A Disguised Scum Alpha Marked Her Aloof Ex-Wife - Chapter 33

Zhu Yu borrowed two spoons and a new set of tableware from the cafeteria.

From those subtle silences, she sensed the possibility of taking an inch and reaching for a foot. If Bai Shuzhou tacitly allowed it, maybe she could go in and eat with her. Using mealtime, they could talk about many things. Perhaps Bai Shuzhou would remember…

The cafeteria chef had a simple, honest smile. Not only did she readily give her the tableware, she even carefully asked whether Zhu Yu could give her an autograph.

She pulled out a blank notebook from under the table and praised Zhu Yu again and again, saying she was even more handsome than in the star network footage, and that she and the princess were truly a match made in heaven!

Heh. Why was this chef only saying the honest truth?

Zhu Yu lifted her chin slightly, pink bubbles silently popping around her.

Holding the tableware with both hands, she was just about to free one hand to sign when Melno appeared from who knew where and snatched the pen away.

The woman’s sharp brows and eyes swept coldly over Zhu Yu.

“Your Highness Zhu Yu, members of the royal family are not permitted to give out signatures casually, especially not on blank paper.”

She clearly used an honorific, yet the pressure was extremely strong. That reprimanding tone made Zhu Yu instinctively straighten her back.

Melno glanced at the chef. “You’re fired.”

Two attendants silently emerged from the darkness. One hand covered the chef’s mouth, and they completely ignored her terrified struggle, dragging her out cleanly and efficiently.

Everything happened without a sound. The air returned to deathly silence, as though nothing had happened.

Zhu Yu’s pupils shrank.

Wasn’t this too much? This was too exaggerated?!

Her eyes widened. Just as she was about to plead for mercy, Melno had already coldly curved her lips.

“She violated the employee handbook. These are all covered under confidentiality regulations. To occupy a position is to perform its duties. This is the most basic principle of being human.”

“If you had signed your name just now, in the near future, it might have appeared anywhere.”

“Your Highness Zhu Yu, do not forget your identity. An unintentional action from you may bring enormous consequences to yourself and the entire Empire. Please be careful with your words and conduct.”

Her calm tone struck like pearls, each word meaningful.

A chill climbed up Zhu Yu’s spine, and cold sweat silently seeped out.

One second ago, they had been chatting and laughing happily. The next, the other person had disappeared.

For the first time, she felt the coldness and tyranny of imperial power so directly. And this was only the tip of the iceberg.

Melno watched her swallow, looking like an obedient student who had learned her lesson.

“You won’t kill her, right?” Zhu Yu’s voice was a little dry.

Melno was silent for half a second, then gave a half-smile. “Perhaps not.”

After saying that, she bowed and left directly.

“Please don’t make it too serious. I was the one who talked to her first. I’ll definitely be more careful in the future—!”

There was clearly more in Melno’s words, creating an inexplicable unease.

Zhu Yu stood there blankly for a while. The holographic screen hanging high in the center of the hall was scrolling through reports of an energy fluctuation somewhere. She tightened her grip on the tray and decided to go find Bai Shuzhou first.

Eating was important.

Eating with her wife was the most important.

However, when she returned to the room entrance, Bai Shuzhou had already gone out.

Even the Snow Leopard Knights guarding the door had been replaced with two unfamiliar, cold faces. No matter how Zhu Yu probed, they refused to reveal even half a word.

When she asked too many times, they only threw out the phrase “routine rehabilitation treatment.”

Zhu Yu came back holding the tray, then left holding the tray. The news broadcast served as background noise, a little noisy.

Only after being sent back to the bedchamber in a luxurious private car did Zhu Yu realize—

She had actually brought the cafeteria’s tableware back too.

The stainless-steel tray lay in the magnificent room, cold and abrupt, silently reminding her that none of this was a dream.

Zhu Yu scratched her hair in distress.

If she had known, she would not have gone to get the spoon!

She also did not know what would happen to that chef. At the lightest, she would probably lose her job, right?

Melno had not looked like she was joking at all.

The ban against Zhu Yu had only just been lifted before she left today. Zhu Yu had even been glad that she had finally regained freedom, but now it seemed this world really was dangerous!

She had to be careful.

Even more careful.

Zhu Yu threw herself onto the bed. The maids cleaned very diligently, and Bai Shuzhou’s scent had already become very faint. It lingered at the tip of her nose, fleeting as the wind.

