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Qi Zihan quickly noticed the spike on his hand.

It was pure silver, very thin, and about one metre long.

Rather than holding it, it grew out of his right palm.

Touching it with his left hand, he found that he could freely extend and retract it, and moreover, he didn’t feel any pain even if he retracted the spike into his flesh.

What was it?

It seemed to be part of his body.

But this wasn’t important. Yu Chenyu’s spiritual mimic had already appeared, how should he soothe him?

Qi Zihan turned his attention back to Yu Chenyu, who stood not far away.

During the time he spent studying the spike, Yu Chenyu could no longer hold himself back.

Qi Zihan’s invasion of his inner world had dragged Yu Chenyu’s consciousness in as well, and now it was attached to his spiritual mimicry.

Although this was the case, he couldn’t completely control its actions.

Because he was much more ‘straightforward’ here than in reality.

In the real world, he could easily suppress the whims, desires, and impulses that he shouldn’t have, and prevent himself from turning them into reality.

Yet in the inner world, he acted on instinct, and often, a mere thought was enough to make him act accordingly.

The current Yu Chenyu instinctively wanted to both defend himself from the invasion and to pursue the female.

He decided that it was best to act while Qi Zihan was studying the spike, so he flapped his membranous wings and approached while slightly opening his folded forelimbs, making a hunting posture.

However, in the inner world, Qi Zihan was equally sensitive. As soon as he noticed his movements, he thrust out the sharp needle until it was a full two metres long.

Males typically didn’t attack females. When facing female zergs, their courtship instincts far outweighed any aggression.

But that was because most males had much better physical and spiritual abilities than females, and because spiritual mimicry of females usually looked harmless; even if they didn’t want to mate, they rarely had the intention to attack either.

Qi Zihan was different. His spiritual mimicry was extremely aggressive, and his spiritual power reached as high as SS-grade.

This was the first time Yu Chenyu’s inner world was invaded by someone with SS-grade spiritual power. Although he was the one to invite them in, his mimic couldn’t relax. Instead, his hostility increased sharply, so much so that any instinct for mating turned into something more like conquering.

He wanted to clamp him with his forelimbs, subdue his spike, and then…

“Your thinking is quite dangerous.”

Qi Zihan could use his spiritual powers to sense the thoughts of flowers, so how could he not sense what Yu Chenyu’s spiritual mimic was thinking?

This man wanted to conquer him?

This man who would kneel naked at his feet, raise a whip above his head, and repeatedly emphasise that he should tie the rope tighter.

Did he want to conquer him?

Really?

Sensing Yu Chenyu’s thoughts, Qi Zihan’s fighting instinct was also aroused.

He wanted to see who would conquer whom!

Battle was about to erupt, no one knew who would start first.

It could be that Yu Chenyu opened his folded forelimbs first, or it could be that Qi Zihan raised the spike on his hand first.

In short, the distance between them abruptly shortened, and both aimed their ‘weapons’ at each other!

Qi Zihan pointed his spike at Yu Chenyu’s shoulder, only for him to easily twist away and then swing his forelimbs towards Qi Zihan!

Qi Zihan fell at high speed, successfully evading his grasp. He then darted behind Yu Chenyu and thrust his spike again!

Yu Chenyu was dominated by instincts in his inner world, but Qi Zihan still had rationality.

He knew that he couldn’t hurt Yu Chenyu. Although he was angry that he wanted to conquer him, he had promised to soothe him!

Even if he had to nail him to the ground with his spike, he had to accept the soothing amidst the pain!

After a round of fierce combat, Qi Zihan suddenly felt a strong emotion coming from Yu Chenyu’s mimicry.

It was a mixture of pleasure from meeting a worthy opponent and fear of the future.

He wasn’t afraid of a future where he would lose control, but rather–

[I-I attacked my Lord Wife! How could I… What am I doing!]

Hearing this, Qi Zihan couldn’t help but sneer. “Didn’t you want to conquer me just now? Now you remember that I’m your wife?” Then he felt that something was wrong. “Psh, who’s your wife! I haven’t had the time to know that many people since coming to this world, maybe I can meet someone better than you? Why should I hang myself on a tree like you!”

Yu Chenyu, who had just stopped attacking out of fear, suddenly charged towards him with his two serrated forelimbs stretched out!

“Again? Can’t you just take your soothing properly!”

Qi Zihan didn’t want to fight anymore because he realised that although Yu Chenyu was fighting very hard, he had never used his full strength from beginning to end. Several times, he was almost caught, but Yu Chenyu’s movements would suddenly stop, thus allowing him to escape.

He truly had thought he could fight Yu Chenyu to a draw in his inner world at first, but after realising that Yu Chenyu was going easy, he instantly lost interest.

What he didn’t know was that Yu Chenyu also felt frustrated.

Not only because he failed to suppress his instincts and committed a very grave offence, but also because he could see that Qi Zihan didn’t use all his strength – his sharp silver needle seemed able to inject venom, yet it had never been aimed at his vital points even once.

Just as Qi Zihan’s suggestive words about wanting to find other males stimulated him into rushing forward madly, a ball of sweet golden liquid flew towards him and covered his face.

What… is this?

With this moment of hesitation, his fierce forelimbs and glittering wings were all stuck in the golden sticky liquid, unable to move an inch.

Losing its support, his body fell straight down into the flowers, where he rolled and struggled with all his strength.

Qi Zihan flew closer and looked down at his writhing form.

Instead of any cloth, Yu Chenyu’s body was covered with a thick golden mucus.

The mucus was extraordinarily sticky, and it stuck the two beautiful butterfly-like transparent wings behind him together.

No matter how he tumbled or rolled, it couldn’t do anything except make his wings more miserable and himself more embarrassed.

Qi Zihan looked at the spike growing out of his right palm, which still had a drop of golden mucus on the tip.

Huh? What’s this? It’s so useful!

Using his left hand, he took the drop from the needle and licked it from his stained fingers.

Sweet. It was honey.

Putting that aside, he looked down at Yu Chenyu who had finally stopped struggling.

The half-mantis Yu Chenyu was now lying in a field of flowers, covered in honey and panting violently.

Qi Zihan could sense his unwillingness and humiliation through spiritual power.

It turned out that he knew of humiliation.

And he also cared about his dignity.

So, when he humbly knelt naked in front of him and begged to not be abandoned, just how much did he endure?

The soldier at his feet right now was proud, he enjoyed the thrill of fighting and didn’t like to bow to anyone – it was a completely different impression than before.

Qi Zihan didn’t want to admit that his heartbeat quickened a little at the sight of such a lofty soldier falling, disgraced, to his feet.

Does he want to conquer me?

Why can’t I want to conquer him as well?

Conquer this man who looks stronger than me.

Yet he didn’t attack in the end.

Yes, he enjoyed the feeling of conquering the strong.

But he disdained humiliating already conquered prey.

Giving him that gratification would be an unnecessary humiliation and a further trampling of his dignity.

Although the victim was ready for it, and even expected him to do so.

There should be another way.

Using sexual stimulation to combat loss of control was only the simplest and most vulgar way.

“What do you want?” Qi Zihan asked as the tip of his needle touched the man’s chest.

The man’s emotions flowed directly into Qi Zihan’s mind through the long silver needle: [I want to calm down.]

“Then, let’s try a tranquiliser,” he replied. Raising the needle tip, some slightly opaque white liquid – completely different from the honey – soon flowed out.

He used his spiritual power to examine it carefully, and only after confirming that the liquid had a sedative effect did he insert the slender needle into Yu Chenyu’s arm and inject it into his body.

The ‘strategy’ he found on his terminal was right – practice was indeed the best learning method.

During the battle with Yu Chenyu, he quickly understood the true use of his spike.

He could make all kinds of liquids and spray them out from the small hole at the tip of the needle, just like a syringe that could inject all kinds of medicine.

We took so long just to find out that my spiritual mimicry is a doctor? he complained internally.

Seeing that Yu Chenyu’s mimicry had stabilised, he immediately waved his hand to dispel the honey, returning him to a spotless body.

Although he didn’t know whether his unique way of soothing would work, Qi Zihan had done everything he could and also felt that he could leave.

As soon as he had that thought, he found himself back in the bedroom, on the bed, and on Yu Chenyu.

He stared for a while until Yu Chenyu slowly opened his eyes. His expression was calm and he seemed to be in a good condition.

However…

Wasn’t there something wrong with his body?

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This would be the first time for Qi Zihan to soothe a male zerg, so he had no experience.

It was also the first time for Yu Chenyu to receive soothing from a female, he also had no experience.

Therefore, after one proposed and the other accepted, neither of them rushed to do anything, in favour of going through their various concerns instead.

“I won’t get hurt if I don’t get it right, right?” Qi Zihan would be trying his best not to harm Yu Chenyu, so he was more worried about getting hurt himself.

Yu Chenyu felt that this was justified. “I don’t know,” he said, “I suggest you tie me up before trying it.”

“Okay.”

It involved his own safety this time, so Qi Zihan didn’t resist.

The two entered the bedroom one after another, closed the curtains, turned on the lights, then Yu Chenyu sat on the bed and offered his wrists to Qi Zihan.

Forcing himself not to think about what might happen after soothing Yu Chenyu, Qi Zihan picked up the coarse rope that he used a lot of effort to untie from the bed and wrapped it around Yu Chenyu’s wrists.

Yet before he could tie a knot, Yu Chenyu said, “It’s too loose, tighten it a bit more.”

“Don’t rush, aren’t I doing it now?” Qi Zihan pulled the rope tight after he wrapped it at least three times, then tied the first knot.

“Tighter, otherwise I can break free too easily,” Yu Chenyu said.

Qi Zihan: “…”

Okay, you’re strong, you’re awesome.

He used all his strength to tighten the rope, squeezing Yu Chenyu’s wrists as much as possible, before tying the second knot.

Yu Chenyu finally seemed satisfied, but then he said, “My ankles as well.”

Qi Zihan, whose palms had been rubbed raw by the ropes, looked at Yu Chenyu with resentment.

Yu Chenyu instantly quieted. After his wrists were tied together, he took the initiative to lay on the bed, then raised his arms and touched the handcuffs fixed to the headboard. “Shackle me.”

Handcuffs were much more convenient to use. “People who know would know that I’m about to soothe you, but people who don’t know would think that I’m interrogating a prisoner,” Qi Zihan couldn’t help complaining after he neatly locked him up.

Yu Chenyu stared for a while without responding. He just closed his legs and waited for him to tie up his feet with more ropes.

Sighing, Qi Zihan yielded to his fear of death and also tied his ankles together.

However, halfway through, Yu Chenyu’s voice came again: “Tighter.”

“Shut up!” Qi Zihan shouted as he exerted all his strength to tie up Yu Chenyu’s ankles, before laying on the edge of the bed to recover.

He felt as if his past ten years of exercising were all in vain!

He used so much strength but still couldn’t even leave a mark on Yu Chenyu’s body!

Males — no, what kind of monsters were soldiers!

Seeing Qi Zihan sink to his knees, Yu Chenyu suddenly realised something and went into a brief daze. “Sorry, I…”

He just didn’t want to hurt Qi Zihan in case anything went wrong, but he forgot that there was no way to compare the physical capabilities of male and female zergs.

Even if Qi Zihan’s body was stronger than that of most males, the gap between A and SS was the difference between life and death on the battlefield.

“Alright, you can stop emphasising that you’re stronger than me and can take more beatings,” Qi Zihan said irritably.

Although he was a female, he was a man! He was someone who had persisted in athletics for more than a decade! He hated seeing others with better muscles than him, people who could fight better than him!

Yu Chenyu didn’t dare to say anything more.

He realised that he had angered his wife, but it turned out to be because he brought attention to the vast difference in their physical capabilities?

He had never felt inferior due to being a soldier, and was even a little proud of it.

Like most soldiers, he looked down on drones whose physiques weren’t much different from females and couldn’t step onto the front lines.

But at this moment, as a spouse, he truly felt the gap between him and drones.

Yes, for females who were far from battles, they didn’t need a soldier’s protection. A soldier’s strength was useless except for giving them pressure and anxiety.

A drone’s gentleness, sensitivity, and docility were what they liked and needed.

He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but stopped again.

He wanted to say that he wouldn’t hurt Qi Zihan, but this was his first time receiving spiritual soothing and he didn’t know what would happen. He couldn’t guarantee it.

