Chapter 59 - Lifting the Ban (2/2)

After processing, the gender of the voice on the other end could not be distinguished. “Rest assured, everything is prepared. As for the Lebor System’s Council Head, Sheng Ping’s manuscript, we already had the writers from our shop add on the embellishments. It’s too touching, I wanted to cry after seeing it. Do you want to read the final draft again?”

“Don’t send that out first. We’ll look at the situation after a few hours before deciding. Send the final draft to me again.” Zhong Yan said, “Alright, go do your work, contact me again if you need anything.”

The person on the other end was clearly a young person, and they quickly acknowledged his orders.

After Zhong Yan read the Lebor Council Head’s pity script, he circled out a point that was inconsistent with Adrian’s follow-up plan before sending it back to that person from “Specimen”. Then, he brought up the live broadcast again. The Q&A session had already been going on for a while.

It seems that the key issues of Lebor System have already been asked several times. When Zhong Yan went back to it, the reporters had already turned their attention to the Supreme Commander of the Navi Military Command who rarely showed his face in public.

“Commander Yate, you were attacked in the Lebor System a few days ago, so how is your physical condition now? And what about Councilor Zhong Yan?” One of the reporters who had been chosen stood up and asked.

A few of the senior officers from the Navi Military Command who were sitting on stage sucked in a breath of cold air. Even though news had been going around these past few days in the Navi Military Command that Adrian and Zhong Yan had already reconciled, the imprint left behind those past years by Adrian was too deep, so everyone’s fear of that banned word had already sunken deep into their instincts. To think this reporter would actually say that to Adrian’s face in public, everyone in Navi who was watching the broadcast broke out in cold sweat.

But the real shocker was, Adrian actually didn’t seem angry at all. He responded casually, “Thank you, everyone, for your concern. Councilor Zhong Yan is in the midst of recovery. As for my status, everyone can see it with their own eyes.”

Zhong Yan was very clear that this was also one of the reasons he showed up in public today. He was Navi’s leader, and also the poster child for the entire anti-AI movement. He could get hurt, but he must never fall. When he’s standing, he can bring infinite encouragement and courage to all those who struggle on the same side.

But Zhong Yan knew that Adrian had only removed all his bandages yesterday. People only cared about whether the Commander was fit to act, and whether he could work again in full state. Only Zhong Yan had caressed the scar left behind by every knife wound, enduring the pain with his own heartbreak.

At that time, Adrian regretted not having done the laser scar removal surgery. When he saw how dispirited Zhong Yan was, he scooped him up into his embrace and joked, “I’m still a man with a fully functioning body. You’re playing with fire if you touch me all over in bed like that, don’t you know?”

Zhong Yan responded with a sullen hum, but his mood was still down. Adrian had to coax him for a while before he could bring his mood back up, and immediately decided that he would have to find some free time to get those scars removed in the headquarters’ hospital.

At the press conference, the next reporter that had just been picked stood up and asked, “Commander Yate, you’ve spent a lot of reward money on obtaining the variant blood a few days ago, can you disclose the specific amount?”

“No,” Adrian responded without any grace.

But the reporter was not discouraged either and tried to probe again. ” In any case, it must be an astronomical sum. So why did Councilor Zhong Yan claim that he could not refuse the marriage proposal because of financial difficulties prior to that?”

Adrian said, “He is indeed quite poor. It’s normal if he can’t afford it.”

“But you have money, right?” The reporter asked.

Adrian responded matter-of-factly, “We weren’t related before our marriage, my money had nothing to do with him at that time.”

He was able to circumvent the reporter, and the reporter actually couldn’t find any problems with his logic so quickly either. Dazed, the reporter asked, “Then, now that you’re a family, do you have any plans for divorce?”

“No, no money, can’t afford it,” Adrian responded simply and directly. “Alright, let’s give our other media friends a chance.”

Since they’ve already started asking questions like these, it seems like there’s nothing important left at the end. Zhong Yan shrunk the broadcast window and stroked the clean rabbit on his lap. Then, he rolled over to the cleaning robot and continued reviewing its work.