Zerg: Cold and aloof Major General, stop pretending to be innocent, I have a headache!

Jiang Yi pouted, looking at Jiang Xu with some dissatisfaction. He casually broke free from Fei's embrace and reached out his hand: "Father-daughter hug."

Jiang Xu slapped him on the butt again: "No."

Fei's hand remained frozen in mid-air. He slowly withdrew his hand, his face full of disappointment.

This was the first time he had ever seen what the baby insects looked like after they shed their skin.

"Now you know you're wronged?" Jiang Xu sighed, helplessly reaching out to touch that head of silver hair. "Weren't you wronged when you were injured?"

Fei pursed his lips. Getting injured on the battlefield was common, and it wasn't a big deal for him.

But there was only one baby insect.

Jiang Xu withdrew his hand, looked at the man's face which was filled with all his emotions, and turned to Jiang Yi to continue, "Tell him."

Jiang Yi pouted and answered in a soft, childish voice, counting on her fingers: "The female father lied to the male father that he only suffered a little bit of injury."

The female father lied to the male father, saying it didn't hurt;

Most importantly, the female father ignored the male father for a whole week, which must be because the female father no longer liked the male father.

"..." Jiang Xu looked at the little bug who had added a suffix to his sentence and gently pinched the bug's bottom with the hand he was holding.

"Ouch!" Jiang Yi suddenly covered his buttocks. He had clearly followed his father's instructions, so why was his buttocks being pinched?

Fei immediately grabbed Jiang Xu's hand, noticing that the insects around them seemed to be scrutinizing them, so she lowered her voice and hurriedly replied, "No one dislikes it."

"Too soft, I can't hear you," Jiang Xu said, looking at him.

"I don't dislike it." Fei raised her voice slightly, her gaze sweeping over the insects around her, her ear tips turning red involuntarily. She pulled Jiang Xu toward a corner with fewer insects.

"It's not that I dislike a powerful leader, I'm just... afraid I'll change my mind and not want to come to the battlefield."

Jiang Xu and Jiang Yi are his Achilles' heel; whenever he sees the father and son, he doesn't want to care about anything else.

But he couldn't do that.

"Really?" A glint of shrewdness flashed in Jiang Xu's eyes. "So, just to avoid going back on your word, you can unilaterally stop contacting me?"

"No...no, you can't." Fei pursed her lips, saying somewhat awkwardly, "I won't do it again, Your Majesty, can you forgive me?"

"I'll think about it."

"You clearly said that I could be a little willful." Fei muttered under his breath, head down. How could the lord go back on his word?

"When I say 'willful,' I don't mean cutting off contact without permission." Jiang Xu raised an eyebrow. "If it weren't for me and the little bug going to the military headquarters to find you, would you have continued to cut off contact?"

"I was wrong." Fei clearly sensed Jiang Xu's displeasure and hurriedly added, "I was really wrong, Your Majesty. Please don't ignore me."

"Does it matter whether I pay attention to you or not?" Jiang Xu was helpless against the female insect in front of him. He sighed and gave up.

He then turned his gaze to Fei's wound: "You usually rest behind that wall?"

"No." Fei gripped Jiang Xu's sleeve, refusing to let go. He rested his head on Jiang Xu's other shoulder, his cool voice carrying a hint of coquetry: "My lord, please forgive me?"

Jiang Xu patted his shoulder helplessly: "Aren't you going to take me to your resting place?"

Fei straightened up, glanced at the low wall not far away, and then turned to Jiang Yi.

"Xiao Yi, go play with Uncle Wenxi, okay?" He patted the baby insect's head and continued, "The female father should apologize to the male father and ask for his forgiveness."

"..." Jiang Xu fell silent. This female insect... was really straightforward.

The little insect obediently left, and Fei led Jiang Xu back to the tent he hadn't returned to since the night before coming to the battlefield.

The tent's blackout curtains were pulled down completely.

