Jun Qingyu was flabbergasted, somewhat unable to keep up with Fu Yuanchuan’s progress, “When did you buy it?”

“I prepared it some time ago.” Fu Yuanchuan took the little fish’s hand and slowly slid the ring onto his hand.

The little fish’s fingers were thin, pale, and slender. The silver-coloured ring was very beautiful, the diamonds were modest and exquisitely used as embellishment.

Large diamonds would get in the way and it wasn’t suitable for the little fish either; this was just right.

Fu Yuanchuan pecked his finger and asked, “Do you like it?”

“Yes.” Jun Qingyu remembered that previously, because of his profession, he was prone to making mistakes wearing rings and watches. He could be killed if he wasn’t careful, so he didn’t give too much attention to such impractical things.

However, ever since he had become a mermaid, Fu Yuanchuan seemed to have been preparing all kinds of small ornaments for him.

Fu Yuanchuan stashed the box away, took out another black velvet box and put it in Jun Qingyu’s hand.

Jun Qingyu opened it and saw that it was a plain ring similar to his, but instead of diamonds, it was inlaid with pearls.

“Isn’t this a matching couple ring?”Jun Qingyu thought the ring would look roughly the same, “Why did you use pearls?”

“Does they look familiar?”

“……?”

Jun Qingyu didn’t think it looked familiar, but since Fu Yuanchuan had asked, then…

He picked up the ring, swept his finger across the pearl and detected a little universal life energy in it.

Jun Qingyu: “……”

His face reddened while holding the ring as he momentarily did not know what to respond, “You, this…is custom-made?”

“I made it myself.” Fu Yuanchuan held his hand, “How could I trust someone else with such an important thing?”

Not to mention the significance of the ring, as far as the little fish’s pearl alone was concerned, he would not let anyone touch it apart from him.

The arc of Jun Qingyu’s eyes curved like a crescent moon as he slotted the ring on Fu Yuanchuan’s ring finger, “It’s done.”

Then, he interlaced their fingers and the pairing rings, which practically had the same design, looked very visually appealing like this.

Fu Yuanchuan stood up and carried the little fish, and settled in a soft chair himself. Jun Qingyu dug into his embrace, his eyes staring at their matching rings. He pondered before he asked, “Have you ever done crafts before?”

It may look like a simple circle, but the fine details didn’t look like they could have been made by simply sanding.

“No, I learn it recently.” Fu Yuanchuan rarely came into contact with these things and wouldn’t even buy them. It was only natural he did not know how to make them, he specially learnt to do so for the little fish.

Not only for their matching rings, there were still some others, Fu Yuanchuan said, “I made some other ones as well, I’ll show you when we get back home.”

Jun Qingyu smiled and wrapped his neck around his neck, “Okay!”

In the past, their battleship hovered above the roof of their office building.

This time, however, the battleship was parked directly inside the Imperial Palace’s battleship parking space.

The stairs unfolded, and Shi Kaixin led a group of generals out and they stood upright along either side of the stairs.

Fu Yuanchuan and Jun Qingyu walked down, one after the other.

At the same time, everyone saluted in succession.

Although Fu Yuanchuan walked at the front, he supported Jun Qingyu throughout the process.

The Imperial Troops were lined up on both sides, keeping the nobles behind them.

As soon as they saw Fu Yuanchuan descending, all of them retreated and gave an honest salute while keeping their mouths shut.

The several marshals who stayed behind on the Imperial Planet also saluted one after the other.

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“Congratulations, Your Majesties, on your triumph..”

When the marshals spoke up, the nobles congratulated them as if they had been granted an amnesty.

The end of the path led to the palace, which Jun Qingyu did not want to live in just yet, he took Fu Yuanchuan’s hand and shook it lightly.

Fu Yuanchuan gripped his hand tightly and caressed his palm with his fingertips.

It tickled a little and Jun Qingyu’s fingers curled up subconsciously.

The further they walked, the lower their voice of congratulatory messages became. Jun Qingyu thought for a moment before he whispered, “Where are we going now?”

Fu Yuanchuan said, “Home.”

“The one in the Imperial Palace?” Jun Qingyu looked in front of them, he didn’t really want to go through the palace gate.

If the nobles and the marshals hadn’t come to receive them, they would have gone straight home after disembarking from the battleship.

“No, our own home.”

“Eh?”

The palace gate opened and there was the suspension car in the middle.

