Chapter 281: The Imperial General Was Again Forcibly Flirted With 09

The food AI didn't have time to surpass the milestone, so they just had an ordinary lunch.

Jin Chen expressed regret at the table, almost getting a plate slapped on his face by Alex, who couldn't hold back.

Of course, the formerly very dignified general didn't do that.

The three picked flowers, Jin Chen put them in a vase, kept them in the master bedroom, deliberately placing them on Alex's bedside, fearing they'd wilt and upset his wife, and also infused them with spiritual power.

He used the excuse that the villa hadn't prepared a new room, insisting they sleep together, even though Alex saw him close the side bedroom door with his own eyes.

Thus an afternoon and night passed; the next day, Alex was awakened by an extremely early alarm, and he fell into contemplation facing the bedside flowers that had grown luxuriantly to an eerie degree.

He began to suspect whether the general's residence had some sort of sinister thing.

"How are you awake this early? It's not even daylight."

Jin Chen, lying beside him, turned over, his voice low and magnetic with lingering sleepiness, leaned against his back and asked.

"Be reasonable," Alex tried to push him away, "I was woken up by the alarm you set."

"That's a work alarm, don't worry about it." The original self was a battle maniac, but he isn't.

Jin Chen yawned, with one arm around his waist pulling him down a bit, eyes still closed, yet still able to avoid Alex's injured abdomen.

"Seeing a ghost first thing in the morning makes it hard to go back to sleep."

Alex flicked the huge petals with his finger, "General Jin Chen, your room comes with a growth potion."

Jin Chen: "?"

He didn't understand, lifted his eyelids and looked up.

He came face‑to‑face with a cosmos as big as a human face.

Jin Chen: "……!"

Oh no, I didn't control the spiritual power dosage well yesterday.

"You grew this tall because of the growth potion, right?" Alex said deadpan, making a cold joke.

"I say it mutated—do you believe me?" Jin Chen fully woke up, looking sincerely at his wife.

"In the same room, why haven't you mutated?" Alex sneered.

"……Good question."

Jin Chen deflected blame, saying, "I just said the semi‑finished cultivated product shouldn't be stuffed into my house; the old man surely didn't notice again."

He seemed to escape, pulling Alex to lie down again, flipping the blanket up to forcibly cover both their sights.

"Don't look anymore, I don't know anything."

Instantly his vision dimmed, only Jin Chen's face approaching; Alex's heart skipped a beat, his breath catching.

He felt a bit annoyed, "Jin Chen, I need to get up."

"No, no, stay and sleep with me, it's still early."

Jin Chen clung to Alex like an octopus, even rubbing his chin against Alex's neck.

Alex took a deep breath, applied subtle force with his hand, pausing at his spinal bone.

"Jin Chen."

"Mm-hmm."

"Do you know which vertebral segment, if broken, causes high-level paraplegia?"

"From bottom to top, segments 3 to 5." Jin Chen answered instinctively, already beginning to feel drowsy again.

"You wanna try?" Alex's voice turned chilly.

A few seconds passed, no one answered.

Jin Chen chuckled lightly, suddenly turned over, shifted his posture under the blanket, pressed himself above Alex, lowering his head to get close.

He also happened to grab that hand of Alex's that seemed ready to try something.

"That won't do; if I become paraplegic, who will take care of our injured general?"

"……Come down."

"I won't." Jin Chen put on a "what can you do about me" look, quite roguish.

Alex, who had always followed the rules since childhood, had never seen such an unreasonable, overbearing person.

Moreover, his body was weakened by toxin, making him no match for this person.

Alex's face turned red from holding back; he simply turned his head away, refusing to look at him.

Fortunately, Jin Chen also knew the timing wasn't right, so he didn't do anything excessive; he just lowered his head and gently, restrainedly placed a light kiss on Alex's brow.

Alex's eyelids fluttered slightly, unaccustomed, he shifted sideways; perhaps it was the atmosphere, but this kiss made his heart race again, as if a weak current traced his heart.

This palpitation was like the feeling when, for the first time, he was allowed to independently control a mecha, his fingertips touching the control panel.

【Detected Villain Heartthrob Value +5, total 20!】

In the end, neither of them managed to get up early.

Alex, unable to break free from his embrace, simply lay flat to rest; but gradually, perhaps because Jin Chen's embrace was too warm, the faint breathing beside his ear was especially soporific, and he actually fell asleep again, a rare case of going back to sleep.

In the morning, the two got up; Jin Chen, at top speed, moved the three eerily large flowers out of the vase.

After breakfast, having re‑applied the medicine, he then, as arranged yesterday, took Alex aboard the spaceship heading to the flower‑seed procurement site.

But Alex obviously didn't understand why Jin Chen made even going out so high‑profile.

He sat in the massage chair Jin Chen had specially prepared, and being overly curious, he directly asked.

"Is that emblem on your spaceship the special insignia of the Federal Military?"

"Yes, why suddenly ask about this?"

Jin Chen set the autopilot on the control panel, then walked back to sit beside Alex, naturally putting his arm around him.

"Aren't you afraid that going to procure supplies will get you recognized by the public and cause a bad influence?"

"Of course not; you'll find out soon."

Jin Chen smiled somewhat mysteriously.

After truly disembarking from the airship and arriving at the procurement center, Ya Likesi finally cleared up all his doubts.

Many people here actually know Jin Chen.

Even some enthusiastic aunties will casually give him two flowers, even though they have never met him before.

"Hey Jin Chen, why did you bring a companion this time? Could there be something going on, you little rascal."

A vegetable and fruit stall uncle who had been leisurely drinking saw them approach and jokingly spoke familiarly.

Jin Chen was also completely at ease, taking the person's hand as they walked over and casually handing him two fruits.

"Just go ahead and tease me; if you don't keep an eye on business, the auntie will forbid you from drinking again later."

"Oh dear, oh dear, that's true, hey you little rascal, how long has it been since you came? Is there fighting again at the front? How are the First Legion troops eating? Do we need to donate some supplies?"

The uncle nodded, then suddenly remembered the most important matter and hurriedly asked.

This topic obviously drew the attention of nearby vendors, who all gathered to ask about the war situation and the troops' food, clothing, housing, and travel conditions.

Jin Chen pressed down his hand, signaling them not to disturb other shoppers: "Don't worry, everyone, there's no major fighting at the front right now, and the fresh produce we donated last time hasn't been finished yet."

"We've been worried; as long as there's no war, it means the insect race is dwindling!"

Listening to their noisy joking, Ya Likesi felt as if he were in a dream, filled with disbelief at everything happening before him.

"Military and civilians as one family—could it really be achievable?"