When Lu Zhao got up the next day, he was pricked by the ring on his finger.
He gradually realized that he was already a married man. If it weren't for the ring reminding him, Lu Zhao would have no sense of reality until now.
He and Bai Li got along too peacefully. Bai Li was a very interesting person. Lu Zhao felt that if Bai Li was still in the First Legion, he would like to be assigned to the same combat unit with Bai Li. Bai Li was much more interesting than most alphas in the legion.
Lu Zhao got out of bed, and as soon as he stood up, the sunshade of the floor-to-ceiling window automatically faded, and the morning sunlight of the empire filled the entire room.
The round-shaped robot butler came in after getting Lu Zhao's permission and handed him a set of newly prepared casual clothes on his head.
Lu Zhao glanced at his home clothes, which were the ones Bai Li had pulled out of his closet yesterday. Lu Zhao and Bai Li's marriage was more hasty than others thought, or the two of them had no idea how to deal with it. Even moving into this apartment was a temporary decision, and Lu Zhao himself had not even bought a property and had been living in the military dormitory.
Just as he was thinking about whether to ask Huo Cun to buy two sets of replacement clothes and send them over, he heard the robot butler make two "beep" sounds, and then said in a pretentious and coquettish voice: "Welcome home, master, mua!"
Lu Zhao was stunned.
Bai Li's voice rang at the door, and Lu Zhao realized that this was the greeting that Bai Li, his grandson, had set for the robot butler.
Bai Li looked like he had just come back from exercise, sweating all over. He stroked his wet bangs and walked to the door of Lu Zhao's bedroom and said, "Xianhua, you're awake."
"The reception words of this robot butler are quite good." Lu Zhao had no time to think about the awkwardness of newlyweds. He was embarrassed enough just by hearing the voice of the robot butler.
Bai Li couldn't help laughing, "How funny! If you can't stand it, just change it yourself."
"Can I change it?"
"Yes," Bai Li answered while drinking water, "I added your management rights last night. You can arrange this house as you like in the future."
Lu Zhao didn't expect that after all, this house was Bai Li's own property. Although he was a legal partner in name, their relationship was not a real partner relationship. Lu Zhao thought about it for a long time but didn't know what to say. He could only say, "Thank you."
"Go to the bathroom first. I'll wait for you to come out before washing." Bai Li nodded nonchalantly.
Lu Zhao responded and walked to the bathroom. When he passed by Bai Li, he subconsciously glanced at his legs.
Bai Li was wearing sports shorts today. His legs were long and straight. His skin was not very white. It was obvious that he had been exercising for a long time. His muscles were firm. Compared with some noble alphas who relied on strength-type nutrition liquids and rapid shaping training to build up muscles, he was more aggressive.
Lu Zhao's eyes lingered on the scar on Bai Li's left leg that climbed from the ankle to the thigh. The scar looked like a twisted meat centipede. Just looking at the scar made him feel unbearable pain. He didn't know how Bai Li survived that year.
Lu Zhao only took a look and walked straight into the bathroom without saying anything.
"You can take a bath, but you have to run the water in advance. I got up late today and forgot to do it, so you can use the quick clean." Bai Li's voice came from outside the bathroom.
The bathroom was quite spacious. Lu Zhao saw at a glance that the bathtub was built to accommodate two adults, which is rare in today's technologically advanced empire. Quick clean only takes three minutes to achieve good results and has become the life choice of most people.
Lu Zhao took off his clothes and stood in the quick clean room, still thinking about Bai Li's left leg. With such a serious injury, it's no wonder that he retired directly from the front line that year. Others didn't know about it, and they also dug out Bai Li's personal information and put it in public, poking at his scar.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhao thought of the injuries he had received in a recent battle to open up a deserted planet. Bai Li had lost a leg and had been stabbed with the wound ever since. He wondered how many people would talk about his injuries once they were exposed.
Lu Zhao subconsciously raised his hand and stroked his abdomen, sneering.
Only then did he remember that Bai Li should have read his physical examination report last night, but said nothing today.
Bai Li wiped the sweat from his head with the towel sent by the robot butler, and sat on the sofa to open his personal terminal. After quickly replying to a few work matters, he clicked on the physical examination report that Lu Zhao had sent him last night.
