Chapter 61
"A-choo!"
Ye Bai sneezed, looked up at the banquet scene, and did not find any allergens. Then he forgot about the sneeze and began to look for Woden everywhere.
This made everyone around him roll their eyes, but they were used to it.
Every time Ye Bai attended a banquet, he would look for Woden. Especially this time, the banquet invitation was sent to Ye Bai by Woden, which made Ye Bai even more obsessed.
But what was strange was that the eldest son of the Ye family who came to the banquet with Ye Bai went to the small garden nearby for something after greeting them, while the light computer in his hand kept popping up messages for him.
"Elina, don't you know? Ye Wangxing's small company has been making a lot of money recently. He's probably busy with his company's goods now."
Martha, the friend who had stopped Elina at the party earlier, whispered to Elina.
Martha was one or two years older than the other young masters and young ladies present, and she was more stable, which was why the parents felt comfortable letting them play together.
Even though Martha occasionally steps out of line, she is always within the normal range.
Seeing Elina's surprised expression, Martha continued to whisper the gossip she had heard.
"He put those four girls as models on the homepage of his official website and started selling directly from the factory. Small businesses also bought his products and added accessories and packages. This week, the internet was all about those plush tomatoes and wool blankets."
Martha was a little helpless when she heard this: "My boyfriend has been making a fuss all day, insisting that I wear that little plush accessory he bought for me. He even booked a spaceship ticket to that golden planet. This wave of traffic has really made Ye Wangxing rich."
Elena then remembered that she had indeed seen those familiar little gifts online recently, but the prices behind them were too cheap, so she didn't click on them. She didn't expect it to cause such a big fuss.
"Isn't he running a platform? Why is he selling stuff himself to gain traffic? And those four didn't make a scene? Their model pictures are all over the internet..."
Elina whispered.
Martha leaned over to Elina's ear and said.
"There aren't many merchants on his platform, so he'll have to generate the traffic himself this time. If it weren't for the invitation from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he probably wouldn't have come."
"The model picture was only up for a day. After everyone knew about it, Ye Wangxing deleted it. But I don't know what those four people were thinking. They weren't angry at all. On the contrary, it was as if they had known about it for a long time since someone told them about it."
Martha said this with a look of doubt on her face.
Elina also looked confused. She knew even less about what Martha didn't know.
Fortunately, they soon stopped caring about it. After all, it was Prince Woden's banquet, so they still had to show their attitude.
Even Elina looked at Ye Bai with a look of disappointment when she saw his devoted look.
but……
Was Prince Woden a little absent-minded at the banquet today?
Elena thought as she looked at Prince Woden, who had not flirted with anyone today.
If it weren't for the fact that Prince Woden still remained rude to Ye Bai's attention, she would have thought that Prince Woden had finally found his conscience and was planning to treat Ye Bai well.
Prince Woden naturally did not have a change of heart. He even wondered if he was stupid enough to send Ye Bai the invitation letter.
What's so strange about Ye Bai? Didn't he just rush over as soon as he waved his hand?
It turned out that he was overthinking it. He was still affected by the recent undercurrents on the capital planet and thought that something was wrong with Ye Bai, just like the other four.
Prince Woden refused Ye Bai's request to go out for a walk together and let him leave in disappointment.
He was still thinking about what had happened during this period regarding Admiral Otas and the others.
In recent days, things have been very strange for both Admiral Otas and his uncle. Prince Woden doesn't believe the rumors that their strange behavior during this period is because they are in love.
If the power held by those four were to be combined, it would be enough to shake the entire country, so Prince Woden has always been very wary of those four, especially his uncle who is four years younger than him.
When he was in the military academy, he was able to tie the record of Admiral Otas. From childhood to adulthood, he has always been superior to the crown prince and is so outstanding that people cannot ignore him.
In the past few years, he knew to go on vacation to avoid suspicion, but after he came back from traveling on other planets this year, I don’t know whether his uncle’s ambition was aroused or he didn’t intend to hide his thoughts, he kept asking the Queen Mother to join the army.
The Queen Mother is still happy to pamper her younger brother and is now thinking of helping him select an army.
Prince Woden thought of this and picked up the wine glass in his hand, drank the liquor in it, and then he put the glass back heavily on the table.
He really didn't understand why the Queen Mother would trust her brother who was younger than her son so much. Wasn't the Queen Mother afraid that her uncle would really make a move on her throne?
There are other ministers, whether it is the Minister of Finance, Count Uno, or even the Marshal. They all have too much power. In the eyes of Prince Woden, this power is enough to threaten the safety of the royal family.
But his queen mother turned a blind eye to this and pretended to be deaf and dumb in order to maintain the prosperity of the entire galaxy.
