You are chosen be grateful!
" Human, are you awake?"
" Are you awake human?"
" Human!"
Mo Qiang felt like her head was going to explode. She couldn't understand what was going on around her, all she knew was —— that she was going to die! How can someone's head hurt this much? Was it because she drank too much? But did she drink last night?
As she tried to filter through her memories, she realised that last night, she did not get drunk instead she got killed!
Almost immediately Mo Qiang sat up straight as she looked around her surroundings—— she was sitting on moving clouds. Mo Qiang pinched her cheeks and then closed her eyes to make sure she was not dreaming, but when she opened her eyes, she was surprised to see that she was indeed sitting on a moving cloud!
" Haha, looks like I am still dreaming," Mo twenty-five years old virgin who did not even have any crush while slaving away for her boss Qiang, refused to believe that she was dead without getting a chance to live her life.
" You are not dreaming, you are really dead," a voice chimed from the front causing Mo Qiang to look up. In front of her on a floating cloud sat a very beautiful girl, with transparent wings with golden glitters and veins like that of a fairy.
Her golden hair that reminded her of rustling wheat was floating behind her and green eyes like fresh grass were locked on Mo Qiang, with her hand under her chin, the fairy-like little girl studied Mo Qiang with those green eyes, a frown decorating her face.
"I ... I am really dead ...?" Mo Qiang did not want to accept that she was dead or the fact that she was in heaven but the fairy in front of her was telling her otherwise.
She looked at her hands which were without a single wrinkle and then touched her face which was as smooth as she remembered before holding her head as she let out a cry, " Is this karma? Is it because I called that boss of mine a baldy? Or is it because I cursed that landlady of mine for increasing the rent? What is it?"
"It's because your karma was entangled with that of a bad guy," the girl who looked like a fairy replied to Mo Qiang who stopped her whining and stared at the little girl. " What do you mean by Karma? And who is the bad guy here?"
At her question, the little fairy fluttered her wings angrily and then said, " Isn't it the man who you call your boss? The one who plundered mountains, ruined nature and then drove many wild animals away? And you...." She pointed at Mo Qiang like she had done a great crime. " You assisted him by giving him those horrendous plans of yours!"
Mo Qiang thought that the little fairy was going a bit too hard on her which was why she licked her lips and then said, " I think you are getting angry for something really small——"
"Small? Haha, I will show you small," the little fairy scoffed with a nerve throbbing on her forehead.
She snapped her fingers and the clouds that were surrounding them faltered as the two came to stand in the middle of a dark alley where Mo Qiang could see that the sky was dark and gloomy without a ray of light —— the entire place was covered with gases and fumes at the bottom and the people who were walking on the streets were wearing a fish bowl shaped crystal helmet on their heads while the others who were looking rather well off had a watery looking mask on their mouth and nose.
The dark gloomy sky with red clouds was weird enough but when Mo Qiang looked around, she was shocked to see that there was not a single tree in sight! Not even the smallest one—— not even a shrub.
" You see? This is what you humans have done to this world!" The little fairy who was flying next to her scoffed as she looked at the place in front of her with heartache in her eyes. " You started with small things but then you all became greedy and started killing the wild animals, forest and the consumption of the natural resources don't even start me on that! To make up for the natural resources, you started making chemicals that only made the surroundings even more polluted."
The little fairy sighed and then with a reminiscent look on her face said, " How good it was when people used to rely on nature and in return made sure to repay the gratitude of nature two folds. But——" the fire lit up again in the eyes of the little fairy as she started nudging Mo Qiang in the side of her forehead. " People like you ...started to get greedy! If you were taking down forests why did you not plant more forests? Why did you not breed more wild animals when you were killing them?"
" You..what are you saying? Are you upset with the use of natural sources or not?" Mo Qiang asked as she looked at the little fairy who was poking her in the head.
She was complaining that she harmed nature but at the same time, it sounded like she was more upset with her for not repaying the nature from which she took those resources.
" Of course, I am not upset with you humans making use of the natural resources," said the little fairy as she crossed her little arms in front. "Mother Nature is kind and generous, so, of course, she is happy when her children rely on her but when your greed exceeds the consumption limit, should you not repay Mother Nature as well?"
The little fairy narrowed her eyes as she looked at Mo Qiang and then announced, " Since you have taken, you have to repay as well. Be grateful human! That you have been chosen to revive this destroyed world!"
As she spoke Mo Qiang felt her eyes roll in her sockets as she passed out again.
