LABMY CH90.2

The thin shirt was soaked through, and the front buttons had disappeared without a trace, leaving only threads behind. Only the topmost button, which had been undone, luckily remained intact.

The gentle, water-like moonlight streamed through the window, falling on the man like a wolf hunting at night. He exuded an imposing aura, his sharp gaze brewing a dangerous storm within his dark eyes. Swift yet patient, he slowly savored the struggle of his prey.

Lu Qianyun still remembered being treated as a pregnant husband for two whole months. He deliberately acted mischievous, leaning close to Jian Yuanbai’s ear and calling out, seemingly fearful and shy, “Uncle…”

He thought this call would scare Jian Yuanbai, but unexpectedly, after a moment of daze, the man became even more relentless.

Tears fell in large drops from Lu Qianyun’s flushed face as he choked up, admitting he was wrong.

However, Jian Yuanbai lowered his head and gently kissed his lips, his voice hoarse and low, “Good Xiao Longlong, Uncle loves you.”

Lu Qianyun felt firsthand what it meant to lift a rock only to drop it on his own foot.

When Jian Yuanbai said, “Ten times,” Lu Qianyun passed out on the spot.

Ten times?

Heh, ten times?

His husband wasn’t even a disposable item; he was a half-used one, discarded halfway through.

…

The academy founded by Jian Yuanbai was thriving. Many people admired the First Empire Academy, but just as many hated it, especially those rejected by the academy.

Originally, students enrolled in the academy just to indirectly experience the feeling of humiliating the First Empire Academy. However, year after year, they ended up studying here until graduation.

During the annual academy competition, they fought especially hard. Bearing such a name, losing would be utterly embarrassing.

Fueled by a burning desire to prove themselves, these students, under the guidance of high-paid teachers hired by Jian Yuanbai and his occasional extra training, miraculously won year after year.

However, the academy’s name was eventually changed because the First Empire Academy gradually declined. The name “Fifty Years of Trash, Lie Down and Rot” was pinned on the Ministry of Education’s official website every year, dealing a heavy blow to the First Empire Academy’s reputation.

It was humiliating, causing many students to avoid applying there.

The new name, however, was even more explosive: “Long AoTian Training Academy.”

This name was suggested by a student in an internal vote and passed with overwhelming support.

It all stemmed from something Jian Yuanbai said after winning the academy competition: “I am the invincible Long Aotian.”

The students followed suit, perfectly imitating their principal’s arrogance.

Meanwhile, Lu Qianyun steadily climbed the ranks in the military, ultimately becoming the Empire’s Marshal after annihilating the newborn Zerg Queen.

The defeated Crown Prince, who had attempted to seize power, once tried to blackmail Jian Yuanbai with his secret, demanding that he save him with all his might.

The Crown Prince had long noticed Jian Yuanbai’s uniqueness and, disguising himself as a space pirate, attempted to capture Jian Yuanbai for research. A B-rank ability user, the Crown Prince was unwilling to accept his mediocrity and fixated on Jian Yuanbai during countless experiments.

Yet, the Crown Prince, imprisoned in the Empire’s prison, was unaware that Jian Yuanbai had already fully revealed his strength in the battle against the Zerg Queen. As a key figure in the war, he was not dissected but instead received endless praise.

However, Jian Yuanbai had not joined the military nor wished to stay there. Otherwise, the Empire might have witnessed two Marshals for the first time in history.

After Lu Qianyun became the Empire’s Marshal and received his mission rewards, Jian Yuanbai finally regained his memories.

The lights from the media illuminated the vast Imperial Starport. As the entire Empire eagerly awaited the composed and powerful Marshal in his military uniform, what they saw instead was something entirely different.

It was the stunned, wide-eyed Empire Marshal being carried away by his lover.

The young man, now fully grown, wore a sharp military uniform. His delicate and cold face showed surprise as he was held in the arms of his older lover, who wore a suit. Surrounded by the dense crowd and flashing lights, this photo dominated the headlines for a long time.

