Chapter 55 2/2

“After disassembly, I want to reinstall; President Zhang doesn’t trust me.”

Jiang Li: “I can understand.”

Cen Lang teased, “Then how dare you sit on the battleship I personally wielded a hammer to fix? And still stay to accompany me?”

Jiang Li: “Can you compare 30 years old with 17?”

Cen Lang: “Is that so? I think the brain at 30 hasn’t made much progress. Seeing Dr. Xiao Jiang is like a 17-year-old high school boy showing off.”

Jiang Li: “You’ve arrived at your home.”

The aircraft stopped on the rooftop. Cen Lang didn’t arrange a meeting immediately; instead, he first placed Jiang Li’s luggage in his own room, saying, “You’ll stay here tonight, and I’ll sleep in the guest room.”

Jiang Li looked around his bedroom for thirty years. Even if it’s simple, it still carries traces of long-term life.

There was a photo frame on the bedside table—a family picture of the Cen family. It showed a young couple holding a smiling five-year-old Cen Lang. Cen Lang picked up the frame and introduced, “This is my dad, and this is my mom.”

“They were the first to propose putting hibernation chambers in the spaceship. Later, I shared the blueprints, and all battleships were equipped with them. Alright, now that you’ve met my parents, is Dr. Xiao Jiang ready to meet my grandfather?”

Jiang Li: “Ready.”

Cen’s family prepared dinner. Cen Wei sat in the main seat, eagerly anticipating. His father-in-law gave him a gift, and he also prepared a gift for Jiang Li. Just as Jiang Li took his seat, Cen Wei launched a wave of monetary attacks.

“Take this card; it’s the dowry saved by Cen Lang’s parents. It’s all patent fees. Since you’re also in research, you’re half a colleague to them, and they’ll be happy when they find out.”

As Cen Wei spoke, his eyes seemed to be a bit moist. He pressed down the emotions and continued, “It’s not much money; you can take it.”

Jiang Li looked at the card, then at Cen Lang. “Is it really not much?”

Cen Lang: “Just about thirty years’ worth of patent fees from the entire interstellar. Not much; it won’t be collected in another twenty years.” It amounted to several tens of billions.

Jiang Li didn’t dare underestimate the ‘not much’ in Cen Wei’s mouth. “Grandpa, it’s too precious.”

Cen Wei: “This is the dowry I prepared for my great-grandson.”

The butler brought a stack of registers displaying a variety of mining planets and energy star property rights, accumulating one or two each year. After thirty years, there were about fifty of them.

Jiang Li understood medicine, and Cen Wei also wanted to give him shares of the Cen Pharmaceutical Enterprise. After all, it was established for the convenience of treating Cen Lang, and it inadvertently became prosperous.

If Jiang Li cured Cen Lang, wouldn’t the pharmaceutical company be good for him?

Cen Wei: “Oh, there’s something else. The sanatorium; my father-in-law likes staying in sanatoriums. I’ll transfer it to you.”

Jiang Li was shocked. “Grandpa, that’s too much.”

Cen Wei ignored him. “This is a meeting gift for my great-grandson. You take it too.” Jiang Li took a look and then looked at Cen Lang. “Really, not much?”

Cen Lang: “Just about thirty years’ worth of patent fees from the entire interstellar. Not much; won’t be collected in another twenty years.”

Jiang Li was amazed. “Grandpa, it’s too much.”

Cen Wei turned a deaf ear. “This is a meeting gift for my great-grandson. You take it.” Jiang Li took a look and suspected that Cen Lang took out all the priceless jewelry from the safe. It was dazzling.

Cen Wei: “Kids don’t understand stocks; they just like shiny beads to play with. Is it suitable?”

Cen Lang: “Quite suitable; just be careful not to let him put them in his mouth.”

Cen Wei: “Right.”

Jiang Li was stunned.

Cen Wei was very satisfied. He didn’t interact much with the younger generation, and Cen Lang had a bad temper, making it difficult for him to start a conversation. The Cen family would eventually be the two of them, and earlier was just a formality. Cen Wei always felt it was not enough.

