Chapter 96 Part 1

Jun Qingyu pulled off a stoic face and sat still.

After the broadcast, there would be a period of time for friendly exchanges between the two parties involved; after which, the official account would disclose part of the agreement.

He did not intend to say a word to Fu Yuanchuan until the signing of this agreement is complete until the signing of this agreement was over.

The discussion was a matter for the Emperor and the Head of the Federation, not for him.

Jun Qingyu quietly acted as a backdrop and his eyes fell on the desk before him. He felt that many things were piling up–his mind was in turmoil–and he didn’t even know what he was thinking.

All of a sudden, Jun Qingyu felt a warm touch on his leg, and he subconsciously looked up at Fu Yuanchuan beside him.

He saw Fu Yuanchuan talking with Fu Qingheng about the hereafter harmonious development between the Empire and the Federation in a stern matter, but his hands were…

Jun Qingyu slowly lowered his head, Fu Yuanchuan’s right hand was resting on his lap and he seemed to notice that he was looking over. His clenched hand turned, with the back of his hand pressed against him, and his fingers spread out to reveal a fruit candy on his palm.

A light pink wrapper with small strawberries on it.

Jun Qingyu only glanced at it before looking away, ignoring his intentions.

After a while, Jun Qingyu felt a tug on the hem of his shirt.

Fu Yuanchuan rested his hand around his waist, his fingers twirling a bit of the hem of his shirt, swaying it lightly. He was so careful looked that it seemed very pitiful.

His finger spread out again, and this time, one strawberry candy turned into two.

He stuffed the two pieces of candies into his pocket and when he saw Fu Yuanchuan’s hand coming up to him, he patted his palm and pushed it away.

Fu Yuanchuan, who was talking, paused for a moment. Fortunately, he was just going through formalities, and neither he nor Fu Qingheng would take the specifics of what and how it was said to heart.

However, just as Fu Yuanchuan was about to take out some more candy from his pocket, he discovered that all of the candy was gone and that his pockets were empty.

In the presence of Fu Yuanchuan, Jun Qingyu placed a handful of candy in his own pocket before turning his head to the side and showing only the side of his face.

Fu Yuanchuan: “……”

After Fu Yuanchuan had finished, Fu Qingheng took over, reading out the prepared document, but his eyes could not refrain from leaving the document and looking at the two of them opposite him.

The aide-de-camp and the rest of them to the side looked straight ahead, and no one dared to look over.

The little fish was still angry, Fu Yuanchuan didn’t make much of a move either and silently handed him some snacks.

Jun Qingyu accepted all of the snacks and stubbornly ignored Fu Yuanchuan.

Fu Qingheng was vexed after a few pages so he directly turned to the last page, looked at the words on it and said calmly, “I hope that the friendship between the Federation and the Empire will last forever.”

This sentence seemed to bring the signing of the agreement to a close.

Part of the video recordings would be retained and though both sides had deliberately compressed the time, the whole process took more than an hour.

Fu Qingheng raised his hand to motion to his aide-de-camp to come over and he said something to them. After his aide-de-camp saluted, they turned and went out with the others.

Shi Kaixin received the command earlier in the morning so Fu Yuanchuan did not have to say anything, he immediately arranged for the people here to get off the station.

Fu Yuanchuan looked at the sullen little fish and said, “Qingyu…”

Jun Qingyu didn’t want to talk to him, so he got up apathetically and said flatly, “Have a nice chat.”

With that said, Jun Qingyu turned and walked to the door.

In response, Fu Qingheng motioned to him with a wave of his hand, indicating that he should go and settle his own affairs first, there was no hurry here.

Fu Yuanchuan got up and chased after him, and held onto Jun Qingyu’s hand, but he didn’t pull his backwards. Rather, he followed him forward and coaxed him, “Little fish, you can hit me if you are really angry, don’t keep it to yourself.”

Jun Qingyu kept silent, and it was only when he entered the passage that he asked, “What happened today, did you arrange it early on?”

“I had this idea earlier on.” Fu Yuanchuan stroked his back and took the chance to wrap his arm around his waist, and led him to stand at the edge of the passage; outside was the boundless starry sky.

Jun Qingyu lowered his eyes, “Why didn’t you tell me?”

“If I told you, would you agree?” Fu Yuanchuan knew the temperament of the little fish well, “If I told you in advance, you probably wouldn’t have come with me.”

Jun Qingyu pursed his lips. He had to admit what Fu Yuanchuan said was true. He only came here this time with the idea of going straight home afterwards.

If Fu Yuanchuan had told him in advance, he would not agree no matter what.

Fu Yuanchuan gently coaxed, “Your identity is too special. It will be very dangerous once exposed, so as long as you hold onto authority greater than all else, no one would dare to do anything against you even if your identity is exposed.”

No matter who it was, there could be unknown possibilities. Therefore, it was much better to give all the power to Jun Qingyu from the beginning.

That way, even if something did happen, he would be able to protect himself.

The only mermaid in the interstellar that could turn into a human was a worthy point of curiosity to everyone.

The civilians were fine–they wouldn’t have any superfluous ideas, but if a powerful marshal with authority or the Federal nobility, were to pursue something delusional, they would inevitably act.

After appearing at the venue for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Empire and the Federation, even if someone from the Federation had thoughts about it after his identity is exposed, they would weigh the consequences of doing so.

Therefore, this was the simplest and most effective way to protect the little fish.

Jun Qingyu said indifferently, “The last person who kept something from me has someone serving him for the rest of his life.”

“……”

Jun Qingyu arched his eyebrows, “What about you?”