After sweetness came only uneasy loneliness.

Ding-dong—

The terminal lit up. A marked special concern appeared at the top.

Zhu Yu instinctively tapped it open, and from the dense text, she instantly caught her own name and Bai Shuzhou’s.

This was a marriage agreement!

She immediately changed from her improper sprawled position to sitting upright. Although no one else could see her, Zhu Yu still could not help sitting properly on the bed and holding her breath.

This document seemed to have some kind of advanced encryption. Only when her pupils swept over the text would the words appear line by line. It looked extremely high-end.

The beginning was a long declaration stating that during the existence of the marriage agreement, Zhu Yu did not possess the royal family’s political decision-making authority. At the same time, she did not need to bear the corresponding obligations either. The boundaries were drawn unusually clearly.

This agreement was more than sixty pages long. Zhu Yu’s heart sank. She understood very clearly that this was to prevent her from coveting power.

It was just that everything between them was divided too clearly. It did not look like a marriage agreement at all, but more like a modern-era contract of indenture…

She hurriedly swept downward. The bold, capitalized compensation included: sovereignty over two third-tier planets, one million star coins in monthly allowance, and additional wages for special services.

Her empty chest seemed to be blocked by something, then stuffed full by a string of zeros.

For a moment, Zhu Yu forgot to breathe. She covered the numbers with her finger and counted them one by one.

Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million…

One million every month!

This heaven-sent wealth struck Zhu Yu until she saw stars.

If she remembered correctly, only a very small number of nobles possessed the “mining rights” to energy planets. But what this contract granted was complete “sovereignty.”

This meant that if she wished, she could even ascend the throne on those few third-tier planets.

What she received was sovereignty!

She was not an official imperial princess consort, not a noble, but a local emperor!!

“Am I really not dreaming…”

Zhu Yu pinched her wrist hard.

The terminal seemed to recognize her doubt, and Bai Shuzhou’s personal electronic seal faintly appeared in the background of the agreement. The royal emblem was a silver dragon emperor spreading its wings as if about to fly.

Zhu Yu suddenly realized that these should originally have been Bai Shuzhou’s fiefs.

Although Bai Shuzhou had never left the imperial capital star, both the late emperor and Bai Qianze had been very generous to her.

Under the enormous temptation of planetary sovereignty, that sky-high one-million monthly allowance became very small. As for those special services…

Zhu Yu concentrated fully and read downward word by word.

The agreement euphemistically referred to her healing ability as “companionship services.” As long as Bai Shuzhou’s physical condition improved, rewards would be granted according to the degree of improvement.

It was written in black and white, unusually detailed. It even included the comfort required during a sensitive period.

Some of the wording was so direct it burned the hands.

Was this something that could be written down?!

Zhu Yu tightly clutched the quilt, the roots of her ears heating up. The icy black-and-white text was forcefully read by her guilty conscience into a different color.

She had to breathe deeply, silently scream, look left and right, pretend to admire the scenery in the bedroom, and do a great deal of mental preparation before she could barely calm down and continue reading a few more lines.

Then she got stuck.

Then she continued silently screaming.

She had never dreamed that such intimate matters could actually be clearly priced and written into a contract.

It did not look like a normal marriage agreement. It looked more like a thorough arrangement of being kept, with treatment so generous it left one speechless.

What an enormous bowl of soft rice.

She and Bai Shuzhou kissed, and Bai Shuzhou would even pay her extra money.

How could there be such a thing under heaven!

Zhu Yu did not dare dream so boldly even in her dreams.

But why was Bai Shuzhou being so good to her?

Had Bai Shuzhou not lost her memory?

Zhu Yu scrolled back upward and racked her brain. Finally, from those exquisitely worded clauses, she realized some small problems.

Ever since the last time she had abducted Bai Shuzhou and become a wanted criminal, her military rank and political treatment had already been revoked and had never been restored. Now she held only the empty title of “Your Highness.” This was equivalent to her military authority being hollowed out.

From a carefree military officer to the imperial princess’s kept consort.

Zhu Yu had no ambition and did not like violence or war even more. She accepted this kind of thing very well.

Being able to safely stay by Bai Shuzhou’s side all the time was clearly a reward!

As for how to make Bai Shuzhou fall in love with her and not always treat everything coldly as a transaction…

She would think of a way.

Zhu Yu was in a good mood. Hugging the quilt, she rolled back and forth, lazily scrolling to the very bottom, preparing to sign.

