Martha, on the side, also spoke in shock: “…How long had it been since I last saw such an authentic palace intrigue plot?”

“Those directors all tried to please the ugly sons of those capitalists. I just wanted to watch a normal palace intrigue story without a male protagonist’s halo, but I didn’t expect to see one here…”

While the trio at the scene were still shocked, inside the private room, Semos’s dagger-like eyes were already slashing at Unobert.

Facing the cat-eyed man’s gaze, which seemed as if he wanted to stab someone, Count Unobert still smiled calmly and said: “Yes, but it was really such bad timing. When I met Wangxing then, there happened to be a project. Wangxing was also very interested, and we hit it off immediately, directly going to the project site. That place was remote, without signal. I didn’t expect that it just made us miss each other.”

Count Unobert said this with an expression that even carried some deeper meaning.

“But speaking of it, Your Excellency, you truly were infatuated. At that time your contact with him had already been cut off, and yet you still tried every possible way to find out which planet Wangxing went to, even hoping to find him in a sea of people. That was really admirable.”

The golden-eyed man’s expression turned sincere, as if he even wanted to applaud Semos.

But in the man’s words there was no tone of mockery, not even irony—just teasing.

This made His Excellency Semos’s expression immediately take on a wary look upon hearing it, and although Alina and the others didn’t know what exactly Count Unobert was thinking, they were certain it wasn’t a genuine compliment.

Sure enough!

“But I also didn’t know how exactly Your Excellency Semos knew that Wangxing had left the planet. Was it that Your Excellency searched on the planet for many days?”

As Count Unobert spoke, he looked curiously at the cat-eyed man opposite, his expression still carrying that aristocratic elegance. Even his questioning seemed like polite small talk.

This demeanor didn’t make the young man notice anything unusual, but it did make Semos’s expression grow darker.

Alina: “…”

No way, Your Excellency Semos, why were you silent! Could it be that back then you really used some illegal method?

Ye Bai and the others were even more shocked, almost unable to speak. The direction of this plot became more and more unexpected. They had thought before that this was just Ye Wangxing meeting his ex-boyfriend for an ordinary gathering, but who would have thought that the revelations kept getting bigger!

The cat-eyed man, however, looked darkly at Count Unobert and finally said: “On a short video someone filmed the entry and exit footage of that day. I saw you and Wangxing there.”

“Oh, really? But that day we took a private ship.”

Count Unobert finally revealed his gleaming white teeth, smiling like a dragon that had finally spotted its prey.

“Would someone really film their daily life even in the VIP passage? Looks like I needed to file a complaint about the staff that day.”

Semos’s expression grew even darker, but the young man quickly smoothed things over in a low voice: “Alright, Unobert, don’t tease him. Semos having some of his own information channels was also normal. Back then didn’t you also know I left through irregular channels? Besides, he didn’t break the law, he just confirmed whether I was on that planet or not.”

The young man’s words seemed to relieve Semos, and his face wasn’t as gloomy anymore. Count Unobert also knew when to stop, but then he turned and changed the topic, smiling as he spoke to Ye Wangxing: “I was just curious. After all, when I first met you, your psychological state was not very good. Now that I saw you in person, of course I became curious—how exactly did His Excellency Semos manage to do such a thing back then?”

The golden-eyed man smiled as he said: “Treating his boyfriend like a trash bin, on the second day after being told about the ex-boyfriend, he sent someone to give the ex a sum of money, and on the third day he directly broke up.”

“And now he still said he had lingering feelings for Wangxing and asked for a reconciliation? This change from then until now was really so huge. It made me very curious—what exactly did Your Excellency Semos experience?”

The professors, who had just finished eating and came to the door to eavesdrop, immediately gasped in shock. They had just finished dinner and planned to return to the research institute, but unexpectedly, before leaving, they leaned on the door for a moment and heard such a shocking piece of gossip.

They looked at each other with disbelief in their eyes—like elementary school students writing a first-author SCI paper.

But unlike elementary school kids writing papers, where one could still find the cause through family background, the matter of their vice dean wasn’t that simple.

The professors present exchanged looks and instantly felt guilty. After all, at first they thought Ye Wangxing was a scumbag, stringing along four men at once. But now it seemed that the real scumbag might have been their vice dean!

Outside the window, still soaking in the water, Alina and her group just clicked their tongues, feeling that things became more and more melodramatic. Even with their toes they could figure out that, judging from Semos’s behavior, that money definitely wasn’t sent by him personally.

