The gentle, sickly beauty is a cold and aloof general.

"If the ruler really doesn't use any of my property, I'll wonder if it's because I haven't done a good enough job that the ruler doesn't want to spend my money."

Jun Ming frowned and said disapprovingly:

"What kind of language is this?"

"It's not that I don't want to spend your money, I just don't want to do it so casually and without any guilt."

"It doesn't matter who spends whose money, as long as we reciprocate."

Atar touched the earring on his earlobe, straightened his clothes, and then looked at Jun Ming.

"But my clothes, my jewelry, the bedroom I've furnished—all of these were bought by the male master. Flowers are so expensive, and the male master has bought them more than once."

"It seems I haven't given the ruler anything yet."

Atal said this with a forlorn expression and a tone full of self-reproach.

"I don't blame the male lord for rejecting me; I truly failed to fulfill the duties of a female servant."

"I really... don't know how to love yet."

Seeing that Atal's mood had dropped again, Jun Ming feared that if he didn't intervene, Atal would get stuck on his own thoughts again.

"But Atal helped me a lot."

Jun Ming released his spiritual power and hooked Atar's sleeve.

Atal looked bewildered, genuinely unaware of how he had helped Jun Ming in any way.

"Atal doesn't notice anything different about my mental strength?"

At this point, Atal became somewhat embarrassed.

"Male Lord... I have never touched the spiritual power of other male insects, so I do not know how the spiritual power of the Male Lord is different from theirs."

Jun Ming controlled his mental power and patted Atar's head.

"What are you thinking about, Atal?"

"Are you saying Atal didn't notice that my mental strength changes every day?"

"Really... didn't you notice?"

Those secrets hidden deep in their hearts flowed out between their lips and teeth, laid bare in the open.

As Jun Ming spoke, he used his mental power to approach Atar and, instead of his own hand, pinched Atar's earlobe.

Atar silently swallowed, a soft gurgling sound escaping his throat, his Adam's apple bobbing nervously up and down.

"The spiritual power projected outwards by the powerful ruler..."

"There are more and more of them."

Jun Ming didn't intend to keep Atar in suspense and patiently explained.

"Atal knows, doesn't he?"

"My spiritual power is inherently weak, and when you rescued me, my spiritual power was in a state of emptiness and depletion."

"Actually, I don't know why either."

"It could be due to Atal's perfect match with me, or it could be due to something else."

"When I was dealing with Atal's mental disorder and entering Atal's mental sea, my mental energy was also replenished."

"The Void's spiritual power recovered to normal levels at an astonishing speed, becoming healthier and healthier, and even the parts that were lacking due to congenital deficiencies were slowly improving."

"That's why I said my mental strength was only B-level back then, but it was actually more than that."

"A void in my mental energy will sting my brain."

"Without Atal, I'd probably still have a terrible headache every day."

"so......"

"Atal can't say you haven't given me anything."

"Clearly, what Atal gave me is something that no amount of wealth can buy back."

Atal listened quietly, his expression shifting from confusion to surprise, and finally to heartache.

"So, my lord, were you enduring the stinging pain from the spiritual void while on the warship?"

"This was true even in the days leading up to our marriage registration."

"I...why didn't I notice?"

Jun Ming put his arm around Atal's waist, turned Atal to face him, and sat him on his lap.

"Of course I can't let you find out."

"If Atal discovers me so easily, wouldn't I be exposing my weakness far too early?"

"After all, I didn't know whether Atal was friend or foe at the beginning, so I naturally had to be careful."

"And now I'm all better, my mental strength is perfectly healthy, and all the A-level male insects on the main planet combined can't beat me."

Atal, sitting facing Junming, reached out and gently massaged Junming's temples.

"The Lord should have said it sooner. If I had known how much pain the Lord was in at the time, I would never have agreed to let the Lord take such a big risk to enter my chaotic and dangerous mental sea."

"If you are not careful, the male ruler's mental strength will be injured a second time."

"Moreover, the male ruler also mentioned feeling dizzy, but I didn't take it too seriously."

"It's really..."

Jun Ming buried his head deep into Atal's shoulder and even took a careful sniff.

"What is it?"

"...Only you, Master, are so magnanimous. If this happened to other male insects, the female servant would have been taken away by the male protection association long ago."

Jun Ming nuzzled against Atal's neck, his voice muffled.

"I know Atal will worry about me, but I don't want to put any pressure on him. And I really want to see Atal healthy."

"But it's alright now."

As Jun Ming spoke, he raised his head and hugged Atar tighter.

"Atar's mental strength has recovered, and so has mine."

Everyone was happy.

Jun Ming smiled and nuzzled Atar's nose.

Although Jun Ming said this, Atal was still concerned about the "deficiency caused by innate lack of mental strength" that Jun Ming mentioned.

"My lord, is it only when your spiritual power enters my spiritual sea that this effect can occur?"

"no."

Jun thought for a moment, considered it carefully, and then answered seriously.

"Location is not limited to the mental sea."

"What matters is not position, but the fusion of spirit."

Before Jun Ming could finish speaking, he sensed that Atar had released his spiritual power, and a considerable portion of it at that.

"If this is beneficial to the male ruler's mental strength, the male ruler should have said so earlier."

Jun Ming raised an eyebrow and controlled his external mental energy to rub against Atar's mental energy.

Then I felt Atal's body tremble almost imperceptibly.

If he wasn't mistaken, the fusion of their mental powers had varying degrees of impact on both him and Atal.

Atal's slight unease is a good illustration of this.

"Can Atal withstand it?"

Junming slowly approached Atar, and the distance between the two insects continued to shrink until they could even feel each other's breath and the heat exhaled when they spoke.

"...No...it's nothing I can't handle."

"That actually makes me feel more at ease."

Atar dared not look Jun Ming in the eye, and answered with a evasive gaze.