Qi Zihan didn’t know his thoughts.

After resting for a while and regaining his strength, he got up, climbed onto the bed, and straddled Yu Chenyu.

He placed his hands on both sides of his head and leaned down to meet his eyes. His light brown eyes were obviously very indifferent, but perhaps because of the colour, they were also quite reassuring.

It only took a moment for Yu Chenyu to relax. For a moment, he felt as if there would be no danger even if he opened up his inner world completely and let Qi Zihan do whatever he wanted.

“Ready?” Qi Zihan asked.

Humming in agreement, Yu Chenyu closed his eyes and relaxed his whole body. Not only did he put down all his defences, he also opened his inner world invitingly.

“Then, I’m coming in.” Qi Zihan carefully released his spiritual power to look for the entrance of Yu Chenyu’s inner world.

He vividly remembered the past event Yu Chenyu told him about.

Knowing that a male’s inner world was fragile no matter how strong their physical capability, he was really afraid that he would hurt Yu Chenyu if he wasn’t careful, so he was extremely gentle.

However, he didn’t know that Yu Chenyu had concealed two things.

The first was that the murdered soldier had only B-grade spiritual power.

The second was that the words ‘a fragile spirit’ had nothing to do with Yu Chenyu, who had SS-grade spiritual power.

Yu Chenyu had encountered an aberrant with S-grade spiritual power in a high-risk area. That thing could use its spiritual power to forcibly invade and destroy a zerg’s inner world, which had once caused the annihilation of an entire army.

For the sake of avenging those who had died and to resolve a major hidden danger, Yu Chenyu flew into battle alone and used his spiritual power to rip the aberrant’s mimicry apart, crushing it from the inside out.

Thus far, nothing could forcibly invade his inner world, let alone cause damage to it.

Qi Zihan patiently explored the thing that should be Yu Chenyu’s spiritual power for a while. Through their contact, he could feel something flowing between them, which were probably Yu Chenyu’s emotions.

No anxiety, no uneasiness, only relaxation and quiet anticipation.

He believed in him.

He handed over everything he had, including his life, and let him do as he pleased.

Soon, Qi Zihan felt a force guiding his spiritual power.

Guiding him through the entrance to the inner world, which he had found but was afraid to touch.

He realised that this was Yu Chenyu’s invitation.

Since that was the case…

Taking a deep breath, he released more spiritual power, then squeezed into his inner world.

The moment he did so, he found that his environment changed.

He wasn’t on the bed, he wasn’t even in the bedroom, and there was no Yu Chenyu beneath him.

At this moment, he floated — or hovered, or was flying — above a field of flowers.

Was this Yu Chenyu’s inner world?

It looked pretty good.

Although Yu Chenyu himself was handsome, the kind of handsome that would let his enemies lose their minds.

Qi Zihan had been quite surprised the first time he saw Yu Chenyu.

It wasn’t just because of his seductive posture, it was also because of his appearance.

Qi Zihan had never seen such a good-looking man.

Perhaps the reason why he went against himself time and time again — agreeing to keep him and soothing him even when he clearly knew what it meant — was because he was too handsome.

Although he complained about soldiers’ strength, in truth, he admired strong people.

He couldn’t stand men who had more beautiful muscles, more strength, or more beautiful fighting skills.

But if that man belonged to him…

Qi Zihan clicked his tongue to stop himself from being distracted.

He should do soothing properly since he was here, how could he get excited for no reason!

He tried to move around in the inner world, and succeeded.

It seemed as if anything he wanted to do was possible here, including flying through the sky or hiding in the ground.

But when he tried to find anything wrong with the beautifully coloured flowers below… he couldn’t find anything.

Well, he thought he would see dry land or overgrown weeds, and even visualised in advance how to call rain. He didn’t expect Yu Chenyu’s inner world to be so…

Just as he wanted to say ‘healthy’, Qi Zihan sensed something.

When the outer reaches of his spiritual power penetrated deep into the flowers, he felt their pain.

They forced themselves to bloom and to always show their most beautiful side, but there weren’t enough nutrients for them to absorb and they would soon wither.

Although this scene was pleasing to the eyes, it was only temporary, like a striking yet short-lived dream.

Not enough nutrients, so, did they need fertilisers?

This really stumped Qi Zihan.

His garden was taken care of by a hired gardener while he was only responsible for admiring it. Let alone how to fertilise plants, he didn’t even know how often the flowers needed to be watered.

Wait. Since he could sense the flowers’ pain, could he also sense what the flowers wanted?

Thinking of this, Qi Zihan continued to reach his spiritual power along their stems and roots.

[Want to drink nutrient solution.]

It was a tiny voice that made the request.

“What is nutrient solution?” Qi Zihan asked.

Information was released from the flowers and directly transmitted to his brain through his spiritual power.

Oh, so this is nutrient solution.

In the end he still needed to ‘make it rain’.

The difference was that it wouldn’t be normal rain, but a nutrient-rich rain.

It was time to do the experiment.

As Qi Zihan opened his arms, he didn’t notice that a pair of glittering, transparent insect wings also unfolded behind him.

He summoned dark clouds, and so dark clouds appeared in the sky.

He applied the information that had just been transmitted to him into the clouds, and with a boom of thunder, drops of water began to fall.

The drizzle moistened every swaying flower, and the nutrients within caused them to cheer.

[Feels much better.]

[Can hold on for a while longer.]

[Thank you.]

Sensing their joy and gratitude, Qi Zihan let out a relieved sigh, feeling that he had done pretty good for his first time.

But just as he thought that it had rained enough, a bright blue praying mantis with two pairs of transparent butterfly-like wings flew out.

It looked very similar to the flower it had lay on just now, so Qi Zihan hadn’t noticed it.

Until it grew bigger and bigger and bigger, becoming the size of a person, and part of its body took human form.

He was naked as he flew above the field of flowers towards Qi Zihan.

His human form had Yu Chenyu’s face, though a pair of furry antennae sprouted from his head and two pairs of membranous wings fanned out behind him, creating beautiful arcs of light and shadow.

However, his two arms were both huge mantis forelimbs, each covered with a row of startlingly sharp serrations.

Qi Zihan could easily imagine what would happen if he was caught by those arms.

He’d probably be cut in half…

This should be Yu Chenyu’s spiritual mimic, a perfect combination of himself mentally and physically.

Waving his hands to disperse the clouds, Qi Zihan’s eyes wandered over Yu Chenyu’s mimic, looking for a place to attack.

Hm… Did he really need to soothe him according to the ‘strategies’ he saw?

What he didn’t know was that while he was looking at Yu Chenyu, Yu Chenyu’s consciousness was also looking at him through the mimicry’s golden eyes, with expectation intertwined with vigilance.

Was this his Lord Wife’s spiritual mimicry?

Didn’t they all say female mimics were cute?

That long spike on his hand… What was that?

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Author:
Yu Chenyu: I heard the spiritual mimicry of females are all very cute, like butterflies and moths.

Qi Zihan: Take a look at my baby (40m needle)!

Yu Chenyu: …An SS-grade Lord Wife truly is special.

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A rectangular electronic screen popped up in Qi Zihan’s field of vision with familiar Chinese characters written on it.

Just as he wanted to ask if this was the norm for this world’s script, he heard Yu Chenyu ask, “Do you see anything?”

Looking at him in surprise, Qi Zihan pointed at the screen in front of him. “You can’t see it?” he asked.

Surprise flashed across Yu Chenyu’s face, but it wasn’t because he couldn’t see the screen. Rather: “You succeeded.”

As he expected, it was impossible for a SS-grade female to be unable to use spiritual power.

The corners of his lips subtly raised as he explained, “When you log in to your terminal with spiritual power, the interface will appear in a form that cannot be captured by the naked eye but can be detected by mental power. Put another way, the information is directly transmitted to your brain through spiritual power, so only you can see the screen, unless…”

Here, he abruptly stopped speaking.

“Unless what?” Qi Zihan asked curiously.

Since he had asked, Yu Chenyu answered. “Unless you allow me to use my spiritual power to invade your brain, or you use your spiritual power to invade my brain, then share your vision with me.”

“I see.” Qi Zihan guessed that the reason he saw Chinese characters wasn’t because zergs used the same written language, but because the information his spiritual power detected appeared in a form which he was familiar with.

After going through the terminal’s tutorial, he roughly understood what it was and what its functions were.

Just as he thought that he ‘wanted to know more about Yu Chenyu’, a window containing Yu Chenyu’s personal data popped up.

Name: Yu Chenyu
Sex: Male (soldier)
Age: 23
Identity: First-class general of the empire; retirement application has been submitted, expected to be approved in 18 days
Last medical exam: 7 days ago
Medical exam results: 37.14% control loss; rate of control loss is approx. 1.95%/day; estimated time until complete loss of control is 25 days; you may ride but it is not recommended to drive a vehicle travelling above 10,000m/s.
Physical capability: SS
Spiritual capability: SS
Spiritual mimicry: Illusory Flower Mantis

Estimated time until complete loss of control is 25 days — reading this line, Qi Zihan jumped!

Yu Chenyu seemed as if he was in good condition. Qi Zihan thought that even if he would lose control, it would be in a few years. He never expected that he had less than a month left!

How?

How was it so fast!

In that case, divorcing him was no different from a death sentence.

Suddenly feeling a sense of urgency, he didn’t bother to question Yu Chenyu before using his spiritual power to retrieve information related to spiritual soothing.

If a female wanted to use spiritual power to soothe a male, then given the male’s willingness, the female would insert spiritual power into the male’s brain and enter the male’s inner world.

Repairing the male’s inner world could slow down the rate of control loss, while soothing the male’s spiritual mimicry could directly cure the male of their loss of control.

Yu Chenyu said that using spiritual power required a degree of imagination.

Spiritual soothing also needed it.

For example, if a male’s inner world was a barren desert, the female should imagine his spiritual power as rain irrigating it.

If a male’s inner world had lots of weeds, the female should think of a way to remove them.

Pulling them one by one was too slow, so most would turn their spiritual power into herbicides, but this would cause a certain amount of damage to the male.

As for soothing the mimicry… mimics of males who were on the verge of losing control would often be highly aggressive. If it were another male who invaded their mind, they would resist fiercely.

But if it was a female invader, males would instead have a courtship instinct, which could temporarily suppress their urge to attack. The female could then take the opportunity to flirt with spiritual power and use sexual stimulation to fight against loss of control.

Qi Zihan: “…”

He seemed to understand why males had to get married to females if they wanted soothing.

The spiritual power of males was full of aggression and was often used to kill enemies.

The spiritual power of females was full of attraction, allowing them to use the most gentle methods to make those valiant male zergs surrender.

So, soothing was usually carried out at the same time as certain behaviours.

Qi Zihan raised his hand to support his forehead, feeling a little overwhelmed.

He had just told Yu Chenyu to treat himself as being single, yet now he had to flirt with him in order to soothe him, purely as a roommate?

“You didn’t tell me that you only have twenty-five days until you lose control,” he accused.

“Twenty-five days ago, I also thought I only had twenty-five days left to live,” Yu Chenyu replied calmly without blinking an eye.

“What do you mean?”

“The rate of control loss is an estimate.” Knowing that Qi Zihan had read his personal data, Yu Chenyu stopped explaining the terminology and went straight to the point. “The number varies, and it varies quite a lot. A month ago my rate of control loss was more serious than now, reaching 3% per day, but at the same time my total control loss was 31%. It’s currently 37%. So it increased by 6% in a month, at an average of 0.2% per day.”

“Hss — that’s too scary.” Qi Zihan couldn’t imagine how Yu Chenyu lived until now.

Every day he thought he was going to die, but he survived against expectations again and again.

Did the males’ medical exam system have something wrong with it?

As if knowing what he was thinking, Yu Chenyu explained, “Everyone’s spiritual stability is different. Some people can be fine one second and suddenly collapse the next. I know a soldier who had just been soothed by a female whose control loss had basically been cleared, but he deteriorated rapidly a few days after returning to his squad and eventually died at their hands.”

“What did the female do to him?” Qi Zihan asked reflexively.

Yet this caused Yu Chenyu to look visibly surprised. After a while, he asked in return, “Why do you think it was caused by his female?”

“Uh, it wasn’t?” Qi Zihan hadn’t thought much about it, he had no particular reason for his reaction.

