The General's Love Glitch - Chapter 34

Even after the group of indignant reporters had left, Ruan Wei’s nervous and flustered heartbeat still couldn’t calm down for a long time.

Jiang Lan, Jiang Tang, and Jiang Li, the three sisters, exchanged glances. Today, it seemed they hadn’t played much of a role, which left them feeling somewhat unaccustomed.

“Let’s eat,” Jun Jue commanded, continuing to serve dishes to Ruan Wei.

Ruan Wei asked, “General, has the matter about me being a vampire been resolved?”

“Weiwei, this is only the first round. The enemy hasn’t even confronted us directly yet. It’s not that simple,” Jun Jue said as she brought a piece of Longjing tea-infused shrimp to Ruan Wei’s lips.

Ruan Wei grew anxious again. “Why are they targeting me?”

“They’re not targeting you,” Jun Jue replied, nudging the shrimp closer. Ruan Wei opened her mouth and took the tender, delicious bite. “I can feed myself, General. You should eat too.”

“Alright.”

“General, why do you say they’re not targeting me?” Ruan Wei asked.

Jun Jue smiled faintly. Ruan Wei was already used to it, but Jiang Lan, Jiang Tang, and Jiang Li had never seen such a scene before. They all felt awkward, lowering their eyes as if afraid of being caught peeking and hurriedly buried themselves in their meals.

“Weiwei, they’re coming after me. Even if it weren’t you, they’d find another way to attack me,” Jun Jue explained.

“I don’t understand. Why would they want to harm you when you’re so good? I adore you, how could they not?”

As soon as Ruan Wei finished speaking, before Jun Jue could respond, the three sisters coughed in perfect unison.

“Cough…”

“Ahem…”

“Cough, cough…”

Good grief, what earth-shattering confession had they just overheard? Would they be silenced for this?

“Are you all okay?” Ruan Wei asked, puzzled. They had been eating just fine, why had the three sisters suddenly started coughing?

“We’re fine,” Jiang Lan said.

After the meal, Jiang Lan, Jiang Tang, and Jiang Li stood up to return to their posts. Jun Jue walked over to speak with Jiang Lan, and seeing Uncle Zhang tactfully withdraw, Ruan Wei quickly excused herself and went upstairs.

…

“General, have you truly decided to reactivate the Junchen?” Jiang Tang asked in surprise.

“Yes.”

The Federation possessed two large warships. One was the Junchen, managed by the General and named after her father, the previous General. It was typically deployed only in large-scale interstellar battles. The other was named after the first Federal Administrator. After Lin Aimin took office, she renamed the original Xinglan to the Aimin, sparking public criticism. However, Lin Aimin always presented herself as a warm and open-minded administrator to the media and skillfully controlled public opinion, quickly earning the citizens’ approval.

Even Jiang Li, the most reserved of the three sisters, grew excited upon hearing the Junchen would be deployed again. “Is there an important mission this time, General?”

“Yes, though it hasn’t escalated to open conflict yet.”

Jun Jue stepped outside, followed by the three sisters. Moonlight cast their four shadows onto the ground.

“This operation must remain confidential, the more covert, the better. We don’t need to deploy the entire Junchen; a single auxiliary pod will suffice.”

After receiving their orders, the three sisters set off to prepare the Junchen. Along the way, they couldn’t help but gossip, they had been bursting with questions back at the General’s residence.

“When the General told us to sit down and eat, I was genuinely terrified,” Jiang Tang admitted.

“Me too,” Jiang Li chimed in.

“You two are so easily impressed,” Jiang Lan said. “Ever since the General returned from Planet G30, she’s genuinely become much gentler.”

“Love can change a person. I always thought that was a myth, but now it seems there might be some truth to it,” Jiang Tang remarked.

“It’s all thanks to Madam Weiwei. It’s so heartwarming to see the General finally find her own happiness,” Jiang Li sighed.

“Yeah, it really is.”

“But when will the three of us find our own happiness?”

“Soon. Once we resolve Madam Weiwei’s situation this time, the General will definitely grant us a long vacation. I have a feeling, once that happens, we’ll go on blind dates every day. I refuse to believe we won’t find true love,” Jiang Tang declared, clenching her fists.

