Chapter 156: The Joyful Daily Life of the Male Protagonist of the Harem Novel
"… To sum up, there are four projects going on at the same time this month, and the time is distributed like this from the time I wake up in the morning until I go to bed at night…" Ade drew pictures on the tablet, "… thus proving that I have no time to commit crimes."
Lacus stared at what Ade had drawn for a long time, pointed to several locations in the chart, and asked, "There are a total of ten hours of the time gap, where did the time go?"
"These are the hours spent talking with Alice, and there are call records on the phone app to prove it." Ade took out his phone and showed it to everyone, "Here it is."
Lacus took the phone and quickly did a mental calculation, "No, the time is still not right, it only adds up to five hours here."
"I was at Aeolia's place in the other 5 hours. He can prove it for me." Ade said sheepishly, "It was about a program on language learning and self-awareness."
"Oh, yeah, Ikari Yui was there, I almost forgot about her." C.C. sneered, "I remember that Haman Karn's guards are a pair of twins, you haven't tried three-way, have you? Do you want to try it too, hmm?"
"These are my savings and credit card flows for the month." Ade pulled out new evidence from his phone, "Here I'll prove financially that I didn't commit the crime …"
"Come on, don't say such useless things! Dr. Lingus has a high IQ, you must be able to prove it perfectly, no one wants to hear this!" C.C. grabbed his phone and slapped it hard on the table, "I just want to know what Lacus just said, Nunnally kissed you in front of the world's dignitaries, is this thing true? Look me in the eye, and I want you to answer me yourself."
"It's true." Ade looked her in the eyes, "But it was for revenge Lelouch. Nunnally said—"
"Nunnally says something and you believe it? What are your IQ and NT abilities for?!" C.C. questioned in a loud voice, "She is the queen of a country and an unmarried girl, and now she tells the world in public that she is having an affair with you, just to take out her anger for her brother? Do you believe such nonsense?"
"She is really a ruthless person who can do such things." Ade explained patiently, "You don't know her, Nunnally is—"
"And you know her??" C.C.'s voice was so high that it broke a bit, "Yes, oh, you are NTs, how normal is it to understand each other? Do you know that this story will be spread all over the world tomorrow and she will be accused by countless people? Did she pay such a high price just to disgust you a little? Who would believe that?"
"I can't control what she wants to do, but at least I don't like her!" Ade was at a loss for words, and complained, "This damn Geass! Why did it lose control at this time? If it weren't for—"
"So it's Geass's fault?" C.C. is like a cat whose tail has been stepped on, "I'm really sorry for the contract with you, I'm really sorry for making you suffer, if only I had never appeared, everything would be much better, right?"
"That's not what I meant!" Ade had a headache, "I know you're a bit sensitive, it's okay, by the time my NT ability—"
"So it's still my fault? It's my fault that I'm sensitive, that I'm jumpy, that I'm shady? There's nothing wrong with you?" C.C. said and her eyes turned red as if she was going to cry out, "Ade, is there any woman in this world willing to share her husband with other women? If Mineva becomes someone's concubine, what do you feel? I am tolerant and patient with you because I love you, but that is no reason for you to endlessly break through the bottom line!"
"I am grateful and very content with what I have now." Ade said with unparalleled sincerity, "But I'm really not pushing the bottom line!"
"You don't think what happened today was enough to break the bottom line?!" C.C.'s beautiful golden eyes were wide and she kept taking deep breaths for a while before she slowly calmed down, "Mayu's brother is getting married next week and I don't want to argue with you at this time. Let's all just calm down. Don't talk to me unless you have figured out what you've done wrong."
After saying that, C.C. left the living room alone, and a heavy slamming sound rang out ten seconds later.
Ade looked down helplessly at Lacus, "Lacus, I …"
"I neither added fuel to the fire nor fanned the flames, I just stated the facts, no mistake?" Ade nodded under Lacus's gaze, "Ade, have you thought about my position of identity?"
"I'm sorry."
"I don't want to hear sorry, sorry doesn't solve the problem." Lacus gestured in the direction C.C. left, "What she wants to hear is sorry and I'm wrong, but you keep trying to prove you're right, so the more you say, the more upset and agitated she gets. Today she is angry, so don't bother her. You can admit your fault to her tomorrow."
Ade silently recorded it on his notebook: If C.C. and he quarreled again, no matter what the real situation is, it's always right to admit that it's his mistake.
"Come back to me, tomorrow morning, the whole world will know that Mrs. Lingus' husband cheated on her." Lacus looked at him sadly, "No matter if it is C.C. or Ange, as long as we don't put it in public, people will only secretly talk about your rich private life. But you have to understand that these things are not to be brought to the surface."
"I understand." Ade bowed his head in shame, "I'm not at all proud of my philandering."
"It's useless to understand, I have to go to work tomorrow, Ade, how are you going to make me face my colleagues around me when I'm in the government office building tomorrow? How am I going to behave when I'm out on business in the future?" Lacus's tone was slightly agitated, "Everyone will be pointing their fingers at me behind my back, have you considered my feelings?"
"How about I find a way to convince Nunnally to come up with a statement?" Ade suggested in a whisper, "A clarification or something like that."
"Clarification? There's going to be reporters interviewing her tomorrow, guess it, will she acquiesce it voluntarily?" Lacus sighed, "The way you handled it tonight — considering Nunnally's status and age — looks no different to admit it yourself. All in all, I'm disappointed in your performance tonight, I don't think you took care of my feelings and I hope you can reflect on it."
