’s just that Lu Rankong is taller and looks more like his mother Lu Yun. Unlike Gu Jun’s single eyelids, he has double eyelids that are not too wide, and his eye sockets are slightly sunken, which makes his features look very three-dimensional.

"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back." Gu Jun patted his shoulder, "After you come back this time, calm down and learn more from your father and brother. Some things will also be handed over to you."

Lu Rankong smiled and said, "I took some time off to come back. I came to see you and father and do some work. I have to go back to the barracks in two days."

"You still want to go back? You're just going there for training, but will it ever end?" Gu Jun said puzzledly, "Although the empire has always had a tradition of training for princes, it only takes a few months for each prince to finish. Even my father stayed in the military camp for a year, which was the longest time."

Lu Rankong said: "Brother, you know, I am not interested in these things, and you are the future emperor, just having you around is enough."

"But I need your help too."

"Brother, I never liked these things. If we talk about help, isn't Jiang Zhi very good? And Jiang Jian, Jiang Ding and the others are all very good." Lu Rankong interrupted Gu Jun with a smile.

Seeing that Gu Jun didn't say anything else, he opened the door and said, "Come in and sit down..."

Gu Jun entered the room. The two brothers sat opposite each other on the sofa with a coffee table between them. They turned their heads and looked towards the window in silence.

There was a desk, on which were placed the little handicrafts that Lu Rankong had made when he was young.

"I still remember when you were making that little carriage, you cut your hand with the carving knife, and the blood kept flowing. I was scared." Gu Jun used his hand to measure the height and said, "You were only that small at that time, and you comforted me by saying that it was okay, it was just a minor injury, don't panic."

The two brothers smiled as they recalled their childhood.

Seeing that he was in a good mood, Gu Jun added, "During the days when you were away, your father often came to your room to sit. I once saw him even oiling the small handicrafts you made."

Lu Rankong was still smiling, but the smile in his eyes faded.

Gu Jun thought for a moment and then continued carefully, "Xiao Fan, you shouldn't blame your father for your mother's problem. It's not your father's fault. Your mother is sick. Your father is so busy. He has to deal with so many state affairs, big and small, every day. You know that."

"Brother, you have been with our father since you were a child, and you have seen his hard work and toil. I have been with our mother since we were young, and I have seen how she has declined day by day because of our father's neglect." Lu Rankong took a deep breath and said in a hoarse voice: "My father is definitely responsible for my mother's death."

"Do you think your father wasn't in pain? Over the years, many people have urged him to start a new life, but he refused. He always has his mother in his heart."

Lu Rankong looked at the window and said softly, "So what? Mother died because of him after all. Brother, you have forgotten everything, but I still remember it."

Gu Jun lowered his head, and after a long silence, he whispered, "Xiao Fan, some things are not what you see."

After that, neither of them spoke, just sitting there quietly, only hearing the sound of the gardener using the lawn mower on the lawn outside.

Gu Jun suddenly stood up and said, "Let's go to the study to see father. You should go to see him as soon as you come back. He is your father, and he is also the emperor of the empire. It is reasonable for you to go and see him."

Lu Rankong nodded and stood up.

The two of them left the building and walked forward along the huge garden. The roofs of several buildings were faintly visible among the trees in the distance. That was Emperor Chengfa's study, and also the place where he discussed matters with others in private.

"Brother, when are you going to get married? Sister Qin has been waiting for you for many years." Lu Ran put his empty hands into his trouser pockets and looked around as he walked.

Gu Jun smiled and said, "It will be decided next year..."

"Then notify me before the wedding so I can rush to attend it." Lu Rankong said.

Gu Jun said: "Don't just ask me, what about you? Do you have anyone now?"

"This..." Lu Rankong dragged out his voice.

"It's normal that you don't have any contact with omegas in the military camp. You came back just in time. The omegas in Chairman Li's and General Reiden's families are about your age. Go and meet them. If you like them, you can get married." Gu Jun said.

Lu Rankong said: "I haven't even finished what I was saying."

"Oh? Do you mean there's a follow-up?" Gu Jun looked at him with interest.

Lu Rankong said with a hint of pride: "I already have someone I like, whom I met in the military camp."

Seeing that he couldn't hide his smile despite his best efforts, Gu Jun started laughing too.

He took away a flower branch in front of him and said, "The person you like must be good. When can you bring him to me?"

"Yes, I will take you to have a meal when I have the chance to come to the main planet."

"OK……"

Lu Rankong said, "Have you changed your chef? If not, change him as soon as possible. The taste is too strong and I'm afraid he won't be able to get used to it."

Gu Jun hissed as if he had a toothache.

"Did you drink the stabilizer that I had someone send to the military camp last time?" Gu Jun suddenly asked.

