Chapter 238 Agreement Mr. Fiancé
Ji Mingxue is a man of action.
After Shen Qingzhu accepted his proposal, Ji Mingxue forced himself to calm down after a brief moment of ecstasy and sent a long document to Shen Qingzhu.
"This is the agreement we have to sign when we get engaged. Honey, please take a close look at it to see if there are any changes that need to be made. Remember to ask Sun Jian and Yan Xiao to help you review it. If there are any changes, we can discuss them later."
After saying that, Ji Mingxue immediately added, "Time is a bit tight. I will be leaving with the Third Army in two days. Is it okay to hold the engagement ceremony tomorrow?"
Shen Qingzhu: "Okay."
but.
He suddenly smiled. Although he only glanced at the document, Shen Qingzhu could still tell, "You have already prepared this agreement?"
Ji Mingxue's ears turned red, and she said shyly, "Didn't I tell you that I wanted to propose to you before?"
"Of course you have to prepare in advance."
"What if you really agree?"
As he spoke, he happily hugged Shen Qingzhu's waist, with cunning and pride coexisting in his bright golden eyes.
Shen Qingzhu looked at him indulgently, and her smile became more gentle.
Then Ji Mingxue said, "Baby, although our engagement is hasty, according to royal regulations, the engagement of the crown prince must be witnessed by more than half of the cabinet members and at least ten legion commanders."
"It would be too late to invite them in real life, so I plan to hold the engagement ceremony in the holographic world. Is that okay with you?"
Shen Qingzhu had no objection to this.
In fact, if he and Ji Mingxue were ordinary people, he wouldn't mind even if it was just the two of them when they got engaged.
It's just that Ji Mingxue has a special identity and his marriage is indeed of great importance, so Shen Qingzhu can understand all of Ji Mingxue's arrangements for the engagement ceremony.
Seeing Shen Qingzhu nod, Ji Mingxue asked him again, "My father will also come to watch the ceremony. Will Uncle Shen and Uncle Etel come?"
Shen Qingzhu wanted to shake his head immediately. After all, the whole empire knew that his two fathers had passed away many years ago. It would be bad if someone was really frightened by the projections of his fathers.
But the words of refusal were on the tip of his tongue, but Shen Qingzhu swallowed them back and said, "I'll go ask them later."
Ji Mingxue nodded, "Okay."
Because the engagement ceremony was tomorrow and there were still many things to prepare, Ji Mingxue quickly took out his laptop to contact all parties.
After he left, Shen Qingzhu contacted Yan Xiao first and informed him that he and Ji Mingxue would hold an engagement ceremony tomorrow. He also forwarded the engagement agreement to Yan Xiao and asked him to help think about it.
After that, Shen Qingzhu found the built-in holographic cabin in the lounge and logged into the holographic star network.
"Shunjian, help me contact Bai and tell him that I want to meet the fathers. The location is in my private space."
"Yes, Master."
As the words fell, Shen Qingzhu had been teleported back to his private territory in the holographic star network - a sea of lush green bamboo.
Deep in the bamboo sea there is an ancient bamboo house, which is almost exactly the same as Shen Qingzhu’s home on Planet A-06.
The familiar environment immediately made Shen Qingzhu relax his brows, and his throbbing heartbeat gradually calmed down in the fragrance of the bamboo sea.
By the time he had made tea by the window, Chen Xian and Ether had arrived as promised.
"What happened?" Shen Xian asked as soon as he sat down.
This was the first time in all these years that Shen Qingzhu proposed to meet them on the holographic star network.
Chen Xian actually knew that Shen Qingzhu could distinguish between real humans and virtual projections, so although the child did treat him and Etel's projections as his parents during the New Year, after leaving the bamboo building and the bamboo sea, the child would not contact them on a daily basis, so as not to become overly addicted to the false projections.
But today, the child suddenly said he wanted to see them.
Shen Qingzhu was not the kind of person who would mess with them on a whim, so Shen Xian knew that this child must have encountered something big.
Seeing the concern in Shen Xian and Etel's eyes, Shen Qingzhu did not hide it, but slowly pushed two cups of tea in front of them, "Dad, father, Mingxue and I will be engaged tomorrow."
The two fathers' hands holding the cups stopped at the same time, and they suddenly looked up at Shen Qingzhu.
Shen Xian asked thoughtfully, "If Dad remembers correctly, Zhubao, you and Mingxue have only been dating for a year, and you are just 19 years old. Why are you planning to get engaged so early?"
After saying that, Chen Xian seemed to suddenly remember something, his brows knitted, his face darkened and he said, "You didn't... cause a death? Getting engaged while pregnant?"
