Exclusive Possession – CH 101

Chapter 101. [Bonus Chapter] The Last Robot (Part 2)

If Yi Pucheng had known that Hua Xiaosang could only drink one cup of alcohol before falling asleep and was currently talking to him in a daze, he would never have launched a shockwave attack on her.

By the time he realized she was completely unmoved by the danger, it was too late. Although her mental energy automatically rebounded and resisted most of his power, the remaining small amount was still enough to knock her headfirst into the pond, causing her to cough and choke repeatedly.

He stood on the shore, looking rather disheartened: “Come out and fight properly.”

The once-renowned Hua Xiaosang thrashed about in the water like a fragile lamb: “Bastard… I… cannot… swim…”

After Yi Pucheng pulled her out, whether drunk or drowned, the palace guards arrived on the scene. Not wanting to be accused of attacking a colleague, Yi Pucheng wrapped her in his clothes and jumped over the palace walls.

Yi Pucheng took her to the riverbank. It was windy there; hopefully, the wind would wake her up.

The moon was dim, and the river was clear that night. The grass on the bank was as blue as velvet. He held her and walked slowly forward. Along the way, they saw many homeless people, some lying under bridge piers, others suddenly collapsing with pale faces—the plague had become more and more prevalent recently.

Yi Pucheng found a flat patch of grass and tossed her onto it. The woman’s flesh was surprisingly soft; she didn’t even utter a sound when he threw her. Yi Pucheng sat beside her, gazed at the starry sky for a while, then looked down at her.

She was quite different from what he remembered. Her oval face was a little more pointed, and her features seemed to had fully developed. Even sleeping so peacefully, her contours were very striking. Her wet military uniform clung to her body, with water still dripping from the trouser legs and cuffs. Yi Pucheng frowned, first stripping off his own upper body, leaving only his military trousers, and then removing hers.

She was only wearing a white shirt and shorts. The shirt reached her upper thighs, covering the shorts. A homeless man passed by, staring at her snow-white thighs and the faint outline of her breasts, and whistled. Yi Pucheng glared at him with a stern face, then scooped her up from the ground and wrapped her in his freshly dried military uniform shirt.

Why wasn’t she awake yet?

Yi Pucheng was also tired. He put his arm around her waist and lay back on the grass. The woman’s body was so soft and warm, like… He didn’t know what it was like, but it felt wonderful. Yi Pucheng squinted, his large hand tracing down her chest, and he fell asleep as he touched her.

When he woke up, it was already daylight. The morning was cold, and there was hardly anyone around. Yi Pucheng was awakened by the moans coming from his arms. He then realized that something was wrong with Hua Xiaosang—her face was flushed, she was listless, and her forehead was burning hot.

“Damn! What kind of constitution is that!” Yi Pucheng really wanted to throw her into the river.

He forgot that the woman in front of him was just an ordinary human being, not a robot like him. How could she not catch a cold and get a fever after being exposed to the wind all night?

In the end, Yi Pucheng had no choice but to take her home.

The “home” he referred to was a house Yi Pucheng had bought in the capital, where he usually stayed. Only a part-time cleaning lady was there to clean. She was a little surprised to see him carrying a woman back, but she didn’t dare to ask any questions.

He carried Hua Xiaosang into the room, and was about to hand her over to the hourly worker when his hand was grabbed. Looking down, he saw her hot, slender white hand grasping his little finger.

“Cold…” she mumbled groggily, “So cold…”

Yi Pucheng knew that people with fevers experience alternating chills and fever, so he patiently dragged a blanket over her and wrapped her in it. Unexpectedly, although she was disoriented, her reactions were surprisingly quick; she pulled him along, and the two of them fell onto the bed. Like an octopus, she clung to his tall frame, burying her head in his warm chest, her voice anxious, as if afraid he would leave: “Mommy, Mommy…”

Yi Pucheng: “…”

——

Later, someone asked Yi Pucheng why he was so devoted to pursuing Hua Xiaosang. Yi Pucheng smiled calmly and said, “I’m not an irresponsible man.”

Hua Xiaosang scoffed at this.

But the truth is, that night he saw the girl he once regarded as an invincible goddess in his arms, tears and snot streaming down her face. The feeling was truly indescribable. And watching her slender, snow-white arms wrapped around his strong, muscular arms; watching her long black hair fall softly and ticklishly on his chest… it felt so good.

They didn’t actually do anything, but when Hua Xiaosang woke up, she indeed wasn’t wearing any clothes and was lying in his arms. One of his large hands was on her buttocks, squeezing it hard; his other hand was holding her hand, and she was almost completely held in his embrace.

“What did you do?!” Hua Xiaosang suddenly jumped up from the bed, her whole body enveloped in a dazzling white spiritual light.

