Powerful Dragon Alpha Chapter 52: Receiving a license

Chapter 52: Receiving a license

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Mimosa

“Tomorrow?” the little dragon jumped.

Yu Hanzhou looked at the time, “It’s not too late today.”

“?!”

‘Why don’t I just shut up?’

‘Yu Hanzhou’s words, there was no truth to it.’

‘The argument that it must be you that I love… It’s a total marriage scam, right?’

he allowed the ring to be pushed onto his ring finger, and he received the warmth of his palm.

Suddenly his waist was tightened, and Yu Hanzhou leaned down to take him into his arms. At that moment, Ming Huan did not know how but he slowly raised his hand and embraced the other man.

He heard Yu Hanzhou’s soft laugh that was not mocking, but Ming Huan felt suddenly annoyed, “What are you laughing at–“

“I am very happy.” Yu Hanzhou suppressed his little struggle and whispered in his ear, as if he had finally put down a big stone in his heart, “At last, you promised.”

Ming Huan seemed to realize that in this moment, Yu Hanzhou was really in a very joyful mood.

It was a kind that from the inside out, very sincere love flowed out from the warm body temperature to his heart.

Ming Huan fell into a bit of confusion. Fortunately there was still some warmth and the peace of his mind to support him. Yu Hanzhou held his hand and went directly to the Civil Affairs Bureau. In less than 10 minutes, they sat in the reception room dedicated to registration. Suspended in front of them were two lanes of marriage request forms.

Through the golden border and font, Ming Huan could see that the man opposite was also looking at him. Yu Hanzhou had taken off his glasses, and at the moment, his eyes were more stern without the lenses to hide them.

‘Yes, and also very gentle.’

With the encouragement of that look, Ming Huan raised his hand and his fingertips actually burned a little–

Yu Hanzhou did not urge, but silently waited, Shu Yun reminded him that if Ming Huan thought a little bit before, then in his perception, perhaps the “marriage” thing was a very important kind of agreement.

That’s why he should be patient and considerate enough.

Ming Huan held up his hands, and his small arms were a little sore.

“If I have questions.”

“Is it okay to ask you again?”

He didn’t click [confirm] directly, but looked to Yu Hanzhou who was facing him.

“If. If I don’t marry you today, will you exercise your right to be engaged?”

When he asked, Ming Huan stared at Yu Hanzhou momentarily, as if to see if there was any false look or perfunctory expression on his face.

“No.”

“Then after I marry you, will you shut me in and not let me go out?” Ming Huan asked and felt overly offended, as if Yu Hanzhou was very tyrannical. He added in a very small voice, “I mean, if you think I’m misbehaving.”

The little dragon considered it, but he was also very smart as he added the “you think”.

Yu Hanzhou looked at him without saying anything before saying, “I will only suggest to you a suitable range of life considering your safety. In fact, if you leave, I can not stop you. You have a clear idea in your own mind.”

Ming Huan knew that Yu Hanzhou was talking about the agricultural planet.

“Then if you have a bad headache, will you mark me?”

“If you don’t want me to, then no.” Yu Hanzhou said, “Otherwise, my mental energy will also be hurt by your resistance.”

“I have one more question. How long is the approximate lifespan of a dragon?”

Yu Hanzhou choked slightly, and this question was completely unexpected.

“The textbooks are quite general, and it varies among different species. Like you, who seems to overwork and doesn’t pay much attention to a balanced and relaxed lifestyle, maybe we won’t have more than a few hundred—”

Ming Huan accidentally said a bit too much, shrugged his mouth, “I’m not saying anything else. I’m just genuinely and reasonably concerned whether it’s time for you to retire.”

“The average lifespan of regular dragons is around seven to eight hundred, similar to our kind. High-level dragons have an even longer lifespan, roughly a thousand to fifteen hundred. As for the white-feathered dragon, there’s no specific data, it’s an estimate based on related information. If they die naturally, they can probably live around three thousand.”

“Th… three thousand?”

‘Shit.’

‘His old man can still live two thousand six hundred years longer.’

“Of course, it could be longer.” Yu Hanzhou folded his legs and joked, “So you don’t have to rush to figure out when you can continue my ‘legacy’.”

“What if? What if we don’t have the means to like each other later?”

The corners of Yu Hanzhou’s mouth were slightly flattened, as he slightly sulked.

This question, probably roughly, was a little uncomfortable for him to hear.

He did not try to forcefully convince the little dragon that they were suitable, but asked, “Then how do you think it should end?”

The little dragon hesitated and really said, “Divorce.”

Yu Hanzhou’s eyes narrowed slightly.

“I obeyed your rules and took care of your sufferings. Marry you and try every kind of possibility.” Ming Huan’s beautiful eyelashes drooped, covering his light-colored pupils, “Yes, if you and I do not get along at all, there is no way we can be husband and husband, and then divorce would certainly be the only relief.”

