"I fell in love with you the first time I saw you."

Ye Bai was startled, his face turned red.

"Oh." He twisted his fingers unconsciously, his eyes wandering, "So, so, Ayuan, the script you want to follow is the route of love at first sight?"

Huo Chengyuan pulled the corner of his mouth: "Is it not possible?"

"It's okay..." Ye Bai glanced at him, "But I'll probably follow the traditional routine."

He is a slow type in love, and he prefers to go step by step and slowly. It is very difficult for him to fall in love with someone quickly, but if he can slow down the pace and gradually adapt to the changes in the relationship between the two parties, Ye Bai thinks it will be more conducive to seriousness.Clear your heart.

"Of course no problem." Huo Chengyuan nodded, "Just follow your comfortable pace, don't force yourself." He paused slightly, looking seriously into the boy's eyes.

"Little Ye, no matter what the result is, I will accept it, and you must not take it as a burden. Whether it is a family member or a lover, I hope you will always be happy, and this will never change."

Ye Bai blinked his eyes lightly, a bright smile bloomed on his face.

"me too."

Whatever the outcome.

Whether or not we'll be real lovers.

I all hope that you, Ayuan, can live a happy and happy life.

This will never change.

That night, they did not sleep in the same bed again.

Huo Chengyuan built a temporary single bed in the living room, and he was going to sleep on it. Ye Bai was very sorry and said that he didn't mind continuing to sleep with Huo Chengyuan, but he was rejected by the other party.

"You don't mind, but I do." Huo Chengyuan said, "I'm not sure what I will do to you, and I don't want to put too much pressure on you. After all, some human reactions can't be controlled by self-control.It's me too."

As a man, of course Ye Bai understood what Huo Chengyuan meant, he blushed, and retreated and said: "Then, let me sleep in the living room."

Huo Chengyuan is the master who pays for this starship trip, he is at best an invited guest, there is no reason for the master to sleep in the living room while the guests occupy the bedroom.

"That's even more impossible." Huo Chengyuan pushed the boy back onto the big bed, and quickly packed the pillows and bedding, "I let the person I like sleep alone in the living room, but I sleep in the bedroom? Do you think I'm that kind of person?"?"

So that night, the two of them slept in separate rooms, one in the living room and the other in the bedroom.

Frankly speaking, Ye Bai was not used to it at first.

After he came to this world, he has always slept in Huo Chengyuan's bedroom, and later he even slept "on top" of the other party's bed. Ye Bai has long been used to Huo Chengyuan's presence in the room at night, and suddenly became his own bedroom.He was really uncomfortable with this empty feeling.

Rolling over and over on the bed a few times, the sleepy Ye Bai sighed, he opened his eyes and looked at the dark ceiling for a while, then glanced at the half-hidden bedroom door, then took out his mobile phone, blah blahType and send a message to Huo Chengyuan.

have you slept?

The other side actually replied to the message very quickly, sending two consecutive messages.

No.

——You didn't even sleep?

Finding out that he was not the only one who couldn't sleep, this made Ye Bai feel a lot better. He turned over and lay on the bed, thinking about something to talk about, when another message came over there.

—I remembered where I had seen you before.

Ye Bai was startled, and quickly realized: This is following the setting of today's "first meeting" between the two of them.

Ha, Huo Chengyuan is quite into the show, this person knows how to cooperate.

Ye Bai suppressed a smile and typed a few words.

—Where did you see it?

A lot of pictures were sent over there, and Ye Bai saw that they were photos taken when the two went to the botanical garden and Westport today.But this is not a group photo taken by him dragging Huo Chengyuan, but a solo photo of himself.

The teenager in the picture, either from the side or from the back, looks like a candid shot from this angle, but the shot is pretty good, with good composition and color.The person being secretly photographed was not aware of it, and did not look at the camera, but this was more real and natural than posing, and recorded the youth's liveliness and agility completely and faithfully.

Ye Bai raised the corner of his mouth, admired it narcissistically for a while, saved all the pictures, and continued to send messages to the other party.