Inside the room, Count Unobert ignored the cat-eyed man suddenly standing up from his seat. He looked at Ye Wangxing beside him with a distressed face and said: “But since you said so, of course I wouldn’t go and tear open your scar. At that time, persuading you to leave that planet was also to take you to relax. I fell in love with you at first sight then, and naturally didn’t want you to be immersed in memories of the past.”

After speaking, Count Unobert still held the young man’s hand, comforting him like a real lover.

The young man’s expression grew a bit dim, seemingly because he thought of the situation at that time and felt sad.

And just then, the cat-eyed man suddenly stood up and said loudly: “Wangxing! That money back then definitely wasn’t sent by me. You also knew I gave you access to my account, it was completely impossible for me to do something redundant like that—I even gave you access to the surveillance of my room. There was no way I would transfer money redundantly again!”

Semos spoke a little flustered, like a cat about to be kicked out of its home, speaking extremely fast.

“At that time the one who gave you money was definitely sent by my father. He probably did it because he wrongly guessed my preferences, so—”

But before Semos finished his words, Count Unobert reached out and interrupted him. With a tone carrying some reproach, he said: “Your Excellency failed to protect Wangxing, that was your fault. Please don’t push the responsibility onto others.”

In Semos’s beautiful cat eyes, tears gathered once again.

But this time it was truly guilt. He didn’t even refute Uno, only looked pitifully at the young man.

If this matter had happened to someone else, Alina definitely wouldn’t have believed the two could reconcile. Even if it had been a misunderstanding, so what? Missing the chance meant missing it.

But when she saw the young man’s expression…

“I now understood why your brother could date four boyfriends, and why you, Ye Bai, could only date one.”

Alina sighed and said this to Ye Bai.

Ye Bai, still eating melons: “? Why?”

“Look at your brother’s expression. I even felt that he had never really blamed His Excellency Semos. With this kind of soft heart, plus good looks, it really wasn’t entirely his fault that his ex-boyfriends ended up like this.”

Ye Bai looked at his elder brother, who was already comforting His Excellency Semos, and sighed. He nodded, admitting that Alina was right.

“But His Excellency Semos truly admitted his mistake, and when he found the right chance, he also truly made his move.”

Alina sighed as she looked at the man inside the private room, who had already buried himself into the young man’s embrace.

“I didn’t expect that from the moment Count Unobert entered, His Excellency Semos was suppressed, and now there was actually a chance for a comeback.”

And indeed, the situation inside the private room was just as Alina had said. The young man gently hugged Semos, the two of them looking rather warm together, as if they were about to reconcile.

Then Alina turned her head and saw Count Uno, looking like a resentful husband, his eyes shooting knives that almost pierced Semos into a sieve.

But he was actually able to immediately adjust his expression back to normal when the young man turned his head. This ability to bend and stretch made Alina rather admire him.

But the next second, Alina swallowed her words.

—This man had no intention of holding back.

“…So the two of you cleared up your misunderstanding? That was indeed good news. But Wangxing, did you forget that your official partner was here?”

Alina looked at Semos, whose expression froze on the spot, and at the young man whose expression also froze. In her heart, she was full of admiration.

—He actually faced those two directly with such an ultimate move!

But Alina wasn’t too surprised. After all, Count Unobert already looked like a very scheming person—and he indeed was.

If no one else knew, doing something like secretly reconciling with Ye Wangxing wasn’t impossible for him at all.

Ye Bai, however, was somewhat shocked. Then he immediately began worrying whether the remaining three would start fighting, and whether Count Uno’s wealth could allow him to hire an army to fend off Prince Janus and General Ortas’s attacks.

After a long silence, the first one inside the private room to react was the cat-eyed man. His hands still held tightly around the young man’s waist, and his beautiful eyes stared firmly at Count Uno. Through gritted teeth, he said: “Wangxing, when did you reconcile with this old man?”

But upon hearing Semos’s words, Count Unobert didn’t get angry. On the contrary, he looked at the young man as if he were an ignorant child. He didn’t even answer his words, just silently raised his wine glass, smiling as he offered him a toast.

What a posture of a victor.

Alina thought so and turned her head, only to see that His Excellency Semos indeed looked rattled, his face flushed red with anger. He raised his head from the young man’s embrace, loosened his arms, then clenched his fists, looking ready to fight Count Unobert at any moment.

But faster than His Excellency Semos’s movements were the young man’s words—along with the lip-reading translation of the optical brain.

“—Unobert, when did we reconcile?”

