Chapter 189: 188 – Pax’s Reaction
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"Your son?!" Pax yelled so loudly that Pax's secretary, who was outside his cabin and bringing some documents to him, immediately turned around and went back, deciding that she would come back with the papers later when the CEO was in a better mood and not shouting at people on the phone. After all, something earth shattering must have happened to make the cool and unflappable CEP Pax shout like that – and it was probably related to Chairman Ren or Prince Fang or CEO Pax's brother, Wolf, who was the boss of the Blue Wolves. Other than these three people, there was no one who could make CEO Pax lose his cool!
In the Dragon Nation, Fang held the phone away from his ear to avoid bursting his ear drums from Pax's shocked shout.
"Shh," Fang said when Pax stopped shouting. "You will wake up the baby if you are too loud."
Pax was so angry that he almost flipped his huge table that weighed close to a hundred kilograms, and if one were to estimate the value of the papers and documents and deals on his desk – those would run into hundreds of billions – definitely not a table one would want to flip!
Not to mention that Pax would need to use magic to flip the table – it was simply too heavy.
"Were you two simply planning to come back home holding a baby boy who looks just like Ren? Without any explanation whatsoever?! Have you forgotten what happened when Sylvia was seen in the public back in Sand Country? Do you want something like that to happen again? Especially now that you are a blue blooded prince and there are thousands of people already clamouring that Ren is just a commoner who made it rich by a stroke of luck and is undeserving of you?" Pax scolded in a cold voice.
Fang fell silent. He had not thought about this at all. They had been too caught up with the wonder of the golden dragon hatching from his egg and then suddenly turning into a human baby.
But Ren and Fang would have definitely spoken to Pax before they returned to Cosmopolis…
But then again, what if someone managed to take a picture of Ray with them and leak it before? It's not like they would not be seen by anyone on their way back to the imperial palace completely, even though they would not really pass through fully public places.
"Sorry," Fang said quietly. "It's only been a few minutes since we found him, actually." Then he explained briefly to Pax about what had happened.
Pax was stunned. "A – a golden dragon? A real dragon?" he asked, his voice full of disbelief.
Fang chuckled. "Ren and I will send you pictures when he changes into his dragon form. He is super cute, both as a dragon as well as in his human baby form. His name is Ray," he told Pax proudly.
"Send me some hi resolution images right now, I will make arrangements here and handle the PR so that you guys don't face any trouble," Pax said. "I need pictures of Ray separately, as well as of the two of you with the baby."
"All right," Fang said easily. That would not be a problem.
"Is the Dragon Queen there? Can I speak to her?" Pax asked.
"Yes, hold on," Fang said. He turned to the Dragon Queen. "Auntie, Pax wants to talk about handling the PR for Ray with you," he said quietly.
The Dragon Queen smiled and held out her hand for the phone, which Fang quickly handed over.
The Dragon Queen stood up and walked away, discussing things with Pax for quite some time. Meanwhile, Princess Una and Prince Uno watched Ren and Fang cautiously.
"Is CEO Pax very angry?" Prince Uno asked nervously. "I sent him some pictures of the two of you with the baby…"
Fang narrowed his eyes as his cousin, but Ren quickly patted Fang's arm to calm him down.
"Prince Uno did the right thing," Ren said. "Pax needs to know about this, otherwise we may have another mess at our hands like we did when we brought Sylvia home."
Fang sighed and nodded. "We need to have a good story," he murmured.
Prince Uno raised an eyebrow. "Are you planning to take Ray back to Cosmopolis?" he asked.
Ren looked at him quizzically. "Of course," he said. "He is our baby now, isn't he? He will live with us."
"But he is the legendary dragon of the Dragon Nation…" Prince Uno said. "Shouldn't he live in the Dragon Nation?"
"In the Dragon Nation, even if Ray's dragon form is accidentally seen, he would not be persecuted. Instead, he will be worshipped," Princess Una murmured. "So, to some extent, Uno is right."
Fang shook his head. "We can visit the Dragon Nation more often – all our children need to learn more about the culture of the Dragon Nation anyway, since they are part of the royal family here now. But moving to the Dragon Nation permanently is out of the question. Cosmopolis is our home," he said firmly.
"You could leave Ray here with Mother," Prince Uno said with a frown. "It would be best for Ray to live with his fathers, of course, but it is also important for him to stay here."
