Qi Yu was stupefied, lying on the floor, completely defenseless, unwilling to accept for half a day that he had rolled off the bed.
Even little zerglings don’t roll off the bed anymore, and he’s somehow sunk lower than even a zerglings now…
Lying on the ground, Qi Yu closed his eyes, pretending he was dead; he adamantly refused to acknowledge that such a clumsy zerg was him.
Then he thought of something even more mortifying; he didn’t know when Mo Yan had arrived, whether he had seen the scene of him rolling around on the bed. But… it didn’t matter anymore, anyway, he was already dead.
Completely hopeless!
A faint sound stirred, stimulating Qi Yu’s nerves, forcing him to open his eyes involuntarily. Through the crack under the bed, he saw that the door that had just been opened was already closed.
Qi Yu breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed his body stiffly lying on the ground, and couldn’t help but use his mental power to sense his surroundings.
There were no bugs in the room besides him. Sensing this, he exhaled in relief, thankfully, he hadn’t been completely embarrassed to death.
Using both hands and feet, he crawled up from the ground. The delayed pain hit him, and Qi Yu grimaced, easing it for a while before the pain in his body disappeared.
“What should I do?”
Qi Yu’s eyes flickered. Since Mo Yan had come up, it meant that the effect of the pheromones on him had disappeared. Should he go down now?
But that scene just now… Qi Yu wasn’t sure if Mo Yan would leave immediately if he saw him being ridiculed. He couldn’t help but think of the trouble later. As a lazy zerg, Qi Yu gritted his teeth, forcibly calmed down, and suppressed the thought of running away.
“I can only go down.”
“I can’t run away, I mustn’t run. If I run, all my previous efforts will be in vain!”
He clenched his fists to encourage himself.
Knowing that whether he stretched his neck out or kept his head down, he would face the same consequences, Qi Yu instantly forced himself to calm down and made a decision.
Standing in front of the mirror, Qi Yu patted his face, looked at the mirror with a cold gaze, made sure his expression was no different from before, then opened the door and went downstairs.
The female zerg was still sitting on the sofa, his face calm as if he hadn’t seen anything just now, without casting any strange looks at him. Seeing this, Qi Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He suppressed the discomfort in his heart, walked up to Mo Yan, lowered his head, and sincerely said, “General, I’m sorry, it was my mistake just now that caused such a situation.”
As he spoke, he bent his waist, his movements smooth, and his posture extremely low.
“If, if you feel offended by what happened just now, you can hit me.”
The matter just now couldn’t be glossed over. Since he couldn’t come up with a solution, let’s see what Mo Yan thinks. That’s Qi Yu’s current mindset; after all, he was the one at fault, wasn’t he?
Seeing the head extended in front of him, Mo Yan also felt a complicated emotion.
He thought his lord was someone who would calculate, even prepared for resistance. But he didn’t expect his lord to be stupid—reality and expectations were too far apart, so much so that he couldn’t believe it.
Which male zerg would roll off the bed because he wanted to apologize to a female zerg?
Moreover, which male zerg, after a female zerg saw his embarrassment, didn’t get angry and blame the female zerg, but instead calmly apologized?
He had never seen it before. From birth until now, he had never seen such a zerg.
Even the zerg in the Imperial Capital who claimed to pursue him always behaved high and mighty in front of him.
Only this zerg was silly in a somewhat adorable way.
Looking at the curly hair extended in front of him, Mo Yan noticed that the male zerg hadn’t had time to tidy his hair, even though his appearance before seemed to be someone extremely concerned about his image. At this moment, he came out with a head full of curls to apologize.
The slightly messy curls even discounted the majesty on the male zerg’s body, making him appear more adorable. Mo Yan thought: The male zerg should have come down to ease the embarrassment immediately. After all, if the scene just now fell on him, he would definitely be embarrassed too.
Thinking of this, he hesitantly raised his hand and tentatively reached out to the male zerg’s curly hair in front of him.
Feeling the touch on his head, Qi Yu felt a little nervous but forcibly controlled his instincts not to move. If it weren’t for knowing the high status of the male zerg, he wouldn’t dare to let Mo Yan touch his head.
