After Being Transformed Into Cannon Fodder For Death, The Heartthrob Chapter 44

The ring was firmly placed at the base of his finger and wouldn’t easily slip off.

Ye Qingyun rubbed his eyes and touched the ring.

The ring had adjusted to the perfect size, and the pain in his finger had mostly faded. What Ye Qingyun felt most distinctly now was a strange sense of being bound.

He had gone from being a single man to a married one in just a few short days!

It was unbelievable.

He wondered how long it would take to install an anti-surveillance locator in the ring. If the modification took a long time, he wouldn’t be able to wear the ring for a while. Given Gu Shenyuan’s personality, he would probably be secretly unhappy again.

“What are you thinking about?” Gu Shenyuan suddenly asked.

“Installing a locator,” Ye Qingyun answered truthfully. “It might take some time.”

Hearing this, Gu Shenyuan lowered his eyes, concealing the turbulent emotions within.

The excitement of placing the ring on Ye Qingyun and marking him as his person identity-wise gradually faded, replaced by a deeper layer of panic.

According to custom, wearing the ring signifies that the couple is officially married. To celebrate this moment, many choose to engage in a spiritual and physical exchange to express their excitement and love for their partner.

Ye Qingyun’s reaction showed that he truly didn’t know the customs associated with wearing the ring, and therefore wouldn’t want to be intimate with him.

…In Ye Qingyun’s eyes, this ring was just an ordinary tool, not imbued with any deeper meaning.

If he hadn’t taken advantage of Ye Qingyun’s ignorance and forcefully agreed when Ye Qingyun suggested using the ring as a locator—treating Ye Qingyun’s words as a proposal—he might never have had the chance to become Ye Qingyun’s first recognized lover.

Ye Qingyun had agreed to him in a daze back then. Would he regret it later if he met a more suitable person?

He felt like a opportunistic thief, occupying a position that should have belonged to someone else. Therefore, even if Ye Qingyun didn’t care about the ring’s meaning now and still treated it as a simple locator, it was his just deserts, and he couldn’t blame anyone.

This was something he should have known. He should be satisfied with the current situation and proceed slowly, eliminating everyone Ye Qingyun might fancy, making himself the only one. But…

Gu Shenyuan was suddenly gently pushed, interrupting his swirling thoughts.

“Why are you spacing out?” Ye Qingyun poked Gu Shenyuan, who was sitting quietly beside him, and held out his palm. “Hand it over.”

“What?” Gu Shenyuan snapped back to reality, slightly confused.

“What else could it be?” Ye Qingyun glared at Gu Shenyuan. “Where is your ring?”

Right. Ye Qingyun needed to take both rings for modification, so his ring should also be given to Ye Qingyun.

Gu Shenyuan took out his own ring and placed it in Ye Qingyun’s palm.

Ye Qingyun didn’t withdraw his hand after receiving the ring. Instead, he held the ring in one hand and grasped Gu Shenyuan’s ring finger with the other.

Gu Shenyuan’s heart clenched instantly. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

Ye Qingyun… was willingly putting the ring on him?

“Why do you look like that?” Ye Qingyun thought Gu Shenyuan was nervous, so he joked, “You don’t want to? You only want me to wear a ring, but not yourself? Trying to be a single noble behind my back? Hmph, you wish!”

Gu Shenyuan’s ring size was quite suitable. Ye Qingyun quickly put the ring on Gu Shenyuan, then extended his own hand, spreading his fingers and placing it over Gu Shenyuan’s, letting the two ringed fingers rest against each other.

Ye Qingyun felt a little lost in thought. He had once been a reader who followed the updates, watching Gu Shenyuan being pursued by all sorts of people, yet remaining indifferent and cold, as if naturally isolated from love.

He had once brainstormed how Gu Shenyuan might end his single status, but all ideas came to nothing, because he simply didn’t think Gu Shenyuan would ever like anyone, nor could he imagine what Gu Shenyuan would look like when he loved someone.

But now, he knew everything.

“From now on, you are mine. If others try to seduce you, you can’t pay attention to them; you can only pay attention to me, understood?” In this special moment, Ye Qingyun desperately wanted to act spoiled, so he indulged his nature and became a demanding drama queen. “Even if the whole galaxy says my research is useless, you have to say it’s practical. Even if someone smarter than me appears, you can’t learn from them; you can only let me teach you!”

Gu Shenyuan slowly grasped Ye Qingyun’s hand and replied softly, “Mn.”

Ye Qingyun was satisfied and responded reservedly, “I will treat you the same way.”

Treat him the same way? Only having him in his eyes, only speaking to him, only willing to respond to him?

Gu Shenyuan didn’t answer. He quietly watched Ye Qingyun for a moment, then stretched out his long arm and pulled Ye Qingyun into his embrace.