Princess Una sighed. "That won't work," she said. "Ray looks like Ren. If Mother kept him around, wouldn't people assume strange things? Ray needs to stay with Ren and Fang, for sure."
Prince Uno huffed. "I don't understand why both of them get to have magical familiars who take after the other partner instead of their master. I mean, even if the magical familiars wanted to be their babies, they should logically look like the one they are bound to, right?" he asked.
Ren chuckled. "Rudy has a very interesting hypothesis on that," he murmured.
"He does," Fang said with a light smile on his face. "I don't think that applies to Ray, though. He clearly decided to take after you because he likes you more than he likes me."
Ren shook his head fondly. "He's just a new born baby, he would be attracted to the tastiest thing around him. And my magic is more powerful than yours, so it is probably tastier for him," he guessed.
Fang remained silent, making it clear that his opinion on the subject was different from Ren's.
The Dragon Queen came back just then, putting a stop to their conjectures. "CEO Pax has a good idea to provide a background for little Ray. We are going to say that he is a surrogate child, and he was born weak, so we had hidden him away in the secret medical facility of the Dragon Nation until he was healthy enough to be brought out. This will also explain why you two travelled to the Dragon Nation often, and since I have already admitted publicly that I knew that Fang was my biological nephew, I offered to house the baby for you to protect the child," she said. "This will also help to explain more of the babies' human forms in the future when they shape shift."
Ren and Fang nodded gratefully.
"Thank you, Auntie," Fang said. "Sorry to have caused trouble for you."
The Dragon Queen laughed. "Trouble? What trouble? We have a real dragon in the royal family of the Dragon Nation now! Is there anything else that we could possibly want?" she said happily, her eyes glowing with delight. "Ren and Fang – I can't even begin to tell you how auspicious that is for the Dragon Nation!"
Ren and Fang raised their eyebrows.
"Dragons are traditionally considered to be deities that are harbingers of good fortune and prosperity in our culture," the Dragon Queen said.
Prince Uno nodded. "Yes, exactly," he said. "That's what Una was just telling them – that even if Ray's dragon form gets seen accidentally by the public, he will be regarded as a deity or a heavenly creature and worshipped. In other countries, he will simply be persecuted and you may even have a bunch of scientists clamouring to dissect him!"
Ren's eyes flashed angrily. "No one gets to lay a finger on our babies," he said in a voice that made Uno shiver.
Ren turned to Fang. "I'm sorry, Fang," he said softly, reaching out to cup Fang's face. "I know I promised you that I will cut down on my work, but your cousin is right – if Ray is accidentally seen, there may be a set of people eyeing him, and if anyone learns that all our babies are magical creatures, there will definitely be even more people wanting to snatch our babies away from us. The only way to prevent this from happening and to protect our babies is to grow SIMS into the biggest scientific corporation in the world.. We will have to branch out into research that goes beyond medicine, and that means I'll have to get busy again."
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"Your son?!" Pax yelled so loudly that Pax's secretary, who was outside his cabin and bringing some documents to him, immediately turned around and went back, deciding that she would come back with the papers later when the CEO was in a better mood and not shouting at people on the phone. After all, something earth shattering must have happened to make the cool and unflappable CEP Pax shout like that – and it was probably related to Chairman Ren or Prince Fang or CEO Pax's brother, Wolf, who was the boss of the Blue Wolves. Other than these three people, there was no one who could make CEO Pax lose his cool!
In the Dragon Nation, Fang held the phone away from his ear to avoid bursting his ear drums from Pax's shocked shout.
"Shh," Fang said when Pax stopped shouting. "You will wake up the baby if you are too loud."
Pax was so angry that he almost flipped his huge table that weighed close to a hundred kilograms, and if one were to estimate the value of the papers and documents and deals on his desk – those would run into hundreds of billions – definitely not a table one would want to flip!
Not to mention that Pax would need to use magic to flip the table – it was simply too heavy.
"Were you two simply planning to come back home holding a baby boy who looks just like Ren? Without any explanation whatsoever?! Have you forgotten what happened when Sylvia was seen in the public back in Sand Country? Do you want something like that to happen again? Especially now that you are a blue blooded prince and there are thousands of people already clamouring that Ren is just a commoner who made it rich by a stroke of luck and is undeserving of you?" Pax scolded in a cold voice.