Jiang Li laughed beside her. “Sure, but Second Sister, you’d better make sure your partner doesn’t mistake us for each other.”

Jiang Lan thought of something and couldn’t hold back her laughter either.

“Damn it! Why did we have to be triplets?!” Jiang Tang roared. They’d already lost several relationships because their girlfriends couldn’t tell them apart.

Jiang Li comforted her, “Look on the bright side, if someone can’t even recognize your face, do they really love you?”

“True,” Jiang Tang muttered, her voice softening.

From the driver’s seat of the flying car, Jiang Lan added, “After this is over, we should ask the General and Madam Weiwei for some dating advice.”

…

Jun Jue, who just two months ago had been the subject of the entire Federation’s concern over her single status, never imagined that someone would actually come to her for dating advice.

After issuing her orders, Jun Jue went upstairs and knocked on Ruan Wei’s door.

Ruan Wei had just finished showering. The moment she opened the door, she bounced excitedly in front of Jun Jue. She was wearing a new one-piece bunny pajama set, her skin flushed pink from the bath, looking every bit like a little white rabbit.

“General, when did you buy this for me?” Ruan Wei blinked her sparkling eyes and asked.

Jun Jue stepped into Ruan Wei’s room, gently pinching her cheek with her right hand. “This afternoon, right before you sneaked off.”

Ruan Wei pressed her lips together, looking like a well-behaved child who knew she’d done wrong.

Jun Jue exhaled softly and let go of Ruan Wei, her fingertips lightly brushing the bunny ears on the hood of the pajamas.

“Do you like it?”

“I love it.”

“Do you like me more, or the pajamas?”

“I like the General more… I super like the General.” Ruan Wei gazed at her with adoration, stars practically spilling from her eyes.

Jun Jue took Ruan Wei’s hand, playing with her slender, pink fingers.

“General, do you want to shower first? Then we can sleep together.”

Jun Jue stepped into the guest bathroom, where there was no AI assistant Xiao Ke. She enjoyed a quiet bath, and when she finished, Ruan Wei brought her a matching set of bunny pajamas.

“I think these might be a couple’s set,” Ruan Wei said.

Jun Jue’s fingers froze as she reached for the pajamas.

She had ordered them online and hadn’t noticed that detail. That day, seeing how much Ruan Wei loved the bunny-eared hat, she’d assumed Ruan Wei adored anything rabbit-related. She’d contacted the clothing store where she’d previously shopped, asking them to send over any new rabbit-themed items. Since she’d spent a considerable amount there before, she’d become a VIP gold card member. The brand manager had promptly notified her when new rabbit-themed stock arrived.

At the time, she’d been preoccupied with handling Ruan Wei and Zhuo Hanjun’s situation and hadn’t paid much attention to the brand’s communication. She’d simply told them to deliver the items, assuming they were all for Ruan Wei. She hadn’t expected there’d be a set for her too.

“I’ll just wear a regular bathrobe; there’s one in the bathroom,” Jun Jue refused to don the outfit that didn’t suit her style, every cell in her body resisting.

“But I want to see the General wear it,” Ruan Wei gazed at her with pleading eyes. Jun Jue’s heart softened for a moment, but she still didn’t relent.

Disappointed, Ruan Wei hugged the bunny pajamas and waited by the bathroom door. When Jun Jue emerged in a plain bathrobe and saw Ruan Wei’s unhappiness, she took the initiative to take the bunny pajamas from her hand, held her hand, and led her toward the bed.

“Weiwei, do you want to drink blood?”

Ruan Wei shook her head. “I already had some this afternoon.”

Jun Jue thought for a while longer, then said, “Weiwei, let me show you something.”

“What is it?” Ruan Wei perked up a little.

Jun Jue tapped open her neural interface and pulled up the rainbow she had photographed while searching for Ruan Wei that afternoon.

“So beautiful! Did you take this yourself, General?”

“Mhm.”

“When?”

“Also this afternoon.”

“That’s such a shame. I must have still been asleep and missed it,” Ruan Wei lamented. She had never seen a rainbow with her own eyes before.

“There will be more in the future.”

“Next time there’s a rainbow, if I’m asleep, you have to wake me up.”

“Mhm.”