Did this even need confirmation?

She had absolutely no reason to refuse.

Just as she lifted her finger, she suddenly noticed an extremely easy-to-miss line of small text at the very bottom.

“During the continuation of the marriage agreement, if Zhu Yu commits any act of harming Bai Shuzhou, or any infidelity, including both physical and mental aspects…”

“Immediate execution.”

Immediate execution?!

Seeing these words in the interstellar era left Zhu Yu dazed for a moment. In disbelief, she flipped through again and confirmed that she really was looking at a legal document.

And when she had accidentally touched the signature area just now, a thirty-second countdown had already begun at the top of the screen.

Failure to sign before the deadline would be regarded as automatic forfeiture.

Thinking of the original body’s criminal record, this kind of clause actually seemed quite reasonable.

Zhu Yu gritted her teeth. Stimulated by this sudden threat, she instantly made her decision and immediately signed and sealed it, afraid Bai Shuzhou would regret it.

She was not the original scumbag. Not committing domestic violence and not cheating were simply the most basic requirements of being a person!!

Zhu Yu believed in herself.

If one day she truly turned into a beast who would violate something like this, Bai Shuzhou would not even need to act. Zhu Yu would count three, two, one, and jump by herself.

The signature she wrote was golden, flashing with dazzling light on the large screen. Then it slowly rolled up, disappeared, and was stamped with a bright red seal.

Almost at the same time, a notification of a change in her bank balance popped up.

One million star coins had arrived.

Note: Allowance, voluntary gift.

“…”

Very unpromisingly, Zhu Yu counted the digits one by one again.

For now, she still did not understand how special and precious her ability was. But instinctively, she felt that giving this much money and even sharing a small portion of territory—how could that not count as true love?

Her fingertip accidentally slid over a hidden compartment, and the sender information of the agreement popped out. The saved nickname was “Sugar Cube.”

The chat history had been deleted very cleanly. Zhu Yu froze slightly, belatedly realizing this should be Bai Shuzhou’s private account.

So they had each other’s contact information after all. It had only been hidden by the original body.

She had thought Bai Shuzhou had been deleted, blocked, and forgotten outside.

Before Zhu Yu could secretly rejoice, her lips had only just curved when she watched helplessly as the chat boxes below began crazily multiplying and refreshing like a virus.

—There were far more hidden contacts left by the original body than Bai Shuzhou alone.

When the list finally finished loading, Zhu Yu shakily tapped into one contact’s details and nearly blacked out.

In that person’s notes section, densely packed records stretched longer than a life.

Aside from name and birthday, there were also position, place of origin, verbal habits, golden hair and blue eyes, preference for long blue dresses, golfing every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon at Yunding, hatred of insects, food preferences including no spice…

Zhu Yu scrolled downward in horror and discovered with even greater horror that the original body had made such excessively detailed notes on almost every single person. It was practically a complete personal archive. Added together, they were probably longer than the marriage agreement she had just signed.

What was this?

A scummy Alpha’s self-cultivation manual?

Only the pinned contact “Sugar Cube” had an empty notes section. Not a single word.

How could she be so careless with her own wife!

Zhu Yu clenched her fist. An indescribable sourness and anger surged into her heart. She did not want to think about how much neglect and grievance Bai Shuzhou had once suffered in this relationship.

But the name “Sugar Cube” sounded very cute, and somehow suited Bai Shuzhou.

White and sharply edged, but sweet inside. One tiny cube could be held in the mouth and savored for a long time.

However, apart from those surface-level, almost public pieces of information, Zhu Yu did not seem to understand Bai Shuzhou much either. She was not even as good as those detailed notes.

For now, she still did not know Bai Shuzhou’s true living habits, interests, daily routine…

Or her birthday.

Worse still, those previously hidden contacts had accumulated countless unread messages.

No wonder when Zhu Yu had first unlocked the terminal, she had wondered why no friends had sent condolences. The original body’s relationships had actually been handled this badly.

It would have been better if they had stayed bad all the way through!

So many of them, all hidden. How guilty had she been?!

Red dots continuously appeared. The 99+ messages instantly drowned the bewildered Zhu Yu.

The terminal’s message notifications were even 3D, repeatedly striking her storm-tossed heart.

Zhu Yu stared deeply at these enthusiastic chat boxes before her. Faintly, she felt that attached to fate’s gift were three large words.

—Immediate execution.