Fang fell silent. He had not thought about this at all. They had been too caught up with the wonder of the golden dragon hatching from his egg and then suddenly turning into a human baby.
But Ren and Fang would have definitely spoken to Pax before they returned to Cosmopolis…
But then again, what if someone managed to take a picture of Ray with them and leak it before? It's not like they would not be seen by anyone on their way back to the imperial palace completely, even though they would not really pass through fully public places.
"Sorry," Fang said quietly. "It's only been a few minutes since we found him, actually." Then he explained briefly to Pax about what had happened.
Pax was stunned. "A – a golden dragon? A real dragon?" he asked, his voice full of disbelief.
Fang chuckled. "Ren and I will send you pictures when he changes into his dragon form. He is super cute, both as a dragon as well as in his human baby form. His name is Ray," he told Pax proudly.
"Send me some hi resolution images right now, I will make arrangements here and handle the PR so that you guys don't face any trouble," Pax said. "I need pictures of Ray separately, as well as of the two of you with the baby."
"All right," Fang said easily. That would not be a problem.
"Is the Dragon Queen there? Can I speak to her?" Pax asked.
"Yes, hold on," Fang said. He turned to the Dragon Queen. "Auntie, Pax wants to talk about handling the PR for Ray with you," he said quietly.
The Dragon Queen smiled and held out her hand for the phone, which Fang quickly handed over.
The Dragon Queen stood up and walked away, discussing things with Pax for quite some time. Meanwhile, Princess Una and Prince Uno watched Ren and Fang cautiously.
"Is CEO Pax very angry?" Prince Uno asked nervously. "I sent him some pictures of the two of you with the baby…"
Fang narrowed his eyes as his cousin, but Ren quickly patted Fang's arm to calm him down.
"Prince Uno did the right thing," Ren said. "Pax needs to know about this, otherwise we may have another mess at our hands like we did when we brought Sylvia home."
Fang sighed and nodded. "We need to have a good story," he murmured.
Prince Uno raised an eyebrow. "Are you planning to take Ray back to Cosmopolis?" he asked.
Ren looked at him quizzically. "Of course," he said. "He is our baby now, isn't he? He will live with us."
"But he is the legendary dragon of the Dragon Nation…" Prince Uno said. "Shouldn't he live in the Dragon Nation?"
"In the Dragon Nation, even if Ray's dragon form is accidentally seen, he would not be persecuted. Instead, he will be worshipped," Princess Una murmured. "So, to some extent, Uno is right."
Fang shook his head. "We can visit the Dragon Nation more often – all our children need to learn more about the culture of the Dragon Nation anyway, since they are part of the royal family here now. But moving to the Dragon Nation permanently is out of the question. Cosmopolis is our home," he said firmly.
"You could leave Ray here with Mother," Prince Uno said with a frown. "It would be best for Ray to live with his fathers, of course, but it is also important for him to stay here."
Princess Una sighed. "That won't work," she said. "Ray looks like Ren. If Mother kept him around, wouldn't people assume strange things? Ray needs to stay with Ren and Fang, for sure."
Prince Uno huffed. "I don't understand why both of them get to have magical familiars who take after the other partner instead of their master. I mean, even if the magical familiars wanted to be their babies, they should logically look like the one they are bound to, right?" he asked.
Ren chuckled. "Rudy has a very interesting hypothesis on that," he murmured.
"He does," Fang said with a light smile on his face. "I don't think that applies to Ray, though. He clearly decided to take after you because he likes you more than he likes me."
Ren shook his head fondly. "He's just a new born baby, he would be attracted to the tastiest thing around him. And my magic is more powerful than yours, so it is probably tastier for him," he guessed.
Fang remained silent, making it clear that his opinion on the subject was different from Ren's.
The Dragon Queen came back just then, putting a stop to their conjectures. "CEO Pax has a good idea to provide a background for little Ray. We are going to say that he is a surrogate child, and he was born weak, so we had hidden him away in the secret medical facility of the Dragon Nation until he was healthy enough to be brought out. This will also explain why you two travelled to the Dragon Nation often, and since I have already admitted publicly that I knew that Fang was my biological nephew, I offered to house the baby for you to protect the child," she said. "This will also help to explain more of the babies' human forms in the future when they shape shift."
