45 chapter 45
◎Picture Your Body◎
"Long time no see." Lan Hua waved with a smile, giving a standard business greeting. Lan Yang stood behind him, practically invisible.
Lan Yang now suffers from PTSD related to His Highness the Crown Prince. For the past two years, he has become mentally stressed whenever anything about the Crown Prince is mentioned. As a result, now when he sees the Crown Prince in person, all the muscles in his body involuntarily tense up.
"Long time no see." Regas didn't take Lan Hua's insincere greeting to heart and smiled naturally.
*
In his private live-streaming room, Gani watched as the people he had sent followed Lan Ye's movements. When he saw Lan Ye's spaceship parked at the entrance of the Perles Palace, a sarcastic smile appeared on his face.
"Do you really think His Highness the Crown Prince is someone he can just stage an accident for?"
Jia Ni prides himself on his noble status, believing he can get whatever he wants since childhood. The only exception is the Crown Prince; he is fond of him, yet he can never even get a glimpse of the Crown Prince.
He once thought that the Crown Prince ignored him because he couldn't see his good looks. After all, the Crown Prince was of noble status and not someone that just anyone could see.
That's why he entered the entertainment industry, hoping to leverage its publicity and influence to showcase his looks, expand his fame, and catch the Crown Prince's attention. However, the results seemed less than ideal. Although he gained other pleasures during that time—the feeling of being admired, envied, and envied—it was like a drug, making him feel lightheaded and addicted; he enjoyed and was infatuated with this feeling.
Therefore, when Lan Ye, who followed a similar path, rose to fame even faster than him, his disgust for this person reached its peak. Lan Ye, what right did he have to compare himself to him?
When Lan Ye and Ou Sai were about to get married, he simply beckoned Ou Sai back. He thought it was a victory, but his disgust for Lan Ye deepened when Ou Sai unintentionally called out Lan Ye's name many times.
Even if he didn't want to admit it, the truth was that, purely in terms of appearance, Lan Ye was more beautiful than him. His background gave his appearance an extra aura.
However, he couldn't improve his appearance any further, because his genes had already optimized it to the extreme. His sense of superiority over Lan Ye seemed to be gradually eroding; the allure of extreme beauty was greater than he had imagined. Some people might not admit it, but their actions speak louder than words, like Ou Sai.
Lan Ye's alluring, poppy-like beauty might be irresistible. However, she would only run into a wall with His Highness the Crown Prince.
However, when he saw that the gates of the Palace of Pelles were actually open for him, Gani could no longer maintain his feigned composure.
He swung his hand, knocking over the vase of fresh flowers on the table. His face was ashen, and his originally delicate and elegant features became ferocious due to his distorted expression. He gritted his teeth and shouted, "Lan Ye!"
*
Perles Palace Drawing Room
Regas dismissed everyone, leaving only him and Lan Hua in the reception room.
Lan Hua opened the jewelry box containing the brooch and casually placed it on the small table in front of the sofa. "Take a look at this."
Regas glanced down at the rose brooch in the box and said, "I saw it in your press conference livestream."
Lan Hua looked pleasantly surprised. "Your Highness the Crown Prince is so attentive to me. I am truly flattered."
Having said that, he stepped forward, lifted Regas's chin, and smiled, "Your Highness is so handsome, and we are both alone at this moment, what a perfect opportunity, why don't we..."
Regas grasped Lan Hua's hand that was hooking his chin, moved Lan Hua's hand up to his lips, gently kissed him, and then released Lan Hua's hand.
Lan Hua: "..."
Lan Hua looked at Regas suspiciously, her gaze first landing on Regas's face. Hmm, his face was still as handsome as ever, no problem.
Then, his gaze moved down from Regas's face, and he casually touched Regas's chest with his paw, before running his fingers down his chest and tracing his abdominal muscles. Yes, the muscle definition was still at the pinnacle of human potential.
Since there are no problems...
Lan Hua asked, "You have a new love interest?"
Regas: "No."
Lan Hua asked again, "Do you still like me?"
Regas smiled and said, "My love will last a lifetime."
Since there's no new love...
Lan Hua's gaze continued downwards from Regas's abdomen, and she asked suspiciously, "Are you impotent?!"
Regas: "..." Should he admire Lan Hua's imagination, or should he execute this monster on the spot and show him whether he can do it or not?
Even with his exceptional patience, Regas couldn't remain calm when his sweetheart questioned his performance in that area. However, he knew that Lan Hua's deliberate motive was precisely this. Lan Hua didn't want to be emotionally involved; she only wanted to pretend to be emotionally involved while actually being sexually driven.
Regas leaned forward and pressed Lan Hua down onto the sofa. Their eyes met, so close they could feel each other's warm breath, like soft, light feathers tickling each other's noses and lips.
The two could see the burning desire in each other's eyes: Lan Hua's passion and Regas's restraint.