Yet it was correct.

“Even if a male has SS physical capabilities, his inner world is extremely fragile,” was Yu Chenyu’s next sentence. “That female probably wanted to prove that his spiritual power is as assertive as a male’s, so he planted a time bomb in the male’s inner world while he was soothing him.

“After he lost control, I forcefully invaded his inner world while trying to stop him, so I saw how it was blown up into a mess.”

His tone was very calm as he said it, but the calmer he was, the more uncomfortable Qi Zihan felt.

Qi Zihan believed that Yu Chenyu must have been furious at the time, but he could do nothing other than killing his comrade to give him relief.

He was only so calm now because he had accepted his fate. He had accepted the reality of this world, and had accepted that males were such lowly creatures.

“I brought my findings and speculations to the marshal,” he continued, “his response was for me to not let anyone else know, to forget about it, and to pretend that nothing happened.”

“Even the marshal…”

“Yeah, even if he’s the marshal, he doesn’t dare to interfere in cases involving females. Rather, it’s precisely because he’s the marshal that it’s easier for him to be attacked, so he can’t make any mistakes on sensitive things like this. I understand it, so I don’t blame him.

“This is what the world is like. No matter what happens, it won’t ever be the female’s fault. I even know what will happen after I tell the truth — everyone will say it’s the male who didn’t do enough as a spouse, didn’t do what he did do good enough, or wonder what he did wrong to his female for him to be retaliated against.”

Qi Zihan thought about his own Earth. Whenever there was news about a girl being raped, there would always be some weird comments accusing the girl of dressing too scantily, or even speculating that her identity was unclean, all without any evidence.

Really, no matter which world it was, there would always be these kinds of people who spewed garbage as soon as their mouths opened.

Although…

“The marshal ordered you to bury the truth forever, but you told me just like that?” Qi Zihan felt that Yu Chenyu trusted him too much.

Was it really okay to trust someone you knew for less than a day?

“You’ll know sooner or later,” Yu Chenyu replied, but seeing that Qi Zihan didn’t understand, he had to explain it more clearly. “Spiritual appeasement… doesn’t allow secrets.”

Ah, understood.

Meaning that they could see memories of the host in their inner world?

“When is your next medical exam?” Qi Zihan asked, wanting to give him soothing before his next exam to see the effect.

Yet he didn’t expect his answer to be, “Tonight.”

Qi Zihan: “…”

Help! I’m not ready!

He quickly searched on his terminal if it was possible to soothe without sex.

The answer was yes.

Some females liked to see males remaining unsatisfied after being soothed, so of course it was possible.

Once again, Qi Zihan supported his forehead.

“What is it?” Yu Chenyu asked worriedly.

He didn’t know what Qi Zihan’s terminal showed.

He wasn’t afraid of Qi Zihan checking his data — males had no secrets in front of their females. Not to mention their travel routes, even more personal information such as when their heart rates picked up could be checked clearly.

To Yu Chenyu, none of these were something to be hidden from his wife.

What he was afraid of was that after Qi Zihan became more familiar with this world, he would be assimilated and become like most females, despising the lives of males and treating them like toys to be thrown away, or even conducting all sorts of cruel experiments.

Qi Zihan did want to use Yu Chenyu as an experiment.

There was no other way, he only had Yu Chenyu.

“I’ve mostly mastered the theoretical knowledge on how to use spiritual power to soothe males,” he said, “but because every male’s inner world is different, there’s no set way to do it, so I can only explore the practical portion myself. Are you willing to let me try?”

Yu Chen Yu hesitated briefly, with a hint of worry in his eyes.

But after a moment of silence, he nodded.

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The Imperial Military Forum wasn’t anonymous, and even if it was, the empire only had two SS-grade males!

[Holy shit, General Yu Chenyu!]

[Hi General! Can you tell us a bit about what your Lord Wife looks like and how he is?]

[Yeah yeah, tell us! If I have the chance to marry him, I’ll definitely serve him well and serve you well at the same time!]

[People with an 87% match rate go away! If he’s marrying, he’ll marry people with over 90% first!]

[Who cares who goes first? Let’s go together! That female’s spiritual power can’t be below S, S-grade females have no upper limit to how many mates they have!]

[Hey, that’s right. What grade is that female’s spiritual power? The general is married so he should be able to see it, right?]

[General Yu Chenyu, please share it! Your wife can’t log into the military forum anyway!]

[Seconded!]

Yu Chenyu narrowed his eyes.

It had only been a single night yet the entire empire was aware of his marriage?

Although he wanted to find out who leaked the news, his wife was still waiting for his dinner.

Thus, he only replied with a [No comment] before exiting the forum, closing all the screens in front of him, and going to the dining room with a plate in each hand.

He put all the dishes on the table and set out the tableware, then called Qi Zihan to eat. “Lord… Zihan, the food is ready.”

As he spoke, he pulled out a chair for Qi Zihan.

When he stood from the sofa, Qi Zihan was already so hungry that his legs were soft.

He walked the few steps to the chair that Yu Chenyu had pulled out for him and sat down. While internally sighing at his thoughtfulness, he drooled at the aroma and silently swallowed several gulps of saliva.

“Let me try it.” Pretending to be calm, he raised his chopsticks, picked up a cola chicken wing, and took a delicate bite.

Back on Earth, his family was rather well-off. While he knew how to cook, basically all his meals were prepared by hired chefs, and there were also maids who cleaned the entire villa.

There were only two things he was responsible for: studying and exercising.

Therefore, while he couldn’t accept Yu Chenyu kneeling naked in front of him as he asked to be whipped, he didn’t feel uncomfortable at all when he served him food, and even enjoyed it.

Just take it as hiring an all-round housekeeper.

But housekeepers needed to be paid…

Qi Zihan ate two bites of food and drank a sip of the soup, then praised it as ‘not bad’. But before Yu Chenyu could be happy, he brought up working again. “You said before that females can do relatively light work, so what do they usually do?”

Hearing this, Yu Chenyu put down the chopsticks he had just picked up. Although his expression didn’t change, Qi Zihan could feel his resistance, and could detect that he didn’t want to answer this question.

It wasn’t hard to guess why, so Qi Zihan emphasised again, “I won’t divorce you, but I haven’t decided whether to accept you either. You can treat yourself as being single, it’s just that we’re living in the same place, and since we’re just living together, I can’t waste your money. You’ve treated me to this meal, so I’ll pay you back once I find work.”

Yu Chenyu picked up his chopsticks again but didn’t eat anything.

After staring at his empty bowl for a moment, he abruptly said, “Although the Female Association helped you find your house, I was the one who paid for it.”

Qi Zihan: “…”

“Eight million credits, bought in full,” Yu Chenyu said with his eyes downcast, not daring to meet Qi Zihan’s gaze. “As I understand it, the average monthly wage for working females is approximately 2,500 credits.”

Qi Zihan did some quick calculations. Even if he only wanted to pay back half of Yu Chenyu’s money, which was 4 million credits, with an annual salary of 30,000 credits, he would have to work for 133 years…

He raised his hands to cover his face. After he was sure that it was impossible to clear this debt, he decided to cheat. “I was too careless just now. Isn’t spiritual soothing from females very important for males? Something so important, how can it be free? One session for a hundred… no, one session for a hundred thousand credits, how about it?”

He thought that if he charged 1 million credits per session, then if after eight sessions were done and Yu Chenyu still gave him money, he would be committing fraud!

Yu Chenyu knew that Qi Zihan wanted to use spiritual soothing to offset the house payment. He thought that it was cute of him to want to pay off the money even if it meant cheating, but he couldn’t laugh.

Because he knew very well that Qi Zihan only wanted to find a job or offset the house payment to distance himself.

They’d obviously already married, he obviously decided not to divorce, so why did he still want to sever ties?

And what would happen after that? The next step… was it to divorce again?

Yu Chenyu kept his eyes lowered without saying anything.

Qi Zihan was right. For males, spiritual soothing from females was indeed important, so important that its value couldn’t be measured by credits.

Yet for females, what were males good for?

Males were only worth whatever they could create.

In other words, the money earned by males was to be spent by females — this itself was a price for obtaining spiritual soothing.

Therefore, Yu Chenyu truly didn’t care how Qi Zihan spent his money, even if he threw it all into the sea.

But he cared if Qi Zihan didn’t spend his money.

“Is a hundred thousand per session too expensive?” Seeing that Yu Chenyu didn’t speak, Qi Zihan thought that it was too much, so he compromised. “Then, ten thousand per session?”

“No,” Yu Chenyu finally said, forcing out the word as if through gritted teeth. Then, he forced himself to look up at Qi Zihan and said in a voice hoarser than usual, “I don’t know how many times I’ll need soothing in my life, so I want to exchange all the money I have for the right to get it from you at any time, is that okay?”

Towards the end, his voice trembled a little, as if he was suppressing… fear?

He knew that he had no right to negotiate with females.

Females could do whatever they wanted, how could a male interfere?

But although he knew, he still said it in a fit of pique.

You can cheat to offset the house payment.

So I can also cheat to force this money back to you.

It certainly wasn’t that he thought he had too much money. Rather, the reason why he wanted to give all his hard-earned savings to Qi Zihan was, on the one hand, to consolidate their marriage, and on the other hand, to give himself a sense of security.

Because it was too easy for females to break off their marriage — sometimes, males would wake up one day to find themselves inexplicably divorced. Thus, married males would always feel uneasy, fearing that they hadn’t given enough to their females, that their females wouldn’t be satisfied with them.

Yu Chenyu once thought that he wouldn’t be like this.

It was only after marriage that he realised he was afraid too.

Especially after finding out that his wife was a SS female zerg who could have countless spouses.

He was really afraid of losing him.

Hearing that Yu Chenyu wanted to use all his money in exchange for a lifetime of soothing, Qi Zihan admitted that he was a little tempted. “How much do you have left?” he asked tentatively.

“Not much, only seven million.”

“Huh.” Qi Zihan had thought that Yu Chenyu was some kind of billionaire — after all, he paid in full for the 8 million credit house — but his remaining balance wasn’t even as much as the house valuation…

“Not enough?” Yu Chenyu turned from defense to offense. “Then you name a price first. When I go back to the front line, I’ll do my best to get more merits on the battlefield to pay off what I owe you.”

“…”

Qi Zihan didn’t know how things got to this point.

He was obviously the one who was living and eating in Yu Chenyu’s house for free, so how did it suddenly turn into Yu Chenyu owing him money?

In addition, even now, Yu Chenyu still hadn’t touched the food on the table, as if waiting for permission.

Feeling a little overwhelmed, Qi Zihan decided not to talk about money with him in the future.

“Never mind, let’s talk about this later,” he said, taking a sip of the sweet corn soup and licking his lips. “Since you’re not short of money, I’ll use it for now. But I still don’t know how to soothe males — is it through spiritual power? Do I also have spiritual power?”

“Everyone has spiritual power.” As he explained, Yu Chenyu’s face looked much better, and his tone gave off a feeling of relief. “Your spiritual power is SS like mine, but the way females use it is completely different from how males use it, so I can’t teach you personally, but I can find you some information…” At this point, he suddenly remembered something and asked  Qi Zihan, “Do you have a personal terminal?”

“What’s a personal terminal?” He put down a half-eaten chicken wing, and urged, “Eat it, it won’t taste good when it’s cold.”

Yu Chenyu hummed, put a piece of meat into his bowl, then answered Qi Zihan’s question first without eating. “A personal terminal, also known as a portable optical computer, can be used to access the internet, chat with others, and look up information. Some places require swiping a personal terminal to enter, or paying a fee using the terminal. Your data has already been entered into the system and you should have your own exclusive account there which you can log into with spiritual power, but it’s probably mostly empty. If you don’t have a terminal I can buy you one and teach you how to use it.”

“Oh, okay.” Qi Zihan guessed that the ‘personal terminal’ he was talking about should be similar to a mobile phone but more advanced, with an electronic ID attached or something?

Yu Chenyu carefully selected a model on his own terminal and placed an order.

Soon after they finished eating, the snacks and optical computer he ordered were delivered by shipping robots to the balcony.

He placed some snacks on the coffee table and the rest in a cupboard, then washed the dishes.

Only after washing and tidying up did he begin to teach Qi Zihan how to use a personal terminal.

