Title is 芷玫花
芷 comes from Gardenia jasminoides, commonly known as gardenia and cape jasmine
玫 comes from Rosa rugosa, it is a species of rose native to eastern Asia, in northeastern China, Japan, Korea and southeastern Siberia. It can also refer to fine jade (of which you can recall Jiang Ci’s name)
花 is literally flower
It’s a fictitious plant made by the author so I’ll translate it as Gardenia Rose Blossom
A month later, at the headquarters of the Empire’s First Legion, Vice-Admiral Li Ya entered the room.
“Legion Commander, at present, we have completely sealed off the central area of the ancient battlefield ruins. The Second and Third Legions bases in the outer space near Earth have been completed, and the Ministry of Defense has also sent a considerable number of personnel to prepare for the construction of a new Skynet defense system around Earth.”
The revival of the Zerg in the ancient Earth battlefield ruins was kept secret from the Empire’s citizens to prevent panic. However, such a grave threat to all of humanity couldn’t be hidden from the Imperial Family and the Church. Moreover, considering the magnitude of this crisis, Commander Zhou Jiuya saw no need to keep it a secret and immediately reported it to the Capital Planet. These measures were not surprising.
“Let them proceed,” he said.
Rustle
The pencil lightly traced over the paper, outlining the deep eyes and brows of the young man. Despite humanity’s advanced technology, Zhou Jiuya still preferred using the most primitive methods.
…He was still thinking about what happened on the anniversary of Marshal Huo Chao’s death.
At that time, when Wan Jiang had been drawn into the Zerg swarm, making Zhou Jiuya momentarily believed that the apocalypse from the past had returned. Then, at that very moment, he saw the black mecha that had initially escaped the Skynet suddenly turn back.
The other party made a strange gesture.
And just after that second, the seemingly unstoppable Zerg had unexpectedly ceased their attacks, as if they had received an irresistible command, and they quietly returned to the underground.
—This was even scarier than news of heavy casualties.
Because it fully confirmed that the mysterious young man could indeed control the Zerg. What was even more important was that no one knew how many Zerg were still lurking beneath the surface. Perhaps what they had witnessed that day was just the tip of the iceberg.
Crack!
The carbon pencil broke.
Zhou Jiuya closed his eyes and crumpled up the drawing paper on the table, tossing it aside. Seeing that his vice-admiral was still standing there without leaving, he frowned and asked,
“Is there something else?”
Li Ya hesitated for a moment before speaking,
“Lord Legion Commander, Major Jiang Ci… has awakened. Do you want to go and see him?”
“—He’s finally awake?”
Zhou Jiuya’s brows relaxed for a moment, and he immediately prepared to leave. The vice-admiral breathed a sigh of relief and quickly followed with a smile on his face.
“The starship back to the Capital is ready. Young Master Jiang has suffered such severe injuries this time. If he sees you personally coming to visit, he definitely won’t be angry about what happened before…”
But after walking a few steps, Zhou Jiuya suddenly stopped.
“Who… Who said Laozi is going back to the Capital Planet to see him?”
The vice-admiral was stunned. “Uh?”
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He turned around to look at Zhou Jiuya, who had taken those few quick steps, and appeared puzzled.
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“If the kid is awake, he’s awake. What’s there to see? Let the doctor treat him properly. Without my orders, no one is allowed to go in!”
“Yes.”
Capital Hospital, a high-end single-patient ward.
Knock, knock.
After two light knocks, the heavy metal door silently slid open, and Dr. He walked in with his hands in his pockets.
“Oh, you’re finally awake?”
Dr. He, a skilled Beta doctor with short chestnut hair, silver-rimmed glasses perched on his nose, who had features not as overly refined as an Omega in appearance, had a polite and dignified manner that made people feel naturally close to him.
At the moment, the weakened omega major was dressed in a plain, loose-fitting patient’s gown. He sat in a chair, his back straight as a bamboo, and the light from the door fell on his silver long hair, casting a beautiful, pearl-like shimmer.
The room was filled with a pungent scent of suppressants, which was somewhat similar to the smell of hospital disinfectant. It was a scent that could be highly repulsive to Alphas, causing them to subconsciously keep their distance.
“Tsk, ten suppressants. That’s really going overboard,” commented He Zhun, a Beta himself, but even he couldn’t help but furrow his brow in response to the overpowering suppressant scent.
“If it weren’t for me, your brother, rushing here as if my life depended on it, you’d be cold as a corpse right now.”