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“It’s not a big deal, you don’t have to.”
Qi Yu naturally didn’t believe it. He raised his head and looked at Mo Yan, “But you were clearly… very uncomfortable just now.”
Seeing Qi Yu raising his head, Mo Yan withdrew his hand, but before he could fully retract it, it was caught by the sharp-eyed Qi Yu.
“Are you injured?”
Qi Yu forcibly flipped Mo Yan’s hand over, only to see several red and purple bruises on Mo Yan’s hand, the wounds were already split open, and the palm was covered in bloodstains. Seeing this, his voice became urgent in an instant.
“Roly-Poly, bring me the medical kit.”
Having his hand held by another hand that seemed somewhat weak, only the experiences he had in his childhood made Mo Yan’s body stiffen. He gently pulled his hand back, but didn’t succeed. Instead, he was unexpectedly caught in the male zerg’s blame.
“If you’re injured, you need treatment. Let me apply medicine for you. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to.”
Feeling the movement in his hand, Qi Yu tightened his grip on Mo Yan’s hand, afraid of injuring Mo Yan again. After some thought, he changed to holding Mo Yan’s fingers, then looked at Mo Yan’s wound with some pity.
Such wounds must be very painful, Qi Yu had never thought that someone could pinch him like this. He had been injured before, but he never dared to hurt himself.
How much force did this zerg use to injure himself like this!
Mo Yan: “…”
This zerg seems to be really problematic. Which female zerg doesn’t get injured? For him, these minor wounds were no different from itching. Only a delicate male zerg would feel like he had suffered greatly from these injuries.
But… this feeling wasn’t too bad. He had never enjoyed this kind of treatment before. Even the scolding he received when he was injured as a child was just that. Now, there was a zerg who cared about his minor wounds.
Seeing that the male zerg didn’t intend to let go, Mo Yan didn’t struggle anymore and allowed the male zerg to hold his hand. Qi Yu looked at Mo Yan’s wound, furrowing his eyebrows and occasionally glancing in the direction of Roly-Poly.
Roly-Poly’s movements were not slow, and he quickly brought over two… sachets of herbal tea.
“What’s this for?” Qi Yu held one sachet of herbal tea, looking at the words on the packaging that said it was for treating headaches and fevers.
[Herbal tea helps with your overall health.]
Qi Yu became even more puzzled, furrowing his brows slightly. With his fiery temper already somewhat irritable, he couldn’t help but hasten his speech, “I’m not sick, why did you bring me this?”
“I want medicine for treating external injuries.”
“Forget it, bring me the medical kit, I’ll find it myself, hurry up.”
As Qi Yu spoke, he was about to place the medicine in his hand on the nearby table. Before he could do so, Mo Yan swiftly caught it with his other hand.
“Lord, I’m fine, please treat yourself first.”
Qi Yu paused, looking puzzled, “I’m not sick.”
Mo Yan furrowed his brows, somewhat disapproving, “But just now, your steward said your face was flushed and that you were feeling uncomfortable, showing signs of illness, with a 60% chance of fever. You shouldn’t neglect your health, Lord…”
Case solved. Qi Yu was still wondering why Mo Yan saw him in such a… childish scene, but it turned out to be his own AI steward’s doing. Presumably, Mo Yan was worried about him, which was why he came upstairs after Qi Yu did such a thing. In other words, even after Qi Yu did something embarrassing, Mo Yan still cared about him.
Feeling a warm surge in his heart from this sudden concern, Qi Yu felt a bit at a loss. He pursed his lips and lowered his voice, “It’s nothing.”
“It’s talking nonsense. Do I look unwell to you?”
As he spoke, Qi Yu turned his head away from Mo Yan’s gaze, glaring at Roly-Poly in the distance with a somewhat fierce expression.
Mo Yan looked at the male zerg like this and couldn’t help but find him cute. However, the male zerg’s current appearance indeed didn’t seem like he was feeling unwell; instead, it seemed like he was blushing out of embarrassment. Perhaps that was why he was misunderstood by the steward.
Thinking of this, Mo Yan placed the herbal tea on the table without mentioning the matter again.
