Home of the Zerg

by Usui Takumii

not mine, exiledrebelsscanlations. Beware Bl.

5. 41 to 57

Huan Ye still didn't know what was going on, and he was still at the stage where he didn't know the words 'ring' and 'wedding', so Xi Ran and Huan Xiu were going to talk to him about it later.

During the whole breakfast, Xi Ran was too stiff-faced to smile, he didn't look like he had just been proposed to, mainly because his humiliating post was seen by Master, and there was even an exchange, but he didn't know anything about it.

Master liked to tease him about such trivial things and Xi Ran was a little used to it.

The ring had not been taken off once, since Huan Xiu put it on his hand last night. So it was naturally brought to the training camp, the sharp-eyed Zerg guys noticed the ring right away. However, they couldn't talk about it during training, so they kept it to themselves. Finally free during their lunch break, Xi Ran was surrounded.

"Instructor, why are you wearing a ring today?"

"It wasn't there last time!"

Xi Ran suddenly had a large group of chatty young Zerg children surrounding him and was speechless. His boss at the next table kindly came to his aid, "It's obvious that it's from his Master."

Naturally, there was an outpouring of amazement and heckling.

"There will be a wedding ceremony, right?"

The Zerg were very sure, after all, looking at such a beautiful ring, it was clear that Huan Xiu must be very fond of Xi Ran, so there would definitely be a wedding ceremony. They still didn't know that Huan Xiu made the ring himself, otherwise their worldview may be turned upside down.

Xi Ran had to reply that the time had not been set yet, and finally returned to this week's assessment.

"I'm going to be accompanying you guys to the assessment as well, so I hope you can focus on that."

The other instructors chimed in, "Yes, there will be no wedding invitations for poor performance on the assessment."

"No ah—"

"Why are we reminded of this again…?"

The cafeteria was filled with wailing.

After the meal, the young Zerg returned to the outdoor area, leaving only a few of the instructors to rest for a while. The older female Zerg were much more calm and quiet than before, congratulating Xi Ran but not prying deeper. After, Xi Ran went to his boss to thank him for helping Huan Xiu find the body of the mecha he once had.

Xi Ran was shy to mention voluntarily, but Huan Xiu quickly made arrangements on his side. He knew that Xi Ran would go to the field together with the assessment team soon. After that, it was the time for the batch of Zerg to officially report to the military department and the next batch of recruits to fill in, so there was a small gap and it was the right time to apply for the honeymoon vacation.

However, just after putting on the ring, supposedly the most intimate time for two people, Xi Ran was about to go on a business trip, which made him somewhat reluctant.

"Master, you can cook for yourself for the next few days, don't work too hard, you can order meals. There are also the household chores…" Unlike himself, Xi Ran said a lot to Huan Xiu the night before the business trip, and he repeatedly told him, "Leave the household chores alone, I will do them when I come back."

"I've got my hands and feet, don't worry about it." Huan Xiu turned his head and kissed Xi Ran's cheek, which succeeded in making him stop telling him to not do anything.

Xi Ran turned his head to look at Huan Xiu and hesitated for a moment, as if pondering how to express himself, but in the end he could only say simply and clearly, "…I will miss you."

"Can I video call you tonight?"

Xi Ran nodded hurriedly, "This time I'm just going to accompany them, my communicator can receive messages any time."

It was the first time since they met and lived together that they had been apart. Even though it was only three or four days, it was clear that they were not used to it.

Huan Xiu also experienced getting up early every morning to cook breakfast, picking up Xiao Ye on the way to and from work, and then coming back in the evening to cook dinner. He already felt tired on the first day. So this is what it was like how Huan Ye grew up and the reason he was so independent. He had to wonder how hard it must have been for Xi Ran to bring up Xiao Ye alone.

Touching the empty side of the bed, Huan Xiu made a video call to Xi Ran, just like he had promised the day before. There were only a handful of instructors there, so they were generously given single rooms. Although it was a little small, he could talk with Huan Xiu without worries. Xi Ran was quite satisfied.

After talking for a while and describing Huan Xiu the place and the assessment, Xi Ran looked a little tired and his eyelids started fighting to stay open.

"Sleep if you're sleepy."

"No, I'm okay." Xi Ran forced himself.

"We'll talk tomorrow night. You have to get up early tomorrow to accompany the army Zerg in the assessment, right?"

"…Okay. Strange, I didn't do much today either."

Huan Xiu smiled, "I'm sure you're tired after a long day of traveling."

Xi Ran was a bit helpless, "It's true that after retiring from the military, my training wasn't kept up, and my physical quality is not as good as before."

They agreed to contact each other earlier tomorrow night and ended their call.

Xi Ran had already washed up and went to bed, but when he hung up the phone and lay down, sleepiness quickly set in. He was so tired and dizzy lately, he wondered if the old injury was still not healed. Xi Ran calculated the time in his head. A few months ago, the doctor said that he did not need to go back for a follow-up, he just needed to take his time and he would be fine. He did not take strenuous exercise recently, nor did he suffer from any injuries, so he should not have any future problems.

Xi Ran had never been very concerned about minor aches and pains, not to mention at this moment his heart was still sweet thinking about the wedding, so he subconsciously didn't take it seriously, deciding to wait until the wedding was over and go back to the hospital if he wasn't feeling better.

The venue for the wedding ceremony had already been booked, but Huan Xiu didn't know much about wedding invitations, so he searched on the internet and found that there were many templates on the government website that could be directly selected and delivered on the same day. So he chose a simple style.

The wedding didn't need to be grand, just a few friends and acquaintances would suffice, and Huan Xiu wasn't really the interpersonal type. He prepared a few copies for his colleagues and superiors in the research institute and put the rest in a drawer to be given to Xi Ran.

As for his cousins, Huan Xiu did not plan to invite anyone. After half a year, his cousins never bothered him anymore, which made him very satisfied. It was true, even if you wanted to make trouble, you had to be on top of it. They didn't have any interaction anymore, so they couldn't be bothered to visit him.

In order to avoid being interrupted or being blamed for being impolite, Huan Xiu wrote an email to his cousin in advance, informing him about his wedding. Huan Xiu's cousin felt humiliated by the fact that Xi Ran was matched with Huan Xiu, and he even wished he had no such relatives at all. Of course, he was not willing to attend the meeting.

The next day, Huan Xiu got home and worked until the evening, and when Xiao Ye went to bed, Huan Xiu finally had time to lie down and rest. As he sent a request for the video call, the other side connected almost within a second.

"Master," Xi Ran seemed to have waited for Huan Xiu's call, the anxiety faded from his face and showed a little joy.

"Waiting for me?"

Xi Ran nodded, "I was worried that you were doing something else."

Huan Xiu told him about how he was working on the wedding invitations and let him decide how many to send out when he returned. While he was saying this, Xi Ran kept looking a bit distracted, and Huan Xiu reached out and shook his hand in front of the communicator. "Is your mind wandering?"

"Ah, no, I heard that," Xi Ran responded evenly, "I just feel it is a little unrealistic."

Huan Xiu laughed, "The ring has been on for a few days."

Xi Ran looked down at his finger, it was the ring that Huan Xiu had given him, and he couldn't help but look at it for a long time every day for the past few days, turning it in a 360 degree circle admiringly. He was embarrassed to stare at it in front of his superiors and the soldiers in the training camp, but he always lingered a little longer before he looked away.

Xi Ran thought for awhile before saying, "It's like you're here when I'm wearing it."

"It does?" Huan Xiu teased him jokingly, "So if you touch yourself, won't it be the same as if I touched you?"

Xi Ran hesitated for a moment and answered him, "There is still a difference between them…"

"What's the difference, have you tried it?"

"…I haven't."

Huan Xiu laughed and said, "Well, you won't know until you try."

"…" Xi Ran moved a little stiffly, and was clearly unfamiliar with touching himself, and simply put his hand on his chest.

"What can you feel through your clothes?" Huan Xiu leaned in closer and lowered his voice, "Aren't you the only one in the room? Take off your clothes."

Xi Ran could see in Huan Xiu's eyes that he was slightly aroused, a fact he knew only too well after living with him for some time. He obediently took off his shirt, exposing his bare chest, leaned back against the head of the bed, and looked at the communicator uncomfortably, "So…? Master sees this every day when I'm at home, so there should be no surprises."

"The feeling is different through this." Huan Xiu was sure that Xi Ran didn't understand the benefits of the so-called 'phone sex'.

"But Master, I can't help you." When Xi Ran saw Huan Xiu's excited look, the first thing he thought was, 'I'm not around, so Huan Xiu can only touch it by himself'. This was a fatal blow to the female Zerg.

"No. If you listen to me, you'll be helping me."

Since he said so, Xi Ran certainly had no doubt about it. As for the mention of Huan Xiu, 'usually two people sleep together, but I am not used to being alone today'. Xi Ran blamed himself and felt it was really wrong for him to leave his Master at home on business trips, so he obeyed the demands of Huan Xiu.

Only, Huan Xiu's plan wasn't going so well.

"This?"

"Here? …?"

The whole time, Xi Ran was receiving 'instructions' from Huan Xiu, but there was not much ambiguity in his actions. Because he cared so much about what Huan Xiu said, he obviously wasn't enjoying it.

Huan Xiu sighed, "Just imagine how it usually feels when I'm touching you."

"…" Xi Ran swallowed nervously, trying to remember.

"Relax a little…" It's hard to think with this level of mental tension.

"Sorry." Xi Ran was embarrassed.

"Don't apologize," Huan Xiu smiled helplessly, "Is looking at the video window distracting you? Turn off the screen and leave only the sound on."

Xi Ran did as he was told.

"Move your communicator closer, right next to your pillow, just like when I sleep next to you…"

Xi Ran lay down, set his communicator to the side and was listening to Huan Xiu's voice, having the illusion that the other person was close by. Even though they had only been apart for two days, a sudden feeling of wanting to go home in the next second filled him.

"What did you used to do yourself?" Huan Xiu suddenly asked. He was of course asking about ages ago, a time when Xi Ran was still very young, at the training camp. The female Zerg, although the social view of sex revolved around the male Zerg, of course pleasured themselves too, it was just that most of them were busy and had bad experiences. So most of them gradually suppressed it.

"It's… with my hands."

"Actually, I'm a little curious, do the female Zerg touch their back hole or only use their front? Or together?"

"…" To his surprise, Xi Ran on the other end also fell silent, and it took a moment before he said uncertainly, "Together…?"

"Don't you know it yourself?"

Huan Xiu was surprised. After asking questions, he realized that most female Zerg don't share much about this kind of personal stuff. The basic education was more about 'how to make a male Zerg happy' and 'how to conceive the most efficiently' than about how a female Zerg gets pleasure.

Huan Xiu whispered, "Then first, touch your front… You haven't touched it yourself for a long time, right? I'm the one who usually 'takes cares' of it."

He said the word 'take care' in a playful and gentle tone that made Xi Ran's heart beat faster.

Xi Ran lay on his side and reached out to fondle it, but of course the front was still soft without any stimulation. He imagined in confusion the way Huan Xiu usually stroked it, wrapping his palm around the tip and slowly rubbing it to excite it.

"It feels so different from Master's palm."

"Hm? What does mine feel like?"

"It's warm, the skin on the palm is delicate, the movement is light but flexible," Xi Ran recalled, pausing for a moment and finally adding, "And it's amazing, as soon as you touch me, I can't help but want to stick close to you."

Huan Xiu's heart was sore from hearing this, and after two days apart, he was missing it so badly that he wanted to go over right now, "I want you to be back soon."

"Mn…" Xi Ran's breathing became slightly heavier on the other end of the call.

"What?"

"I got hard by closing my eyes and thinking about Master…"

Huan Xiu's body stirred as he heard Xi Ran say such words in his magnetic voice. "You really became good at talking."

"It's true." Xi Ran spoke quickly, frantically stating that he was telling the truth.

Huan Xiu couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth on his end, knowing it was true, that was why he praised Xi Ran as 'good at talking'.

"Is this good? I feel like I'm the only one enjoying it…" Xi Ran stopped his hands, a little hesitant. Because his head was pressed against the pillow, his voice was a little slurred after it reached Huan Xiu through the speakers and sounded a little cute to Huan Xiu.

"I want to hear it."

Just that one sentence was enough to make Xi Ran throw away his worries. His Master wanted to listen, so he would naturally do it. He half closed his eyes, the metal ring on his finger should have been cold, but now it got a little warmer with the friction, maybe it was just Xi Ran's imagination, but he had the illusion that Huan Xiu was right next to him caressing him with his palm.

"Mn…." Xi Ran gasped, his fingers trembling slightly. His body had grown accustomed to Huan Xiu's care, gradually learning to enjoy the pleasure from the rigid and woody state he'd faced sexually from the beginning, thanks to what Master had brought him.

"Xi Ran." Huan Xiu's soft call was so gentle that Xi Ran's body subconsciously stirred, his skin heated, his front end swelled and his back hole became hot, just like when his name was whispered in bed.

"Master …" Xi Ran called out in a low, hoarse voice, but then changed it to, "Huan Xiu." He can now call Huan Xiu's name directly, but he was used to calling him Master, so he didn't always call him by his name.

Imagining Xi Ran's current appearance, Huan Xiu could not help himself. Since he came to this world, he hardly had the chance to do anything on his own, so he almost forgot how to do it.

Xi Ran's body was tense and his body temperature was rising, droplets of sweat began to appear on his forehead, his breathing getting heavier and heavier. It is hard to climax just by imagining Master stroking the front, he thought, reaching out with his other hand and tentatively moving it to the back, trying to find comfort in it.

Although the touch was completely different from Huan Xiu's, Xi Ran closed his eyes and imagined the other's usual movements, and was filled with intense thoughts of pleasure as he felt the sensation running all over him.

"Mn… ah…" Xi Ran wastes no time in making all of his muffled moans audible to reach Huan Xiu. There was no sound from the other side, only rapid breathing and the occasional cry of, "Xi Ran" in a voice filled with desire. Xi Ran didn't know if Huan Xiu would be satisfied by his moans only, but he had no room to think about doing more.

Although they were not in the same space, through the communicator, the sounds of their breathing were so closely entwined that if they closed their eyes, at least for a moment, they would have the illusion that they were right next to each other.

After some time, Huan Xiu noticed that Xi Ran's voice was gradually calming down a bit, because it was not stimulating enough and he was having trouble reaching the peak.

Huan Xiu then asked the question in a timely manner, like he usually does, "Do you feel good?"

Xi Ran's back convulsed from foot to head and he made a quick "ahh" sound, his mind going blank, and when he came back to his senses, he had already ejaculated, "Master…"

Xi Ran's voice was usually crisp and clean, but at times like this it would get a little tender and sticky, and Huan Xiu could tell by the sound of his voice that he was cumming.

"Give me a moment." Huan Xiu laughed.

"…Sorry." Xi Ran said breathlessly. He always ejaculated before Master, especially now that he couldn't touch Huan Xiu yet, and it made him feel guilty.

"No apologies." For Huan Xiu, those words had become a conditioned reflex.

Xi Ran heard the familiar phrase, he giggled silently on the other end of the communicator, without even realizing it.

He should have been waiting patiently for Huan Xiu, but Xi Ran, having just recovered from the tension and weakness of his orgasm, suddenly felt something strange in his abdomen, not really cramping, but at least sore. Not wanting to worry Huan Xiu, Xi Ran pressed his hand against his abdomen and frowned, what the hell was wrong with him lately?

Huan Xiu didn't notice as he pursed his lips very tightly, not letting out a single sound.

By the time Huan Xiu finished and Xi Ran started talking to him, the pain in Xi Ran's abdomen had gradually disappeared.

Xi Ran responded quickly and Huan Xiu didn't notice anything strange. They chatted for a while longer, but if Huan Xiu didn't have to get up early to go to work the next day, neither side would have been willing to cut off the conversation.

"I'm waiting for you to come back."

"Mn."

The end of voice chat could also be regarded as the end of the long-distance love affair. Huan Xiu, who has been busy for the whole day, of course, went to sleep very soon. Xi Ran did not fall asleep right away. He pressed his abdomen for a while and got out of bed to move, but he did not feel the pain again. He could only assume, in light of what had happened before, that the orgasmic state had triggered something. Knowing nothing of the subject, he decided to ask the doctor who was coming with his team the next day.

In fact, he was originally quite careless and didn't care about his body at all. But since a few days ago, he had been feeling a bit weak, so Xi Ran was extra concerned about it this time, not wanting to worry Huan Xiu.

Xi Ran didn't remember much, but when he first joined the army and was still very young, he wasn't afraid of anything, not even a little blood or a flesh wound. Until later he had Xiao Ye. He was still young and ignorant, not knowing how to take care of a child, so he went about his duties as usual, until one day when he came back covered in wounds, Xiao Ye came to him with fear and worry and asked him, "What happened to you, father?" That's when he realized that – ah… I'm not a lone Zerg anymore.

After that, he paid extra attention, and didn't fight as desperately as before. Now he'd been pampered by Huan Xiu for more than half a year, and he didn't even have a scratch on his body.

Xi Ran didn't want to have any health problems, not because he was afraid of anything, but because he didn't want Huan Xiu and Xiao Ye to worry.

