89: Chapter 89: The Imperial Blind Date System

The Cheng Yu Empire lacks women, severely lacks them, which has led to many bizarre social phenomena.

Even existences like the Slaanesh Nun, whose race is hard to distinguish, can easily find partners and collect high bride prices within the Empire, let alone normal women.

Even those women who have committed capital crimes are not executed or exiled in the Cheng Yu Empire; instead, they are sentenced to the punishment of "Wearing Marriage" as an alternative.

Specifically, this means wearing a bracelet that monitors vital signs and honestly marrying and living a life, treating it as having served their sentence.

One can imagine how arrogant the women within the Empire are.

Even women with a Gorgon-like physique or sanity-draining appearances have bride prices starting at two million coins listed on the Magpie Bridge Guild bulletin board.

A large, filling serving of ant-beef stir-fried noodles only costs ten coins.

Therefore, most Cheng Yus Clones do not expect to find a partner at all and usually rely on Slaanesh pictorials to solve their problems.

Only those Cheng Yus Clones with considerable wealth have the courage to walk towards the Magpie Bridge Guild.

"Why can you collect money for getting married here... Wouldn't that mean I'm selling myself?!"

Valeria looked in surprise at the form given to her by the Magpie Bridge Guild staff member. Seeing the line "What is the amount of the bride price you expect?", she found it absurd.

"Otherwise what?" The Magpie Bridge Guild staff member Cheng Yu felt that she was the unreasonable one.

Valeria was not clear on the specific purchasing power of the Cheng Yu Empire's currency.

The planet she was born on had experienced multiple instances of hyperinflation, with severe currency devaluation, so Valeria had lost sensitivity to monetary figures.

So she casually filled in "one hundred million." On her home planet, this amount of cash could probably only buy a farm tractor.

"Do you wish for your partner to be a public servant or military personnel?"

Valeria chose "No" for this item, although she wasn't genuinely getting married and only wanted to use the opportunity to escape.

However, her hatred for the Lie Gong Clan led her to be very repulsed by the soldiers or officials of the Cheng Yu Empire.

"Beauty, I don't recommend you fill it out like this. In our dynasty, clones who have money but no official position... none of them are simple characters. You might not be able to handle them, and you'll be the one suffering in the end."

The staff member Cheng Yu wore an expression like the "subway old man looking at his phone" meme.

"Is it any of your business? I'll fill it out however I want!"

Valeria continued to fill it out randomly, mostly choosing "No."

She had such a rebellious personality and hated it when others told her how to do things.

"Do you care if your partner has any physical or mental disabilities?" ... No.

"Do you care if your partner has a criminal record?" ... No.

"Do you care if your partner has bad habits, such as smoking, drinking, chewing betel nut, or reading vulgar magazines?" ... No.

...

After filling out the form randomly, Valeria handed it in; she seemed to be using this method to vent her dissatisfaction and contempt for this bizarre country.

The Magpie Bridge Guild staff member Cheng Yu frowned; it really is hard to save a damned soul with good advice.

According to the form Valeria filled out, the range of potential partners she could find within the Empire was narrowed down significantly.

As far as he knew, the Cheng Yus Clones within this range... were all scum. A group of Cheng Yus who were very bad, very dangerous, and very weird.

"Approved!" The staff member Cheng Yu stamped Valeria's form with a steel seal and then signaled the soldier Cheng Yus to take her to get the positioning bracelet installed.

Valeria had miscalculated; the Cheng Yu Empire's positioning bracelet was not the archaic product she had imagined, but a two-way phased-array radar beacon guided by the individual's biological genes.

It wasn't shaped like a bracelet either, but was a small implantable chip; it was only called a positioning bracelet for the sake of easy understanding.

The function of the bracelet was... as long as the carrier was within the radiation range of the Empire's Astropathic Tower, even hiding in Warp would be useless. If she dared to run... she would be paralyzed all over and captured in minutes.

"I'm such a fool, really. I only knew that the Gene Tyrant would create a large number of clones as soldiers... I didn't expect him to apply genetic science even to this kind of civilian equipment!"

When Valeria was locked into the Security Forces' temporary detention center, she was still muttering to herself, looking completely dazed.

Her matchmaking requirements were transmitted through the Astropathic Tower to the ancestor core, which used big data to match a suitable male partner, and then sent it to the other party's dark, or notified them via a registered letter from a messenger Cheng Yu.

Because Valeria's requirements for the bride price were very high, this time it saved the messenger from running errands.

However, all several hundred Cheng Yus who met her outrageous requirements chose to refuse within one minute.

The Cheng Yus Clones with the ability to pay a bride price of one hundred million, even if they were scum with all sorts of vices, would not lack women. How could they accept an unidentified humanoid weapon as a wife?

"Valeria, your requirements are too high. No one wants you. I'll give you one more chance to fill out the form!"

The staff member Cheng Yu tapped on the iron bars of the detention center with a roll of paper.

"I won't. Did you show them my photo? Don't they know how pretty I am?"

Valeria's competitive spirit was instead ignited; it had always been her looking down on others, how could it be the other way around?

"Your filtered photo is clearly attached in the back. If no one wants you, no one wants you. Do you think I would lie to you? Stop wasting my time!"

The staff member Cheng Yu was impatient, although he himself did not have a partner either.

But because he did this job, he hated women, especially the arrogant and stuck-up look on women's faces.

"I won't!" Valeria crumpled the form into a ball and threw it out.

"Then enjoy starving in the prison." The staff member Cheng Yu sneered and left.

The Security Forces' temporary detention center for detaining guilty women did not provide food, because no woman had ever stayed here for more than half a day.

The heavy iron door slammed shut with a "clang," cutting off the last bit of light and sound.

In the darkness and silence, only Valeria was left, along with her stomach, which began to rumble.

She began to truly feel that in this twisted Empire, the so-called "preciousness of women" perhaps also contained a kind of desperate shackle.

The ancestor core was a very powerful artificial intelligence. Even without Valeria's authorization, it began to gradually relax the matchmaking requirements, expanding the scope of the inquiry from "able to pay a bride price of one hundred million" to "total assets exceeding one hundred million."

Cheng Yu... now the media tycoon Cheng Yu, received this inquiry message while drying his hair after a shower.

"Re-really? This... someone this pretty, and nobody wants her? Then, then I... won't be polite!"

The media tycoon Cheng Yu clicked the "Agree" button.