Chapter 56: Unable to let go of my tenderness towards them
The brightest room on the second floor of the palace belonged to Gray Saltz.
The handsome little prince was lying on the bed, fast asleep, his soft eyelashes moving, as if he would wake up in the next second.
Chizhi poked Gray's soft cheek.
No wonder only a shadow of the ancient tree remains. It turns out that Ning’s soul is not completely there.
"My brother is cute, isn't he?" Theo said, trying hard to look relaxed. "When he was little, he was very confused and didn't know whether he was hungry or full, hot or cold. It took me a lot of effort to coax him to eat."
The smile he forced slowly faded.
“I didn’t expect that the day he awakened his spiritual power, he would never wake up again.”
Thousands of dense eyelashes cast a light shadow, and she softly took over Theo's words.
"The ancient tree will change on the day its spiritual power awakens."
"Yes." Theo frowned. He could still remember the slight vibration of the ancient tree and the scene of Gray lying unconscious on the ground.
They tried many methods and used the most advanced technology in the empire and even the interstellar space, but they were unable to wake Gray up.
How can we——
"--Then it's time to wake up." He heard Qianzhi say.
"Qianqian?" Theo looked at the girl in surprise as she bent down and put her forehead close to the sleeping boy.
Countless threads of spiritual power were released from her body.
Her hands rested on Gray's chest.
The lemon leaf in the palm of his hand emitted a dazzling light and slowly sank into the boy's body.
The bright green color of the leaves spread from his chest to his entire body.
After a moment, the boy on the bed opened his eyes.
The clear eyes first showed a hint of green, and then revealed the brilliant gold of the Soltz family.
The boy blinked and smiled peacefully, just like always.
"Sister," he looked into Qianzhi's eyes, who was so close to him, "Look, I've always been here."
Even after tens of millions of years, even the soul has been worn away by loneliness, time, wind and rain, leaving it riddled with holes and almost annihilated.
The remaining soul of the young man will also linger in the same place.
Half of the soul entered the human world to search for the shadow of a thousand branches,
The other half of the soul still maintains the appearance of the ancient tree, waiting for the day when Qianzhi returns to this world.
"Gray." Seeing his brother wake up, Theo wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and wanted to go over and hug him.
But before he took two steps, he saw his innocent and lovely brother gently raised his head and kissed Qianzhi's lips.
Theo: ???
How come I have a love rival as soon as my brother wakes up?
"Wait, wait, wait—" The man's tall body squeezed to the bedside and stroked Gray's forehead.
He grabbed Qianzhi's shoulders again and carefully pulled her towards him, "Gray, you little brat, how can you kiss a girl casually!"
He stared at Qianzhi's watery red lips unwillingly and awkwardly, and his larynx moved.
"Qianqian, even if you want to kiss, you should kiss me, right?"
Even if you don't kiss the lips, you can kiss the cheeks or forehead.
"Your Highness," Qianzhi shook her head. "Ning-Gray may not understand emotions, but Your Highness should be able to tell that your love for me is just a side effect of pheromones."
In her opinion, the same was true for everyone else.
".It's different." Theo said softly.
He doesn't deny the initial role of pheromones.
But he had been comforted by other guides and felt their emotions when their spiritual power entered his mental picture.
Flattering, vain, and wanting to trample him under his feet.
More than that, it was the fear of him.
The fear of the huge, dark, and repressed painful emotions in the deepest part of his mental picture.
However, Chizhi saw the darkest thing in his heart.
But she held out her hand to him, telling him "she is here".
Her emotions were so clear and so gentle.
Like the warmest embrace, it weaves a dense and delicate web of inclusion.
Accept all his ugliness and all his pain.
Pheromones can attract false emotions from Sentinels, but they cannot disguise the most sincere love deep down in their hearts.
He never makes a mistake.
He likes her.
He loves her.
As the man thought this, the sweet scent of honey slowly emanated from his body, causing the girl to frown slightly.
Her vines suddenly stretched out, wrapped around his wrists, and climbed up the back of his neck.
The tiny branches scratched the cartilage in his throat and poked his still slightly swollen glands backwards, causing the glandular fluid to flow out.
"Look, His Highness Theo Soltz," the girl said expressionlessly as she used her vines to tease the most sensitive part of the man's body.
"My vines and my pheromones will cause you to secrete glandular fluid similar to that of a q, so at the moment when human adrenaline is at its highest, those feelings are wrong."
"Wait, Qianqian," the man panted, the vines fiddling with him, making it difficult for him to even explain.
The vines moved down deftly to touch his swollen and engorged pectoral muscles.
Beneath the bewitching surface, the girl's expression and words were cold: "So, Your Highness, make no mistake."
"Qianqian!" The man suddenly broke free from the whirlpool of lust, and his big hands with bulging veins grabbed the vines that had spread to his lips.
He came back to his senses and carefully placed them to his lips and kissed them.
The taste of the honey changed, becoming bitter and damp.
He regretted being so careless and nonchalant on the day he met Qianzhi.
If he could do a little better, wouldn't she trust him more?
Maybe she would like him a little more?
"Qianqian." One of the man's hands transformed into a sharp claw and stretched towards the back of his neck.
His peach blossom eyes curved as he looked at her, still looking gentle and affectionate, but also filled with a wet mist.
"If I had my glands removed and could still maintain the same emotions as I do now, would you trust me more?"
The sharp claw stabbed at the back of his neck mercilessly.
But the next moment he was tightly wrapped by the girl's arms, and her vines blocked his glands.
"You are the best sentinel in the empire. Don't act on impulse."
Qianzhi withdrew her arm, and her thick eyelashes drooped, covering her dark green eyes.
"Even if I lose the gland, I've only lost the means to attract the guide," Theo suppressed the joy that suddenly burst out from the bottom of his heart, his golden eyes sparkling. "Does this mean that Qianqian is a little worried about me?"
The skin on his arm still missed the warmth from Qianzhi's embrace, which spread to his rapidly beating heart.
Qianzhi did not respond to the man's burning gaze.
"If I were worried, I'd be worried that your pheromone scent would disappear," the girl replied calmly, turning her head away to change the subject. "I heard His Majesty the Emperor approaching."
Gray looked at Qianzhi's little face with her eyes lowered, and pursed his pale lips.
Sister, even though those broken and terrible memories have made you more disgusted with human beings, you try to deny that you care about them.
However, you are still the same as before and cannot let go of your tenderness towards them.
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