“…”
From the outcome, Bai Ze’s advice had been correct. If He Zhun hadn’t arrived in time, Jiang Ci might have truly died. However, if given a second chance, Jiang Ci’s choice wouldn’t have changed.
The just-awakened omega was very weak, his skin almost translucent from paleness. After a moment of silence, he slowly spoke, “…Consider it that I owe you my life.”
Jiang Ci lowered his head, his dense silver eyelashes hanging quietly, casting a shadow in his crimson eyes, that looked like a cluster of forbidden roses growing in a dark castle—cold and exquisite.
Even though they had grown up together since childhood, He Zhun was still taken aback. However, he didn’t let it affect him much and just shrugged, used to such reactions.
“Forget it. If you could reduce my workload someday, that would be the best reward.”
“Did you bring what I asked for?”
He Zhun spread his hands. “The other party used mental suggestion, and the new recruit who was taken hostage had no defenses, so I couldn’t get a profile portrait from the side,”
“But at the time, the Legion Commander had a face-off with the other party. If you apologize and smooth things over, maybe your uncle…” He added.
Jiang Ci gave him a cold look, and Dr. He immediately fell silent, only sighing in his heart, “Wealthy families have a lot of rights and wrongs.”
Zhou Jiuya was Jiang Ci’s father’s half-brother from a different mother. Since Jiang Ci’s parents had both passed away over twenty years ago, Zhou Jiuya had become the temporary guardian of this precious omega child.
Zhou Jiuya had only raised Jiang Ci for eight years. Then, for some unknown reason, Zhou Jiuya had suddenly volunteered to terminate the guardianship and sent him back to the Jiang family. So, the admiration and affection young Jiang Ci once held for his uncle turned into resentment after being abandoned.
“Don’t be upset,” He Zhun said, resting his chin on one hand. “Although the Legion Commander confiscated Bai Ze and suspended you from your job, it’s all for your own good.”
“I know,” Jiang Ci replied. He knew, and precisely because he knew, he felt anger and humiliation.
After all, whether it was an omega with a disrupted heat cycle or an omega weakened from taking suppressants, it was safer to be confined in a hospital.
“Anyway, let’s get back to business.”
At this moment, He Zhun leaned in and spoke with a grave expression, his voice low, “I turned off the surveillance before coming in. There’s some unfortunate news…”
Jiang Ci immediately realized what he wanted to say: “Is it related to the suppressants?”
“Yes, do you remember when I explained the principle of the new suppressants to you before?” Hei Zhun nodded.
Jiang Ci nodded, “After an omega matures, there are only two possibilities if they don’t have heat cycles anymore. The first is gland removal, and the second is… pregnancy.”
“Well, the new suppressants contain a non-toxic substance similar to pregnancy hormones called ‘Gardenia essence.’ It can put you in a state similar to a false pregnancy, completely eliminating heat cycles. However, unlike real pregnancy hormones, it won’t cause pregnancy symptoms in your body.”
“The effects of this drug are not only better, but it also has almost negligible harm to an omega’s body. The only thing is…”
Hei Zhun closed his eyes as if resigning to a fate,
“The only thing is that it’s extracted from Gardenia… Rose Blossom.”
“Gardenia Rose?!!”
Jiang Ci’s eyes widened slightly, showing an expression of shock and seriousness.
That was a flower species that has been ordered to be exterminated since the founding of the Empire. According to imperial law, anyone found cultivating it, even if it’s just carrying a seed, must be sentenced to death.
The reason it’s considered such a serious crime is that this flower emits a unique scent that is deeply loved by the Zergs.
The flowers of Gardenia Rose Blossom resembled Earth’s native roses, but they were even more vibrant and beautiful. Unaware human explorers discovered this flower, thinking it had high medical and ornamental value. They brought it back to Earth, only to attract the Zergs before its medical value could be fully explored. As a result, even after the Zergs were exterminated, this remained the most severe criminal law in the Empire.
He Zhun, realizing he couldn’t hide it anymore, lowered his head in resignation. “Who would have thought those monsters would come back to life after more than three hundred years?”
Jiang Ci stood up abruptly, his expression a mixture of shock and anger. “How dare you… How dare you touch that thing?!”
He Zhun ran his hand through his hair, looking distressed. “No, no, the most pressing issue right now isn’t that. The new suppressants haven’t been fully developed yet. In the month you’ve been unconscious, I finally figured out its so-called side effects. When an omega is injured, it triggers intense neural pain and an even stronger heat.”