Jian Yuanbai ignored the eyes of others, holding his beloved tightly. He knew he didn’t have much time, so he had to do what needed to be done now.

The reason for his memory loss was actually simple: it was due to low mission completion. But that wasn’t the only reason. The punishment for mission failure was something Jian Yuanbai didn’t care about.

What truly caused his amnesia was someone taking advantage of the punishment to destroy his mental sea.

When Jian Yuanbai accepted the mission, he signed a contract, voluntarily surrendering part of his power to successfully seal the deal. Someone exploited this vulnerability to erase his memories and prevent him from returning.

Lu Qianyun: “What are you doing?”

Jian Yuanbai: “What’s wrong?”

After so many years together, how could Lu Qianyun not notice Jian Yuanbai’s abnormal behavior?

Jian Yuanbai was racking his brain for an excuse to get Lu Longlong to agree to being marked. This kind of mark would allow Jian Yuanbai, even in a state of amnesia, to instinctively find and stay close to Lu Longlong.

If something like this happened again, when he wasn’t by Lu Longlong’s side, he would rely on the craving for the mark to find his wife.

However…

To mark Lu Longlong, he needed to do it in his true form. Though not entirely his original form, his spiritual body, which was closer to his true self, could achieve this.

In other words, his upper body would be human, but his lower body would be that of a snake.

And not just one snake… but two…

Jian Yuanbai didn’t need to think to know that Lu Longlong would never agree to such a thing.

Although he had impulsively carried him home right after regaining his memories, now that things were at the critical moment, his mind was racing for a way to convince Lu Longlong.

The two stared at each other in silence—one struggling to find words, the other full of confusion.

Finally, Lu Qianyun couldn’t hold back and asked again, “What’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?”

The keyword “unwell” suddenly enlightened Jian Yuanbai.

There was a perfectly reasonable and ready-made excuse right in front of him: the alpha’s susceptibility period.

Thank you, susceptibility period!

Under Lu Qianyun’s concerned gaze, Jian Yuanbai looked troubled.

Then, with a swift motion, a sleek, black tail, shimmering like a polished black gemstone, suddenly emerged.

In that instant, Lu Qianyun’s concerned expression turned to shock.

Lu Qianyun nervously asked, “What’s wrong? Can’t control your spiritual body?”

As he spoke, he reached out to touch the snake tail.

Jian Yuanbai nodded deeply, his expression heavy as if he was struggling. However, that snake tail restlessly slithered toward Lu Longlong.

Then, it tentatively coiled around Lu Longlong’s waist.

The tip of the tail swayed left and right, as if silently acting spoiled.

The entire motion was smooth and fluid, without a single unnecessary action.

With his memories restored, Jian Yuanbai naturally had better control over his abilities. Without any shame or guilt, he forced an unnatural blush onto his face.

Then, he used the most exquisite acting skills of his life to look at Lu Longlong.

Jian Yuanbai, looking dazed, murmured, “Wife, I think my susceptibility period is approaching.”

“Huh?” Lu Qianyun was surprised. “You’ve been through this before, how can it come so suddenly? Wait here, I’ll go find—”

Before he could finish speaking, the snake tail pulled him back.

Jian Yuanbai’s eyes were filled with grievance as he tightly embraced him, pressing his nose against Lu Longlong’s neck, inhaling his scent deeply.

“Wife, do you not love me anymore?”

“Why are you using an inhibitor?”

“I don’t want an inhibitor, wife.”

He gazed at Lu Qianyun with hopeful eyes. “Can I?”

Lu Qianyun frowned deeply, looking utterly confused. “You can’t do anything in this state.”

As he spoke, he turned his back to Jian Yuanbai and lifted the slightly overgrown hair from his neck, revealing the fully blossomed rose imprint that had been nurtured by Jian Yuanbai’s pheromones.

“Do you want to bite it?”

So obedient.

Jian Yuanbai’s mind was filled with this thought. The sight of Lu Longlong obediently turning his back, revealing the flower imprint, and softly asking if he wanted to bite it, was like a gentle deer lying before him, allowing him to do whatever he pleased.