Shi Kaixin stayed behind to deal with the nobles and marshals, while Fu Yuanchuan sat in the suspension car with the little fish in his arms, and slowly drove in the direction of the villa.

When they returned home, Jun Qingyu was still a bit out of it when he looked at the familiar decorations.

It wasn’t until he sat down that he suddenly felt that it was all over.

Fu Yuanchuan came out of the kitchen with two glasses of juice, one of which was topped with an ice cream ball, “Are you content?”

“Am I?” Jun Qingyu thought about it, he was content indeed.

Everything was under control and developing in a good direction.

Jun Qingyu took a sip of the juice. The part of the ice cream that was in contact with the juice melted relatively faster and a layer floated on the surface of the juice, a sip would inevitably stain his lips with a white outline of ice cream.

As soon as Fu Yuanchuan sat down, Jun Qingyu turned and kissed him, staining him with the beard of ice cream around his mouth. When their lips parted, Fu Yuanchuan watched him in silence.

As Jun Qingyu’s eyes formed into crescents and he attempted to flee, Fu Yuanchuan intercepted him by embracing him and lifting him onto his lap.

“Wait…” Jun Qingyu quickly tightened his grip on the glass of juice in his hand, “Juice——Be careful…Don’t make it spill.”

Fu Yuanchuan took a sip of juice in his hand.

Jun Qingyu blinked, “That…Uh?!”

Before he could finish speaking, Fu Yuanchuan leaned in for an irresistible kiss.

The juice was bottomed out in one gulp.

Jun Qingyu pursed his lips, it felt a little numb.

Seeing Fu Yuanchuan’s lack of response, Jun Qingyu let out a soft grunt and pounced on him to bite him. He muttered obscurely, “You kissed too hard.”

“I’ll be gentler next time.”

After playing with the little fish in the living room for a while, Fu Yuanchuan left for the kitchen to cook.

Now that there were no other parties watching, intelligent bots could be used in their house, but perhaps because he had gotten used to doing it himself, Fu Yuanchuan didn’t really want to purchase a household robot.

Moreover, he preferred to be alone with his little fish at home. Although intelligent robots were not human, leaving them at home would still feel somewhat redundant. Having a few cleaning robots was enough,

so he wouldn’t buy any.

Besides, the little fish and he could both cook.

The ingredients in the refrigerator were fresh. Jun Qingyu picked up a tomato that looked good and took a bite. It tasted better than the ones before but worse than those in his space.

Jun Qingyu fed the tomato to Fu Yuanchuan and asked, “Have these vegetables entered the market?”

“Yes.”

The production of fruits and vegetables was limited, and even if they entered the market, the prices were not low. For ordinary people, buying a tomato to taste would cost a month’s salary, which was too extravagant.

It wasn’t much different from the previous Empire.

Prior to this, Fu Yuanchuan had invested in the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, and there was a considerable output on the planet. He then mixed them with the fruits and vegetables originally grown in the Empire, increased their quantity, and was able to lower the price.

Although it couldn’t be said to be an affordable price, at least it didn’t take a month’s salary.

In addition, there was a range of prices based on the difference in taste–good or bad, with options from bottom to top, so there would be no financial burden.

After taking a bite of the tomato, Jun Qingyu didn’t eat any more and instead fed Fu Yuanchuan while sticking to his back.

Knowing that the little fish was accustomed to eating fruits and vegetables from his space, he understood that the quality of interstellar fruits and vegetables couldn’t compare to those grown with the spring water in his space.

Fu Yuanchuan finished the tomato, cut a piece of veal and fed it to the little fish, “Take the fish out of the fridge.”

Jun Qingyu ate the beef and looked up, “Compensate me for my labour.”

Fu Yuanchuan flipped the steak over, turned around and kissed him twice, “Take two out.”

“Ok.”

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The fish was at the bottom and all cleaned up.

Jun Qingyu picked two plump ones and put them on a plate.

He had eaten this type of fish before, the taste of eating it was a bit like salmon, but it was much smaller than salmon and tasted better.

While Fu Yuanchuan cut the fish, Jun Qingyu mixed vegetable salad on the side, adding fruits and vegetables, and spring water from his space to his own dish.

The taste was good and it was also better for the body.

Fu Yuanchuan couldn’t resist a smile as he observed the little fish bustling about to serve their dishes.

At home, the little fish was obviously more lively than when outside.