Huan Xiu, who had no dreams and slept soundly, didn't know what Xi Ran was thinking about all night. For him, there was a lot to do tomorrow. During the day, he had to deliver the wedding invitations to the institute, and after work, he had to pick up Xiao Ye and go home. Then he had to go to the shop to make his own ring…

And Huan Xiu didn't expect his wedding invitation to be a 'best seller'.

"It's really… really not a big event. I just want to have a more cozy, simple ceremony."

"I'll go, I'll go."

"I'm going too."

Co-workers seemed to be gushing over Huan Xiu and his beloved Xi Ran, a true love couple, and asked for invitations during their lunch break when they heard they were going to have a wedding.

However, Huan Xiu realized that although there were not many seats available, he and Xi Ran did not have any family to attend the wedding, so there should be plenty of space. He had checked the etiquette of the Zerg race earlier, generally, if a married female Zerg or inferior female was invited, they must bring their Master as well. On the other hand, a male Zerg can attend the ceremony by himself, and he could also bring a female if he wanted.

Most of the invitations were single sheets, but occasionally, some male Zerg asked for two sheets, and they were going to bring a female with them.

Kaczki, who was at the table opposite Huan Xiu, was the odd one out among the male Zerg, "I want four!"

The Zerg beside him complained, "There are eight people at a normal table, and you have to take up half of them with your family?!"

"It's a good thing he doesn't have kids, otherwise his whole household would occupy a table."

"My family's situation is special."

"Write down your name…" Huan Xiu, who keeps the list, smiles twice and is a little curious, "How is it special?"

Kaczki nodded and wrote down the female monarch and the two females, "Isn't the female monarch the one with the higher status in a normal family? But actually, all of us are the same at my house, we have a good relationship, so we do this kind of thing together."

The Zerg beside him sighed, "Your monarch and concubines are very close? That's rare."

"Don't you have a particular one you love?"

"But I love them all! Can't we split it three ways?" Kaczki exclaimed loudly. It was a speech that could be classified as 'scum' on Earth, but in this society, it wasn't too much, even if it was a bit strange.

"One divided by three is not enough."

"I know! It's just an expression!"

"…." Huan Xiu watched as Kaczki began to bicker again with the colleague next to him and silently walked off to his next table.

In another city far away, Xi Ran went to the military doctor's office in the morning after seeing the soldiers enter the entrance of the assessment field. He had brought the report of his last visit to the hospital with him and told the doctor where his old wounds had been.

It didn't take long for him to be shocked by the unexpected news.

"Assistant instructor, haven't you been feeling out of sorts lately?"

"Feeling a little out of sorts lately? What's wrong with me?" Xi Ran was sitting on the edge of his seat, seeing the serious expression on the doctor's face, he suddenly felt a little sense of crisis.

"…Although I'm mainly a doctor who deals with external injuries, after a round of examination… I'm sure that…" The doctor took a breath, "You are pregnant."

"…" Xi Ran became stupefied for a long time.

"Me?"

"Can it be me?" The military doctor's mouth twitched.

"But… but I've been badly injured before, and I went to the hospital with the diagnosis that I'd have a hard time getting pregnant again."

"Even though I don't specialize in this, that's what the tests came back with."

"…" Xi Ran looked down and placed his hand on his abdomen in disbelief. What was it like with Xiao Ye? Yes, he was still in the military, and it was a routine physical before he was appointed, and he was told about the pregnancy in a very casual way. But at that time he didn't take it too seriously, he just went to the hospital and got the precautionary information and followed it mechanically.

When he was young, he didn't care much about the so-called pregnancy and childbirth, and he even hoped that he wouldn't have any more children, or else he would just have another life to suffer in that kind of family. As a joke, God took him out of the situation, and he met someone he really loved, but it really made it impossible for him to have a child. Xi Ran once felt very guilty, thinking that this was due to his original self-destructive mentality and his punishment.

With Huan Xiu's tolerance, Xi Ran had accepted that they would not have children in the future. And now, he was pregnant?

"Besides, if your previous diagnosis was only difficult to get pregnant again, and it is not the removal of the pregnancy cavity, it is not impossible," the doctor said, giving Xi Ran a helpless push on his shoulder when he saw that his face was still dull. "But you were lucky. Healthy Zergs have trouble getting pregnant. It seems you've been sleeping with your new Master for less than a year. So fast."

"Thank you…" Xi Ran's hands trembled a little and looked up at the doctor genuinely happy.

"Thank me for what? If you have time, go to the maternity ward of the hospital and find out exactly how long you've been pregnant and what the condition of your pregnancy cavity is. I can't find that out here."

Xi Ran walked out of the infirmary confused, the other instructors saw him walk out and asked him if he was injured or uncomfortable, Xi Ran vaguely muddled through. He was afraid to open up about his pregnancy without going to the obstetrics department for a thorough check-up, but he was afraid it would be a bummer.

Xi Ran's superior, the main instructor, had been waiting outside the exit of the assessment field for the soldiers to come out. He had been waiting for Xi Ran's report.

"You''ve been to the infirmary," he said. "Is everything okay? What's wrong?"

Xi Ran couldn't wait until he went back to the hospital for another checkup, and thought about it, informing his supervisor of the whole thing.

"Really? Then hurry up and go!" The boss looked surprised, as happy as if he had a happy event in his own family.

Xi Ran was not at all polite. He couldn't wait to get the detailed report to put his mind at ease and to give Huan Xiu the biggest surprise of all.

The assessment continued until the afternoon, the Zerg who passed with distinction started to come out, until it was dark, and the Zerg who got into a hard battle or gave up in the middle of the day were brought out intermittently.

After a whole day of battle drills and running, the new recruits were exhausted. When they got back to the first floor of the residence, a group of Zerg were chatting and cheering each other up when they realized something, "mn? Isn't the instructor having dinner with us today?"

"He," laughed the instructor, glancing at the communicator screen, "has taken leave to return to the main city early."

"We're going back tomorrow at noon. Did something happen, he's in such a hurry."

"Mn, says there's a matter to report back right away."

"…?"

The Zerg are in awe.

…

"…Done!" Huan Xiu took a deep breath. Finally, he had succeeded in getting his ring finished as well. He looked up at the time, it wasn't too late, not even nine o'clock yet.

"Congratulations!" In addition to the inferior female from last time, there were several more onlookers in the jewellery studio this time.

"Thank you. I'm sorry to borrow your place, but I needed you to stay with me until this hour." Huan Xiu knew that the studio was supposed to close at five o'clock.

The staff said they stayed of their own free will, just to see this engagement ring made by the so-called male Zerg himself, and it couldn't be more romantic.

Huan Xiu politely presented the wedding invitations – although judging by the pace of the invitations now, their wedding was bound to be a bit of a mixed bag, but that was not bad. He was from another world, and it was fun to have his own, lively and relaxing wedding in the world of the Zerg.

On the way home, Huan Xiu calculated that he still had a few hours to go before he met Xi Ran, it should be less than 24 hours, right? By this time tomorrow night, they would have dinner together at the table at home.

What to eat …

When Huan Xiu was about to arrive home, he suddenly saw a car parked in the yard from a distance.

"Hn?" Huan Xiu was shocked. Xi Ran's car was at home. Could it be that he came back early because of the change of plan on the assessment side? Huan Xiu didn't miss any messages as he glanced at his communicator. He thought Xi Ran would tell him if he came home early.

Huan Xiu rushed to get out of the car and opened the door to enter the house.

Xi Ran seemed to have heard him coming home and walked to the entrance to greet him.

"Xi Ran, you are really back early? I saw your car and I thought it was strange. Why didn't you say something to me?"

"Master…"

"I haven't seen you for two days and I can't stop thinking about you, come give me a hug first." Huan Xiu smiled and came forward to give Xi Ran a solid hug.

"Master…"

"Mn, have you eaten? I wanted to finish that ring of mine tonight and had to stay over there. Hey, it's finally done…mn?"

Huan Xiu bent over to take off his shoes and was about to get up and walk inside, but Xi Ran stopped him in her tracks with a hand.

"Here." Xi Ran handed Huan Xiu a folder.

Huan Xiu was puzzled. What's going on? "For me?"

"Mn."

Huan Xiu frowned, took it, and took out…. a black plastic sheet…

Huan Xiu looked at the X-ray or ultrasound picture, and he idn't know which was the front side, so he looked at … this was a … ball?

"I went to the hospital today for a check-up," Xi Ran explained.

"Is this you?" Huan Xiu was confused for a while, does Xi Ran have this kind of organ in his body?

Xi Ran saw that Huan Xiu did not show the joyful look he should have, he just took it as if he had never seen such a thing before and took the initiative to come over and explain, "Master, this is our child … I'm pregnant."

"…" Huan Xiu confirmed again, "This?" The ball?

Xi Ran nodded.

"Wait a minute," Huan Xiu raised his hand, "Wait a minute, let me calm down…"

…

…

Huan Xiu reacted after a few seconds and suddenly shrieked, "You're pregnant!?"

Finally getting the expected reaction, Xi Ran breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "Mn."

Huan Xiu didn't know what to do for a moment and reached out to touch Xi Ran's stomach tentatively, "Is it inside?"

"Yeah… It's only been less than a month and there won't be any reaction yet."

Huan Xiu looked at his stomach and then at the test in his hand.

The body's own cognition gradually recovered along with his senses, "Oh yes, Zerg are ovoviviparous…."

It was Xi Ran's turn to be shocked, "Master in the original world of the child is not egg?"

"Of course not, that's why I was so freaked out when I saw a ball at first glance!" Huan Xiu instinctively pulled Xi Ran to sit properly on the sofa and told him to stay put. "I never thought there would be a time like this … Wait a minute, what should I do better now?"

"I'm fine. So the dizziness and sleepiness I had before are normal symptoms of early pregnancy. It's difficult for female Zerg to get pregnant, but laying eggs is not a big deal." Xi Ran tells Huan Xiu not to worry.

The female Zerg were strong enough to easily carry the burden of a Zerg egg, which lasted for eight months and did not even show during the first five or six months of pregnancy, but only silently absorbed nutrients and grew rapidly during the last one to two months. It was only after Xi Ran's comparison that Huan Xiu realized that a real newborn Zerg egg was much smaller than a so-called human fetus. Because of this, the female Zerg, which was a common physical labourer, was not affected by the birth and there was little risk of a difficult birth.

The Zerg cubs would break out of their shells one month to three months after they arrived in the world, depending on their physical condition.

"So, in order to tell me this in person, you came back from out of town alone first?"

"Yes."

"Really… you don't mess around too much." Huan Xiu sighed with joy and worry, and couldn't help but lean over and hug Xi Ran tightly.

"I'm fine. As I just said, even a pregnant female Zerg has excellent body quality."

"…"

"Master? "Xi Ran stroked Huan Xiu's back, "Are you angry? I won't mess around, after all, there's still our baby in my body. I'll be more careful."

"I'm not mad … I'm so happy." Huan Xiu hugged Xi Ran tightly, tightly. "Thank you."

"I didn't do anything. To be able to conceive a child is a masterpiece…" Xi Ran was interrupted before he could finish his sentence.

"You've done a lot. Thank you, thank you for giving me a lot…"

Xi Ran admitted that he was secretly glad that Huan Xiu hadn't lived in such an environment before, and that he wouldn't have valued him so much. Right? But he would never say such a thought to Huan Xiu.

Xi Ran didn't know how to respond. He could only silently reach out his hand and embrace Huan Xiu back.

A week and a half after the news that Xi Ran was pregnant, the wedding took place as scheduled. It was hard for Huan Xiu to calm down, but it was unrealistic to think that in his next life, he would experience not only a wedding, but also his partner's pregnancy and childbirth. It felt very surreal, no matter how much he thought about it.

In the dressing room near the rented ceremony venue, Huan Xiu couldn't help but touch Xi Ran's belly as he changed, "You really don't feel anything?"

"It will take at least four or five months before there is any change." Xi Ran was a little frustrated, it looked like Master was desperate to get the Zerg egg to move. But at the beginning of his pregnancy, his abdomen was so flat that there was no trace of pregnancy at all. He couldn't even try to show anything.

"And will the baby… egg react by then?" Huan Xiu tried to adapt to the setting that it would be an egg, not a baby, in his belly.

"If he can sense his male father calling, the egg should respond," Xi Ran explained as he buttoned his shirt up one by one.

Huan Xiu withdrew his hand and also speeded up the process of getting dressed, "I'm looking forward to it… can't dilly-dally now, I think I've heard guests coming."

"Fathers, are you still not ready? Uncle Lan Ji is here." Xiao Ye's voice came through the door.

"I'm almost ready, please come in and sit down for a while, you will be tired after running around all the time," replied Huan Xiu, turning to Xi Ran with a smile, "I will go out to entertain guests first. Let Lan Ji in for a chat, haven't seen each other for a while, right?"

"How can I let Master do that alone?"

"There's nothing to worry about, I'm just going out to talk."

"…Okay."

Xi Ran nodded reluctantly, although he didn't think a month of pregnancy would be a burden on his body, but seeing that Huan Xiu was particularly concerned about it, he decided to go along with it.

"Wait a minute," Xi Ran stood up and walked over to Huan Xiu, "Your tie."

Huan Xiu looked down, the tie on his chest had been tied a bit messily, Xi Ran lowered his head and reached out to help Huan Xiu redo it, staring intently, as if he was not tying the tie, but doing the most important task.

The tie was the same one Xi Ran had given to Huan Xiu, and he had imagined Huan Xiu wearing it when he bought it, but now Huan Xiu was wearing a custom-made white suit, and the delicate and clean fabric really complemented the tie.

"Thank you." Huan Xiu dropped a kiss on Xi Ran's forehead as he bowed his head.

When he left the lounge, Lan Ji was standing near the door. He was quite busy with his duties, but found time to attend his best friend's most important wedding. Xi Ran didn't have many friends from his former military days, so he only invited Lan Ji. Many of Xi Ran's former subordinates, including the Zerg he saved named Lu Yien, were here, chatting with each other.

Since he went to the training camp, he had a lot of well-related recruits, Zerg, who shouted "deputy instructor" affectionately every day. However, now they were in awe of this military Zerg and only dared to stand and watch from a distance.

Lan Ji was standing alone in silence, watching the young Zerg form a group, Lan Ji also did not know what to think.

"You guys are here so early?" Huan Xiu went over to greet him, the guests at his end were scattered, the Zerg that Xi Ran had invited had arrived very early though, so he wondered if it was the army's trend.

"Mr. Huan."

"You're here!"

"Where's the instructor?"

Huan Xiu greeted them, "Welcome, Xi Ran is still changing, so I came out to greet for him."

Most of them do not know much about Huan Xiu, only that he was the Master of Xi Ran. A group of relatives and friends in the military department, most of whom were female Zerg, were embarrassed to talk with him much, so they thanked and congratulated him, and then went to the other side to have buffet lunch.

"Lan Ji, you are here," greeted Huan Xiu. "Xi Ran is inside, I let him rest a bit. Do you want to go in and talk to him for a while?"

Lan Ji looked at Huan Xiu's face and nodded at him, "Thank you… right. Congratulations."

Huan Xiu felt that this was probably the first time Lan Ji had completely dropped his expression of distrust and scrutiny and congratulated him sincerely. Should he be happy? So he'd finally gotten the approval of Xi Ran's friends?

On the other side of the venue, past a buffet and a long table with drinks, were the numbered tables. The pure white tables, chairs and decorations on the lawn were simple and elegant.

The inferior female invited from the jewelry shop was talking to a female soldier next to him about how Huan Xiu made the ring by hand. The other female didn't know much about jewelry, but he could tell that the ring was very impressive, so he nodded repeatedly. When he turned around and saw Huan Xiu standing behind him, he shut his mouth in embarrassment and his face turned red.

Of course, Huan Xiu didn't mind, but he thought it was a rare occasion to see such a mix and match situation. Many of his colleagues were male Zerg and a small number of inferior females, while Xi Ran's invitees were mostly female Zerg, who had never interacted with others before, but they might even be able to make a marriage after such an opportunity.

Speaking of this, Huan Xiu remembered that Kaczki, who showed interest in military females at the army headquarters before. His table-neighbor colleague was saying that he had a family he would be bringing, so Huan Xiu was wondering if he was still interested in greeting the military females today.

"Kaczki!" Huan Xiu saw Kaczki from afar. After all, the fact that a family of four occupied half of the round table was a rather striking sight.

"Oh, you look so handsome today. Where is your concu… No, today he should be called your monarch."

Huan Xiu quickly walked over to the table and exchanged pleasantries, "Let him rest a bit more. He was so busy being dizzy that I didn't have much of a chance to mention it to you – he's pregnant."

Kaczki's jaw dropped in shock, "Eh? That fast? Why? Any secrets you can share?"

Huan Xiu was dragged by Kaczki and asked for tips on how to get pregnant, telling him he's been married for a few years now, but there was no news on the baby front. Huan Xiu had no advice, so he kept insisting that it depended on fate.

"Okay… Right, let me introduce you, these are my concubines." Kaczki had a female Zerg sitting on the left and right, and both of them nodded to Huan Xiu.

"Congratulations."

"It's great to have a child so soon…"

"Ah, thanks." Huan Xiu smiled and thanked.

Kaczki whispered left and right, "Be a little polite, will you…! You two put your two legs down first…!"

