Chapter 80 80 So I decided to get rid of him first.
"Find a time to abort it, Fu Yunlu." Liang Guanyue's gaze moved from his face down to the spot where life could possibly be born. He calmly pronounced the death sentence, "I don't need a burden."
"...Am I the burden, or is this child?" Fu Yunlu raised her head and asked in disbelief, "Or...is it both him and me?"
Liang Guanyue looked at him silently for a moment, then nodded, "Whatever you think."
"...No." Fu Yunlu said in a trembling voice, "Give me an answer."
"No matter which answer I give, I don't want this," Liang Guanyue paused, "this child with my blood flowing in his veins."
"Why?" Fu Yunlu said, then immediately added, "I will raise him alone. You can treat this child as if he has nothing to do with you—"
"Actually, no matter what, he will be related to me." Liang Guanyue interrupted Fu Yunlu's naive delusion, "As long as he has my blood in him, he will be related to me."
Then he added, "Or, there is another way that will allow you to keep the child."
Fu Yunlu opened her eyes wide and grabbed his arm. Her pale cheeks flushed with hope at these words: "What is it? Guan Yue, as long as I can do it, I'm willing to do whatever it is!"
Liang Guanyue stared at the other person's expression and suddenly smiled. He curved his eyes, placed his palm on Fu Yunlu's abdomen, and said gently, "You and him, never see me again. Then I will admit that this child belongs only to you. How you deal with her is none of my business."
"...No." Fu Yunlu subconsciously rejected the proposal. The hope that had just emerged seemed like an illusion. He felt like a water ghost who had been immersed in the lake for many years and was one day forcibly dragged to the shore. Helplessness and fear filled his whole body. His face was bloodless, with only two dark eyeballs painted in his sockets. He said in a desperate hoarse voice, "...I don't want it."
Liang Guanyue stroked the mole under his lip with her thumb and asked slowly, "What should I do then, brother?"
Fu Yunlu understood the implication of this rhetorical question. Tears gathered uncontrollably in his eyes, but he forced himself not to let them fall. After a while, he forced a smile, but his voice was choked with sobs as he said, "...Okay, after we deal with the Zerg, I'll go and kill him."
After saying that, she seemed unwilling to give up and asked him, "Okay?"
Liang Guanyue did not answer immediately. Instead, she wiped away the tear that had overflowed from the corner of Fu Yunlu's eye, and then said, "Well, that's it."
Fu Yunlu hugged him, pushed herself forward, pressed her lips against his, then slightly pushed away and whispered, "I love you."
"..." Liang Guanyue felt a little uncomfortable, his eyes wandered away, and he did not answer.
Fu Yunlu used her old trick again, kissed him, and repeated, "I love you."
“…”
"I love you."
Liang Guanyue pinched his cheeks and said in annoyance, "I told you, I can't possibly accept having another child for you. Abort him or stay away from me, you choose one." He said, "Don't think that I will soften my heart just because of this."
Fu Yunlu was stunned for a moment, then chuckled softly and said, "Well, I know. I won't keep him." He whispered, "I only want you in this life."
Even with Liang Guanyue, he may never have the status of a lover, but that doesn't matter.
In any case, his life might be spent in the painless pursuit of love. It's like trying to catch the moon in the water, a futile effort—this is his punishment for possessing power, yet losing himself before even beginning to pursue it.
So when Fu Yunlu kissed Liang Guanyue on the lips for the fourth time, she told him: "You probably won't believe it... but after my mother's death, you are the only reason I live."
Liang Guanyue couldn't understand and naturally wouldn't believe it.
There was no earth-shattering and touching love between them, nor did they share hardships. The days they spent together were not even happy. Even if anyone knew their experiences, they would not think that Liang Guanyue and Fu Yunlu were a good match, and would not understand why Fu Yunlu regarded Liang Guanyue as everything in life.
Thinking rationally, there is no reason for this.
So Liang Guanyue said: "Then your life is too fragile."
Fu Yunlu rested her forehead against his shoulder and laughed several times, then said, "Because of where I was born, I had no choice."
When he was passively crowned, he no longer had any reason to feel sorry for himself.