Yi Pucheng also woke up, propped his arm behind his head, and looked at her with a particularly relaxed expression: “Hua Xiaosang, I’m very satisfied with your body. Be my woman?”

Hua Xiaosang unleashed a beam of light at Yi Pucheng’s head, sending him staggering back several meters before crashing into a wall, narrowly avoiding the fierce attack. Hua Xiaosang, knowing her own terrible drinking manners, slammed the door and left.

Yi Pucheng made a decisive move and began pursuing Hua Xiaosang.

This process was long and arduous, but it was also under his control.

Hua Xiaosang, of course, didn’t accept him.

Although the Time Clan was quite open-minded and didn’t reject robots—in fact, some Time Clan elders even advised Hua Xiaosang to accept Yi Pucheng—he’s very powerful and influential in the military, and a marriage alliance with her would be very beneficial to the clan. The only drawback was that robots couldn’t reproduce, so she wouldn’t have children. But what did it matter?

Hua Xiaosang still refused.

Yi Pucheng had never pursued anyone, but he was cunning enough. After observing many people, he naturally learned to do so and summarized his secret in two words: relentless pursuit.

So wherever Hua Xiaosang went, he followed. When she went to the battlefield, he led his troops to flank her; when she went to cultivate barren planets, he dressed like a farmer, drove a pioneering machine, and smiled at her frequently; when she returned to the Planet of Light for vacation, he couldn’t leave the capital, so he asked a group of successful Children of Light to send her love letters every day…

In the end, even His Majesty the Emperor, when summoning Hua Xiaosang one day, spoke up: “Girl, what are you hesitating about? Don’t tell me you don’t have feelings for him. I heard he was wounded in the last battle, and you secretly used your space fortress to jump hundreds of light-years to see him overnight. He doesn’t know about this, but I have heard about it…”

Hua Xiaosang blushed deeply: “Your Majesty, why are you so gossipy? Can we not discuss private matters during work hours?”

Emerging from the palace, Hua Xiaosang hadn’t walked far when she sensed someone behind her. Turning around, she saw Yi Pucheng, dressed in a simple military shirt and trousers, tall and dashing, following behind, a faint smile playing on his lips. Sunlight filtered through the trees behind him, casting dappled shadows on his face, making him appear sculpted.

An eternal sculpture.

Looking into his bloodshot robotic eyes, Hua Xiaosang seemed to hear the sigh of time itself.

She finally spoke to him:

“Yi Pucheng, do you really want to be with me?”

“Nonsense. Why would I bother with all this if I don’t want you to?”

Hua Xiaosang slowly approached him, looking at his unruly face through a beam of bright golden sunlight.

“Then let me ask you a question. If you’ve thought it through, we can be together.”

Yi Pucheng’s smile widened: “A hundred questions are a piece of cake.”

“You are a robot; I’m human. You’re immortal, with eternal life spanning hundreds or thousands of years. But I will only live to be a little over a hundred years old at most, and I will grow old, become ugly, and become unable to walk…”

Yi Pucheng’s eyes also darkened: “Hua Xiaosang, you don’t need to think of me so superficially. I just… I’ve only ever loved you. From the moment you casually and smugly told me your name was Hua Xiaosang, I felt a jolt of electricity coursing through my body for the first time. Yes, I was that annoying; I love the only woman in this world who could bully me.

“As a robot, one must have a heart of stone and not be easily moved. Whether you were old or ugly, to a robot, the body and appearance were the most meaningless things.”

Hua Xiaosang shook her head: “No, I’m not worried that you will look down on me in the future. Why would you look down on me? I’m so good! I just want to… Yi Pucheng, you are a robot, which means we can’t have offspring, and I would die one day. So, Yi Pucheng, if you truly love me, if we love each other wholeheartedly, how would you spend the rest of your life, thousands of years, all alone? Do you really want to be with a human who can’t be with you until the end? When I thought of that day, I…”

“If we can love each other for a lifetime, after you die, I will spend the rest of my life remembering you.”

——

The days of love were the sweetest times in the world. Neither of them was conventional, and they immediately used all their connections to transfer to the same fleet. Yi Pucheng became the commander, and Hua Xiaosang the deputy commander.

Using their positions for personal gain was perfectly natural. During the day, Yi Pucheng would sit in the command center, and Hua Xiaosang would sit on his lap. Sometimes they would handle official business together; sometimes, when there was nothing to do, they would kiss and end up in bed. Yi Pucheng was such a passionate and assertive man that he had the First General of the Time Clan completely under his control. Of course, if she insisted on something, he would listen to her.

Some racists had asked Hua Xiaosang, “Why were you with a robot? Whether robots could experience true love was still not proven by the academic community.”

Hua Xiaosang replied, “Why would I need the academic community to verify my love?”

Upon hearing this, Yi Pucheng smiled faintly and remained silent. He then turned around and ordered the mechanical guards to give the man a severe beating.

