half an hour later.
The famous Rose House suspended a kilometer above Capital Star, this is a vast and magnificent rotunda.
The atrium is a circular flat ground covered with carpets. The circular terrace extends from the bottom to the top, and the stars and lights are sprinkled from the high transparent sky. This is more like a court than a conference room, with a structure somewhat like the Colosseum.
Eight crimson velvet high-back chairs are arranged on both sides of the round table, representing the eight major races of the muses. Except for the patriarch of the Yu clan who is far away in Sky City, the patriarchs of all clans have already sat down on the seven chairs.
The patriarchs looked solemn.
The stands were also filled with hundreds of thousands of spectators, all of whom looked solemn.
In addition to the stands, there are cameras floating in the air broadcasting to the whole country. Nearly 90% of the citizens have logged on to Starnet and entered the online conference room.
It has been six years since the Muse last used the House of Roses when a certain legal issue was disputed.
Wen Xingze: "..."
Wen Xingze was the host of the meeting last time, but this time, he was sitting in the exclusive auditorium.
Commonly known as mascot seats.
Douglas, the Prime Minister of the cabinet who presided over the meeting, stepped in through the gate. Douglas is a very typical school of old scholars among the dwarves.
Completely different from a gambler like Eli, Douglas looks like a five or six-year-old boy, but he wears glasses with thick bottle bottoms and golden glasses chains hanging down. He wears a red robe and always has a small face.
Douglas held the golden bell and shook it lightly.
The noise of the audience gradually stopped.
"Wait," Wen Xingze sat on the small suspended swivel chair in the center like a children's chair, and raised his confusion from the bottom of his heart, "Are you serious? Because I want to fall in love, so you held a national meeting? !"
Douglas: "We take it very seriously, and this is the will of the entire nation."
The patriarch of the Mermaid Clan, Unknown Xia: "It is you who are 'minors under 200 years old' and want to fall in love with 'the king of a neighboring country that does not have friendly diplomatic relations with our country'."
Lei Qi, patriarch of the dragon clan: "Non-participants should not speak at will."
The little robot ran up in response, beeping, and placed a document related to the meeting in front of each patriarch. Wen Xingze also wanted to reach out to pick up the document, but found nothing.
Yes.
The Muse Empire has a good tradition that has lasted for more than 20 years. When some major events need to be made, a large meeting will be held chaired by the prime minister and voted by all the people.
Here, they have seriously discussed human rights issues of various ethnic groups, diplomatic issues, legal issues... and now, Wang's love affair.
And the problem that the robot parents were mainly responsible for - Zai Zai's puppy love crisis - was finally officially put on the table and thrown to all parents.
The robot carefully put the milk in Wen Xingze's hand. Wen Xingze bit the straw and continued to protest: "Gululu, this is too unreasonable Gululu!"
He will be laughed at by the universe.
And he hasn't confessed to Chi Yan yet, if Chi Yan saw the televised meeting on the street, wouldn't everything be revealed
Wen Xingze drank the milk too fast and couldn't help hiccupping. All the parents, including the patriarchs, showed nervous and soft-hearted expressions, and looked at him seriously.
The audience in the stands had already carefully looked Wang from head to toe back and forth. At this time, many audience members subconsciously leaned forward, wanting to reach out and pat him on the back.
It wasn't until Wen Xingze stopped that the Prime Minister glanced at him and reminded him in a low voice:
"As the king of a country, it's not proper to act like a schoolboy in his early 100s."
Wen Xingze: "?"
Robot representative No. 015, who has always spoken very little at large meetings, even said, "Please, don't, act like a baby."
Wen Xingze: "???"
Wen Xingze completely shut up.
The meeting started in such a weird atmosphere.
"This topic, we will mainly discuss from the following aspects," Douglas pressed the laser pointer, and pictures and words were projected on the light screen, "First of all, it is the most important concern of all the people, His Majesty's love motives, and love will affect His Majesty. What kind of influence does the life experience and personality shaping have on people. Our cabinet has conducted a potential risk analysis through the database and similar past cases... "
Wen Xingze: "..."
The Prime Minister deserves to be the Prime Minister.
Under the auspices of Douglas, the whole country conducted a very in-depth analysis and debate on this issue. The database covers two universes from ancient times to the present. The huge amount of information and the elegant argumentation can almost write ten SCI papers.
Wen Xingze felt extremely ashamed from the beginning, and fell asleep after listening to it. Except for him, everyone else listened very carefully and actively participated in the interaction during the voting session.
Wen Xingze dozed off listlessly.
"..."
The second Wen Xingze fell into a deep sleep, the little robot covered him with a blanket at the right time.
And Douglas' long speech like chanting sutras came to an abrupt end, and the discussions among the audience in the stands also quickly fell silent.
All looked at their king.
This is the first time for many of them to really see the king.
Wen Xingze curled up in the suede seat, half of his chin was covered by the blanket, the tip of his nose was a little red, and his eyelashes fluctuated slightly with his breathing. Light from the sky surrounded the conference room and embraced him.
Douglas looked at the background data of the voting. Except for the neutral votes, there are very few parents who approve of Zai Zai dating.
Although Wen Xingze is the king of a country, he is actually not good at thinking about some too serious or complicated topics, especially conspiracy theories. But citizens are different. The more innocent the child in the family, the more parents have to worry about it.
Chi Yan was a man they couldn't see through.
Except for the part shown by Chi Yan, they actually knew nothing about the monarch of the neighboring country, his character, character, life experience and even his origin. The risk was too great.
Of course, there is also a little bit of subtle jealousy.
