SGT CH69: Love-Struck Foolish Monarch

◎The Tianjia don’t have the word ‘love,’ let alone ‘romance.’◎

The Tianjia Emperor had actually put on the jewelry he gave him.

Mousse’s feelings were complicated.

He wanted to pull his hand back, but the Tianjia Emperor held his wrist and pressed it back onto his chest.

“Sisi, the gift you gave me, don’t you want to see it?”

The Tianjia Emperor stared at him deeply, trying to read something from his face.

“I don’t.”

Mousse looked away, staring down at the carpet.

It was as if the new handmade beast-fleece carpet in the bedchamber was more attractive than the female in front of him.

Seeing that the Empress Consort wouldn’t even spare him a glance, a sour pain welled up in the Tianjia Emperor’s chest.

It was a pain he hadn’t even felt that morning when he had pierced his own flesh with his claws to put on the jewelry.

It was… somewhat similar to the feeling when the Empress Consort had personally stabbed a dagger into his heart.

But his chest was perfectly fine now.

The Tianjia Emperor frowned slightly, not understanding where that pain came from.

“Why so cold all of a sudden?”

The Tianjia Emperor asked.

Just when he was prepared to restrain himself and slowly let the Empress Consort accept him, the Empress Consort had actively released pheromones to him in the bath.

Afterward, he even came to serve him in bed and gave him a gift.

He thought the Empress Consort was willing to accept him.

Even though the gift the Empress Consort gave him went against the aesthetic of a Tianjia female.

After putting it on, there was a strong feeling of a foreign object and a constant awareness of its presence, which made the Tianjia Emperor feel a bit awkward and distracted him from his work all day.

He still wore it.

And the moment he finished work, he came to see the Empress Consort.

But after just one day, the Empress Consort had reverted to his previous self, once again starting to resist him.

He had even erected a barrier between them.

“Did I say something wrong to make you unhappy?”

The Tianjia Emperor recalled their recent conversation and asked:

“Was it the male nursery? Or the military merit system?”

Mousse didn’t answer, so the Tianjia Emperor guessed:

“If you don’t like males marrying commoners…”

The Tianjia Emperor frowned, looking somewhat troubled:

“I can relax the limit on the number of males a noble can own.”

Originally, in his new bill, even nobles could only own one male.

If the Empress Consort insisted, he could relax the number a bit.

Two at most, one male consort, one male attendant, no more.

And if they wanted to have a second male, they would have to pay a hefty price.

“…”

Mousse looked listless, his interest in communicating with the Tianjia Emperor low.

“Your Majesty, please don’t say any more. You are the Emperor, and it’s not wrong for you to consider your own people. It’s just that… I am a male.”

Mousse understood that the Tianjia Emperor’s actions were beneficial to the empire.

Restricting the number of males nobles could own would allow more commoners to obtain males and receive mental soothing.

However, the Tianjia Emperor, as the one in power, saw the lower-class females of the empire, the stability and development of the empire.

But Mousse saw the males who had no choice from beginning to end, who could only be owned and acquired.

The fault did not lie with the Tianjia Emperor.

It lay in the entire society’s objectification of males.

This was the result of thousands of years of development.

To better control males, every male egg, once laid, would be taken away by the male nursery and raised collectively.

The females of the empire had also grown accustomed to handing over their male eggs to the empire after laying them and receiving a considerable sum of star coins.

Over the years, males had long become an expensive commodity.

Even if some females who laid male eggs were reluctant, unwilling to “sell” their own cubs, there was nothing they could do.

The empire would enforce it.

And males didn’t even have energy patterns.

Not on their eggshells, and not on their bodies after hatching.

If a female egg was lost, it could still be found by its unique energy pattern.

The parents whose male eggs were taken away had no way of finding their cubs.

As for the male cubs who were taken away from the egg…

Even if they had inherited memories, after being forcibly isolated by the male nursery for over twenty years, their memories would have long become blurry, unable to recall their parents’ voices and faces.

Perhaps one day in the future, passing by each other in a vast crowd, they might feel a unique sense of closeness due to their blood connection.

But by then, things would have long changed.

“I don’t understand,” the Tianjia Emperor said with a frown.

“Of course you don’t,” Mousse sighed in his heart.

As a female, a female who had never given birth to a male egg, the Tianjia Emperor could never understand how a male felt.

“Sisi, what do you really want?” the Tianjia Emperor asked.

Mousse turned his head to look at the sky outside the window and said, “Freedom.”