There were only two ways to log in to a terminal: one, to use a spiritual power imprint; or two, to enter their ID number then confirm their identity through facial recognition, fingerprint recognition, and voice recognition in sequence.

None of it used the passwords that Qi Zihan was familiar with.

He guessed that it might be because some zergs possessed certain abilities that rendered passwords useless, therefore something as important as a personal terminal simply didn’t use such an unsafe method.

“If it’s your first time using spiritual power, let me think…” As a general, Yu Chenyu had taught many of his soldiers how to use spiritual power to kill aberrants, but this was the first time to teach someone how to use spiritual power to log in on a terminal.

For zergs, spiritual power was like another limb on their bodies. Most were born knowing how to use it, the only difference was in the extent.

This was the first time he saw a zerg who was unable to use spiritual power.

Yet for some reason he had no doubt that Qi Zihan would be able to learn.

After all, he was an SS-grade female!

“I think using spiritual power may require a little imagination,” Yu Chenyu said, trying to articulate what he felt while using spiritual power. “Spiritual power is tangible. You can think of it as an invisible hand. It exists in your mind, but you can control it to leave and touch things similar to spiritual power in the wider world.”

Saying so, he raised a hand and stretched it in front of Qi Zihan with its palm facing up.

Just as Qi Zihan was wondering what he wanted to do, he saw beautiful blue lights suddenly appear in his palm, which gradually gathered together and formed a crystal clear, light blue… mantis?

“This is a spiritual mimic,” Yu Chenyu explained, “when you master your spiritual power to a certain extent, you can create a specific form which can be used to attack enemies… No, for females, it should be to use mimicry to soothe males.”

“Using mimicry to attack enemies?” Looking at the mantis in Yu Chenyu’s hand, he couldn’t imagine how it would kill anything.

Anyway, he should try to log in to the optical computer with his spiritual power first.

An invisible hand, right?

Then he’ll just visualise his spiritual power as a hand.

He stared at the terminal on his left wrist, imagining a formless hand hovering over it, then imagining extending its index finger and pressing the screen.

[Identifying spiritual power.]

[Identification successful.]

[Sir Qi Zihan, good afternoon. As this is your first time logging in to your terminal, do you require a tutorial?]

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Yu Chenyu spent some time determining if Qi Zihan was setting a trap or if he truly wanted to make a deal with him.

But he soon realised that even if a female wanted to trap their male, the male would still have to jump in obediently.

The one who sat on the sofa was completely different from a soldier. He was a female zerg with gentle looks and an elegant temperament — not his superior officer, but his Lord Wife, who controlled his lifespan and future.

Upon making this conclusion, Yu Chenyu cooperated. “Then,” he requested, “can you not strip me in public or when others are present, and not give me to other females to play with? I can give three… no, five requests, for this one.”

Qi Zihan was stunned.

Although he did intend to learn more about this world as well as Yu Chenyu through this transaction, he didn’t expect to hear such shocking content.

Making his male strip naked in public?

And giving him to other females to play with?

Giving?

Did he mean using male zergs as playthings?

This world was terrifying!

Despite his surprise, his mouth only opened slightly and his overall expression didn’t change much.

He may have been quiet for too long, perhaps it was a dozen seconds or perhaps half a minute.

Because Yu Chenyu panicked.

Maybe, at this moment, he should kneel and confess his mistake before the female got angry, and admit that his request was excessive.

But this was too important to him.

So, after pursing his lips for a while, he gathered his courage and said, “If you… if you can agree, then you can do whatever you want to me at home… although females already have the right to do so. But you can do more to me, we soldiers have very strong bodies — even if you cut off an arm, it’ll grow back after a while. You don’t need to be scared.”

Qi Zihan: “…”

I’m so scared that I’m trembling, I’m going to have nightmares tonight!

He didn’t dare to think about what the females of this world had done to the males.

Since Yu Chenyu would go to such lengths, it meant that there really were females who would do it and that it was tacitly permitted by law.

Was this a marriage or getting a free slave?

No, this slave even had to pay to be one!

Qi Zihan rubbed at his temples. After spending a lot of effort to pick up his shattered worldview and put it back together, he pretended to be calm as he said, “Okay, I won’t humiliate you in public and I won’t give you to other females. This counts as two, so I’ll make another request.”

Yu Chenyu looked at him in a daze.

He agreed?

He agreed!

And it only counted as two?

Qi Zihan didn’t notice Yu Chenyu’s reaction, he was too busy racking his brains for anything else he could ask.

Don’t leave rubbish out? Don’t make messes?

He could tell from the way Yu Chenyu put his boots away that he wasn’t the kind of person to leave things everywhere.

Have a clear division of labour for housework?

A cleaning robot drifted past his feet.

Not allowed to sleep on the same bed?

He didn’t mind sleeping in the same bed, since they had already agreed not to touch him without permission.

His stomach gurgled again. “No chillis, I can’t eat spicy food,” he said weakly.

Yu Chenyu was surprised at the unexpected request, and then, realising that Qi Zihan was hungry, he had the urge to laugh. “Okay, I’ll go cook now. Is there anything else you don’t want?”

“No bitter melons, no leeks.” He didn’t know what zergs ate, so he just told him his preferences. “I like lighter food, less salt, but it can be sweeter.”

“Okay.” Yu Chenyu memorised it.

“Anyway, I don’t like bitter or sour things. I like sweet food,” Qi Zihan said, going even further. “I want meat. Cola chicken, sweet and sour spare ribs…”

“Okay.” Yu Chenyu turned away to open the refrigerator so that Qi Zihan couldn’t see his smile.

“And sweet corn soup.”

He originally wanted to just eat whatever Yu Chenyu made, but when he found out that he could order food, he couldn’t hold back his cravings.

And Yu Chenyu agreed to all his requests, taking out the corresponding ingredients from the refrigerator and going to the kitchen.

Yesterday, when he met Qi Zihan here and before he was tied to the bed, he had already considered the issue of food, so he had used his terminal to purchase some ingredients.

As his male zerg, he had the right to view Qi Zihan’s medical examination report, so he knew that his last meal was high in sugar and protein.

His Lord Wife should be a carnivorous female who liked sweets.

Therefore, the dishes Qi Zihan had just named were all within his expectations.

The only thing he didn’t consider was that his Lord Wife would take him to the Female Association Center as soon as he woke up, making them miss breakfast.

He should buy some ready-to-eat snacks.

As he thought of it, Yu Chenyu used his spiritual power as he cooked to turn on his terminal, through which he bought chocolates, biscuits, and bread.

Then he remembered that he hadn’t told his friend Zhu Yunqi about resolving his crisis, so he quickly reported it to him to let him stop worrying.

Yu Chenyu: He kept me.

As expected, a reply came in seconds.

Zhu Yunqi: !

Zhu Yunqi: Congrats!

Zhu Yunqi: Are you okay?

Yu Chenyu: He didn’t hit me.

Zhu Yunqi: ?

Zhu Yunqi: Then how did you make him keep you?

Yu Chenyu: It’s a bit hard to explain. I don’t know what he went through or why he showed up in the high-risk area, but what is certain is that his understanding of the empire is very limited.

Zhu Yunqi: What do you mean? Don’t all females have no clue what’s going on in the empire? When have they ever cared about its life or death?

Yu Chenyu: I don’t mean that.

Yu Chenyu: He didn’t know what would happen to divorced males.

Zhu Yunqi: ?

Zhu Yunqi: Females cancel marriages whenever they want, since when did they care about what happens to males after they divorce?

Yu Chenyu: I mean it’s not that he doesn’t care, it’s that he didn’t know. After he found out, he kept me, understand?

After this message was sent, the chat interface fell silent.

Yu Chenyu didn’t care, he focused on preparing ingredients and heating the pan.

There were actually special robots for cooking.

But this was the first meal that his wife would eat, so he wanted to show off his skills.

Just as the pan reached the right temperature and he poured in a thin layer of oil, ready to put the ingredients in, his friend finally sent another message.

Zhu Yunqi: It seems like your wife is quite kind, I’m happy for you

Zhu Yunqi: Now, there’s something else I want to ask

Yu Chenyu: What?

Zhu Yunqi: Do you know your wife’s spiritual power level?

Yu Chenyu: Let me check

Last night Yu Chenyu was busy thinking about how to please his wife in order to leave a good impression on him.

When the people from the Female Association reminded him that his wife might have some violent tendencies, he even worried that the tools he prepared weren’t cruel enough.

Now it seemed like they had misunderstood something.

As he stirred the food, Yu Chenyu used his spiritual power to retrieve his wife’s profile and read it carefully from top to bottom.

Name: Qi Zihan
Sex: Female
Age: 21
Last medical exam: 11 hours ago
Medical exam results: Good physical state, good mental state, no abnormalities; all sexual characteristics have matured, ready for gestation at any time; the estimated number of eggs to be produced is 1 million.
Physical capability: A
Spiritual capability: SS
Spiritual mimicry: Unknown

Yu Chenyu couldn’t believe his eyes.

His movements paused as he used his spiritual power to magnify the ‘spiritual capability’ line until it filled up the entire screen.

Spiritual capability: SS

Then he zoomed out and went back to the top of the profile.

Name: Qi Zihan

Only then was he sure that his wife, Qi Zihan, was a female zerg with SS-grade spiritual power!

And his physique was A-grade! Didn’t that mean he could fight better than some soldiers?

Yu Chenyu felt a little dazed. Forcing himself back to his senses, he resumed cooking and replied to his friend.

Yu Chenyu: SS

Zhu Yunqi: As expected.

Yu Chenyu: ?

Zhu Yunqi: Before your wife selected you, you should’ve received a notification from the system, right? Then I’ll tell you now that you weren’t the only one to get it. I got it too, and so did the marshal. As far as I know, a lot of males with S spiritual power also got the notification at the same time, regardless of whether they submitted a marriage proposal or not.

Zhu Yunqi: You already know that the system will only notify males if their match rate is over 80%, so that they’re more likely to be included in the female’s quota.

Zhu Yunqi: My match rate with him is 93%

Zhu Yunqi: But you don’t need to worry, I’ll never get married — I’d rather die than serve a female, so I won’t be competing with you for favour

Zhu Yunqi: But I don’t know about others, including the marshal

Zhu Yunqi: Do you get what I mean?

Yu Chenyu: I understand

As Yu Chenyu watched one line after another pop up, his smile faded and his amber eyes dimmed like a cloud covering stars.

An SS-grade female zerg. Even the imperial marshal had no right to limit the number of males he had.

As long as Qi Zihan was willing, he could have a hundred, a thousand, even tens of thousands of males.

His spiritual power was sufficient to soothe them all, and perhaps even more.

What should Yu Chenyu do then?

He was lucky because he was the first male to be chosen.

He was also unlucky because he was the first, and thus the most likely to be rejected.

Not to mention that he was a soldier with both physical and spiritual power reaching SS-grade.

This was a symbol of strength and supreme honour for males.

But females looked at neither physical abilities nor spiritual power when choosing their males.

Rather, the stronger their bodies, the more likely it was for females to feel scared and lash out due to fear.

Strong spiritual power also required females to expend more time and energy for soothing.

Yu Chenyu was an undefeated warrior on the battlefield, a ruthless general worshipped by countless males.

Yet for females, he had hardly any advantages that were worth liking.

Yu Chenyu: Let’s take it one step at a time.

Zhu Yunqi: The hell is one step at a time! You’re a SS soldier, a first-class general of the empire! No matter what battlefield it is, you can’t retreat!

Yu Chenyu: I never said I’m retreating

He would fight for it, but… he had no confidence.

Know oneself and the enemy, and you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. He knew that as the spouse of a female, his disadvantages outweighed his advantages, so he couldn’t help but be pessimistic.

 Zhu Yunqi: Speaking of which, I still haven’t asked about your match rate. Is it higher or lower than mine?

Yu Chenyu: 99.99%

Zhu Yunqi: Fuck, I lost

Yu Chenyu: Didn’t you say you’re not fighting with me for favour? Why are you still comparing it then?

Zhu Yunqi: Sigh, competing is in us soldiers’ DNA, you’ll know it as soon as you take a look at our internal forum.

Zhu Yunqi: I bet someone from the Female Association will look for him within the next 3 days to recommend other males to him. You have to work hard!

Yu Chenyu served the cooked food onto plates. Despite the dishes being beautiful and the food looking delicious, he had no appetite at all.