Hua Xiaosang’s favorite thing was to wander in the universe.

Of course, this didn’t refer to actual wandering, but rather to the two of them sailing through the universe in a spaceship. Sometimes they would jump thousands of light-years across desolate, uninhabited planetary belts; other times they would crash-land on planets inhabited by barbarians, where the two first-rank generals would suffer through months of forced labor until headquarters sent troops to rescue them. The two, dressed in clothes woven from leaves given to them by the barbarians, boarded the spaceship affectionately, only to be met with the entire crew of pilots bursting into laughter…

They also had their disagreements. Yi Pucheng had risen through the ranks of the military from the very bottom, a place teeming with all sorts of people, and he had acquired a lot of roguishness from it. In many ways, whether on the battlefield or in daily life, he was a veritable rogue. Hua Xiaosang, on the other hand, came from a prestigious family and became a fleet commander at sixteen. Although she had a free-spirited personality, she was methodical in her work. Working on the same fleet, their opinions inevitably differed.

For example, regarding conquering the natives of a star system, Yi Pucheng’s idea was to first send spies to the planet’s surface, seize key military strongholds, capture military leaders, and then launch a surprise attack. Hua Xiaosang, however, insisted on following the laws of the galaxy, issuing a notice to others, and only launching a large-scale military operation after they refused to submit.

Yi Pucheng scoffed: “I’ve seen plenty of these natives; they will never submit. This will only cause more casualties among your soldiers.”

Hua Xiaosang: “Everyone has the right to freedom!”

Yi Pucheng: “…Okay, I will listen to you.”

He then ordered his soldiers to secretly carry out his plan. By the time Hua Xiaosang discovered it, the situation was already decided.

So Hua Xiaosang stormed off, leaving behind the deputy commander’s seal, and piloted her solo spaceship back to the Planet of Light. Yi Pucheng was both amused and exasperated and had no choice but to ask his superiors for leave and hurry after her in his spaceship.

Hua Xiaosang hid in her room, refusing to see him, while a large group of Children of Light gathered outside to watch the spectacle. Yi Pucheng tried to coax Hua Xiaosang out for a long time, using both soft and hard tactics, but she wouldn’t come out, while the Children of Light around her were extremely noisy.

Finally, Yi Pucheng lost his patience. With a single strike of his mental power, he shattered the wall of her room. After a deafening roar, dust filled the air. She stared at him in disbelief while he pulled out a ring he had prepared beforehand and knelt on one knee: “Xiaosang, marry me. You can have a lifetime to blame me.”

Hua Xiaosang trembled with anger: “Is this how you propose? Is this how you apologize?”

He was clearly in the wrong, yet he still went too far by proposing. How could she…say yes in such a fit of anger?

Should she say yes or no?

Someone nearby laughed, “Are you silly? Why didn’t you propose when she was in a good mood?”

Yi Pucheng seemed to realize something only then: “I’m sorry, I’ve never proposed. I will propose again after you forgive me.” He looked somewhat dejected and pulled the ring closer to his chest…

“Wait!” Hua Xiaosang shouted without thinking.

Everyone around laughed, including Yi Pucheng.

Hua Xiaosang’s face hardened; she snatched the ring from him, looked down at it, and replied arrogantly, “I haven’t agreed to be with you yet. Let me think about it. Maybe after I’ve thought it over, I will reject you.”

Despite saying that, Yi Pucheng still scooped her up in his arms and kissed her passionately, saying, “Hmm, take your time to think about it. I will wait.”

Hua Xiaosang blushed.

She didn’t want to even consider it. She’d wanted to marry him for a long time.

——

A woman who got proposed to by the man she loves was probably the happiest woman in the world.

Hua Xiaosang lay on the bed, holding the ring up to the moonlight, and grinned foolishly for half the night.

How should I talk to him tomorrow?

Yi Pucheng, I’ve reluctantly decided to marry you for now. But don’t get too cocky. If you ever do anything to wrong me, I will kick you into a black hole…

“Knock, knock, knock!” The knocking sounded on the door.

Xiaosang put away the ring and sat up: “Come in.”

They were the elder brother and the clan chief.

The older brother looked grave, and the mother’s eyes were red-rimmed. When she saw her, large tears streamed down her face: “Xiaosang…”

The older brother’s voice was a little dry: “Xiaosang, I have something to tell you on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor and the Chief of the Time Clan.”

Hua Xiaosang’s heart sank suddenly.

That night, after her brother and mother left, Hua Xiaosang sat alone facing the moon for a long time.

Finally, tears streamed down her face as she buried her face in the pillow, sobbing uncontrollably.

Yi Pucheng, Yi Pucheng. They said good dreams were easily shattered, but how could our future, our sweet future, shatter so quickly?