"Kid, don't say I didn't give you a chance. If you can truly win A-Zhui's heart, I won't stop you.
But if you can't do it, then that'll be your own fault. So, good luck!"
With that, Angel Yan teased him with a smile.
As one of Angel Yan's guardian angels and her direct subordinate, A-Zhui was indeed someone Angel Yan had the right to speak about this way.
Seeing Angel Yan like this, Ye Chen could not help but smile bitterly and shake his head. He could only say that Angel Yan really was just as unreliable as she had been in the original story.
Angel Yan then gave Moi a look before patting A-Zhui meaningfully on the shoulder. "We'll wait for you outside Blue Star!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Angel Yan left Qiankun Hall with Moi.
In the end, only Ye Chen, A-Zhui, and Secretary Yuan Lan remained in the great hall. Yuan Lan's face was expressionless, but her eyes were full of curiosity.
"Cough, cough!"
Feeling the strange atmosphere that had suddenly fallen over the hall, Ye Chen felt somewhat uncomfortable as well.
As a super bachelor who had lived for more than two hundred years, he was still completely unaccustomed to this sort of thing.
Looking at Yuan Lan beside him, Ye Chen immediately said, "Yuan Lan, there's nothing for you to do here anymore. Go wait outside."
"Yes!"
Ye Chen's words filled Yuan Lan's eyes with disappointment. After all, this concerned the Emperor's marriage. It was such a pity that she could not stay and witness it.
After Yuan Lan left, only the two of them remained in the great hall.
Seeing that there was no one else around, A-Zhui finally relaxed. After thousands of years of fighting, this was also her first time dealing with something like this. She had no idea what to do at all.
Especially with that loose-lipped Angel Yan stirring things up, her heart was in complete turmoil.
Her thoughts raced, but A-Zhui forced herself to maintain an indifferent expression. She casually sat down in a chair nearby and said,
"We haven't seen each other for a hundred years. You look more and more like an emperor now."
Seeing her like this, Ye Chen did not expose her disguise. Instead, he sat down beside her and chatted as though they were old friends.
As time passed, the two gradually grew more familiar with each other.
As it turned out, it was rather amusing. Although they had known each other for two hundred years, even counting this meeting, they had only met three times.
Moreover, a hundred years had passed between each meeting. Seeing each other once was even more difficult than it was for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
An hour later.
Blue Star, outer space.
A-Zhui emerged from Blue Star with a smile at the corners of her lips before arriving in front of Angel Yan and Moi.
"Looks like my A-Zhui had a very pleasant chat with that guy. Come on, tell us what you two talked about that you didn't want us to know. You even sealed the dark data so we couldn't see it."
Looking at A-Zhui, who seemed like a lovesick young girl, Angel Yan immediately knew that A-Zhui had truly fallen for him this time. That little brat really was skilled at flirting with girls.
Seeing the two of them looking so gossip-hungry, A-Zhui's face flushed slightly. "Sister Yan Yan, I still have to inspect the next planet. I'll be leaving first."
As soon as she finished speaking, the wings behind A-Zhui trembled lightly, and she instantly transformed into a streak of light that shot beyond the Solar System.
Behind her, Angel Yan and Moi watched A-Zhui flee and burst into laughter.
"Moi, it looks like I'll have to ask the queen to assign me another guardian angel. There's no keeping A-Zhui around anymore."
"Sister Yan, it's a good thing that A-Zhui was able to find her male god. For thousands of years, every time she saw the angel sisters around her sacrifice themselves..."
Moi's words made Angel Yan nod. The war between angel civilization and the demons had caused her to witness the deaths of far too many sisters.
Now that A-Zhui had found her own male god and could stay away from the central battlefield in the future, Angel Yan was happy for her as well.
However, she did not know that, several hundred years later, Blue Star would become the central battlefield where the major super-civilizations of the universe gathered.
This had already been decided by the layout Carl had established a thousand years ago, when he set up the large wormhole bridge on Blue Star and Pluto. It meant that Blue Star would be unable to stay out of the conflict several hundred years later.
"Let's go. We'll chase after A-Zhui. I'm very curious about what they talked about that they even had to block the dark data."
With that, Angel Yan lightly shook her wings and transformed into a streak of light, chasing after A-Zhui.
Seeing this, Moi shook her head with a smile before following after her.
Although she was steady by nature and usually taciturn and disinclined to speak, that did not mean she had no interest in gossip.
Qiankun Hall.
After seeing A-Zhui off, Ye Chen put away the smile at the corners of his mouth. He then looked at the enormous world map behind him and spread his hand wide, as though he were holding the entire world.
After chatting with A-Zhui just now, especially with both of them harboring feelings for each other, how could a battle angel with such a simple mind like A-Zhui possibly be a match for Ye Chen?
Ye Chen then turned around and said in a deep voice, "Yuan Lan, Long Ye, come in."
Long Ye was the descendant of Long Yu, the former commander of the Black Dragon Guard. In other words, he had taken over Long Yu's position.
Ye Chen had shown extraordinary favor to Long Yu and Yuan Long, the two old subordinates who had followed him for more than a hundred years.
Even after they grew old, he had asked each of them to recommend a younger member of their own family to take over their positions.
More than two hundred years as an emperor had made Ye Chen a mature ruler, but at times, he did not act like one.
That was because his emotions sometimes influenced his decisions.
After all, if it had been any other emperor, positions as important and powerful as personal secretary-general or commander of the personal guards would absolutely not have remained under the control of a single family for so long.
Of course, other emperors had not lived as long as he had. Moreover, Ye Chen was the founder of the empire, and he was confident that as long as he remained alive, the empire would never hear a voice of rebellion.
One had to understand that Ye Chen had initially been known as a tyrant.
Now, all the empire's older generation had died out. No one knew that when Ye Chen established the nation, he had killed so many people that heads rolled and blood flowed like rivers.
Outside the great hall.
After hearing the voice from inside the hall, Yuan Lan and Long Ye immediately entered.
"Your Majesty."
"Yuan Lan, summon all civil and military officials to the hall. Convene a grand court assembly. There must be no mistakes."
"Yes!"
Hearing Ye Chen's words, Yuan Lan and Long Ye could not help feeling startled.
They knew that if Ye Chen was suddenly summoning all the civil and military officials in the middle of the night to hold a grand court assembly, he must have something major in mind.
After receiving Ye Chen's order, Yuan Lan hurriedly left to notify the civil and military officials.
Ye Chen then looked at Long Ye beside him and said, "Long Ye, your father, Long Yu, was the person I trusted most. When he retired, he recommended you to me. I wonder if I can trust you."
"I'm willing to die for Your Majesty!"
"Good, very good. From the empire's founding until now, two hundred years later, the Long Family has been unfailingly loyal. I've seen it all. Now I intend to establish the Kunpeng Corps to guard the skies of Yanhuang and point its sword at the world. Can you shoulder this great responsibility?"
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