There are countless sufferings in the world, such as Liang Guanyue's unfortunate childhood. Using such a dimension to evaluate Fu Yunlu's life and judging her by the lack of love seems to make other people's suffering seem ridiculous.
But for more than thirty years, Fu Yunlu suffered from the real pain of this illusory love. He was unable to bear it and crawled on the ground for a long time. However, because of his royal status, he lost the right to feel self-pity and weakness. The contradiction made him often hope that if only this world had not existed for him from the beginning, it would be great.
Liang Guanyue heard Fu Yunlu's joking complaints in his ear, lowered his eyes, and thought: Fu Yunlu hates her birth more than her death.
Although Liang Guanyue believed that he was born with sin, he did not resent coming into this world. Without him, Liang Mengwei would have lived a happier life, but since he was born, he lived calmly.
Liang Guanyue did not have as many complicated emotions as Fu Yunlu, so she often made decisions quickly and decisively.
In the end, he said nothing, but just let Fu Yunlu hug him without urging her. He looked at the shower head not far away with complicated thoughts - a drop of water fell from the shower head.
It's getting late.
Liang Guanyue opened the curtains, and the floor-to-ceiling window of the bedroom just happened to be able to see the car parked outside the villa. Fu Yunlu walked to the front of the car, paused, felt Liang Guanyue's gaze, turned around and looked up at him.
Liang Guanyue was stunned. She didn't expect Fu Yunlu to look back. She didn't know how to respond for a moment, so she simply pulled the curtains, hoping that out of sight, out of mind.
Fu Yunlu had wanted to wave goodbye to him, but Liang Guanyue was quicker than him in closing the curtains, forcing him to lower his half-raised hand. He pursed his lips and remained silent for a long moment before forcing himself to collect his thoughts. He straightened his hat and said to the guards standing at attention, "Protect his safety. No one is allowed to enter."
"Yes, Your Highness."
Fu Yunlu stepped into the car and pulled all the shades. Only the darkness and the silence of being alone allowed him to breathe.
He should be thinking about how to talk to Hilda later and how to judge whether other officials are in a parasitic state, but Liang Guanyue's appearance when he spoke lingered like air.
This omnipresent atmosphere, even though there was only darkness and the silence of being alone, made Fu Yunlu feel suffocated.
The maturity and composure that he pretended to have in front of Liang Guanyue a few minutes ago were all shattered at this moment.
It's terrible.
It's terrible.
Fu Yunlu kept repeating this over and over again, his fingers gripping the fabric of the clothes on his abdomen so tightly that the metal buckle almost dug into his palm. He lowered his head and could hear his own trembling and heavy breathing in his ears.
After a long time, he drew the dagger from his waist and stabbed it towards his lower abdomen - but the sword was just an ordinary sword from ancient Earth, and the clothes were a product of Nino Bingya's high technology. Although they looked no different from ordinary clothes, ordinary metal obviously could not be easily penetrated.
Fu Yunlu certainly knew what he was doing. He hated himself and hated that he could not get Liang Guanyue's mercy to let the child stay.
"You're lucky, you know?" Fu Yunlu looked at his abdomen and murmured softly, "Because you have a father like me... who is shameless, selfish, vicious, and irresponsible, so death is a good thing for you."
"If you were like me, never being liked by others in your entire life, yet you crave for that love the most... that would be terrible." Fu Yunlu closed her eyes and continued, "So... you are very lucky, you know?"
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"I wonder what the executive officer meant by bringing so many of his personal guards to the military headquarters to see me today." Hilda lit a cigar, the smoke frivolously blowing in Fu Yunlu's face. Seeing Fu Yunlu's face visibly darken, she offered another one as if apologizing, "Look at me, I forgot the executive officer was smoking too. I was so focused on myself."
Fu Yunlu smiled and slapped her hand offering the cigar away, saying, "No, it's not convenient today." He said, "I'm not here to play around, Hilda. I hope you can correct your attitude. For example, put out your cigar."
Hilda taunted sharply, "How do you expect me to correct my attitude about asking me to retest my gender?"
Fu Yunlu said: "This shouldn't be a troublesome thing."
"It's not a bother." Hilda shook her head, "but there's no reason for it."
Fu Yunlu's tone was gentle but unyielding: "Commander Hilda, I hope you understand that I am the executive officer. As long as it involves internal investigations, my orders will always take precedence."
