Chapter 150: Interstellar (ABO) 04

"I heard that this banquet was held by the elders of the Yue family behind Madam's back. They even tried to trick her into coming, but Madam didn't fall for it." The little robot sitting on its master's shoulder checked the information about today's banquet and reported to its owner.

Ke Yuandao said, "..."

He had worked hard for three days, and all his schemes had gone to waste.

How miserable. Ke Yuandao, previously full of fighting spirit, wilted like a flower beaten by frost.

Gousheng, an artificial intelligence almost invincible in this world, was browsing and searching the internet when it accidentally stumbled upon something. It reported to its master again, "Master, I have some news about Madam. Do you want to hear it?"

"Tell me," Ke Yuandao replied quickly.

"The reason Madam didn't come to the banquet today is because she went to the Throne Star's underground black-market boxing ring, and also—" Gousheng paused here.

A sense of impending doom rose in Ke Yuandao's heart. "Don't tell me the place where Ke Yuanyi went to fight is that very same one!"

"Yes indeed~" Gousheng said cheerfully, nodding. "Master, you are so smart."

"Shut up," Ke Yuandao's entire face darkened.

He couldn't understand the intentions of that damned artificial intelligence that had stolen away his wife. "What on earth is it trying to do?"

"I don't know," Gousheng shook its head.

In the previous world, the two of them had teamed up and were just a hair's breadth away from catching that fellow, but it had slipped away by accident and even carried away Madam's consciousness along the way.

"Right now, I don't even know if my wife has any memories of me," Ke Yuandao said, feeling extremely depressed.

Could that superintelligence really be trying to find a male protagonist for the female lead of this world?

With so many people in the world, why did it have to target his wife?

When Ke Yuanyi returned home with injuries, she met the gaze of her silly younger brother sitting on the sofa. "Something the matter??"

"When you went boxing today, did you run into anyone?" Ke Yuandao asked.

Ke Yuanyi recalled for a moment. "A sudden, upstart tycoon who popped out of nowhere."

Ke Yuandao felt even more aggrieved. According to the information collected by Gousheng, that upstart tycoon was none other than his wife.

His wife was about to abandon him to live happily ever after with the person right in front of him—no, he would never allow such a situation to happen.

"Sister," Ke Yuandao grabbed Ke Yuanyi's hand, his gaze deep, affectionate, and eager as he spoke, "Are you still going boxing tomorrow? Take me with you."

"I'm not going anymore," Ke Yuanyi replied, glancing down at the latest message received on her optical computer.

"Why?"

"I just got word that that underground black-market boxing ring was reported and has been shut down for good."

Ke Yuandao, "..."

"Even if it hadn't been shut down, school is about to start, and I need to prepare for it. I wouldn't have gone boxing anymore anyway."

What could Ke Yuandao do? He could only rely on Gousheng, this cheating artificial intelligence, to secretly observe Yue Xiyuan's every move from the shadows every day.

He discovered that the one who had reported the boxing ring turned out to be none other than her. After finishing the report, Yue Xiyuan had stayed inside the training grounds of the Suzaku Corps and had not come out since.

On the drill ground, soldiers were training with burning enthusiasm. Yue Xiyuan wore camouflage trousers and a black vest, with one foot propped on a step and her arms crossed as she watched the soldiers train.

The soldiers, being watched by Yue Xiyuan, felt immense pressure and doubled their training intensity.

"Major," the adjutant walked over to report to her, "the dormitories and guards at the academy have already been arranged."

"Mm, thank you for your hard work," Yue Xiyuan glanced at him and nodded.

The adjutant looked at her, noticing that her gaze remained fixed on the soldiers training on the drill ground, her retreating figure looking quite lonely. He finally couldn't help asking, "Major, if you don't like the arrangements made by the council, you could simply refuse them."

"And after refusing, spend my time in Throne Star being continuously urged to go on blind dates," Yue Xiyuan said.

"Actually, why would you ever need a blind date? I think your family is the one rushing things. You are still young, there's no need to rush into marriage," the adjutant also couldn't fathom the thoughts of the Yue family. As the youngest, most promising, and most outstanding commander of the Yue family, shouldn't she be allowed to build an even better career out in the field instead of having her own family blindly pressuring her to get married?

"Adjutant Bai," hearing his words, Yue Xiyuan turned her head with a half-smile and asked, "You usually don't pay much attention to gossip news and entertainment reports, do you?"

"Reporting to the Major, as the top graduate of the Central Military Academy, all my time and energy are spent on studies. I never look at gossip and trivia," Adjutant Bai replied with a straight face.

Yue Xiyuan looked at the adjutant with the gaze one might reserve for a rare species, clicked her tongue, and shook her head. "When you have time, you should still occasionally pay attention to gossip news."

A look of bewilderment appeared on Adjutant Bai's face. Without giving him an answer, the Major turned and strode away. "During the time I'm away, I'll have to leave the Suzaku to you all."

"Pay attention to gossip news?? Isn't that the kind of thing intelligence departments are supposed to do?" Adjutant Bai muttered, watching his superior walk away into the distance.

The opening day of Central University was finally drawing near.

Ke Yuandao prepared everything with full confidence, followed closely by three household transport robots carrying his luggage behind him.

He walked downstairs and scanned the room, but found no trace of Ke Yuanyi.

"Your sister has already gone back to school," Ke Mother explained, noticing his gaze. "She didn't mean to leave you behind. Their military academy is quite strict, and they have to arrive earlier than students of other colleges."

It would have been better if she hadn't explained; the explanation only made it clear that Ke Yuanyi had dismissed him as a burden and slipped away early.

Ke Yuandao didn't mind. "I'm leaving too."

With that, he strode out the door.

Ke Mother chased after him anxiously. "Are you really sure you don't want me to drive you back to school?"

"No need. I'm already so big, if you still drop me off, my classmates will make fun of me," Ke Yuandao tactfully declined Ke Mother's offer to drive him to campus.

Hearing this, Ke Mother thought it made some sense and hesitated for a moment. "Then be careful yourself, and call me when you get to your dorm."

"Got it," Ke Yuandao nodded, turning away without looking back while leading the three transport robots.

The Ke family home was very far from Central University, which occupied an independent tract of land on Throne Star. If students didn't fly their own spacecraft, they had to go to a designated station to catch a magnetic levitation train to the university's territory.

Starting from the Ke family estate, Ke Yuandao would need to transfer trains several times, taking a considerable amount of time to arrive.

Actually, letting Ke Mother drive him in her spacecraft would have saved much more time.

"Gousheng, where is my wife?" Ke Yuandao asked the little robot on his shoulder.

The robot's mung-bean-sized eyes flashed with light. "Madam has already boarded the magnetic levitation train, in the third carriage."

Indeed, the reason Ke Yuandao put himself through so much trouble was precisely because his wife was also taking the magnetic levitation train back to school today.

Ke Yuandao was full of confidence, planning to engineer an intimate and accidental encounter with his beloved wife.