In the study, Song Yu looked up from the virtual screen at Rong Shi, who was working across from him.

A confession? That won’t be happening.

Noticing his gaze, Rong Shi looked over, “All set?”

Song Yu lightly swiped his finger in the air, and the virtual screen turned towards Rong Shi with his movement.

“I’ve deployed personnel to all the military hospitals you marked. See if this is enough?”

He walked over to Rong Shi, casually sitting on the armrest of the sofa.

“Let me see.” Rong Shi’s fingers moved slightly, and the two virtual screens in mid-air switched back and forth.

Song Yu zoomed in on a certain area: “This 16th Military District Hospital is right on the outer edge of the Holy Martial Zone, making it the closest to Qin Zhao’s house among all hospitals. I’ve put double the manpower there.”

Rong Shi: “Are your people inside?”

Song Yu: “Not originally, but now there are.”

Rong Shi tilted his head to look at him.

Song Yu explained: “Lin Rui and Liu Nan just happened to walk right into my trap. I had Old Qin exploit them.”

Rong Shi had heard Qian Xun mention the Qin family’s crackdown on the Lin and Liu families at the banquet, but he hadn’t expected medical personnel to be on the list of those targeted.

Rong Shi: “It wasn’t too obvious, was it?”

Song Yu raised an eyebrow: “Do I look that stupid?”

After discussing the personnel deployment, Song Yu looked at Rong Shi’s open virtual screen.

“Are you looking into the All-Around Competition?”

Rong Shi pulled that window over, “Look here.”

The window displayed the announcement for last year’s All-Around Competition, and at the very bottom was the official list of sponsors.

“Omega Rights Protection Organization?” Song Yu frowned.

“Mm,” Rong Shi lightly tapped a few times on the virtual keyboard. Dozens of virtual windows suddenly popped up, then automatically consolidated.

All the screens displayed annual competition announcements. The corporate organizations on the acknowledgement list kept changing, but the Omega Rights Protection Organization was always there.

Song Yu rested his hand on the back of the sofa, his body unconsciously leaning towards Rong Shi.

“Are they using this competition as a testing ground?”

Rong Shi’s expression was serious: “Highly likely.”

Lin Mo and Lin Dang’s pheromones both had issues. Lin Jing, in addition to his pheromone problems, was also a member of the Omega Rights Protection Organization.

This organization had been a sponsor of the All-Around Competition for years, and many of the students participating in the competition were their targets for control.

After consolidating all the clues, a strong possibility, or part of the truth, could be deduced.

Someone was using the Omega Rights Protection Organization as a front to conduct Omega experiments, using the All-Around Competition to select new generations of outstanding talents, and then using Super Omegas to control them.

What was currently unknown, however, was the role of the Lin family in all of this.

If Lin Jing was the organization’s controller, then it could basically be concluded that the Lin family was one of the main culprits. But if he was only a participant, then the scope of this matter would be terrifying.

The Lin family was the most powerful military-political family after the Qian and Qin families.

If even the Lin family members were only participants, what kind of powerful figures were manipulating this whole thing?

Thinking of his previous life, Rong Shi worriedly warned: “Absolutely do not act rashly.”

“I know,” Song Yu said helplessly. “You’ve said it many times already, Gege.”

After Lin Jing and those noble Omegas got involved, Song Yu knew this matter was far more serious than he had imagined.

If the people behind this were the faction supporting Song Ke, it wouldn’t be the worst outcome. What he feared was that some ambitious individuals had already harbored thoughts of usurpation, in which case the entire royal family would be their targets.

Although there was no direct evidence at present, Song Yu had a vague, ominous premonition.

Suddenly, a weight settled on his head, interrupting his thoughts.

Song Yu tilted his head to look at Rong Shi.

Rong Shi patted his head, his voice low and gentle: “Don’t be afraid. I’ll protect you.”

Song Yu’s eyes flashed. He let out a scoff through his nose: “Besides being afraid you won’t confess, I’ve never been afraid of anything else.”

Why did it circle back to this topic again?

Rong Shi silently retracted his hand, avoiding his gaze: “…”

Don’t be too obvious with your ostrich behavior.

Song Yu was amused and annoyed. He pressed Rong Shi against the back of the sofa: “Are you going to say it?”

Rong Shi gazed at the face drawing closer, playing dumb: “Say what?”

Song Yu: “Say you like me so much it hurts, that you can’t live without me.”

Rong Shi: “…”

Song Yu urged: “Hurry up. Believe it or not, I’ll force-kiss you?”

Rong Shi said woodenly: “You like me so much it hurts, you can’t live without me.”

