So Handsome

Upon hearing this, Chu Sui instantly suspected he was hallucinating. He looked at Arno with a strange expression, even wondering if the other had gotten a new core, and asked in surprise, "Does it hurt?"

Chu Sui's question was a bit redundant. Anyone would feel pain after being stabbed by a knife; only a dead person wouldn't.

Arno heard this and lowered his eyes to look at his captured hand, then looked at the puzzled Chu Sui. His blood-stained fingertips trembled slightly, but he didn't answer his question. His tone was as quiet and indifferent as ever, like a tranquil blue lake deep in a dense forest, transparent yet unfathomable.

"...If it hurts, does Male Master care?"

If Chu Sui cared, then it hurt. If he didn't care, it was useless even if he were to die from the pain.

Chu Sui felt that the current conversation was a bit strange. He turned his head and looked away, deciding to avoid this question. He then led Arno out of the kitchen and happened to see the Housekeeping Robot scurrying around the living room. He directly stuck out his leg to block its path, "Hey, where's the first-aid kit?"

The Housekeeping Robot's red light flashed upon hearing this, as if it were thinking. Then it hugged Chu Sui's leg and rubbed against it twice, "Trash, trash, I love trash."

Pah, you're the trash!

Chu Sui indignantly pulled his leg back. Just as he was about to speak, Arno's low voice suddenly sounded by his ear, "Male Master, it's alright. It will heal soon."

It was just a small wound, and the blood had already started to clot. Thanks to the heaven-defying recovery ability of an S-class Zerg, the wound would begin to scab over in less than half a day and then heal completely.

Hearing this, Chu Sui subconsciously looked at his hand and, as expected, saw that the bleeding had stopped. A beat later, he let go of him, "Then... find some gauze and wrap it up."

He had a lingering strange feeling in his heart. After saying that, he returned to the sofa and sat down, then grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl and started to gnaw on it unconsciously. Arno remained silent. Following Chu Sui's wishes, he took out the first-aid kit from the storage cabinet and hastily wrapped the wound a couple of times. Just as he was about to go back and continue cooking, he heard Chu Sui say, "I'm not hungry."

Arno paused, looked at the half-eaten apple in his hand, and stated the fact calmly, "You are hungry."

Chu Sui took another crunchy bite of the apple, then threw the core into the trash can, hitting his mark this time. "I'm full from the apple."

Unlike the straightforwardness of the Zerg Race, he was an awkward person. He couldn't even bring himself to say a single word of concern, only able to beat around the bush by saying he wasn't hungry. Some things he couldn't figure out, so he simply stopped thinking about them, living a leisurely life tucked away in a snail's shell. He would sleep when full and eat when he woke up, which was very much in line with Chu Sui's usual style.

Arno narrowed his eyes, unconsciously tore off the gauze he had just wrapped around his fingertip, and then silently approached, kneeling on one knee on the sofa, "Male Master,"

Noticing the dip in the sofa beside him and the shadow that fell over him, Chu Sui's eyelid twitched. "Hmm?"

Arno suddenly smiled. "You are very good to me..."

But if you were this good to other Female Attendants, it wouldn't be such a wonderful thing.

Chu Sui didn't understand his unspoken words. He tapped his fingers rhythmically on his knee, resting his head on his hand, feeling secretly puzzled. Although he didn't treat Arno badly, it seemed there was still some distance from being "good." He felt strangely undeserving of that statement.

Chu Sui's thick skin rarely thinned out a bit. Just as he was about to speak, Arno suddenly raised his hand and brushed aside the stray hairs on his forehead. Chu Sui flinched from the icy temperature of his fingertips and asked with a raised eyebrow, "Are you cold?"

Arno didn't answer immediately. He cupped Chu Sui's face with one hand. His clear blue eyes looked somewhat deep at this moment, but his voice was as gentle as ever. "Did Male Master agree to Director Laijin?"

Chu Sui couldn't keep up with his jump in topic. "What?"

Arno: "The matter of taking Female Attendants."

Chu Sui finally understood. No wonder Arno had been acting so strange and absent-minded since he got back. It turned out to be about this matter all along. Indeed, whether human or Zerg, it was hard to escape the cliché of fighting for favor and being jealous.

Fighting for favor and being jealous...

Those four words, when applied to Arno, felt completely out of place no matter how you looked at it. Chu Sui gave him an inscrutable look, paused for a few seconds, and deliberately gave an ambiguous answer, "Maybe, I'm still considering it."

After he spoke, he reached out and pulled Arno into his arms. His long little finger casually played with the other's silver hair as he said suggestively, "After all, The Empire matched me with a Male Monarch as good as you. I believe the Female Attendants won't be too bad either, don't you think?"

