His!

This was his little prey!

Emperor Vigter felt extremely wronged.

Logically speaking, Emperor Vigter, who should have been very mature after becoming emperor, very immaturely started getting jealous of a group of children.

The adult Luota with pure black fur transformed into beast form and in a few leaps reached Su Duan's side, his ice-blue beast eyes threateningly narrowed.

The older, more experienced rice balls, seeing this unbeatable bad guy coming, immediately and consciously fell off Su Duan's body, shook their fur and scattered with a chirp.

His Majesty the majestic Emperor, satisfied, shook his fur and turned his gaze to the remaining eight little rascal rice balls pressing down on his partner's hand.

...However, these real little ones who hadn't even opened their eyes were completely unable to receive His Majesty's majestic gaze, and still used their small bodies to unanimously bury Su Duan's hand, some grabbing fingers, some rubbing the back of the hand, even emitting enchanting chirping sounds, making His Majesty the Emperor directly emit green light from his head.

And he couldn't even do anything about it.

——If these weak little cubs that seemed like they could die from a single touch were harmed by him in any way, no matter where Aiberta was, he would definitely rush back and lecture him for three days and three nights.

The black-furred adult Luota let out a whimper from his throat, using his head to nuzzle Su Duan's waist, looking extremely aggrieved.

After his other arm that was grabbed by the big cubs was freed, Su Duan carefully used his finally free hand to push away the little rice balls on his other hand, thus liberating that hand as well.

Immediately after, both hands were encircled by the tail of the adult Luota who had been guarding him like a tiger eyeing its prey, and the slightly rough tip of the tongue carefully licked his hands, not missing even the gaps between the fingers, using his own scent to completely cover the scent of other Luotas on Su Duan's body.

After finishing licking the hands, he stretched out his head to sniff the left half of Su Duan's body where a big rice ball had just been hanging, desperately rubbing it with his furry head, leaving his own mark.

Su Duan was pushed back several steps by his rubbing.

"Good Viji." Su Duan stroked the smooth, soft fur on the adult Luota in front of him, gently coaxing.

Like coaxing a cub.

In front of outsiders, the cold and steady Emperor often showed extraordinary childishness when facing his partner.

If the image of His Majesty the Emperor squatting in front of the other party like this and letting him pet his fur was seen by others, they would definitely not be able to help but doubt life.

Under Su Duan's skilled fur-petting technique, the originally somewhat agitated adult Luota gradually softened, lazily licking Su Duan's hand with the tip of his tongue, his throat emitting a purring sound representing comfort.

And the little rice balls who had suddenly lost the fragrant and slender palm had already gone crazy, chirping at each other for a while, then following the movement, crowding on the protective wall near Su Duan's side, squeezing themselves out of shape, turning into a bunch of distorted rice balls.

Su Duan swept a glance at these pitiful cubs crowded in the corner with the corner of his eye, unable to help feeling a little soft-hearted, and also worried that they would climb out of the not-so-high protective wall in their anxiousness and fall.

——Then he was immediately nibbled on the back of his hand by the adult Luota, the intention of wanting to monopolize his attention overflowing.

Su Duan could only stroke his chin, preparing to coax his own adult cub first before going to deal with that group of little ones.

However, as he was stroking, the body of the adult Luota under his hand suddenly stiffened.

Su Duan's hand paused for a moment, and he turned his head to look behind his adult cub; sure enough, he saw the four big cubs who had just been scared away by Vigter had somehow slipped back, climbing up his body along his tail hanging on the ground.

These four cubs had been taught by the previous Emperor to love the activity of fur-rubbing very much, so although Vigter was often fierce, because of his soft and smooth fur that cubs were obsessed with rubbing, no matter how many times they were scared away, these cubs would persistently climb onto him again.

Then each finding a suitable spot, they happily started rubbing.

Feeling under his palm the body that clearly wanted to rub back very much, but refused to move at all due to some kind of twisted mood, Su Duan pinched the sensitive tip of the adult Luota's ear.

The tip of the ear fluttered and shook, and His Majesty the Emperor, who was already lying on the ground, slightly moved his paws.