Having all his emotions controlled by one person—this should have been a terrifying thing, yet he was utterly willing.

If this was a deception, he was willing to be deceived forever.

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Ye Qingyun was taken by Gu Shenyuan to a house on another planet. According to Gu Shenyuan, the environment on this planet was better, and since their relationship was just beginning, they should spend more time in such picturesque places to cultivate their feelings.

Ye Qingyun had no objections. All he had to do was praise Gu Shenyuan’s good taste, and he could move in effortlessly, with Gu Shenyuan handling everything else.

Upon arriving at the new environment, Ye Qingyun didn’t rush to play. Instead, he planned to first solve the two issues he cared about most.

One was installing the anti-surveillance locator in their rings. The other was the content about the secret weapon he had heard the Second Princess mention that day, which he was particularly concerned about.

Until he knew what that thing was, he couldn’t sleep peacefully.

Hacking into the royal system and viewing the royal secrets was not easy, but it wasn’t impossible for Ye Qingyun.

Ye Qingyun had even hacked into the royal system once a long time ago when he was curious about the world’s technological level.

At the time, Ye Qingyun only took a general look, realizing that the technology held by the royalty was far superior to what was available on the market, but he hadn’t specifically looked at various weapons.

This time, Ye Qingyun spent another day seamlessly hacking into the royal data network, searching for the rumored weapon.

The search was not easy. Ye Qingyun politely declined Gu Shenyuan’s invitations to go out for several days before finally finding a document in the highest-level authorization vault. It contained a description of what was likely his target weapon.

The description was not official in tone; rather, it sounded somewhat self-satisfied:

(After hundreds of years, it is finally complete, my ultimate weapon. With this Ability Inhibitor, no one can ever shake my authority again.

I saw it with my own eyes—even an SS-class Ability user was helpless in resistance; their Ability was instantly disintegrated!

Heh heh, only a useless emperor would have his control usurped by a Humanoid Weapon using their formidable Ability. But I can, in turn, abolish his Ability!

Not only that, if I find him, I will also flay his skin and broadcast the execution process across the entire galaxy, letting those ignorant commoners see who is the strongest and most untouchable person in this galaxy. I will ensure they never harbor thoughts of resistance again, and obediently remain as lowlifes.

Just wait. Once I find him, I will eliminate this major threat and completely erase the legend of his invincibility from this generation!)

The more Ye Qingyun read, the more alarmed he became, and he also vaguely guessed who had written this passage.

—It was the Emperor of the Empire.

Perhaps the previous emperors had already worried about being overthrown, so they had tried every means to create a weapon to secure their position.

Now that the weapon was complete, the Emperor intended to make an example of Gu Shenyuan to intimidate others.

If everything written in this document was true, and that machine could instantly destroy the Ability of an SS-class Ability user, couldn’t it also easily kill Gu Shenyuan?

Ye Qingyun felt a hand ruffle his hair. Gu Shenyuan’s voice sounded in his ear: “Stop looking. It’s too late. You should rest.”

Ye Qingyun nervously closed the terminal page, grabbed Gu Shenyuan’s wrist, and remained seated, looking up at Gu Shenyuan.

Ye Qingyun wanted to have a serious talk with Gu Shenyuan, but Gu Shenyuan clearly misunderstood his intention. He bent down directly and lifted him from the chair.

Ye Qingyun was airborne and startled, immediately reaching out to hug Gu Shenyuan’s neck.

Gu Shenyuan walked steadily forward, his face expressionless, but Ye Qingyun could tell he was quite pleased.

Gu Shenyuan said lightly, “You can just say it if you want to cuddle. Otherwise, I sometimes don’t grasp what you’re thinking.”

Ye Qingyun: “???”

Wait, he wasn’t cuddling! What exactly did Gu Shenyuan grasp?

Ye Qingyun thoughtfully didn’t argue. He was placed on the bed, and he quickly sat up, scooted inward, and patted the bed, signaling Gu Shenyuan to sit.

Perhaps because he was too proactive, Gu Shenyuan paused for a moment before sitting down and taking his hand.

Ye Qingyun asked as reservedly and kindly as possible, “Shenyuan, are you satisfied with your current life?”

Gu Shenyuan looked at him and softly hummed in affirmation.

Ye Qingyun was overjoyed: “That’s great! Since you’re satisfied with your current life, you must have given up on that idea of conquering the world, right? In my opinion, we shouldn’t bother with such complicated things. Let’s just retreat to the mountains and forests…”

Gu Shenyuan looked at Ye Qingyun, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth: “It’s fine. It’s already being conquered.”

Ye Qingyun: “…?”

Being conquered? What was being conquered?

He knew all those words, but put together, he couldn’t understand them at all.