It was called a medical examination report, but it was actually a full-body examination of Lu Zhao after the war. Bai Li read the report carefully again. The report mentioned that due to exposure to unknown radioactive substances on the desolate planet, Lu Zhao's internal organs were damaged in many places, and it was very likely that he would be infertile.
Treatment methods are still under research.
Bai Li closed the report, leaned back and collapsed on the soft sofa. He rubbed his temples and muttered softly: "Is this what the original book said? Damn it."
From the moment Bai Li opened his eyes when he was born, he knew that he did not have a good pregnancy.
This world is exactly the same as a stallion novel he had read in his previous life, both in terms of settings and characters.
In the novel "The First Alpha in the Stars", the protagonist is an alpha with weak mental power at the beginning. He has been looked down upon by other people in the aristocratic circle since he was a child, and is also compared with his brother of the opposite surname who is also an A but exceptionally strong. By chance, the protagonist's mental power has been broken through, and he gradually emerged in the military world, but an accident also happened. The warship the protagonist was riding encountered interstellar pirates during a long-distance patrol. During the battle between the two sides, the protagonist's warship was shot down and forced to dock on a remote and desolate planet that has not yet been discovered by the Empire.
In order to return from the deserted planet, the hero started a long journey. His mental power became stronger and stronger. Countless omegas surrendered to him, and different races on different planets became his bed partners. The hero's stud career began.
And Lu Zhao is also one of the hero's harem in the novel. In the novel setting, Lu Zhao signed a marriage contract with the hero since childhood because his father had done a favor to the hero's family. However, due to Lu Zhao's low family background and the fact that Lu Zhao lived on a satellite planet when he was young, he did not have much contact with the hero, so the marriage contract has not been announced.
During the time when the hero was missing on the deserted planet, Lu Zhao was promoted and reused in the military with his own strength, and therefore the hero's family has not cancelled the marriage contract. Unfortunately, not long after, Lu Zhao was injured in a battle, and the hero's family immediately cancelled the engagement.
When Lu Zhao reached the age of marriage, the engagement was annulled, and he had to marry the alpha matched for him by the Empire's optical computer system.
This plot is not given much attention in the novel. It only says that when the hero returned to the Empire, he found that his original engagement partner had married his brother of a different surname who was injured and lame in battle. In anger, he broke into his brother's house who had already retired from the military to question him, and thus met Lu Zhao again.
In the novel, as one of the male protagonist's harem, many readers like Lu Zhao. Lu Zhao in the novel is an independent and powerful omega. He is cold and arrogant. With his strong strength, he crushes most of the alphas in the army. Unlike other people in the male protagonist's harem, Lu Zhao has a healthy body and handsome features. Such a strong omega fascinates the male protagonist. In the end, under the pursuit of the male protagonist, Lu Zhao divorced his legal partner and became one of the male protagonist's partners, and provided support for the male protagonist's development in the military.
When Bai Li read the novel, he felt that Lu Zhao's brain might have been damaged during the war. He was one of the readers who liked this character. Bai Li admired the independent personality of people like Lu Zhao, but he didn't expect that these highlights would become the background board to highlight the male protagonist's stud power in the subsequent plot.
And Bai Li, he is now the male protagonist's lame brother of a different surname.
When Bai Li realized what kind of rubbish character he was reincarnated into, he was already able to make soy sauce. When he thought about the plot he was about to face, Bai Li was furious.
In order to avoid the same fate as in the novel, Bai Li trained hard and became even tougher than the original setting in the novel a few years ago. He even joined the First Legion at a young age and missed the injury plot originally set in the novel. Seeing that he could indeed change his fate, Bai Li breathed a sigh of relief at that time.
Unexpectedly, not long after, he was shot down and injured in a battle while driving a mecha. Just like in the novel, his left leg was severely damaged and he could no longer drive a mecha.
Bai Li spent countless time and energy, but only managed to delay his plot by a few months.
After so many years, the feeling of frustration still makes him feel suffocated when he thinks of this.
"Aren't you going to take a shower yet?" Lu Zhao's voice interrupted Bai Li's recollection, "You don't look well."
Bai Li opened his eyes. Lu Zhao had finished his shower at some point and had already changed into the casual clothes Bai Li had prepared for him. He was standing in front of a French window not far away, looking at him, holding a half-drunk meal replacement nutritional liquid in his hand. Bai Li rubbed his face and replied, "Nothing, I played games too late yesterday."
