"Honey, let's go home. Let's leave him alone." Cheng Chu held the insect egg firmly in her arms and was about to get up. "We still need to take the baby for a check-up when we get back, otherwise I won't feel at ease."

The more Cheng Chu thought about it, the more he felt that Aris was a complete bastard. If he wanted to find someone, he could find someone; if he wanted to bomb somewhere, he could bomb somewhere. What did it have to do with Mikel and him? Why did he have to mess with his and Mikel's insect eggs? He must be out of his mind.

"Okay, sure." Mikel didn't want to worry about it anymore, so he agreed and prepared to get up.

Seeing this, Aris lunged at Mikel across the table and grabbed his arm.

"Hey, hey, hey, no, no, Mikel, don't go yet." Aris grabbed Mikel's right arm tightly, his golden eyes looking at him urgently, pleading, "Help me just this once, just this once."

Mikel silently watched Aris, who was almost collapsing onto the table, his expression one of utter helplessness. Although he didn't speak, he made a move to leave, and Aris realized there was still a chance.

Aris seized the opportunity, walked around the middle table, and enthusiastically pressed Mikel into a chair.

"Sit, sit, sit." Aris turned to Cheng Chu, who had stood up, and said to him, "Please sit down, don't stand."

Even the address was "you" (formal), Mikel dared to say that this was absolutely the most polite Aris had ever been to a male insect.

Ah, no, that's not right.

The male in his household is not a male insect, but a human.

After his wife sat down, Cheng Chu had no choice but to sit down as well, and the three of them sat neatly together on one side.

Although Cheng Chu sat down, he still said reluctantly, "Why should we help you? Even if you're Mikel's friend, I'm still her husband. You kidnapped me, drugged me, and stole our baby. I'll make sure he doesn't help you either."

As he spoke, he turned his head and asked, "Isn't that right, wife?"

"Yes." Mikel nodded without hesitation.

Cheng Chu is first, Chong Dan is second, Marshal Anaos is third, and Aris can only rank fourth at most.

Moreover, it's obvious who is right and who is wrong in this matter.

Aris looked aggrieved: "You two..."

If he didn't need a favor, given Aris's usual temperament, anyone who dared to speak to him in such a sarcastic manner, even an S-class male insect, would be severely berated.

Unfortunately, Cheng Chu was Mikel's lord, and he was still holding Mikel's insect eggs. It seemed that Mikel quite liked this lord who was not a Zerg, so he couldn't make a move in front of Mikel.

Aris looked pleadingly at Mikel, who had a calm expression, hoping he could put in a good word for him so that Cheng Chu would help him despite past grievances.

Mikel received his look and was speechless.

If I had known this, why bother.

"Did you do the Paters thing?" Mikel suddenly blurted out a question that had nothing to do with the current situation.

Mikel made this bold guess when he first learned that Aris might still be alive.

Not to mention the timing was too coincidental, it was because his female father's affair was exposed at that time, and he and the male master were both subjected to public criticism on the StarNet. At that critical moment, Pattes' incident happened, which attracted all the public's attention.

Given that Aris is so familiar with the capital and the MK training base, and can perfectly avoid all surveillance equipment without leaving a trace, he is absolutely capable of doing it.

"I did it." Aris didn't deny it and readily admitted it. He sat back down, his tone slightly stiff, and said, "I just... I saw how useless you were. You're practically being cursed like a piece of shit by those brainless bandwagoners on the StarNet. It's making me feel really frustrated."

At first, Cheng Chu was confused, but when he heard Aris call Mikel useless, Cheng Chu glared at him fiercely and snapped, "You're the useless one!"

Mikel listened without showing any particular emotion, simply crossing her arms and quietly watching him.

Aris, however, seemed to have been stepped on the tail and hurriedly tried to cover it up, saying, "Besides, I didn't kill Pattes specifically for you; he provoked me. He deserved to die, so I..."

They went through great lengths to transport Paters' body to the capital, and then, without sparing any trouble, evaded layers of surveillance and patrols before dumping it at the entrance of the MK training base.

Even a three-year-old insect wouldn't believe this.

Mikel and Cheng Chu, of course, didn't believe it either.

Cheng Chu: "Wife, did he do this on purpose to help you?"

Mikel: "Hmm."

Cheng Chu asked, "Then why won't he admit it? And why did he insult you?"

"Who knows?" Mikel shrugged. "Maybe it's just his sharp tongue."

Aris got angry: "Hey! Don't go too far!"

Who has a good cricket like Mikel and Cheng Chu, chirping in front of him!

Mikel grasped Cheng Chu's hand, squeezed it, and asked, "My lord, can you help him?"

"Honey, it's not that I don't want to help." Cheng Chu understood Mikel's meaning. He had suddenly brought up Pattes's matter to help Aris. He hoped that Mikel would help Aris because of this.

Cheng Chu looked at Aris and said, "You helped Mikel, and you're his friend, so I should help you. But there's really nothing I can do to help you."

"You said you wanted to find him, but he just went home. You're not even in the same time and space anymore. It's a matter of time and space, not distance. And..." Cheng Chu paused, then changed the subject, asking, "How long have you known each other?"

Aris answered truthfully, "About two years."

"Yes, you said you've known each other for two years, and he still hasn't told you his name, which means that in his eyes, you two aren't even friends."

Cheng Chu didn't say what came next, but everyone present understood.

The truth is cruel, yet it is also very real.

"No way," Aris said, unwilling to believe it.

But it felt as if a gaping hole had been torn in his heart, and a biting cold wind rushed in, sending chills down his spine. A sour feeling welled up in Aris's throat, and his hand under the table clenched into a fist, his fingers turning white from the effort.

Seeing that he was still persistent, Cheng Chu asked him, "Has he ever sent you flowers?"

Aris, puzzled, still answered, "No."

Seeing Mikel looking over in confusion, Cheng Chu explained to the two female insects, "Where we come from, humans send flowers to the people they like."

Upon hearing this, the two female insects reacted with contrasting expressions, a truly fascinating sight.

Mikel smiled, and his good mood was evident in his eyes. This was because Cheng Chu had given him a large, beautiful bouquet of flowers.

Aris's expression, however, was far from pleasant, and the reason was obvious.

Cheng Chu asked again, "So, he said he liked... wait, no, that's not right." He paused halfway through, realizing his fellow villager was tactless. He changed his question: "Did you say you liked him?"

Aris slowly shook his head, staring down at his lower abdomen covered by his clothes, and said in a hoarse voice, "No."

Not only did he never tell him he liked him, but when they first met, he wasn't even kind to him. He never spoke to him in a nice tone, and when he lost his temper, he even hit him...

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