Ethel narrowed his eyes in disapproval.
Shen Qingzhu: ...
A layer of pink suddenly appeared on Yubai's face, and Shen Qingzhu then remembered that in the Leman Empire, most Omegas would get engaged, married, and even have children within a few years after the second differentiation. Many of them were forced to get married with children because they were marked for life by Alphas and caused deaths.
But this is not the case for him and Ji Xiaoxue!
They have not been marked for life until now.
To be exact, they will most likely never be marked for life in their lifetime.
But this was ultimately a private matter between him and Ji Xiaoxue. Even if Shen Qingzhu had a good relationship with the fathers, he had no intention of telling them about this.
Therefore, Shen Qingzhu only coughed lightly, lowered his head and took a sip of tea to cover it up, and then slowly said, "No, something happened outside recently. Mingxue will go to the battlefield with the army in two days, so he said that he wanted to settle our marriage before leaving."
Chen Xian and Etel were both AI projections. After hearing Shen Qingzhu's words, they immediately searched for the imperial news related to Ji Mingxue and Shen Qingzhu within a month. The high-speed data flow allowed them to understand all the recent events in the blink of an eye.
After understanding the situation, Shen Xian and Etel looked at each other and saw similar worries in each other's eyes.
Finally, it was Shen Xian who spoke up, "Dad already has a general idea of the current situation outside."
"Your father and I only have one problem now."
"Baby, are you willing to get engaged to Mingxue?"
Shen Qingzhu paused.
He knew why his father asked that.
In fact, when Shen Qingzhu first heard that Ji Xiaoxue wanted to get engaged to him, he did hesitate.
Because marriage was not in his life plan before.
If Ji Xiaoxue was not the crown prince of the empire, even if he was the heir of the Ji family, the first family, Shen Qingzhu could have maintained a romantic relationship with Ji Xiaoxue for the rest of his life like many Betas, without having to consider marriage at all.
Because just as Ji Xiaoxue said, marriage often represents responsibility, but it also means that both parties to the marriage have to give up some of their rights that originally belonged to them.
This is actually not something that can be done easily.
Because that means that from now on, all your life plans must take your partner into consideration, and every decision you make will affect your partner.
Even if you have an accident and lose consciousness, the other party can even bypass you and interfere with your condition and dispose of your body at will.
If you die unexpectedly, according to the Imperial Inheritance Law, if you have not made a will in advance, everything you have will be inherited by your partner.
You have to share everything with each other and bear everything.
This is really a very troublesome and risky thing in today's era of highly atomized individuals.
Because that means you must completely trust the other person, and the other person must also be a person of noble character who is worthy of your trust.
Otherwise, once one of the parties has a problem, the marriage is likely to become a sharp blade stabbing the other party.
In most of the AO marriages in the empire before, because once an Omega was marked for life, it was difficult for him to leave the Alpha, so the Alphas were mostly fearless after marriage and rarely paid the price even if they had affairs outside.
On the other hand, Omegas will not only lose their freedom after marriage, but they will also lose their reproductive rights. They can only be raised by Alphas for life, gradually losing their personality and dignity and becoming Alphas' appendages.
Therefore, Shen Qingzhu has always believed that in today's empire, marriage is undoubtedly poison packaged as honey for most Omegas, and Omegas are also the group most vulnerable to betrayal and harm in marriage.
Although Shen Qingzhu is an Alpha now, he has always hated the style of the Empire Alpha, so he is very sure that he will never do anything to betray Ji Mingxue in the future.
Furthermore, because of the advent of advanced Omega inhibitors and the agreement between him and Ji Mingxue that they would never be marked for life, even if the two separated in the future, Shen Qingzhu could guarantee that Ji Mingxue would never suffer any physical harm.
But on the other hand, because of the natural inequality of their identities, if they really have conflicts in the future, as long as Ji Mingxue wants, his identity as the prince will undoubtedly form an absolute power oppression on Shen Qingzhu, a commoner.
Even though Shen Qingzhu is the only 3S-level Alpha in the empire, even though he is extremely intelligent and irreplaceable in pheromone research, and even though he has many people or forces behind him to support him, it is almost impossible for Shen Qingzhu to have any ability to resist the two behemoths, the Ji family of the first generation and the imperial royal family.
Whether he can get away with it safely depends entirely on Ji Mingxue's character.
Shen Qingzhu and the two fathers saw all of this clearly.
This is exactly what fathers are worried about at this moment.
Shen Qingzhu is not someone who would be blinded by emotions.
Although he was indeed very moved by Ji Mingxue's unreserved confession, the reason why he agreed to the engagement was not a momentary impulse, but the result of careful consideration.