But, thinking about it, the Cen family didn’t have much to offer.

Cen Wei: “Let’s eat. Is the food enough? Any preferences?”

Jiang Li: “Everything tastes good.”

The more Cen Wei looked, the more he felt that Cen Lang had found such a partner, probably as compensation for the twenty years of hardship given by the old heavens.

Having expressed his intentions, Cen Wei didn’t insist on having the young couple accompany them. After dinner, he said, “Go do your own thing, explore the house, and accompany the old man to watch the news if there’s anything interesting.”

Cen Lang: “Then I’ll take Jiang Li to the second floor.”

Jiang Li: “Grandpa, I’ll go up first.”

Cen Wei: “Okay, be careful.”

As soon as Cen Lang entered the room, he locked the bedroom door. The door had been modified to isolate sound and odor.

“Can you help me put down the curtains?”

“Sure.”

Cen Lang leaned against the door, admiring Jiang Li as he took down the curtain hooks and slowly closed the curtains. “When you hung curtains on the battleship, I always thought that one day you could help me pull the curtains.”

Jiang Li noticed that there used to be electric perforations above the curtains, but now they have been replaced with ordinary ones. It was a bit speechless. Cen Lang said, “Can I kiss you?”

Jiang Li blushed. Okay, just one kiss. He quickly nodded, then found himself trapped at the head of the bed and kissed for half an hour.

The lip petals were bitten into a messy water stain, and his hand reached into the clothes without any obstruction, touching the pregnant belly. Cen Lang felt like a saint himself. After so long together, he had never seen the part of Jiang Li’s body covered by clothes.

Jiang Li’s skin was too delicate, as if nowhere was suitable for prolonged kisses. Lips would swell if kissed for too long, neck kisses would leave marks if too heavy, and grabbing the earlobe would make Jiang Li cry. Finally, he caught the red mole under the earlobe and rubbed it hard.

“Dr. Xiao Jiang, do you know how to reveal your true colors? In your classmate’s graduation project, I saw you.”

Jiang Li tightly closed his eyes because of his pregnancy. Cen Lang didn’t confine him, and he could easily push him away with a bit of force. But he felt there was nowhere to escape.

He later guessed it was probably because of Chen Liufeng’s graduation project.

There was no way. Only he had successfully attached the first-generation simulation skin. If he didn’t use his photos, Chen Liufeng couldn’t showcase the iterative process.

“Is it enough?”

“Not enough.”

It’s never enough; he even wanted to bite.

Cen Lang stared at the closed nape gland with a dark gaze. It looked like a delicious piece of milk cake, tempting him to lick it and leave his bite marks. If he marked it, then this piece of cake would be his.

He had to restrain the instinct of a wild beast—not to bite—because biting would make Jiang Li laugh at his impotence.

Cen Lang suppressed the pain and stopped his brain; regardless of where he kissed, he would always linger on the back of the neck. Jiang Li seemed very docile; marking him wouldn’t provoke any resistance.

“Dr. Xiao Jiang, I can’t hold back.”

Being smelled by a wild beast on the back of his neck, the hot and humid breath became heavier and heavier. Jiang Li’s skin trembled, tortured between estimating whether Cen Lang dared and didn’t dare.

I really can’t bear it, just…

Cen Lang gritted his teeth. Jiang Li must be secretly resisting in his heart, still thinking about research.

Jiang Li tried to speak in the tone of researching something: “If you don’t want to kiss anymore, if you want to bite, you have to tell me in advance.”

Cen Lang bitterly said, “Tell you in advance; you’re fiercely resisting in your heart, right?”

Jiang Li was slightly relaxed; well, the academic intimidation was still effective.

Cen Lang was ruthless. He took out a bite inhibitor from the drawer and put it on. If he didn’t want to kiss, he wouldn’t. He would do something else. Jiang Li’s beautiful eyes widened. “What is this?”