They only have one cub.
Being so young and not wary of people, what if he was deceived when he fell in love? What if emotionally hurt? What if the other party approached him with ill intentions, just looking at the benefits he could bring
They are like parents whose children leave home for the first time to go to kindergarten alone. They are worried about traffic, human traffickers, and industrial pollution from flowers, plants and dogs on the roadside. They want to take a microscope to examine everything carefully to make sure there is no danger lurking.
But falling in love is not going to kindergarten.
Moreover, His Majesty the King they are proud of is not some elementary school student in kindergarten.
Douglas reaches for his glasses:
“…we may be overprotective.”
The entire House of Roses fell into a long silence.
They looked at their king, no matter how old he was, sleeping like a child.
But he also lit a lamp on a desolate planet, picked up scrapped robots from the garbage recycling station, went to the main star of the Dragon Clan to accompany them through the cold winter, and rescued the mermaid from the auction house...
Wen Xingze would definitely not fall asleep casually in other places, just like when he was lurking in the auction house, he never closed his eyes for three whole days.
But he fell asleep here, unsuspecting and undefended in this House of Roses under the watchful eyes of hundreds of thousands of people.
Just like Wen Xingze believed in them.
They should also believe in their king, in those whom the king has identified.
The biggest risk in falling in love is just falling in love. With them around, Wang will definitely not have any unpleasant memories... Of course, Chi Yan's probationary period has just begun.
Douglas looked at the voting data in the background. From this second onwards, the number of yes votes began to skyrocket.
"..."
Wen Xingze slept very soundly and satiated.
Prime Minister Douglas put on his glasses, looked through the gap in the revolving door of the vast House, and exchanged glances with Chi Yan outside the door.
The arrogant monarch, who had never shown any weakness anywhere, bowed earnestly and somewhat clumsily in the direction of the parents.
Wen Xingze felt that he just took a nap, and the meeting was over.
"Wait, why did you still vote?" Wen Xingze was confused, "What was the result?"
The parents seemed to have mixed feelings in their hearts, and then Douglas said: "We agreed, about the relationship."
The representative of the vinegar blood race was Isabella. Isabella flicked her long hair sourly, and laughed mockingly: "Nonsense."
Wen Xingze touched the tip of his nose: "Not necessarily, Mr. Chi may not like me that much."
Isabella flicked her long hair again, and laughed even more mockingly: "Nonsense."
Wen Xingze: "..."
"You must come back before eleven o'clock, and you cannot stay outside overnight." Douglas warned, and then stuffed Wen Xingze into the levitator.
A lot happened today.
Wen Xingze was sitting on the levitator in a trance, looking out of the window at the melting night and the lights of the Festival of Light. Now is the most lively night of the Festival of Light, and the streets are bustling with people.
After a while, the levitator stopped at the entrance of the busy city, Wen Xingze got off the levitator, and saw Chi Yan at a glance in the dim light.
It was already late autumn in Capital Star, and it had just rained, and the wind blowing on our face was a bit cool. Chi Yan changed out of his military uniform, holding an umbrella with the eaves tilted towards him.
Coincidentally, both of them wore the same masks they had worn in the casino before.
Wen Xingze looked sideways at Chi Yan, just like when they met in the elevator for the first time, Chi Yan's eyes were very beautifully shaped, deeply sunken in the eye sockets, softly trapped in the fireworks of this world, while Wen Xingze was in The very center of all light.
The snow in the distant mountains will melt.
In fact, Wen Xingze had just been thinking hard about how to confess his love, but when the matter came to an end, he suddenly forgot all about it.
I knew I should have made a cheat sheet.
Fortunately, he wasn't the only one who was nervous, Chi Yan's eyes were very calm, but the level of nervousness might have surpassed that of Wen Xingze. They had to start chatting about irrelevant topics.
Wen Xingze: "Speaking of which, yesterday I saw that potato chips were on sale in the supermarket downstairs."
Chi Yan: "Yes."
Wen Xingze: "Although I have a toothache, I still like sweets."
Chi Yan: "I like you."
Wen Xingze's thoughts were still stuck on the topic of sweets: "Oh, I think the chocolate I bought before—"
"..."
Wen Xingze's footsteps stopped.
He took off the fox mask and turned to look at Chi Yan blankly.
Chi Yan also stopped in his tracks, and he also paused for two seconds, seeming to realize that what Wen Xingze said just now was 'I like sweets very much', not anything else.
Chi Yan moved his eyes away, unable to keep looking at Wen Xingze.
Wen Xingze's brain also began to heat up, his whole body was a little lack of oxygen, and his light-colored eyes, which were damp with mist, began to shine. He said slowly: "Mr. Chi, I didn't hear clearly just now..."
Chi Yan pursed her thin lips slightly.
Through the mask, Wen Xingze couldn't see Chi Yan's specific expression clearly. Like an elementary school student who couldn't hide his excitement when he fell in love for the first time, he couldn't help but continue to confirm with Chi Yan: "I really didn't hear clearly, just now the rumors were too loud. It’s too old, and how can it be enough to say this kind of thing only once?”
The night wind with some vegetation and moisture suddenly blew by, and the umbrella Chi Yan was holding fell to the ground, and was carried by the wind to spin around twice.
But no one had the energy to pick up that umbrella.
Chi Yan is an overly rigid person, it is always difficult for him to express his inner feelings directly, every word he utters has been considered many times in his heart.
And actions are always easier than words.
so.
— When Wen Xingze asked Chi Yan for the third time, Chi Yan took off his mask and kissed him.