It would be unrealistic to say that Shen Qingzhu has never considered the possibility of them separating in the future.
But at the same time, Shen Qingzhu was also very clear that once the two got married in the future, Ji Mingxue, who was an Omega and possessed enormous power, would be the one taking greater risks than him who had nothing and was an Alpha.
Because that means Ji Mingxue must also cede some rights and freedoms to Shen Qingzhu, giving Shen Qingzhu a legitimate reason to interfere in his life and decision-making.
A big part of the reason why Shen Qingzhu was so surprised when Ji Mingxue proposed to him was because he didn't expect Ji Mingxue to be willing to take such a risk.
But it was precisely because of Ji Mingxue's sincerity and courage that Shen Qingzhu was willing to take a step forward.
Shen Qingzhu believes in his own judgment.
The beginning of his relationship with Ji Mingxue was based on the most sincere trust in each other.
He believed that the upright and kind Ji Mingxue he had always seen was real.
With such a spiritual foundation, even if the two of them really separated in the future, Shen Qingzhu was sure that Ji Mingxue would not use her power to suppress and persecute him.
To take a step back, even if his relationship with Ji Mingxue really becomes that bad one day in the future, Shen Qingzhu can guarantee his own life.
After all, he is not completely without any cards.
But he believed that he and Ji Xiaoxue would not go that far.
After all, relationships and marriages need to be managed.
When it comes to managing relationships, Shen Qingzhu has quite some experience.
Given his and Ji Mingxue's personalities, it seems difficult for them to break up or divorce.
Thinking of this, Shen Qingzhu smiled silently, raised his eyes and said to the two fathers, "Please rest assured, Mingxue is a good person, I like him very much, and I am naturally willing to get engaged to him."
Shen Xian and Etel carefully observed his expression.
Only after he was sure that there was indeed no reluctance in Shen Qingzhu's eyes, and that she was filled with unconcealed joy and happiness, did Shen Xian also curl his eyes and said in a gentle voice, "Congratulations, darling, on finding your soulmate."
Etel's eyebrows softened rarely, and she nodded to Shen Qingzhu with her emerald eyes slightly curved. "Congratulations, baby, and may you have a happy marriage."
Shen Qingzhu: ...
They haven't even gotten married yet, so how come they can be happily married?
However, looking at the doting expressions of the fathers, Shen Qingzhu felt warm in her heart and couldn't help but smile, "Thank you."
"By the way, Mingxue and I will hold an engagement ceremony in the holographic star network tomorrow. Will dad and father come to participate?"
Shen Xian blinked when he heard this, “If Ethel and I go, it will scare the others, right?”
Noticing the expectation in his eyes, Shen Qingzhu thought for a moment and said with a smile, "If you are worried about this, you and father can turn on the stealth mode at that time, so that you can only be visible to me and Mingxue."
Shen Xian and Etel readily agreed.
…
After finishing the meeting with the two fathers, Shen Qingzhu soon met with Senior Yan Xiao again in the holographic star network.
"Brother Shen, have you read the contents of this agreement carefully?" Yan Xiao asked immediately after meeting.
Shen Qingzhu nodded. He had already found time to read it several times before.
Seeing this, Yan Xiao subconsciously pushed his glasses up. After a few breaths of silence, he calmly said, "Then you should know that some of the terms in this agreement have gone beyond the scope of 'engagement'."
"For example, this one - 'When Ji Mingxue is temporarily unable to exercise her rights on her own for some reason, Shen Qingzhu can exercise all of Ji Mingxue's rights on her behalf and handle all matters related to Ji Mingxue (including but not limited to the Crown Prince's authority and Ji Mingxue's own authority).'"
"This means that if something happens to the prince, as long as you have this agreement, you can take over all his power and even his assets."
"This is simply too outrageous and unbelievable! Even those who have a little bit of assets will try every means to prevent their assets from falling into the hands of their partners in the future when they get married. Therefore, most of the powerful people will sign a prenuptial agreement in advance when they get married to avoid risks in marriage."
"You and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are only engaged!"
"How dare he put such a clause in the engagement agreement!"
"He, he is simply... I don't know what to say!"
The more Yan Xiao talked, the more excited he became. He even wanted to ask his boss what kind of magic potion he had given the prince to make him so blinded by lust!
Shen Qingzhu naturally knew all this.
When Shen Qingzhu first saw the contents of the agreement, he was actually quite surprised.
It was not until then that Shen Qingzhu realized that Ji Mingxue was not joking when she said that if anything happened to him on the front line, Shen Qingzhu could temporarily help him take charge of the situation as her fiancé.