She even suppressed his idea of inserting her own people around those people and pulled him to her side to warn him.
"Don't treat everyone as a fool, Warden. You are still too young and immature."
Woden dared not look directly at the Queen Mother's sharp gaze, so he had to bow his head and admit his mistake.
But only Warden knew how unwilling he was in his heart, and what made him even more unwilling was that when he shared his ideas with his so-called brothers, very few of them supported him.
In the end, only Ye Bai was willing to get some data for him from his father, the Minister of Finance, but it was just data. After all, Ye Bai himself did not have the brains to control power.
Can……
'Apart from his inability, he is the only one who trusts me completely.'
Worden thought, half drunk and half awake.
While Woden was drinking in silence over his own ambitions and the incompetence of those around him, Ye Bai was crying sadly in the small garden.
Beside him were Elena and the others.
Ye Bai was expressing his sadness and pain and that this time Warden had really gone too far.
None of his friends who were present came forward to comfort him.
They ate and drank as they pleased. Elena even used a small silver fork to pick up a piece of heart-shaped fruit on the table and put it into her mouth, nodding at Martha next to her.
"Apart from the fact that the shape is made from a mold, the fruit itself is quite delicious."
Martha was also curious and took another silver fork to try it. Her eyes immediately widened and she nodded.
“It does taste good, sour and sweet, leaning towards strawberry but not too sour.”
Completely ignored, Ye Bai said: "...Woden is really going too far!"
His friends turned a blind eye to his complaints. In fact, they had tried to persuade him when they first arrived at the garden, but no one was a trash can and could endure listening to someone crying for more than half an hour.
They were even a little curious about how Ye Bai could cry for so long and still have tears in his eyes.
Elina saw that Ye Bai had finally cried enough, so she put the silver fork in her hand back on the small plate and took a deep breath.
She was ready to criticize Ye Bai from top to bottom, from the matter of Woden to himself.
However, before Elena could finish her words, she heard a noise coming from the side.
Wait, it seems like it's not next to her, but behind her.
Elina looked at the wall of trees behind her, and the sounds in her ears gradually became clearer.
"——Otas! Stop it!"
Elena's eyes widened instantly, and the friends behind him all turned their heads towards the tree wall. Even Ye Bai reached out and picked up the warm towel on the table, wiped his face, and stood up to try to hear more clearly.
"But I just wanted to show you the ring you gave me. I'm wearing it on my hand."
A very magnetic mature male voice came from behind the tree wall.
Everyone present instantly realized who the two people were behind the wall.
Now everyone started to feel anxious, but they did not dare to move the tree wall. At this time, any slight movement might be discovered by Admiral Otas.
But they really wanted to see what was happening behind the wall of trees.
At this time, Martha, the calmest among them, made a surprising move.
——She stepped directly onto the chair in the pavilion and climbed up the tree wall.
"Don't worry, from their angle they can't see us behind this wall of trees. As long as we keep our noise down, it'll be fine."
Martha said this in a very small voice, and although the friends present were a little shocked, their desire for gossip eventually overcame everything. They covered their mouths, stepped onto the chairs, and looked carefully at the two people behind the tree wall.
The two people sitting over there really didn't seem to notice them, or they didn't have time to notice them.
Thanks to the interstellar society's genetic adjustment technology, everyone's vision is 2.0 or even 3.0, so they can clearly see the movements between the two people in the distance and hear what they are saying.
The tall man next door and the young man in his arms were facing them sideways.
Admiral Otas was hugging the young man from behind and placed his hand in front of him. The golden snake on his index finger was still shining, and the carved scales had lost their previous carving marks and became rounded instead.
It's obvious that she has been touched many times.
"I have been carrying the gift you gave me with me."
Admiral Otas's voice was lazy, and the ending tone was deliberately prolonged, like a coquettish forest python.
The small group of people watching over the wall shuddered.
But it is obvious that Ye Wangxing, who can get along with Admiral Otas and even give him gifts, is not an ordinary person.
The young man looked at the ring, his eyes softened, and he whispered, "...I'm glad you like it."
This gentle voice made Admiral Otas's mood obviously better. He curled the corners of his mouth and put his head on the side of the young man's neck and spoke lazily.
"Yes, I wear it every day. Haven't you noticed that the snake scales on the ring have become brighter? After all, this is a one-of-a-kind ring designed by you, so of course I like it very much."
Admiral Otas said with some pride, and raised his hand in front of the young man again, while his other hand clasped the young man's shoulders, as if wrapping him up completely.
"It's a bit of a shame, my ring is actually the cheapest one among the models in the picture."
Admiral Otas seemed to be just saying it casually, but it made the people on the wall holding their breath.
They were afraid that this person would discover something.