As Fu Yuanchuan looked at the solemn little fish, he didn’t feel any fear but felt that he was very cute. He nudged against the little fish’s cheek with his curled-up fingers and said with a smile, “How fierce.”

Jun Qingyu hummed softly and did not say anything.

“Good.”

At this point in time, the transfer of power has been completed, and it was too late for Jun Qingyu to do anything else, so he said, “Next time you have to discuss this kind of thing with me in advance.”

“Okay.” Fu Yuanchuan agreed.

Jun Qingyu paused, strangely he felt that this scene was somewhat familiar.

He had promised to be honest, but when he really did it…

Jun Qingyu gave a light cough, he vaguely saw himself in Fu Yuanchuan, “You should return, the Federation Head is still waiting.”

“Together?”

Jun Qingyu didn’t intend to follow, “What am I going to do with the two of you brothers talking with each other?”

Shi Kaixin knew the two of them were standing in the passageway and held the door open in front of them. No one would come in here and there would be no recording devices, so there was nothing to hide.

“I’ll return to the battleship and wait for you.” Jun Qingyu did not know Fu Qingheng well and he wasn’t good at communicating.

When Fu Yuanchuan saw the little fish’s insistence, he didn’t say anything more, “Ok, I’ll be back soon.

Jun Qingyu said, “It’s no rush, take your time with a nice chat.”

With that, Jun Qingyu raised his head and kissed him on the cheek, “I’ll be on my way.”

“Mhm.”

At the end of the passage was the battleship, and there were more people here, as the war was over and they were going back to the Imperial Planet in groups.

There weren’t many people on the battleship. After all, the Federation was involved today, and bringing in their corps here as they talked about signing agreements would leave a bad impression; although Fu Qingheng probably wouldn’t have cared.

Shi Kaixin hurriedly ran over from behind, shouting as he ran, “Sir, wait for me!”

Jun Qingyu glanced at him and asked dubiously, “You’re not going to wait by the door?”

Shi Kaixin shook his head, “His Majesty says it would be out of the question for you to be alone and His Majesty asked me to take care of you.”

After receiving the order, Shi Kaixin came to look for Jun Qingyu.

Jun Qingyu had no intention of going anywhere other than the lounge, so he said, “I will go back to my room to rest. You don’t need to look after me.”

“His Majesty said to take you to eat.”

“……” Jun Qingyu was still under the impression he had just finished his breakfast.

When he looked at the time again, it was already one o’clock in the afternoon.

When Shi Kaixin noticed that Jun Qingyu had remained silent, he said hesitantly, “Why don’t you go back first, and I’ll cook lunch and deliver it to the lounge?”

Although there were few people on the battleship, there were still some people present.

The canteen served meals as per usual, including their specials, so all he had to do was to bring them over.

Jun Qingyu thought for a while, “I’ll wait until Yuanchuan returns.”

“Yes, sir.”

After sending Jun Qingyu back to the lounge, Shi Kaixin turned his head to keep an eye on the kitchen.

Jun Qingyu made a cup of tea and sat in a soft chair, looking through the news on his light brain.

There should be a lot of people paying attention to the Empire’s live broadcast today, not only civilians but the nobility as well.

With the reduction of the nobility’s power, many business-oriented nobles would analyse their next business cooperation with the Federation in light of this situation.

It was only natural for them to be concerned with these matters.

Likewise, they would also see him as a signatory in this meeting.

All the entries on the trending search were about the meeting between the Empire and the Federation.

Only the entry was very serious, but the comments below were all over the place.

[Previously, he was the Marshal’s partner, but now he is the Imperial Consort who can sign the agreement in His Majesty’s stead. Have you not realised that Your Majesty has never concealed his relationship with His Majesty, showing his love…openly.]

[My goodness! The most we can do to show our love on a date is to walk around the streets holding hands, or at best, post a photo in our moments for people to gossip over but look at them!]

[Your Majesty, I described what I saw today to my boyfriend, and he said I should be with you.]

[Hahahaha! In your dreams.]

[I thought I would see a discussion of major events in the Empire when I tapped into the comments section, but instead…It’s this?! You guys continue, I want to see more.]

……

Jun Qingyu: “……”

No one actually questioned the Imperial Consort’s right to stand in front of the Emperor.

Everyone’s focus of attention was off the mark.

Looking further down the page, most of the comments were like this, accepting the result quite calmly.

Jun Qingyu pondered. Perhaps since Jun Qingyu and Fu Yuanchuan had always gotten along well, everyone was accustomed to it and could tolerate it no matter what status they brought into the equation?

However, it was good that there were no questions. He didn’t care about the level of authority, but if Fu Yuanchuan had been criticised for this, he would have resolutely handed over his power, regardless of whether Fu Yuanchuan agreed or not.

All the major media and official accounts had analysed the pros and cons of signing this agreement.

Their analysis was logical, but in fact, the signing of this treaty only had advantages and no disadvantages for the Empire.

The Empire was freed from the control of the Federation, and with a higher degree of freedom, there would be more cooperation in the future; there would be a surplus of fruit and vegetables flowing into the civilian market.

This included the mermaid breeding base, which should have been brought down a peg or two as the Federation was no longer on top.

It cannot be said that one mermaid could be allocated per person, but at the very least, it wouldn’t be the same as before when civilians weren’t even allowed to buy them.

Jun Qingyu stretched his back, everything was developing in a good direction.

As he was thinking about it, there was a knock on the door from outside.

Jun Qingyu thought that Fu Yuanchuan was back, but the next moment, he heard Shi Kaixin’s voice, “Sir, lunch is ready.”

“You…”

Just as he spoke, his light brain vibrated.