Now This Is a Palace Coup

"Alright." Jackal sighed, then looked at Raven. "By the way, Raven, haven't you had your physical exam this year?"

Chapter 551 This is the real coup d'état

The Raven's eyes twitched when it heard this.

Why did you suddenly bring up this topic with me?

"Did you... did you already do it?"

"Without your record, you've made a mess of things." The Jackal glared at the Raven with displeasure.

Still being a coward? Still being a coward?

Could you be any more cowardly?

"Take it off, there's no time like the present, you'll have to do it sooner or later anyway."

"..."

The Raven remained silent. This so-called "inevitable procedure" definitely doesn't refer to a physical examination, does it?

Seeing that the Raven didn't move, the Jackal walked over and started helping him take off his clothes.

"Did you wear the band-aid?"

As the Jackal Raven, he asked in a low voice,

"Wear your head!" Raven's face immediately darkened, and he retorted in a suppressed voice.

Why are you asking about Band-Aids?! And shouldn't the verb for "wear" be "to put on"?!

"It's okay, I'll sponsor you two. Trust my speed."

Jackal pulled a band-aid from his chest pocket and smiled.

I don't believe you!

Although the Raven didn't say it explicitly, the expression on its face said it all.

Jackal isn't anyone to her, so why is she bothering with him?

The Jackal himself seemed to be enjoying it quite a bit.

Jackal spent the last few days looking around and realized, well, he doesn't seem to have any friends.

Raven can barely be counted.

Moreover, there's a sense of reconciliation, like mortal enemies who've fought each other their whole lives finally reaching a point of enlightenment and making peace—even though the Jackal is only in his thirties and the Raven is only in his twenties.

So now the Jackal is quite happy to help the Raven out.

It would be even more fun if we could record a video of the Raven cawing during their morning ritual.

"Don't move!"

Seeing that the Jackal was really going to strip him naked, Raven growled with a grim face.

If their relationship hadn't improved, she would have punched the Jackal and turned him into a caterpillar on the ground long ago.

"Don't be stubborn. If you miss this opportunity, you don't know when the next one will come."

Raven's face darkened even more upon hearing this. "Are you trying to coax a child?"

"I need you to remind me!"

"Tsk, think about your children, don't you want them to have a better life?"

"..."

At that moment, Raven really felt that Jackal was like a vicious madam who forced women into prostitution.

Why does your mother have to make this sound so sinful?

"I'll do it! I'll do it, okay? You don't need to do it! I'll take it off myself!"

The Raven had stopped suppressing its voice and seemed somewhat resigned to its fate.

"... Hey, won't you two listen to my opinion?"

Liu Bai's lips twitched. As Herrscher, he could choose not to listen, but if he wanted to, the whispers between the two of them couldn't be hidden from him at all.

"Boss, are you going to trample on a young girl's resolve?" Jackal turned his head and replied casually, "Do you know how many internal struggles Raven went through to make this decision?"

"..."

No, you're the one who's misleading them.

Liu Bai raised an eyebrow.

Raven's lips twitched; she really wanted to punch the Jackal now.

However, in a sense, the Jackal was right; for her, there was no turning back now.

I've already started gritting my teeth and taking off my clothes. How can I pretend nothing's wrong, put my clothes back on, and leave?

If you chicken out this time, you might not even have the courage next time.

I can't stay detached like this forever.

Let's just go for this one, and aim for the minimum.

It's alright, Raven. This is normal, just what a mistress should do.

The Raven tried to reassure itself and keep its mind calm.

"Liu, Master Liu Bai..."

The naked Raven swallowed hard and stopped calling itself "boss."

After hesitating for a moment, she blushed and looked away.

"W-Where would you like to use first, um...?"

"Tsk, isn't this pretty good?" Jackal watched the show while unbuttoning his collar, revealing a deep and healthy cleavage.

The Raven is eating meat, and she takes a sip of soup in the chaos. Is that a big problem?

"Here, Raven, have something to eat first."

The Jackal took two pills out of his pocket and tossed one to the Raven.

"What... what is this?"

Because he was naked, Raven's voice was now soft and weak, and he almost couldn't catch it.

