Struggling to survive in the hands of the male protagonist who also wears books

Crete came out of the tent refreshed, and when he was about to change shifts with Alan, who had been watching the night before, he faced Alan with a slightly complicated expression as soon as he stepped out of the tent.

Critter froze for a moment, then remembered that he was too excited before, and forgot to cast the magic of sound insulation in the tent, so he started the "ceremony of infusing the blood of the phoenix".

System 0378 gloated in Crete's heart and said, "Hehehe, the car overturned, let's see how you explain it to Alan?"

Crete ignored his own system that watching the excitement is not a big deal, he just walked to Alan's side and patted him on the shoulder: "Alan, let's talk?"

Alan just wanted to talk to Kriter, but he didn't know if Kriter would like to talk to him about it.Seeing that Crete seemed willing to be honest with him now, he felt a little relieved, and sat beside the bonfire with Crete.

After sitting down, Crete threw a fireball into the bonfire burning in front of him, making the bonfire a little more violent, and then looked at Alan: "What do you want to ask?"

Alan opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but he didn't know how to start, he organized his words a few times in his mind, and seemed a little restless.

It was rare for Crete to see his stable and reliable subordinate scratching his head like this, and suddenly felt a little funny, and joked: "I really should draw a mirror for you to see your current expression, like a monkey."

Alan was still struggling to organize his words about the matter of Crete and Philip, but when he heard that Crete was still in the mood to tease himself, he couldn't help replying angrily: "My head is in a mess, and you still Get in the mood for a joke!"

However, Crete's joke made Alan feel a little more at ease after hearing the voices from Crete and Fili's tent.

He sighed softly, raised his head to look at Crete, and asked seriously: "Your Highness, what is the situation between you and Your Excellency Magician Philip?"

Seeing Alan's serious expression and his very formal address, Crete restrained the casualness on his face and replied seriously: "As you can see."

Alan was not surprised by Crete's answer. He didn't intend to ask this question, but just wanted to find a way to speak so that he could say the following.

"Your Highness, are you serious about His Excellency Philip?"

Crete was a little silent this time, but under Alan's pressing eyes, he still replied firmly: "Of course."

Although he already had a faint feeling, when Alan heard Crete's answer, he still felt his eyes go dark.

This is simply the worst possible outcome.

Alan rubbed his forehead, looked at Crete with complicated eyes, carefully worded his words, and said, "Your Highness, Your Excellency Feili is not only a man, but also a magician... The rules of the royal family towards the concubine, you You know it?"

What ushered in was not Alan's bitter reprimand and contempt for Feili who secretly slept with him, but this kind of vague and kind reminder. Crete was taken aback for a moment, and then reacted.

Although I forgot to cast the sound insulation magic because I was too excited, the tents they used themselves had a certain degree of sound insulation.So Alan should have heard what he and Fili were doing in the tent, but he didn't hear clearly that Fili didn't make any sound, and was always in a state of hypnosis by himself.

From Alan's point of view, it is estimated that he and Philip are in a state of mutual affection, right?

Crete was in a delicate mood.

However, he was not so stupid as to confess this fact to Alan, he just touched two bottles of wine from the interspatial ring, handed one bottle to Alan, and took a sip of the other bottle, before looking at the bonfire in front of him after drinking , said in a low voice: "I know."

The royal family's harem requirements for the heirs of the Phoenix bloodline are sometimes very loose - as long as you like me, you can marry into the royal family regardless of your status, status, or strength, and give you the status of a concubine.In fact, the first concubine of most emperors is a personal maid.

But sometimes, the rules of the royal family are particularly strict - if there is a relationship with a person with the blood of the Phoenix, then that woman must either marry into the royal family honestly and become a concubine, or she must completely sever ties with the person with the blood of the Phoenix.The more radical royal family members even tried to kill the woman who refused to marry into the royal family.

As for men, they would not even have the chance to marry into the royal family in a fair manner.Among the emperors of the Phoenix Empire throughout the history, it is not that there are no masculine lovers, most of them can only raise child prostitutes, and never dare to openly raise lovers.

Once these child molesters lose the favor of the emperor or the emperor dies, it can be said that there is no doubt that they will face the fate of obliteration.