This made Semos freeze, and it also stunned the people outside the window. Even the professors widened their eyes.

The young man didn’t know that he had reconciled with Count Unobert? Then didn’t that mean Count Unobert was simply being self-indulgent?

They instantly connected this to a series of questions—was Count Unobert planning to use this title to force the young man into marriage, or was the young man actually a playboy who had given the Count the wrong signals?

Alina even thought of the plot where the young man had a terminal illness and planned to bid farewell to his ex.

But then she slapped her own forehead and realized she had watched too many old-fashioned dramas—how could there still be terminal illnesses with modern medical standards?

And when Alina lifted her head again after slapping her forehead, she saw that Count Unobert hadn’t flown into a rage, nor had he frozen in surprise. Instead, he only gave a helpless smile and said: “Darling, if you didn’t want to reconcile with me, why did you bring that necklace to see me?”

Count Unobert pointed at the young man’s neck. The young man touched the necklace around his neck, froze for a moment, and then…

Boom—

His face instantly turned bright red. He stammered as if trying to say something, but couldn’t get the words out. He looked completely flustered.

Finally, the usually calm young man, in a rare fit of exasperation, directly took off the necklace, threw it at Count Uno, flung open the private room door, and ran out of the restaurant as if fleeing for his life.

Count Unobert, however, didn’t get angry. Instead, he smiled even more charmingly, watching the young man leave.

“Alina, what exactly is that necklace? Why did my brother turn so red when he saw it, and why wasn’t Count Unobert angry?”

Ye Bai asked, curious.

He truly didn’t recognize the necklace, nor did he understand why such a delicately crafted piece would make his brother’s face turn so red. Alina also didn’t know, so they both looked at Marsha, who was most knowledgeable in such matters.

Seeing their unusually innocent eyes, Martha didn’t know how to explain.

Although the necklace looked delicate and beautiful, and had no exact counterpart on the market…

By analyzing its special bioelectric unlocking mechanism at the clasp, it was clear that…

…this thing was currently the empire’s best-selling synesthesia necklace.

Martha silently covered her bright red face, avoiding the innocent gazes of the other two, internally despising Count Unobert.

“…Old man, he really plays a complicated game.”

Martha didn’t speak, giving the other two an uneasy feeling, but seeing her expression, they didn’t ask and instead turned back toward the private room.

Inside, Lord Semos sat quietly, looking strange. He didn’t ask Unobert about the necklace, instead keeping his eyes on the food on the table, not stopping the young man from leaving.

He didn’t respond to Unobert’s flirtatious remarks toward Ye Wangxing either.

“I didn’t expect Wangxing to still be so shy. It’s just a necklace, and he ran away immediately. When I gave this necklace to him before, he wasn’t this shy,”

Count Unobert said, his expression showing a hint of pride.

“However, it seems I misunderstood. Wangxing apparently treated it as an ordinary accessory. Could it be that this piece has become part of his life? I’m truly honored—after all, I thought he had thrown it away long ago.”

After a few sentences, seeing Semos didn’t respond, Unobert stopped, ending his childish display.

He smiled victoriously and said to Semos: “Lord Semos, I hope you enjoy your meal today. I’ve already settled the bill. The company has matters to attend to, so I’ll take my leave.”

Count Unobert bowed elegantly and left the private room, leaving the cat-eyed man behind, seemingly stunned and wanting a moment of quiet.

Alina and the others prepared to leave as well, since the main participants had left, and there was nothing left to witness.

—But just as they were about to leave, another person entered the private room.

This new person wasn’t one of the two departing main figures, nor the two remaining people involved in the rumors. He was a man in a standard three-piece suit.

He focused on the neural interface, honestly translating the conversation.

“Young master, the professors outside have left. Count Unobert didn’t chase the young master of the Ye family. Should I handle the person from back then?”

The assistant reported seriously.

Alina immediately realized this assistant belonged to Lord Semos, not sent by the Marshal to monitor his son.

The person mentioned for “handling” was likely the one who had independently given money to Ye Wangxing years ago.

Alina didn’t care, as this was Semos’ family matter. But hearing this, she felt like she had forgotten something.

‘Could it be that the person being handled is related to their family?’ Alina wondered if her parents had ever mentioned it.

Her empty mind confirmed no relation.

As she puzzled, the neural interface continued translating. Alina finally remembered what she had forgotten.

“…Understood, young master. I will follow your instructions. Should I also help bring back the young master of the Ye family to explain things properly?”

The assistant asked sincerely.