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Transmigration to the interstellar world!Mo Qiang did not know how long she was out, all she knew was that when she woke up, she felt like her jaw was going to get dislocated or maybe it was already dislocated. She pushed herself off the ground and then looked around, she was lying in the same alley as the one where the little fairy has brought her earlier. Except for this one now had a trash can that was brimming with trash and more trash, flies the size of bees were flying over the trash and Mo Qiang who was on the ground simply stared at everything and thought that everything that just happened around her was unrealistic.
With a raise of her hand, she pinched herself on the cheek and winced, " Oww, looks like I am not dreaming."
" Of course, you are not," a voice similar to that of the little fairy echoed in her head as a transparent screen that had golden letters on it appeared in front of her eyes. Mo Qiang looked at the screen and saw the words that were written on it ——
[ Nature Reviver: Mo Qiang.
Level: 1
Equipment: None.
Strength: Beast summoner, yet to be gained.]
No sooner did she finish reading the information, a pile of memories that were not hers started to flood her head. Mo Qiang who has somehow pushed herself to sit up on the ground felt like she was dying as she raised her hands and clutched her head ——
The world where she was now was not the Earth, instead, it was an interstellar star called the Death Star. The previous owner of this body was also called Mo Qiang and she was in simpler words, trash —— she was the daughter of the ex-general of the imperial army who lived in the main star. The ex-general was called Mo Yan, and to her surprise, the general was actually a woman and not a man!
Turns out that the rates of woman population in the old times kept falling since no one wanted to have a daughter and only craved more and more sons. In the end as the world she lived in reached the final stage, the researcher of the world then came up with the plan of creating a being that will give birth to children with both males and females that were able to survive the destruction of the world.
These beings were called mers, they were created only to give birth to females and males but in the end, somehow, there was a problem in the genetic formulation of the mers who ended up giving birth to mers which caused the population of mers to boost more than the males and females.
Because of this sudden boost the mers whose population was more than the population of females and males were forced to marry a woman or man even if they already had spouses. Since no mer could give birth to a child with another mer.
Mo Qiang was the daughter of the first husband of her mother and was spoiled rotten which caused her temper to be ruined. Her stubborn temper stayed the same even when her mother was declared a traitor by the imperial family because of a scheme and was sent to this star where the living conditions were hardly liveable.
She also had a sister who was the daughter of the second husband, this sister of hers was kidnapped by the second husband who ran away from the original owner's mother, the second she was declared a traitor and was stripped of her title as the general of the imperial army.
Mo Yan, the original owner's mother knew that her second husband was pregnant with her child and thus looked for her desperately. After a long search, this sister of hers was found—— when Mo Yan found her, she was sick and almost on the verge of death since the second husband of her mother left his daughter on the streets after he married another woman who was richer and stronger than Mo Yan.
Mo Yan brought her daughter back and nursed her back to health, and as soon as she recovered, Mo Yan named her daughter Mo Xifeng meaning Phoenix. Mo Qiang who was envious of Mo Xifeng who was getting doted on by Mo Yan was, even more, hurt when her mother named a street rat Mo Xifeng while giving her a fragile name —— Mo Qiang which meant rose.
Ever since then Mo Qiang has always bullied Mo Xifeng and even called her the daughter of a traitor. The more Mo Qiang bullied Mo Xifeng, the more the latter strived to improve herself and the more Mo Xifeng improved the more Mo Qiang envied her.
It was like an endless cycle.
But her hatred towards Mo Xifeng exceeded when she found out that her husbands, whom she married and brought home were actually in love with her sister! And they even wished to see her die such that they will be able to marry Mo Xifeng!
How treacherous! How venomous!
After that Mo Qiang was like a rabid dog biting everyone she saw and last night after she drank tons of alcohol and broke the leg of her third husband, she came out of the house after getting scolded by her mother and died in this dark alley because she misplaced her mask and breathed in a lot of poisonous gases.
What the poor woman did not know was that the third husband deliberately egged her such that she will break his leg and Mo Xifeng will dote on him a little.
Mo Qiang who reeled all the information was speechless as she turned to look around and screamed, " Why did you have to make me this stupid?"
Of all the people, the little fairy choose the shittiest one she could find—— a bully, an abuser and on top of it this woman was stupid as heck!
Was this her punishment for not planting more trees?
" I am glad that you are now smart enough to understand that you are an idiot," said a voice from behind.
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A face that deserves to be scratchedMo Qiang turned to look at the source of the voice with a whirl of her feet, as soon as she turned to look at the woman who was standing behind her, she felt her mouth drop. She only heard about angels descending from the heavens and living on the surface of the earth but this was her first time seeing a living, breathing angel.