"Okay…"

Huan Xiu: "…"

Kaczki's two females had a strong scent of masculinity about them, and it wasn't just his imagination. Huan Xiu had only come across Xi Ran and other strict female Zerg, but this was the first time he had ever seen such a type of female. He could only sigh that he didn't understand the world of the Zerg race thoroughly enough.

"No, no, no, I don't like the nobility's system anyway, so make yourself at home here."

"That's my monarch."

The inferior female who was sitting far away from Kaczki stood up and greeted Huan Xiu politely, but with a distant attitude. It was rare but not impossible for an inferior female to be a monarch, so Huan Xiu wasn't surprised.

Soon the other colleagues also arrived one after another, they were already familiar with each other, so without Huan Xiu's help, they quickly chatted together.

"Male father!"

Huan Xiu turned his head and realized that it was Xiao Ye waving at him from a distance and Xi Ran was also walking towards him.

"I think it's almost time, and I am too embarrassed to stay in the room." Xi Ran, the second main character of the show, came out, and the venue was noisy again, many Zerg who had just found out that he was pregnant came over to wish him well, especially the married Zerg, and wanted to celebrate the occasion.

There were no relatives on either side, and the ceremony was filled with young Zerg, so the atmosphere was very relaxed. Speaking of relatives, on the morning of the wedding day, Huan Xiu received an email from his cousin. Although nominally separated, he was still a Huan family Zerg. His cousin sent him a congratulatory letter, which was obviously a copy of a template, with a small aircraft as a gift, which was considered as a courtesy.

The other one was from Ai Le. Huan Xiu had completely forgotten who it was, and it took him a few minutes to remember that it was the inferior female that the original owner used to like.

Huan Xiu had already changed his contact directory number, and he had no idea how Ai Le managed to get the new one, so it must have taken him some time to get it. Huan Xiu roughly read it, and the congratulatory but bitter attitude of the other party was about to jump out of the screen. It also had a bit of a sour tone, explicitly and implicitly implied and how he remembered that in the past how good Huan Xiu was to him. It was a pity that Huan Xiu changed his mind and had long forgotten about this drama, and simply ignored the letter.

He told Xi Ran about it, and surprisingly, Xi Ran didn't go into a panic.

"Aren't you curious as to how I handled it?"

Xi Ran shook his head, "I know Master will definitely take care of it."

Huan Xiu couldn't help but smile relieved, as his trusting and calm demeanor was a far cry from his cautious look at the beginning. It was true that even deep-rooted beliefs could change gradually.

It was his honor to be able to put a ring on such a lovely partner once again.

Standing in front of the flower gate made up of white roses and lilies, Huan Xiu affectionately wrapped his arms around Xi Ran's waist. In keeping with the happy atmosphere of the wedding, they answered the MC's question, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life with your partner?" without any solemnity, as if they were answering "Do you want coffee or milk for breakfast today?"

After answering "I do", Huan Xiu leaned forward and gently placed a kiss on Xi Ran's lips. A sudden cheer and whistle could be heard from the guest seats. Even the silent military females opened up and applauded vigorously, after all, they were also military females and they were even more empathetic to Xi Ran's hard journey and happiness today.

"Please exchange rings."

Huan Ye, wearing a miniature matching children's suit, trotted over from the side as soon as the master of ceremonies had finished speaking, taking charge of the small box containing the rings. Although it was not a hard task, he was really nervous.

"Fathers." Huan Ye carefully opened the box and straightened his arms, handing it to the two men.

Huan Xiu whispered his thanks, "Thank you, Xiao Ye, for your hard work."

Xi Ran touched his head, and Huan Ye's face blossomed with a big smile and turned a little red.

Huan Xiu took Xi Ran's hand and put the ring on his ring finger. Xi Ran has been wearing the ring for some time, and he took it off earlier today for the ceremony, but he felt relieved once the ring was back on his finger.

"…Then it's mine." Huan Xiu brought his own hand forward and stopped in front of Xi Ran.

Xi Ran held his hand in one hand and slowly but firmly placed the ring on his ring finger, then lowered his head and kissed Huan Xiu's ring lightly, as if he were a knight guarding the king.

Huan Xiu was stunned and laughed helplessly, "Such a handsome move, but you got ahead of me."

Xi Ran looked up, and before he could stand still, he was pulled by Huan Xiu's hand, their fingers interlocked. Xi Ran's center of gravity wobbled forward a few steps, just as he was hugged by Huan Xiu's arms.

Huan Xiu was the first to deliver a passionate kiss before the master of ceremonies could announce, "You may kiss your partner."

"Oh… Master…" Xi Ran closed his eyes and held Huan Xiu in his arms as the guests wished him well.

Huan Xiu was glad that he had found his own sweet and warm home in this big world, where he had lived a new life.

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[Cong Mu:『Picture』 had a wedding ceremony with the poster today. The atmosphere at the wedding was great.]

[Wow! Kiss photo!]

[Even though it's only a long-range side view, I can tell that the poster and his Master are very handsome! Blessings!]

[Super-matched.]

[…! It's…!]

[What what? Upstairs, knows the poster?]

[Response: I was there! I'm sort of his… subordinate? …Didn't even realize Cong Mu and the poster were them before! I've been following this post…]

[ xrxrr OP come see, you've fallen off the horse again…]

[Has the poster been cursed with falling off horses?]

[Is this world too small?]

[No, it's the traffic on this forum that's too high. His posts are back up all the time, we've got hot tags all over the place, just click into this board and flip through them.]

[It's kind of sad, but I actually kind of want to laugh.]

[If I could be this sweet, I'd fall off the horse.]

[Wake up, upstairs.]

…

On the morning of the second day after the wedding, Huan Xiu woke up before Xi Ran, so he went downstairs and took on the task of making coffee and toast.

"What's wrong with female father?"

"Ah, he's embarrassed to go out because of some things."

"Hm?" Huan Ye was puzzled.

Huan Xiu patted Xiao Ye's head and smiled, "I'll go check on him. You eat first."

Huan Xiu returned upstairs, opened the door and entered the room. Xi Ran's communicator was tossed to the side and he was covered by the blanket.

…This development was somewhat déjà vu.

"Awake?"

"…"

"Sorry, I didn't think much before posting the pic. I just wanted to share our happiness, I didn't realize that the Zerg who attended was also in the post."

"…It's not Master's fault." Xi Ran's voice came out through the blanket, and he could tell he was quite depressed.

Huan Xiu sat on the edge of the bed and forcefully pulled the blanket off, "If you keep this up, you'll be late for work."

Xi Ran wanted to skip work for the first time in his life, "Master, I have no face to go to the training camp."

Huan Xiu felt sorry and amused at the same time, so he pulled Xi Ran out of the blanket. Of course, he couldn't pull Xi Ran. But he specially came to "please" Xi Ran get up, Xi Ran of course could not ignore Huan Xiu's intentions.

"I've bothered Master to make breakfast again." Xi Ran ate his breakfast in a somber mood.

"It's just once in a while. Don't worry, the soldiers at the training camp all really like you as their deputy instructor and won't comment." Huan Xiu comforted Xi Ran.

The internet and forums are really too scary. Xi Ran sighed deeply and decided to never touch this kind of stuff again.

However, Xi Ran never deleted this post because of Huan Xiu's reason of 'this is our memory'.

Although this was his first and only post, it had been floating around on the first page of the forum because of its dramatic content and many sweet and true love stories. Whenever Xi Ran wished it would 'sink soon', it would be picked up by the new Zerg who talked about it, so it was always popular.

Plus Huan Xiu still liked to post his love from time to time, so it seemed like there was still a long way to go before Xi Ran's dark history sank.

About three months after the wedding, Xi Ran went to the hospital for a follow-up appointment, and unlike last time, Huan Xiu was with him.

"Congratulations!"

Xi Ran's heart trembled at these words, and he felt a mixture of anticipation and nervousness.

"Mr. Huan, your female is carrying a male hatchling in the egg. He seems to be in good health and will definitely be an excellent quality male in the future!"

"Thank you." Huan Xiu thanked him. In fact, female, male, or inferior female made no difference to him, and according to human belief, there was only one type of boy…

"Your body is already stressed and this pregnancy is likely to be your last one. You had great luck having a male pup, so please be careful with him." The doctor looked at the results and turned to Xi Ran.

"I understand."

"If you can, please exercise properly and pamper your female during pregnancy. Petting your female will also help the egg grow. A nourished and loving father will have better egg quality than a normal egg…"

The doctor continued to tell Huan Xiu some shameful instructions in a serious manner, and Huan Xiu's eyes glanced between Xi Ran and the doctor, both of whom were calm and collected, so Huan Xiu made himself accept the information by repeatedly thinking "this is normal medical advice".

In a nutshell, it meant 'touch more, encourage sex'.

"Our Zerg will be like you, a good and handsome male." Xi Ran asserted with confidence as he drove home.

Huan Xiu imagined a child somewhat similar to himself and couldn't help but smile, "Of course, he will inherit our strengths."

During all this at home, Huan Ye was doing physical training in his room.

In fact, Huan Xiu had been a bit distressed that such a young child had to do those difficult exercises and thought it was a bit early, but Xi Ran said Huan Ye's age was already appropriate, so Huan Xiu stopped objecting. After all, Xi Ran was more professional in this matter.

"Xiao Ye, we're back."

"Ah, male father, female father. I didn't hear the door." Huan Ye scrambled to his feet and hurried to the door of the room.

"It's okay, we went to the hospital today for a follow-up, the one in your female father's stomach is your male Zerg brother."

"Wow…" Huan Ye opened his mouth wide, looking very surprised. Even though he was still young, he knew that the percentage of male Zerg in the Zerg race was very low, and it was still difficult to get pregnant, so it was a very good luck to get pregnant with a male.

"I… will be a good brother." Huan Ye stared at Xi Ran's stomach, where there were no signs of pregnancy yet, but was another life huddled there now. Huan Xiu smiled and touched Huan Ye's head. He turned around and went to his own business with Xi Ran.

Huan Ye stood still for a long time before closing the door and slowly walking back to the bed.

He was very happy when he heard that his female father was pregnant. The school textbook said that it was up to the female to secure the family's position, and if he had a male pup, it was simply the best. But today, Huan Ye was not as happy as before when he learned that the female father was pregnant with a male brother.

He couldn't tell what he felt in his heart, a little sour and a little scared – the male Zerg brother is not only a male Zerg, but also born from his male and female father, unlike him.

Huan Ye found himself hating the unborn brother, and he panicked when he noticed this feeling. His male father was the best male father in the world, but he was secretly thinking this way, Huan Ye was confused and in self-condemnation.

He pushed his sour feelings down and tried to forget about them by training harder and harder. If only he was good enough to become as good a soldier as his female father before, he might be able to do so.

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February of the following year.

In the sixth month of pregnancy, Xi Ran's belly finally puffed out slightly. Because he wore thicker clothes in winter, this degree of pregnancy was not really noticeable. But when he got home and changed into his home clothes, he could still see a little bulge.

"Do you feel it? Has he moved?" Huan Xiu once again nestled on the couch with Xi Ran, moving his hands 'in accordance with the doctor's orders'.

Xi Ran's hand was on the back of Huan Xiu's hand on his belly, and he shook his head, "No, it's not moving. But I can feel a little heat."

"…Isn't that from me?"

"It's inside, the egg itself feels a little warm."

"Really?"

"Mn," Xi Ran nodded, "it must have felt the call of his male father, but it could not move yet, so it responded like that."

At that moment the door slammed and the two men turned around.

"I'm back." Huan Ye entered the room sweating profusely.

In the morning, Huan Ye said he had plans with his classmates to play ball, and then went to the gymnasium near his home. It was winter and he was sweaty, so they could both see how much he had worked out.

Recently, Huan Ye has been going out with his classmates, and seemed to be not as attached to them as before. Huan Xiu was glad to see that, but he was also a bit sad. It was good to be independent, but in his opinion, Huan Ye should still be far from adolescence.

"It is good to exercise, but be a little more careful. Quickly wipe off the sweat, do not catch a cold." Huan Xiu said with some concern.

"Yeah, yeah."

"Do you want to come and talk to your brother? Although he's not moving yet, he seems to be able to feel outside." Huan Xiu waved.

"No, Father… that, I'll go upstairs first." Huan Ye pursed his lips, casually wiping a handful of sweat as he trot up the stairs.

Xi Ran looked at the direction of the stairs, Huan Xiu also turned his head to look at him, "Is he not in a good mood?"

"Maybe he had a fight with his classmates… At dinner, let's find the opportunity to ask."

But when it came time to eat dinner, Huan Ye came out of the room and didn't look unhappy anymore.

He looked the same as usual. He smilingly asked Xi Ran what he had to eat tonight. Huan Xiu and Xi Ran looked at each other and felt relieved.

During the meal, Huan Xiu gave Xi Ran a dish to eat while chatting casually about the interesting things that happened between him and his colleagues at the institute.

Xi Ran's appetite has been getting better and bigger since he got pregnant, and recently he had been eating increasingly fast, which seemed to be because the egg in his belly was desperately taking in nutrients.

"It's really only after you got pregnant that I felt this was real." Huan Xiu sighed.

"After all, Master has not seen it before." Xi Ran meant 'there was no such thing on Earth', but of course he couldn't say it in front of Huan Ye.

"If you eat so much, you're not going to give birth to a fat baby, are you?"

Xi Ran solemnly dropped some science onto Huan Xiu, "No. The eggs take in a lot, but it is used to strengthen the eggshell and body, and will never cause obstacles to their own birth."

Zerg have a low birth rate, but a relatively long life span and a strong life force, which started with the eggs.

"I've been working on a name for the little one."

"It's still a few months away." Xi Ran was surprised but delighted. It was the male's right to give his pups names, and it was a sign of love and care.

"Let me think of a few more to use first. How about the name 'Lin Ran'? And then there is…"

Halfway through, Huan Ye, who hadn't finished his meal, put down his utensils.

"Hm? Xiao Ye, have you had enough?"

Huan Xiu did not understand the situation, looked at Huan Ye, but found that Huan Ye was unable to stop his tears from falling down. He immediately panicked and rushed to him, "What's wrong? Does something hurt?"

"No… I'm fine…" Huan Ye lowered his head, stood up helplessly, and did not know what to do next, and his tears could not stop.

"Did you have a fight with your classmates?"

Huan Ye didn't explain, so Huan Xiu was unable to comfort him. He picked up the tiny Huan Ye and put him on his lap, patting him soothingly on the back.

"Xiao Ye, why are you unhappy? Tell us about it." Xi Ran also frowned and looked worried.

The more the male and female fathers questioned him in a concerned tone, the more Huan Ye could not say anything and the more tears flowed from his eyes. He was so anxious inside that he looked like an unreasonable child, contrary to the mature and outstanding look he aspired to be.

"Wuuu… um, wuwu… I, uh, um…"

Huan Ye sobbed incessantly, unable to speak clearly, and Huan Xiu patted him gently on the back so that he could bury his face in his arms, "It's okay, cry if you want to, and then talk to us slowly after you're done."

Huan Ye, who was still desperately trying to contain himself, paused for a few seconds after hearing this and then cried even louder.

"I'm afraid… wu… that you don't like me anymore… uh, I know… it's not right… but I can't help it…" Huan Ye stumbled on his words as he choked up, but Huan Xiu and Xi Ran soon understood. They had been discussing the egg at the dinner table, which made Huan Ye's heart sad.

They also realized that it was probably just a trigger, and that maybe Huan Ye had been thinking about it earlier, but they carelessly didn't notice, thinking that Xiao Ye was looking forward to the arrival of the new family member as much as they were.

"Xiao Ye, even with a brother, we definitely like you." Huan Xiu rubbed Huan Ye's hair.

"Wuwu… but, wuwu… it's different…"

"What's different?" Huan Xiu asked patiently.

"He is… born from… male and female father… I… am not… wuwu… and I… am not a male Zerg…" Huan Ye gritted his teeth, trying to suppress his crying, but his body trembled uncontrollably, his throat making sobbing sounds.

"In my opinion, you are all the same, you are all our children." Huan Xiu hugged Huan Ye tightly and looked up at Xi Ran, whose face also showed a look of remorse.

Xi Ran also walked around the table to Huan Xiu, reached out and touched Huan Ye's head. His palm was warm, and although he didn't say anything, his concern was conveyed to Huan Ye through the warmth of his skin.

Huan Ye continued to cry, tears wet the front of Huan Xiu's shirt lapel, until he got tired of crying and gradually stopped, his eyes became red and swollen, with no more fluid flowing from them.

"Feel better?" Huan Xiu asked him.

"…" Huan Ye put his head against Huan Xiu's chest, without the face to look up at the two of them.

"We're sorry. We didn't even notice that you have such concerns and unhappiness. Forgive us."

Huan Xiu's attitude made Huan Ye want to shed tears again. He bit his lip and shook his head desperately, "Male father… and the female father, neither… is in the wrong…"

"Whether the child is a male Zerg or female Zerg, or an inferior female, they are the same. I don't want you to feel inferior to the males just because you're a female."

"You must know that you will always be our most precious child." Huan Xiu kept patting Huan Ye with his hand, slowly waiting for his breathing to calm down.

Huan Ye's crying this time seemed to be a one-time release of years of accumulated grievances. Huan Xiu had never seen an outburst of emotions like this from Huan Ye before.

It was true that Huan Ye was not as independent as he tried to be – he was still a child who wanted to be pampered.

