Before reading the updates, Luo Ran also came across a pinned post on the forum.
— I know a lot of the girls are heartbroken over the dinner incident, but please stay rational. There’s a limit to joking around, so whatever you do, don’t diss our superhero General!
Reply 1: Agreed. Let me fish this up.
Reply 12: Let’s ship them rationally. We have no right to comment on politics. Honestly, if the General really has to marry one of those two from Luobing for political reasons, all we can do is wish him well.
Reply 13: Waaaaah! I hope the General will be okay, and I hope his secretary will be okay too!
Luo Ran: “…”
So having dinner with Prince Andika hadn’t just sent the entire Luobing royal family into a frenzy. It had also triggered a catastrophic landslide across the Empire.
Looking at the people in the thread, Luo Ran suddenly began to worry.
As Lucas’s secretary, he was always accustomed to thinking on Lucas’s behalf, looking out for his interests and making things more convenient for him.
And so, at that moment, Luo Ran couldn’t help wondering: Since everyone liked seeing him and Lucas together so much and had grown so accustomed to the pairing, if Lucas eventually got a partner, would the public accept that person?
What if everyone disliked the future General’s spouse? That would indirectly affect Lucas, too.
Luo Ran felt rather troubled.
It seemed that if the General ever did get a spouse, they would have to put considerable effort into managing public opinion.
After finishing the thread, Luo Ran continued scrolling down to read the novel.
…
Lucas K. Augustindio Gucci Prada was a man who possessed the entire Empire and held the fate of the whole universe in his hands.
Meanwhile, Zimei Xueran was merely a secret admirer disguised as the man’s subordinate.
By day, he was the perfect, capable secretary, Zimei Xueran! He was also the breathtakingly beautiful foreign prince, Nangong Mengran, whose beauty could topple kingdoms and make fish forget how to swim!
By night, he was the bewitchingly beautiful shadow guard, Liuli Yinran! He was also the bloodthirsty, wicked pirate, Blood Butterfly Bingran!
With his many identities, he silently protected Lucas K. He had believed that his hopeless love would eventually rot away in some dark corner, dying a tragic and beautiful death alongside his strong yet fragile heart.
Until political conspiracies and his own family’s schemes sent him into that man’s bed…
“No, don’t! Ah~”
“Heh. You really are a little vixen who knows how to drive a man crazy. That mouth of yours is so stubborn, yet your body tells the truth.”
Zimei Xueran gazed at the drugged Lucas K. before him, a crystalline, multicolored tear rolling down his cheek.
Dry wood met raging flames! Sparks flew! Lightning flashed and thunder roared!
A blazing inferno consumed them as floodwaters surged to overwhelm the heavens. After seven rounds in one night, could they ever return to how things were before?!
…
That short opening alone was enough to make Luo Ran shudder from head to toe.
A—a one-night stand?!
Because his heat cycle was approaching, Luo Ran was already feeling rather tired. Now, his head hurt even more.
He felt both guilty and nervous.
Then he caught a glimpse of “38 cm” in the following passage and was so frightened that he immediately scrolled past it.
What followed was one explicit scene after another, filled with endless moans and all sorts of obscene vocabulary. The author devoted a huge chunk of the story to describing the details of their seven rounds in one night. It took considerable effort before Luo Ran finally managed to scroll down to the actual plot.
…
The next day, Lucas K. rose from his three-hundred-meter-long bed. Seeing that the person beside him had vanished without a trace, he flew into a rage.
That little vixen who had seduced him last night actually dared to run away?!
“Within five minutes, I want every last detail about the man from last night!”
“We found him! He’s your own secretary… Zimei Xueran.”
“Heh. Does he think he can escape my grasp?” Lucas K. sneered. “Find him!”
Lucas K. smiled cruelly. “Once I find him, I’ll kill that damned man!”
He would make the man die beneath him! The man would spend the rest of his life craving his body!
…
Luo Ran: “…”
Luo Ran’s mind went completely blank, and his ears turned bright red.
The readers in the comments were equally enthusiastic.
— Holy shit, hahahahaha! The author really worked current events into the story! Here’s a video of the General threatening to kill someone outside a hotel! → [Link] Girls, use your imaginations, okay? /doge
— Holy crap, you’ve cracked the code!! What if the General’s one-night-stand partner really was his secretary?! Ahhh, I’m so here for this!
— Oh my god, how did I not think of this? Could the person the General has been trying to track down all this time actually be… /covers face
Luo Ran: “…”
He had this overwhelming sense that the entire nation had stripped him naked and exposed every last one of his secrets.
Th-this was…
Mm.
Haha.
………………….
After undergoing a complete upheaval of his worldview and having his courage and sense of shame thoroughly put to the test, Luo Ran finally managed to finish reading the story.
Just then, a pop-up appeared on the forum.
— Would you like to bookmark this post? You’ll be able to enjoy every new update as soon as it’s released! (^▽^)
Luo Ran: “…”
It was almost too intelligent.
Almost as though acting under some strange compulsion, Luo Ran bookmarked it.
I-it wasn’t that he was interested in the story.
He just wanted to see what else everyone could come up with about him and Lucas.
Luo Ran put down his terminal and was just about to go to sleep when he turned over in bed. The heat and discomfort at the back of his neck immediately woke him up again.
“Mm…”
Frowning, Luo Ran struggled to sit up.
Summoning what little strength he had, he reached for the suppressant he had prepared in advance and placed on the bedside table. His hands trembling, he unscrewed the cap and injected it.
The moment the needle pierced his wrist, his entire body shuddered involuntarily.
He still carried Lucas’s temporary mark. Once he entered his heat cycle, suppressants alone could not completely eliminate the symptoms. He would also need Lucas’s pheromones.
Luo Ran took a deep breath. Helplessly, he grabbed Lucas’s coat and pulled it over his head, trying to ease the strange sensations coursing through his body.
Everything in his field of vision turned pitch-black, but being surrounded by Lucas’s powerful pheromones gave him a profound sense of security.
Luo Ran’s fingers clutched the edge of his pillow tightly. The force of his grip made his knuckles turn red.
This feeling… was awful.
It was as though he were secretly doing something immoral behind his superior’s back. And having just read that wildly sensational little smutty—romance—story about himself and Lucas made it feel even more wrong.