“But when you violated medical advice and injected too many conventional suppressants at that time, it caused an abnormality in the Gardenia inside your body… Once the conventional suppressants metabolize in your body, the altered Gardenia will…” He Zhun paused, his voice dropping to almost a whisper. “Cause various… false pregnancy symptoms in you.”
Jiang Ci: “……?”
“?????”
False… pregnancy symptoms?
Cracks appeared on his once cold and beautiful face.
In that moment, Jiang Ci couldn’t help but recall some pregnant omegas he had seen before. During pregnancy, omegas developed a stronger sense of dependence on their alpha partners than during their heat cycles. Their emotions were completely uncontrollable, and their bodies became just as sensitive as during their heat cycles.
The most troublesome aspect was that their bodies would undergo various changes in preparation for childbirth and breastfeeding. It wasn’t too bad for female omegas, but for male omegas…
Jiang Ci took a deep breath.
Between killing this friend who seemed to do nothing but cause trouble and sitting down to calmly find a solution, he pressed his throbbing temple and ultimately chose the latter.
“…So what do we do now?”
The chestnut-haired Beta doctor extended his index finger.
“Find an alpha…”
Without waiting to hear the rest, Jiang Ci coldly broke his friend’s finger, saying, “Just get to the second option.”
“Gah…”
Gasping in pain, He Zhun finally, under his friend’s murderous gaze, muttered softly, “If I find another one… I might be able to find an antidote.”
“…”
Jiang Ci struggled to suppress his anger and asked, “Now that the revival of the Zerg has been reported to the royal family and the Church, and the whole Earth is under martial law and lockdown during this sensitive time, where can we find it?”
He Zhun raised his head cautiously, revealing a guilty yet somewhat proud expression, “But… I’ve already found it.”
He opened the optical brain on his wrist and projected an image of a gray planet.
“Winter Day Planet,”
He said quietly, adjusting his glasses and continuing,
“The underground city.”
<hr>
Meanwhile, at the Imperial border on the Winter Day Planet.
In the gloomy skies, numerous garbage transport starships shuttled back and forth daily, creating vast mountains of waste. The Imperial citizens only knew it as an inconspicuous periphery junk planet, but in reality, it was the largest and most complex gray area of the Empire. The surface was covered with intimidating trash mountains, but underground, hidden away, lay a massive city rivaling the Imperial Capital.
This enormous underground city concealed countless undisclosed black-market dealings within the Empire.
Buzz, buzz, buzz…
A garbage ship hovered in mid-air, its massive cargo bay door opening to release torrents of waste cascading downward. Unnoticed, a small mech accompanied the trash, seamlessly blending into the heaps of garbage.
Thud…
The mech landed, and a figure cloaked in tattered black fabric emerged from the cockpit. With a casual lift of their hand, the colossal black mech immediately transformed into a signet ring, gently encircling the person’s little finger.
After all, the endurance of mecha was not as good as that of the starship, so the First Legion’s search was only within the area that a mecha could reach. No one would have thought that the mysterious juvenile delinquent had actually hid in a garbage ship and reached the border of the empire.
Huo Xianfeng adjusted his shoulder slightly, squinting his eyes as he gazed at the scattered mounds of trash in the distance.
“I’ve finally…”
He curled his lips, saying,
“…arrived.”
M1zushi: fanart from Weibo!
We now have 10 extra chapters. You can donate on ko-fi and I’ll upload it (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤
The author lied to us😭😭 Jiang Ci hasn’t yet pinned Huo Xianfeng to the wall
This made me laugh😂
i’m sorry it’s my fault ;w;
raws said chapter V and my dumb ass translated it to chapter 5 but it’s actually vip chapters (which starts at ch 20)
but kabedon starts at chapter 18
lmao 😂
Hahaha
I miss Ossa already. Waiting obediantly for the kabedon.
I miss it too! 😞
Same 🙃
Thank you for the chapter!! ><
Wow those arts !!!
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Thank you for the chapter
Omg those fanarts are amazing;
Are Huo Huo and Jiang Ci gonna meet again at Winter Planet?!
The fanart is awesome!
Thanks for the chapter 💞
Jian Ci fan arts are so pretty, hello?!
Jiang*
I agree… Too pretty… If the author didn’t say that Jiang Ci is a male, I would have thought that he’s female by seeing that fan arts 😶😶 i suddenly thought of kazuki cough
Why can’t I see the fanart? Woo…..
You can try checking it now! Images are starting to work!
Lovely art 😘❤️😘❤️
the arts are so cool!
also the lighthearted summary but serious story remind me of little mushroom lmaoooo
thanks for the chapter!