Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Returning to the stone house, Ren Baqian heard the empress’s breathing from her bed, and it sounded overly active.
Apart from when he got hurt back then and both of them were forced to sleep in the wild, he rarely had the opportunity to get so close to her when she slept. They even slept in separate rooms when sharing the same hotel suite.
“Your Majesty!” Ren Baqian called out softly.
“What’s the matter?” the empress asked.
“It’s something that just randomly popped up in my head. Since Xin Zhe and Lin Qiaole resided in the palace for a long time, they don’t seem to have a good understanding of gender differences. You, however, are very well-versed and strict in this aspect. Who did you learn this from, Your Majesty?” Ren Baqian had a curious look on his face and a hint of mischief in his eyes.
“Is this abnormal?” the empress asked as she lay in bed.
Ren Baqian touched his chin and replied, “It is, but I just feel that… Could it be that you have read erotic novels before?”
“What are erotic novels?” The empress was distracted for a moment.
“Erotic novels are books that depict men and women…” Ren Baqian laughed mischievously.
“Cough…”
Ren Baqian heard the sound of the bed frame breaking…
Thump! The empress threw a wooden pillow at him as he lay sprawled out on his back. It screeched through the air, landed between his legs, and bounced away.
Ren Baqian broke out in cold sweat and said, “Cool down, Your Majesty, cool down. I was just asking casually!”
The empress immediately sat up in the bed. Her eyes emitted a radiance in the darkness as she asked in an angry tone, “How did you know that Xin Zhe and Lin Qiaole don’t have a good understanding about gender differences?”
Ren Baqian was shocked and almost bit his tongue.
He originally wanted to tease her, but he ended up setting off a bomb for himself. A landmine to be exact!
Ren Baqian worked his mind very quickly and felt like his brain was working faster than an i9 processor.
He thought about it for some time and realized that he couldn’t talk his way out. After all, there was no way for him to retract his words, so he could only avoid the significant and dwell on the trivial.
“It’s because they didn’t seem to care about privacy when changing clothes.”
In any case, he couldn’t tell the empress about the electric shock incident! The shocks weren’t actually serious, but Xin Zhe’s reactions to them made him feel extremely guilty.
“You have seen this?” the empress asked in an ice-cold tone.
“You left both of them with me when we visited Earth. When I handed fresh clothes to them, they immediately changed in front of me. It gave me a shock!” Ren Baqian explained with a guileless look on his face. “You really can’t blame me for this! I was shocked at that moment too!”
He didn’t actually lie about it… Since the empress asked, all he could do was verify it. In any case, he didn’t do anything wrong.
She groaned lightly, lay down on the bed, and stared at the ceiling.
Ren Baqian sat up and looked at her. He simply stayed silent and looked at her.
After some time, the empress couldn’t take it any longer and looked at him from the corner of her eye before asking, “What are you looking at?”
“I just feel like looking! I enjoy looking at you!” Ren Baqian replied softly.
“I can’t sleep with you looking at me like that.” The empress wasn’t sure if she was feeling happy or not to be looked at like that. She felt somewhat uncomfortable, but she didn’t express any dislike toward what he said.
“Since you can’t sleep… Let’s talk!” Ren Baqian almost spouted out his desires, but with great difficulty, he dispelled the thoughts that would bring about his own misfortune.
“Haven’t you talked enough during the day?” the empress asked.
“We talk about day stuff in the daytime and night stuff at nighttime! It’s not the same!” Ren Baqian replied. Of course it wasn’t the same. How could a single man and woman talk about things that could be said during the day when sharing the same room at night?
After being looked at, the empress found it uncomfortable and responded helplessly, “What do you want to talk about?”
“How many kids do you wish to have?” Ren Baqian’s words almost embarrassed the empress into anger.
“Do you want to grant amnesty to the world during our wedding, Your Majesty?” Ren Baqian immediately changed the topic after teasing her.
The aboriginals were weird. For instance, forcefully taking away women from their homes was something very common on Earth, but it was very rare in this world. By right, such cases should be widespread in this world where martial strength was highly regarded.
In fact, these cases were quite common in Great Xia and the Yun Nation.
However, such incidents were extremely rare among the aboriginals.
Even when someone was indulging in sensual pleasures at the brothel in Lan City, they were limited to merely touching and hugging the ladies. There were very few cases where the ladies actually spent the night with their customers and did those indescribable things.
In this regard, it seemed that the aboriginals had a much lower level of desire compared to ordinary people.
