Chapter 154: Infiltrating the Base
Yue Zhongxian was utterly mortified.
His wings and mechanical arms were tightly wedged in the frame; he couldn’t move forward, nor could he back out. Activating his combat power risked obliterating her front door, yet shifting back into his human form might provoke her annoyance…
Before he could resolve the dilemma, she had walked out and caught him in the act. He was so thoroughly embarrassed that his smart brain’s temperature regulations were about to redline, making him wish he could bury his entire face into his wings.
He had intended to make a flawless new first impression, never expecting to expose such a humiliating blunder right off the bat.
Xiao Mi buzzed erratically from left to right, frantically trying to devise a solution. “Master, how about you give him a pull?”
Su Miantang crossed her arms, observing him with absolute amusement. “With my meager strength, how could I possibly budge him?”
She… she spoke?
This crisp, enchanting voice was exactly what he had been pining for over the past few days, and he had finally heard it again.
Even if it wasn’t directed at him…
“Giving him a kick sounds more realistic.”
Kick me then!
As long as it helps vent her anger, she can kick me as brutally and as many times as she wants!
Just… please don’t kick me back outside.
Yue Zhongxian stared at her with desperate anticipation, but she subtly averted her gaze, pretending as if she hadn’t noticed a thing.
“True.” Xiao Mi looped around twice before perching helplessly on her shoulder. “It’s all because Master’s house is too small… Ah!”
Before it could finish its sentence, the young girl swatted it away with a single slap.
She turned her heel leisurely, heading back toward the kitchen.
“Don’t you have two forms?”
The faint murmur was so soft it sounded almost like an illusion, yet the moment it drifted into Yue Zhongxian’s ears, it caused him to freeze for several seconds before reality finally clicked…
Was that sentence directed at him?
She was permitting him to shift into his human form?
She wasn’t angry or disgusted by him anymore?!
In an instant, the massive mecha warrior’s soul shook as his heart hammered like thunder. His smart brain display reported a catastrophic spike in baseline metrics as he shifted into his teenage human form in a split second, rushing toward her.
“Sister, Sister, Sister!”
“Huh? Whoa!!”
Before Su Miantang could process what was happening, she was pinned back against the kitchen counter by his encroaching weight. Sensing his intent to lean down for a tight embrace or a kiss, she hastily raised her spatula, pressing it firmly against his chest.
“What do you think you’re doing?”
“Maintain your distance!”
Give him an inch and he takes a yard.
She had barely forgiven him, and he was already trying to crawl all over her.
Yue Zhongxian braced both hands against the cold marble counter, securely trapping her within his space as if terrified she might slip away. His burning, honey-brown eyes were just as scalding as the torrent of words spilling from his lips.
“Sister, I missed you so much, I missed you so incredibly much!”
“Sister, I thought you really didn’t want Little Ears anymore…”
“Sister, you’re too wonderful, you’re the absolute best little female in the entire universe!”
“Sister…”
“Stop!”
Su Miantang felt that if she let him continue with these sweet-talks, she would fall right into his trap again.
“Yue Zhongxian, were you the one lurking stealthily around the villa for the past two days?”
“Yes.”
Just as she suspected.
She knew there was a reason someone was so intimately familiar with the geography around her house and had arrived so rapidly; he had undoubtedly been stalking her.
“What exactly are you trying to do? Steal something?”
Steal her.
He was missing her to the point of absolute madness.
He could only hide away to catch fleeting glimpses of her. There were times when the agonizing torment of missing her became so unbearable that he wanted to discard all restraint, barge inside, and snatch her away.
Snatch her away and hide her for a lifetime, forcing her to belong solely to him forever.
Yet the mere memory of her resentful gaze and cold expressions made him wither.
“I want to steal you.”
Su Miantang: “…” Sometimes, being too honest wasn’t a virtue.
“Why did you abandon your clan and the Yuehui Star System?”
“Because… I wanted Sister to believe me.”
“Infantile.”
It truly was childish.
But he had genuinely run out of options…
The corners of the youth’s eyes flushed a subtle red, visibly overwhelmed by the reality of the situation.
To still be able to stand here, to speak with her, and to listen to her sharp scoldings at such close proximity was a luxury he hadn’t dared to even dream of.
He knew he was base, shameless, and irresponsible…
But he simply couldn’t control himself.
As long as she could forgive him, he didn’t care even if he became the greatest villain of the entire galaxy.
She was the only one in his heart.
Without her, living felt utterly meaningless.
“Alright, that’s enough.”
Using his transparent expressions to her advantage, Su Miantang gently tapped his chest with her spatula.
“Step back.”
“Make way.”
“Sister…”
Hearing this, the burning light in Yue Zhongxian’s eyes wavered as anxiety gripped him once more.
What was Sister trying to do?
Was Sister abandoning him again?
No, absolutely not!
Instead of retreating, his arms tightened further, locking her securely within his embrace. Observing his profoundly insecure, frantic state, Su Miantang couldn’t help but feel amused. “How many days has it been since you last ate?”
“I…”
“No lying allowed.”
“I don’t remember.”
He shook his head.
Every single day was consumed entirely by thoughts of her, missing her to the point where his heart felt as if it would rupture from the pain. He simply hadn’t processed hunger at all.
“Then why haven’t you stepped back? The food is almost ready.”
“?”
Yue Zhongxian stood rooted to the spot for a long moment, and it wasn’t until she gently nudged him away that reality dawned on him…
She was cooking for him.
Not only had she forgiven him, but she was actively preparing a meal for him.
“Sister, let me do it!”
“No need. Do you even know what I’m making?”
“I…”
“Go wait outside.”
She turned around and lifted the lid of the cookware.