He used his spiritual power to close the chat with Zhu Yunqi and switched to the military’s internal forum.

The first thread on the front page: Compatibility Fight! Who’s that female’s next spouse?

[Me first! I’m S, match rate 87.11%!]

[Only 87? I’m 92.56%!]

[Shit, that’s so high! What grade?]

[A…]

[If you’re A don’t join in the fun here, go find an A-grade female!]

[I’m S, 93.46%, is there anyone higher than me?]

[That A-grade guy just now, don’t feel down. Females never look at grades when they choose males, otherwise, how can so many drones get married? I’m also A, my match rate with him is 89.98%, aaaahhh it’s almost 90% what a pity!]

[Any B-grades around? A B-grade male humbly posts a score, 91.16%.]

[Holy shit it’s all so high! I’m S. I was so excited to see a 81.88% last night that I almost passed out, but today you guys hit me so hard that I don’t want to talk.]

[So what determines the match rate? So mysterious. I’m A, 87.72%. By the way, is there anyone who didn’t get the notification last night?]

[Yes. C-grade here, didn’t get it.]

[A C-grade combat medic who didn’t get the notification trembles while reading the thread and is too scared to speak.]

[It’s normal for the match rate between C and SS to be less than 80%. If it’s more than 80, then as soon as the female releases spiritual power… wow, that’d be an exciting scene!]

[We’ll die! We’ll definitely die! Another C-grade male who didn’t get the notification begs you not to speak!]

[Another C-grade? I didn’t even know the army had so many Cs, don’t tell me drones have sneaked in?]

[Although I, a B-grade drone, didn’t receive the notification, I hope that the above people won’t discriminate based on castes. Although I’m just a logistics clerk, I still work hard to contribute to the army.]

[Um, so there really are drones in the army? Sorry.]

Unlike females, there were at least three different types of male zergs.

There were the soldiers, who were combat-oriented and born for fighting.

There were the workers, who weren’t as physically strong as soldiers but had higher overall abilities.

And there were the drones, whose physical and spiritual capabilities were far inferior to other males, but had softer features and were naturally suited to pleasing females.

Each caste had distinct differences in physique, abilities, and lifespan.

If a soldier could get regular spiritual soothing from a female, living for a couple hundred years wouldn’t be a problem.

As for drones, despite being less likely to lose control than soldiers and being less dangerous if they did lose control, they could hardly live for a century even if they received the same regular spiritual soothing. Drones usually died of natural causes in their 40s or 50s.

Workers were somewhere between the two. Some could live to be over 100 years old, while others would succumb at 80 years old.

There were far fewer females than males, but their lifespans were quite long, even longer than soldiers.

According to the latest data published by the Ministry of Statistics, the current ratio of females, soldiers, workers, and drones stood at 1:9:16:7.

In other words, the ratio of females to males was 1:32.

Even if every female had multiple spouses, more than half of all males would never see let alone touch a female in their entire lives.

After Yu Chenyu served all the dishes and turned off the electric stove, he didn’t rush to bring them to the table outside. Instead, he used his spiritual power to post a message on this thread:

[SS, match rate 99.99%.]

He admitted that Zhu Yunqi was right, soldiers did like to compete with others — and he was no exception.

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“What did you say?”

The Female Association Center’s reception room didn’t contain only a single person.

All the staff members were males.

Hearing what the worker who received Qi Zihan said, the males surrounding were in disbelief.

“A female with SS spiritual power? How is that possible!”

Despite how the female zergs of this world had a status second only to the imperial marshal, to the point that even the marshal had to bow to females…

The physical and spiritual strength of females was far inferior to males.

SS-grade spiritual power was rare even among soldiers who were born for battle. There had only ever been three people in the history of zergs who reached that level, all of whom were soldiers, and of them, only two were still alive today.

The first was Marshal Mo Yihai who was 36 years old this year; the other was a first-class general, as well as the youngest ever general of the empire, the 23-year-old Yu Chenyu.

When the male staff member spoke to Qi Zihan, he was first shocked by Qi Zihan’s SS-grade spiritual power and then stunned by his spouse’s identity.

He didn’t recognise the uniform that could only be worn by a general!

He even got angry at a general for letting a female ride a hoverbike!

But in this case, the general was in the wrong. How could he let a female ride such a dangerous vehicle?

Females should only use the most advanced, most stable aircraft — this was the consensus of all zergs.

“Did you see it wrong? Maybe you saw his male’s spiritual power as his… holy shit! The male just now was General Yu Chenyu?”

One male after another reacted.

“No wonder I thought his uniform looked so different from the other soldiers’!”

“I heard he’s an iron-blooded soldier who once single-handedly slaughtered all the aberrants in a high-risk area. I thought he’d be cold and stiff like the other soldiers, but although he was a little distant, he’s so handsome!”

“I think any drone who sees him would be ashamed of their looks!”

“Hey, listen to me!” the male who received Qi Zihan couldn’t help but interrupt, “Although the male that just walked out has no idea how to get along with females and makes people sweat for him really is General Yu Chenyu, but I’m talking about that female’s spiritual power! Qi Zihan is a female zerg with SS-grade spiritual power! A female!”

“Impossible!”

The males’ reactions went in a big circle.

Soldiers with S-grade spiritual power were still somewhat common, not one of them wasn’t an excellent warrior who could fight alone against thousands.

But let alone S-grade, even A-grades were astonishingly rare among females. Most of them were B- or C-grade.

An SS-grade female? Unheard of!

But the facts were placed in front of them.

“Think carefully with your buggy brains! It’s a 99.99% match rate! If their spiritual capabilities aren’t on the same level, how can their match rate reach so high?”

A single sentence awakened the zergs.

“That’s right, basically all male-female pairs with a match rate higher than 80% are at the same spiritual grade.”

“99.99%, infinitely approaching 100%. My god, can such a high match rate exist?”

“If they can produce a soldier, he’ll definitely be the next marshal!”

“Speaking of the marshal, hasn’t he not gotten married yet?”

“Ah, I wonder what’s the match rate between Sir Marshal and that female.”

“For a female with SS spiritual power, it wouldn’t be strange even if he pulled in all the S- and SS-grade males into his harem.”

Every female could have multiple spouses, but the maximum number depended on their spiritual power.

Females with C spiritual power could have up to seven partners, of whom two could be B-grade males, five could be C-grade males, and with no limit to the number of males who were below C-grade except for the total number of partners.

Females with B spiritual power could have up to thirteen partners, of whom three could be A-grade males, ten could be B-grade males, and with no limit to the number of males who were C-grade or below except for the total number of partners.

Females with A spiritual power could have up to twenty partners, of whom five could be S-grade males, fifteen could be A-grade males, and with no limit to the number of males who were B-grade or below except for the total number of partners.

Although females with S spiritual power hadn’t appeared yet, it was stipulated that they could have any number of S-grade partners with no upper limit, but at the same time, they were only allowed up to twenty males who were A-grade or below.

As for females with SS spiritual power… there weren’t any relevant regulations for it, but they didn’t need long to conclude that there was no need to set any limit for a female zerg with such high spiritual power.

He did not need to go through the system to select a marriage partner, because all males would willingly crawl at his feet.

He could become the entire empire’s queen.

Queen Bee.

Before today, they thought that this creature only existed in legends.

But perhaps he had already appeared and had just gracefully left their sight.

The Imperial Central Command contained both the residence and office of Marshal Mo Yihai.

He absentmindedly looked at the message that popped up on his personal terminal for a long time without moving.

[System]: Dear Marshal Mo Yihai, 0.1s ago, the database updated the data of a female zerg whose spiritual compatibility with you reaches 84.37%. Would you like to send a marriage proposal to the service office of the Association for the Rights of Female Zergs immediately?

A spiritual compatibility of over 80%. For he who had SS spiritual power, it was something he hardly dared to think of.

He was on the verge of losing control, had already planned to take his own life, and even planned out what kind of research his corpse should be used for. But at such a time…

Should he send a message?

As the marshal of the empire, was he finally going to step foot into the abyss he had maintained with his own hands and place his fate into the hands of a female whom he didn’t know?

In the end, after a sleepless night, he used his spiritual power to close that page and brought up the chat interface for a certain person.

Mo Yihai: A female with a match rate higher than 80% with me has appeared, should I pursue him?

After a while, the other party replied.

Zhu Yunqi: Why ask me? Do I have the right to make decisions for you?

Mo Yihai: You do.

A few minutes passed before another message came.

Zhu Yunqi: A’Hai, you know that I can’t watch you die when you have a way to live

Zhu Yunqi: But emotionally, I can’t accept it

Zhu Yunqi: So only you can decide for yourself, if you think…

Zhu Yunqi: Wait, I feel like something’s strange. That female you’re talking about, is he called Qi Zihan?

Mo Yihai: ?

Mo Yihai: How did you know?

Zhu Yunqi: Holy shit! Things are weird, let me show you a message I received last night!

Zhu Yunqi: Dear General Zhu Yunqi, 0.1s ago, the database updated the data of a female zerg whose spiritual compatibility with you reaches 93.46%. Would you like to send a marriage proposal to the service office of the Association for the Rights of Female Zergs immediately?

Mo Yihai: ?

Zhu Yunqi: I checked, his name is Qi Zihan, he showed up out of thin air last night and picked Chenyu, which means that the match rate between them must also be above 50%

Mo Yihai: ?

Mo Yihai: How strong is his spiritual power?

Zhu Yunqi: Don’t know, but since you matched with him, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s SS

Mo Yihai: How is that possible?

Zhu Yunqi: The facts are there. Only when a female’s spiritual power is close to or higher than a male’s will their match rate exceed 80%

Zhu Yunqi: Males don’t have the right to view the personal information of females without permission, let’s wait until Chenyu pleases the female before asking him.

Mo Yihai: Chenyu… pleasing someone?

A strange look appeared on Mo Yihai’s face.

Having fought side by side with Yu Chenyu, he knew this person’s personality very well.

With his stubborn character, did he know how to ‘please’ a female zerg?

Zhu Yunqi: Don’t overthink, how else can soldiers make a female happy?

Mo Yihai: He…

Zhu Yunqi: Yeah.

Zhu Yunqi: Even if he does get divorced, I hope he won’t come back with missing arms and legs

Mo Yihai fell silent, as did Zhu Yunqi.

The two shared a sad moment across their terminals, not knowing that their comrade had successfully reversed his divorce, though he hadn’t yet won his wife’s favour.

After returning home, Qi Zihan walked to the sofa and sank into it tiredly.

Yu Chenyu closed the door, then slowly took off his military boots and cap.

He tucked the cap under his arm and turned to look at Qi Zihan, who was slumped on the sofa. The corners of his lips raised, and he secretly felt a little happy.

He could tell that his Lord Wife didn’t keep him because he liked him, but because he sympathised with him.

Unlike his indifferent exterior, his Lord Wife was a gentle person inside.

How strange. As he found himself losing control, he was so afraid of receiving his comrades’ pitying eyes when they met in the future.

But now, although he knew that Qi Zihan pitied him, he didn’t feel humiliated at all; instead, he felt a kind of joy, as if he was seeing hope.

This joy softened his brows and tone.

“If you’re hungry, I’ll go cook for you, Lord Wife,” he said gently, so gently that it didn’t match his appearance at all.

Qi Zihan’s stomach gurgled at his words.

Only then did he realise that he hadn’t eaten anything since he first transmigrated here.

He didn’t know what the food here was like, or if it would be delicious or not.

Hopefully, it wouldn’t be insects…

“Okay,” Qi Zihan agreed, deciding to wait and see. If Yu Chenyu’s cooking wasn’t good, they would go out to eat. Though, speaking of which. “If a female goes out alone, will restaurants give food for free?”

Yu Chenyu paused on his way to the kitchen. A confused expression flashed across his face, followed by a sly, fox-like smile.

However, he had already returned to his usual calmness by the time he turned to look at Qi Zihan. “The Female Association will provide basic necessities to females without sufficient economic resources, but both the nutrition and taste of their food are very poor. Better food costs money.”

“Oh, I see.” Qi Zihan also thought that he was too optimistic.

The empire had set up the current society precisely to make females get married. If they could stay single and still live without worrying about food, clothing, and shelter, then what would be the point of getting married?

Yu Chenyu’s next sentence was as he expected. “The biggest source of income for females is the males they marry. Females can enjoy all the property owned by their males.”