Shen Qingzhu was naturally very moved by this. At the same time, like Yan Xiao, he felt that Ji Xiaoxue was too bold.
But this is also proof that Ji Xiaoxue absolutely trusts him.
It's a one-sided proof that almost makes me want to give my whole heart out.
Shen Qingzhu naturally would not let his sincere gratitude go to waste.
"I would like to ask you to help me draft a few new clauses and add them below the one you mentioned."
"The terms are - if Shen Qingzhu encounters an accident and is unable to exercise his rights, all of Shen Qingzhu's assets and rights will be temporarily transferred to Ji Mingxue for management and exercise."
"Besides that, please help me draft a will."
"If I die unexpectedly someday, all my assets, insurance, scientific research results, etc. will be inherited by Ji Mingxue and he can do whatever he wants with them."
Yan Xiao: ...
The hand that was pushing up his glasses almost hit his eyeball, and Yan Xiao was speechless for a moment.
It was not until a long while later that he finally found his voice, "Brother Shen, let me remind you that you are only 19 years old this year, and you still have a long life ahead of you. It is too early to make a will at this time."
Also, the heir to the will is Ji Mingxue or something, Brother Shen is really bold.
If Shen Qingzhu were a lover or partner who was not so wealthy and had not so good intentions, upon learning the news, they would probably kill her for the inheritance.
Furthermore, "This will may also increase the psychological burden on His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, right?"
He tactfully persuaded Shen Qingzhu, hoping that Shen Qingzhu would reconsider.
As smart as Shen Qingzhu is, she naturally understands Senior Yan Xiao's concerns.
"What you said makes some sense," Shen Qingzhu mused, "Then let's not tell Mingxue about this will for now. Let's just keep it a secret between the two of us."
"If I really need it someday, I will trouble you to announce it then."
Yan Xiao: ...
"In other words, it still needs to be notarized first?"
Shen Qingzhu smiled and nodded.
Yan Xiao choked again, and wanted to ask Ji Mingxue whether she had also given Shen Qingzhu some kind of magic potion?
Otherwise it is really hard to explain how two extremely smart people could do such a bold and completely reckless thing at the same time.
However, after the shock, Yan Xiao felt an indescribable sigh and envy in his heart——
Because only when you have absolute trust in each other and absolute confidence in your future together can you have the confidence and courage to make these decisions.
…
After revising the engagement agreement online with Senior Yan Xiao and notarizing the will, Shen Qingzhu quickly logged out of the holographic cabin and forwarded the revised agreement to Ji Mingxue.
Ji Mingxue was already very busy preparing for tomorrow's engagement, so she only sent a message to Shen Qingzhu saying that she might be busy until very late tonight and asked Shen Qingzhu to go to bed first.
Shen Qingzhu didn't continue to bother him because Shen Qingzhu couldn't help with most of the things Ji Mingxue was busy with.
As expected, Ji Mingxue returned to her bedroom very late that night.
As soon as he got into bed, Shen Qingzhu woke up, closed her eyes and hugged him in her arms.
"Did I wake you up?" Ji Mingxue tilted her head and gently rubbed his chin.
Shen Qingzhu's fingers slowly shuttled through his hair, and her voice was low and vague, "...It's okay, are you done?"
Ji Mingxue said "hmm" softly, and after a few breaths of silence, she whispered, "I saw your revised agreement."
Shen Qingzhu opened his green eyes slightly and looked down at Ji Xiaoxue who was lying in his arms.
Ji Xiaoxue's golden eyes, still bright in the darkness, flickered slightly, as if she wanted to say something.
But after meeting Shen Qingzhu's eyes, he sighed softly, then curled up the corners of his lips sweetly and said frankly, "I'm very happy."
Shen Qingzhu couldn't help but laugh and kissed Ji Xiaoxue's forehead lightly——
He was very happy that Ji Xiaoxue could calmly accept the terms he added to the engagement agreement.
Although from a secular perspective, the gap between him and Ji Xiaoxue in terms of identity, status and assets is as huge as a chasm, but Shen Qingzhu knows that he and Ji Xiaoxue have always been equal in this relationship.
Their personalities are also independent of each other, and there is never a relationship of one being dependent on the other.
Shen Qingzhu could naturally give him the promise that Ji Xiaoxue wrote in the engagement agreement.
The engagement agreement was thus finalized.
…
The next afternoon, Shen Qingzhu and Ji Mingxue successfully held their engagement ceremony on the royal viewing platform of the holographic star network, witnessed by hundreds of pairs of eyes.
In addition to Ji Mingxue's father Ji Wushuang, Ji family head Ji Ronghuan, as well as the commander of the First Legion Ji Mingfeng and the commander of the Third Legion Ji Mingyu, many members of the Ji family who were invited also attended the ceremony.