Song Yu paused, gritting his teeth in annoyance: “Are you intentionally trying to infuriate me?”

Rong Shi chuckled: “You told me to say it.”

Having a glib lover utter sweet nothings is far less satisfying than having an inarticulate one say words of affection.

For Song Yu, it also came with a sense of accomplishment.

It was a pity that his mischievous lover just wouldn’t say it.

Song Yu felt it was necessary to let Rong Shi know what self-cultivation was for a “pampered wife.”

Just as he was about to initiate the forced-kiss plan, his terminal on his wrist rang. Immediately, Qin Luo’s voice sounded.

[Brother, my dad sent back the report. My dad said he didn’t let anyone know, so you can rest assured.]

This was a time to assert his authority as a husband, so Song Yu would have ignored a normal message.

But hearing the word “report,” he considered for two seconds and then released Rong Shi.

Rong Shi saw his expression was off and casually asked, “What report?”

Song Yu sat up straight, leaning against the back of the sofa, and casually projected the received data into the air.

“Regarding your father, Rong Guang.”

Rong Shi’s expression changed.

Song Yu didn’t hide anything: “I investigated your father’s information a long time ago, but this is a more detailed version.”

This time, the information was retrieved through a general’s authority, making it the most comprehensive and secretive.

The two looked down little by little.

The data contained everything from the hospital and planet where Rong Guang was born, to his address, spouse, family members, and his personal experiences from age 0 onwards.

At one point, Rong Shi pressed down on Song Yu’s hand, which was about to scroll down.

“Wait.”

There was a record when Rong Guang was 20 years old, showing he participated in a simulated barren star battle on satellite A08.

Rong Shi’s gaze lingered on this record for a moment.

On its own, the record seemed fine, but his father was a student at the Central Military Academy. Except for missions, he wouldn’t inexplicably go to Imperial Capital Star’s A08 satellite. This was definitely not a competition organized by the military academy.

Rong Shi said in a deep voice: “01, bring up Lin Jing’s data.”

As he said this, Song Yu saw a virtual window appear in front of him, displaying Lin Jing’s data.

Song Yu frowned: “Where did 01 get the data? Can it hack into the Imperial database?”

Rong Shi said as he scrolled down: “Something like that.”

01’s database originated from his authority when he was a Major General in his previous life, at which point it was legally retrieved.

“Found it.”

Before Song Yu could fully process it, he saw Rong Shi highlight a record from Lin Jing’s history.

“He also went to A08 in the same year, the same month?” Song Yu frowned.

Rong Shi: “It’s normal for Royal Academy students to go to A08 for competitions or training.”

It was just that the timing was too coincidental.

Did his father discover something back then?

After correlating the two records, Rong Shi continued to scroll down.

Two years before his birth, there was a significant military merit record—

A virus leak occurred in a certain biochemical laboratory on Andromeda V99, infecting an entire city.

At that time, Rong Guang had already been promoted to Colonel. As the First Legion’s Deputy Commander, he led the legion to support the local garrison.

“I heard Qin Luo’s grandfather mention this before,” Song Yu said. “The situation was particularly tragic back then, many people died. The military suppressed the news daily, but even the small leaked bits caused a huge sensation at the time.”

Rong Shi clicked on this record to see the details.

“With his accumulated military merits before, plus this one, he should have been promoted to Major General.”

But in reality, Rong Guang’s military rank remained at Colonel, without change for many years afterward.

Song Yu was also puzzled: “Judging by your father’s impressive resume, he was far stronger than Lu Youqi of the same period. It’s impossible for the military to reassign such a person to a local garrison and let him get away.”

But in fact, not long after that, Rong Guang was reassigned to a local garrison in his hometown, leaving Imperial Capital Star.

This was completely illogical.

“This is even stranger,” Song Yu clicked on the last record from five years ago. “He died in battle while scouting enemy intelligence, with no record of escape or defection, yet there’s no follow-up below.”

Saying that, Song Yu tilted his head to look at Rong Shi: “Did your family really not receive any survivor’s benefits?”

Rong Shi shook his head. This was also something he had always found strange.

He had never cared about the money, and when he was young, he didn’t know who to ask. Later, he just assumed the system had overlooked it.

But looking at the current situation, it was probably not that simple.

Rong Shi suddenly thought of something and had 01 retrieve Lu Youqi’s data, scrolling back five years.

“No wonder.”

Lu Youqi was in charge of martyrs’ survivor’s benefits at that time.

Song Yu: “But your father’s painting appeared on the tree trunk on A08. If the judgment of that painting is correct, does that mean he didn’t die then, but transferred to a covert unit?”