Ren and Fang nodded gratefully.
"Thank you, Auntie," Fang said. "Sorry to have caused trouble for you."
The Dragon Queen laughed. "Trouble? What trouble? We have a real dragon in the royal family of the Dragon Nation now! Is there anything else that we could possibly want?" she said happily, her eyes glowing with delight. "Ren and Fang – I can't even begin to tell you how auspicious that is for the Dragon Nation!"
Ren and Fang raised their eyebrows.
"Dragons are traditionally considered to be deities that are harbingers of good fortune and prosperity in our culture," the Dragon Queen said.
Prince Uno nodded. "Yes, exactly," he said. "That's what Una was just telling them – that even if Ray's dragon form gets seen accidentally by the public, he will be regarded as a deity or a heavenly creature and worshipped. In other countries, he will simply be persecuted and you may even have a bunch of scientists clamouring to dissect him!"
Ren's eyes flashed angrily. "No one gets to lay a finger on our babies," he said in a voice that made Uno shiver.
Ren turned to Fang. "I'm sorry, Fang," he said softly, reaching out to cup Fang's face. "I know I promised you that I will cut down on my work, but your cousin is right – if Ray is accidentally seen, there may be a set of people eyeing him, and if anyone learns that all our babies are magical creatures, there will definitely be even more people wanting to snatch our babies away from us. The only way to prevent this from happening and to protect our babies is to grow SIMS into the biggest scientific corporation in the world.. We will have to branch out into research that goes beyond medicine, and that means I'll have to get busy again."
"Your son?!" Pax yelled so loudly that Pax's secretary, who was outside his cabin and bringing some documents to him, immediately turned around and went back, deciding that she would come back with the papers later when the CEO was in a better mood and not shouting at people on the phone. After all, something earth shattering must have happened to make the cool and unflappable CEP Pax shout like that and it was probably related to Chairman Ren or Prince Fang or CEO Pax's brother, Wolf, who was the boss of the Blue Wolves. Other than these three people, there was no one who could make CEO Pax lose his cool!In the Dragon Nation, Fang held the phone away from his ear to avoid bursting his ear drums from Pax's shocked shout."Shh," Fang said when Pax stopped shouting. "You will wake up the baby if you are too loud."Pax was so angry that he almost flipped his huge table that weighed close to a hundred kilograms, and if one were to estimate the value of the papers and documents and deals on his desk those would run into hundreds of billions definitely not a table one would want to flip!Not to mention that Pax would need to use magic to flip the table it was simply too heavy."Were you two simply planning to come back home holding a baby boy who looks just like Ren? Without any explanation whatsoever?! Have you forgotten what happened when Sylvia was seen in the public back in Sand Country? Do you want something like that to happen again? Especially now that you are a blue blooded prince and there are thousands of people already clamouring that Ren is just a commoner who made it rich by a stroke of luck and is undeserving of you?" Pax scolded in a cold voice.Fang fell silent. He had not thought about this at all. They had been too caught up with the wonder of the golden dragon hatching from his egg and then suddenly turning into a human baby.But Ren and Fang would have definitely spoken to Pax before they returned to CosmopolisBut then again, what if someone managed to take a picture of Ray with them and leak it before? It's not like they would not be seen by anyone on their way back to the imperial palace completely, even though they would not really pass through fully public places."Sorry," Fang said quietly. "It's only been a few minutes since we found him, actually." Then he explained briefly to Pax about what had happened.Pax was stunned. "A a golden dragon? A real dragon?" he asked, his voice full of disbelief.Fang chuckled. "Ren and I will send you pictures when he changes into his dragon form. He is super cute, both as a dragon as well as in his human baby form. His name is Ray," he told Pax proudly."Send me some hi resolution images right now, I will make arrangements here and handle the PR so that you guys don't face any trouble," Pax said. "I need pictures of Ray separately, as well as of the two of you with the baby.""All right," Fang said easily. That would not be a problem."Is the Dragon Queen there? Can I speak to her?" Pax asked."Yes, hold on," Fang said. He turned to the Dragon Queen. "Auntie, Pax wants to talk about handling the PR for Ray with you," he said quietly.The Dragon Queen smiled and held out her hand for the phone, which Fang quickly handed over.The Dragon Queen