With her long silvery hair that was fluttering behind her and eyes that were the lightest shade of blue that had a bit of green in them, the woman was looking at her with a scowl on her face. Mo Qiang might have gotten to her knees and praised the woman for gracing her with her beauty but then she saw the numbers that were hovering over the head of the woman.
[ Favourability: -150]
Mo Qiang: "...." Now she was afraid to even show the back of her neck to this woman lest she snapped her neck.
" Mother has called you back home," said the woman who was standing in front of her, her lips still curled in a scowl as she stared her in the eyes. " She only said those words in anger, there was no need for you to stay out in the streets for an entire night."
" Mo Xifeng?" Mo Qiang tested as she looked at the woman with silvery hair who frowned at her when Mo Qiang called her by her name instead of a traitorous bitch.
"That's me," replied Mo Xifeng as she looked at Mo Qiang who was looking at her with part daze and part disbelief. Her brows furrowed even more as her gaze dropped to Mo Qiang's bare mouth and then she said, " Did you stay outside without your mask?"
Mo Qiang touched her dry lips which were chapped and felt rather rough when she touched them with her fingertips, she raised her head and looked at Mo Xifeng whose lips were covered with the mask that she was wearing on her mouth. Those lips were cherry red and looked rather kissable, even though she did not know what kind of appearance she had, Mo Qiang was certain that unless she had the appearance of the most beautiful woman on this planet, she will never be able to beat Mo Xifeng in terms of beauty!
" Stop dreaming," said a voice next to her ear as she turned to look at the squirrel with two small horns on top of her head and a pair of wings on her back. It looked like a badly mutilated flying squirrel since it was missing the cuteness of one.
" Hah?" The squirrel who was perched on her shoulder turned to look at her with an affronted look on her face as she said in a haughty voice that was similar to that of the little fairy, " I am cute from every angle! You might not know this but every form that this mighty one takes is considered to be cute!"
" And you even caught a pet?" Mo Qiang heard Mo Xifeng say as she turned to look at the woman who was now nursing her forehead as she heavily sighed, " Sister, you cannot even take care of yourself. How are you going to take care of that pet? Have you ever thought about what you are going to feed it when we don't have enough to eat ourselves?"
As the woman complained to Mo Qiang, the favourability on top of her fell to another point.
Mo Qiang felt like she was caught by the police at the wrong moment and in the wrong place. She was not the one who committed those atrocities towards Mo Xifeng but now she was the one whose mugshot was getting snapped. She stared at Mo Xifeng not knowing what to say or do, she simply opened her mouth and closed it again without saying anything.
Her behaviour caused Mo Xifeng to frown even further, she has known her sister for years and not once had she seen her sister stay this silent. Did she inhale too much poisonous gases while she was lying on the streets?
Mo Xifeng felt that her sister was simply too incapable but she was in the end her family which was why she took out an extra mask that she carried with herself lest the oxygen in the one that she was wearing ran out and threw it at Mo Qiang who caught it instinctively.
" Here you go," she said to Mo Qiang who was holding the mask in her hands looking at it dubiously. But when she saw that Mo Qiang was not wearing it and was only looking at it with a confused look on her face, Mo Xifeng couldn't stand it as she said, " What are you doing? Don't tell me that you forget to wear this in just one night?"
The thing was that Mo Qiang indeed had no idea how to wear this mask, she gained knowledge of the world and the family she has to stay with but other than that she did not have anything else in her head. It could be said that her brain was clearly free of any wrinkle when it came to the knowledge of this world.
She smiled at Mo Xifeng with an awkward expression but before she could say anything Mo Xifeng has already raised her fists and with a bang hit her across her face.
" Ow, what the hell was that for?" Mo Qiang who was punched in the face, looked at Mo Xifeng while covering the side of her face that was hit with her hand. She blinked her eyes in confusion and was surprised to see that Mo Xifeng was doing the same as well, " What are you confused for?!"
" I don't know," said Mo Xifeng with a startled look on her face as she closed and opened her fists as she looked at Mo Qiang. " I just thought that you were thinking of something evil when you smiled at me just now and my body ...it moved on its own." She looked at Mo Qiang who was now nursing her jaw and then said, " I apologise, sister. "
Though she said that Mo Qiang could see that Mo Xifeng looked rather contented with the punch that she delivered just now.
Mo Qiang: "...." Just what kind of woman was this original owner?