Ruan Wei held Jun Jue’s wrist, admiring the rainbow for a while, then curiously swiped left.

“Huh? This photo… isn’t that us? When did you take this, General?”

Jun Jue hadn’t expected Ruan Wei to flip through the photos. Caught with the secretly taken picture, she quickly withdrew her neural interface.

“When you were asleep.”

Ruan Wei: “Why am I always asleep?”

As if forgetting she had barely slept the night before, Ruan Wei propped her chin on her hand, guilt-ridden for dozing off during work hours.

Jun Jue hooked a finger under her chin, tickling her slightly. Ruan Wei caught her finger and glared up at her.

“Probably because you’re a sleeping beauty,” Jun Jue said.

It took Ruan Wei a moment to realize Jun Jue was answering her earlier question. A little embarrassed, she said, “I know I’m pretty, but I don’t think I’m beautiful enough to compare to a fairy-tale princess.”

“I think you are.”

“General, that’s just love making you see me through rose-colored glasses.”

“Mhm.”

“General, you’ve said so much today,” Ruan Wei remarked.

“Mhm.”

“General, aren’t you going back to sleep?”

“Twenty minutes ago, you said you wanted to sleep with me.”

“I forgot…”

Jun Jue leaned down and pecked her lips. “How could you forget your own words?”

Ruan Wei shrank back slightly. “General, are you ready to bite my gland now?”

Jun Jue continued leaning closer. “Weiwei, you’re scared.”

“Not scared, just a little nervous.”

“No need to be nervous. There isn’t enough time today.”

Ruan Wei didn’t understand, wasn’t biting a gland not an instant thing? How could there not be enough time?

“Weiwei, we have to leave again in two hours.”

“Where to?”

“Roaming space.”

Ruan Wei’s eyes widened. She thought Jun Jue was joking,hadn’t she said the situation wasn’t fully resolved yet? How could they possibly have the leisure to roam space?

Yet, after being held by Jun Jue for two hours of sleep, they really set off.

Jun Jue had her change into matching space combat suits.

“Are we going to war?” Ruan Wei thought for a moment, then asked, “Fighting space pirates?”

Jun Jue was using her teeth to tear open a military wrist guard. The smooth, elegant lines of her jaw and neck made Ruan Wei’s heart flutter slightly. How had she only just noticed how dashing and handsome Jun Jue looked in this uniform?

Noticing Ruan Wei’s gaze, Jun Jue glanced up, assuming she needed help putting on her combat suit. After fastening the wrist guard straps, she went over to assist Ruan Wei.

The distance between them closed in an instant. Ruan Wei only needed to obediently spread her hands, and she was enveloped by Jun Jue’s faintly icy sandalwood scent, which filled her with a deep sense of security.

“Learning anything?” Jiang Lan asked her two younger sisters beside her.

Jiang Tang said, “Next time, I can try to copy this move. The general is so considerate in love, I should learn from her.”

Jiang Li shook her head. “I think it depends on the person. Last time, I heard a teammate say she got slapped when she tried to help her first love get dressed.”

Jiang Tang: “…”

…

Before dawn, the five of them set off in a six-seater flying car. Jiang Lan was driving, Jiang Tang and Jiang Li sat in the middle row, while Jun Jue and Ruan Wei took the back seat.

Suddenly, Jiang Tang exclaimed, “A shooting star!”

“Where?” Ruan Wei asked excitedly.

“It’s already gone, ma’am. Shooting stars are fleeting,” Jiang Tang replied.

“What a shame. I didn’t get to make a wish,” Ruan Wei said wistfully, staring out the window.

Jun Jue glanced at Ruan Wei but remained silent.

Upon arriving at the starship port, they disembarked. The auxiliary cabin of the Junchen had already been fully fueled and was ready for takeoff. The auxiliary cabin could detach from the main body, functioning as a small starship. To the untrained eye, it was indistinguishable, and even professionals wouldn’t recognize it as part of the Junchen, so it wouldn’t draw special attention.

The port manager, aware that it was General Jun Jue’s team departing, didn’t ask too many questions. The only trouble they encountered was when leaving the villa, agents sent by the Chief Executive and Zhuo Hanjun had been surveilling them, requiring some time to disguise and evade.