This is also the reason why Alan didn't think about Crete's child molestation when he learned of the relationship between Crete and Fili - based on his knowledge of Crete for many years, Crete would not be A man who creates new tragedies out of sheer lust.

Of course, if Crete just wanted to keep a child prostitute, it would be much easier to deal with.

Alan looked at Crete's gloomy side face, hesitated for a moment, and sighed. He drank a sip of wine with Crete, and patted Crete on the shoulder: "Then what is your plan, Your Highness?"

Philip's status as a magician did not help his relationship with Crete. On the contrary, because the emperor's magician concubine caused a serious rebellion in the royal family hundreds of years ago, the clan The concubine who is a magician has a clearer position of opposition.

It may be a very difficult road for Kriter to walk safely with Philip.

Crete raised his head, looked at the dark sky covered by wind and snow, and suddenly asked an irrelevant question: "Alan, why are the emperors of the empire not the patriarch of the family?"

This question made Alan next to him look terrified.

Even though he knew that they were in the Aurora Mountains where almost no one had set foot, Alan subconsciously looked around cautiously to confirm that no one else existed, and then replied in a low voice:

"Because the imperial royal family is not exactly equivalent to the Phoenix family."

"That's right, since the 'Red Rose Rebellion', the patriarch of the Phoenix family is no longer the emperor of the empire." Crete twitched the corners of his mouth slightly, showing a slightly mocking smile, "The royal family's respect for the imperial concubine Most of the requirements are made by the clan members of the family—do you think these contradictory rules are to maintain the peace of the imperial harem, or are they used to blackmail the emperor?"

Alan fell silent.

Crete took another sip of wine, stretched out his hand, and rubbed a small fireball in the palm of his hand, making the orange flame dance back and forth on his fingertips.

He suddenly smiled and said, "Tell me, if I ask to be the emperor of the empire and the patriarch of the family at the same time, what will those clan members look like now?"

Alan immediately changed his face, widened his eyes, and looked at His Highness the Crown Prince in disbelief: "Your Highness?!"

Return family power to royalty!

I want to know how much this sentence will shock those clansmen in the Phoenix family who have been hiding behind the royal family and enjoying the feeling of being superior for hundreds of years!

Crete waved his hand, extinguished the fireball in his hand, and said with a relaxed expression: "If I become the patriarch of the family, will anyone still object to what I want to do?"

Alan still looked shocked, frowned and said worriedly: "Your Highness, this...have you considered it clearly?"

Haven't the emperors of all dynasties thought about taking back the power of the family?

of course not.

It's just that the reason why the patriarch of the Phoenix family has been able to stand behind the royal family for so many years cannot be shaken by the efforts of one or two emperors.

And those emperors who tried to take back the power of the family all "died of illness" quickly after their attempts were exposed-there is never a shortage of people in the Phoenix family who are willing to sit on the throne.

Crete smiled, but didn't speak.

But Alan could still see Kriter's firmness and confidence from his expression.

Infected by this inexplicable self-confidence, Alan suddenly relaxed, sighed and said with a wry smile: "Oh, why am I so unlucky, and you, His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince?"

Hearing Alan's words, Crete knew that Alan had made his position clear, and he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "That can't be helped, I can only say that you are very lucky."

Relaxed, Alan stopped thinking about Crete and the Phoenix family, stretched his waist, patted his buttocks and stood up: "Then young master, you should keep watch, I'm going to bed first."

Knowing too many exciting things tonight, Alan desperately needs a warm bed to comfort his frightened heart.

"Wait." Critter called to stop him, and instructed, "Just pretend you don't know anything about me and Philip, and don't mention it in front of anyone."

The main thing is not to mention it in front of Filet himself.

Alan reluctantly agreed: "I know this, don't worry."

After a pause, Yalan looked at the tall and handsome crown prince who grew up with him in front of him, and sighed with a complicated expression: "I haven't seen that the young master likes men for so many years... It seems that I can't be with the young master in the future." Shower and change clothes."

In the past, Alan was Crete's bodyguard, and he had to follow Crete wherever he went, not only to protect Crete, but also to deal with the things Crete ordered at any time.

Now knowing that Kriter actually likes men, Alan feels that he still needs to avoid suspicion.