The freedom of all males.

The Tianjia Emperor’s hand gripping Mousse’s wrist suddenly tightened, and his face darkened.

“No, that’s the one thing I can’t give. You belong to me!”

Mousse’s beautiful brows furrowed, a slight mist forming before his eyes. He bit his lip and twisted his wrist.

“Your Majesty, you’re hurting me.”

The Tianjia Emperor hastily let go, discovering a red mark around the Empress Consort’s fair wrist.

His expression changed slightly, and he hurriedly took out repair fluid from his spatial-jump button, wanting to treat the Empress Consort.

Mousse put his hand behind his back, “Your Majesty, please go back.”

“Let me apply the medicine for you first.”

The Tianjia Emperor’s face was pale, his expression tense and worried, insisting on not leaving.

“No need. You know, my skin bruises easily. It’s nothing, it just looks serious.”

Mousse turned his head away, and a single tear uncooperatively fell, landing on the carpet.

Mousse bit his lower lip slightly.

He didn’t want to cry, but a male’s control over his body was far weaker than a female’s, and he was more sensitive to emotions. The slightest stimulus would produce an uncontrollable physiological reaction, which was very annoying.

The movement of the teardrop falling onto the carpet was greatly amplified in the keen senses of the SSS-class female.

The Tianjia Emperor half-knelt, silently reaching for the Empress Consort’s hand hidden behind his back.

Mousse was already deeply affected by his emotions, finding it difficult to control his body’s reaction.

Seeing that the Tianjia Emperor refused to leave no matter what he said, completely disregarding his wishes, he couldn’t help but kick him.

This kick landed right on the leg the Tianjia Emperor was squatting on.

With a male’s strength, it was impossible to move an SSS-class female.

Moreover, Mousse was habitually barefoot, giving him even less attacking power.

However, as his foot landed, the Tianjia Emperor followed the force and brought that leg down as well.

Both knees hit the ground.

Mousse’s breath hitched.

But the Tianjia Emperor acted as if he hadn’t noticed, pulled his hand over, and carefully applied the repair fluid.

Mousse felt a bit awkward and lightly kicked the Tianjia Emperor’s knee with the tip of his foot, reminding him that this was very unbecoming of an emperor.

The Tianjia Emperor spread his knees wider but showed no intention of getting up.

He even reminded him: “The knees have a lot of bone and are hard to kick. Sisi, find another place to vent your anger.”

“Oh? Where?”

Mousse, indignant, stepped down on the middle, deliberately asking, “Here?”

The Tianjia Emperor’s body was unstable for a moment but quickly recovered, as if the momentary sway was just an illusion.

“Mmm, anywhere is fine,” the Tianjia Emperor grunted from his nose, his breathing a bit heavy.

Mousse didn’t like his calm and composed appearance and stomped a few more times in anger.

On the last kick, the thing under his foot suddenly jumped, causing Mousse to misstep. He lost his balance, his body suddenly pitched forward, and he only stabilized himself by grabbing the Tianjia Emperor’s head.

When Mousse looked up, he discovered that pheromones had been lingering around them at some point.

Not just the Tianjia Emperor’s, but his as well.

The sweet scent of flowers and fruits intertwined with the cold scent of ice and snow.

Mousse was filled with shame and anger, and started to pick a fight:

“Why didn’t you inject yourself with a pheromone inhibitor? Don’t you like inhibitors very much?”

The Tianjia Emperor was silent for a few seconds, calmed his breathing, and actually took out an inhibitor from his spatial-jump button, injecting it into his left arm.

Mousse was still holding the Tianjia Emperor’s head, their bodies pressed close together.

When the Tianjia Emperor injected himself, his arm went around from behind Mousse.

An intimate posture, as if they were embracing each other.

Yet he was injecting a pheromone inhibitor.

Mousse’s eyes stung, and another tear fell, landing on the Tianjia Emperor’s thick, short black hair.

The Tianjia Emperor’s movements froze.

The suddenly tensed muscles shattered the needle embedded in his arm.

The Tianjia Emperor came back to his senses and threw the syringe away.

The garbage disposal unit in the distance automatically activated, caught the falling syringe, and instantly disintegrated it.

The female pheromones in the room also gradually faded.

“Sisi, what should I do…”

Just let go and give him his freedom?

The Tianjia Emperor’s heart ached.

He couldn’t do it.

Just the thought of Mousse leaving his side made him hurt so much he could almost die.