Jun Jue looked up at the flying vehicles streaking across the night sky, their tails trailing brief flickers of flame. If they flew faster and the flames were thinner, they might resemble shooting stars though the maneuver was difficult and risked detection by aerial traffic control.

After boarding the auxiliary cabin with Ruan Wei, Jun Jue went alone to the rear compartment.

Left with the Jiang sisters, Ruan Wei found herself the subject of Jiang Tang’s burning curiosity, she had been longing for love for ages and wouldn’t miss this opportunity.

“Ma’am, can I ask you something?” Jiang Tang ventured.

Ruan Wei nodded.

“Who pursued whom between you and the general?”

Ruan Wei thought for a moment, unsure how to answer.

Jiang Lan rephrased the question. “Ma’am, who confessed first? Who said ‘I like you’ first?”

“Well…” Ruan Wei pondered before answering carefully, “The general asked me if I liked her, and I said yes.”

A single tear rolled down Jiang Tang’s cheek. “Where did the general learn this? She’s so smooth!”

Jiang Lan and Jiang Li fell into deep thought, hadn’t the general been leading them in defending the Federation all these years?

“None of you have been in a relationship before?” Ruan Wei asked.

All three shook their heads in unison, their eager eyes looking almost pitiful.

“This is my first time too, so I don’t know much about it,” Ruan Wei admitted. “I guess I was just lucky to meet the general.”

Jiang Tang recalled Ruan Wei’s devastatingly effective line from last night’s dinner, “The general is so wonderful, I couldn’t possibly like her fast enough”, and realized: both the general and her wife were natural talents at love.

Ruan Wei felt she didn’t have much authority when it came to matters of love, so she simply comforted them by saying that fate would eventually bring them the right person.

She herself wasn’t even fully human. Meeting Jun Jue was a stroke of luck for her.

“Where has the General gone?” Jiang Lan had been keeping an eye out, noticing that Jun Jue had been gone for a long time without returning.

Jiang Tang and Jiang Li said they didn’t know, and Ruan Wei also shook her head.

“Should we go look for the General?” Ruan Wei asked.

“No need, Madam. As long as you’re here, the General will return soon enough.”

Ruan Wei blushed at Jiang Tang’s teasing, but deep down, she believed that as long as she was here, Jun Jue would always come back for her.

The Junchen’s auxiliary cabin had already taken off. Ruan Wei sat by the window, her gaze drifting outside. She saw celestial bodies that were invisible from the ground, so many planets in the universe. Some were enormous, their surfaces pockmarked with craters, devoid of any vegetation, seemingly lifeless.

Others were tiny. Ruan Wei spotted one small planet with only a single inhabitant. The person walked along the planet’s surface, alternately lighting and extinguishing lamps.

“That planet only has one person. Doesn’t he get lonely?”

Jiang Lan explained that the man was a deranged serial killer. Since the Federation had abolished the death penalty, he had been exiled to this small planet as punishment until the end of his natural life.

“If I were caught, would I also be exiled to a small planet?” Ruan Wei asked worriedly.

Jiang Lan reassured her, “With the General and us by your side, Madam, nothing will happen to you.”

Somewhat comforted, Ruan Wei chatted with Jiang Lan and the others about how she and Jun Jue first met. Jiang Tang, the most sentimental of the group, sighed, “This is truly destined love, transcending species. Not even movies could capture something like this.”

After finishing her story, Ruan Wei glanced around again. Jun Jue still hadn’t returned. Just as she was about to get up and search for her, the new wrist communicator on her arm suddenly lit up.

“Weiwei, look out the window.” It was Jun Jue’s clear, melodious voice, laced with the faint sound of wind.

Ruan Wei turned to the window, and Jiang Lan and the others followed her gaze.

Countless meteors streaked across the sky, illuminating the entire galaxy.

A magnificent meteor shower cascaded endlessly from the heavens. Ruan Wei was spellbound, unable to tear her eyes away, not even daring to blink.

The meteors were like arrows, each one piercing straight into her heart.

Jun Jue’s gentle voice came through her wrist communicator once more.

“You can make a wish now, Weiwei.”

…

Author’s Note:

Weiwei: Ahhh, what should I wish for? What should I wish for?