“After all, Count Unobert isn’t actually Ye Wangxing’s partner, so there’s still a chance for you.”

Unexpectedly, the young master refused the proposal, instructing that the assistant must not disturb Ye Wangxing during this period.

“…After today’s events, I’ll personally invite him, but under no circumstances will I mention the necklace.”

The man’s beautiful cat eyes even showed nervousness.

This surprised the assistant.

Meanwhile, Martha and Ye Bai, about to leave, froze, sensing something big was about to happen.

And indeed:

“…Years ago, I installed several tracking devices on Wangxing. That’s how I knew he left this planet,” Lord Semos admitted nervously.

“I reported this to Wangxing at the time, and he agreed. But our breakup was too sudden, he probably forgot that some gifts I gave him contained tracking devices. Don’t remind him during this time!”

The cat-eyed man’s eyes turned sharp, glaring at the assistant like a wild feline.

“Otherwise, he’ll recognize these items, similar to the necklace—and return them to me! Understand?”

The assistant had been curious about the necklace, but upon hearing his master’s words, immediately took it seriously and nodded.

Outside, Alina and the others reacted.

“…Tracking devices? How did Ye Wangxing agree to this back then?” Alina exclaimed, then looked at Ye Bai, who wore a face full of admiration.

Aha, case solved—heritage in the genes.

Alina asked: “Martha, could the necklace be a tracking device? But Ye Wangxing doesn’t seem like the type to run away over this?”

Watching Semos and his assistant leave, Alina realized it was finally over. She led them back while asking this.

Martha was still in a daze.

She felt she had learned too much, and it had burdened her. She looked at Alina, still confused, and covered her face again.

Yes, in that sense, this was nothing compared to the necklace.

—But if the tracking devices pinged every ten minutes, this was far more thrilling than the necklace.

Martha thought to herself, again marveling: ‘Those two really play a complex game.’

Meanwhile, an enraged Woden saw the trio slowly returning and immediately vented: “What on earth happened? I asked you to come observe business negotiations, but you ran off mid-meal, and it took two hours! I finished my work before you even returned!”

“If you behave like this next time, don’t even bother coming!”

Woden shouted angrily at the three. Except for Ye Bai, who looked guilty, the other two regarded him with pity.

Woden tried to continue, but Alina interrupted harshly: “So, did you close the project? Or are you just biting everyone here?”

Martha added in time: “Judging by his expression and the barely touched food, it seems he didn’t succeed.”

Alina rolled her eyes at Woden: “No wonder you took it out on us innocent people. So our dear crown prince didn’t even secure this tiny project?”

“His pride must have taken a huge hit, Your Highness. Want to go home and cry to your aunt about being bullied?”

Alina’s sarcastic remark triggered Woden’s reflex—he raised his hand to strike, but realized too late…

Alina was wearing a diving suit.

This full diving suit, equipped for the underwater restaurant, had heavy ballast blocks. Woden’s punch hit the block, not her, and the force recoiled painfully in his arm.

“Ha, serves you right,” Alina deadpanned, rolling her eyes again.

Ye Bai didn’t dare blame anyone. He didn’t mention Woden’s arm, seeing him grimace in pain, not wanting to hurt his pride.

Instead, he comforted Woden: “It’s alright, Your Highness. This project’s failure doesn’t matter, there will be another chance. Besides, you’re only 24, the same age as my brother. You’re still young. A few more years of learning won’t hurt.”

Ye Bai spoke with a gentle, almost saintly expression, guiding the lost lamb.

However, it was precisely Ye Bai’s expression that made Woden feel even more humiliated.

“—Get lost! This time it was the clients’ fault, not mine! Why did you insist on blaming me? You kept telling me to reflect, reflect, reflect! Were you some kind of parent from ancient society?”

Woden shouted like a madman, then turned and left without looking back, leaving Ye Bai standing there with a sad expression.

Alina looked at Ye Bai in disbelief, sighed, and then patted his shoulder.

“If it doesn’t work out, Ye Bai, you should go home and learn from your brother how to speak—being too blunt, especially with someone like Woden, really didn’t please him.”

Ye Bai looked up at Alina and asked quietly: “Really? Is it because I spoke too bluntly? But he wasn’t the kind of person who was perfect, right? I was trying very hard to express myself. Even if he wasn’t perfect, I would still like him.”

Alina shrugged. “There lay the problem. Woden only liked people who pampered him—but honestly, I didn’t think he really liked you that much.”

Yet, the usually good-tempered Ye Bai once again firmly objected.