It was a pain that couldn’t be compared to even the most severe injuries on the battlefield.

It was as if his spinal cord had been drained, his wings torn off, his mental domain completely shattered and collapsed, and even his soul was perishing along with it.

Mousse was silent.

He couldn’t answer.

He knew the Tianjia Emperor could never give him what he wanted.

The Tianjia Emperor embraced Mousse and stood up, carrying him and placing him on the nearby bed.

He then knelt by the bed, directly facing Mousse.

Mousse’s eyelashes trembled slightly. He looked down and could only see the top of the Tianjia Emperor’s head and his puffed-out cheek from the side.

“You’ve already injected the inhibitor, what are you still doing this for? The egg doesn’t lack pheromones.”

Mousse said sullenly.

An insectoid who injects an inhibitor would instantly become ascetic, devoid of any worldly desires.

The last time the Tianjia Emperor had injected the inhibitor and still wanted him was because it had been nearly a week since he last took his pheromones, and the egg in his belly urgently needed nourishment.

Now, the egg did not lack the pheromones for growth and development.

The Tianjia Emperor brushed his fallen bangs back and looked up at him.

“If I leave it alone, won’t Sisi be uncomfortable?”

Mousse’s gaze lingered on the Tianjia Emperor’s reddened eyes for a moment. He pursed his lips, turned his head to look away, and said in a muffled voice:

“It doesn’t matter. Anyway, as long as I stay by your side like this, I am uncomfortable at every moment.”

The Tianjia Emperor’s mouth opened silently, his gaze fixed on Mousse’s eyes, which flickered and trembled.

After a long while, he lowered his eyes and said in a hoarse voice, “I understand.”

The Tianjia Emperor only got up after Mousse had finished releasing his pheromones.

Mousse curled up under the covers and ignored him.

The Tianjia Emperor stood alone by the bed for a long time, only leaving as dawn was breaking.

Before leaving, he left behind a draft of a law revision.

Along with it, he also left the key that represented the emperor’s authority.

“Whatever Sisi wants to write, just write it.”

Perhaps the Empress Consort would add the right for males to dissolve a marriage and change their female partner.

That way, the Empress Consort could leave his side and get his freedom.

Walking out of the Empress Consort’s bedchamber, the Tianjia Emperor raised his hand to touch his belly, which was already beginning to show.

His crimson eyes were filled with pain and confusion.

The little golden-haired male who had wanted to stay by his side, who had wanted him to accompany him through his physiological awakening.

Would actually say to him that as long as he stayed by his side, he was uncomfortable at every moment.

When did they start to become like this?

In the bedchamber, Mousse stared blankly at the bill the Tianjia Emperor had left.

When the Tianjia Emperor had given him the list of new administrators, he had also said that if he was not satisfied, he could change it at any time.

Anyway, for the Tianjia Emperor, it was just a casual matter.

But Mousse had not proposed any changes.

Because he knew it was the same whether he changed it or not. What truly caused the plight of males was not the administrators of the nursery.

But now, looking at this bill in front of him, Mousse couldn’t understand.

Revising a law was different from casually replacing a few administrators.

Even the Tianjia Emperor had to face enormous pressure when he pushed for the law that restricted the number of males nobles could own.

Not to mention, giving him the authority to add clauses to the bill.

“What does he mean?”

Mousse was confused.

[Two words: Love-struck brain.]

[That’s three words.]

[Then two words: Foolish monarch.]

The Tianjia don’t have the word “love,” let alone “romance.”

Mousse didn’t understand the meaning of “love-struck brain.”

“Foolish monarch,” on the other hand, was easy to understand.

Mousse didn’t quite like this title.

The evaluations of the Tianjia Emperor he saw in the future were mostly “Tyrant,” “God of War,” “ambitious and ruthless hero”…

Even the alien races thousands of years later never denied the Tianjia Emperor’s strength.

The Tianjia Emperor was not only unparalleled in his time, but even in the long river of history, he was the brightest star.

He was suddenly extinguished at his most brilliant moment.

Along with the most powerful Tianjia Empire of that time, they perished together.

Mousse looked at the bill in front of him.

In the face of the vast Tianjia Empire and the rolling wheels of history, he was as tiny as stardust.

What could he change?

[A foolish monarch also depends on how he is foolish. If he is foolish in the right place, he can also be an enlightened monarch.]

[Little Cake, are you going to write?]

“I will.”

Even if what he wrote might ultimately be rejected and not appear in the final bill.

But at least, he had to do something.

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