Huan Xiu felt it was better to speak up at this point than to keep thinking about it.

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"Oh… this kind of thing happened."

"Male father, it's rare for me to come home for dinner, don't tell this to Lin Ran at the dinner table. It's a very, very small episode from the past." Huan Ye's face was a little red, frowning and pretending to be serious.

Last year, for the third time, he successfully completed his basic education and passed the test to enter the training camp. He had grown to 6'5″ and looked very imposing, as his father was an instructor at the camp, he was often compared to him.

The only thing he didn't expect was that when he went home for dinner, he would still be told about the old days when he was a turnip-head and cried.

"Rounding it up means that my brother shed tears for me. That means I'm important, right?" his little brother asked.

"…You can say that," Huan Ye cleared his throat, "Eat your meal. Don't keep talking."

His brother, Huan Lin Ran, had also changed from an egg that could be held in one hand to the adolescent sitting across from him, who had taken on the form of a handsome male Zerg

Huan Ye thought that he has always kept his excellent image as an older brother very well. He did not want to ruin his image in Lin Ran's mind because of such a stupid thing.

"Yes." Huan Lin Ran replied with a smile, not saying anything more. He had always been good at understanding the threshold of Huan Ye's anger.

The family who was eating returned to a warm and harmonious atmosphere. It was just like every other day.

Huan Ye smiled helplessly.

After all, in this family, he would always be a child.

"Any response?"

"It moved a little."

"Did he? Really?"

After hearing Xi Ran's reply, Huan Xiu, who had already moved his hand away without hope, immediately put his palm back on the skin of his abdomen. But unfortunately, the little Zerg egg did not seem to give face, and did not move again.

"Soon you will be able to hold it directly in your hand and touch it." Xi Ran hastened to reassure.

"More than a month to go?"

"Almost there."

Huan Xiu still looked a bit undeterred, and put his palm on it for a while, making Xi Ran's skin a bit hot, but without any movement of the Zerg's egg in his belly, he regrettably gave up.

As the countdown to pregnancy began, Xi Ran's belly began to protrude significantly, growing in size every day. However, because of the size of the egg, his belly was not as large as that of a pregnant woman on Earth.

Even so, the sight of a 'male' belly amazed Huan Xiu. Xi Ran could see that Huan Xiu was curious about his pregnancy and always came to touch it, which Xi Ran was naturally happy to let him do, as it helped the hatchling grow. And Huan Xiu's gestures were always so gentle that he was a little enchanted.

"Do you want to lie down for a while?" Huan Xiu asked with concern.

Xi Ran accepted his kindness, but shook his head, "My body is no different than before. Don't worry too much."

"I can't control it." Huan Xiu was a bit helpless, he had the habit of earthlings. Indeed, Zerg females were not burdened by this pregnancy, with some occasional dizziness and backache but the thought of another life in this belly made him feel at ease.

Huan Xiu sighed quietly, "It would be good if he were to be born soon."

Xi Ran nodded and silently thought that Huan Xiu was very much looking forward to this child and must have great expectations for it.

Huan Xiu, who was misunderstood on a daily basis, said he had no idea.

Seeing that it was getting late, Xi Ran was about to go into the bathroom to help Huan Xiu fill up the bathtub, but he was stopped.

The shower is fine. Why don't you come in with me?"

"Yes. That way I can wash Huan Xiu's hair."

"No… hey, forget it." Huan Xiu could never deter Xi Ran from doing this kind of thing, so he got used to going in with the other party, in turn, he could also help Xi Ran wash, and they could help each other as well as have fun.

Huan Xiu first turned on the shower head, not long after the bathroom was filled with hot air. He didn't know why, but today Xi Ran was a little slow, he waited for a while before Xi Ran came in.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing. I was a little slow in getting undressed." Xi Ran quickly closed the bathroom door to prevent the fog from escaping.

"Slow down." Huan Xiu gave Xi Ran a hand as he stepped into the tub.

Xi Ran turned slightly to the side and said, "Master, turn your back, I'll wash your hair."

"Hm…?" Huan Xiu stared suspiciously at Xi Ran's face.

"What-what's wrong?" Xi Ran swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looking very unnatural.

"I think you are acting a bit unnatural," Huan Xiu scanned the naked Xi Ran up and down, "Is… it because you are shy? I don't think that's the case, right?"

Xi Ran had always been frank in this regard, there was no shyness or embarrassment whatsoever. And then again, they have been honest with each other many times.

"No, I just think my stomach is a little bigger than I thought." Xi Ran admitted with some difficulty.

"I look at you every day, it's not like I haven't seen you before."

"…but the lines of my body are getting a little ugly."

"How come?" Huan Xiu could neither cry nor laugh. The belly of the naked body did change the direction of the body line, the original strong muscles softened a little, the bulging abdomen made the already tall Xi Ran look slightly bloated, but not ugly at all.

"But you like my muscles firm." Xi Ran stated in a low voice. The general aesthetic preference of the Zerg race was soft, and he had nothing to do with softness whether he was carrying the egg or not. But Huan Xiu liked to have a firm and fit body, and he didn't have that anymore.

This was a kind of 'pregnancy syndrome' that Huan Xiu categorized in his mind.

"When the egg is born, you will go back to normal. And you have a very good, attractive figure now too." Huan Xiu lowered his voice, pulled Xi Ran a little closer, and put his hand to his skin, touching his back from the abdomen suggestively, to show that he was still 'sexually interested' in him.

"Master…"

"Call me by my name at these times…"

"Huan Xiu…" Xi Ran's voice was disrupted by Huan Xiu's kiss, the end of which was slurred in his mouth.

As Huan Xiu's palm stroked against his skin, a warm and relaxing feeling poured out from inside and out. At the same time the egg in his belly seemed to feel the closeness of his male father and became a little agitated, Xi Ran felt his whole body was paralyzed with weakness, which was a unique experience during pregnancy.

The kissing distance, without the need for skin-to-skin contact, caused the slightly bulging belly to touch Huan Xiu's abdomen. Huan Xiu cautiously pressed against it with unprecedented gentleness and caution, which was indeed a wonderful experience.

Huan Xiu was slightly lucky that the infant Zerg in its egg shell could only vaguely perceive the presence of the male and female fathers, but had little ability to think or remember. Otherwise, with the frequency of this 'pregnancy help' of the Zerg, he would really not have the face to face his future son.

"I'll turn around." Xi Ran said with a gasp. This was one of the best postures for pregnancy, not pressing his stomach.

Xi Ran turned his back, propping himself up against the vapor-stained white tile in contrast to his honey-colored arms. His back was not as strong as it used to be because of the fat gained from the pregnancy, but Huan Xiu thinks he still looked cute with some flub.

Actually, he had a lover's eye, so he felt his partner was lovely no matter how he looked.

The water that splashed onto Xi Ran's back slid down his spine, revealing the seam of his closed bone wing, which Xi Ran hadn't used in a long time.

Huan Xiu lowered his head and dropped delicate kisses along the back of his neck, up behind his ears, to his earlobes, to his cheeks. Pregnant females were naturally more receptive to males than usual, and this little flirtation and affection was enough to get Xi Ran's body completely ready.

There was no need to expand with his fingers at all. Huan Xiu just lightly rubbed against the entrance a few times and the already wet and soft rear hole easily accommodated him.

"…"

Xi Ran took a deep breath, leaned back of his own accord, and slowly took the whole thing in.

Huan Xiu did not move. He was more comfortable letting Xi Ran control the depth and speed at first.

In the past, he used to 'hold' his waist from behind, but now Huan Xiu wrapped his hands around the side of his waist and gently rested them on Xi Ran's bulging belly. It was a wonderful feeling to hold your lover and baby at the same time.

"Mmmm…"

The shower drenched their hair and the bathtub became sticky, unclear if it was water or sweat from their exercise. Xi Ran moved back and forth to his own rhythm, and soon the interlocking parts were dripping wet, the body fluids mixed with the shower water, making soft, erotic sounds.

"Huan Xiu, you can go faster…" It was not convenient for Xi Ran to move by himself, he shook his body to show that he got used to it, handing back the reins to Huan Xiu.

It was also hard for Huan Xiu to hold back his pace, so after making sure that Xi Ran was okay, he let his lust loose and started thrusting at his usual intensity and speed. Xi Ran was panting with pleasure, and the temperature both on the inside and on the surface of his skin was steadily rising. He was struggling a bit more than usual, because of the weight of his stomach, so he had to hold on to the wall to keep his balance, and also worry about not accidentally hitting anything.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it." Huan Xiu, seeing that Xi Ran was still a little tense, smiled and nibbled affectionately on his earlobe from behind.

As his tongue touched his earlobe, Xi Ran shivered with sensitivity, and his rear also tightened violently. Huan Xiu moved fiercely, but his hand was half-supporting Xi Ran's abdomen, and the other hand crossed under Xi Ran's arm to support the wall together to prevent him from slipping. This was when Huan Xiu finally felt the benefit of insisting on regularly going to the gym, if he didn't do so at the beginning, with this kind of hard work and concern, he'd surely be exhausted from the first moment.

Xi Ran's short hair, which had been a little frizzy, was damp, softly clinging to his head and falling on the back of his neck. Huan Xiu looked at the ordinary tresses of hair and felt soft inside, going up to Xi Ran's neck, kissing and nibbling on it playfully.

"Huan Xiu…" Xi Ran turned his head, and although he was struggling to move, he forced himself to ask for a kiss.

Huan Xiu felt that after pregnancy Xi Ran was more willing to ask for pampering than ever before. Naturally, he was very happy to do so, and immediately met him fiercely, moving with slight roughness between his lips and teeth. Xi Ran's not-so-flexible tongue was passively tantalized by the impulses from his rear, his moans broken in his mouth, unable to escape.

The first time they kissed this intensely, Xi Ran became extra emotional. Huan Xiu knew this, and the hand on Xi Ran's stomach slid further down, and, as expected, it reached Xi Ran's already energetic front end.

"…Hng." The man who had been held in a fierce grip grunted.

"I'll get tired soon after I cum, I'll… be unable to stand up," Xi Ran panted lowly, "after that."

It was probably because the female Zerg was giving too much nutrients to the egg during the latter part of the pregnancy, and Xi Ran, who used to be able to regain his strength immediately after ejaculating several times, found that his body had changed recently. He would be weak after ejaculating and would soon be sleepy, which made him feel a little guilty, since Huan Xiu had to take care of him after sex.

"Don't worry, we'll rest after one time." Huan Xiu soothed, not giving too much stimulation with his hands. At the same time, he also accelerated his own speed.

"Mmmm ah… ha…" Xi Ran felt his front being held by a hot palm and his rear constantly being filled with a hot penis. His brain was gradually evaporating with the water vapor, his body becoming so comfortable that he felt like he was floating.

After another ten minutes or so, Huan Xiu and Xi Ran released together. As soon as Xi Ran ejaculated, he was a bit drained, so the two of them slid into the filled bathtub and Huan Xiu sat down with him to relax.

Xi Ran's stomach made it difficult for him to sit upright in the bathtub, so Huan Xiu sat behind him and hugged his waist and belly as if he were encircling him, so that Xi Ran could lean back a little and his stomach would not be pressed.

"Let go of your hands holding onto the edge of the bathtub. Don't worry about the pressure, I will support you."

"…I'm very heavy."

"How heavy can you be?"

Xi Ran slowly, slowly and tentatively leaned his weight backward, and finally, slowly, the whole back of the person was tightly pressed up against Huan Xiu's chest.

"Is it okay?"

"You're not heavy at all, don't worry."

The hot water in the bathroom was comfortable, almost halfway up their chests. Xi Ran's belly was fully submerged in the warm water, while Huan Xiu's hands rested on Xi Ran's belly, stroking his bare skin up and down. Huan Xiu couldn't get enough of this cozy, warm moment, and didn't want to get up and go back to work the next day.

The warm water bath across his belly seemed to comfort the egg and it seemed pleased with his newly pampered female father's body.

"…!" Xi Ran felt the Zerg egg in his stomach shake restlessly, sending a shock through his body.

Huan Xiu exclaimed, "I just touched it! Did your stomach move? Was it the egg that moved?"

"Yes. Yes, it moved a little!" Xi Ran hurriedly affirmed.

Huan Xiu immediately showed a silly father look, this was the first time he experienced 'the child in the belly moving'. Although it was not the same as the original concept on Earth, his child was still an egg, but this feeling was exactly the same.

"Is there more?"

"Uh, it seems that… seems to be gone." Xi Ran was a little troubled. He certainly wanted to see Huan Xiu's happy look. But he couldn't control whether the egg moved or not.

Huan Xiu felt some pity, but also understandably smiled, "He is still small. I was satisfied with a little touch. This means he is growing strong." He reached out and took Xi Ran's hands in his and clutched them tightly, "I'm looking forward to his birth."

"The egg will be born soon." Xi Ran couldn't free his hand, so he turned his head sideways and rubbed Huan Xiu's cheek affectionately.

Huan Xiu responded by kissing Xi Ran on the side of his face.

"I'm also looking forward to… our family's future life." His new life with Xi Ran, Xiao Ye, and their unborn baby boy.

"Did you see the bruises on their faces again?"

"They went out to fight with the school next door, right?"

"That Kaczki guy is so weird, right? A male Zerg from the next class playing with a female Zerg every day."

"But he's a pretty good-looking guy. You go talk to him."

"No, those two tall females beside him look scary."

A small group of inferior females were whispering in the classroom.

Qi Ling Chao: "…"

The female they described as 'scary' glared their way, scaring the group of females into pretending nothing had happened and walking away quickly in a panic.

"They're all scared away." Cheng YuanMu whistled.

"It was clear that we are the ones being looked at." Qi Ling Chao said in a disgruntled whisper.

"You scared everyone away on your third day, you are very good ah." Kaczki took his hand off the book and applauded.

Qi Ling Chao turned his head to Cheng YuanMu who was next to him and asked, "Is this mocking us?"

"I assure you that he is sincere."

It was the lunch break of the college, and most of the students had gone to the cafeteria to eat. The three Zerg who remained in the corner of the classroom at this time were slightly unusual in composition.

Cheng YuanMu, Qi Ling Chao, two female Zerg gloriously fought outside the school on the third day of admission and got their faces bruised. They were keeping the good tradition of fighting and brawling from the primary to the secondary section, all the way to the university. The two females were punished by standing at the back of the classroom for about three hours since they arrived today.

What's the point?

Kaczki, who had known the two Zerg since they were cubs, was not involved in this, but simply sat in the classroom reading and talking to them. He had always had a big personality and never cared about the difference between male and female, playing with whoever was interesting. He didn't mind the fact that people called him 'weird', but he thought it was nice to be different from the public.

"How long are you going to stand?"

"Until school ends." Qi Ling Chao said in a bored voice. He seemed to be a little dissatisfied with the teacher's discipline.

"You don't have to wait for us, go eat first."

In response to Cheng YuanMu's suggestion, Kaczki pulled out a bag with a sandwich and drink from his school bag, "Don't worry. I brought lunch."

Then he read the book while eating by himself.

"You might as well go to the cafeteria. We've been standing around for half the day, and you're eating in front of us when we're hungry," Qi Ling Chao said through clenched teeth.

Kaczki used the straw to suck on the boxed drink with a 'slurping' sound and shook his head, "But I don't want to delay my reading time! And it's noisy in the cafeteria. So what should I do? Do you want a bite?"

Kaczki said, handing over the half-eaten sandwich.

"Uh! You've already eaten it," Qi Ling Chao suddenly showed a trace of panic.

"Huh? You still don't like it? Tsk, it's good to share it with you." Kaczki smacked his lips and turned back.

Qi Ling Chao opened his mouth, but closed it again. He looked a bit remorseful.

Cheng YuanMu glanced to the side, slightly relieved.

The classroom was silent, only the subtle sound of Kaczki chewing bread and turning pages could be heard. After a moment of silence, Cheng YuanMu took the initiative to break the silence, "What are you reading?"

"Polymer physics."

"Huh?" Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao looked at each other, showing a dumbfounded expression.

"I'm studying in advance for my college class."

"Don't know anything about it. I can't even learn these things in school now." Cheng YuanMu thought of the books he flipped through casually in the beginning of the school year, and said with a state of lingering fear in his heart.

"But I want to go to the main city's university college ah. The city's students have a single-digit quota for each city, so they're basically only accepting nobles, and I won't be able to get in unless I work hard," Kaczki sighed, rambling on about the small number of places.

The lunch break was soon over, and the students returned to class one by one. The returning Zerg would stare at Kaczki, who moved his chair to the end of the classroom and sat next to the two females, who were standing in punishment. In fact, this had been a rare sight in the middle school section for a long time, but with the change of students since they entered the school, the familiar fuss was back.

The more and more eyes were directed his way, the more Kaczki concentrated on reading the book, ignoring it. Cheng YuanMu reminded him in a low voice, "You should go back to your own class. Otherwise, there will be more Zerg talking about you."

"You've been causing trouble for so many years, and just now you remember that I'll be talked about?" Kaczki looked incredulous, "Okay. I'm leaving now. I have tutoring after school today, so don't wait up for me. See you tomorrow!"

"Oh, oh."

"Bye." Kaczki shoved his books in his bag, grabbed his chair and left through the back door of the classroom in a flash.