This was an important factor that led to low aboriginal birth rates, aside from the fact that being overly strong would create fertility problems.
Also, there were almost no cases of theft in the aboriginal community.
Severely injuring or killing someone in a brawl was the most common crime in their community.
The typical punishment for such a crime would be three lashes of the whip. The whips had barbed tips and a lash from one of these whips would definitely render the person disfigured.
However, if the brawl resulted in severe injuries or death to the other party, the accused would be sentenced to jail for a period of six months to five years.
If it was a deliberate murder, the severity of the case would be assessed, and the accused would be sentenced to a minimum of ten years in jail or would be beheaded.
However, such cases were very uncommon.
The aboriginals were fiendish to outsiders, but were mostly pretty ethical when they interacted with their own people.
The empress felt pretty strange after hearing Ren Baqian’s words and asked, “Why?”
“Jubilation! On such a happy occasion, we should probably allow everyone to celebrate it with us, right?”
“Wouldn’t the victims blame me for being unjust then?” The empress shook her head.
Ren Baqian shrugged his shoulders after hearing this. He was merely making a casual remark.
“Will I become a prince after our wedding?” Ren Baqian smiled.
“The empress’s husband will naturally be a prince.” The empress expressed that this was expected as a matter of course.
“What benefits are there to being a prince?”
“Getting married to me will be your greatest gain ever!” The empress smiled when she recalled what Ren Baqian had said about her asking for his hand in marriage instead, which had made the Great Elder Shi Qing so angry.
She had never seen such a shameless act before!
Ren Baqian laughed. This was indeed the greatest gain ever.
“Besides that, you will gain responsibility as well. The heavy burden of managing the aboriginals’ lives rests on my shoulders and yours too.”
“When you like a person, you have to like everything about her. That includes her strengths and weaknesses, her duties and her responsibilities! These were the words of a famous person,” Ren Baqian answered softly.
“These words have touched me. What is his name? From his words, he sounds like he was a man with responsibilities.”
“Ren Baqian!”
The empress was at the brim of laughter from him trying to be shameless again.
“It’s pretty cold in the mountains at night!” Ren Baqian hugged his arms.
The empress couldn’t be bothered with him. Even if it was freezing, with his level of strength, it wouldn’t affect him much.
Seeing that the empress ignored him, he lay down on the floor and looked at the ceiling with his hands behind his head. He suddenly thought of something and said, “Your Majesty, we still need to hold a wedding ceremony on Earth after our marriage here!”
Ren Baqian had initially intended to host a reception on Earth. After giving it some thought, however, his family would probably ask him where his wedding had been held if he were to only hold a reception. They would also ask about where his wife’s family lived. How could he answer such questions? What would it be like if he didn’t even inform his family about his wedding?
He couldn’t possibly tell them that his wife’s family was from another planet!
“Yeah!” the empress answered softly. Even though she didn’t exactly enjoy such occasions, she left it up to Ren Baqian to decide.
Even though she was the honorable empress, she would often spare a thought for him as well.
Ren Baqian had always felt that this trait of hers was hard to come by and extremely praiseworthy.
“You probably need to have some family members attend the wedding, right?” Ren Baqian imagined having to invite dozens of fierce-looking winged cavalry warriors… He reckoned that most of his guests wouldn’t dare to step through the door.
It would also be too unpresentable if none of them were present and would generate gossip. It wouldn’t bother him, but his parents would very likely have to face the consequences.
Should he get Yang Sen to pose as her family?
This was a possibility that could be explored.
Ren Baqian thought about his wedding on Earth and rolled around on the floor as he listened to the empress’s breathing… He continued rolling around… and rolling around…
As she lay in bed and listened to his breathing, she also thought about the wedding at the same time. Marriage was the most important event of a lady’s life, regardless of what kind of person she was.
He rolled around nonstop. She stretched out her hand and realized that she had already thrown her pillow at him just now. Since that was the only thing on the bed, she felt a little regretful for having thrown it at him too soon.
“What are you doing?” The empress couldn’t tolerate it any longer.
“Tossing and turning restlessly!” Ren Baqian replied forcefully. “The thought of our wedding and eternal love is keeping me awake.”
The empress’s built-up anger dissipated. She continued to lie down and stare blankly at the ceiling…
Subsequently, she somehow felt uncomfortable lying down and felt like turning her body over… She felt as if she had been infected by him…
Not long after, both of them began tossing about… One in bed and the other on the floor…