“For you and for me.”

‘How dare you say it is a relief?’

This repeatedly trampled on the bottom line of an alpha’s tolerance.

Yu Hanzhou was silent, “Okay.”

Ming Huan had just been subjected to a stormy momentum, and he looked at the face of the happy but angry male. He began to ponder whether his words just now would be a little too much.

“Yes, if I like you.”

That pressure faded away. Yu Hanzhou’s expression clearly did not change. The little dragon thought about it, “Then I apologize to you.”

Yu Hanzhou, “How are you going to apologize?”

“Say, yes or no, I like–“

His heart jumped, and Ming Huan saw Yu Hanzhou sitting across from him, looking at him with a smile.

The atmosphere that was slightly tense just now seemed to ease up. Yu Hanzhou had already clicked on the confirmation, and the coffee in his hand was finished. Ming Huan looked down at the ring on his left hand again, and finally clicked on [confirm].

He then signed his name.

A notification was immediately received at the terminal.

[Happy Newlywed!]

[Congratulations on successfully tying the knot with your mate, since today, Mr. Ming Huan and Mr. Yu Hanzhou officially tied the knot as husband and husband, no matter in health or sickness, rich or poor, I hope both of you can join hands and be together forever]

‘Tie the knot…. Married.’

He and Yu Hanzhou were married.

After trying to figure out why he agreed to get married, Ming Huan himself was a little confused.

Deep inside, he inexplicably had an intuition that made him trust him and join hands with him.

He was suddenly afraid to raise his head.

‘This notification message, Yu Hanzhou also received it, right?’

Ming Huan was like an ostrich, hiding his head without looking at Yu Hanzhou who was standing beside him with his hand outstretched, “Let’s go.”

The little dragon’s brain was still slightly spinning, “Where?”

“Home.”

He looked up sharply and saw Yu Hanzhou’s eyes under his cold brow bones showing a rather soft gaze.

He heard this man say the word “home” countless times.

This time it seemed a bit different.

He got married.

This time, it was home in the true sense.

Ming Huan’s ear tips seem to burn with a little red, and he nodded with a numb face, “Oh.”

When Yu Hanzhou sent him back home, his brain was still dizzy. He did not look at Yu Hanzhou’s eyes on the way as today was born of too many things, and he did not seem to know how to face him. Fortunately, Yu Hanzhou simply was busy, and as soon as he sent him back, he changed his clothes to rush to the Military Department.

this was not the way to treat his mate!

He thought that Yu Hanzhou would at least sit at home, talk to him by telling him what he could and could not do, and also tell him that their future relationship would not be….

It was Yu Hanzhou who said nothing.

He even left him at home.

Ming Huan read the message on the terminal, and had a few lines to read all over and on the side. The hand scrolled a little more and saw the last article, or the letter of the notification pertaining to the end of the adoption relationship. Last time, he was so angry that he ‘left home’ because of this letter. It was the same notification letter that he was so angry about at the time.

The following article was superimposed, and suddenly, it seemed to be smooth.

The corners of Ming Huan’s mouth unconsciously curved slightly as he lay on his bed, and suddenly, he received a new one.

It was a new notification message.

It was from the identification section.

[Matching information notification: You have 98% match with the matching object pheromone. Match information. Name: Yu Hanzhou. Coordinates: Capital Star.]

The match notification letter that had been blocked for more than a full month came again.

‘Did Yu Hanzhou resend the intercepted message?’

Ming Huan pulled up the dialog box and seemed to want to say something, but he finally just typed two words after a long time, “Thank you”.

There was an immediate reply: [No need.]

‘Ah.’

‘So short.’

Ming Huan felt that this was a careful cold response, and that this was consistent with Yu Hanzhou’s style.

He added: [What’s for dinner tonight?]

[Anything.]

‘Oh! This, this, this, this is the attitude one should have on the day of the license!’ 

The little dragon was a little dissatisfied: [Then when are you coming home?]

This sentence seemed to be urging him to come back. ‘No, no, no.’ 

The little dragon added: [Do I have to wait for you for dinner?]

[No.]

‘Did he mean that he was coming back late?’

Ming Huan closed the terminal, losing interest in continuing the conversation. He couldn’t help but wonder if Yu Hanzhou would turn out like those terrible alphas from his past life, sweet-talking before marriage and changing afterward!

A prompt appeared on the terminal. [You must eat on time. Behave.]

Simple enough. He seemed to be able to read in the tone of Yu Hanzhou saying this sentence. The inner anxiety was smoothed out, and Ming Huan had a better mood. He arrived at the point where Yu Hanzhou usually cooked for him, so today, he’ll do it for Yu Hanzhou!

He ran to the kitchen and searched for some easy meal recipes on the Starnet forum.