But then they began to laugh at themselves for being unfoundedly worried. After all, if Admiral Otas really found out that the people in the other three model pictures on the official website had the same identity as himself, he would have rushed over and started beating them up.
How could I sit here in such an ambiguous and warm way with a young man like I am now?
However, Ye Bai was still a little worried. After all, he was his brother. Even if others were relieved, he was still worried.
Later, Ye Bai discovered that the reason why his elder brother could have four boyfriends was definitely not just because of good luck.
"Then I'll make you a necklace? Or a collar?"
The young man looked up at the man behind him who was suddenly stunned, and said with a smile with a beautiful arc on his lips.
"When I was making the ring, I was thinking about what kind of jewelry would suit you. The design draft is still in my laptop. But at that time..."
The young man didn't finish his words, his eyes drooped a little as if he was a little depressed, but then he raised his eyes and spoke happily.
"But now it's normal to give jewelry to friends, right?"
"Sir Otas, would you grant me this honor?"
Ye Bai watched the blush struggling to emerge from Admiral Otas's wheat-colored face and sighed silently.
The next second, he watched the tall man suddenly bury his head in the side of the young man's neck, as if he didn't want the young man to see his blushing face, and he clicked his tongue a few times.
His elder brother is indeed a man who has had 4 boyfriends.
——Whoever uses this method will be confused!
After hearing the young man's words, Admiral Otas's aura immediately degenerated from that of an anaconda to that of a hognose snake, and he obediently let Ye Wangxing measure his neck circumference.
From time to time, he echoed the young man's mumblings.
"You've lost some weight. Have you been busy with the year-end report lately? Haven't you been eating well?"
The few people lying on the wall looked at the tall man, who was obviously larger than the young man, and spoke as if he had suffered a grievance.
"The food in the military cafeteria is terrible, and if you miss mealtimes, there's no food left. And you can't order takeout there..."
The young man controlled the light brain and walked around the man's neck and said, "Why don't you get better with your picky eating habits? It was like that back then. I don't know how you grew so big..."
Elina looked at this heartwarming scene, her young heart fluttering wildly, but...
When she thought about the young man who was caring about the man, and would also care about the other three people, Elina's heart died instantly.
But she had no way to solve this emotional problem, after all, the young man and these four men were ex-boyfriends.
This was what Ye Bai told them before.
It is normal for young people to pay attention to them subconsciously because they still have feelings for them.
This is where the problem arises.
——The four people on the opposite side also have some lingering feelings!
Ye Wangxing was just like the fisherman chosen that day. As long as he put some bait on the hook, the four sharks would desperately take the bait.
Even Ye Wangxing seemed to have the same degree of affection for these four fish, after all, he had given them all gifts.
"I don't know who Ye Wangxing will choose in the end, but no matter who he chooses, the other three will probably go crazy..."
Elena thought anxiously that this might even lead to changes in the political situation of the empire.
After Elina finished thinking, she realized that this situation was not something she could solve, and she became calmer.
Even if the sky falls, there are still people taller to hold it up. Let's deal with it when things really get to that point.
However, Elena still felt a little disappointed. If these men could be a little more reserved and let one of them stand out, wouldn't all this trouble be avoided?
But when Elina looked up after thinking about it, she found that Admiral Otas had already left and was walking towards the banquet. Only Ye Wangxing was still in the small garden, deleting and revising something on the computer.
"This is……"
After Admiral Otas left, Elina finally dared to speak in a lower voice.
After all, the young man does not have the hearing that was trained on the battlefield like Admiral Otas.
However, just as Elina turned her gaze to Admiral Otas, her eyes met a pair of deep green eyes.
'Were you discovered?!'
But Admiral Otas just glanced at them and turned to walk towards the banquet venue, seemingly with no intention of pursuing the matter.
This made Elena and her other friends around her breathe a sigh of relief with pale faces. They didn't let go of their worries until Admiral Otas finally stepped into the banquet hall.
But just as he felt relieved and looked towards Ye Wangxing, he heard an angry voice.
"Ye Wangxing! Who is he!"
The people on the wall suddenly opened their eyes wide and looked in the direction of Ye Wangxing, and the person who appeared made them gasp.
——The young man with a flushed face who was questioning Ye Wangxing had a pair of iconic glacier-like eyes.
Woc! Prince Janus!
The people on the wall suddenly thought, "It's all over, it's all over."
Among them, Ye Bai even felt that his entire family would soon be regarded as a thorn in the side by His Majesty, and it was possible that they would be directly exiled to a remote planet or even imprisoned as criminals!
——There is no need to wait until Woden ascends the throne.
Ye Bai was turning around anxiously on the wall, while Ye Wangxing, who was being questioned by the young man at the bottom of the wall, seemed to be frightened when he saw Prince Janus.