The tips of his hair fell slightly before his eyes. Arno's eyelashes trembled uncontrollably. He probably never expected that Chu Sui was considering taking Female Attendants for this reason alone. He looked up at him, his voice tinged with a bit of earnestness, "But you can't guarantee that every Female Attendant will be to your liking, can you?"

Unexpectedly, Chu Sui shook his head. "No, they're all assigned by The Empire. You're quite to my liking, so the new Female Attendants probably won't be too bad either."

Arno subconsciously said, "That's because..."

The moment the words left his mouth, he suddenly realized something and abruptly fell silent. The tip of Chu Sui's ear twitched, and he immediately looked over, pressing, "Because of what?"

Arno had always acted cautiously and flawlessly. He probably never thought there would be a day he'd misspeak. Meeting Chu Sui's gaze, he paused imperceptibly, then explained, "It was just a coincidence..."

Seeing that he wasn't telling the truth, Chu Sui said out of boredom, "Then I'll just take a few more Female Attendants. Four or five, six or seven. Maybe I'll get another coincidence, don't you think?"

After saying that, he used his Light Computer to open the information list sent by Director Laijin. It was filled with single Female Zergs, and even included photos—delicate ones, cute ones, sunny ones. At first glance, it was more spectacular than an emperor choosing concubines. Those with a high match rate with Chu Sui were all ranked at the top.

However, Chu Sui's scalp tingled with just one look. Why were all the Female Zergs matched with him burly and robust Military Females, taller than him with fists bigger than bowls? Arno was clearly slender and beautiful. Wasn't the stylistic polarization a bit too much?!

Just as Chu Sui was hesitating whether to continue scrolling down, the Light Computer was suddenly turned off by Arno. At the same time, a familiar voice sounded by his ear, "Those match rates are all fake."

Hmm?

Chu Sui didn't hear clearly. "What's fake?"

Arno looked at him quietly, took the Light Computer off Chu Sui's wrist, and tossed it aside without a trace. He paused, then repeated, "Those match rates are all fake..."

"If high-ranking military officers have a Male Zerg they fancy, they can adjust the match rate themselves in the background. This increases their chances of being chosen."

Military Females are the backbone of The Empire. They have absolute priority in choosing a spouse. As long as their position is high enough, their background strong enough, or they possess sufficient military merit and wealth, they can adjust their match rate with a Male Zerg. It's considered a special kind of privilege.

After Arno finished speaking, he looked up at Chu Sui, expecting him to be very surprised. But unexpectedly, the latter just raised an eyebrow slightly, then stroked his chin thoughtfully and said, "So, you adjusted your match rate with me too?"

Arno: "..."

Lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own foot, that was probably what this was.

Back then, because of the Bloodline Riot Period, Arno was forced to withdraw from the front lines and was transferred to the Fourth Army to do clerical work. At that time, his family happened to be interested in a marriage alliance with the Capet Family, wanting him and his younger brother Dike to marry over as a Male Monarch and a Female Attendant.

Capet's reputation was notorious; even among the Male Zergs, he was the worst of the lot. Arno had only seen him a few times at banquets and knew that he was indeed as cruel and violent as the rumors claimed.

When he didn't know him, he had no thoughts about it. After getting to know him, he had even less.

Arno, like Alvin once did, only wanted to spill his blood on the battlefield as a warrior and die in a fitting manner. But when he rescued Chu Sui from the wild and unexpectedly learned that he had neither status nor background and would be matched with a partner under The Empire's arrangement, as if guided by a ghost, he adjusted his match rate with him.

Director Laijin was the one in charge of handling it.

Arno came from a noble family and was also The Empire's youngest Major General with distinguished military achievements. It wasn't difficult to make this happen. Thus, he logically entered into a partnership ceremony with Chu Sui and became his Male Monarch.

Even now, Arno couldn't explain why he had done it back then. He didn't know if Chu Sui minded, nor could he read his emotions. His fingertips unconsciously tightened, and he leaned forward, kneeling on the ground. "I'm sorry, I did indeed privately adjust my match rate with you..."

He lowered his head, and it was unknown what he was thinking. From Chu Sui's angle, he could only glimpse Arno's slender back and the crisscrossing whip scars hidden under his shirt collar, looking inexplicably ferocious against his cold, pale skin.

Chu Sui couldn't say he was angry. In any case, even if he didn't marry Arno, he would have married another Zerg. To be honest, among the Female Zergs, Arno was definitely in the excellent category. Even in an environment with many females and few males, he would certainly have no trouble finding a Male Master. In a sense, it was actually Chu Sui who had taken advantage.

He just couldn't figure out why Arno would do such a thing.

Chu Sui adjusted his posture, bending one knee slightly and propping his head on his hand to study Arno for a moment. Then he patted the spot beside him and said two words, "Come here."