“You said that’s the biggest source of income, so what’s the second biggest?”

“Work,” he answered. “Females can choose to work, but they tend to find it tiring, and there are few places that allow females to be hired. Most of those that do are relatively simple jobs, so the salary isn’t high.”

Yu Chenyu was only short of explicitly saying that he needed him.

Although Qi Zihan noticed his thoughts, he didn’t comment.

Since he already decided to keep Yu Chenyu, he couldn’t start discussing divorce again.

Though… having a marriage without love made it hard for him to be interested.

He felt that he should try his best to be self-reliant before his relationship with Yu Chenyu grew too co-dependent.

Therefore he asked, “I don’t know how to do much, is there a job you can recommend?”

Yu Chenyu was quiet. His eyes which had finally gained a spark of life dimmed again after hearing this question. It took him a long time to squeeze out a sentence from gritted teeth. 

“I’m a general of this empire, and although I’ve already half retired, I have so much money that you can’t possibly spend it all. You can rest assured in using it, even if in the future…” he hesitated, then forced himself to continue, “even if you still don’t like me after a long time and insist on divorcing me. It doesn’t matter if you spend everything before then.”

Qi Zihan was his last hope. He bet everything on him — even if he lost everything, he had no way out.

Qi Zihan noticed his uneasiness but had no time to comfort him because he had noticed an unexpected word: “Retired?”

This person looked no older than 30 years old, perhaps even younger than 25, nowhere near retirement age. Why would he be half-retired?

“Because you’re losing control?” he guessed.

Yu Chenyu nodded.

This was the main reason behind males submitting marriage proposals. He thought Qi Zihan already understood this, so he had never stated it explicitly.

Before he knew that Qi Zihan had minimal knowledge of this world, he had even thought that he deliberately ignored it to humiliate him.

Now that he thought about it, he was judging a gentleman with a villain’s heart.

Qi Zihan sat for a while, thoughtful. “Then, let’s make a deal,” he abruptly said.

“A deal?” A hint of confusion was barely perceptible on Yu Chenyu’s face, and his gaze towards Qi Zihan once again turned scrutinising.

On the battlefield, his eyes could capture all details and allow him to react in the face of danger.

He had stubbornly escaped death countless times thanks to these eyes.

Yet now, at such a close distance, he couldn’t see through the thoughts of his wife.

Ignoring his stare, Qi Zihan raised a slender index finger. “For example, I’ll soothe you and prevent you from losing control. In exchange, you’re not allowed to touch me without permission.”

Yu Chenyu wanted to say that he wouldn’t dare to casually touch a female even if there wasn’t such a deal, but instead, he nodded and agreed.

When he nodded, he glanced at Qi Zihan’s fingers and noticed their shape for the first time, causing him to be distracted for a moment.

Delicate and distinctly jointed, they looked more like expertly carved jade than fingers.

Were all females’ hands so beautiful?

“Like this, I make a request and you make one as well. As long as we both keep by each other’s terms, I won’t casually chase you away.” Folding away his finger, Qi Zihan crossed his legs, giving off feelings of both pride and laziness like a rare breed of cat.

His appearance couldn’t be less threatening to a soldier.

Most females had gentle features as if they were flowers raised in a greenhouse, or like carefully maintained jade. Qi Zihan was no exception.

But his well-proportioned body — broad shoulders, narrow waist, and long legs — made him look stronger than most females.

Yu Chenyu could even faintly detect tight muscles hiding underneath his clothes.

His vision, which had finally focused, became blurred again. He raised a hand to support his chin as if he were thinking about Qi Zihan’s proposal, but his mind was a complete blank.

“My second requirement is that you can’t call me ‘Lord Wife’, and you can’t use honorifics towards me either. Just call me Qi Zihan or Zihan.”

After saying this, he kept his arms crossed instead of raising another finger. He retracted his right hand’s thumb, ring finger, and little finger, leaving only his index and middle fingers tapping elegantly on his arm.

Then he lazily glanced in Yu Chenyu’s direction. “Come on, make your second request,” he said.

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Hearing that the match rate was a unique 99.99%, Qi Zihan admitted he was a little shaken.

He hadn’t been particularly unsatisfied with Yu Chenyu in the first place and even thought that he looked pretty good and had a great body, perfectly matching his type.

However, he had just transmigrated to an unfamiliar environment. He truly didn’t have any interest in falling in love or getting married.

Even if he was attracted, he didn’t want to get married before falling in love, wanting to skip straight to sleeping together even less.

So, facing Yu Chenyu’s confession-like answer, Qi Zihan’s response was, “I still want to go to the Female Association to understand the situation first, you put on your clothes and come with me.”

Yu Chenyu, still kneeling, was silent for a long while before he quietly agreed.

It seems I still can’t escape the divorce, he thought.

A few minutes later, Yu Chenyu exited the bedroom again, this time finally dressed.

He wore a strange military uniform that was unlike any style Qi Zihan had seen on Earth.

Its dark blue fabric was embellished with even darker patterns, while the military cap was of the same colour with a black brim.

The entire uniform reflected a metallic sheen, making Qi Zihan wonder if it could block bullets.

“You usually dress like this?” Qi Zihan couldn’t help asking.

Every zerg he had seen thus far had all worn uniforms, military or otherwise, so he wondered if zergs only had this type of clothing.

Yet Yu Chenyu refuted it. “No, I just didn’t have time to change because I wanted to meet you as soon as possible.” As he spoke, he pressed down the brim of his military cap and walked to the door first. “Let’s go,” he said.

His tone was normal, so Qi Zihan didn’t notice anything unusual as he followed.

But he soon discovered that Yu Chenyu was so tall that he towered over him by at least a head!

It was outrageous. He was 186cm tall which was already considered very tall on Earth, yet Yu Chenyu was a head taller than him, so how tall was he? More than two metres?

Qi Zihan marevelled at his height as he walked, so he didn’t notice when the object of his admiration suddenly stopped.

It was too late for him to step on the brakes. Bumping into Yu Chenyu’s back felt like running into a solid wall.

Ow, it hurts!

Rubbing his forehead, he took a step back.

Then he saw Yu Chenyu turn around with a complicated expression.

Qi Zihan looked at him in confusion. Before he could ask, he heard Yu Chenyu say, “I forgot that the wound on your finger hasn’t been treated yet. Do you… want me to help you with it?”

“Wound?” Qi Zihan raised his right hand and looked at the insignificant scratch on his thumb. “You mean this? It’s not necessary.”

“Okay.” Yu Chenyu didn’t argue, though he did glance at the small patch of red on Qi Zihan’s forehead.

This was probably why females didn’t like soldiers.

Even if they could realise that soldiers weren’t as scary as imagined by whipping them, they couldn’t avoid being hurt by soldiers through various accidents.

“I’m sorry,” Yu Chenyu stated coldly.

Although he did feel sorry, he was in no mood to show concern for his ‘ex-husband’ when he thought of his upcoming divorce.

He wanted to treat Qi Zihan’s injuries, but more than that, he didn’t want to be held accountable for them by the people in the Female Association.

No matter how fragile females were, they wouldn’t get sick or anything from something as minor as this.

But many females would use it as a pretext to convict males for ‘intentional injury’.

Yu Chenyu didn’t know if Qi Zihan would do this. Though, even if he did do so, what could he do?

Perhaps, in that moment when he found it increasingly hard to control himself and was forced to submit a marriage application, what he lost wasn’t just his dignity.

His life had also ended back then.

He used a hoverbike to bring Qi Zihan to a nearby branch of the Female Association.

The hoverbike was a single-person model, so Qi Zihan had to sit behind Yu Chenyu and hold his waist with both hands.

Qi Zihan could hardly feel Yu Chenyu’s muscles through the military uniform’s strange material, but he could tell that they were very solid.

The hoverbike flew fast, so fast that Qi Zihan suspected that what he was riding wasn’t a normal means of transportation but a roller coaster.

But for he who had come here from Earth, a motorcycle that could fly was already weird enough!

Upon arriving and parking the hoverbike, Yu Chenyu got off first before reaching back a hand to Qi Zihan.

Recognising that this was a ‘gentlemanly behaviour’ expected of males towards females in this world, Qi Zihan didn’t reject his kindness. He put his hand in his palm and borrowed his strength to jump off the hoverbike.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he dropped to the ground, he heard a cry of surprise. 

“Oh my god! You let a female ride a hoverbike?”

Qi Zihan turned and saw someone in the uniform he had seen last night — this should be the uniform of the Female Association.

Taking out the military cap he had put away, Yu Chenyu put it back on, then looked at the man who had spoken and said irritably, “Who said I let him do anything?”

“You…” The man looked as if he was looking at a madman, but he didn’t say anything more to Yu Chenyu. Instead, he rushed to Qi Zihan and bowed respectfully. “Honoured female sir, how can I help you?”

Qi Zihan opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, the man made an inviting gesture. “It’s windy outside, please come in first, let’s sit down and talk slowly.”

“Oh, okay.” Qi Zihan followed him into the building, then he realised that this didn’t seem to be the same Female Association that he was in before.

After sitting on a couch in the reception room, he didn’t rush to solve the issue of Yu Chenyu. “There’s actually something wrong with my memories, I can only remember my name. Can you introduce this world to me?” he asked first.

Yu Chenyu had just stepped into the reception room when he said this. A look of realisation flashed across his face, as if he had suddenly figured something out.

He didn’t sit. Instead he stood upright behind Qi Zihan, waiting for the results of his trial.

When the Female Association people heard Qi Zihan’s words, their first reaction was to question Yu Chenyu, “What did you do to him?”

“No, it has nothing to do with him,” Qi Zihan hurriedly clarified, “we only met recently… It’s a bit hard to explain. Which Female Association was I at yesterday?”

When asking the latter question, Qi Zihan looked up in the direction of Yu Chenyu.

Yu Chenyu met his eyes and then spat out an address.

The Female Association worker asked them to wait a moment, then quickly sat down in front of a computer to check the information. After a while, he asked, “Excuse me, are you Qi Zihan?”

“Yes,” he nodded.

“Last night, the Imperial Army found you in a high-risk area and took you to the nearest Female Association Center for a medical examination, no abnormalities were found…” he trailed off with a look of astonishment, then continued after a moment of hesitation. “Uh, there may be abnormalities that can’t be detected by the machine. I will arrange a mental health appointment for you as soon as possible…”

“No, rather than recovering my memories, I want to know what kind of world this is.” Qi Zihan’s patience was limited. His tone turned a little cold. “Can you introduce this world to me?”

He repeated his request.

This time, they finally clarified the service he wanted. After saying ‘okay’ several times, they hurriedly pulled up a galactic map on their computer and explained the planets and systems under the empire’s control in relation to their current location, as well as the main threats the empire currently faced.

Halfway through their explanation, the worker suddenly felt like something was wrong. “Excuse me, for questions such as these, wouldn’t it be better to ask your spouse? After all, he is…” He hesitated, glanced at Yu Chenyu, and continued, “According to his profile, your spouse is one of the five incumbent generals. Generals hold the highest military rank in the empire besides the marshal, his understanding of the empire must be more comprehensive than that of a small Female Association staff member like me.”

A… general of the empire?

Qi Zihan was stunned. He hadn’t expected that the male he matched with would have such an awesome identity.

Such an important male zerg was tied up naked on his bed, this…

The extent to which females were revered seemed to be more exaggerated than he thought.

Also, it turned out that Yu Chenyu’s clothes really were military uniforms and not daily wear?

Wait, spouse?

Suddenly realising something, his eyes widened in disbelief. “Spouse? You mean to say that he’s my husband?”

How did they become spouses? When did it happen, why did he not know?

Did it happen after he fell asleep yesterday?

No, if the females of this world truly were so noble, it would be impossible for a male to marry one without permission while he was unconscious.

In other words, when he agreed to match with a male in the beginning, it was equivalent to getting married?

The staff member was stunned by his question. He glanced at Yu Chenyu with some horror, then looked back at Qi Zihan hesitantly. “Wh-What? You weren’t willing to marry him? If that’s the case…” His voice suddenly trembled and tapered off.

“What would happen?” Qi Zihan asked.

The staff member didn’t speak.

As if he couldn’t stand his dithering, Yu Chenyu answered for him. “Forcing marriage is a capital offence for male zergs.”