“No! He liked me. He said it himself. He even told me a couple of days ago! There was no way he would lie to me!”

Seeing Ye Bai like this, Alina’s temper, which she had just suppressed, flared up again.

Just as they were about to argue, Martha spoke sharply: “Did he like you the way Prince Janus liked your brother?”

Ye Bai: “……”

Martha pressed the point: “Or like Lord Semos? General Ortas? Or even Count Unobert?”

Ye Bai fell silent.

For the first time, he began to examine his own feelings.

He had never had a reference point before, but now, comparing his brother and the four others, Ye Bai realized for the first time that something seemed off about his relationship with Woden.

Even with breakups and class differences, those four, in all the situations he had witnessed…

—Did they ever say anything to belittle his brother?

Woden didn’t know, but after he left, Ye Bai began to examine their relationship under the perspective of his close friends and his brother.

He angrily got into his flying car and headed toward the palace.

Yes, he planned to explain to his mother exactly why he had failed this time.

As for the reason, it was definitely not what his hot-tempered cousin claimed—that he wanted to cry to his mother because everyone was bullying him.

He merely reported to his mother normally, kids always thought that reporting to parents was tattling.

Woden thought this but his face grew even redder. Fortunately, no one could see him, and he gradually composed himself.

During the ride, he also determined the reason for the project’s failure.

Anyway, the responsibility was definitely not his. The clients couldn’t understand young people’s way of thinking, and such clients’ companies would inevitably be eliminated by the tides of the times.

Thinking this, Woden felt even more justified and even vented his anger on the officials who had gone bungee-jumping in space for team-building with him but then refused to come to work.

Such team-building activities clearly allowed people to appreciate the beauty of life, the truth of living, and strengthened colleague cohesion. After all, they had jumped together—it was like risking life together—but…

They didn’t appreciate such a good team-building project!

The more Woden thought about it, the angrier he became. Coupled with the project’s failure today, his mood grew increasingly unstable.

When he reported to the Emperor, his angry voice filled the entire study.

“…Mother, this was absolutely their fault. Their thinking was outdated, they couldn’t keep up with the times, and they couldn’t accept new things—such companies would inevitably collapse!”

Woden shouted angrily and didn’t notice his mother sitting behind the desk, rubbing her temples in headache.

The Empress, who had never bowed her head in her life, was finally overwhelmed by her own son.

Actually, the project was very simple. Even a maid could handle it perfectly, the Empress thought.

It was just signing a contract with a client who had already been briefed, not sending him to the heavens or to another planet to expand business!

If her inexperienced son had gone on those projects, it would have been a disaster!

It was really just an ordinary palace procurement project! Even a dog could sign it, all he needed was a paw print!

But look at what her foolish son actually did.

He took people to the coral reefs in the deep sea, to eat some underwater restaurant’s specialty food?

Or food that had to be consumed through a feeding tube? That was pure torment!

Just thinking about it raised the Emperor’s blood pressure.

She originally wanted to comfort her foolish son a bit. After all, he was foolish but still a normal person, at least he hadn’t broken the law, just dumb.

Moreover, when he had failed projects before, he had returned with a forlorn expression, as if society had beaten him up, which had stirred her maternal instinct. But now…

Hearing Woden’s angry tone and completely outrageous words, the Empress finally lost patience.

“Woden Eric! You scoundrel! Shut your mouth!”

The Empress rarely shouted like this after ascending to the throne, and she was shouting at her own son.

This shocked Woden.

“I tell you bluntly: the reason this project failed was entirely your fault. Your arrogance and foolishness ruined it! The clients had cooperated with the palace for many years without any problem, and the only variable was you!”

The Empress scolded him without restraint.

“Yes, only you were the variable! So everything was your fault, not the clients’! I had preserved your pride before and didn’t tell you, but now I had to correct your mistaken ideas!”

“All your so-called ingenious ideas were rubbish!”

The Empress said sternly: “No one liked bungee-jumping from high altitudes, except some thrill-seeking young people, and they obviously wouldn’t enjoy going bungee-jumping with colleagues during work team-building.”

“Especially the officials, many of whom were older, nearly at retirement age. Taking a group of middle-aged and elderly people to such a thrilling activity, it was normal that they didn’t want to go. Your complaints were worthless!”

That afternoon, the Empress scolded Woden for three hours without restraint.

From his projects to his conduct, even his attitude toward Ye Bai was criticized.