The military had overt forces, and also covert units not integrated into the system. However, even the three major commanders did not possess complete information on these parts.

Rong Shi: “I’m sure that painting is my father’s.”

That tree was only planted four years ago, and the carved marks were not recent.

If his father carved this, it’s highly likely he visited A08 in the past three to four years.

And the rabbit mark on Qin Zhao’s backyard mountain didn’t look newly carved either.

What exactly was his father investigating? Was it also about Super Omegas?

If he didn’t die, why didn’t he come home?

Even in a covert unit, there was no rule preventing people from returning home.

A pile of questions needed to be answered. After getting the answer to one question, even more questions arose.

Rong Shi recalled his previous life; he never saw his father until the very last moment.

Mianmian didn’t get his medicine, and Dad lay in the medical pod for twenty years. Their family was almost ruined.

“If you can’t figure it out, just put it aside for now.” Seeing his heavy expression, Song Yu took his hand, pulling him up. “Come on, I’ll show you something good.”

Rong Shi: “What?”

Song Yu smiled mysteriously: “You’ll see when you do.”

This house was ridiculously large. They walked along the garden-edged corridor for a long time, reaching another small building enveloped by flowering branches.

As Song Yu’s hand touched the doorknob, 01’s excited cheers echoed in his mind.

[Detecting energy! So much f***ing energy, ahhhhhh!]

Song Yu smiled and pushed the door open: “Looks like it’s already been discovered.”

The house was furnished with original wood furniture, clearly valuable, simple yet luxurious.

A large blue crystal, thick enough for two people to embrace, was conspicuously placed in the center of the living room, completely clashing with the surrounding decor.

Before Rong Shi could speak, 01 zipped out of the decorative buckle and flew several circles around the energy stone.

“Wow, so big! Wow—! Really so big!”

Rong Shi’s originally heavy mood was interrupted like this, and he couldn’t stay somber.

“You moved such a large piece back?”

“This one’s still small,” Song Yu left 01 to admire itself and led Rong Shi to sit under the veranda. “I was afraid bringing too much would cause suspicion. If it’s not enough, I’ll smash off a bit more next time and transport it.”

Rong Shi: “Such a large piece, it’ll last it for over a decade.”

Song Yu snapped his fingers, signaling for the housekeeping robot to come over and prepare tea.

He heard him and was surprised: “That durable?”

Rong Shi: “…” Do you know how much this stone is worth?

Thinking of money, he casually mentioned: “This kind of energy stone will eventually be standardized. You have many expenses, so you can consider developing this project.”

Song Yu chuckled: “Not bad. As soon as you’re married, you know how to help your husband make money.”

Rong Shi: “…”

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In the evening, Rong Shi habitually sorted and recorded the day’s events. Just as he turned off his terminal, a knock sounded on the room door.

Opening the door, Song Yu walked in wearing pajamas.

Rong Shi: “So late and not sleeping yet?”

Song Yu looked at him strangely: “I came over precisely because I’m about to sleep.”

Rong Shi: “…”

The French window was slightly ajar, and a cool breeze blew in.

In the dim room, the two lay side by side.

The air was quiet for a long time.

“Hey,” Song Yu reopened his eyes, no sign of sleepiness. “Are you really not going to confess to me?”

Rong Shi: “…”

So persistent.

Rong Shi: “If I don’t say it, you won’t sleep?”

Song Yu: “If you don’t say it, I’ll make sure you can’t sleep either.”

Rong Shi: “…”

Song Yu snuggled closer, nudging him with his elbow: “Hurry up.”

The air was quiet again for a long time, so long that Song Yu thought he wouldn’t get an answer today.

A rustling sound came from beside him. His waist was suddenly embraced, and Rong Shi leaned over him.

He could feel Rong Shi’s warm breath by his ear, and Song Yu’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Rong Shi’s mouth was close to his ear, his voice so low only they could hear it.

Song Yu’s hand on his back unconsciously tightened.

“Say it again.”

Rong Shi: “Not saying it again.”

Song Yu hugged the person who was about to retreat: “If you don’t say it again today, it’ll be hard to end this.”

Rong Shi chuckled, lowered his head, kissed his mouth, and then turned to lie down: “Not saying it again.”

Song Yu wrapped his arms and legs around him: “Just once more, Gege?”

Rong Shi pulled the blanket tighter, wrapping him in it and hugging both him and the blanket: “Calling me Gege won’t work either. Sleep.”

Song Yu: “…” Damn it.

His ultimate weapon wasn’t working anymore.

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Author’s Note:

World’s Unsolved Mystery—What exactly did Rong Bunny say?