Fuck, Qi Zihan thought reflexively. “No, I was willing, ah, wait… first tell me, what counts as marriage?”

He still couldn’t believe that he had become a married person.

This time, the staff member finally found his voice. “Females can use the system to choose their spouse from among the males who have submitted marriage applications. Once they choose someone, they’re married.”

As he feared.

Zerg marriage was too casual, right?!

“In addition, depending on their spiritual power, females may have multiple partners. If you aren’t satisfied with your current spouse…”

“It’s not a question of if I’m satisfied or not.” Qi Zihan wanted to dissolve the marriage, not to hurt Yu Chenyu. Thus, he continued, “I married without knowing the situation. Nothing has happened between us, can we separate peacefully?”

“Of course it’s possible to divorce, all females have the right to freely enter and exit marriages,” the Female Association staff member said, though he then sighed with a complicated expression. His initial dissatisfaction with Yu Chenyu transformed into sympathy.

He had no right to comment on a female zerg’s behaviour, but considering this female’s particular circumstances, he still couldn’t help but say a few more words. “However a record of the divorce will remain on the male’s profile, which will have a significant impact on his future — in general, no female would choose such a male…”

“Can’t it be deleted?” Qi Zihan asked, frowning. “What I mean is that my situation with him is special. In a situation where I entered into the marriage without being fully aware of the connotations and didn’t do anything to him, can’t the record of this divorce be deleted?”

“No,” the staff member answered frankly, “in order to prevent any males from secretly hacking into the system to tamper with their profiles, this data is protected at the highest defense level. Even the marshal can’t change it.”

“The empire’s marshal is a male zerg?”

“Of course.” Then, thinking that Qi Zihan might not have this knowledge, he added, “Almost everything related to the military is taken care of by soldiers. Even if any females wanted to go to the battlefield the army wouldn’t agree, because if he dies there, the entire army will be severely punished.”

“I see, I understand now.”

Qi Zihan more or less understood what kind of world this was.

This world’s ruling class was the military, composed of male soldiers, and the marshal held the highest administrative authority; however, the society was one where females were superior to males.

Perhaps it was because the females’ spiritual power was a necessity for males yet, for females, males weren’t necessary and could even be called dispensable. Therefore, the authorities raised females to an exaggerated height to make females willing to marry and soothe males.

Females with high status could easily support themselves by marrying males and spending their money instead of working to earn money.

Eventually, females lost the motivation to work and gradually withdrew from various workplaces.

Males quickly filled all the empty positions and, at the same time, the marriage rate of females increased greatly.

Qi Zihan didn’t know whether a societal structure like this was good for females, he only knew that since the ruling class consisted of males, this deformed society wasn’t caused by females alone — it was also what males wanted.

In a sense, males did it all for the sake of receiving soothing from females. They personally built a gorgeous cage with their own hands, imprisoning females inside and lowering themselves into the dust.

“Do you… still wish to divorce?” The staff member frowned as he asked this, not hiding his sympathy for Yu Chenyu at all.

“Never mind,” Qi Zihan sighed.

He did want to divorce, but he didn’t want to hurt Yu Chenyu while doing so.

It had been his fault in the first place. He was the one who casually entered into a marriage while he was confused, how could he let Yu Chenyu bear responsibility for his mistake?

Hearing his answer, Yu Chenyu’s expressionless face flashed with surprise.

The eyes of the Female Association staff member also widened. “Really? Uh, I must tell you that you’ll bear no responsibility for declaring a divorce, and you can even immediately marry another male.”

“No need.” Standing, Qi Zihan nodded to him. “Thank you for answering my questions and providing me with useful information. You’ve worked hard.”

“You’re welcome!” The staff member was extremely flattered as if being thanked by a female was something incredible.

Yu Chenyu stretched out a hand to Qi Zihan when he stood up.

Seeing that he didn’t notice his hand, Yu Chenyu took the initiative to hold his hand as he said gently, “If there’s nowhere else you want to go, I’ll take you home, Lord Wife.”

Qi Zihan stared at his hand for a while before deciding to leave him some face outside. He’ll correct his title when they get back, as well as re-plan their future.

Thinking this way, he let him hold his hand and let out a “Mn.”

What they didn’t know was that just as they left the reception room and returned to the hoverbike, the male who had talked to them was looking at Qi Zihan’s profile on his computer and exclaiming, “This is the first time I’ve seen a female with SS spiritual power… How many males can he soothe at the same time? I can’t even imagine it.”

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It didn’t actually hurt, but Qi Zihan still retracted his hand as if he had been electrocuted. He raised his hand and saw an obvious scratch on his right thumb.

“Lord Wife?”

Yu Chenyu couldn’t have seen Qi Zihan’s movements, but he seemed to have sensed something and struggled desperately, trying to break free from the rope forcefully.

Qi Zihan watched in disbelief as the rope he hadn’t been able to untie in half a day showed signs of loosening as Yu Chenyu thrashed.

“Stop! You… don’t move!” Qi Zihan said hurriedly, afraid that he would get hurt.

Yu Chenyu obediently stopped, yet his eyes were still fixed on Qi Zihan’s face, still with a strange emotion in them like he wanted to see through him, but there was also a hint of concern that wasn’t false.

Qi Zihan felt a little guilty under his gaze. “Stop looking at me,” he ordered.

It was embarrassing.

He tried to untie Yu Chenyu again.

This time, he succeeded.

Then he noticed something strange.

He had only used a little strength yet his finger was scratched by the rope, but despite Yu Chenyu’s violent struggle, there wasn’t a single mark on his wrists.

It seemed that at the same time as this world changing from males being superior to females being superior, their physical prowess also switched.

For a moment, he felt a little complicated, not knowing whether he should be pleased or worried.

Worried because he had been able to effortlessly fight off a group of people back on Earth but may not be able to defeat even half a male zerg now.

Pleased because the status of females in this world was high enough that it was impossible to be bullied by males just because they were stronger.

The rope had been untied but the man remained in the same position, not daring to move at all; and because Qi Zihan had just told him not to look at him, his gaze was stuck on the ceiling without deviating an inch.

Qi Zihan didn’t mind his reaction, he was still thinking of how to get rid of him.

He preferred falling in love before sleeping together, tying the knot without any feelings between them wasn’t his style.

“Stop calling me L-Lord Wife, I wasn’t entirely awake last night, it was an accident to call you over. Fortunately, we haven’t done anything yet so you can just take it as nothing happened, go find another female.”

“Even if we haven’t done anything… Never mind. Sorry, it’s nothing.” Yu Chenyu closed his eyes, then sat up and looked at Qi Zihan again.

This time there was no longer any kind of scrutiny, it was instead replaced by despair brought about by understanding.

It made Qi Zihan anxious, feeling as if he had done something wrong.

It was true, he did do something wrong.

Qi Zihan felt very sorry for this man called Yu Chenyu.

However, he wouldn’t gamble the rest of his life on an emotion like guilt or sympathy.

He could compensate him, but not in this way.

So he said, “I’ll explain everything to the Female Association. Tell me how you’d like to be compensated, I’ll do it as long as it’s in my power.”

This time Yu Chenyu didn’t say anything, he only nodded silently.

“Then… you put your clothes on first,” Qi Zihan said as he left the room.

When he closed the door, Yu Chenyu no longer looked at him but at the quilt covering his lower body. There was a long silence.

Until a vibration sound came from the clothes placed beside the pillows.

He was stunned for a moment before quickly reacting, reaching over to dig out a watch-like object.

After unlocking it with spiritual power, a transluscent display popped up above the watch.

This was a portable optical computer, also known as a personal terminal.

It vibrated because he had just received a new message.

The person who sent it was his former comrade and current good friend, Zhu Yunqi.

Zhu Yunqi: Chenyu, I heard you got married. Although I don’t know what kind of person your wife is, let me congratulate you first — after all, there hasn’t been a single female who can match higher than 50% with you for 5 whole years. If you still don’t get a female’s soothing, you’ll turn from a comrade into my enemy.

What a joke.

In no mood to put on clothes, Yu Chenyu just used his spiritual power to type a reply as he sat naked.

Yu Chenyu: It’s going to be annulled.

Zhu Yunqi: Huh? Didn’t you just get married last night? What did you do? It can’t be that you used too much force and hurt him, right?

Yu Chenyu: Didn’t do anything.

Zhu Yunqi: Then why?

Zhu Yunqi: Well, on the other hand, it’s true that a female doesn’t need any reason at all if he wants to divorce.

Zhu Yunqi: But you’re a general! You’ve gone in and out of high-risk areas to clean up aberrants, you’ve fought to the death to defend this planet, and you’ve made great achievements! What gives him the right?

Yu Chenyu: Watch your words, do you want to go to jail?

Zhu Yunqi: But I really think it’s a pity. You’ve done so much for this empire, you’re the one who deserves happiness the most. But you don’t even have the right to choose your own spouse, though no one could match you more than 50% anyway, and when you finally got married you’re going to get divorced after just one night. It’s been hard enough to find a single female who can soothe you. If this marriage really ends, you’ll have no hope of going back to the front line!

Yu Chenyu: So, I should fight for myself one more time, right?

Zhu Yunqi: Ah? What do you mean?

Yu Chenyu: He said to divorce, it hasn’t happened yet.

Zhu Yunqi: Then you have to fight! You’ll die anyways, it’s better to die by a female zerg than in my hands!

Yu Chenyu fell silent.

Male zergs were naturally endowed with stronger physical capabilities than females, while soldiers — males born for combat — could even defeat a thousand opponents at once. However, all males, whether they were the powerful soldiers or the relatively gentle drones, had a particular physiological defect. If, after reaching adulthood, they went too long without receiving a female zerg’s spiritual soothing, they would gradually lose control of their bodies and attack everything around them.

Yu Chenyu was an adult, and he could feel his self-control worsening by the day.

He didn’t want to get married and didn’t want to fall under anyone’s control, least of all a female who had never stepped foot on a battlefield.

But neither did he want to watch himself lose control and force his comrades to end his life.

Yu Chenyu felt that if he had any dignity, it would have been shattered to pieces the moment he submitted the marriage application.

If that was the case, what was the point of clinging to the little that was left?

Yu Chenyu: Maybe it’s because I didn’t call him ‘Lord Wife’ from the beginning, and didn’t use honorifics either.

Zhu Yunqi: Then the divorce is your fault! You finally found a female who matches you more than 50%, cherish him! Put away your intimidating momentum and learn from those drones who only know how to flirt!

Yu Chenyu: I can’t.

Zhu Yunqi: You…

Yu Chenyu: I don’t know how to learn what drones do, and can’t learn it either. Soldiers have their own ways.

Zhu Yunqi: Don’t tell me you want to…

Zhu Yunqi: Sigh, I guess that’s the only way, who made us soldiers so strong? A lot of females are frightened of us. Someone has to tell them that we’re not that scary.

Yu Chenyu: He really was scared of me.

He remembered the way Qi Zihan covered him with a quilt.

Yu Chenyu: I’ll try it, send me another message in a while.

Zhu Yunqi: OK, I hope you succeed.

After reading this message, Yu Chenyu turned off the screen, got off the bed without putting on any clothes, walked to the closet, and took something out of it.

Qi Zihan sat on the living room couch, waiting for Yu Chenyu to come out.

He wanted him to take him to the Female Association.

Judging by their bodies, those who worked at the Female Association were all males, so they probably wouldn’t make things difficult for someone of the same sex?

Then, after he resolved this matter, he also planned to learn about this world through the Female Association.

Just as he was pondering things, the bedroom door opened.

Qi Zihan instinctively looked towards the door, thinking that he would see a clothed Yu Chenyu, but he never expected that the man had dawdled for so long yet still didn’t have even a thread of cloth covering him!

And he seemed to be holding something.

After recognising the object as a whip, Qi Zihan was so scared that he shot up from the couch and took a defensive stance.

As if sensing his vigilance, the man stopped his approach three metres away from Qi Zihan and knelt down.

He knelt on the ground, raised the whip above his head with both hands and said a sentence in a hoarse, emotionless voice: “Lord Wife, please enjoy.”

Qi Zihan froze in front of the couch, staring at Yu Chenyu’s lowered body.

Neither man moved. Yu Chenyu looked down and waited.

It wasn’t hard to understand Yu Chenyu’s intentions from his words and actions — he wanted Qi Zihan to take the whip and hit him.