But Jian Yuanbai wouldn’t be satisfied with just that. Instead, it only fueled his desire. His true goal wasn’t the bite. The black snake tail began to slither and wander.

The tail gradually brushed against Lu Qianyun’s pale arm, creating a stark contrast between the black and white, forming a strange yet beautiful aesthetic. The tail wrapped around him, either lightly or tightly, silently expressing his emotions.

Lu Qianyun’s eyes widened in disbelief. Despite having matured, at this moment, a rare panic filled his eyes.

“Wait, you can’t be…”

“You’re not thinking of…”

His hand was guided to the scales. What should have been smooth and cold scales now felt slightly warm.

The further he traced down the scales, the hotter it became.

Something beneath the scales was lurking, ready to strike.

Lu Qianyun couldn’t believe what he was feeling and instinctively did what he had done the first time he encountered Jian Yuanbai’s susceptibility period.

He ran.

However, with the agile snake tail, this escape was destined to be futile.

Jian Yuanbai caught him and called him “wife” over and over again, filled with grievance.

Time hadn’t left any scars on Jian Yuanbai. He still looked as wild and cold as when Lu Qianyun first met him. Yet, when focused, he exuded an irresistible innocence.

Just calling him “wife” with that pitiful expression made it impossible for Lu Qianyun to resist.

But Lu Qianyun knew exactly what he was facing.

He also knew what would happen if he agreed.

Even though Jian Yuanbai was acting all spoiled and calling him “wife,” Lu Qianyun remained firm. With a rare seriousness, he refused Jian Yuanbai with the strongest tone of his life:

“Absolutely not.”

The tense atmosphere of the battlefield seemed to have spread here.

The war that had ended was reignited. However, this time, there were only two participants.

Yet, the disparity between the two sides was painfully obvious.

Before the battle even began, the weaker party was already trembling and begging for mercy.

But how could the attacker let him go? The experienced marshal, who had fought countless battles, now resembled a rookie stepping onto the battlefield for the first time.

He didn’t know how to hold a gun or load it.

But his opponent was a master, skilled and composed.

Even when inserting an incompatible magazine into the gun chamber, the opponent could still handle it with ease.

The helpless rookie was dumbfounded, instinctively backing down and crying, “No, it’s impossible.”

“But the battlefield is ruthless.”

His resistance was so weak that the attacker easily subdued him.

Again and again, he launched relentless attacks, making the attacker more and more excited, while the weaker one grew more desperate to escape.

Clearly…

Clearly, he had fought many battles before.

Yet, this time, he lost so miserably.

Tears streamed down his face, and even biting his lip couldn’t stop the broken sobs from escaping his throat.

He shook his head repeatedly, but the attacker struck his weak spot with deadly precision. He was like a dying crane, lying on the ground, letting out a silent cry of despair.

Gradually, the rookie seemed to regain his instincts on the battlefield. He became more skilled and less flustered. Although he couldn’t fight back, he no longer felt fear. He bravely took a step forward, but he couldn’t stop his tears from falling.

But this wasn’t his fault.

The opponent was simply too powerful.

At the moment the gun chamber was emptied, Jian Yuanbai felt the success of the mark being imprinted.

This mark wasn’t one-sided but mutual.

However, Lu Longlong would never know.

Nor would he be affected by it.

The only one carrying the imprint… was Jian Yuanbai.

It’s just that Lu Longlong wouldn’t know and wouldn’t be affected. This kind of mutual imprint would only leave traces on Jian Yuanbai.

However, if one day this imprint were to be perfected, it would become a true connection between the two, allowing them to sense each other. But by then, the imprint might be called something else.

Yet, in this small world lacking the corresponding power, Lu Longlong was clearly unable to perfect it.

With the imprint burned onto Jian Yuanbai, he finally felt at ease.

With this imprint, whether he lost his memory or not, whether he and Lu Longlong were in the same small world or not, he would instinctively seek him out, even if he didn’t know what he was searching for.

After all, how could he allow the wife he finally obtained to disappear into the tide of this world?

