His noble and lofty head is not something that can be casually touched by others, this is the education Audrose has received since childhood.

But the little slave had no such awareness at all. Not only did he audaciously pounce into his arms and pinch one of his cheeks, he quickly pinched the other one as well.

After pinching, he even commented: "Not soft."

With a slightly disappointed look.

Audrose: "..."

Feeling a sense of helplessness and dejection welling up in his heart, Audrose pressed a hand on the little slave's waist, making his body stick even closer to his own, then reached out his other hand and vengefully pinched the little slave's cheeks.

As a result, once he started pinching, he couldn't stop.

Su Duan didn't have much flesh on his face, only a hint of very faint baby fat, but that was only relative to his even more slender figure.

But when that bit of pitiful flesh was pinched between fingertips, it was soft and squishy, able to be lightly pulled up into a small piece, like a kind of melt-in-your-mouth soft candy Audrose had been fed when he was young.

At the time, he didn't find that kind of candy particularly tasty. If it wasn't for Empress Sefir smilingly handing it to him personally, he definitely wouldn't have had the slightest interest in that kind of sickly sweet stuff.

But at this very moment, he suddenly really wanted to relive the taste of that candy.

...It must be very sweet.

Su Duan failed to touch someone and ended up being touched instead. His cheeks were pulled until he looked like a hamster hiding food, his crescent moon-like curved eyes were pulled wide open, accusingly staring at the man abusing his cheeks.

He had only briefly tugged at Audrose twice, how come Audrose directly refused to let go?

Just as Su Duan wanted to voice his protest, the hand Audrose was pinching his face with suddenly loosened.

Su Duan let out a sigh of relief, wanting to rub his cheeks that had probably already been pulled red, but as soon as he raised his hand, his wrist was grabbed by the man.

Followed by a face that was getting closer and closer.

The man's eyes were slightly deep, the tiny dark pupils reflecting his face. The originally icy blue eyes also darkened in color, as if the deep blue of the sea after glaciers melted, with a hint of darkness in their depths.

One cheek was covered by a soft sensation, with an occasional slippery feeling sweeping over, tickling the cheek full of tiny nerve endings. For a moment, Su Duan really froze like a hamster.

He was...kissed...

This was the first time Audrose had kissed him since coming to this world.

—If you don't count the things the spiritual body did.

Although it was just a kiss on the cheek, Su Duan still felt dazed.

Audrose was bending over and tilting his head to kiss him. With a glance down, he could see the man's sharp jawline and the slightly bulging veins on his neck.

Su Duan's eyelashes fluttered in disarray. After being dazed for a while, he lightly placed his hand on Audrose's shoulder. The muscles on the man's shoulders were also tightly tensed, and Su Duan only felt like his palm was resting on a rock.

This small action of his, representing submission, seemed to be a signal. The soft sensation lingered on his cheek for a moment before withdrawing.

—Then in the next second, it fell on his face again.

But this time it wasn't soft cheeks, but an even softer part than cheeks.

Perhaps due to nervousness or lack of experience, after Audrose kissed him, he paused for a full half minute before slowly starting to move.

However, he was a natural predator. It only took him a few minutes to evolve from tentative and stumbling to skilled and smooth. At first, Su Duan was secretly thinking in his heart that he was more experienced than Audrose now, but after a few moves, he was rendered breathless by the man.

It was only when Audrose stopped midway to let him open his mouth that he was able to adjust his breathing.

—Then he covered him again.

"Mmm..."

Su Duan opened his eyes midway and saw Audrose's distinct eyelashes trembling slightly. Because of the tilting, the curled lashes brushed against the bridge of his nose, feeling ticklish.

Sure enough, he was poked by Audrose's nose on the cheek, they couldn't even kiss properly anymore. Su Duan closed his eyes again, dazedly thinking.

......

When Audrose started to bend over, the slaves on duty near the main gate all lowered their heads, not daring to peek at the scene of their master being intimate with someone else. Even when they heard ambiguous wet sounds, they didn't dare to raise their heads, each of them not even doing their work anymore, just standing there with their eyes on their noses and noses on their hearts.

Occasionally, a slave would uncontrollably glance upward, but would immediately be scared witless by the ferocious aura emanating from the spiritual body standing behind the two, not daring to overstep again, afraid that if the dragon was unhappy, they would be torn to shreds.

The dragon looked around with satisfaction. Seeing that no one dared to secretly watch his treasure, his bone wings slightly puffed up. Like a victory, he lightly placed the tip of his thick tail on the back of Su Duan's foot.