At 3:00 p.m., the school day ended and the students reported to their clubs. The class director came to the classroom to check on Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao who were still standing after the penalty. He looked at them with great displeasure, after all, who wouldn't find such problematic students in their own class troublesome.

"I heard that Kaczki from the next class is very close to you, right? He is a good student, and his class director sits at the table opposite me, so he seems to be worried about you guys mixing together. You have to be a bit more careful not to bring him down."

The two hummed and harrumphed, without a serious response. The class director spoke half a day as if playing piano to a cow, looked at the time, and seeing that his meeting has started, he angrily waved his hand, turned around and walked away.

In the past, the two Zerg would have laughed at the class director's reaction, but today after hearing the familiar admonition, they became a little disheartened.

Cheng YuanMu sighed a little, "Kaczki is being talked about again."

"He doesn't care, right?" Qi Ling Chao tossed his school bag over his shoulder, they usually hung out after school, so they didn't join the club, and this was the end of the school day.

"Yeah. He never cared," Cheng YuanMu cleared his throat, pretending to sound like Kaczki, "We play together big! Because what's the matter with friends getting a few words."

"Friends ah."

The two of them wandered towards the outside of the school, without saying a word.

"Speaking of which, Kaczki is really good. He can read that thing."

"Yeah. He will definitely become a great male Zerg," Qi Ling Chao looked at his friend, who was sincere, and continued, "and then he will go to the main city, enter the research institute, and reach the peak of Zerg life."

"We probably can't get into any college or university."

It's a good thing there were no schools in small towns, so they were able to get into the same school as Kaczki. It was one thing to put their mind to it, but it's also true that they didn't have a talent for learning. They were very self-aware.

After walking side by side in silence outside the school for a while, Cheng YuanMu suddenly asked, "Kaczki gave you a sandwich for lunch, why didn't you eat it?"

"…"

"You like him?"

"What else? Do I look like I can hide my heart? Kaczki is the only one who is too slow." Qi Ling Chao readily admitted to his friend.

"Yeah. I like him too." Cheng YuanMu echoed.

"Not surprised."

The two of them exchanged heavy news in a calm manner, neither of them showing excessive surprise. The two of them have been hanging out for three days, and they know exactly what the other was thinking, especially about Kaczki.

"How do you think we can change Kaczki's view of us from friends to the opposite sex?"

"I don't know! I thought it would be good to be close, but why doesn't he have any sense of male and female? All day long, he isn't thinking about anything serious, just reading those stupid books." Qi Ling Chao kicked the can on the side of the road to vent.

Cheng YuanMu thought for a while, then gave up thinking, "As a last resort, we have to go in directly."

Qi Ling Chao also simply gave up thinking: "Good idea."

Kaczki, who was in a tutoring session, suddenly sneezed.

"Who's talking about me?" Kaczki sneezed again and again.

At the end of the year in December, Kaczki, who had been enrolled in high school for more than six months, felt a deep sense of discomfort from his two friends.

"Why do you guys always come to the library with me these days? It's after school, why don't you hang out with your old buddies?"

"Tutoring, yes, we need tutoring." Qi Ling Chao cleared his throat.

"We don't go to the same school anymore, so we can't help it if we grow apart. Now learning is more important." Cheng YuanMu told a lie with his eyes open. They reported to their friends early in the morning that they were going to 'forget their old friends' and not participate in group activities.

Kaczki suspiciously scanned back and forth between the two faces, and then moved back to the book in disbelief, "What the hell?"

At that moment, a female who was sitting at the adjacent table suddenly closed the book and stood up and quickly walked away to a farther place to sit down again.

Cheng YuanMu lowered his voice and asked, "Is it because we are too noisy?"

"It's not mainly you who are making noise," Kaczki glanced over there, now running to apologize would be a bit deliberate, if the other party has not yet left by the time they did, in the way to say a good word.

The library was not convenient to chat, Kaczki read the book, undistracted, Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao soon entered a state of boredom after becoming dizzy looking at the words.

About fifteen minutes later, Qi Ling Chao, across from Kaczki, was soundly sleeping on the table.

Cheng YuanMu, as a side support, was sitting next to Kaczki and had slightly moved closer. He couldn't understand why the little male Zerg that used to cry in the small bushes in the park when he was little because he was lost, now became so attractive. The side of the serious face when reading a book was exceptionally charming, and even his hair was emitting a good smell.

Cheng YuanMu also looked at the very unattractively sleeping Qi Ling Chao. Will Kaczki like one of them? Or are they both out of the picture?

"What are you doing?" Kaczki looked at the book and found a shadow on the page, seeing Cheng Yuanmu's big face next to him after turning his head.

"Uh, I'm bored with that book, looking at your book."

Kaczki thought: you can't even read that book, and still come to see mine?

But these two were really unusual lately, and Kaczki was a bit used to it, so he raised his eyebrows and let it go.

It was almost dark. Kaczki stretched his back lazily, and packed up his book bag. On the other side of the table, Qi Ling Chao yawned and sat up, "What time is it?"

"It's six o'clock, time to go. Did you sleep well?" Kaczki said helplessly.

"Yes, yes, yes." Qi Ling Chao snorted, avoiding the mention of the 'tutoring' thing.

Kaczki turned his head and looked near the door, where the female was still reading.

The three of them cleaned up the table and before leaving, Kaczki purposely ran to the female's table, "Student, it's almost dark, aren't you leaving yet?"

"!"

Not expecting him to come over and talk to him, the defenseless female looked up fearfully at the tall females to Kaczki's left and right – both of whom had unpleasant expressions on their faces and looked like they were looking for a fight. He was so shocked that his entire body moved backwards, "I, what about me?"

In fact, Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu just nestled in the library all afternoon, and their bodies were screaming that it was suffocating.

"Ah, just now, we've disturbed you, right? I'm sorry." Kacki's attitude was quite gentle, and he always had a friendly tone, so the female in front of him relaxed a little, nodded his head and whispered to them that he didn't mind.

Kaczki apologized and left, and Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu followed him every step of the way, like two tall followers.

The three of them all lived in the same neighborhood, so they walked home together after coming out of the library. Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu obviously felt that Kaczki would become busier after going to college, so they cherished this opportunity to spend time with each other.

"Are you guys free on the weekend?" Kaczki asked.

"Yes!" Both of them answered in unison. They glanced at each other afterward.

"Finals are coming up, and I see you're all studying like crap. I said we'd go to the library together for tutoring, but I ended up reading my own books. Do you want to come to my house for some tutoring this weekend?"

"Yes!" This time Cheng YuanMu answered one second faster than Qi Ling Chao.

Qi Ling Chao immediately added exaggeratedly, "You are really a life saver!"

"Too exaggerated!"

The three of them were laughing and joking as they walked along the road, everything seemed to be the same as five or six years ago, but secretly everything was actually different.

Ding dong~

"Coming, coming." Kaczki hurriedly came down the stairs.

His female father, who was doing housework in the living room, looked up and asked, "You have guests?"

"YuanMu and Ling Chao said they were coming over for tutoring."

"You still hang out with them?" His father whispered.

"What's wrong?" Kaczki wondered.

His father shook his head, "Nothing. It's good to tutor anyway."

Kaczki went over and opened the door to see his two best friends each carrying drinks and fruit snacks.

"You're here for tutoring, right?"

"I have all my textbooks with me!" Qi Ling Chao pointed to his backpack and hurriedly clarified.

"Come on in. I've been so busy since I got accepted to college that this is the first time I've been here in the past six months."

Kaczki turned around and went into the house. Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu familiarly closed the door, took off their shoes, took out slippers from the shoe closet and changed into them. Then went to the living room to greet Kaczki's female father, handing over some fruits.

"Thank you." Kaczki's father was a little suspicious, had these two punk kids ever been so polite before?

"Hurry up!" Kaczki's voice came from the stairway, urging them on.

"Then we'll go upstairs first."

After half a year of coming to Kaczki's room, although the place has not changed a bit, the two females who had gradually changed their state of mind were now obviously a bit unnatural, and they couldn't help but look around after entering the room, and their eyes kept glancing at the bed.

"Sit, sit." Kaczki patted the cushion on the floor, he was quite enthusiastic about the tutoring. After all, he did not want to go to the main city alone, if possible, he hoped that Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu could also be admitted to the University College. The main city was a little worse, so that even if they changed the city, the three of them could be the same in the future as now.

"Let me see the results of your test? Uh-huh, uh-huh… uh-huh… As expected, we'll start with the first page of the textbook."

Qi Ling Chao: "…"

Cheng YuanMu: "…"

The two of them had expected to chat and improve their relationship, not get straight to the point from the moment they sat down.

In less than half an hour, the two people fell into a state of life without love.

Cheng YuanMmu called out, "Wait, I can't keep up."

The half-hearted Qi Ling Chao, "Uh, I um, where are we?"

"It's hard." Kaczki sighed in frustration and lay back on the bed. It's not hard to learn, but it's hard to teach two dregs who don't have the fundamentals or the talent to learn.

"Then let's rest for a while." Cheng YuanMu suggested.

"Good idea. Just in time for having a snack. Should I go for a snack run?" Qi Ling Chao pointed to the potato chips and beef jerky that had been swept away.

"I suggest you don't eat while studying, it will definitely distract you." Kaczki looked disapproving.

"You eat a lot, too."

"But I'm smarter than you guys."

"…" They couldn't argue.

Kaczki waved his hand, "Forget it, let's take a break. You go out to buy, take a break and come back so you can continue."

When Qi Ling Chao heard that he could catch his breath, he immediately stood up with his wallet: "What flavor do you want? I'll go to the mini-mart down the street, I'll be right back."

The list was jotted down on the communicator memo, and Qi Ling Chao disappeared in a flash.

"Why are you so inactive in your studies?" Kaczki spat.

After flipping through a few pages, Cheng YuanMu realized that he and Kaczki were suddenly the only ones left in this small space, and he suddenly got nervous.

Cheng YuanMu looked his way, but saw him lying on the bed and because he had been stretching, his top had slightly moved, and part of his waist was revealed. He remembered a long time ago when the three of them were young playing in the pond in the park, stripped to the top of the bare shoulders and they did not care then, but now his heartbeat suddenly became uncontrollably fast. He immediately turned his head back.

The room was a little quiet, Cheng YuanMu swallowed saliva. Hearing the sound, he hurried up and opened his mouth to say something. "By the way, your brother is not at home ah."

"Mn, he went to a friend's house."

"Oh."

The conversation ended abruptly. Cheng YuanMu would like to give a big slap to his own stupid mouth now.

The only sound in the room was the humming of the old air conditioner.

Cheng YuanMu took a deep breath, suddenly opened his mouth and asked, "So what do you think of me?"

"Honestly?"

"Of course." Cheng YuanMu's spirit was cold, and his heart almost stopped.

"You and Qi Ling Chao are both only half a catty."

"!?"

Cheng Yuanmu's heart was expecting and panicking.

He didn't know what Kaczki meant by this… was he refusing him?

Or did he actually find out the feelings of the two of them?

He stood up with a 'whoosh'.

"Ugh, to be honest, you can't get into the university at all. What are your plans in the future?"

"…"

"Well?" Kaczki saw Cheng YuanMu stand and turned his head to look at him, "Why did you stand up? To go to the toilet? Hey, whoa–! What are you doing?"

Suddenly, Cheng YuanMu moved quickly to roll over and kneel on top of Kaczki, holding him between the bed and himself.

"I like you."

"?" Kaczki's eyes widened.

"Not the kind of like between friends."

"Wait, wait, wait," Kaczki obviously could not digest this sudden situation, and fell into confusion.

With a boiling brain, Cheng YuanMu's actions were faster than his thoughts, and now that it had come to this point, he simply asked, "So I want to know, from the perspective of the opposite sex, what do you think of me?"

"I've never thought about the opposite sex before. And now you're suddenly asking…" Kaczki looked at Cheng YuanMu's face from a distance and close. After the second evolution of the Zerg, they still retained the face of adolescents, but the females at this stage were significantly taller than the males, their body also much stronger. He now had a face with angular features that have gradually taken on the shape of an adult female.

Cheng YuanMu looked at the face in front of him, and the lips that were saying something one after another, were the scenes he had imagined many times in his dreams. He gradually leaned down uncontrollably, even if he was going to be severely rejected afterwards and then die without getting along, it was death anyway, so why not kiss him before he died!

Kaczki reached out and put his hand against Cheng YuanMu's chest, "Hey, you wait."

At this time, the door suddenly opened.

"I'm back." Qi Ling Chao froze in the doorway. The two people in the bed turned their heads, two pairs of eyes met and for a while, the room was silent.

"Holy shit! Cheng! Yuan! Mu! You bastard! Do you have any sense of decency? How can you tell me to go out and then do it yourself first?"

"It was you who wanted to go out! Ugh!"

Qi Ling Chao slammed the plastic bag in his hand to the floor, and with an agile step, he grabbed Cheng YuanMu's collar and pushed him off the bed. Then he hit him mercilessly. Cheng YuanMu of course would not be beaten one-sidedly, so the two soon wrestled.

Do it first?

Kaczki rushed to sit up, then his brain gradually recovered: is it what I think it means!?

But that wasn't the most important! Kaczki hurriedly took all the fragile glasses on the small table into his arms and stepped aside, "Hey, hey, hey, stop it! Don't fight in my house!"

In the heat of the moment, the two men didn't stop immediately. Seeing the books, tissue boxes and lamps in his room being knocked to the ground one by one, Kaczki shouted angrily, "Stop it! Get out of here!"

Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao stopped at the same time and turned around to look at Kaczki.

"What's going on? What's that noise?" From downstairs, Kaczki's female father asked loudly.

"Nothing!" Kaczki responded loudly. He didn't want his father to see such a scene in the room.

"I'm sorry," Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu realized that the room was a mess and rushed to clean it up.

"Don't pick it up. You can go back today."

Hearing him say this, the two people were very confused, and hurriedly tried to explain, but the result was not good.

"I can't hear what you're saying! Okay, okay, that's it for today," Kaczki said, rubbing his hair with irritation, "Just leave me alone to think and calm down. Really, I've never thought about this kind of thing before."

Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu looked at each other, knowing that it would be embarrassing to stay behind at such a time, so they had to pack their bags with palpitations and token help Kaczki pick up the objects they had knocked to the floor.

"Don't do it, I'll do it myself!" Kaczki practically threw them out with a bang.

Closing the door behind him, Kaczki took a deep breath and sat down on his butt against the door.

It happened so fast he couldn't react! What was going on? The friend he grew up with suddenly confessed his passionate feelings for him and then tried to kiss him, and then another friend he grew up with came in, and it seemed that he also confessed his passionate feelings for him indirectly, and then fought with the former.

Kaczki, who had never thought about what love was until now, was in the most severe shock ever.

"We will absolutely be hated!" Cheng YuanMu sighed long and hard and slammed his fist on the fence.

"If you can do the forced kiss thing, don't be afraid to be hated!"

"But I did not kiss him! You rushed over to beat me up."

Qi Ling Chao dissatisfied, "Ah otherwise I could've stared blankly as you continued to go down for a kiss? You think I'm stupid?"

The two looked at each other, the marks of the earlier mutual beating gradually emerged. Their faces were red and the bruises were surely to show up tomorrow.

"You hit me really hard."

"Bullshit, there's not even any blood."

Although angry, after all, they were still friends and didn't fight to the death.

Cheng YuanMu said with some disapproval, "I thought we were on the same side. Now you want to say that we have to compete?"

"We are, but that kissing thing must also be counted as a first come, first served!"

"Then it's the first to go. Wouldn't you do it instead?"

"This," Qi Ling Chao said, quickly changing the subject, "Anyway, now we are bombarded out together. What to do?"

"He said he had to think about it, do you think that's a good sign?"

"I don't know."

The two men were apprehensive and heavy-hearted; neither of them thought Kaczki had any idea about love, and they didn't think he could come up with anything at all.

"Ah…! I'm so annoyed. If we can't even be friends after that, it's all your fault." Qi Ling Chao said, annoyed.

"If you don't take the first step, you won't be able to make progress in your life." Although Cheng YuanMu also admitted that he was impulsive, he also did not regret it. At least he let Kaczki know, so it was better than keeping it in his heart.

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The next day, Monday

"They went to fight again ah"

"There are big bruises on their faces, they must have fought really hard."

"Scary."

"These kinds of gangsters are still coming to school."

"Stop it, they seem to be in a bad mood today, don't get into trouble."

Inevitably, the classroom was filled with gossip again. Only the ones involved knew how the injuries came about. The two parties fought over the kissing of their favorite male and were later thrown out of the house together – it was shameful to talk about it.

They sent messages apologizing but received no reply from Kaczki, so they spent the weekend in an 'absolutely disgusted' mood, which continued until Monday morning. Just when they thought the relationship might be ending and they would lose their eight-year-long friendship, Kaczki appeared at the back door of their classroom, just like every other day, during their lunch break, "Going to the cafeteria?"

If not for the painful bruises on their faces, Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao would have thought they had traveled back in time to the previous week. The two of them were sitting at the same table as Kaczki. Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao were both a little nervous.

"I thought for sure you would not care about us." Cheng YuanMu whispered.

"As for that." Kaczki muttered.

Qi Ling Chao couldn't hold back, couldn't even eat his meal, and asked sharply, "So have you thought about it?"

"Yes."