After setting the chopsticks, Fu Yuanchuan considered before saying, “Give me a kiss.”

“Hmm?” Jun Qingyu was testing the taste of the salad when he heard those words, he ran over and kissed him before he ran back to continue mixing the salad.

Fu Yuanchuan chuckled, “Be good, let’s eat.”

“Ok.”

For the first meal when we returned home, they prepared a hearty meal.

As they ate, Fu Yuanchuan looked at the message on his light brain and gradually frowned.

Jun Qingyu noticed that something was wrong at the sight of that and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Looking through the message on his light brain, Fu Yuanchuan chucked a piece of chicken wing to the little fish, “The information on those people has been found.”

Jun Qingyu took a bite of the chicken wing, “Are their identities that tricky?”

Fu Yuanchuan shook his head, “These people came out of the laboratory. There’s only some experimental data. All their personal information before entering the laboratory was destroyed, leaving only their names.”

“……?” Jun Qingyu was astonished, “There’s still more of them.”

He thought those robots were all that the laboratory had in stock.

The ones he saw earlier should be different from the prior robots and were likely related to the batch of test subjects. Only those in the last batch were like robots.

Fu Yuanchuan said, “The Federation has started cleaning up, so they probably have nowhere else to go.”

Jun Qingyu nodded. It might be because they felt that Fu Yuanchuan had cut off their way out, and therefore they were he was furious and wanted to take Fu Yuanchuan down with them.

However, their hardware weapons were ineffective and they couldn’t even get close to the battleship.

Fu Yuanchuan browsed through the information and put down his light brain, “Let’s eat first.”

Planet M had sent someone to do a clean-up of the area, and there wouldn’t be any other experimental robots appearing except for those few. The best thing now was to finish a meal in peace.

They ate later than noon but earlier than dinner.

It was still dark outside after eating.

Fu Yuanchuan fed the little fish a cherry, “Want some more ice cream?”

A new stock of ice cream had been replenished in the freezer, with new flavours.

Jun Qingyu had his fill and didn’t want any dessert either, so he shook his head, “Ah——”

Fu Yuanchuan concentrated on feeding him cherries. The large cherries were slightly purplish-red in colour when ripe, with a refreshing sweetness that wasn’t awful nor too cloy to the point of bitterness.

After spitting out the cherry pits, Jun Qingyu said, “I’ll plant some cherries in the space over time.”

Interstellar cherries were rare fruit with a good taste.

During the time the Federation had power over the Empire, the tasty cherries would definitely be supplied to the Federation, and only the bad ones were left for the Empire, thus there was no polarisation in taste.

That was the reason why fruits like cherries would not stay in the Empire.

Fu Yuanchuan said, “Okay, do you want to grow something else? I’ll help you find the seeds.”

Jun Qingyu had a lot of empty space in his space where he hadn’t planted anything.

However, cultivation was, in fact, not an easy task. While he could spare the fertilisation and soil maintenance in his space, the other steps could not be skipped.

Previously, when Jun Qingyu was in the mood to plant something, he sort it out to plant them, but this matter has always been a brief period of enthusiasm and he only planted part of it.

“I don’t want to plant anymore.” Jun Qingyu sat up, hugged Fu Yuanchuan and nudged him, “I’m too lazy to do it, it’s so troublesome.”

The fragile mermaid could no longer hold a shovel to till the ground.

Fu Yuanchuan picked up the pampered little fish and coaxed, “Shall we dig up that side of the garden to plant some crops?”

Jun Qingyu shook his head. The flowers in the garden were growing well and there was no need to dig them out. He leaned into Fu Yuanchuan’s embrace, thought for a while and said, “It would be great if you could enter my space. The scenery in there is very beautiful.”

As he spoke, a thought flashed through his mind.

The thought that no one but him could enter his space was not really a hopeful one.

However, in the next moment, Fu Yuanchuan and Jun Qingyu disappeared in place at the same time.

With the sound of flowing water, Fu Yuanchuan stood on the shore, stunned for a moment, before he realised where he was now, “Little fish?”

Looking around, he saw no sign of Jun Qingyu.

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Suddenly, the tranquil water surface in front of him fluctuated, and Jun Qingyu’s head emerged.

Lying on the shore, Jun Qingyu narrowed his eyes and asked, “How is it? Is it beautiful?”

Looking at the half-soaked little fish, Fu Yuanchuan’s expression darkened slightly, “It’s beautiful.”

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