Lu Zhao nodded and continued to look out the window.
The floor where this apartment is located is high enough to overlook the houses and streets below. The main city area is planned very magnificently, and most of the residents here are nobles or military personnel. You can see the latest high-end suspended vehicles shuttling on translucent tracks in the air above the city. Not far away is the empire's famous building "Sapphire", which is the office of most of the empire's senior officials. People in suits or wearing military badges come in and out of Sapphire.
"You seem to like it here." Bai Li came out of the bathroom quickly. He was too lazy to put on his shoes, so he walked to the window barefoot with a bottle of nutrient solution. The robot butler was busy following him to clean up the water stains he left. "You were here for a long time yesterday."
Lu Zhao thought for a while: "I can't say I like it. I just haven't had the leisure to overlook the main city area so early in the morning."
"I'm almost tired of it." Bai Li drank the nutrient solution in two or three sips. "I grew up in the main city area. Before my grandfather died, he took me to the top floor of sapphire several times. Looking down from there, the people below were so small that they were not worth mentioning."
Lu Zhao knew that Bai Li was talking about the previous head of the Bai family. The name of that old man Bai was particularly famous in the military, and he is still admired when he is mentioned.
It was a pity that Mr. Bai was not very happy with his offspring. He only had an omega daughter who married into the Tang family. Because the legal system of the imperial nobles stipulated that only alphas could inherit the family business, Mr. Bai had to ask his daughter to give the first alpha child the surname Bai, so as to inherit the Bai family's huge family business and generational glory.
The child whose surname was changed and who was taken to the Bai family to be raised as soon as he was born was Bai Li.
These thoughts only flashed through Lu Zhao's mind. He did not mention to Bai Li that he had been engaged before, and he did not know whether Bai Li knew about it. He took a sip of the nutrient solution slowly, and said, "The satellite planet where I grew up is not prosperous. The last time I looked down at it was on the spaceship I took on the day I was enlisting on the main planet."
Bai Li turned his head to look at him, his eyes flashing with a gentle smile: "What do you think, is it so small and not worth mentioning?"
Lu Zhao was infected by the smile in Bai Li's eyes, and the corners of his mouth relaxed: "Yeah, that's true."
Bai Li did not ask what the satellite planet where Lu Zhao grew up was like, and Lu Zhao did not elaborate on the gray hometown where criminals and interstellar refugees gathered.
The robot butler cleaned up the water stains on the ground. Bai Li raised his hand and threw the empty bottle of nutrient solution out. The robot butler rolled on the ground, and two short robot arms stretched out from its round body and caught the bottle before it hit the ground.
The robot butler said in a hypocritical and coquettish tone: "Master, you are so bad~ How can you tease me like this~"
Lu Zhao: "..."
Bai Li laughed wildly.
Lu Zhao wondered: "Our dormitory is also equipped with robot butlers, but not this type."
"A company I invested in is in this business, and this is specially customized by me." Bai Li laughed so hard, "Xianhua, which one do you like? I will customize one for you later and you can take it to the dormitory."
Lu Zhao wondered which unlucky company had an investor like Bai Li. Before he could say anything, his personal terminal rang.
As soon as he answered it, Huo Cun's voice came out: "Major General, I'm here."
"I'll go down now." Lu Zhao finished the last sip of nutrient solution, and saw that the robot butler had already gurgled over, raised two short hands with all his strength, and wanted to take the empty bottle in his hand.
Lu Zhao's mouth twitched, but he still gently put the empty bottle on his short hands. The robot butler may have been tortured by Bai Li for a long time. This was the first time he took over the garbage seriously. He didn't react before he let out a happy little scream after a few seconds, said "You are so nice", and held the empty bottle to throw it away.
Bai Li was laughing over there again, and Lu Zhao felt speechless looking at him.
"Flowers, you're so nice." Bai Li said in the tone of a robot butler, and threw a wink at Lu Zhao, "Are you going out?"
Lu Zhao nodded: "To the legion." He paused, and couldn't help but glance at Bai Li.
Before the marriage, Lu Zhao and Bai Li met and agreed on some conditions. Lu Zhao proposed to continue working after marriage, and Bai Li agreed without thinking, which almost made Lu Zhao's accompanying military officer who acted as a middleman stunned.
