36: Chapter 36 Changing Clothes, Changing Clothes is Good!

"How dare you!"

Vice Alliance Leader Marek slammed his hand on the table. "Kaelus, you have some nerve! How dare you forge a decree from the High Lords Council!"

"Calm down, Brother Marek. I have already applied to Terra, and the decree will arrive any day now. At most, it's just a bit early. How can you call it a forgery?"

Alliance Leader Hermann chuckled; he didn't really care about such details.

"Report!"

A messenger ran into the main tent. "A fleet from the Gene Tyrant is heading our way!"

"Oh?" Alliance Leader Hermann stroked his beard. "Could it be that they saw the massive scale of our alliance and sent an envoy to sue for peace?"

"No, Alliance Leader. There are no envoys on the ships, only twenty returned captives. The captives have blasphemous tattoos on them, and there is also a letter here."

The messenger presented the letter.

"Hmph!" Hermann was furious after reading the letter. "That scoundrel Cheng Yu goes too far in insulting us! A mere lackey of Slaanesh, yet he dares to accuse us of colluding with Chaos, and even claims he will report us to Terra!"

Everyone present turned to look at the former Chaos Warrior Cassian, making the atmosphere very awkward for a moment.

"Alliance Leader, what should we do with... those captives?"

"Hang them!"

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In the home of Iron Fist Patriarch Cheng Yu, his wife Sophia had been quiet for quite some time.

However, during lunch today, she suddenly brought up to Iron Fist Cheng Yu that she wanted to go out and find a job.

"And ideally, it would be a job in the imperial palace, like serving the concubines, or at the very least, cleaning the palace."

"Do you even hear what you're saying?"

Iron Fist Cheng Yu didn't even want to pay attention to her, simply focusing on his food. Recently, many small factions had paid tribute, so their daily meals were finally no longer a reunion of starch paste.

"But I really want to go out and work! Staying cooped up at home with nothing to do every day is so miserable!"

Sophia... was acting spoiled, but in a completely wooden, monotone way, her performance painfully obvious.

"The newly established Water Purification Guild is short of a clerk. I can arrange for you to go there."

"No, no, I want to work in the imperial palace!"

Sophia shook her husband's arm. She was so incredibly strong that she almost snapped Iron Fist Cheng Yu's arm in half.

"My beloved consort is an Inquisition spy, and her contact is your wife. Find a way to give them an opportunity to meet every day."

Main Body's communication was sent over through their shared mind.

Iron Fist Cheng Yu smiled and said to his wife, "Actually, there is a job. The Emperor's newly wed Lady Istvaan isn't used to the local cuisine, and she needs a clever, attentive noblewoman to run her private kitchen. Are you interested?"

"That is... absolutely wonderful, my dear husband!"

Sophia cheered with joy, even giving Iron Fist Cheng Yu a peck on the cheek to show her gratitude.

"*Gag*..." Iron Fist Cheng Yu had adapted quite well by now, at least enough to speak normally with his wife.

But with such close contact, he still couldn't withstand the influence of a Blank.

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Inside the imperial bedchamber, Main Body waited for Vera with some nervousness.

Although he had upgraded most of his consciousness to imperial thought, when it came to relations between men and women... he was, colloquially speaking, a virgin.

"Why hasn't Lady Istvaan arrived yet?"

Main Body was getting anxious—very anxious.

The harem system dictated that the Emperor could not go to a consort's quarters; he could only wait in his own bedchamber for them to come to him, preventing the ruler from neglecting state affairs due to being obsessed with beauty.

He had established this rule himself, and now he regretted it.

"Replying to Your Majesty, Lady Istvaan said she needs to bathe and change her clothes first," Palace Attendant Cheng Yu replied.

"Changing clothes... changing clothes is good, changing clothes is great!" Main Body rubbed his hands together like a fly, waiting even more anxiously.

Vera was even more nervous than he was. It was his first time marrying a wife, but it was also her first time getting married!

So she kept stalling, saying she needed to do her makeup one moment, and then saying she needed to bathe and change her clothes the next, treating everyone else like fools.

But no one called her out on it, mainly because there were hardly any people in the harem right now.

Since there were no female family members in the harem before, Cheng Yu's clones could wander around anywhere.

Now that there was a consort, recruiting palace maids had to be put on the agenda; they couldn't have a bunch of grown men serving the consorts.

However, because there were too few females on the entire planet right now, Cheng Yu had already issued an imperial decree for Aria to go back to her clan and "recruit" some Eldar women to work here.

"Your Majesty..." The sun had already set, and Vera knew she couldn't stall any longer, so she could only drag her feet and make her way over.

"Hmm?" Cheng Yu had already fallen asleep waiting. "...Ah, my beloved Consort Vera. It's getting late, let's sleep."

"Oh..." Vera felt as if she had been granted a grand amnesty and quickly turned to leave.

"I didn't mean for you to go back and sleep, I meant for you to sleep up here!" Cheng Yu was amused and exasperated by her.

Palace Attendant Cheng Yu extinguished all the lights and, with a wave of his hand, withdrew all the Warrior Cheng Yus from the hall.

"I... I... Please be gentle with me, Your Majesty!"

After all the lights were extinguished, only faint moonlight remained in the bedchamber.

As a side note, Planet Cheng Yu had no natural satellites; this moon was artificial, and currently, only a crescent had been built.

By the faint light of the artificial moon, Cheng Yu looked at his wife.

Vera stood quietly before the luxurious canopy. At twenty-eight, she was in the prime of her youth, like a freshly ripened peach, with every inch of her skin radiating a plump, enticing glow.

Those affectionate eyes were no longer the sharp gray eyes of an Inquisitor, but were rippling with the gentle waves of spring water. As her long eyelashes drooped slightly, they cast shadows that made one's heart itch.

She wore a dark green velvet gown, its hem flowing like the night, perfectly outlining her voluptuous and graceful figure.

Above the deep V-neckline, delicate pearls and diamond fragments were woven into a mesh, looming over her proud, snowy breasts.

Rising and falling gently with her soft breathing, every curve spoke of the ultimate feminine temptation.

Her slightly curly, ochre hair was loosely pinned at the side of her neck, with a few unruly strands cascading down, brushing against her smooth, fragrant shoulders.

A faint, almost imperceptible smile played at the corners of her lips, carrying both the shyness of a young girl and the knowing charm of a mature woman.

Tonight, she was not a sharp sword of judgment, but the gentlest and most lethal gift presented to the Emperor to conquer the dragon bed.

As a side note, this incredibly luxurious outfit was also something she had extorted from the Drake family. If she actually had to buy it herself, she would have to work for the Inquisition for a hundred and eighty years without eating or drinking to afford it...

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The next morning, Main Body woke up from his sleep. He had never slept so comfortably.

Having lived two lives, it wasn't until today that he truly understood... what the phrase "getting a taste for it" meant.

"Your Majesty, let's skip court today, okay?"

Seeing Cheng Yu about to get up, Vera, her face flushed red, hooked him back with her bare foot.

"Heheh, then today we'll..."

Palace Attendant Cheng Yu suddenly appeared at the doorway:

"*Cough, cough*. Your Majesty, have you forgotten your grand ambition to unify the galaxy and save all living beings?!"

Cheng Yu: "...I wouldn't dare forget it for a single moment!"

Damn it!

Why did I set so many rules for myself when I wrote the "Imperial Truth" back then?!