Critter looked at Alan's ordinary face that could never be found on the street, and sighed, "Don't have too much confidence in your own face."

Alan: "..."

It wasn't until Alan went to rest angrily that Crete relaxed again. While throwing another fireball at the bonfire, he said to his own system in his heart: "Look, it's done."

System 0378 was silent for a while, and then said worriedly: "The host really wants to take back the power of the Phoenix family? This doesn't seem to have anything to do with our mission... and the difficulty may not be small."

In the original book, Crete finally took back the power of the family. It was after Dark Phoenix made the Phoenix Empire into a mess. At that time, the entire Phoenix family was in disarray. Very simply handed over the whole family.

After all, the family's internal struggles are still fat and water does not flow to outsiders. If it is completely ruined by the black phoenix, the continuation of the family may be a problem.

Now the future boss is already sleeping in Crete's tent and snoring. Without the external power of Dark Phoenix, if he wants to take the right path to take back the power of the Phoenix family, even if Crete has system assistance, it may be very difficult.

"Oh, that." Crete said nonchalantly, "I lied to him."

System 0378: "..."

After a while, the system asked its host in disbelief: "You lied to him just now?"

Alan trusts you so much, but you lie to him from beginning to end, won't your conscience ache?

Crete took another sip of wine and said with a smile: "This is called shifting the main conflict, turning the problem between me and Philip into a secondary conflict—now Alan must be thinking about how to help me take back the power of the family, just I don't want to worry about Fili's problems anymore."

While the system despised its own host for being deceitful, it also quietly breathed a sigh of relief—after all, they came to this world with a mission. If possible, it certainly didn't want the host to do extra things to distract attention.

Crete stared at the bonfire for a while, and suddenly said to the system in his heart: "But it's not all about lying to him."

"Ok?"

The system's heart rose again.

"Fili." Under the light of the bonfire, Crete's side face looked warm and soft.

A gentle smile was drawn on the corner of his mouth: "I'm really serious about him."

Without waiting for the system to speak, he continued on his own: "At first, I thought that Black Phoenix Fili should be a withdrawn, extreme and inferior character, but after getting in touch with him for so long, I found that he is not at all what I thought. Dark, very frank, loves to laugh, and is very lazy. Most of the eyes that look at people are pure emotional expressions. Even if I am a little afraid of me sometimes, it is like a cat testing the movements of strangers... It is not real at all fear."

As soon as the system opened its mouth to say the word "I", it was interrupted by Kriter's self-talk.

"——In order to tie him to my side, I made a lot of decisions for him, and decided a lot of things that he might not like. But he has always been that lazy and easygoing, which makes people feel that he has no What a big ambition, just a life of going with the flow, as long as you can avoid trouble, it doesn't matter who you follow or what you do. So I have been thinking, why does such a Philly do the murderous deeds of Black Phoenix in the original book? What? How much of those things came from his original intention, and how much from the polluted Phoenix bloodline?"

The system tried to speak again, but was interrupted by Crete again.

"The more I get to know him, the more I feel that he is not what you showed me in the simple description of the original storyline. I feel very relaxed when I get along with him. It seems that I don't have to think about traveling through the world or doing tasks. These are very powerful. It’s like I’m still chatting and playing basketball with my buddies on earth, do you understand this feeling?”

The system seized this opportunity and quickly said, "I..."

Unexpectedly, Crete didn't expect its answer at all, and continued directly: "It doesn't matter whether you understand or not, it's useless for you to stop me, I have already decided to have a serious relationship with him."

This time the system didn't speak immediately. After waiting for a while to see that Kriter had nothing to add, he gritted his teeth and said, "Who told you that I'm going to object?"

Crete was stunned for a moment: "You don't object, then why didn't you say it earlier?"

"Did you give me a chance to talk?" The system wanted to blow its host's head off, and said bitterly, "I can't control you to force you not to fall in love, as long as you complete the task well, you can talk about eighteen I won't object either!"

Crete was very happy to receive the support of his own system, and he smiled: "I am a very dedicated person, and I only need to talk about one."

A long string of hehes flashed in the system's heart, and I only hoped that Philip would never accept Crete, so that his host could experience the ups and downs of asking for something but not getting it!