"Janus? You're coming to this party too?"
Ye Wangxing said this with a look of surprise, which made Prince Janus, who was coming to catch an adulterer, pause.
But he still said, "Of course I'm at this party. When that kid Warden sent me the invitation, he used me as a gimmick to attract people. Don't tell me you didn't know I would be here."
Prince Janus said with a flushed face, but his momentum was weakened a little because of Ye Wangxing's normal attitude.
"Ah? Is that so?" the young man asked in confusion.
He scratched his cheek a little embarrassedly.
"My brother dragged me here this time. I've been busy with factory work these days and didn't really look at the invitation carefully. I'm sorry, Janus."
The young man's sincere apology soothed some of Janus's anger, but the fact that the young man met with Otas still made him feel choked.
"Even if you're through with this, why were you talking to that guy Otas before? And why were you two so close to each other?"
The young man spoke with his wolf-like eyes narrowed, his royal aura evident. The danger emanating from his voice caused the people on the wall to hold their breath again.
——However, the young man’s next words instantly turned the boy from the Polar Wolf King into a Husky.
"Janus, I'm so happy!"
The young man ignored the boy's aura and hugged him like a brother before letting him go. However, his eyes sparkled as he looked at the boy in front of him and spoke.
"I thought what happened before made you angry because you haven't contacted me during this period."
The boy stood there in a daze, the anger on his face had dissipated - replaced by a blush that gradually spread from both sides of his cheeks.
"Now it seems that you were just busy with your final exams and didn't throw away the wool blanket I knitted for you, right?"
The young man said with a warm smile.
"Yes... I'm just a little busy this week. Actually, I don't mind you using me as a model. I forgot to tell you last time. I'm sorry."
The boy stammered with a red face.
After the emotion subsided for a while, he finally remembered what he wanted to ask.
However, his momentum was waning and he no longer had the same momentum to question the young man. He just spoke with a little jealousy.
"But Wangxing, why are you hanging out with that guy Otas? He's definitely not a good person!"
The boy spoke seriously, but the young man did not say anything bad about Otas as the boy thought. He just asked in confusion.
"Really? But Mr. Otas is actually a very nice person."
As he spoke, the young man happily showed the business cards of several contacts.
"You know I've been expanding my business in the southeastern galaxy lately. Having only one capital star is too slow. Admiral Otas happened to have business dealings with us regarding that golden ring, so he helped me contact these officials."
The young man looked at the business cards of those contacts, all of which were officials from the southeast, and his expression suddenly became angry.
But he did not arbitrarily tell the young man not to contact these people, as that was a boring thing only children would do.
——He directly searched through his address book and pushed a few contacts to the young man.
"Those officials are useful, but there are still too few of them. He's from the military, after all, and doesn't have much contact with people in the Ministry of Commerce. He can't find the key points. I know a few people in the health, fire, and quality inspection departments. When the time comes, you can introduce them to some of them for your subordinates."
The boy pretended not to care as he spoke, but when he saw the young man's surprised expression, the pride on his face was about to overflow.
The young man naturally said some words of thanks, chatted with the boy for a while, and told him to eat well. He left the small garden only after he had lost weight.
The people lying on the wall looked at Prince Janus who was still swaying in the same place, and shook their heads at the same time.
They were just worried that Prince Janus would find something wrong, but...
Ye Wangxing hugged her and didn't pursue the matter, and also passed on his connections to Ye Wangxing.
Seeing that there was no more excitement, Elena was afraid that if she stayed there for too long, something might happen, so she quickly took everyone else back to the banquet.
Ye Bai was originally immersed in gossip, but after returning to the banquet, he stuck to Woden like a magnet.
Elina was too lazy to care about him and was chatting with her friends while eating dessert. However, when she casually glanced at the swimming pool, she saw a man who seemed to be Warden's male companion today pulling Ye Bai's hands, and the male companion was about to fall into the swimming pool.
Elina immediately rushed out from the sofa, and although her friends didn't understand what was happening, they also rushed in that direction.
However, Elena was so concerned that she only saw Ye Bai's hands being pulled by the man, and did not notice that Admiral Otas and Ye Wangxing were standing next to Ye Bai.
——He also didn’t see Prince Janus rushing in from the small garden to the door of the banquet hall.
"Bang--!"
“Crash!”
Alina looked into the pool in shock and confusion.
Ye Bai, who was standing there intact, and the male companion who had been thrown aside by Elena, were all looking at the two men in the swimming pool in shock and confusion.
One minute later.
Warden stared blankly at the two people by the swimming pool, his expression dazed.
Who will tell him why he just left for a while - and his uncle knocked Admiral Otas into the swimming pool?
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