"Drink it..." Lu Rankong frowned when he remembered the bitter taste, "It's too bitter. Can't the taste be made into a dessert? Even if it's not so bitter, it's fine. And I have to drink it once a month."

Gu Jun stretched out his finger and pointed at him, "It's still the same as when we were kids, you're afraid of the bitterness of the medicine, but our status is different, we're both people who can get close to the emperor, so we have to drink it. Stabilizers are so hard to make, and each one is very difficult, you can't not drink it."

"I know its importance, so I was just saying it casually. We were all drinking." Lu Rankong sighed.

"Is that for drinking on time?"

Lu Rankong choked and said, "Sometimes I don't arrive on time when I'm on a mission."

"Be sure to drink on time." Gu Jun said solemnly, "Or else someone will take advantage of you."

"Know……"

"By the way, brother, I have a few things to do while I'm here." Lu Rankong said.

"What's up?"

"I have a few friends in prison, and they have all been wrongly convicted to varying degrees. I plan to bring these cases to the Attorney General's Office for a retrial."

"Okay..." Gu Jun patted Lu Rankong's shoulder, "Do you need me to do it for you?"

"No, I will do it myself. Everything will strictly follow the laws of the galaxy and be done with reason and logic."

"Yes, you can't bend the law for personal gain. Just deal with it as it should be dealt with."

"clear……"

Before going to bed, Lan Yu received another video call from Lu Rankong. The background was still in his room, but he was wearing a military uniform and had obviously just returned from outside.

Lu Ran threw his military cap on the coffee table and asked Lan Yu, "Are you ready for bed?"

"Hmm..." Lan Yu said.

Lu Rankong stared at him for a while, and suddenly said, "I told my eldest brother that I have someone I like, and I want to take him to meet him."

"Yes, is that so?" Lan Yu suddenly felt a little flustered.

"Well, next time we'll go together."

"Let's talk about it later, if there's a chance." Lan Yu said lightly, but her hands were picking at her trouser legs.

Seeing Lan Yu was silent and thoughtful, Lu Rankong felt uneasy and asked, "What are you thinking about? If you don't want to see him, then don't go. The food at his house isn't good anyway."

"No, I was just wondering what the weather is like where you are." Lan Yu didn't want to explain the reason, so she just said it casually.

When Lu Rankong heard this, his eyes lit up, "I miss you too, very much."

Lan Yu was stunned, opened her mouth and closed it again, and finally whispered: "I miss you too..."

"I have already rushed to get everything done today. Tomorrow morning, I will take the earliest starship back to Zata Star." Lu Rankong said.

"Hmm..." Lan Yu nodded.

The two of them kept talking, and when they had nothing to say, they just stared at each other. It was not until Lan Yu accidentally looked at the time and realized that it was already midnight that she said goodbye and hung up the terminal.

He picked up the water cup and took a sip to moisten his dry throat. Then he fell on the bed, hugged Gugu and rolled around. He buried his face in its soft belly and screamed in a low voice: "Gugu, Gugu, it's time to meet the parents. Are you getting married? Right? You're meeting the parents."

After rolling around for a while, he said unhappily, "But when can I tell him my identity? It's too difficult to explain why I'm an omega."

Gu Gu remained silent. He stared at the ceiling in a daze, his eyes gradually becoming vague. "Besides, it will take several years before he can retire. He can't just do nothing in these years. Do you think he can endure it for a few years... If he gets pregnant, will he give birth secretly in the barracks?"

Thinking of this, he suddenly sat up again, his hair standing up in a mess, and said with a firm look: "No, I must retire, at most in half a year, no matter what."

He was lost in thought, sometimes sad, sometimes happy, and he didn't know when he fell asleep on the bed.

He was sleeping soundly when he seemed to hear a knock on the door, waking him up from his dream.

Knock knock knock, knock knock knock.

You heard it right, someone was knocking on the door.

The sky was just beginning to brighten, and a thin ray of sunlight filtered through the curtains, illuminating the outlines of the room. Lan Yu looked at the terminal. It was only half past six in the morning.

"Who?" he asked warily.

"It's me..." Lu Rankong's voice came from the door.

Lan Yu suspected that she had heard it wrong, so she asked again: "Who?"

"Xiaoyu, it's me" was indeed Lu Rankong.

Lan Yu was surprised and delighted. She got out of bed and went to open the door barefoot. After taking two steps, she realized something was wrong and said quickly, "Wait a moment..."

The voice outside the door asked, "How long will it take?"

Lan Yu said: "About ten minutes..."

The sound at the door disappeared, and Lan Yu quickly turned back to change her clothes and put on her shoes.

The robe he was wearing was too revealing and inappropriate, considering it was only the early stages of their relationship. The glandular patch that was just replaced last night was still in the bathroom, but I didn't have time to clean it up. I haven't brushed my teeth, washed my face, or combed my hair, so it sticks out like a lion. I need to tidy it up quickly.