After saying that, Lacus turned around and went back to her room without saying another word. However, with Ade's emotional intelligence, he really doesn't know what better way to handle it. He couldn't give Nunnally a slap on the spot, could he?
"Ade, I'm not angry." Ange, who still stayed in the place, took the initiative to speak out, "I'm not like them, I don't think it's your fault. You promised that you wouldn't mess around again, I believe you."
"Thank you, Ange, thank you for your understanding…" Ade was so touched with tears in his eyes.
"It must be Nunnally who took the initiative to seduce you, trying to force you to give in relying on the pressure of public opinion. What a shameless bitch." A hateful gaze appeared on Ange's face, "I felt that she was not a good person the last time I saw her at the Britannia palace. My intuition was really right."
"…Ange?" Ade felt a killing intent and wondered if it was an illusion.
"She's staying at the Capital State Hotel right now, I guess, I'll just go and take her out unnoticed." Ange stood up and headed for the door, "I won't let her ruin our hard-earned happiness."
"Wait, wait, wait!" Ade was so scared that he pulled her back. Ange was a woman of her word, "It will cause diplomatic problems! You absolutely can't do it!"
"You're on her side?" Ange asked, completely on instinct, "You're being mean to me for her? You think I'm being unreasonable?"
"No, I'm on your side, I swear!"
As long as I quarrel with anyone in the family, no matter what the reason is, I must apologize first! Ade silently changed the contents recorded in his notebook.
"Hmm, since so, how about this?" Ange thought about it and said, "When she flies back to Earth in a spaceship, I pretend to be a terrorist to blow up the spaceship, not leaving any evidence, so that it will not cause diplomatic problems."
"This… isn't quite right either."
"This doesn't work and that doesn't work, what do you want? I think you simply can't let her go!" Ange instantly blew up, "You clearly promised me! Now I'm jealous! I'm jealous! And I'm aggrieved! She kissed you in public. Don't you know what it means when a girl kisses you in public? Tell me in good conscience, what was the first time I kissed you?"
"…"
Crap. His memory was stuck all of a sudden. There were too many things to be busy with, and he suddenly couldn't recall the memory from all these messes.
"You don't remember???!!!" Ange felt dizzy, "I know you have two women at home, but I'm still single-mindedly good to you, never make trouble to you, and this is how you respond to my true heart? You're not even bothered to remember our first kiss?"
"I remember!" Ade finally recalled it, "It was at—"
"It's late." Ange picked up Mineva, who was watching the show with interest, with a stern face, turned around, and headed for her room, "I'm being nice to you because I want you to be just as nice to me, not so you can collect one more character for your harem. Sleep by yourself tonight."
Mineva struggled to get down from Ange's arms, however, Ange hugged her so tightly that Mineva could not break free and could only wave her small white hand helplessly at Ade. Although she couldn't talk to him in his mind now, the little girl's heart feeling did reach out to his heart.
Ade silently headed to the bathroom to wash his face, and when he returned to the living room, he went into the kitchen, wanting to make a cup of coffee for himself. Before he did it. Momoka had already handed him a cup of brewed hot coffee.
"Thank you." He smiled shyly at the little maid, "You should rest now, it's late."
"You are too kind." Momoka smiled and bowed to him, walking briskly back to her room.
Momoka's presence felt thinner and thinner lately, almost as if she had become airborne, but she would pop up again on her own whenever Ade needed her. Ade sometimes felt quite sorry for Momoka, feeling that he and Ange kidnapped her life, but he could not come up with a solution that works.
Fortunately, Momoka and Nunnally are about the same age, there is plenty of time to think of a solution. Ade thought to himself.
He sat down on the couch with his steaming coffee and drifted off to sort out the day's events. Now it seems that Nunnally's behavior was hurting both him and herself. He had to make a detailed plan to try to coax them one by one within a week. Shinn's wedding would be held the next week, he couldn't make trouble to him.
He pulled out his phone and flipped through his address book, looking for someone to talk to. He was too embarrassed to talk it to Shinn and the others. In theory, Amuro was the best person to talk to, but because of the time difference, Amuro would be difficult to contact in most cases.
Loran would be Ade's first choice in the past, but Loran was recovering from illness, and wasn't convenient to take his phone. He often used reasons like "I will go out to play with Loran" in the past, and when he thought about it, he couldn't help but miss Loran even more.
After checking the entire address book and finding no one to talk to, Ade suddenly had the urge to work overnight tomorrow and not go home.
But this was only an impulse, and it would only make the ending more miserable. He had to face and solve it himself.
By the time Ade went back to his room, it was already three o'clock in the morning. He threw himself onto the big soft bed, dialed Alice's channel, and then the angelic voice rang out.
"Ade, good morning!" The artificial intelligence said quickly, "I can't believe you're free now, Alice is happy!"
"Well, I'm happy too." He buried his head into the pillow, "Alice, create a new form file, in Chinese, the title is 'Important Events of C.C., Lacus and Ange', and the content is…"
Alice faithfully built the entire table under his dictation, and finally asked weakly, "Can I record the important dates between me and Ade as well? Forget it if you can't."
"…Of course you can." He felt even more guilty, "I'm sorry, Alice."
In the following week, after a hard, unimaginable struggle, relying on the fruit of life, not sleeping for more than a hundred hours, Ade finally coaxed C.C., Lacus, and Ange before Shinn's wedding started.
A week later, Shinn's wedding day finally arrived. The most nervous person was not the bride or the groom, but Ade — Shinn and Stella's parents died, he would attend the wedding as both the male parent and female parent.