......

It wasn't until Su Duan felt like his tongue was about to go numb that he was finally released.

Audrose used a handkerchief to wipe away the remaining moisture at the corner of his lips. The light-colored lips had been rubbed a bit too much, and even being brushed by the soft handkerchief, there was a slight stinging sensation.

Su Duan licked his numb mouth with the tip of his tongue, regretting not pushing the man away in time. It had gone too far, making it uncomfortable to even eat.

But the power of technology is infinite. After Audrose sprayed advanced repair fluid on all the uncomfortable parts he had caused, the slight melancholy in Su Duan's heart vanished like smoke.

The culprit who had kissed him into a mess was perfectly fine, with only a faint redness at the corners of his lips and slightly disheveled light golden hair on his forehead vaguely hinting at a bit of traces.

Not having time to comb through the strands with his fingertips, Audrose tidied up his little slave neatly, then pulled his hand and walked towards the residence.

As he walked, he asked in a low voice, "Did you obediently eat breakfast in the morning?"

"I did." The domineering spiritual body had snatched his nutrient solution and forced him to eat a lot of vegetables.

Continuing to ask carefully, "...What about lunch?"

"Just finished eating, I was taking a walk when you came back." That was a lie. In fact, he had deliberately let the system monitor Audrose's location so that he could conveniently be walking past the main gate when the man returned.

The marshal, who wanted to please someone for the first time, thought for a bit and inexpertly suggested, "Now...shall we go play? Take you out to have some fun?" Although he also didn't know what was fun outside, it seemed there was still time to look up information after boarding the starship.

Su Duan firmly refused: "No, I want to take a nap, is that okay?" After playing with the childish dragon for so long, he was actually a bit tired and really needed a nap to replenish his energy.

His Royal Highness the Prince took the opportunity to extend an invitation: "Alright, want to sleep in my room?"

The dragon puffed out its chest and followed behind them. If not for its innate racial characteristics, with its tail only able to stay parallel or hang downwards, it would probably be able to raise it higher than its head by now.

......

Only after the two people and the huge spiritual body completely disappeared did the slaves who remained in place hesitantly raise their heads, looking at each other with eyes filled with complex emotions.

There was envy, jealousy, disbelief... For a long time, no one spoke.

The incident where a slave supervisor wanted to brand that black-haired slave, only to end up being sold out of the mansion, was still being discussed. Now, another scene like this had occurred.

That slave had clearly received favor from His Royal Highness the Prince that had never been given before.

-- It was just unknown how long this favor could be maintained.

The Delaire Empire did not allow nobles and slaves to marry. Without the protection of marriage, even the most favored slave would be abandoned without hesitation after their looks faded with age.

To the nobles, slaves had always been just consumables.

......

In the master bedroom.

Su Duan was first taken by Audrose to the bathroom for a simple wash-up, then pulled onto the soft, large bed.

The bed in Audrose's bedroom was very wide, enough for a dozen of him to roll around on it, and it was soft, much more comfortable than the one in his room. As soon as Su Duan lay down, he felt his sleepiness multiply.

Before his eyelids closed, he glanced at the black giant dragon clinging to the beam directly above the bed.

After following them into the bedroom, Audrose's spiritual body flapped its bony wings and fluttered onto the beam, then crawled back and forth on it.

The last time he came, he had been wondering what the thick, crisscrossing beams on the ceiling were for. It turned out they were like a "dragon climbing frame".

Audrose had already changed into soft home clothes. With powerful arms, he held him in his embrace, covered his eyes, and said softly, "Go to sleep."

Su Duan pulled his hand away from his eye sockets, then hugged his wrist and obediently curled up in his warm embrace to sleep.

The room quickly fell silent.

Audrose did not fall asleep. He looked at his spiritual body for a while, then moved his gaze to the little slave's jet-black head in his arms.

After Su Duan fell asleep, he carefully pulled his hand out from the little slave's arms, then used his fingertips to rub the top of the little slave's head.

-- Because he was afraid of waking him up, he used the gentlest force.

Just as he was quietly enjoying the satisfaction of holding the person in his arms, his personal terminal suddenly lit up silently.

The message icon was red, indicating that the urgency of this message was at the highest level.

Audrose frowned and opened it:

[Emperor]: The war situation has changed. A council meeting will be held at the palace at six o'clock this afternoon. Please come to the palace in advance to discuss, Marshal.