The medical kit was quickly brought over by Roly-Poly. Qi Yu took out a disinfectant cotton swab from it, first disinfecting Mo Yan’s wound, then applying a cream that wouldn’t irritate the wound on Mo Yan’s hand.
After applying the medicine, Qi Yu wrapped Mo Yan’s wound with gauze, tied a pretty bow on top, and only then did he let go of Mo Yan’s hand, which he had been holding for a long time. Mo Yan’s other hand wasn’t injured, but it looked quite miserable.
Qi Yu felt even more guilty. He couldn’t help but say, “If you’re uncomfortable, you can just tell me. There aren’t so many rules to follow here!”
Both hands were injured like this, it must be very painful. Although he had heard that military zergs had tough skin and strong regenerative abilities, who wouldn’t feel pain with such injuries?
He himself was extremely afraid of pain. Even a small wound would need some time to recover. If he were to be replaced by this zerg, he would have long sent the bug that forced him into such a situation to the hospital.
Mo Yan didn’t say anything, just frowned as he looked at his hand wrapped in gauze. Even when he almost didn’t make it several years ago, he only lay in the repair box for a few days. He had never used this thing before. Now, with such a trivial minor injury, he was being carefully wrapped up by the male zerg.
Although gauze couldn’t compare to the repair box, having it here on this fringe planet was already good. This planet was not like the capital, and… Mo Yan looked at the pattern on the gauze on his hand with a strange expression. How did it look like the kind that only male zergs liked?
After enduring and enduring, Mo Yan still couldn’t help but speak up, “Lord, I don’t think the gauze is necessary.”
Qi Yu, who was applying the medicine, took a look at the butterfly bow he had made and thought it looked quite nice. Ignoring Mo Yan’s protest, he said, “It’s okay, it will help the wound heal faster this way.”
Mo Yan: “…” It’s really not necessary. With his regenerative ability, would it be necessary to bind his wound like this when it would be healed by tomorrow without it?
But looking at the male zerg earnestly applying medicine to him, Mo Yan didn’t say those words in the end.
After applying medicine to Mo Yan’s other hand, Qi Yu glanced at the wound on Mo Yan’s hand. Mo Yan seemed to know what he was thinking and quickly withdrew his hand, “This one doesn’t need it.”
One hand being wrapped up like this was already enough. He could already imagine how he would be teased if someone saw it. There was no need to do the same to the other hand.
“Alright then.”
This wound wasn’t broken, so it didn’t need to be wrapped.
Putting down the gauze in his hand, Qi Yu’s thoughts returned to the issue from earlier. After looking at Mo Yan’s wound, his self-blame grew even deeper. Lowering his head, he said slowly, “You can hit me.”
According to the regulations of the zerg, even if he were to be hit, it shouldn’t be too bad. Although it would be uncomfortable to be hit, he could endure it for a while.
To get a bug to this point, and even injure it, what’s wrong with getting hit twice?
Qi Yu extended his hand towards Mo Yan and closed his eyes, preparing to be hit.
Truly foolish.
Mo Yan looked at the hand reaching out to him and his lips curled up slightly. With a hint of laughter in his eyes, he pretended to be serious.
“Are you sure? It’ll hurt a lot when I hit you.”
The male zerg was too delicate. With his current physical strength, getting hit would probably make him cry for a long time. Of course, it was even more likely that his whole arm would be disabled.
“Sure.”
Qi Yu’s voice sounded a bit muffled. After saying that, he closed his eyes.
Sighing inwardly, faced with the male zerg’s nervous expression, Mo Yan didn’t know whether to cry or laugh. But undeniable, his impression of this male zerg had completely changed.
Looking at the male zerg like this, he even felt a little happy in his heart. At least, the male zerg he was paired with wouldn’t make him feel disgusted like other male zergs would. Judging by the male zerg’s appearance, he wouldn’t force him to do anything in the future.
Gently patting the male zerg’s hand, Mo Yan said, “Lord, it’s done.”
Qi Yu only felt a gentle force in his hand. It didn’t even feel like a slap, more like a touch. After it was over, he heard a magnetic voice in his ear.
“Done?”
Qi Yu opened his eyes, feeling somewhat surprised.