Arno glanced at Chu Sui, unable to discern the emotion in his tone. He was silent for a moment, then got up from the floor. But in the next second, he was unexpectedly pulled into Chu Sui's arms. He only heard the latter frown and say, "So slow."

"Male Master..."

Leaning into the familiar embrace, Arno's eyelids trembled. He couldn't stop himself from hugging Chu Sui's waist and then slowly tightened his grip. The force was so great that even the wound on his hand split open. It was as if he were clutching something about to slip away, as he stubbornly asked the previous question in a low voice, "Are you really going to take Female Attendants?"

Through the clothes, Chu Sui could feel Arno's tense body. He lowered his gaze to the hand holding him and used a bit of force to pry it open. But then he saw fresh blood seeping from Arno's fingertips again. Acting on instinct, he brought it to his lips and licked away the blood before finally saying, "I won't."

Take what? One is already more than enough. A few more and he'd shorten his life by ten years.

The warm, wet sensation on his fingertip invisibly suppressed the sharp, stinging pain. Hearing this, Arno stared blankly at Chu Sui, somewhat unable to believe his words. His blue eyes were filled with shock. "You really won't take them...?"

How could a Male Zerg not take Female Attendants? No matter how good Chu Sui was, Arno had never had such a thought.

There were too many Female Zergs, so many that even if they died batch after batch, there would still be an endless supply of replacements. And there were too few Male Zergs, so few that even if a few disappeared, it would cause a huge loss to The Empire's population.

But now, Chu Sui said he wouldn't...

Chu Sui grunted in affirmation and raised an eyebrow. "I won't."

He held Arno's bleeding fingertip, brought it to his lips and licked it again. The faint taste of rust on his tongue wasn't unpleasant. Then he asked with a half-smile, "Was it because of this that you were unhappy?"

Hearing this, Arno's eyes grew slightly warm. He didn't speak, just silently buried his face in Chu Sui's embrace. After a long while, he finally said in a hoarse voice, "Thank you..."

It didn't matter if he didn't take many Female Attendants. He would work very, very hard to get promoted, and then protect Chu Sui well.

Chu Sui thought he was silly. Was such a small matter worth making himself so unhappy? He had been unbridled for so long that it was hard for him to understand how cautiously the Female Zergs in this world lived. He raised a hand to pinch Arno's chin and deliberately joked, looking into the other's blue eyes, "Tsk, other Male Zergs have so many Female Attendants. Me only taking you, isn't that a bit of a loss?"

After all, Arno used to be cold and aloof, and he didn't understand romance. He really wasn't Chu Sui's type. The fact that the two of them ended up together was truly subtle, it had to be said.

Hearing this, Arno glanced at Chu Sui, his eyelashes trembling slightly. He suddenly leaned in and kissed his lips. Unlike his previous restrained and light responses, this kiss was lingering and deep, like a dense silk net slowly tightening, making it difficult to escape.

Chu Sui found it hard to breathe and had to push him twice to get him away. He was a little surprised by Arno's actions, raising an eyebrow and sending a questioning look: "?"

Because of the previous movements, the tips of Arno's silver hair had fallen. His long eyelashes cast a small shadow under his eyes. His eyes, which were usually as cold as the moon, now held a bewitching affection. The profile of his face was handsome and distinct, completely different from his usual image.

Arno's lips were a deep red. He lowered his eyes and kissed him again, but when Chu Sui habitually returned the kiss, he turned his head and gently dodged it.

Arno's long fingers landed on his Adam's apple, then slowly slid down and undid a button, revealing a small patch of his fair collarbone. He lowered his gaze silently, then gave Chu Sui a fleeting kiss, his breath lingering by his ear, his voice low, "You're not at a loss..."

With a Male Zerg he disliked, Arno neither knew how to flirt nor understood pleasure. But with a Male Zerg he liked, he knew everything.

Arno doing this kind of thing with such a deadpan serious expression was more than just a little stimulating. Chu Sui thought to himself that it was indeed not a loss. Finding another Female Zerg exactly like Arno, both prim and cute, seemed like it would be very difficult.

Seeing that Chu Sui seemed to be in a daze, Arno gave his lip a light bite. Chu Sui realized they were in the living room, so he simply got up from the sofa, and without any warning, scooped Arno up bridal-style. He tested the weight, felt it was manageable, and headed straight upstairs.

"Male Master—"

Because of Chu Sui's sudden action, Arno's pupils dilated. He subconsciously gripped his shoulders, his heart skipping a beat. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Chu Sui say in a low voice, "Don't move."

If you move again, you'll fall.

Chu Sui rarely seemed to hold him like this. Fortunately, the latter was slender, so it wasn't too strenuous. As for the question he wanted to ask earlier, Chu Sui had completely forgotten about it, or perhaps felt it wasn't important. Why Arno wanted to be his partner, there could actually be many reasons for it.

For example, he was too handsome.

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