The Empress no longer cared about Woden’s pride or other issues. She had previously focused too much on his pride and psychological safety, which led to his arrogant attitude.

Anyway, the Emperor had already arranged a world-class psychologist to ensure Woden wouldn’t commit suicide.

As for whether Woden would hate her?

She was prepared, if he hated her, fine. The throne’s succession was a separate matter.

—She was only sixty, in her prime, and could have another child later if needed.

But the Empress didn’t want to do that. Woden was the result of her education, and his current state was partly her own responsibility. Unless Woden was beyond saving, she didn’t want to use him like a tool and discard him.

Of course, she still had time and was an actual power-holding Emperor, otherwise, she would have had a second child already.

With this in mind, after scolding Woden, she gave him one last learning opportunity.

—She assigned Woden to the upcoming logistics and poverty-alleviation joint project.

Of course, he had no real authority. At most, he collected data, which AI could do, so all his employees were AI.

The living people he could contact were mostly his superiors. The few other team leaders either had real authority or…

The Emperor squinted at the documents she had just retrieved.

Among them, a young man, like a little animal, stood out.

—If he were put into this project to coordinate and collaborate, he might create a surprisingly effective synergy.

Moreover…

The Emperor’s lips curled, and a gossip-like sparkle appeared in her eyes as she pulled up another document.

Looking at her niece in the document, the Emperor murmured: “You must bring me the latest news, Alina.”

Woden didn’t know his mother’s mischievous tastes. He returned to his palace in a daze and collapsed on the bed.

He couldn’t accept his own flaws, even wondered if someone had bewitched his mother to treat him this way. But…

Woden did not want to admit that his mother had been handling affairs normally and brilliantly carrying out the joint poverty-alleviation and logistics project.

If he admitted that she was sane, then putting him on this project to run errands was correct.

He didn’t even have a single human employee under him. When he wanted to assert authority as a high-ranking official, he could only see AI employees before him.

They worked diligently, anyone trying to bother them would be insane.

At first, Woden didn’t give up. He thought he wasn’t asserting authority, he was reviewing other human employees’ work progress to help his peers.

He succeeded, but the good times didn’t last…

“Yo, yo, yo, isn’t this my cousin, the prince? How did you finally emerge from the shadow of failing every project before? This perseverance is something we should learn from.”

Woden was guiding employees when he heard his extremely annoying cousin approaching, full of sarcasm.

He didn’t know why Alina appeared in this project, she was a spoiled rich girl! She had never led a project!

Even if he had failed more times before, he had projects he had actually signed! Why did their mother put Alina here?!

“I came to ask Aunt to guide me. I’m about to take over mother’s projects, so my resume has to look good. Even as a puppet, it should be the prettiest puppet.”

Seeing Alina so confidently say this, Woden was incredulous.

How could she say such shameless things? Didn’t she want to achieve something?

“…Unlike you, I understood my abilities clearly. If my money wasn’t squandered, I thanked the heavens. Unlike you, giving money away everywhere.”

“Have you thought about how your employees see you?” Woden asked incredulously.

“I gave them fair pay, let them have afternoon tea freely, and provided all kinds of welfare. They gave me results during work hours. Why should I care what they think?”

Alina looked at Woden blankly.

“As long as they didn’t betray the country and delivered results on time, even if they left, I could find someone to perfectly replace them. Why should I care what they think? Am I insane?”

Woden: “…”…

Woden felt defeated and retreated to his office, not coming out for a while.

Alina, however, hid her blank expression, snorted, and ordered milk tea for the disturbed employees, then sent a big red envelope to the harassed employee.

Seeing the employees happy, Alina returned to her office in a great mood, just in time to see Ye Bai sitting dazed.

“What happened? Were you discouraged by Woden?” Alina teased.

Ye Bai shook his head weakly. “No. I just went with my brother to the military department…”

“Isn’t that General Ortas’ territory? You wouldn’t have been bullied following your brother. Why do you look so discouraged?”

Alina worried.

“My brother went to discuss guarding the files with General Ortas and told me to wait outside. When he came out, he said next time I should go…”

“Why? Wouldn’t it be better for him to go?”

Alina asked in confusion. Ye Bai nodded vaguely.

“Yes, but my brother said General Ortas’ work efficiency was too slow. Even if the contract wasn’t important, it still needed confirmation. So I went to ask General Ortas what happened.”

He had really mustered courage to protect his family, but…

Ye Bai said softly: “General Ortas said, ‘…You only kissed a few dozen times but only read three pages of the contract?’”

Alina: “…What?”

 

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