"You're here. Sit down!"
Ye Chen had just taken a sip of water when he heard the commotion. He knew who had arrived without even looking.
A-Zhui entered without any ceremony and sat down directly.
Seeing this, Yuan Lan, who was in the room, tactfully withdrew from the main hall, gently closed the door, and stood guard outside.
"From everything I saw today, I can tell that you're an extremely ambitious war emperor. To be honest, I regret it a little. I don't know whether helping you like this is right or wrong."
Hearing this, Ye Chen looked at A-Zhui beside him. "You're worried that I'll violate the angels' Justice Order in the future."
Hearing the little man speak so bluntly, A-Zhui looked at him and fell silent.
Because Ye Chen's words reflected exactly what she was worried about.
The Yanhuang Empire was weak at present. According to the Justice Order, it was the protected party.
That was because the core of the Justice Order was to protect weak civilizations as they developed, preventing them from being harmed by other powerful civilizations.
But here was the problem: given the Yanhuang Empire's current rate of development, it was advancing far too quickly. It would inevitably enter the stars in the future, transforming from a weak civilization into a powerful one. By then, given Ye Chen's personality, he would inevitably launch wars against the civilizations around him.
At that point, the positions of attacker and defender would be reversed, and the Yanhuang Empire would become the side suppressed by the Justice Order. When that happened, one side would inevitably have to compromise.
If Ye Chen refused to compromise then, the two sides would inevitably go to war.
"Little man, are you willing to believe in the angels and obey the angels' Justice Order?"
A-Zhui looked at Ye Chen with an extremely serious expression.
"Sure. For you, I agree."
"You rascal, I'm being serious. You know I'm asking you this very seriously."
Seeing that this man was about to start making glib remarks again, A-Zhui angrily rolled her eyes at him.
Ye Chen was the man she loved. If nothing unexpected happened, she would become Ye Chen's guardian angel in the future. That was why she truly did not want to cross swords with him someday.
On one side was the faith she had upheld all her life, and on the other was her lover. If the two came into conflict, caught between them, what would she do? Whom would she help?
Of course, the two of them had not come together yet. So if she had to choose between love and the Justice Order now, she would choose the latter without hesitation.
But in the future, once they were together, she would certainly be unable to make up her mind. Perhaps she would help the angelic civilization kill Ye Chen and then follow him in death.
Alternatively, she might help Ye Chen resist the angelic civilization. In the end, she would have betrayed the faith in her heart, and the result would probably be the same: suicide.
Looking at A-Zhui's solemn face, Ye Chen's thoughts raced. He knew that he had to give A-Zhui an answer now, or he might lose this ally.
Well, although love should not be mixed with too many benefits, he was an emperor. He had to take responsibility for the billions of people in the entire empire.
He was no longer the ordinary person he had once been. When he had first arrived in this world, he had been free of all attachments and could naturally act recklessly, but he was no longer alone.
Just like A-Zhui's choice, if he had to choose between the Yanhuang Empire and A-Zhui now, he would choose the former without hesitation.
He would choose the former in the future as well. He was not blinded by love, because before being a lover, he was first and foremost a qualified emperor.
The empire came first, and love came second.
People could call him heartless or a scumbag, but that was the truth.
However, given his personality, when that time came, he would either lose the war and die, or defeat the angelic civilization, pass the empire on to his descendants, forcibly restrain A-Zhui so she could not kill herself, and then find a planet to live out the rest of his life in seclusion without appearing again. That would be his explanation to A-Zhui.
Within the main hall, the silence between the two caused the atmosphere to grow heavy. If this was mishandled, Ye Chen and A-Zhui—who would eventually come together—would completely part ways.
They might even cross swords in the future.
"Damn it, I'm an emperor! And I have a system cheat! Why do I have to choose? If I have to choose, then I'll choose everything. I won't give up on either A-Zhui or the empire."
The former was the goddess he had loved most in his previous life.
The latter was the foundation he had built bit by bit in this life. In his eyes, the Yanhuang Empire was like a son he had raised with his own hands.
And now they wanted him to choose between his wife and his son? What the hell—why should he choose? He wanted both his wife and son. The family of three would never be separated.
Besides, he had the capital to have it all. That was the civilization system cheat. With the system, the angelic civilization's Justice Order could not restrict the Yanhuang Empire's development at all.
Thinking of this, Ye Chen made up his mind. He would stabilize A-Zhui first. After all, war was imminent, and he could not lose his greatest ally.
Thus, Ye Chen stood up, walked over to A-Zhui, and bent down until their eyes met. "A-Zhui, you want me to make a choice? Fine. For you, I'm willing to obey the angelic civilization's Justice Order."
As he spoke, Ye Chen looked at the red lips before him and kissed her directly.
"Mmm..."
Ye Chen's sudden action made A-Zhui's eyes widen. Looking at the person before her, she wanted to push him away, but she found that she had no strength in her body.
In the end, she sighed inwardly and closed her eyes.
After kissing for a while and sensing no resistance from A-Zhui, Ye Chen secretly opened his eyes. Seeing her like this, he smiled inwardly. Hah, I refuse to believe I can't handle a little angel like you. But A-Zhui's little mouth is really soft. Mmm, and sweet too. But this armor is damn annoying. It feels so hard to touch, and the worst part is that I can't even take it off. Damn!!
Ye Chen was truly shameless. It was not enough for him to deceive her heart—he even wanted to deceive her body.
Ye Chen felt no guilt about it. After all, he was planning to marry her. How could this be called being a lecher?
Only lechery without the intention of marriage was true lechery.
Ten minutes later, their lips parted.
Ye Chen gently held A-Zhui by her slender waist. Looking at her somewhat dazed eyes, he felt a trace of heat rise within him.
There was nothing he could do about it. A-Zhui was simply too alluring at that moment.
When A-Zhui recovered from the deep kiss, she saw Ye Chen's ambiguous smile and the hand wandering over her body.
Seeing this, A-Zhui's already flushed cheeks turned bright red.
Then, she somehow found a burst of strength and shoved Ye Chen away.
Boom!!
The next moment, Ye Chen's body flew out as if it had been hit by a heavy truck, smashing through countless things along the way.
After tumbling across the ground, he finally slammed down hard on the wall.
"Cough, cough. Damn, having a superhuman wife really isn't something an ordinary person can handle. One careless moment and you'll be taking little fists to the chest. Out of three hundred and sixty-five days a year, you'd spend three hundred and sixty of them in the hospital. Who the hell could take that?"
Clutching his chest, Ye Chen spat out a mouthful of blood and forced a bitter smile. At that moment, he felt as if his entire body had fallen apart.
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