Fei looked at Jiang Xu, who was already sitting on the edge of the makeshift bed, hesitated for a moment, then walked over and sat down on his lap, facing him.

"A mighty ruler."

Just as the other's body was about to press against him, Jiang Xu raised his hand and stopped the female insect's forehead: "What are you doing? Speak properly."

"I missed you." Fei looked at Jiang Xu with red eyes, pulled Jiang Xu's hand away, buried his head in his neck, and said in a muffled voice, "I missed you so much."

During this time, he imagined countless times what it would be like to never see Jiang Xu again.

Every time this thought crossed his mind, his heart felt like it was going to shatter, and the pain was unbearable.

Jiang Xu was silent for a few seconds, then reached out and hugged him back: "Why didn't you text me if you missed me?"

"I'm afraid I won't be able to resist running back."

Fei's low voice sounded in his ear, and Jiang Xu raised his hand to hold his head and gently stroked it: "Go back if you want to."

"No." Fei tightened his grip on Jiang Xu, his voice low and suppressed: "What if the alien beasts break through the border and reach the capital?"

His two favorite insects were right there in the capital, behind him. How could he just run back for himself?

"Is fighting... very tough?" Jiang Xu looked at the female insect's rare display of vulnerability, and his heart felt incredibly heavy.

"It's not bitter." Fei shook his head, his eyes serious. "With you and the little bug here, it's not bitter at all."

Before marriage, fighting was nothing more than a way for him to escape marrying a male insect; but now, even fighting feels sweet to him.

Because his thoughts had changed, he was no longer a walking corpse.

There are insects waiting for him to return to his house.

With each battle he fights, he gets one step closer to his happiness.

Jiang Xu's heart melted completely. He gently stroked the female insect's back.

"My lord," Fei called out softly.

"Um?"

"Don't you miss me?"

Jiang Xu was silent for a moment, then replied in a low voice, "I want to."

"Really?" Fei asked, her hands resting on Jiang Xu's shoulders, her eyes filled with joy.

Jiang Xu looked at his anxious appearance and chuckled softly: "If I didn't want to, why would I have come to the military camp?"

There are so many insects transporting military supplies that there's no need for him to personally lead the team.

Fei leaned her head back on Jiang Xu's shoulder, turned her head, and gazed at the sharp lines and deep-set eyes of the man before her, her eyes filled with tenderness: "I know, Your Majesty misses me."

The small tent isolated the two insects from the outside world, as if the smoke and bloodshed outside were no longer relevant to them.

In the end, Jiang Xu did nothing to the female insect, even when she tried to get close to him, he remained unmoved.

After all, the female insect was still injured—he wasn't so inconsiderate of her health.

As night fell, all the military supplies had been moved to the warehouse.

The insects outside must have found out where he was going, because they respectfully called out from outside the tent, "Lord Jiang Xu, the supplies have been moved and we should set off."

"Okay, I got it." Jiang Xu replied to the outside, "I'll be right there."

The sound of insects' footsteps outside gradually faded away. Fei sat up in bed, leaning against Jiang Xu, her tone filled with obvious reluctance: "Are you leaving so soon?"

Jiang Xu sat up and stretched his body.

He spent a few hours resting on the bed with the female insect in the afternoon, but the bed was too hard and his body couldn't take it.

He looked at Fei's face, which was filled with reluctance, and leaned down to give him a gentle kiss on the corner of his mouth: "I will stay in that town for a while."

"Really?" Fei's eyes lit up.

The towns behind them are very close, only an hour or two away by air.

"Mm." Jiang Xu responded, reaching out to pat his head. "If you behave well, I'll bring the bug cub to see you."

If you perform in a way that doesn't satisfy me...

He glanced at the female insect with a meaningful look.

"What counts as doing well?" Fei seemed not to have heard the second half of his sentence at all, his mind filled with the phrase "bringing the bug cub to see you."