Just as Jian Yuanbai expected, his memory was only restored for a brief moment when he received the reward for completing his mission.

But by then, he had already forgotten about it.

When Jian Yuanbai woke up, he immediately felt that something was wrong.

On the bed, Lu Longlong, whose belly was slightly bulging, stared at him with embarrassment and anger.

Jian Yuanbai, whose brain hadn’t fully woken up, leaned over and kissed the pale belly, “Wife, you’re really pregnant?”

The next second, he was kicked off the bed.

Jian Yuanbai moved slightly, inhaling sharply as the memories of what had just happened flooded back.

He didn’t know about the memory recovery and simply thought it was because of his susceptibility period.

But what Jian Yuanbai didn’t expect was that during his susceptibility period, he had done everything he’d always wanted to do but never dared to.

Half of his body almost falling off the bed, Jian Yuanbai stared blankly at Lu Longlong and swallowed hard.

Looking at his wife’s slightly bulging belly, he couldn’t help but whisper, “Wife, I want to…”

Lu Qianyun interrupted him without hesitation, his watery eyes filled with anger, “You’re not allowed to think about it!”

“If you dare to think about it, you’ll lose your wife!”

Jian Yuanbai sighed in regret. When would the next susceptibility period come? His wife’s susceptibility period would be fine too.

Over the years, they finally figured out what that flower seed was and why Lu Longlong experienced such a situation.

When the flower seed was first placed on the back of his neck, Jian Yuanbai had recklessly used his pheromones to invade it, which was akin to pollinating the seed.

Although Lu Longlong was an Alpha, due to Jian Yuanbai’s reckless actions on the alien planet, he became Jian Yuanbai’s one and only Omega.

The flower on the back of his neck bloomed into a rose that belonged solely to Jian Yuanbai, nurtured by his pheromones.

So, Lu Longlong’s susceptibility period was equivalent to an Omega’s heat.

His soft and clingy wife would stick to him for several days during this period. Whether it was his own susceptibility period or his wife’s, when would the next one come?

Urgent!

What the two didn’t know was that the entire Star Network was in an uproar over Jian Yuanbai carrying Lu Longlong away.

“I know General Jian loves his wife, but isn’t this a bit too much? General Jian, please mind the occasion.”

“Everyone knows the battle against the Zerg Queen was a long, drawn-out war, so I reasonably suspect General Jian was holding it in for too long.”

“Praying for the Marshal’s safety today.”

“Lost 5 HP from the battle with the Zerg Queen, lost 1000 HP from being carried away by General Jian.”

“You guys are crazy. How dare you gossip about the Empire’s Marshal on the Star Network? Count me in.”

“Me too, me too.”

“Who gets it? I really want to watch this live.”

“How dare you say that? Do you have a death wish?”

As for how Marshal Lu reacted when he saw all this and how fast he cleaned up the mess, that’s another story.

Jian Yuanbai and Lu Qianyun spent fifty years together.

For the current Empire, where the average lifespan was much longer, this was considered short.

Jian Yuanbai looked at his lover, who had gradually lost all signs of life, yet still looked as young as he did in his thirties. His eyes slowly turned red.

He was heartbroken, yet there was a strange feeling inside him.

It felt as if his lover was no longer in this cold body but had gone somewhere else.

Jian Yuanbai gently stroked Lu Longlong’s face and remained silent for a long time.

He didn’t inform anyone and handled all the funeral matters himself. Or rather, there was no funeral—only burial.

He caressed the cold tombstone, his fingers tracing the name “Lu Qianyun” over and over, unwilling to leave.

On this tombstone, aside from Lu Qianyun’s original name, Jian Yuanbai had also added the name “Lu Longlong,” which belonged exclusively to him.

For fifty years, he never allowed anyone else to call this name, not even strangers on the Star Network.

This was Jian Yuanbai’s possessiveness, one he never spoke of.

He traced Lu Longlong’s name over and over again with his fingers until the sun set and the stars rose.

Finally, he logged into his terminal and posted the last message of his life:

“When I die, please bury me by his side.”