But Qi Zihan didn’t understand.

He didn’t understand why he had to do this.

“Can you not understand me?” Qi Zihan was a little angry. He walked up to Yu Chenyu and slapped the whip out of his hands. “Don’t call me Lord Wife, I’m not your wife, I don’t want to marry you, I won’t marry you no matter what you do! Stop doing useless things!”

Glancing at the whip that had been slapped to the ground, Yu Chenyu pursed his lips. “If Lord Wife refuses to accept me, then please deal with me yourself.”

“Deal with you?” Qi Zihan could hardly believe what he was hearing.

“Kill me,” Yu Chenyu said, expressing his meaning more explicitly.

“Why?” Qi Zihan didn’t understand. “Didn’t we not do anything? Why are you so insistent? You only met me yesterday and I saw you for the first time this morning, don’t tell me you fell in love at first sight.”

Yu Chenyu didn’t say anything.

Love?

What a ridiculous word for a male who had no right to choose his mate.

“Do you have a reason to want me?” Qi Zihan felt that he may have underestimated the extent of female status in this world. Could it be that just because a female had selected them once, any male who had been driven away would be executed regardless of whether they had done anything?

Yu Chenyu didn’t answer immediately, as if he was organising his words, trying to answer this question in a way that would least anger Qi Zihan without lying.

Unfortunately, he wasn’t that good at speaking, so he could only say it directly. “I’ve already waited for a mate for five years, I no longer have the patience nor time to wait for another female whose match rate with me reaches 50%.”

Match rate?

Qi Zihan vaguely remembered that what the people from the Female Association said wasn’t “I’ll find you a male zerg,” but “I will match you with a male.”

So this meant that marriage in zerg society wasn’t something that could be done just because someone wanted to, it depended on how much they matched?

What kind of thing was match rate?

“What’s match rate?” he asked.

Hearing this question, Yu Chenyu looked up and met Qi Zihan’s eyes with a hint of confusion. However, he still answered. “The degree of spiritual compatibility is usually displayed as a percentage. Only when it reaches above 50% can the spiritual power of a female effectively soothe a male, thus preventing the male from losing control.”

“What’s our match rate?”

“99.99%, infinitely approaching 100%.”

“One in a million, you mean?”

“No,” Yu Chenyu replied, “to me, you are unique.”

Female zergs were very fragile. All females underwent regular medical examinations, and during that time various values were entered into the system.

Long before Qi Zihan agreed to match with a male, as soon as his medical exam finished, Yu Chenyu received a notification from the system.

[System]: Dear General Yu Chenyu, 0.1s ago, the database updated the data of a female zerg whose spiritual compatibility with you reaches 99.99%. Would you like to send a marriage proposal to the Association for the Rights of Female Zergs service office immediately?

Yu Chenyu replied: Yes.

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Qi Zihan looked at the scene in front of him in a trance.

There lay an excessively handsome man on the silk-covered king bed.

He looked like he had mixed Eastern and Western blood, long smooth hair, and somewhat eerie amber eyes.

But none of those were important.

The point was, at this moment, this man wore nothing!

His hands were even tied together and fixed to the headboard!

Clicking his tongue, Qi Zihan took two steps back, left the room, and closed the door.

It seemed that what happened last night wasn’t a dream.

At 11 o’clock last night, Qi Zihan was still on a planet called Earth, lying on his bed and reading on his phone.

He had just finished reading a book and, looking for something new, somehow clicked into a zerg novel.

This was his first zerg novel. Its setting was that female zergs were stronger than male zergs so he thought that the shou would be stronger than the gong, but he soon realised that this was only true when looking at their combat abilities — the shou’s status was far inferior to the gong’s.

Female zergs were superior to males in both appearance and fighting power, but they had physiological defects that males lacked. They had to regularly receive comfort and soothing from males, otherwise they would die.

So in that novel, the beautiful and powerful females were nothing more than cheap consumables, while the mediocre males were extremely noble.

Males could unilaterally beat, scold, and toy with their females, and didn’t have to bear any responsibility for it even if they accidentally caused their deaths.

In contrast, females might face severe punishment at a single word from a male even if they did nothing, to say nothing of actually harming a male.

But why did males deserve this!

Females fought desperately to defend their country, participated in various dangerous or arduous tasks to maintain the stable development of society, and even had to take on the responsibility of bearing and raising offspring.

But males? Apart from periodically soothing the females, they could do whatever they wanted. No one would say anything even if they spent the whole day doing nothing but eating and playing.

These wastes, what gave them the right to treat their females like objects?

Just the novel settings alone already made Qi Zihan very angry.

If the author wrote a wife-chasing crematorium then he could still accept it, but unfortunately, the gong as described by the author was a complete scumbag!

On the first day of marriage, the gong beat the shou severely because he wasn’t obedient enough. At first, the shou didn’t make a sound, but then the gong started using torture instruments, and later he was tortured so much that there wasn’t a single piece of intact skin on his body. However, because of the gong’s order, the shou wasn’t allowed to make any noise and still had to be grateful to the gong.

Reading up to here, Qi Zihan almost smashed his phone in anger.

Then his mind was filled with the novel’s plot for the next two hours, frantically imagining the shou’s resistance, to the point that he couldn’t fall asleep.

After finally falling asleep, he opened his eyes to an unfamiliar environment.

Qi Zihan thought he was dreaming. Several men in strange military uniforms escorted him to a certain place, where he underwent a comprehensive physical examination with the help of a bunch of machines.

While waiting for the medical exam report, another man wearing a strange uniform said to him, “Your accommodation has been arranged, but it’s too dangerous for a female zerg to live by yourself. Do you want to match with a male immediately?”

Hearing the words ‘female zerg’, Qi Zihan recalled bad memories and his face fell.

It was true that people would dream about whatever they thought of during the day.

This dream was quite timely. He could vent anger for the shou he read about yesterday!

Thinking of this, he nodded. “Okay, if he dares to bully me, I’ll show him what real bullying is!”

The two men next to him looked at each other with sympathy in their eyes, but it was unclear who they were sympathising with.

After a while, the medical exam report came out. The man operated the computer for a while, then said to Qi Zihan, “Among the male zergs who submitted applications, the one who has the highest match rate with you is called Yu Chenyu. He is…”

“Him.” He didn’t know why this dream was so long-winded, he couldn’t wait to use ‘domestic violence’ to fight back against ‘domestic violence’.

“Okay,” the man replied in a low voice, “I’ll contact him for you now.”

He worked on the computer for a while again, presumably retrieving the personal information submitted by the male in order to find his contact details.

The sound of his fingertips tapping on the keyboard made Qi Zihan a little sleepy.

Just when he wondered why he would feel sleepy in a dream, his eyelids drooped, his consciousness fell into darkness, and he slumped onto the couch.

The next time he woke up, he was next to a naked man.

Qi Zihan was completely awake.

He was shocked awake by this stimulating scene.

After confirming that he wasn’t dreaming but had really come to a world drastically different from Earth yet somewhat similar to the one described in the novel, he deeply regretted his carelessness last night.

Since it wasn’t a dream, he shouldn’t take out his anger towards the novel on an unrelated person. 

But wait — although he did request a male zerg, he didn’t remember tying him up?

Qi Zihan stalled at the door for a while, confused.

He was sure that he had no memory of stripping or tying up a person.

Then that person, no, that male zerg, who took his clothes off? And who tied him up?

Wait, male zerg?

Qi Zihan suddenly realised that he had overlooked the most important point — if this really was the world of the novel, why would a male zerg who should have been enoying himself be tied to the bed without any dignity like that?

And he who was a ‘female zerg’ seemed to have a very high status?

He hadn’t paid much attention to how he was treated last night because he thought he had been dreaming. 

Besides, he was a shou himself, wasn’t it normal to dream that he was a female zerg?

But if this wasn’t a dream, turning into a female zerg was a problem! A big problem!

With his face abruptly draining of blood, he rushed into the bathroom and examined his body.

A few minutes later, he went out with a frozen face.

He… had turned into a female zerg.

Although his face was still the same attractive face and the muscles he had gained from exercising regularly were still there, there were subtle changes in his body structure.

Qi Zihan didn’t know what to do.

A strange world, a strange species, even his own body became a little strange.

However, since he was here, what else could he do except adapt and survive?

He wasn’t so stupid as to commit suicide in an attempt to get back to Earth. What if he did die?

Now that he had chosen to live in this world, the first thing to do was to collect intelligence… no, he first had to deal with ‘that thing’ in his room.

Returning to the door leading to the room where that man was, he took a deep, silent breath, pressed down the door handle, pushed open the door, and walked in.

He looked at the man without going closer, and the man also looked at him without a sound.

The man was beautiful, the kind of beauty that was unique to someone of mixed Eastern and Western heritage.

But he obviously wasn’t just a pretty vase. His body was covered in defined muscles, which were clearly the result of long-term training.

Qi Zihan only needed a glance to know that he couldn’t beat him.

Thus, he needed to understand the situation before letting him loose.

“You are… Yu…” Qi Zihan thought that since this man was the male zerg that he had requested, he should have heard his name before.

Unfortunately, while thinking it was a dream, he hardly paid attention to such a thing, which resulted in him only having a vague idea of it.

“Yu Chenyu.” Finally, the man said his own name, with no expression on his face from beginning to end. He didn’t show any surprise or disappointment that Qi Zihan couldn’t remember his name, as if he had long expected it.

“Yu Chenyu,” Qi Zihan repeated, etching it in his mind, then he approached him carefully and grabbed the quilt nearby. “Who took off your clothes?”

As he asked, he threw the quilt over the man, covering up his lower half.

Yu Chenyu’s eyes were fixed on Qi Zihan, as if he was observing something. At the same time, he answered his question with his hoarse yet magnetic voice, “I took off the clothes myself, the ropes were tied by people from the Female Association.”

Qi Zihan let out a sigh of relief at the knowledge that it wasn’t his work, however… “Female Association?”

Yu Chenyu stared at Qi Zihan for a while, then gave an answer after confirming that the confusion on his face came from the organisation’s abbreviated name. “The Association for the Rights of Female Zergs, referred to as the Female Association.” After a pause, he continued, “You’ve just moved to a new environment and may be a little confused, but I don’t know much about you either. I only know that an Imperial Army patrol found you in a high-risk area and immediately sent you to the Female Association for intensive care. Then the Association matched you with a male according to your requirements, and you chose me.”

When he said ‘you chose me’, Yu Chenyu’s tone was particularly emphatic.

Qi Zihan felt guilty and unsure of how to explain his behaviour last night.

He had casually asked the Association to find him a male zerg only because he thought he was dreaming.

Anyone who found themselves somewhere completely different from Earth after falling asleep would think they were dreaming!

And it was impossible to say he had transmigrated to just anyone.

In the end, he chose to not explain anything. He reached out and touched the thick rope on Yu Chenyu’s wrists, wanting to help him untie it, but found…

What kind of rope was this? Who tied it? It was too strong! Was this tying up a man or a prisoner?

In the process of untying the rope, Qi Zihan inevitably brushed against Yu Chenyu’s skin.

The texture of zerg skin wasn’t much different from that of humans, but he couldn’t see any blood vessels even at such a close distance, making it seem like his arm was a single piece of marble.

After realising that Qi Zihan was untying him, Yu Chenyu wasn’t happy, rather, his expression darkened. “Are you… unsatisfied with me?”

Qi Zihan paused. Although he felt very sorry for this man whose body he had seen naked, he had no intention of getting married until he had gathered enough information and understood the world well enough.

Therefore he said, “We haven’t slept together, just pretend nothing happened.”

Hearing this, Yu Chenyu’s expression sank further and his beautiful amber eyes became dim as the light within disappeared, just like dark clouds covering the sky.

“Can you… give me another chance?”

After a while, more words came as if they had been squeezed out from between his teeth. “I will try my best to satisfy you, I’m begging you, please don’t abandon me, Lord Wife.”

Lord… Lord what?

Qi Zihan was so surprised that he exerted force with his hand, causing the rough hemp rope to scratch his fingertips, leaving a tiny blood-red mark.

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Translator:
Hello! I’m planning to translate 19 chapters, after that… we’ll see. If you look around on this site you’ll know that I like to translate just the free chapters of a novel in the hopes that someone else will pick it up — hasn’t happened yet, but hope springs eternal.

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