Billowing steam mingled with the rich aroma of food, wrapping around the young girl’s radiant, breathtaking face like an ethereal dream.
Yue Zhongxian was genuinely terrified that this was all just a magnificent hallucination.
“Mnm~”
Su Miantang swapped her spatula and was just about to stir the food when she felt a pair of arms wrap around her waist from behind, pressing her tightly into a chest so fiercely it felt as if they were trying to fuse their bodies together.
“Sister!”
“Sister, how can you be so incredibly wonderful?”
“I’m sorry. I was wrong to deceive you before. I truly, deeply know my mistake now. No matter what happens in the future, I swear I will never hide anything or lie to you ever again!”
“If I do, you can kill me.”
His voice trembled yet carried an absolute resolve, exactly like a devotee swearing a lifetime oath before a deity.
Su Miantang fell silent for a brief moment before offering a soft reply, “Mnm, I understand.”
This page had officially turned for good.
Yue Zhongxian sensed it too, overawed by an uncontrollable surge of joy. He buried his face deep into the sweet, soft crook of her neck, inhaling greedily while murmuring, “Sister, Sister, Sister…”
“Wait a minute!”
“What’s wrong, Sister?”
“Do you know what made me the absolute angriest during this entire period?”
“What was it?”
His voice automatically lost its confidence again.
“It’s…”
The young girl whipped around, raising a glare as she flicked a sharp rap against his forehead.
“You’re clearly twenty-two years old—a full four years older than me—yet you keep calling me ‘Sister’ over and over again. Aren’t you a bit too thick-skinned?”
A subtle curve touched Yue Zhongxian’s thin lips.
Initially, he had merely wanted to mask his true identity.
He never anticipated getting so profoundly immersed in the act that he couldn’t break character, to the point where even the title had become impossible to alter.
“Sister, I only differentiated into my mecha form when I was eighteen. Technically… I’m only four years old this year.”
“?”
Have you ever seen a four-year-old toddler who leaves trails of casualties on a battlefield?
“Your skin truly is impossibly thick.”
There was plenty more thickness where that came from.
He leaned down, gently nuzzling his head against her hair. His brilliant eyes burned with a fervent, lingering intensity. “How about I call you ‘Little Sister’ instead? My dear little sister, Miantang-meimei…”
“Stop right there!”
Su Miantang’s face flushed a deep crimson from the deep, raspy, and implicitly ambiguous cadence of his repeated “meimei.”
It sounded exactly as if he were addressing a secret lover.
“Just stick to calling me Sister.”
Once she finished setting out the meal, a certain rabbit inhaled the food like a ravenous beast before embarking on a thorough patrol, inspecting every single corner of the sprawling four-story detached villa.
“What, you’ve only been away for a few days and you already don’t recognize the place?”
No.
He simply felt that every table, every chair, every flower, and every blade of grass here was inexplicably beautiful.
So beautiful that it evoked a boundless sense of attachment. Back when he used to live here, he had taken everything for granted, but now it felt incomparably precious—a treasure to be fiercely guarded.
He picked up the begonia-patterned handkerchief the girl had left on the table and brought it to his nose, only to be struck by a thick, unmistakable scent of a wild beast!
“Sister…”
A moment later, a certain little rabbit trotted back over with downcast eyes, looking profoundly aggrieved as he sprawled directly beside her hand.
“What’s wrong?”
“During the days I was away, did someone else come over?”
He had barely been gone for a few days, and someone was already trying to steal his base.
“Yes.”
“Then why hasn’t he showed up today?”
“He entered his differentiation hibernation cycle.”
Then that meant he hadn’t usurped his status yet!
With a sharp twitch, a pair of long, snow-white rabbit ears popped out from the youth’s head as he began frantically nuzzling against her skin.
Rub, rub… mask every single trace of that other person’s scent with his own!
“Hahaha~”
“Stop, that tickles!”
Su Miantang burst into laughter from his relentless rubbing, unable to resist reaching out to stroke the fluffy pair of rabbit ears atop his head.
“Let me touch them, stop rubbing, haha~”
“Is the little bunny being a good boy?”
Her soft, boundlessly indulgent tone caused the youth’s eyes to flush a subtle red. “Sister, the little bunny isn’t a good boy. The little bunny wants…”
With that, he lunged straight onto her.
“Hey! What do you think you’re doing?”
Su Miantang shifted her leg slightly, accidentally brushing against his…
In an instant, the sheer stimulation caused him to snap right back into his mecha form.
The massive, magnificent mecha warrior securely pinned the petite, soft young girl beneath his chassis, creating a staggering contrast in both physical scale and aesthetic texture.
“…”
Su Miantang had always been intensely curious about whether his mecha state was capable of… As it turned out, not only was it entirely functional, but it was also incredibly ostentatious…
“Sister, I want to…”
Beneath his mechanical frame, his core temperature steadily climbed as his voice dropped into a deep, magnetic, and resonant register. The explicit intentions flashing unadulterated across his smart brain display sent a cold shiver racing down the young girl’s spine.
Want your head!
With him like this, he was practically trying to get her killed!
“Get off me!”
Ring, ring, ring…
Right at that moment, a frantic, persistent ringing echoed from the front door.
Translator’s Note
Glossary & Cultural Connotations:
- Meimei (妹妹): Literally means “little sister.” However, when a male character repeats it in a low, teasing tone (“Miantang-meimei”), it carries an implicitly romantic or flirtatious nuance, much like calling someone an affectionate pet name or a secret lover (“情妹妹”).
- The “Four Years Old” Joke (今年才四歲): Beastmen differentiate their final adult mecha or combat forms at varying ages. Yue Zhongxian is hilariously shifting the math to sound like a clean, innocent child to gain her pity, despite being a ruthless twenty-two-year-old commander.
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