"Then what did you think?"

Kaczki shook the tableware in his hand, "Well, I accept it!"

"Eh?"

"Huh?"

Cheng YuanMu and Qi Lingzhao didn't expect such an answer.

"Accepted means?"

"Didn't you confess your love to me?" Kaczki pointed to Cheng YuanMu, and then to Qi Ling Chao, "Although you did not directly confess, but I also know what you mean."

"Then I accepted, what's the problem?"

"…"

Qi Ling Chao exclaimed in surprise, "You accept? Wait a minute, do you know what this means?"

"It means to go out, right?" Kaczki asked in return.

Qi Ling Chao looked at Cheng YuanMu, who also looked incredulous. They probably both suspected that Kaczki didn't understand what the meaning of 'dating' was.

"I really didn't think about such things as male and female before. I just wanted to be with you guys when I went to college and went to a different city, even if I worked and entered society. The 'like' you say is not the kind of friends, but the kind of love and affection. You're thinking that you want to be together all the time, just like me, right?"

"That's right." Cheng YuanMu nodded his head.

"Then our thoughts are the same in terms of results, right?" Kaczki asked seriously.

Qi Ling Chao felt he was confused by Kaczki's distorted reasoning, but couldn't refute it.

"A lovers' relationship is not the same as a relationship with a friend." Cheng YuanMu reminded.

"Love. I didn't understand it before, but I can try to learn it in the future, it shouldn't be very difficult, right?"

Qi Ling Chao frowned, "It sounds like you're trying to accommodate us."

Kaczki had a natural expression: "Because you are very important to me."

Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu both blushed.

Kaczki's natural but impactful speech was really annoying.

So, in the winter of the first year of high school without the knowledge of their families and teachers, and with confusion to even those involved, the three went from a 'childhood friend' relationship into a lovers' relationship in a strange way.

"Did you hear me?"

"Hmm?"

"Why do I feel that the way we get along with each other is no different from before?"

The summer after their first year of high school, because they both failed their classes, Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu were taken by Kaczki to study again.

Because the air conditioner was broken, the only thing in the room was the electric fan buzzing. Although they were already not interested in studying, this kind of environment really made it more difficult for people to concentrate. The three of them were sitting on the floor around a low round table, with their final exam papers and reference books on the table.

"What kind of relationship do you want to have?" Kaczki slouched on the table. Every time he tutored these two, he was more exhausted than he was studying on his own.

"I think we should be more like lovers." Qi Ling Chao himself was not quite sure.

"Yes. Just now we even kissed."

"Well, that's what I said."

How should he describe it? It felt like their relationship was lacking a bit of ambiguity? …Or maybe there was no romantic atmosphere at all. Even though they were dating, they still met in this small room where they knew each other well, blowing on the old electric fan and joking around.

"Is that not enough?"

Kaczki got up, moved over, and lifted his head to kiss Qi Ling Chao's lips.

"Mmm."

Qi Ling immediately closed his eyes.

He'd been used to it for six months, but every time he felt the other person's lips, his heart beat faster.

Kaczki had really been 'learning' about love, and learning fast.

"I want it too." Cheng YuanMu dryly interrupted them.

"Then you come over here."

"It's too hot, I can't move."

As soon as the word 'hot' was mentioned, they two who had been self-hypnotized regained awareness of this serious problem.

"Why is your air conditioning broken again?"

"It's always like this cause it's old. I can make do with what I have, but male and female father don't bother to replace it, and in the end, they just don't want to spend money." Kaczki helplessly said.

Cheng YuanMu opened the communicator to check his bank account, "'ve been working part-time this summer, but really can not afford to buy a new air conditioner."

Kaczki sighed, "Ugh. I'd like to make a lot of money in the future."

The three of them slouched at the table. It was impossible to imagine what life would be like in the future.

After studying for a while in the heat and with beads of sweat gradually appearing on their foreheads, they also became less efficient, so they decided to go out to the public library.

The public library was spacious, cool, and usually empty, but recently there had been a lot of people coming in because of the heat, but it was not too noisy. The only downside might be that they couldn't do anything sticky and intimate in public.

"Hey, isn't that Yi Yi? What a coincidence." Kaczki sat down not long after, pointing to another table not far away.

Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao peeked out and saw that it was indeed the inferior female.

They had met once in the school library by chance. They later found out that the female was a year above them, not very talkative, and seemed a bit withdrawn, always lounging alone in the library. Kaczki was interested in the books he was reading and occasionally went to talk to him.

He found that he had a lot in common, and then they got to know each other.

"I'll go say hello."

"Oh."

Kaczki went over.

As soon as he left, the two men's expressions became tense.

"I told you, he must have a crush on that 'Yi Yi' guy."

"I also think so." Cheng YuanMu nodded with certainty and frowned.

"But they do talk well," Qi Ling Chao said somewhat reluctantly, but had to admit this.

"In fact, there is a question I have been a little curious about," Cheng YuanMu lowered his voice, "As females actually understand, that most males will marry several females, or many female concubines or something like that, right? But now in this situation, what are your thoughts?"

"I can understand, but…"

Qi Ling Chao did consider this issue. But he imagined that Kaczki might marry someone else, perhaps introduced by his family, or some kind of system match, a future matriarch, he thought of all kinds of possibilities. But no matter what, he and Cheng YuanMu must still be the most unique and important existence.

But the female called Yi Yi, every time Kaczki and he chatted, they smiled very happily. And they were talking about some topics that he and Cheng Yuan Mu did not understand, which made them very frustrated.

"Does this not make it seem like he is the true love, and we are the villains?"

This is not the so-called bamboo horse is not the enemy of heaven?

"I'm back. What did you say?"

"Nothing." The two replied in unison.

Kaczki scanned back and forth suspiciously, then sat back down. He was sure they were whispering something, but didn't want him to know.

"Are you jealous?"

"Cough, cough."

Qi Ling Chao almost choked on his saliva, realizing that this was a library, he quickly lowered his voice. Kaczki was surprisingly straightforward about this kind of thing. Of course, the two of them would not be able to hide their feelings and their mood showed on their face.

Cheng YuanMu nodded, "To be honest, a bit."

"Well…" Kaczki looked a bit embarrassed. He did have a good feeling about Yi Yi, although it hasn't been long since they got acquainted, they were already having pleasant chats. But if Ling Chao and YuanMu were against it, of course he would still choose them.

"If you like him, I will not say anything." Cheng YuanMu said.

"Although I do not like him, your decision is your own," Qi Ling Chao reminded in a small voice, "But we are still more important, right?"

Kaczki gave a 'that's for sure' look and replied, "Of course."

Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao were defeated, they really couldn't beat Kaczki's smile. As long as it was his request, his wish, it was reasonable.

At the beginning of the second year of high school, Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu went through three evolutions one after another, so they could basically be called adult females.

Most Zerg evolved three times at the age of 18 or less and later at 20 years old. So this time period in the same age was considered early, originally the two people who were particularly conspicuous at school, had grown in size and were now more outstanding.

Kaczki and the two had more than a full head difference, so he appeared particularly short. He complained all the time about how he hadn't reached his third evolution yet. After all, he now had to stand on his tiptoes to get a kiss, which was humiliating.

"You two are getting so big." Kaczki grumbled.

"Soon, at most two years, you will also grow taller." Cheng YuanMu comforted him. Of course, this kind of consolation did not help much.

Imagining Kaczki becoming an adult made Cheng YuanMu slightly blush, not in embarrassment, but only because of the expectation. In order to develop a good body, in the Zerg law, the relationship with third stage pre-evolutionary males was strictly prohibited. In short, although they were now in a relationship, further activities would have to wait for some time.

"Why are you slightly blushing?" Kaczki keenly noticed the change in him.

"Just finished playing ball, a little hot." Cheng YuanMu could not directly say 'I'm masturbating to the thought of having sex with you in the future'.

Kaczki was very happy that Cheng YuanMu and Qi Lingzhao had joined the basketball club and soccer club respectively. Sports students would have extra points in the future, not to mention the fact that there were clubs after school, which indirectly reduced the chance of them getting into fights and trouble. The teachers already didn't like them, and if they got into more trouble, they might get suspended or expelled. He didn't want to see that.

After the club, he came to meet the two in the atrium on the first floor of the school to go home together. Cheng YuanMu came first, so they chatted while waiting for Qi Ling Chao.

"I can't even do anything at school." Kaczki sighed.

"That's right, if it gets to the teachers, your male and female fathers will know immediately."

Although it was clear to anyone who was paying attention that the atmosphere between the trio had become a little more ambiguous, they really didn't get too intimate at school.

Kaczki hummed and said, "I'm okay with that. It's true that my male and female fathers don't really like me hanging out with you guys, and I'm sure it's even more so with romance, but it's my business anyway, and they can't control it."

"Re-really?" Cheng YuanMu, a little surprised, asked, "Does this mean you want to formally introduce us to your elders?"

"Yes. It depends on whether you are willing or not." Kaczki nodded his head.

"Of course I am!"

"As long as you promise not to go out and cause trouble all the time–" Kaczki cautioned.

"Okay, okay." Cheng YuanMu immediately agreed, he and Qi Ling Chao in fact have been very restrained recently.

After a while, Qi Ling Chao came running over with sweat, and they walked outside the school together.

When they passed by the atrium, they saw Yi Yi's figure across the flower bed. He was holding a pile of books and was surrounded by a group of inferior females and a few female Zerg.

"Sorry, I'm going home."

"What kind of home is a place where you live?"

"That's funny."

"Don't go, you haven't finished talking yet."

The female Zerg's unique hearing power allowed Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao to hear the conversation from a distance. The malice and banter contained in the other party's words was obvious, and it was obvious that the inferior female named Yi Yi was trapped and couldn't get out of the situation.

"Hey, it's Yi Yi. He hasn't gone home yet."

"Yi Yi!" Kaczki waved his hand and greeted loudly.

"It's the male."

"This guy still knows the male Zerg?"

"Isn't this the famous group of three?"

The group of Zerg who were bullying Yi Yi muttered a few words, and when they saw Kaczki walking towards them, they left one after another.

"Kaczki." Yi Yi's smile was a little stiff. He saw Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao behind Kaczki, and he nodded to them politely in greeting.

Qi Ling Chao didn't respond. They were clearly love rivals, but every time they met, even though this female was cowering, he always had a polite attitude. Qi Ling Chao saw this as the other showing off, which made him really angry.

"Those were your friends just now?"

"Ah no, just classmates."

"Are you going home now? Do you want to go together?"

"Mn, I'm going back now. But our homes are not the same way."

Clearly, he was not in good shape, pale, and hurried away after a few words. Kaczki was confused, thinking the other person was not feeling well.

Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao looked at each other and sighed inside. Only males who had never understood what 'bullying' is would be ignorant about such a situation.

But the one called Yi Yi seemed to be trying to hide the fact that he was being bullied and did not want Kaczki to know about it. The two of them did not have to be good people and explain to Kaczki. The two of them just had pretend they didn't see anything.

But then, coincidentally, a week later, they ran into a similar situation again.

"Is he always being bullied?"

"Who knows?"

This day, Kaczki had tutoring outside of school, so he didn't join them. Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao bought sports drinks from the kiosk next to the school playground after their club meeting, and after drinking and wiping their sweat, they walked through the atrium towards the entrance of the school and ran into each other again.

Kaczki wasn't there, and they didn't think they had any responsibility to save the day.

"I heard that the male was very nice to you last time, right? I wonder if he knows what you do?"

"Let go, it has nothing to do with him." Yi Yi wanted to leave, but was blocked by the two inferior females, who clasped his wrists so firmly, that he could not break free.

"Don't be in a hurry to leave."

"Lend us some money to spend."

The back of Yi Yi's head hurt, and the hair on the back of his neck was grabbed.

"Uh-huh…! I, I don't have any money to give you guys."

"Didn't your female father go out to sell, don't you earn a lot?"

"Aren't you selling too?"

"No, I'm not! I said I was just working there as a cleaner," Yi Yi retorted, but was soon pulled by the hair again and shut up in pain.

"That's pretty much the same thing. Come on, get your wallet out, don't dawdle." The group surrounding him laughed. Yi Yi, standing in the middle, was pushed around, eyes staring at the ground, not daring to shout resistance.

"…" Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao stood still.

"Really unpleasant," said Qi Ling Chao, gritting his teeth.

The two looked at each other, did not say anything, but acted in unison to walk towards that side.

"Hey."

"—!"

Several inferior females and the females they pulled to support turned around and were startled to see Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao.

These two had a notoriously bad reputation within the school. The two of them were known for their bad reputation in the school. In addition, they had their third evolution earlier, and now they were much taller than the group of Zerg, and looked quite intimidating.

"What's up? We are talking to our classmate. Want to pick a fight?"

Qi Ling Chao clicked his tongue in disgust, "You dare to talk nonsense with your eyes open? It is obvious who is picking on whom."

He kicked the wall, and suddenly the situation seemed to have shifted.

"What, what, you two punks, do you still have any sense or morals?" Yayoi, who was holding Yi Yi's wrist, let go of his hand in fear and took a step back.

"We wouldn't do this kind of garbage even if we are punks." Cheng YuanMu laughed coldly.

"I know, you two are always following that male called Kaczki, right? Do you know that he gives attention to this inferior female every day?"

When this was mentioned, Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu became even more furious. But at this time, this rage was also directed at this group of small Zerg who didn't know what was good for them.

"That is also between us, none of your business!"

Qi Ling Chao looked as if he was about to start fighting, scaring the group of female Zerg, who panicked and turned to run away. Their body was smaller, so it was likely that they'd be punched so hard that they would have to go to the hospital with broken bones.

A few of the females among them were clearly far less combative than Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu, so they naturally slipped away very quickly.

"What garbage." Qi Ling Chao cursed in a low voice. He seemed itching for a fight, but the other side had run away, and he didn't want to go after them to beat them up.

"Thank you."

Yi Yi pulled up his sleeve to cover his wrist, which was clenched red. The hair was yanked hard, so the back of his neck at the hair roots also reddened. No one said anything for a while, so the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

"Why don't you resist?" Qi Ling Chao asked in an unpleasant manner.

"I'm used to it and if I resist it will be more trouble next time."

The two of them looked a little angry at his somewhat cowering look.

"Can you please not tell Kaczki about this?" Yi Yi asked tentatively.

"…"

The two men looked at each other, and Cheng YuanMu nodded his head.

Qi Ling Chao lowly hummed, "I won't bother to tell. Why give you a chance to make him feel bad for nothing?"

"Thank you very much." Yi Yi ignored Qi Ling Chao's somewhat harsh attitude and bowed deeply to thank him.

"Don't do this, it's annoying to watch."

Yi Yi raised his head, fingers nervously rubbing against each other, and asked in a low voice: "Can I ask why did you help me?"

"Huh?"

At Qi Ling Chao's unpleasant tone, Yi Yi was slightly startled. But he continued, "I thought you guys hated me."

"Yes, I hate you. But after seeing this kind of scene, I couldn't pretend that I was not annoyed."

"…"

Cheng YuanMu added, "And, Kaczki is very concerned about you. We don't want him to feel bad."

Hearing Kaczki's name, Yi Yi froze, and his pale complexion seemed to have eased a little.

"You like him too, don't you?"

Yi Yi opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I'm sorry. But I'm not good enough for him, so don't worry."

"Ah…! The dawdling is annoying!"

"—!"

Qi Ling Chao grumpily grabbed Yi Yi's collar. This scene made it seem like they were bullying this inferior female, not obvious at all that the two fierce females across from him were the ones who saved him.

"I don't know if you have a bad family background or what, but you have such a good male liking you, what else do you have to lose confidence over ah?"

Yi Yi showed some bewilderment, and he seemed to be confused why, after he had taken the initiative to step back, instead provoked the two female Zerg in front of him.

The two females in front of him were unhappy.

Cheng YuanMu sighed, he was a little calmer than Qi Ling Chao, "Kaczki is in our hands all the time. He's showing you affection, but you're trying to escape? "

They believe more in "Kaczki should get what he wants if he likes it" than "everyone Kaczki likes are enemies".

"But I…"

"Forget it, it's useless to talk to this kind of coward," Cheng YuanMu did not listen to Yi Yi finish, and patted Qi Ling Chao, "Do not pull him up. The teacher will put the blame on our heads."

Qi Ling Chao released his hand in dissatisfaction.

Cheng YuanMu dropped a "next time no one will help you" after the two picked up the school bag on the ground and left. When they walked away, Qi Ling Chao glanced back and saw Yi Yi still standing in the same place, with his head down, wondering what he was thinking.

"He's not scared by us, is he?"

"I don't know."

The two of them walked out of the school without looking back again.

It took a long time for Yi Yi to move. He slowly squatted down and picked up the books scattered on the ground one by one. The previous torn hair was messy in his face, and the emotion contained in his eyes could not be seen.

"Do you think we are digging a hole for ourselves?" Qi Ling Chao looked a bit remorseful.

Since the last time they said those heavy words to Yi Yi, the other side seemed to have listened to them and became a lot more enthusiastic towards Kaczki. It was their fault for being nosy… After the last incident, the two of them have been curious about the words of the small group that bullied Yi Yi, so they asked their friends to inquire about Yi Yi's family.