They no longer held back, their lips meeting in a passionate kiss, the air thick with a moist, ambiguous atmosphere. Regas grasped Lan Hua's hand, moving it down to where Lan Hua had been staring. "Now you know the answer?"
Lan Hua, restless, was about to pull at Regas's belt when Regas stopped her.
Then Regas released Lan Hua, stood up, straightened his slightly wrinkled clothes, and once again adopted a dignified and abstinent appearance. At first glance, one would not have guessed that he had just experienced a passionate kiss.
Lan Hua: "...!!!" This is the second time! This reminded him of the scene when this guy came to him right after he blew up the Philosopher's Stone, first seduced him, and then refused his physical intimacy.
"What do you mean by this?" Lan Hua didn't get up, but lazily leaned back on the sofa, her shirt collar wide open, revealing her delicate collarbone. Her beautifully shaped lips were even redder from the kiss just now, and her voice had a languid huskiness.
“I’ll just answer your question with actions.” Regas sat down next to Lan Hua, his eyes clear and his upright posture a stark contrast to Lan Hua’s languid sitting posture.
Lan Hua: "..." He suspected that Regas was secretly taking revenge on him.
Lan Hua sighed. Regas only dared to act so arrogantly because his face didn't need a substitute for a meal replacement.
"Keep acting up. Once I find someone who looks and has a similar figure to you, I'll dump you immediately." Lan Hua rested her elbow on the sofa armrest, propped her left cheek with the back of her hand, and lazily yawned, recalling Regas's body from before.
Sigh, starting too high isn't good either; it makes it incompatible with lower standards. Now I find everyone boring and uninteresting.
Since we can't eat, let's get down to business.
“Since you watched the live stream, you should have seen the attached letter, right?” Lan Hua said. “Is SG Celoe Gallmont?”
Regas nodded and said, "It's him."
Lan Hua was not surprised at all; he had almost guessed the answer beforehand, and he was just here to confirm it.
"Didn't he die more than seven hundred years ago?" Lan Hua knew about the history of the Gamondon family's rise to power, but only knew the general outline.
This family holds countless secrets, shrouded in intrigue, power struggles, and assassinations for years, yet they are adept at concealing their true nature. Aside from the core members, no one can truly understand their family's secrets. The Gamondon family crest is a golden dragon, but Lan Hua feels that a venomous snake better suits the family's essence.
It is not surprising that the Gamondon family knew some secrets about life and death.
"Is he really dead? Or did he fake it?" Lan Hua added.
“He really died back then,” Regas said.
“Alright,” Lan Hua said calmly.
Regas turned around after hearing Lan Hua's tone and looked at her, saying, "Just give up on that idea. His body has long since turned to ash."
The title of "most handsome man in the universe" for Thelma Galmont was well-deserved; otherwise, he wouldn't have attracted Lan Xuan, who is extremely obsessed with looks.
Celoe and Regas look very alike, but Celoe has a more feminine temperament, while Regas is more aloof. However, if these individual differences are removed, the two are about 80% similar in appearance and physique.
Lan Hua sighed insincerely, "It's really disappointing. I thought my spring had finally arrived." He had been celibate for almost three years.
“Even if he comes looking for you, he’s only after your body.” Although Regas knew that the Lan family was extremely obsessed with looks and had even started a relationship with Lan Hua because of this, he still felt helpless and troubled by it. “You look too much like Lan Xuan, and you are a direct descendant of Lan Xuan, making you the most suitable vessel.”
Upon hearing Regas's words, Lan Hua immediately pieced together the cause and effect and asked, "How many people in your Gamondon family are like this? Or is this the only prodigy you've ever produced?"
“Humans are different from ‘gods.’ The conditions for achieving soul immortality are extremely demanding; the right time, place, and people are all indispensable,” Regas said. “He’s probably the only one who can achieve physical death but immortal soul.” There’s no record of Celoe achieving soul immortality in the entire Gamondon family. If Celoe hadn’t revealed himself, it would have taken Regas a long time to confirm it.
He paused for a moment, then added, "Lan Xuan might have done it too." But Lan Xuan might not have done it on his own; it might have been due to Celoe's influence.
Lan Hua's nonchalant expression gradually disappeared. Although his body remained languidly as if boneless, his eyes became serious. Things were more complicated than he had imagined.
Although Lan Hua was unaware of the inner secrets of the Gamondon family, he was well aware of the Lan family's affairs. Lan Xuan was truly dead; he had said he wanted to continue traveling the universe with his partner, and in his will, he stipulated that he and his partner be reduced to diamond dust and mixed with cosmic dust. The Lan family naturally complied, and now no one knows where his diamond dust has drifted away with the cosmic dust. This practice even became a trend within the Lan family for a time.
“I think the people in your Gamondon family are also quite ill.”
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