——Are you a photographer by profession?Take such a good picture of me.

Quick reply over there.

——No, I just have a pair of eyes that are good at discovering beauty.

Ye Bai almost laughed out loud: What kind of earthy lines are these!So earthy, so cute, and so funny.

At this time, the phone vibrated, and the other party sent another message.

——Do you like sunny or rainy days?

Ye Bai blinked, a little puzzled, but still replied seriously.

—Well, it’s sunny, how about you?

I like chatting with you.

Ye Bai was startled, and when he realized it, he kicked his legs happily: "Someone has made great progress, and started playing tricks after the showdown. So you are such Huo Chengyuan!"

Ye Bai thought for a while after laughing, and also sent a message.

—You must have eaten the little cake I hid.

——?I don't.

——Then why did you become so sweet?

After Ye Bai sent out the earthy lines, he started to laugh silly. He rolled around on the bed with his mobile phone a few times, and quickly replied when he saw there.

——Sweetness does not necessarily require eating small cakes, there are many ways to be sweet.

Hey, I've seen this version of earthy lines before!

Ye Bai typed with a smile, stealing the other party's words ahead of time.

——Do you want to say that there are 100 ways to be sweet, one is to eat candy, the other is to eat small cakes, and the other 98 are to miss someone?

There was an immediate response.

——Why is it so troublesome, those who are close to you are sweet.

Ye Bai finally understands why some couples can chat all night long.

He and Huo Chengyuan are not considered couples, but you come and talk to each other with unnutritious earthy lines, and they spend a long time getting bored and crooked. If it weren't for the consideration that they would go out to play the next day, maybe the two of them wouldWe could talk all night.

This experience made Ye Bai feel very fresh: He and Huo Chengyuan had never talked like this before. Although the communication in reality is very convenient, the communication through the screen also has irreplaceable advantages.It seems that all the jokes can be said unimpeded.

And he also discovered that Huo Chengyuan seems to be a boring person, he usually looks quite serious and doesn't talk much, how can he be so talkative when chatting online?He's even sneakier than himself, this person is actually a cold cutie, right?

Although they sleep separately at night, during the day, the two of them still travel together.

Ye Bai didn't know what Huo Chengyuan was thinking, but after the showdown was made clear, he did feel a lot easier.Although the two no longer hold hands like a couple, they get along and swim together like friends, and the rest of the journey is still happy and joyful.

Time passed quickly, and the six-day and five-night interstellar journey came to an end soon. The tourist starship docked at the last airport. Huo Chengyuan carried the luggage, took Ye Bai out of the starship, and then boarded the same airport.Another cross-border starship inside.

The destination of this starship is a planet called long shepherd star.

And the capital city of that planet is where Huo Chengyuan's upcoming military headquarters is located.

"Why don't you take the military starship?" Sitting in the passenger compartment of the starship, Ye Bai asked Huo Chengyuan.As far as he knew, senior military officials like Huo Chengyuan transferred from the headquarters of the imperial capital to the military region below could take a special military starship to report there.

"If you take the military starship, you will probably not be able to leave until the day after tomorrow, and it will take a long time." Huo Chengyuan said, "More importantly, the commander of the military department on the long shepherd star is one of Qiu Cheng's direct descendants.He is the one who arranges to pick up and drop off my starship, so I am not at ease."

Marshal Qiu Cheng had made a deal with the organization that restarted the "God-making Project", and mistakenly thought that Huo Chengyuan had evidence of their deal, so he didn't dare to do anything to Huo Chengyuan, but it's okay to make some small stumbling blocks.He approved Huo Chengyuan's application to be transferred from the imperial capital, but arranged for him to be under the jurisdiction of his confidant, obviously to prevent Huo Chengyuan from going too smoothly in the local area and secretly becoming a big influence.

"The original officers in the garrison would have a strong rejection of the high-level people who came by airborne," Huo Chengyuan explained, "Even if the commander is willing to maintain a superficial peace with me, based on what I know about Qiu Cheng, he will definitely instruct me to do so."This direct lineage made some small moves, so I went a few days early to see the local situation, so that I won’t be led by the nose after I officially take office.”

