Loved This Great Emperor Already (One More Chapter to Come)

Meng Chuan had no idea that the tyrant on this world's dragon-slaying battlefield had taken an interest in him. Right now, he was...

Cooking!

"Lu Mingfei, look at yourself! Staying out all night was bad enough!" His aunt grabbed his ear and twisted it twice. "Now you invite a friend over and make him cook for you?!!"

Lu Mingfei's face contorted with pain. Heaven knew how hard he had protested when the Great Emperor said he wanted to cook, but he hadn't been able to move until his uncle and aunt came in.

"It's all right, Auntie. I told Lu Mingfei to sit down. I haven't cooked in ages, and I wanted to see if I'd gotten rusty." Meng Chuan ignored Lu Mingfei's mangled expression and smiled warmly at his aunt.

"We can't have that. How could I let a guest cook? Come out, come out. I'll do it." His aunt looked at Meng Chuan with open admiration.

"Auntie, just let the Great—Meng Chuan cook this once!" Lu Mingfei had nearly called him Great Emperor again.

Smack! A palm landed on Lu Mingfei's head.

"Don't interrupt! Look at yourself, then look at him!" His aunt beamed at Meng Chuan, then turned a stern face on Lu Mingfei, looking as though she wished she could hammer him into steel.

Rubbing his head, Lu Mingfei looked from Meng Chuan to his aunt. He had a feeling his chubby cousin's place in the family was in grave danger.

In the end, Lu Mingfei and Meng Chuan pulled out every trick they knew and talked themselves hoarse before his aunt agreed to cook the meal with Meng Chuan. Even then, she looked embarrassed.

Outside the kitchen, Uncle Lu and Lu Mingfei sat on the sofa. Uncle Lu kept glancing at the kitchen, then at Lu Mingfei, as though he had something to say.

"Uncle, if you've got something to say, don't hold it in," Lu Mingfei said helplessly. He had already caught him looking more than ten times.

"Mingfei, why would someone like that want to be friends with you?" His uncle hadn't meant to say it, but he couldn't hold back. His nephew and the young man called Meng Chuan in the kitchen shouldn't have had anything to do with each other!

The one inside was distinguished and carried himself with an extraordinary air. As for his own nephew, didn't he know what the boy was like?

"Uncle, what do you mean, why would he want to be friends with me? I'm pretty impressive too, you know! One day, I'm even going to find you a niece-in-law who's like a princess!"

Lu Mingfei's face darkened. Was he really that hopeless? He had eight other friends like Meng Chuan!

His uncle looked conflicted. After studying Lu Mingfei, he finally advised, "Mingfei, it's better not to force our way into circles we don't belong to. That girl next door seems quite nice."

Lu Mingfei was at a loss. What was this supposed to mean? Did he and the Great Emperor really look that different?

But when he saw Meng Chuan bustling around the kitchen in an apron, Lu Mingfei's eyes darted sideways.

Lu Mingfei: [Picture]

Lu Mingfei: Ta-da!

Zhang Sanfeng: Is that... the Great Emperor?

Meng Qi: So this is the Great Emperor's private life? I love it already.

Fei Peng: Is he cooking?

Yao Chen: The Heavenly Emperor returns to the city? Hiss, how terrifying!

Daigu: Why does it look like the food is glowing...

Bibi Dong: This is so heartwarming. I wish I could have a meal cooked by the Great Emperor.

Yan Chixia: Me too!

The Ancient One: This...

Lu Mingfei had posted a photo of Meng Chuan cooking in the Chat Group, drawing everyone out at once.

Zhang Sanfeng: Perhaps this is the true essence of the Dao?

Fei Peng: He is the invincible Great Emperor of today, and also the Meng Chuan he was at the beginning.

Yan Chixia: The Dao follows nature!

Yao Chen: The Great Emperor truly grows more unfathomable by the day.

Meng Qi: You can stop flattering him. The Great Emperor's busy; he can't see it!

System notice: Administrator Meng Chuan muted Administrator Meng Qi.

Bibi Dong: Serves him right!

Bibi Dong: If only the Great Emperor could come to my world someday.

Lu Mingfei: Girls would only slow the Great Emperor's blade!

The Ancient One: @Bibi Dong, how are things on your end? Are you all right?

As one of only two women in the Chat Group, and knowing how tragic Bibi Dong's original fate had been, The Ancient One tended to say a little more when speaking with her.

Bibi Dong: I've stopped traveling around the continent. Ever since I joined the group, I've been cultivating, hoping to become a Titled Douluo as soon as possible! I'll change all of it!

Whenever Bibi Dong thought of what she would suffer in the future, she wanted to kill Qian Xunji right now. When her fate record was opened for others to see, much of it had been cut away without a trace.

But the first time she entered her fate record, she had seen certain things with perfect clarity. She would never forget that despair and helplessness!

Yan Chixia: Keep going! If you run into trouble, make sure you tell us.

Yan Chixia had always been cold on the outside and warm at heart.

Bibi Dong: I will! Thank you, Uncle Big Beard!

Reading that, Yan Chixia felt as though he had taken ten thousand points of critical damage.

On the roof of Lu Mingfei's home, Meng Chuan and Lu Mingfei sat side by side, looking toward the distant commercial district.

"Things have gotten better between you and your aunt?" Meng Chuan asked suddenly.

Lu Mingfei gazed into the distance and nodded hard. "Yeah!"

Meng Chuan smiled. "The Loser's finally starting to change for real, and he didn't even have to wait until Japan."

"I'm not the Loser now. I'm going to be the Tragedy Ender!" Lu Mingfei declared, sounding utterly convinced and not at all bothered by how childish the title was.

Meng Chuan gave him a teasing smile. "Right. You're not just the Tragedy Ender. You'll also be Shilan High School's eternal legend—Lu Mingfei of the mysterious organization!"

Lu Mingfei whipped his head around to stare at Meng Chuan, remembering what Meng Chuan had said at the movie theater.

"So that was your scheme, Great Emperor! You said you'd come to back me up, but you set me up!" Lu Mingfei was distraught. How was he supposed to return to Shilan High School once he'd made a name for himself?

He could already imagine someone asking, "Are you that Lu Mingfei who joined a mysterious organization?"

"Senior Lu, do people in mysterious organizations spend their lives licking blood from the edges of their blades?"

Lu Mingfei's scalp tingled. Who was out there licking blood from blades?

Seeing Lu Mingfei's bitter expression, Meng Chuan chuckled. He stood, clapped his hands, and looked toward one part of the city.

"Then, Tragedy Ender, would you like to come with me to meet someone? No, to meet a dragon?" Meng Chuan's tone was casual, as if he were inviting Lu Mingfei out for roadside spicy hotpot.

Lu Mingfei froze for a moment, then caught on and looked where Meng Chuan was looking.

"Odin?"

Meng Chuan nodded. "That's right. That so-called Odin."

"He's been staring at me ever since I appeared here. Doesn't he know that's rude?"

After saying this, Meng Chuan shifted his gaze behind Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei was baffled. He scratched his head and ventured, "Great Emperor, am I breaking the law by looking at you?"

"..." Meng Chuan was speechless. Looking at me isn't illegal. Being as stupid as you are ought to be!

Ignoring Lu Mingfei, Meng Chuan reached straight into space and slowly drew his hand back out. It had gone in empty, but it emerged gripping someone by the back of the neck!

It was a short fellow in a black suit. He gave Meng Chuan an ingratiating look, then turned to Lu Mingfei and said, "Brother, long time no see!"

Then he blinked, as if trying to convey a message. Lu Mingfei instantly understood what his "adorable" little brother meant.

Brother, save me!

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