"Ovulation-inducing drugs." The Jackal glanced at the Raven, whose face was flushed red. "Just kidding, birth control pills."

"..."

The Raven hesitated for a moment.

She now truly doesn't know if Jackal's joke was also a joke.

But... since I've made this decision, it doesn't seem to matter what kind of medicine it is.

Raven thought for a moment, then closed his eyes and swallowed the pill.

"Why would you carry something like this with you?" Liu Bai looked at the Jackal with a strange expression.

Are you referring to ovulation-inducing drugs or birth control pills?

The Jackal tilted its head, and the Raven exhaled upon hearing this.

Does this mean that the Jackal's joke might actually be a joke?

The Raven calmed itself down.

Anyway, she's already taken the pill... and now Raven isn't sure whether she'd rather the pill she swallowed cause ovulation or contraception.

Raven subconsciously touched its lower abdomen.

Liu Bai's face also darkened. Playing around is fine, but don't get pregnant at a time like this... Well, although Raven and Rita are the kind of people who don't have any problems, Jackal also relatively free right now.

"Just kidding, it really is a birth control pill, I swear on my honor."

The Jackal revealed a cunning smile.

"After all, I'm not Raven, and I'm not ready to have babies yet..."

Although I do think about these things occasionally.

Life is nothing more than family and career. Jackal's career has come to an end, or rather, Jackal's ambition has faded. With his ambition faded, he naturally yearns for a peaceful life.

After Jackal finished speaking, he clicked his tongue again. Even in his teenage years, he never thought that he would one day throw himself into someone else's arms.

Raven blushed, but she didn't deny it, after all... she also realized her own dilemma.

"So now, it's up to you, boss." The Jackal had unbuttoned his shirt to reveal a band-aid, looked at Liu Bai with a grin.

"You are forcing me to abdicate."

Liu Bai sighed.

"Perhaps," Jackal, shrugging.

So what?

Jackal smiled as he looked at Liu Bai, who had a helpless expression.

To put it bluntly, it's a coup; to put it nicely, it's two beautiful women throwing themselves at each other.

However, Jackal also knew what Liu Bai was worried about.

"You can rest assured, Raven and I are both very tight-lipped... If this gets out, you can fill Raven with cement and throw him into the river."

The Raven raised its paw and tapped the Jackal.

Don't go too far.

"..."

So how did things turn out this way?

Liu Bai sighed.

Why do conversations sometimes escalate to the point of taking off clothes and getting into bed?

And although that's what they say, it feels a bit strange to just agree to it directly. Can't I at least have some pretense of respectability?

Whether the Jackal understood immediately or had been planning to do so all along, it nudged the Raven and said, "Go, Natasha."

"Huh? What?"

"Pounce on the boss and then take off his pants? Can't you, as a mistress, have any sense?"

"I..."

The Raven paused.

"No, no need, I can do it myself."

Liu Bai shook his head. Oh well, if there's no memorial arch, there's no memorial arch. Anyway, you get used to this kind of thing after a couple of tries.

I, as a cadre, have long been unable to withstand the test.

Now that things have come to this, if we don't continue, the Raven might start to run away in shame and indignation.

Seeing that Liu Bai had finally agreed, the Jackal grabbed Raven from behind with one arm and started groping her with the other.

"You're already feeling it, aren't you?"

As the Jackal pushed the Raven forward, it whispered something in the Raven's ear with a villainous grin.

"You!?" Raven gasped for breath and tried to break free from the Jackal's grasp.

However, upon moving, the Raven suddenly found itself feeling limp all over.

What did you do?

"Hmm... I didn't do anything. It's just that the birth control pills you took contained, in addition to the contraceptive ingredients, my latest Honkai Energy Suppressant, muscle relaxant, and... a drug that increases certain hormones to produce pleasure and stimulate desire without side effects. It's just that since it's the first time I've used it, it seems that some of the ingredients... well, I put in a bit too much. After all, this is the first time I've made something like this."

The Raven keenly sensed that the Jackal's breathing was also rapid.

Seemingly sensing what the Raven was about to say, the Jackal continued in a suppressed voice, "That's right, I ate it too."

"..."