And at the same time, when Su Duan wasn't paying attention, the anxious little cubs had already climbed out of the protective wall by stepping on each other.

The protective wall was very close to the edge of the table, and because there were too many of them, they bumped into each other and couldn't brake in time, so the little cubs who were escaping for the first time unfortunately rolled into a ball and fell off the edge of the table, emitting frightened chirps.

However, the pain of hitting the hard ground that they had anticipated did not come. During the fall, they were swept by a soft, strip-like object, and then fell straight into a pile of soft things, their heads pitifully buried, with only their perky pink hind paws and little tails still sticking out.

Struggling to pull themselves out of the pile of soft and slippery things, the little cubs who had just come into this world and were curious about everything began to explore the new map.

This texture... fur? Soft?

And the scent of their own kind.

As if discovering a new continent, the cubs who had only started making sounds a few days ago excitedly chirped a few times, ungratefully forgetting their original target Su Duan, and instinctively started rolling on His Majesty the Emperor's soft fur.

Vigter, who had kindly used his tail to catch the ugly rice balls who might have gotten hurt from falling, and as a result ended up with his whole body covered in fur balls: "..."

His Majesty the Emperor, standing at the pinnacle of the empire today, was still enduring the terrible price that came with power.

......

Time slipped away unnoticed, and although the process of raising the cubs was a bit chaotic, the adorable Luota cubs still made people's hearts feel soft and fluffy.

Although Vigter didn't really admit it, in fact, from completely resisting the cubs, to secretly observing them when he had nothing to do, to actively taking the initiative to rub fur with the cubs, His Majesty the Emperor's heart had undoubtedly been completely exposed.

Compared to the long lifespan of the Luota race, the twenty-year cub period is undoubtedly short. When these cubs grew up one by one and went to school, the Emperor, who had always acted like he couldn't wait for the cubs to grow up and get lost, would occasionally mumble a few words like "ugly dumplings" in his sleep in the quiet of the night.

Even in his dreams, he's still stubborn.

After raising this batch of cubs that happened to be born together, Su Duan and Vigter became much more free.

Because there were successors, Vigter did not have to stay in power for a full two hundred years like Aiberta. When the eightieth year arrived, he kicked the throne to another cub, and then, like Aiberta after his abdication, went traveling everywhere with his little prey.

The vast starry domain is so vast that even if the lifespan of people in this era has been multiplied, it is impossible to measure even one-tenth of the scenery of this universe in a lifetime.

When this body reached the age of two hundred and sixty, Su Duan could no longer walk.

Before forming a family, the first issue that different races need to consider is the difference in lifespan between each other.

The lifespan of the Planter race is similar to that of humans, both around two hundred years. Even if the royal family used various medical means to help Su Duan recuperate his body, they only extended his life to less than three hundred years.

The normal lifespan of the Luota race is around four hundred years.

There is a distant gap of one hundred and fourteen years between the two.

This time is bound to be lonely for the one left behind.

However, the first death of a Planter is not the end. After death, their corpse will turn into a plant until that plant breaks and withers before truly disappearing from the world.

Taking the somewhat oddly shaped, black plant that his partner turned into after closing his eyes, Vigter found a planet to settle down.

Because he discovered that his partner was not interested in the flowers that almost everyone loved, and even avoided them somewhat, Vigter specially chose a planet that would not bloom.

The planet was always green, with a climate so pleasant that it was somewhat intoxicating.

Planting his lover, the black Luota turned back into beast form and carefully surrounded his now tiny lover with his huge body. He stretched out his tongue and gently licked the green leaves on top of the black potato's head, slowly closing his eyes.

The black Luota lay there for a long time. He had stored enough energy in advance, so he could survive without eating.

Sometimes it would open its eyes and stare intently at every slight tremor of the black potato leaves in front of it with its icy blue beast eyes, tracing every subtle texture on the rough surface with its gaze; sometimes it would also close its eyes, as if falling into a deep sleep.

As time passed, the energy stored in its body was constantly consumed, and the adult Luota slept more and more.