It seems that Yi Yi was abandoned by his family when he was very young and was raised by his adoptive father, also a female, who found him on the street. His adoptive father was a strip dancer in a bar and was not earning much, so when Yi Yi grew up a little, he worked as a cleaner in a store on that street, sweeping floors and washing dishes to earn money to support the family. It wasn't anything shameful, but these things had been used as a weapon of malice by some Zerg since childhood.

"Do you want to tell Kaczki? He'll know sooner or later."

"Don't. Let him talk about it himself later." Cheng YuanMu shook his head.

"That's right, why are we worrying about him." Qi Ling Chao snorted coldly.

Kaczki and Yi Yi were in the library again, and while Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu wanted to join them, the thought of tadpole-sized words gave them a headache, so they just wandered outside.

When they came out of the arcade, they ran into an unexpected guest they hadn't seen in a long time.

"So you are still alive. What, you can't be a good boy anymore?" The two turned around, and the one who was picking on them was a gangster from the school next door who had been bothering them a lot.

Because of Kaczki's "study hard, don't get into trouble" request, they hadn't hung out after school for a long time, and only occasionally they encountered something irritating, but they also suppressed their temper and pretended not to see it.

Seeing that the two were going to leave, the other side immediately blocked the way, provoking them, "You're going to run away?"

"You haven't been up to anything lately."

"It's because of that good student male Zerg, right? What's his name?"

"You don't dare to hit him?"

Qi Ling Chao clenched his fist, as if he was about to rush forward in the next second. However, he was stopped by Cheng Yuan Mu in time. The latter shook his head: "Don't be impulsive. They don't dare to touch the male Zerg."

No matter who provoked first, the first to start lost. The other side was also using provocation, and fighting between females, as long as it did not cause a big deal it didn't matter. But if males were involved, then the other party's punishment was not as simple as getting kicked out of school.

Otherwise, Kaczki would not be mixed with them for so long and still be safe.

Kaczki used to joke, "Why don't you take me with you in future fights, and when the other side comes over I'll bump into them, and then you'll record a video and call the police?"

Of course, this was also a joke. Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu could not use him as a self-exploding bomb.

"Tsk, frustrating." After walking away, Qi Ling Chao annoyingly kicked away the stones on the road. On the one hand, they couldn't touch Kaczki, and on the other, Kaczki said he wanted to officially be open about his relationship with his father and mother!

"Bear with it." Cheng YuanMu also took a moment to calm the fire in his chest.

They've had the negative reputation of being gangsters, and they were now trying to repair that image. At least for the short term, they wouldn't be caught starting fights at school.

After wandering around for a while, the two of them went to the library to look for Kaczki.

"Finally, you're here. It's almost dark." Kaczki was already packing his bag.

"It's time to go home together." Cheng YuanMu even sat down, and Qi Ling Chao stood next to the table, waiting.

"You guys seem like bodyguards picking me up." Kaczki said helplessly.

After greeting the two, Yi Yi looked a little hesitant. They did not go the same way, and when they were about to say goodbye after leaving the library door, he quickly pulled out two boxes from his bag.

"That… I made the snacks myself."

"For us?" Cheng Yuan Mu pointed at himself.

"Yes." Yi Yi nodded vigorously.

Qi Ling Chao made a 'ha' sound, "Anyway, it's just leftovers from Kaczki's portion, right?"

"No, it's not."

"Ah. How come you gave them more than to me!" Kaczki shouted.

"Females have a bigger appetite, right?" Yi Yi said in a small voice with some uncertainty.

Cheng YuanMu took it without saying a word.

"I don't want to eat for nothing." Qi Ling Chao muttered in a low voice, reaching for the rustic box.

Seeing that they had all taken it, Yi Yi's face was filled with a little smile of joy. They agreed on their next meeting and left in different directions.

After that, this group of Zerg got along quite harmoniously. Gi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu didn't see Yi Yi being bullied again. They didn't know if he had finally gotten tougher or if they just didn't run into each other. Of course, they were not kind enough to personally care about Yi Yi's affairs.

Since long ago, there were only the three of them. Although Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu would occasionally playfully argue with each other over Kaczki, they never saw each other as enemies from the very beginning. After high school, Yi Yi suddenly came in, and although he was very nice and didn't fight with them for Kaczki, he was the "outsider" who broke their eight-year-long trio. They always felt a little awkward.

In the first semester of sophomore year before the end of the year, Qi Ling Chao was still a bit motivated to study. He and Cheng YuanMu secretly decided to raise their grades, and if they could get a score that didn't look too bad, they would go to Kaczki's house to meet his male and female fathers.

Even his parents were stunned. They never imagined that their child would ever want to study.

However, reality was harsher than they thought. The final grades came out and although they were not as bad as before, their grades were still not good. Cheng YuanMu would still be able to go to the worst university, floating under that grade line, but Qi Ling Chao was even worse than him.

One day Kaczki asked the two of them to come over for tutoring, but Qi Ling Chao did not want to go.

"I don't want to study anymore. I'm not cut out for it anyway."

After being dragged home by Kaczki, Qi Ling Chao didn't even want to touch his books.

"There is already some progress. Don't give up so soon." Kaczki admonished.

"Kaczki's right." Cheng YuanMu smiled helplessly and patted Qi Ling Chao's back.

However, today Qi Ling Chao was even worse than usual. In the past six months, they have been picked on many times by those bastards from the next school, and were ridiculed, every time he was about to explode his temper, but in the end, he held it back.

"Continue studying."

Qi Ling Chao gave a dissatisfied glance at Cheng YuanMu and slapped his hand away.

Kaczki didn't notice Qi Ling Chao's irritated expression, and still nagged in his normal, light-hearted tone as usual, "I'm doing this for your own good, so that we can go to the main city together, and so we can stay together in the future."

Qi Ling Chao "slapped" a palm on the table, and abruptly stood up. "What test, ah, every day, test, test, test. So annoying! What's the point? I can't get in anyway!"

Kaczki froze. Although Qi Ling Chao often lost his temper, but only to others, and never yelled at him since he was a child.

"You have Yi Yi now anyway and you can go to the main city together, right? There is no difference if I go or he does."

"Learn a fart. I'm going back." Qi Ling Chao said as he picked up the book and roughly threw it in his bag, heading straight out the door.

Cheng YuanMu also stood up, him and Kaczki looking at each other awkwardly. The only thing that he heard was the sound of 'thud-thud-thud' on the stairs going down, followed by the sound of the door being slammed shut outside.

Kaczki was dumbfounded by the yelling, and it took a while before he came to his senses, trying to go after him, only to be stopped by Cheng YuanMu, "Let him calm down for a while."

"I said the wrong thing," Kaczki took two steps backwards and sat back on the bed, looking very depressed, "Do you also think I'm annoying?"

"No, no, it's not your fault. It's not that he finds you annoying, he's just a little stressed and in a bad mood," Cheng YuanMu hurriedly sat down to comfort Kaczki, "You don't know him yet, his temper comes and goes quickly, and his words are faster than his thoughts. I guarantee you that he will regret what he said tonight."

Kaczki had looked like he didn't know what to think, and Cheng YuanMu couldn't stay in this situation. Before he left, because he was afraid that Kaczki would feel bad, he repeatedly told Kaczki that he did not do anything wrong, to not be unhappy over this, and also made promises such as "tomorrow if Qi LingChao still won't come to take the initiative to apologize, I will bring him here even if I have to force him".

The truth was, Cheng YuanMu did not know his brother well enough.

—It wasn't even night yet, when Qi Ling Chao returned home and entered the door, regretting his actions already.

"I'm definitely going to be hated." Qi Ling Chao collapsed on the bed in despair. He didn't know how he was going to face Kaczki afterwards. Would it be useful to go to the door and apologize on his knees?

He tossed and turned in frustration and was in no mood to eat dinner. Suddenly the communicator vibrated and Qi Ling Chao sat up with a jolt, rushing to check the incoming mail.

"Are you still angry?"

It was from Kaczki.

Qi Ling Chao was a little excited that Kaczki was still willing to contact him: "I'm not angry!"

Kaczki, who was in his own home, automatically assumed that the exclamation mark indicated the hidden dissatisfaction of the other person.

So he's still angry!

"It's okay if you don't want to study."

Kaczki sent it after giving his reply some thought. He had never felt that his unintentional expectations had become a burden on the other's shoulders. Giving it a careful thought, what if they didn't go to school together? They can still stay together.

However, this statement was distorted in Qi Ling Chao's eyes.

"What now? He's losing his patience with me," Qi Ling Chao said, so remorseful that he wanted to bang his head against the wall.

Kaczki waited for a long time, but got no response, thinking that he really should not bring up this matter again, and sat down on the floor dejectedly.

The next day.

A sleep deprived and dark circles clad Qi Ling Chao was lying in bed spacing out. When he heard his communication device vibrate, he instantly shot over to grab the device that was tossed to the floor. It wasn't Kaczki who sent the message, but Cheng YuanMu.

"I'm downstairs."

Qi Ling Chao was a little disappointed, but still, he washed up quickly and ran out to meet him.

"Haven't slept all night?"

Qi Ling Chao nodded without saying anything else.

"Have you calmed down? Kaczki is very worried about you."

Qi Ling Chao looked a little wilted.

"He doesn't blame you, but there seem to be some self-blame." Cheng YuanMu's tone carried a hint of complaint.

"Sorry. I will go and apologize. Let's go to the shopping street and buy something as an apology gift."

Kaczki had a sweet tooth. Qi Ling Chao went to the bakery and bought some desserts and sweet pastry. He was a little hesitant to buy them, as Yi Yi would have made them himself and given them to Kaczki. Was this sincere enough as an apology? But it seemed like he didn't know how to do anything.

"These are all his favorites."

"Ah, hmm."

Qi Ling Chao's train of thoughts were interrupted by Cheng YuanMu's words and snapped back to reality.

"I don't know if Kaczki is up at this hour. He usually likes to sleep in during breaks."

The two had just walked out of the bakery and passed a nearby alleyway before being stopped by a few figures that emerged out of nowhere.

"Did the two good boys come out to play together today?"

"Are such meaningless provocations fun?" Cheng YuanMu did not even bother to spare them a look and tried to get around the female Zerg that were looking for trouble.

"Don't leave just yet ah. I actually have something to say to you two today."

"There's nothing to say between us." Qi Ling Chao said in an unpleasant manner, glaring at them. His heart was so set on going to Kaczki's house to make amends that he didn't even feel like getting into an argument with them.

"Some friends of ours at your school said they happened to meet an annoying little Zerg. We invited him to come play with us. It seems that he is very close with you guys."

Qi Ling Chao's heart almost missed a beat, "You dare?!"

Cheng YuanMu also found it unbelievable and whispered to Qi Ling Chao, "Are they crazy?"

Both of them seemed to think that something happened to Kaczki. After all, the other party was flaunting so aggressively as if they had the upper hand. But the next thing they said was, "That inferior female is a little too bold, isn't he? I didn't expect you guys to be protective, willing to protect such a small thing?"

Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu froze and stared at each other.

It is Yi Yi?

This was a really big misunderstanding. They just happened to save Yi Yi the last time they were at school and because of Kaczki, Yi Yi was seen hanging around them several times. The campus bullies must have mistook them as Yi Yi's good friends.

"You guys are mistaken, aren't you? He has nothing to do with us." Qi Ling Chao sneered, but his voice was not as casual as his words, he sounded a little gritty.

"I heard from my friend that he is very arrogant, just because he has a good backing, he does not even respect them. Since it's a misunderstanding, it's good that they can have at it with him."

The group of female Zerg laughed.

Cheng YuanMu clenched his fist.

Could they ignore them and just walk away? Even if they had the face to meet Kaczki, they could not go against their own conscience.

In the end, the two still followed them through the alley towards a more remote street.

"This Yi Yi is such a pain in the ass!" Qi Ling Chao hissed in a whisper that only Cheng YuanMu could hear. But there was still a hint of worry in his voice.

The worst situation that could happen was that the other party bluffed them to walk into a group of Zerg. If so, they could settle things with just a brawl, spilling some blood was inevitable.

But the situation was actually worse than imagined.

The two turned to the end of a remote alley and there was indeed a large group of Zerg from the school next door, all familiar faces. Also present was the group of Zerg that had bullied Yi Yi previously. Seeing this, they could only say that people were like birds of a feather…

"We can surely count on you guys to get things done." One of the inferior females said with a smirk, "He's really gotten bold. He's ignored us several times before, and even brought up teachers and friends to scare us. Today, he still followed us after seeing a group of female Zerg."

"Hey!"

Qi Ling Chao couldn't help but yell. It was disgusting to hear them gloat of their act of violence and threats with such pride.

Yi Yi, who was held down on the ground by a couple of sub females, coughed violently. His face was swollen and red. His eyes could barely stay open. He had obviously been slapped as they were still bleeding nail scratches across his cheeks. Unlike female Zerg, inferior females didn't have excellent recovery abilities, these wounds would take at least a month or two to heal, not to mention may even leave scars.

"What do you have against him, for you guys to bully him like this?" Cheng YuanMu was angry and genuinely curious. It was understandable if it were them, who picked fights just because they didn't see eye to eye with each other. But Yi Yi had no hostile intent and would avoid when he couldn't afford to mess with them, yet he was targeted by these groups of Zerg.

The leader of the inferior females laughed as if it was just a matter of course, "It's all thanks to that eccentric foster father of his and who asked him to be such a people pleaser. He deserves all these! He brought it upon himself."

The Zerg present laughed, perhaps it seemed to them that a cowardly inferior female like Yi Yi was ludicrous.

"—Huh!?"

Suddenly a female Zerg was knocked to the ground with a straight punch, and all the laughter came to a screeching halt.

"I think you guys are the ones who deserve it. I don't usually hit inferior females, but today you'll be getting it from me."

Qi Ling Chao roared in anger and the scene became chaotic at his first strike.

The female Zerg from the school next door were naturally not easy to deal with. Originally those inferior females standing in the front were fearless, but when facing Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu who had an inexplicable tacit understanding without even needing any discussion, even if they were to take on a few more opponents, they would only get beaten to retreat in whimpers.

"Fuck, stop them!"

"Damn!"

Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu's arms were quickly tainted with blood. To put it bluntly, they were a group of punks who have never learned any professional fighting skills. They were only relying on experience and impulsiveness. The more desperate side naturally looked more violent.

The group of inferior females had never seen such a scene before and were terrified. They did not expect that even with so many female Zerg, they could not stop Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu, and immediately tried to escape. But the leader had just taken two steps before he was kicked in the back by Cheng YuanMu and sent flying to land flat on the ground. The leader passed out instantly and the rest of the group was so shocked they did not know to run or to just stay put.

It seemed like Yi Yi had been pressed kneeling on the ground for a period of time. Even after he was free from the control of the group leader when they broke into a fight, he still struggled to stand up. His legs trembled as he supported himself against the wall, trying his best to stay far from them.

Cheng YuanMu caught a glance of him and growled in a low voice, "Get out of here!"

Yi Yi's face was so swollen it was hard to form any expressions, so he nodded. He did not hesitate to leave the place, moving with the wall as his support. Although he did not move quickly, the group of inferior females were pumped with the adrenaline they did not even notice the small and insignificant Yi Yi.

When the group of inferior females realized and before they could alert the others, Qi Ling Chao kicked a sub female in the stomach.

"Bluergh!"

"No!"

"Uhhh…!"

The female bent over and fell backwards, losing footing, just to crush onto the whole group of inferior females.

"The inferior females are really weak. How could they faint just like that?" Qi Ling Chao laughed as he complained.

"It's better that way. I can't guarantee if I would cripple those inferior females."

"Ling Chao! Behind you!"

Cheng YuanMu shouted. He got tangled up with several females next to him, and despite his efforts to try to get away from them, he couldn't get to Qi Ling Chao's side in time.

Qi Ling Chao always had this bad habit of getting smug ahead of time during a fight. Due to his recklessness, he would suffer these unnecessary injuries.

He turned around in shock and in front of his eyes was a female Zerg that appeared out of nowhere, with a baseball bat in his hand. His experience told him that he would not be able to dodge this. He gritted his teeth, seems like I'll have to sacrifice one arm to block this!

"Clang—"

Qi Ling Chao watched as the head of the female Zerg in front of him and a metal barrel caused a loud bang, followed by a loud thud as the Zerg lost focus and fell to the ground.

Behind the fallen female Zerg, stood Yi Yi, who should have escaped already.

Yi Yi, with eyes wide with horror, trembled and dropped the barrel he had just picked up from the ground. His arms would not stop trembling and one could see that he had just used all his strength to strike.

"H-he's not dead… right?"

"Pft! As if you could kill a Zerg with that so-called strength of yours!"

Qi Ling Chao quickly snapped back to his senses and turned around to start another round of fighting.

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"Haa, haa…"

"That's all of them, right?"

Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao sat on the ground back to back, panting heavily. They hadn't fought in a long time, and they didn't expect such an exciting many-on-two group fight when they came over.

"This is too much for rehab."

The two of them hadn't moved their arms and legs for a long time, and they were a little off their feet, and their faces and arms and chests were covered with traces of blood.

"It was too dangerous just now." Cheng YuanMu said with some dissatisfaction. So many years have passed, Qi Ling Chao still could not get rid of that bad habit of his.

"Hahahaha sorry sorry." Those words came out of Qi Ling Chao's mouth, but there was no trace of sincerity in his apology.