He rolled up his sleeves directly intending to use his hands.

While sifting through the recipes, he fell into a new confusion – ‘what did Yu Hanzhou like to eat?’

‘Me.’

In the past three years, Yu Hanzhou often did not eat at home.

Even if he was at home, he often just took supplements to deal with it.

Then for the last month, Yu Hanzhou had been eating after him. He liked fish, and Yu Hanzhou ate fish too. He liked to eat meatballs and diced beef, and Yu Hanzhou followed suit.

That’s why he now he had no clue what to make.

Ming Huan decided to start with the simplest fish soup and beef to make a meal for himself, just like what Yu Hanzhou had made for him. Tonight when he returned, he would then ask what he liked to eat.

Cooking was really not that easy. In Ming Huan’s last life, he had not been in the kitchen. After transmigrating, he also did not take a cooking course that omegas would basically learn.

Alas, it was true that there were many skills.

‘How could he not get a chef’s license in the first place?’

After the third fish was ruined, the fourth fish was finally cooked perfectly.

When the fish soup was ready, Yu Hanzhou came back.

Recently, the weather was cooler than it was in the day, and the Admiral’s military jacket was filled with a chill. From just entering the warm house, one could smell the strong fragrance.

“You’re back.” Ming Huan learned everything sharply, and although the noodles were off and he wasted three fish, the fourth pot of soup was already similar to Yu Hanzhou’s own version by seventy to eighty percent.

“Didn’t I tell you to eat first?”

“It’s okay, I’m not hungry.” Ming Huan took off his small apron, “I wanted to wait for you.”

“Did you make the fish soup?”

Ming Huan nodded, “It’s still a little difficult. This kind of fish meat is more expensive, and can’t use an AI, but fortunately, I learned, so why don’t you try it?”

Yu Hanzhou took off his jacket. The AI butler was waiting at the side, and he one-handedly removed his tie and loosened two more buttons.

Ming Huan was originally upholding the mood of showing off his new skills with the fish soup that he brought over,. After seeing Yu Hanzhou standing still, he suddenly thought that something was wrong.

Inexplicably, why did it really feel like- a newlywed husband waiting for his husband to come home.

Once he accepted this certain setting…. The fish soup in his hand was almost unstable as his hand shook and his feet stumbled. Yu Hanzhou took two steps to steady him and picked the bowl up before he put it on the table, “Can’t you tell me if you can’t hold it?”

“What have you been doing this afternoon?”

“Preparing for tomorrow’s announcement.” Yu Hanzhou went inside again and grabbed a bowl of soup, “You don’t have to show up tomorrow, I will keep your information confidential for reasons of not being a graduate. It is for the high-level dragons, there is no need to hide. Our wedding date is set for the end of this month….”

‘This, so soon!’

Dragon shocked.jpg.

“I have also arranged all the matters of the wedding, the wedding venues and arrangements have been arranged for the relevant staff to start preparing, then if you are interested, I will take you to choose between them. I’ve made an appointment to take you for a test in three days. I’ve also made four sets of plans for the decoration of the mansion, you can look at them after you finish your soup….”

Looking at the time, he confirmed that Yu Hanzhou had only been out for four hours.

He felt that Yu Hanzhou arranged everything for him, and he felt that it was a little off. This made him suffer and feel rage a few times. 

Now, Yu Hanzhou’s own efficiency was even more astonishing.

“That, what do you like to eat?” Ming Huan was a little embarrassed to ask.

“Everything is the same.”

“There is no special favorite.”

“Sloshing special beef, slightly sizzling on both sides, dripping with two drops of red oil sauce” Yu Hanzhou felt that the little dragon’s expression was a little strange, and asked, “What’s wrong.”

“Why do you like to eat something so simple?” There was no difficulty, so the comparison was not obvious and it wouldn’t be hard to make.

“Congee.” The Admiral undid his cufflinks and turned them up slightly to reveal a lean and powerful wrist, “I like to drink hand-stewed fish filet congee with the most common kind of three-eyed fish, and with a little bit of green vegetables put in the fish belly stew.”

‘What kind of dark cuisine?’

Ming Huan was shocked. ‘This was too primitive, did the interstellar era really still like to eat such things?’

“When I first broke my shell, the first meal I ate, was this fish filet porridge. I broke the shell in a fishing industry on the deserted star, was adopted by a poor class of fishermen, then technology is much more backward than it is now, the way of cooking was also very primitive, you probably never drank this porridge.”

This was the first time that Yu Hanzhou told him about the time that he broke his shell.

“You were actually adopted by the lower-class people”

The original text never mentioned the hidden plot!

‘Big Boss Yu Hanzhou would have been a child four hundred years earlier in the Federation and the Empire, what would it have been like then?’

“Mn. you like hearing this?”

Ming Huan nodded vigorously with his fish soup.

