Chapter 181

181 What’s it to you how I punish my son

The dim-lit corridors of the military headquarters floating above Capital Star were especially busy with military personnel rushing around like drones in a bee hive.

Why the frenzy it was because for the past few days the mighty warship by the name Han had its weapons aimed at the Capital Star under the command of a mad woman.

Who might this mad woman be? It was none other than Zi Xingxi. She claimed that things will remain this way as insurance. If they dared make a move on the Bloodgarde she would decimate the entire city and she meant it.

After years of being suppressed by these greedy bastards she dared do something not even the Marshal had the balls to do. That is to directly threaten the prime ministers and their band of thieves.

The Marshal had come today because of this. He was tired of these old men whining about Zi Xingxi. Honestly, at this point, he was thinking of joining forces with her and engaging all weapons on Cetus, his warship, aiming at the prime ministers. Those bastards were corrupt and power-hungry. They would do anything to seize power and use it to their own benefit.

He had come to assess the situation and reassure the seven generals that the Bloodgarde definitely wasn’t going to rebel.

While he was having this meeting his admiral walked over his expression ghastly. Thinking something had happened to his family he raised his index finger instructing the generals to give him a moment.

He mute the audio and asked, “What is it? This better not be an ice cream emergency from Ming Ming otherwise I will skin you alive.”

The admiral gulped feeling a little frightened before saying, “It’s not.... Marshal, it’s Mr. Zi. He said you should pick up his call.”

.....

Marshal Yi’s face turned ugly as he glared at his admiral. “That’s not a freaking emergency,” he said a little annoyed.

The admiral subconsciously shivered in fright. He took out a handkerchief and wiped his forehead laced with beads of cold sweat.

“He said if you don’t then you should call him back in ten minutes. If you don’t he will release black material about you on Starnet. He, he said it’s stuff you don’t want anyone else to see.”

Marshal Yi, “...”

He abruptly got up while saying, “Tell them to have a ten minute recess.” After that, he walked out his strides so large one would think he was a giant.

When he reached his office he demanded that Hydra lock all doors and secure the room.

“Marshal, everything is secured,” said a deep male voice speaking in his office.

Marshal Yi requested a video call with Zi Feiji and the old man truly took his sweet precious time answering it.

When he did Zi Feiji was in a mech in his training room shooting at random targets. Marshal Yi didn’t mince any words. He said, “Just because you retired it doesn’t mean that I am also idle. I have a lot of work today and I can’t be wasting time chatting with you, senior.”

Zi Feiji chuckled as he fired a series of thirteen shots.

“Mission accomplished.... simulation deactivated,” said a calm voice in the background.

“You think I want to waste a minute of my retired life chatting with you? If it weren’t because my grandson won’t shut up about it I wouldn’t have called you,” said Zi Feiji as he deactivated his mech and stepped out of the training room.

“What do you want?” asked Marshal Yi.

Zi Feiji sneered with a mischievous grin and two seconds later a small window appeared playing a video of the young Marshal hugging Lin Ruoxi’s thigh while begging her not to leave him. It was obvious that he was wasted in this clip.

“I have plenty more in my collection. Like the time you hit a guy for staring at Lin Ruoxi a second longer than he should have or when you faked an injury so she could take care of you.”

“If I am not mistaken that’s about the time she conceived Yi Chen isn’t it? You tricked her to stick around so you could give her a reason to stay forever, didn’t you?”

Marshal Yi, “.....”

His expression turned ghastly white like he had seen a ghost. He was indeed shameless back then.

At that time he had sworn his undying love already and gave her that stripe but Lin Ruoxi was just too beautiful and he was afraid she would leave him.

“Ah.... senior. You.... how can you keep such shameful things?” he said his attitude having taken a drastic change. Even the form of address had become especially formal.

“What was it that they said about you back then? How can this man lead a mighty army in the future? #takebackmilitarypower #notmyfuturemarshal. But a few years down the line what happened? You became the Marshal and the best yet.”

“What is your point exactly? What do you want from me?” asked the Marshal with some idea of where this was headed.

“Don’t act dumb. I know you know what this is about,” said Zi Feiji as he minimized the embarrassing video.

“What’s it to you how I punish my son?” asked Marshal Yi a little puzzled.

“Like I said before my grandson won’t shut up about it. Now, inform the misses at home that my grandson is coming over to see your son.... Oh and tell her not to leave them alone unsupervised.”

‘Now that I know that boy will plant his lips on anyone, boy or girl, it would be best to make sure he doesn’t plant his lips on Yi Chen and cause trouble,’ thought Zi Feiji a little apprehensive.

Marshal Yi still couldn’t understand how him punishing his son had anything to do with Zi Feiji’s grandson. He also couldn’t understand the whole unsupervised remark but right now he would agree to anything just so that Zi Feiji would get rid of those embarrassing videos.

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Ding...

Ding...

That was the sound of the doorbell ringing at the Marshal’s villa. The humanoid butler strutted over to open the door but a loud melodic voice yelled,

“I will open it, I will open it.”

That voice came from Lin Ruoxi as she rushed down the stairs. The humanoid butler was a little surprised but it backed down and bowed respectfully.

Lin Ruoxi stopped by the door and nervously straightened her hair and sleeves while exhaling deeply to calm herself down.

After setting herself up in a relaxed state she put on a smile and opened the door. In front of her was that boy from before. He was standing there with a beaming smile as he stretched out his hand and said, “Hello auntie. My name is Zi Han.”

Lin Ruoxi had prepared a speech in her head to make a good impression but when she met those up-turned fox eyes she found that she could barely speak.

With his hand still stretched out, Zi Han felt a little ill at ease but he kept the smile on his face. Her silence made this already awkward situation even more uncomfortable. If it weren’t that he needed to check on Yi Chen he might have run away by now.

“May I... may I come in,” he said trying to ease the awkwardness in the air.

“Oh, yes... sorry. I lost myself for a moment. That’s because you are quite good-looking,” she said while shaking his hand that is before her eyes widened realizing what she had said.

Zi Han stepped in with the smile on his face growing wider. “Now I know where Chen-ge got his outstanding looks from. Auntie is a goddess descended from heaven,” said Zi Han praising her to high heaven.