Lan Yu was busy in the bathroom when she heard two knocks on the wall adjacent to Lu Rankong's room.

"Xiaoyu..."

"Hmm..." Lan Yu put the replaced glandular patch into a sealed bag and placed it at the bottom of the trash can.

"I miss you so much..." Lu Rankong said next door.

Lan Yu brushed her teeth and responded vaguely: "I miss you too..."

"I can't wait until the morning to leave. As soon as I got off the phone with you last night, I boarded the starship. I wanted to see you as soon as possible."

Lan Yu quickly washed her face and casually applied moisturizer on it: "We left last night, so did you sleep?"

"I slept on the starship and had a dream." Lu Rankong said.

Lan Yu walked out of the bathroom and returned to the bedroom to change clothes. She took off her pajamas and put on sportswear.

Lu Rankong also came out of the bathroom on his side, followed him into the bedroom, and continued talking through the wall.

"Do you know what I dreamed about?" The tone on the other end was a little rippling.

Lan Yu stopped putting on her clothes and said, "You don't have to tell me what you dreamed about."

"But you were involved in my dream, how could I not tell you—"

"Just let me participate quietly, and you don't have to let me know." Lan Yu interrupted him.

Lu Rankong didn't continue, but laughed and asked, "Did you clean my room? Of course, there was no one else but you."

"I've put all your materials and tools in a storage box so you don't have to look for them everywhere," said Lan Yu.

"I see. You must be tired. Actually, it's okay if you don't clean. I'm used to living here." Lu Rankong said with a little heartache.

Lan Yu snorted coldly, "You are used to living here, but I am not."

The next door fell silent. Just when Lan Yu wanted to ask him what he was doing, he pretended not to care and said, "Have you ever helped clean that room before?"

"That? Which one?" Lan Yu stopped putting on her clothes.

"That guy, you know."

Lan Yu asked suspiciously: "Which person? You have to tell me a name, otherwise how can I know who you are talking about."

Lu Rankong seemed not to even want to mention this name, and said quickly: "Gu Gu..."

Lan Yu was stunned for a moment and said, "Gugu?"

He tilted his head to look at the doll sitting silently on the bed.

"That, that Gu Gu." Lu Rankong's voice was light, but Lan Yu could still hear the sourness hidden in it.

"I've told you several times that my name is Gu Gu, but you insisted on calling me Gu Gu." Lan Yu reached out and touched the brown bear's nose, saying silently, "He wants to change your name."

"Gugugugu is the same, it doesn't matter." Lu Rankong asked: "Have you helped him clean the room?"

Lan Yu smiled and replied loudly, "Sweep it, of course you should sweep it. You should also give it a bath so that it is always clean."

"Take a bath? Are you going to give him a bath again?" Lu Rankong jumped up as if he was lying on the bed, and the iron bed creaked.

"Do you have any objections?" Lan Yu asked.

Lu Rankong said awkwardly: "No, it's in the past. Why bother about it now? I'm very generous."

Then he added, "Besides, you won't bathe him again, right? I won't mind."

Just as he was getting dressed, Lu Rankong asked again, "Ten minutes have passed, can I come over?"

Lan Yu finally looked at herself in the mirror and said, "Come here..."

Without waiting for the knock on the door, he opened it and stood in front of it with his heart beating anxiously.

The moment the door was opened, I was embraced in a warm embrace, and the burning lips and tongue fell on me with a familiar breath.

Lan Yu's limbs weakened as she sank into Lu Rankong's arms, responding to this eager and passionate kiss. After a while, she was picked up again and placed on the sofa in the living room. Lu Rankong pressed down on her, and the two continued to kiss passionately.

The sun slowly rose, and golden light shone in. The sounds of Lin Zhu and Chen Yuqin getting up and washing could be heard from the opposite side.

"I couldn't wait to see you on the starship. I woke up several times and felt that time was passing so slowly." Lu Rankong gently kissed Lan Yu's earlobe.

Lan Yu also reached out and gently played with a few strands of hair on his forehead.

"Let's take a break today and go out on a date." Lu Rankong looked up at his face.

"How about a date?" Lan Yu's face was flushed, and she looked like she was drunk, with tears in the corners of her eyes.

Lu Rankong stopped talking and just stared at him from top to bottom, his eyes burning with undisguised aggression.

Seeing his gaze, Lan Yu gradually came to her senses, pushed the person on top of her, and said, "What are you thinking about?"

"I suddenly don't want to date anymore. I just want to stay in the house with you like this all day." Lu Rankong said.

Dangerous, too dangerous.

Lan Yu pushed him to the sofa, sat up sideways, and said in a deep voice: "Since we are in love, we have to go on a date. Let's go out on a date."