“It’s already done.”
Mo Yan stood up. He was half a head taller than Qi Yu. When he stood up, Qi Yu could only look up at him. At this moment, Qi Yu looked up at Mo Yan with a bewildered expression on his usually cold face.
“But this…”
This is way too gentle. If there wasn’t any sensation in his hand, he might even think Mo Yan didn’t touch him at all.
Qi Yu blinked his eyes and couldn’t help but say, “How about you hit me a few more times?”
Otherwise, he still felt uneasy.
Mo Yan couldn’t help but suspect whether this male zerg was trying to take advantage of him, but when he saw the contract and the serious look in the male zerg’s eyes on the table, he dispelled that thought.
“It’s settled.”
“Alright.”
Although he still felt a little guilty, hearing Mo Yan say this, Qi Yu didn’t ask anything further. Anyway, he could always compensate Mo Yan in the future. Although Mo Yan might not appreciate it, he still had advantages, didn’t he?
Qi Yu turned back to his seat, and Mo Yan looked at his back, opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but looking at the male zerg’s back, he didn’t say anything.
He sat down again.
Qi Yu didn’t see Mo Yan’s hesitation. Just as he sat down, he saw his contract that he had just signed. He picked up the contract from the table and handed it to Mo Yan.
“Whether you believe it or not, I’m serious.”
“I will abide by the terms of this agreement, and I hope you will too.”
He had realized today that the female zergs in this world were always reserved and wouldn’t easily speak their minds, so he had to speak up himself.
Mo Yan didn’t doubt Qi Yu at this moment. He took the contract, signed his name on it without hesitation, and looked at the two names side by side. He fell silent for a moment.
Although they should have been the two closest names, at this moment they seemed to be separated by a great distance, as if they were completely unrelated. The fantasies of childhood had disappeared with the passage of time. In the future, he would have a lord.
After signing his name, Mo Yan handed the two contracts back to Qi Yu. Qi Yu took one of them and gave it to Mo Yan. Mo Yan took it and held it in his hand.
With the result he wanted, Qi Yu’s mood improved slightly. He looked at Mo Yan and asked, “Do you have any requests, General?”
After all, they would need to be together for five years. Although they didn’t have to eat and live together, they were still nominal partners for these five years. In the past, Qi Yu wouldn’t have asked this question, because he knew that saying this meant trouble, and it was clearly stated in the agreement. But because of his guilt just now, Qi Yu still asked.
Taking advantage of the identity of a male zerg to make things easier for Mo Yan was also possible. Although he wasn’t sure what privileges a male zerg had, why did the empire treasure male zergs so much?
“Yes.”
Mo Yan was surprised by Qi Yu’s concern. Thinking of his own situation, he didn’t hesitate either.
“Lord, I need five days before I can accompany you to register as partners.”
After saying this, Mo Yan looked at Qi Yu, waiting for Qi Yu’s response.
He was executing a mission on a planet not far from here, and at this moment, he only came out because of the urging of the Imperial Central Brain. If he is still here after the Imperial Central Brain System refreshes the match list, there would be trouble on the other side.
Since neither party places much importance on this match, it should be permissible for him to be a bit presumptuous.
Mo Yan thought Qi Yu would ask a question, but to his surprise, Qi Yu simply nodded without asking anything, “Okay.”
Mo Yan was silent for a moment, feeling a faint guilt rising in his heart. He took a deep breath and sincerely lowered his head, “I apologize, my lord, I indeed have urgent matters to attend to.”
The rumors behind his action would inevitably abound, especially rumors about male zergs. It was precisely because the male zerg felt guilty towards him that he dared to speak these words. But even if the male zerg did not feel guilty, he still needed to say what should be said, for the sake of their future interactions…
Qi Yu shook his head, understanding what Mo Yan meant. What others say doesn’t concern him much, “General, you need not apologize to me. Arrange everything as you see fit. How about this, let’s exchange contact information, and you can contact me directly whenever you come, I am always available.”
Qi Yu was about to access his device, but then remembered he had left his device on his bed, showing a slightly embarrassed but apologetic smile to Mo Yan.
“You add me instead.”
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