In addition, nearly three-quarters of the imperial cabinet members were present, and seventeen of the twenty military corps commanders were present on time.
The heads of nine of the ten major families in the empire, including the Chu family, the Rand family, the Situ family, the Lawrence family, etc., are also among them. The only exception is the Romanov family, which is now deeply involved in the incident of the eldest prince forcing the emperor to abdicate. They have not received an invitation.
The person who presided over the engagement ceremony was Ji Mingxue's uncle, Duke Xingyao Ji Ronghuan.
After going through a series of engagement procedures in accordance with royal etiquette, Shen Qingzhu and Ji Mingxue signed an engagement agreement under the witness of a notary official.
After that, the two also exchanged engagement rings.
Although this is a holographic world, when they put the engagement rings on each other, Shen Qingzhu and Ji Mingxue's heartbeats became excited at the same time, and they couldn't help but want to kiss each other.
But there were still a lot of people here, and Shen Qingzhu and Ji Mingxue didn't like to be overly intimate outside, so in the end Shen Qingzhu just restrained himself and kissed Ji Mingxue's forehead lightly.
Ji Mingxue smiled and hooked her fingers with him, gently pinching Shen Qingzhu's fingertips where no one could see.
After the ceremony, Shen Qingzhu and Ji Mingxue went to chat with the two fathers who had turned on stealth mode for a while.
Knowing that they still had a lot of things to do, Shen Xian and Ether did not stay here for too long.
After they left, Shen Qingzhu and Ji Mingxue went to meet Ji Wushuang and other members of the Ji family.
Ji Mingxue would be going to the battlefield with the army one day later. Coincidentally, several important figures of the Ji family were there, so Ji Mingxue immediately asked all the elders and brothers and sisters to help take care of Shen Qingzhu during this period.
All the elders and juniors of the Ji family, including Ji Wushuang, looked at the two of them mischievously and meaningfully, until Shen Qingzhu felt a little embarrassed and Ji Mingxue wanted to glare at him. Only then did everyone agree with a "yes, yes" and promised Ji Mingxue that they would never let Shen Qingzhu suffer a single hair loss.
Because the scene was too funny, Shen Qingzhu still had a helpless and gentle smile on his lips until the two of them stepped out of the holographic cabin.
His smile was so beautiful that Ji Mingxue felt itchy. She immediately pulled him out of the holographic cabin, pressed him against the wall, and made up for the kiss that was not completed during the ceremony.
When the kiss ended, Shen Qingzhu suddenly realized that there seemed to be something extra on her finger.
When I raised my finger, I found a gold gem ring on my middle finger.
Exactly the same engagement ring they wore in the holographic world.
Shen Qingzhu smiled and held out his palm to Ji Mingxue, "Where's the other one?"
Ji Mingxue smiled and placed another ring in his palm, then watched Shen Qingzhu solemnly put the ring on his middle finger without blinking.
The emerald gemstone ring finally got stuck in the deepest part of Ji Mingxue's finger. Shen Qingzhu then lowered her head and kissed the ring gently, then smiled and said to Ji Mingxue, "Mr. Fiancé, please take care of me in the future."
Ji Mingxue's ears suddenly turned red. After trying to hold it back for a while, she couldn't help it anymore. She covered her heart with her hands and said tremblingly, "This... this name is too destructive! It's so touching that it makes my legs weak!"
After saying that, Ji Mingxue's legs seemed to go limp, and she fell into Shen Qingzhu's arms, her eyes sparkling as she said, "Baby, scream again!"
Shen Qingzhu was immediately amused by him, and gently pinched his red ear tip, curled his lips and said, "You scream first."
Ji Mingxue called him "fiancé" many times, and mixed in various terms such as "fiancé baby", "fiancé mr.", "fiancé darling", etc., which made Shen Qingzhu unable to stop laughing and her heart was beating wildly.
In the end, he simply picked up Ji Xiaoxue and took her back to the bedroom to execute her on the spot.
…
A day later, Ji Mingxue, escorted by soldiers from the First Legion, headed to the Third Legion's camp.
Shen Qingzhu was personally escorted back to the Academy Star by Marshal Ji Mingfeng.
At the same time, two blockbuster news suddenly broke out on Starnet:
[The Crown Prince Ji Mingxue will personally go to the edge of the planetary belt to lead the army to destroy the alien beasts in the starry sky. ]
[The Imperial Crown Prince Ji Mingxue and Shen Qingzhu were officially engaged yesterday. ]
As soon as the news came out, the entire Star Network was in an uproar.
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