"Don't you think it's ridiculous that a nearly fifty-year-old Alpha is asked to retest his gender?"
Fu Yunlu replied briefly: "Keep it confidential."
Hilda said, "So I understand you're suspecting I've been infected by the Zerg?"
"I have reason to be suspicious of anyone."
Hilda continued, "But only suspect me?"
Fu Yunlu said calmly, "If the commander feels that I am targeting you, I can conduct a comprehensive re-examination of senior officials later to ensure the authenticity of the gender."
"But how can you be sure there are no infected people at the testing facility? They might tamper with the results."
“I will naturally prioritize ensuring the infection status of testing institutions.”
"How do you ensure that? Use another testing agency to test this testing agency?" Hilda laughed.
Fu Yunlu wasn't angered by this. He simply said, "The Central District has sent reinforcements, and they'll arrive at District 53 in two days." He looked down at Hilda and smiled calmly, "In other words, I don't trust anyone in District 53."
Hilda slowly stopped laughing.
"I don't want to force you," Fu Yunlu said, "so please cooperate with me, Commander."
"...Okay." Hilda spread her hands. "Although I'm very reluctant, I have no choice but to cooperate with you in retesting—"
"You thought I would say that?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Hilda's gun was already pointed at Fu Yunlu's heart. She said with some disdain: "This beta is good in every way except his height. It's not convenient even to point it at your head."
He even had the mind to tell a joke that wasn't a joke.
The guards behind Fu Yunlu immediately raised their guns and pointed them at Hilda.
Fu Yunlu smiled at this and said, "Do you need me to bend down and let your gun point at my head?"
"Why, you think I can't shoot?"
"Of course you will, but I won't die." Fu Yunlu said, "You should be the only one who can be beaten into a sieve." He said coldly, "Zerg."
"I'm confused," Hilda asked. "How could you possibly suspect me?"
Fu Yunlu didn't answer her, but instead asked, "How many Zerg are there in Area 53?"
Hilda raised the corners of her lips: "Do you want to hear the truth?"
"..." Fu Yunlu had a bad feeling in his heart.
"There are a lot." Hilda pulled out her right eyeball with her bare hands and turned the back of her eyeball towards him. "Look."
Fu Yunlu's pupils suddenly shrank - the back of the eyeball was actually covered with tiny insect eggs.
"Hilda is indeed a beta, but becoming a district commander at such a young age requires more than just military prowess," Hilda said with a smile. "Her family certainly understood this, and from the outset, they used their power to coerce and bribe the testing agency in District 53, taking considerable pains to fabricate her Alpha gender."
"About ten years ago, the protective shield of Area 53 was damaged. I wonder if you, the pampered prince, are aware of this."
Ninoy Alam has a total of 123 administrative districts, and districts beyond the 30th will have more or less similar news reports, not to mention District 53, which is half a garbage planet.
Fu Yunlu frowned, and Hilda understood: "It seems that he doesn't know about this."
After the shield was damaged, the Zerg launched a small-scale attack. At that time, Hilda led the fleet to expel the Zerg, but on the way to rescue a child besieged by the Zerg, her mecha was damaged and she was forced to jump out.
"That's when I took over her brain." Hilda pointed to her head with her free hand. "I spent a year merging with her, and this poor beta was completely unaware."
“…” Fu Yunlu clenched his fists.
Hilda said, "So you all guessed wrong."
Fu Yunlu was startled and seemed to understand what she was going to say next.
She gave a strange smile and said, "The 100th Administrative District is not the origin of this infection. The 53rd District is."
"I had already begun assimilating you before you even arrived at Area 53." The densely packed insect eggs on the eyeball in Hilda's hand suddenly began to hatch, and larvae, so tiny they were barely visible, broke out of the eggs. "Your Highness, the Fourth Prince, you have truly come to the right place."
Not good! Fu Yunlu realized that there might not be only Hilda as the hidden Alpha. She had been deploying in Area 53 for ten years, and she was even unaware of it!
"I know who found me."
Hilda pulled the trigger at Fu Yunlu: "Your little Alpha lover really has sharp intuition and mental strength comparable to S-level."
"I hated his probing, so I decided to get rid of him first."
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