stood up and walked away, discussing things with Pax for quite some time. Meanwhile, Princess Una and Prince Uno watched Ren and Fang cautiously."Is CEO Pax very angry?" Prince Uno asked nervously. "I sent him some pictures of the two of you with the baby"Fang narrowed his eyes as his cousin, but Ren quickly patted Fang's arm to calm him down."Prince Uno did the right thing," Ren said. "Pax needs to know about this, otherwise we may have another mess at our hands like we did when we brought Sylvia home."Fang sighed and nodded. "We need to have a good story," he murmured.Prince Uno raised an eyebrow. "Are you planning to take Ray back to Cosmopolis?" he asked.Ren looked at him quizzically. "Of course," he said. "He is our baby now, isn't he? He will live with us.""But he is the legendary dragon of the Dragon Nation" Prince Uno said. "Shouldn't he live in the Dragon Nation?""In the Dragon Nation, even if Ray's dragon form is accidentally seen, he would not be persecuted. Instead, he will be worshipped," Princess Una murmured. "So, to some extent, Uno is right."Fang shook his head. "We can visit the Dragon Nation more often all our children need to learn more about the culture of the Dragon Nation anyway, since they are part of the royal family here now. But moving to the Dragon Nation permanently is out of the question. Cosmopolis is our home," he said firmly."You could leave Ray here with Mother," Prince Uno said with a frown. "It would be best for Ray to live with his fathers, of course, but it is also important for him to stay here."Princess Una sighed. "That won't work," she said. "Ray looks like Ren. If Mother kept him around, wouldn't people assume strange things? Ray needs to stay with Ren and Fang, for sure."Prince Uno huffed. "I don't understand why both of them get to have magical familiars who take after the other partner instead of their master. I mean, even if the magical familiars wanted to be their babies, they should logically look like the one they are bound to, right?" he asked.Ren chuckled. "Rudy has a very interesting hypothesis on that," he murmured."He does," Fang said with a light smile on his face. "I don't think that applies to Ray, though. He clearly decided to take after you because he likes you more than he likes me."Ren shook his head fondly. "He's just a new born baby, he would be attracted to the tastiest thing around him. And my magic is more powerful than yours, so it is probably tastier for him," he guessed.Fang remained silent, making it clear that his opinion on the subject was different from Ren's.The Dragon Queen came back just then, putting a stop to their conjectures. "CEO Pax has a good idea to provide a background for little Ray. We are going to say that he is a surrogate child, and he was born weak, so we had hidden him away in the secret medical facility of the Dragon Nation until he was healthy enough to be brought out. This will also explain why you two travelled to the Dragon Nation often, and since I have already admitted publicly that I knew that Fang was my biological nephew, I offered to house the baby for you to protect the child," she said. "This will also help to explain more of the babies' human forms in the future when they shape shift."Ren and Fang nodded gratefully."Thank you, Auntie," Fang said. "Sorry to have caused trouble for you."The Dragon Queen laughed. "Trouble? What trouble? We have a real dragon in the royal family of the Dragon Nation now! Is there anything else that we could possibly want?" she said happily, her eyes glowing with delight. "Ren and Fang I can't even begin to tell you how auspicious that is for the Dragon Nation!"Ren and Fang raised their eyebrows."Dragons are traditionally considered to be deities that are harbingers of good fortune and prosperity in our culture," the Dragon Queen said.Prince Uno nodded. "Yes, exactly," he said. "That's what Una was just telling them that even if Ray's dragon form gets seen accidentally by the public, he will be regarded as a deity or a heavenly creature and worshipped. In other countries, he will simply be persecuted and you may even have a bunch of scientists clamouring to dissect him!"Ren's eyes flashed angrily. "No one gets to lay a finger on our babies," he said in a voice that made Uno shiver.Ren turned to Fang. "I'm sorry, Fang," he said softly, reaching out to cup Fang's face. "I know I promised you that I will cut down on my work, but your cousin is right if Ray is accidentally seen, there may be a set of people eyeing him, and if anyone learns that all our babies are magical creatures, there will definitely be even more people wanting to snatch our babies away from us. The only way to prevent this from happening and to protect our babies is to grow SIMS into the biggest scientific corporation in the world.. We will have to branch out into research that goes beyond medicine, and that means I'll have to get busy again."