Ye Bai suddenly realized, but at the same time, he also felt a little worried.

According to the description in the original book, a riot/chaos will break out in the imperial capital a year later. The reason is that there is a split within the royal family group, because Augu was able to ascend the throne smoothly at the beginning, relying on the support of many forces, but he is in power., did not fulfill the promise to the interest groups, but was eager to get rid of the status of a puppet, intending to divide and weaken the forces that supported him in the first place. This is the case with the reform of the military department.

Such behavior certainly aroused the strong dissatisfaction of those people. They were originally a group of mobs who would do anything for their own interests. The conflict between the two sides intensified to a certain extent, and finally turned into a political storm, and the situation in the imperial capital became extremely turbulent.

This turmoil eventually triggered a second coup, and Augu fled in a hurry. Because of the distribution of benefits, the old party and the new party continued to dispute, and the new ruler was still unable to settle down. Many planet lords also participated in the seizure of power, and the entire empire fell intoIt caused chaos without a leader, and seriously affected the lives of the people.

In the original book, Huo Chengyuan seized the opportunity in such a chaotic situation. He united several powerful planet lords, won the support of some senior military officials, and had allies like Lu Xingshi to give foreign aid.With some luck in the protagonist's halo, he finally achieved a counterattack, and jumped from the former prisoner to the supreme ruler of the empire.

However, these are all developments in the original book. Now that Huo Chengyuan has won the trial, and his title and military position have not been deprived, his road to power will certainly not be as difficult as before, at least he does not need to wait for the riot/chaos that spread across the countryoccur.

Ye Bai and Huo Chengyuan have discussed it. In fact, the best time is when the interest groups in the imperial capital are defeated. When Aogu was just kicked out, if they can take advantage of the vacancy, take the lead, and carry out a peaceful coup, thenThe chaotic situation at the top will not spread to the entire empire, causing serious harm to innocent people.

However, the prerequisite for achieving this goal is that Huo Chengyuan has developed the strength enough to aspire to the throne of supreme power during the year of keeping a low profile.Ye Bai originally thought that after the victory of the trial, Huo Chengyuan, who was transferred from the imperial capital, would get a relatively stable development environment, but with Qiu Cheng's direct descendants monitoring and restraining him, and the time being so tight, Huo Chengyuan could really follow the scheduled plan to consolidateAnd make your own power bigger?

"Don't worry." Seeing Ye Bai's worry, Huo Chengyuan patted the young man's shoulder reassuringly, "It's just a direct descendant, even if it's a little troublesome, it won't affect the overall situation.In this world, I would not be able to do it, Little Ye, you have already helped me a lot, just leave the rest to me."

Ye Bai nodded, he knew Huo Chengyuan's character, the other party was not someone who boasted, if he said he could do it, he must be sure enough, he just had to trust him.

The airport they departed from was not far from the long shepherd star, the starship traveled for several hours, and finally entered the long shepherd star's domain.

Ye Bai lay down by the window and looked down. It was a green planet, slowly turning in the vast universe, like a jasper in a black velvet cloth.

Apart from their starship, Ye Bai saw spaceships and starships coming and going on other interstellar channels. Obviously, this long shepherd star communicates with the outside world very frequently. Such planets are generally either transportation hubs orLarger commercial centers are either planets with special attributes, so they can attract enough people to come here.

The starship quickly entered the atmosphere of the long shepherd star and began to land on the predetermined orbit.Ye Bai likes to watch the scenery when the starship lands the most. He stared out of the window without blinking, and suddenly felt the palm of his left hand start to feel hot.

In the past few days, similar situations have happened many times. Ye Bai opened his palm to take a look, and sure enough, he saw the green leaf-shaped totem again, emitting a faint light in his palm.

This pattern and light only lasted for a few seconds, and soon disappeared under the skin of the palm.Ye Bai touched it with his hand, except for a slight residual warmth, there was nothing abnormal.

What exactly is going on?