“It’s not too wonderful of an experience.”

“I’ll listen.” Ming Huan said stubbornly.

Yu Hanzhou took him to the bathroom to soak first, and the warm and fresh scent of the house came to his nose, making the four-hundred-odd years in his mind seem unreachable.

“I was not the first batch of eggs to break after the Great War. The centralized shell breaking period seemed to be at about five and six years. So when I broke the shell, there were already a lot of low-level dragon corpses on that fishery desert star. I guess there should have been a crashed starship with dragon eggs. After I broke the shell, five dragon eggs out of fifty were all high-level dragons, of which there were three alpha and two omega, excluding me, all had S-class mental energy.”

“Yes, the two omega, both did not live through the differentiation period, and almost just stepped out into the dead. And the alphas fought with each other to grab control of the fishing star, this was only a lost cause, their mental energy was directly violent, and they also did not live past ten years.”

“Only me and another alpha survived. Later, that alpha was also caught by the Empire, that time was when I first saw the leap fighter and knew that the world was much bigger than that planet. I disguised myself as a dragonkin and lived on that planet for a whole thirty years. At that time, the Empire was in a heated conflict with the Federation, and the Federation was steadily retreating. It seemed like they were about to lose the last star system. In reality, when the Empire first came to this planet to capture dragons, using mechas for the second time, I revealed my special ability. So, in the final showdown of the war, I stole a fighter jet from the Empire, joined the war, and, in the name of a deceased dragonkin, helped the Federation fight a defensive battle against overwhelming odds. Later on, I joined the Federation Military Department, made significant contributions, turned the tide of the war—after seventy years, step by step, I climbed to the position I hold now.”

Ming Huan’s body was warmed by the hot water, and he wore a small headband. Due to the overheated temperature, tiny beads of sweat appeared on the tip of his nose, making him blush like a snow deer. He felt that what Yu Hanzhou was talking about, the past with the Federation, seemed so distant from the present. He couldn’t even imagine what a secluded fishing planet was like.

Ming Huan shyly interrupted, “I’ve finished soaking. You can go out first…”

Yu Hanzhou stood outside, waiting for Ming Huan to change his clothes. To make it more convenient to listen to his story, he followed Yu Hanzhou into his bedroom and naturally lay down on the bed with him.

“Nearly two hundred years later, we had reached a delicate balance with the Imperial side. Financial resources and time can also be used to develop the level of technology more. So nearly a hundred broken shells of little dragons led to the survival rate being much higher.”

“Okay, that’s enough storytelling before bedtime. Now, you have to sleep.”

Yu Hanzhou held Ming Huan, but now the little dragon frowned, “This is not a bedtime story.”

“This is not your memory.”

“Were you scared when you broke your shell alone?”

Yu Hanzhou’s hand still wrapped around his knee socket, and he was slightly stagnant.

“If I could have broken the shell four hundred earlier, and your words, maybe it could have helped….”

“If you break the shell four hundred years early, then you and I are long dead.”

Yu Hanzhou frowned, “There was no inhibitor, no soothing agent, nothing at that time. I would have marked you with instinctive desire, and both of us would have died from mental energy storms.”

Although Ming Huan felt very frightened, his next thought was distorted.

“You have an instinctive desire?”

Yu Hanzhou followed his eyes, “Of course I have.”

“That alpha genetic defect, you also have it?”

“Mn.”  Ming Huan scratched his ear. “Why have I never sensed it? I thought you didn’t have it, or the symptoms were very mild.”

Except for the time when they discussed marriage, and he pretended to be frightened.

Yu Hanzhou gave the impression of a straightforward, bland, and conservative personality, always handling matters very rationally. In the three years he had been with Yu Hanzhou, he never felt that Yu Hanzhou had the kind of personality prone to paranoid or violent thoughts. There was no sign of it in their daily interactions.

“Genetic locks are unbreakable. Only postnatal education, medication to alleviate symptoms, and some special soothing methods can help ease it,” Yu Hanzhou said in a deep voice. “Naturally, there are also genetic defects in alpha instincts.”

“What kind of instincts?” the little dragon asked curiously.

Yu Hanzhou picked him up, directly unlocked his bedroom door, and placed the little dragon back in his own room.

“What instincts?” Yu Hanzhou’s expression remained calm, and his tone was as composed as ever. “For example, right now, even if I can’t smell the pheromone, I would still have a strong urge to grab you and mark you deeply.”

“Deep mark?” Ming Huan, shocked, scratched his forehead. “Luckily it’s not a lifelong mark.”

Yu Hanzhou raised an eyebrow slightly. “A lifelong mark will be today.”

“What?” 

“During the day, when you mentioned divorce.”

The little dragon belatedly realized that he had indeed provoked Yu Hanzhou during the day. He tucked himself under the blanket, hiding half of his face.