After all, in the traditional concept of the empire, most omegas have to resign and go home to prepare for pregnancy after marriage, and alphas are the main force of this society.
"Okay, beat up that kid Huo Cun for me." Bai Li sat on the sofa and began to process the information on his personal terminal.
Lu Zhaoren had already walked to the door, but stopped when he heard this: "Why beat him up?"
"He added my account last night and wanted to fight me at first, but then he saw my record and asked me to lead him. Good guy, he almost made me fall out of the top 200." Bai Li cursed, "Why do you recruit anyone in your army now? I was so angry that I couldn't sleep well all night."
Simulated War is the abbreviation of the Star Wars simulation game that Bai Li was playing yesterday. It is an old game, but because it is well-made and strictly operated, it is still the favorite of players in the Empire who like this kind of game, and has a large number of stable players.
Lu Zhao laughed twice, without saying anything good or bad, and left in a relaxed mood.
After he left, Bai Li lay down on the sofa again, muttering: "Hey, the real person is much more exciting than the novel."
Downstairs, Huo Cun was sitting in the suspension car. The travel terminal in the military suspension car was connected to the optical computer system of the Kingdom of God, and several internal notices from the military were playing.
Lu Zhao opened the car door and got in the co-pilot seat. Huo Cun immediately turned down the radio and greeted him, "Major General."
"Well, let's go." Lu Zhao nodded and threw the meal replacement nutritional solution he brought down to Huo Cun, "You haven't eaten anything."
Huo Cun's face was still sleepy. This adjutant was good in every way except that he loved to sleep. A beta could sleep even more than Lu Zhao, an omega. He always slept until the hour to get up, usually didn't have time to eat breakfast, and always forgot to bring nutritional solution.
"Thank you, Major General." Huo Cun was not polite. He smiled and unscrewed the seal of the nutritional solution, and his eyes kept looking Lu Zhao up and down.
Lu Zhao's expression was as calm as ever. Seeing Huo Cun staring at him, he asked, "What are you looking at?"
"Uh, nothing," Huo Cun shyly withdrew his gaze. He tried to hold back, but couldn't help asking, "Major General, how are you getting along with Mr. Bai Li?" If not, I'll call someone upstairs to give him a head-splitting blow.
In terms of fighting power alone, Huo Cun wasn't too worried that Lu Zhao couldn't beat Bai Li, but the physique of omegas meant that they were easily suppressed by alphas. Once alphas forcibly released a large amount of pheromones, coupled with strong mental suppression, the nature of omegas would make them surrender.
Lu Zhao didn't know how to answer. He couldn't say that he and Bai Li were just a fake couple and really innocent. After thinking for a while, he said, "He's quite interesting."
Huo Cun breathed a sigh of relief. He had a good impression of Bai Li. Although he also felt that Bai Li was not worthy of Major General Lu Zhao, Bai Li's attitude towards Lu Zhao made Huo Cun quite satisfied: "That's good."
"Did you fight a simulated battle with him yesterday?" Lu Zhao asked.
Huo Cun immediately got excited: "Speaking of this, I have to praise him. Major General, don't look at Bai Li's character, he is really good at fighting! I wanted to vent my anger for you, so I added his fighting account and prepared to beat him up. I didn't expect that he was actually a big shot in the main star area. Wow, he led me to crush several competitions yesterday. This is the main star area. Do you know how many masters there are! He led me! Crush! He is so good!"
Lu Zhao said "hmm": "Just now when I went downstairs, he asked me to bring you something."
"What?"
Lu Zhao raised his hand and slapped Huo Cun on the back of his head: "He thanked you for almost making him fall out of the top 200."
Huo Cun: "..." Bai Li is really a piece of shit.
Then Lu Zhao slapped him on the back of his head again.
Huo Cun was stunned: "Why is this happening again?!"
Lu Zhao said calmly: "I beat you this time because I think you are embarrassing."
Huo Cun: "..." You all are not good people.
Huo Cun drank the nutrient solution in one breath with hatred. The familiar taste filled his mouth. He smacked his lips: "Drinking this all day is really disgusting. I was hoping that there would be some big meals at the army group dinner this month, such as the crab beasts on Blake or the fruity sparrows on B06."
"Be content as long as you can fill your stomach." Lu Zhao ignored his nagging and started fiddling with his personal terminal, concentrating on processing some necessary paperwork.