The Crazed Little Darling: Pampered by the Possesive Commander!-Chapter 256: Your Majesty’s Beloved Turned Out to Be...
Ye Chong also didn’t expect to encounter a student here. He asked in rare surprise, "What are you doing on Musse Star?"
"Just some personal matters." Su Ruan replied vaguely, then looked at the man standing beside Ye Chong with a bit of curiosity in her eyes.
The man had a big beard, looking quite messy, but his hair was neatly combed. Although his clothes seemed worn, they were very clean, without a single wrinkle, indicating that their owner took good care of them.
The man gave Su Ruan a very strange feeling, as if he were someone who should be affluent but was trying to disguise as a wanderer, and yet due to his inherent etiquette and pride, he couldn’t give up cleanliness, thus exuding an extremely contradictory aura.
Ye Chong noticed his student staring at Old Qin beside him and cheerfully introduced, "This is Old Qin, you can call him Uncle Qin."
"Uncle Qin." Su Ruan nodded slightly at him to show her respect.
Qin Cheng nodded slightly in response.
Su Ruan withdrew her gaze and looked at Ye Chong again, "Teacher Ye, why did you come to Musse Star?"
"Just to take a look." Ye Chong said lazily, wearing slippers, in a voice that sounded like he had just woken up. There was a sense of sadness in his murky eyes.
Su Ruan didn’t ask much, just nodded and said, "Then Teacher Ye, Uncle Qin, have fun."
Su Ruan bid farewell to the two of them, but she didn’t expect to run into Uncle Qin again a few hours later.
This time, Qin Cheng was alone; Ye Chong was not by his side.
Qin Cheng stood alone at the edge of the bridge, beneath which torrents flowed fiercely. More than half of his body leaned out of the bridge, as if he would fall into the rapids at any moment.
Su Ruan quickly walked over, not daring to raise her voice for fear of startling him, and gently called out.
"Uncle Qin."
Hearing the voice, Qin Cheng stood upright, turned sideways, and looked at Su Ruan.
"Ah, it’s Su Ruan." He said as if with a sigh.
"Is Xiao Nian also on Musse Star?"
Su Ruan: ...
She finally realized where that sense of incongruity was coming from.
Everyone knows that the current Your Majesty has the surname Qin, so the person before her, is he the current Your Majesty?
"Your Majesty?" She took a cautious step forward, lowering her voice even further, almost to a whisper.
Qin Cheng nodded and still said with a smile, "Just call me Uncle Qin."
"Uncle Qin." Su Ruan nodded and called, "Why did you come to Musse Star?"
"Just to take a look." Your Majesty turned around again, looking far along the river.
Fearing he might do something foolish, Su Ruan cautiously approached him, imitating his posture, and placed her hands on the bridge rail.
The autumn wind swept by, carrying a slight chill.
After a few seconds of silence, Qin Cheng spoke, "When do you and Xiao Nian plan to have children?"
Su Ruan: ???
Is Your Majesty now extending his concern to such matters?
"That’s not something we can really control." Su Ruan said, with a slight blush on her ears.
Your Majesty nodded knowingly.
The birth rate in the Federation has always been very low; some people have children only after turning over a hundred.
Although the average human lifespan is now 200 years, it’s quite long to wait over a hundred years to have children.
"When I was with Xiao Nian’s mother, she became pregnant quickly."
Qin Cheng reminisced, "Her pregnancy caught me off guard, and I panicked, which led me to make many mistakes afterward."
Some mistakes, once made, can never be undone.
Su Ruan: !!!
It seemed she just heard some extraordinary gossip!
Did Brother Lu’s biological mother have a history with Your Majesty? Does that mean Brother Lu is actually Your Majesty’s child?
This matter was beyond Su Ruan’s expectations.
Because whether in the past life or this life, Su Ruan had never heard Lu Shinian mention his father.
Even when Your Majesty passed away in the previous life, Lu Shinian did not attend the funeral.
"Brother Lu’s mother, she..."
She remembered he had said his mother passed away.
"They say she left." Qin Cheng’s voice carried a hint of madness, "I don’t believe it."
Su Ruan fell silent.
Qin Cheng looked into the distance, seeming absent-minded, not knowing what he was looking at or thinking about.
After a while, Qin Cheng spoke again, "Want to hear a story?"
Without waiting for Su Ruan’s response, Qin Cheng began telling a story on his own.
The story was clichéd, yet unexpectedly melodramatic.
In his youth, Qin Cheng had a white moonlight, but that white moonlight did not like him.
He couldn’t win her over, and because of an accident, he met Lu Shinian’s mother, Lu Zhiya.
He treated Lu Zhiya as a stand-in for his white moonlight.
Unconsciously, the stand-in became important in Qin Cheng’s heart over time, but at that time, Qin Cheng was proud and had just inherited the throne, brimming with arrogance.
Arrogance blinded his eyes and heart.
Later, when he realized he had fallen for the stand-in, the stand-in disappeared.
He searched for a long time but never found her.
Until more than a decade ago, when Lu Shinian entered the military academy, he realized that she and his son had grown so much.
Unfortunately, Lu Shinian didn’t intend to acknowledge him as a father or ride his coattails to success.
Lu Shinian entered the then most challenging Third Legion, rising step by step through his own efforts, reaching his current position.
After finishing the story, Your Majesty let out a deep sigh.
"I miss her dearly."
Perhaps it’s human nature to only cherish what’s lost.
After hearing the story, Su Ruan let out a sigh. It turned out the older generation had such a past.
"Did Brother Lu’s mother resemble your white moonlight greatly?" Su Ruan asked curiously.
Qin Cheng shook his head, "Not at all, actually."
"Speaking of which, the white moonlight had the same last name as yours."
Qin Cheng seemed to recall something, a confusion flashed in his eyes, "Her name was Su Hanjing. About twenty years ago, if I remember correctly, she contacted me once to change her name to Su Ling."
"Probably to hide from someone, though I don’t know the details. By then, we hadn’t been in touch for years."
Su Ruan’s body jolted.
Su Hanjing... Isn’t that her biological mother?
This...
Su Ruan was at a loss on how to describe the shock in her heart.
"But it doesn’t matter anymore." Qin Cheng’s voice was low, "It’s all been too long."
Staring at the torrents, he suddenly asked, "Do you think if I jump from here, I’ll see her?"
Su Ruan snapped back to reality, her pupils widening.
A figure leaped from the bridge, falling rapidly.
"No!"
Su Ruan shouted, her spiritual power becoming tangible, rushing straight towards Qin Cheng.
As Qin Cheng’s body was about to hit the water, it hurriedly supported him.
Su Ruan manipulated her spiritual power to pull Qin Cheng back up.
Qin Cheng’s body was stiff, incredulously staring at Su Ruan, his pupils still holding traces of shock.