"By the way…"

Speaking of this matter, where was Yi Yi?

The two people suddenly got anxious and hurriedly stood up.

"Is it over?"

"Wah!" Qi Ling Chao was surprised at the sudden voice that appeared from behind him that he almost leaped from where he was standing.

He and Cheng YuanMu both turned around and saw Yi Yi crawling out of a small wooden box.

"What are you, a rat? How did you get into such a small, broken box!"

"I was worried if there were still those Zerg outside and could not run away, so I found a place to hide first. Probably because I'm so insignificant, they didn't notice me."

Cheng Yuan Mu breathed a sigh of relief: "That's true."

"Are you guys okay?" Yi Yi staggered over, "We need to get those treated quickly."

"For female Zerg, these scratches will be gone in a few days! You should worry about yourself. That swelling and those injuries, you look like you got disfigured! " Qi Ling Chao said in a bad mood.

Yi Yi touched his face, even at the slightest brush of his own fingertips sent jolts of pain so they shied away unconsciously.

"I'm fine. I'm sorry for making you guys come to my rescue again."

"Don't flatter yourself! We just wanted to fight with our former rival. It just so happened that you were here too."

"Thank you very much."

"Fuck! Are you listening to me?!"

Yi Yi fumbled in his pants pocket for the communicator that had been broken by the group of sub females, and was at a loss: "What should we do now, should we call the police?"

"And let the police arrest us as well?" Qi Ling Chao said rhetorically. Their reputation was not very good to begin with. Plus, there weren't any cameras in this area, the police would never believe even if they tried to explain what happened here.

"The matter will only get blown up if the police get involved. Let us take a breather, then we'll bring you to a nearby clinic to get you checked. If it's serious, we'll go to the hospital." Cheng YuanMu explained.

He and Qi Ling Chao exhausted their strength and sat back down on the ground again, until their breathing eventually calmed.

"You…"

Yi Yi froze for a moment before realizing that Qi Ling Chao was talking to him: "Ah, yes. What's wrong?"

"That move wasn't bad just now. Thanks."

Yi Yi's jaw dropped slightly in surprise, he never thought Qi Ling Chao would thank him.

"Hey…!"

All three of them were startled. It was Kaczki's voice.

"Kaczki?!"

"You guys are here! I couldn't even get through your communication device! I couldn't find you guys when I went to your house. I heard on the way…"

When he heard Cheng YuanMu's voice calling his name, he ran in from the alley. To the end of the alley, he was shocked by the tragic scene in front of his eyes.

"Yi Yi?"

Kaczki froze, he could not process how Yi Yi and the group fight was in any way related.

Yi Yi subconsciously blocked his face with his arm: "Don't, don't look at me. I must look terrible!"

What?

Qi Ling Chao instantly recalled yesterday's quarrel that was temporarily forgotten because of the excitement of the fight, and hurriedly explained, "Let me explain. This time, we really did not initiate the fight. It's just that we could not stand aside and not do anything! I went to get you dessert to make amends today. I got desserts!"

He looked around and finally saw the poorly disfigured dessert box and plastic bag lying in the corner after the fight for justice.

"What dessert!? That's not the issue here, let's get to the hospital first!" Kaczki was confused and anxious.

"Let's get to a nearby clinic first." Cheng YuanMu supported himself off the ground and stood up. These kinds of injuries were considered quite common for him. If they went to the hospital, they would probably contact their guardians directly, and they didn't want to take this matter to their parents.

The good thing was that they were all superficial wounds. Kaczki called a rental car and went to a small clinic nearby to treat their wounds. Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao had some bruises and minor wounds so they were taken care of quickly with a bit of tending to. Plus, they were Zerg with faster recovering ability. The doctor said they should recover within three days.

Yi Yi's injuries were more serious. The doctor asked the nurse to tend to the bleeding wounds on his face more carefully and prescribed him with anti-inflammatory medicine. He also gave him an ice pack and asked him to rest in the lounge.

"You sprained your ankle, but it's nothing too serious. Take a rest here for a while and call a cab after. It may take up to a week to heal, so be sure to rest a lot." The doctor could see that they had a lot of say to each other, so he excused himself to let them use the ward before heading out back to the waiting room.

The facilities of the small clinic in the community were very basic, and the ward was also very small. Yi Yi sat sideways on a folding hospital bed, while the remaining three sat on plastic benches.

"Can you explain what's going on here?" Kaczki was relieved to finally confirm that everyone was safe and sound.

Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao looked at each other and began to tell the story from the beginning of what happened this morning, how they were picked on by the group of punks, were told that Yi Yi was in their hands, and how they finally couldn't stand the anger before they fought.

Yi Yi looked hesitant for a long time and also opened his mouth to tell Kaczki the whole story of how he was bullied because of his birth.

"Since when?"

"When I was still in the middle school department."

The town they lived in was a small place where they didn't see each other, and unfortunately, moving up to high school didn't stop the things that happened before, but rather made them worse.

"I didn't know," Kaczki said, looking very frustrated and lowering his head.

"No, I kept it to myself! They didn't tell you, because I asked them not to. I was afraid that you would look down on me a little if you heard such a thing."

"How can that be?!" Kaczki retorted loudly and called out to Cheng YuanMu, "Although I've always been against violence, but this time I really want to beat them up well."

Yi Yi was tugged by his straightforwardness and finally dropped his worried look and smiled. However, because his face was so swollen, the smile was very small.

"Finally, things are all settled." Cheng YuanMu sighed as if relieved.

He didn't expect Kaczki to point at Qi Ling Chao with dissatisfaction, "Not yet."

Qi Ling Chao ah'd then immediately showed an embarrassed and remorseful look, "Sorry, I said something heavy yesterday. I really didn't think about what I said, so don't take it personally. I went to the bakery this morning to buy your favorite food, but I broke it before I could give it to you. I'll go buy it again later!"

"No," Kaczki shook his head, "I wanted to apologize to you. I called you this morning and you didn't listen, so I went to your house to look for you."

"You went to my house?"

"Yes, your female father said you and YuanMu went out, I called YuanMu again, and he did not answer. I went to the arcade, then after a long search, did not find either of you. I did not have much hope so I called Yi Yi also, to ask whether he had seen you, but he also did not answer!"

Kaczki recalled the state of his heart at the time, "I really felt like I was chasing after ghosts!"

"Sorry," all three of them felt a little guilty.

Qi Ling Chao thought before that wanted to apologize and immediately sobered up from the guilt, "Right, you said you wanted to apologize? You do not have to apologize ah! It's all my stupidity!"

"I thought about it carefully at night, and it was indeed my fault. I didn't think about your stress at all and always imposed what I expected on you." Kaczki sighed, "The matter of Yi Yi is the same. I felt that I was having fun with you, so I assumed that you were not good at communicating and didn't have any friends, probably because you were more introverted. I didn't even think of asking you, and everyone was completely unaware that you were going through this."

Kaczki twisted his fingers anxiously, "It feels like I'm just doing things for myself."

He was so depressed that all three were heartbroken and nervous, and rushed around to show that he was not at fault.

Kaczki suddenly changed his tone and said with high emotion, "I was dead in the head before. To be frank, it doesn't matter if you all fail the university exam. I can support you in the future!"

"Ah?" Qi Ling Chao's face became a little hot. Su-supp-support them? That sounded like a marriage proposal!

"Mn! Yi Yi is too ah! Since you do not like to communicate with others, you can just stay at home! You do not have to worry about what to do after going to work. I will buy you a lifetime of books to read!"

"I, I…" Yi Yi's face was really red.

"I will try to earn money." Kaczki assured confidently.

After Kaczki said this, Cheng YuanMu, although very happy, still couldn't help but say, "Then we will embarrass you."

After all, there were quite a few families in Zerg society where a family of female Zerg and inferior females worked to support the male Master, and in turn there were really only a few that wanted a male Zerg to support them.

"I'm smarter." Kaczki said without modesty. "Oh yes. Because I figured this out last night, so I got up in the morning and spoke directly to my female father and male father."

"What?" Qi Ling Chao and Cheng YuanMu became confused.

"I said that after three evolutions I will get married to you guys. After that, if we go to another city, we will be able to live together legally. You will definitely go with me, right? This way they don't have to worry about me going out of town alone with another Zerg. Ah, I've also mentioned to them about Yi Yi."

"What? Me too?"

"Wait wait wait!" Qi Ling Chao said in shock, "You just told your female father and the others about it!?"

"Yeah."

"We're finished. You don't know how bad our impressions are with them! They will only think that their own precious male son has finally been abducted by those two punk females and will definitely object, right?"

"They don't seem too happy, but it's okay. They have agreed after I persuaded them. And asked you guys to take the time to meet them. I wanted to find you guys immediately, but the result is that your phones were off!"

Cheng YuanMu instinctively felt a pang of guilt. "That. I want to ask, how did you persuade them?"

"I said we have slept together."

Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao both fell into silence.

Half a day later, Cheng YuanMu raised his concern with true feelings, "Will they send a police ambush to arrest us for 'forcing an underaged male Zerg to have sex' as soon as we come to the door?"

"No way! At least they have known you for so many years, how could they have you arrested?" Kaczki added, "They just said they wanted to meet you and talk to you."

"Talk…"

Once again, Cheng YuanMu and Qi LingChao both fell into silence.

After resting for a while, it was already afternoon. The three did not even eat breakfast so they found a small restaurant near the clinic and ate something to pad their stomachs.

Yi Yi needed to recuperate, and the three convinced him that day to send him home. He never mentioned his family before, and certainly did not invite them to his home.

Although the home was not very good, when they arrived at their destination, the three were still shocked by the poor environment of Yi Yi's home. Yi Yi lived in a bungalow area two roads behind the red light district, sharing a small, only twenty square meters, one-room house with his adoptive father. The living room was his adoptive father's bed and the dining table, the bedroom was actually a slightly larger storage room, where a folding bed was put down but they could hardly put anything else in there.

His adoptive father did not work during the day and stayed at home. He was startled to see Yi Yi come back with a bruised face and two tall females standing behind him, and a very young looking male.

Yi Yi hurriedly explained. His inferior female foster father was relieved, apologizing that he had misunderstood while welcoming them into the house. The small space became even more crowded, especially Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao, who were afraid of smashing something when they moved.

Because Yi Yi had not mentioned his relationship with Kaczki to his foster father, the three who sent him home today left. One was to let him get well, the second was also to let him personally tell his foster father about the causes and consequences, then Kaczki would come again.

"You, you didn't even mention to me that you were still being bullied at school!" After listening to him recount all the things that happened during this time, his foster father was so anxious that he was going to cry, "I thought that after you went to the college there would be no more of these things. If you hadn't gotten such an obvious injury, how long would you have kept it to yourself?"

"I didn't want you to worry. It just looked horrible, and the doctor said it would be healed soon. Besides, Kaczki and the others sent me home," Yi Yi said, feeling for his adoptive father and reaching out to pat his arm.

"Since you were a child, you never told me anything for fear that I would worry," his father said with a long sigh. Yi Yi grew up sullen and introverted, but he was very sympathetic and never let him worry.

If what Yi Yi said was true, then God had an eye to let such an understanding child come to the end of his suffering and have a good home in the future. Yi Yi's adoptive father thought for a while and felt that the young male Zerg did seem to be a rare and good boy. Although he would marry the two female Zerg around him, Yi Yi said it was them who saved him twice. He thought that the future would not be very difficult for him.

"You are good-looking, quiet and well-behaved, when the time comes to meet the parents of the male Zerg, it will certainly not be difficult for you." Yi Yi's female father encouraged him.

Speaking of embarrassment—

In the following days, Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao were in a state of apprehension. Kaczki agreed with them that they would go to meet his parents once their faces had healed.

They were going to meet their parents. They had never wanted their ability to heal to be slower so that they could be mentally prepared. The bruises on their faces disappeared in two days and were as good as new.

The two men simply reported themselves to the door early.

Kaczki was ordered to stay in his room, the reason was that 'male father and female father have to talk to them in private'. He was optimistic and did not think there would be any problems, so he easily stayed in his room.

In the living room, Chen YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao sat on the sofa, tense.

The two of them sat on one side of the dining table, opposite of them were Kaczki's male and female father. The family's inferior female took another stool and sat on one side. Although Kaczki was not his child, but with such a small family, in fact, the relationship between each other was quite good. The family's only male Zerg child said he wanted to get married, so with such a big event, he also had to participate a little.

Of course, the first thing that came up was the question of 'sleeping around' as stated by Kaczki himself.

In the face of three pairs of eyes cast on them, the two did not even lie and simply honestly denied even getting past third base.

"I know that kid, he's just talking nonsense to us!" It looks like the parents didn't believe it in the first place, and Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, Kaczki's male father was indeed a bit dissatisfied, he was also introduced by relatives to his two and naturally did not quite understand how Kaczki could freely love three people in high school. He even said he wanted to graduate early and get married. Such a ridiculous thing.

But the two boys they had known for many years, always stayed with Kaczki. To be honest, they were not too surprised that it had developed to this point.

Kaczki's male father felt that his own son looked good, his intelligence was also high, and was a rare male Zerg willing to advance. He was too good to be true, so to just let them so easily 'pass', felt not justified.

So, even though these two only had a little bit of emotional intelligence, he wanted them to sweat. They were trembling under the desire to survive to answer their father-in-laws questions, not knowing that in fact, as early as when Kaczki had spoken, they had already qualified, and now the three across from them were just messing with them.

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Since they had an open relationship approved by their parents, they also did not hide in school. The four of them had been often together, and now they were even more reckless. The actual fact was that, in the eyes of others, Kaczki was still a somewhat strange male Zerg. The two females were known as the neighborhood punks, and the inferior female was a master who has been bullied three times before, so it wasn't looking good. Kaczki does not care about these rumors, he never cared anyway.

After a 'fight' together, Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao also put aside their prejudice against Yi Yi, although Qi Ling Chao occasionally still wanted to be bitchy, but he actually cared.

Soon, the four ushered in their final year of high school.

Kaczki received special admission early in the spring. The main city noble grand college opened very few spots each year to out-of-town, non-noble students, and Kaczki was probably the only one in their town. He was not yet happy, but the three around him were more excited than he was, and went out to have a celebration party for this.

Yi Yi was very torn whether or not to go to a big college. He was actually the one who was most excited about the 'family' life that Kaczki talked about. He was really afraid of communicating with other Zerg, especially to go to a new environment in the main city, which made him a little reticent. But his foster father was very realistic, an inferior female could not have children, and did not have the same physical strength as a female. In case the male Zerg abandoned him later, that was really nothing. So his adoptive father insisted that he go to school and took out his savings for several years, saying it was all for him.

Cheng YuanMu and Qi Ling Chao were still the two dregs. The school's instructor did ask if they were interested in entering the military camp, testing down their physical and all indicators were very consistent, but both refused. The reason was that there were too many rules there, they were not used to it. And to live in the dormitory, there was no way to see Kaczki every day.

Six months flew by.

As the saying goes, things were rushing together, a few days before the announcement of the results, Kaczki and Yi Yi welcomed three evolutions one after another. Kaczki had grown a bit taller and was finally a full grown male. And Yi Yi had become even more beautiful, originally his rustic look metamorphosed into a rather beautiful appearance, his body more slender, but not looking too young.

When the four of them had not yet fully adapted to their new states, the results came.

The four huddled in Kaczki's small room, one after another with their phones open. Kaczki had long been free of worries, and could only worry about the other three.

"Finally done!" Qi Ling Chao exclaimed in surprise.

"I also passed. It's all over! Luckily we had extra points for sports." Cheng YuanMu was slightly surprised.

Although it was the worst specialized school, being able to get into a school was an incredible thing.

"I told you! Cramming is effective, right?"

"What about you, Yi Yi?"

Yi Yi raised his eyes from the communicator and nodded his head, "I got in, my first choice, literature college."

Although it was not the most famous noble school in the main city, the big college he got into was also relatively famous. Kaczki let out a long sigh of relief and flopped back onto the bed.

"You're quite capable, aren't you?" Qi Ling Chao rubbed Yi Yi's hair nonchalantly.

"Aish! Don't!" Yi Yi's hair was ravaged and exploded into a ball, so he hurriedly called out.

After a few moments of fussing around, he sent a message home with the final results.

"This couldn't have been a happier ending!" Kaczki popped up from the bed and suddenly thought of something and said, "Let's go celebrate!"

"Go celebrate where? It's a hot day." Cheng YuanMu was puzzled.

"We'll go register!"

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

Kaczki had already leapt up from the bed, "Isn't it just as well that the admission results are all happy and I'm an adult! Let's go, let's go, let's choose today."

"Eh? It's too sudden!" Qi Ling Chao said dumbfounded.

"Register? You mean get married?" Yi Yi blushed as if he was a ripe tomato, panicked and stood up.

Before the three people could react, Kaczki had already scurried out of the room, "We can just walk there! The registry office is not far from my home!"

"Hey, wait a minute! Why are you so casual?!"

"Oh yes, on that road, we can also pass the supermarket. Let's buy a popsicle, too."

Cheng YuanMu yelled, "Why are you so casual, ah!?"

"Can I go too?"

"What else? I have no problem with you wanting to be family, huh?"

"Then I'm going too!"

Kaczki's urging voice came from downstairs, "Hurry up!"

"I'm coming…!"

The story of this new family was just beginning.