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A face that deserves to be scratched ——2" I was just...ow," Mo Qiang snapped her jaw in place as she looked at Mo Xifeng who still had her fists in front of her in a defensive posture. " Drop the fists, I just wanted to ask how to strap the mask!"
" Why? Can you not do it?" Mo Xifeng asked back while she stared at Mo Qiang, she knew her sister too well which was why she was expecting Mo Qiang to attack her but to her surprise, the woman did not make a move instead she looked at her and then said with a stubborn expression, " I don't know, I don't remember..what are you going to do? Kill me for not remembering how to put on a mask now?"
" What did you say?" Mo Xifeng looked at the woman who was telling her that she did not remember how to put the mask in place but then she looked a closer look at Mo Qiang whose complexion was pale and her lips were turning pale and blue as well. Mo Qiang was someone who cared a lot about her appearance and always applied dark red lipstick on her lips but now those lips did not have the lightest hint of red and looked chapped and were cracking while bleeding in some places.
Alarm bells started to ring in her head, even though Mo Qiang was a spoiled brat and her mother and father were not happy with their eldest daughter acting like a thug, Mo Xifeng knew that her parents loved her sister to bones even her mother who often complained about Mo Qiang to her, if not then she wouldn't have sent her to look for Mo Qiang.
If something happened to her sister then —— what will happen to her parents? Especially her daddy who loved his daughter to the point that he fought with his wife last night and scratched her face.
Wouldn't her daddy kill their mother?
She could not allow something like that to happen!
Mo Xifeng hurriedly snatched the mask from Mo Qiang's hands and then stuffed it in front of her mouth. As soon as she did that the mask started to function on its own as it elongated and covered Mo Qiang's mouth by hooking the long thin strips around her ears.
" Oh, its automatic ——Woah! Hey? Where are you taking me?" Mo Qiang asked whose wrist was now in the hands of Mo Xifeng who was now pulling her out of the alley and towards the end of the clinic.
" You have inhaled a lot of poisonous gases, we will have to get you checked up!" Mo Xifeng said through gritted her teeth as she pulled her sister with her, she once wished that she was the only daughter of her parents but now that Mo Qiang looked like she was dying, she could not leave her alone!
This damned troublesome brat, she wouldn't let her have a day in peace!
....
" Open your mouth, wider, wider ...a bit more wider——"
" Why? Do you want to sit inside my mouth? My mouth is only this wide, it will not get any wider by your chanting!" Mo Qiang who was dragged to a clinic snapped at the fat doctor with big glasses as she continued to ask her to open her mouth wider and wider.
" Be polite sister!" Mo Xifeng seemed to have understood that her sister really did not remember anything and was now listening to her like a good little child which was why she was not scared of scolding her anymore.
Sure enough, as soon as Mo Xifeng spoke, Mo Qiang shut her lips and turned to look at the doctor who continued to ask her open her mouth wider and this time Mo Qiang silently cooperated with her.
' I am only doing this because of that favourability stats!' Mo Qiang snapped inside her head as she felt the side of her lips crack when she stretched her mouth even wider.
' Anyway, what is this favourability?' She asked the little squirrel who has introduced herself as Jiao.
'It's as the word says, it shows the favourability of a person towards you,' replied Jiao in her head since they were two peas in a pod, the two could communicate with each other in their heads without speaking. ' Since you are the one who has been chosen as the reviver of nature if you have good favourability then you will be taken as someone creditable. The more creditable you are, the more people will follow your ways—— like if you ask them to recycle their trash they will do what you have asked them to do.'
' Like a cultist,' muttered Mo Qiang in her head which caused little Jiao to be so offended that she started scratching her face.
" Hey!"
" Now, now," Mo Xifeng who seemed to be taking great sadistic pleasure upon seeing Mo Qiang suffer picked little Jiao off the latter's face and then said with twitching lips, " I understand that her face makes you want to scratch her but you cannot do that..." she then turned to look at Mo Qiang and asked, " You have picked a decent pet this time, sister."
As she smiled, Mo Xifeng seemed to enchant the room to become even brighter.
Mo Qiang: "....." Don't think I did not see that amused glimmer in your eyes.
" Anyway, doctor what is wrong with my sister?" Mo Xifeng asked as she turned to look at the doctor who placed her torch on the table and then said with a light sigh, " She has inhaled a lot of poisonous gases just as you said, it is only normal that she will have some side effects."
She then picked up the pad on the table and wrote some medicines on the blank screen. Once she wrote the medicines on the tablet, the monitor that Mo Xifeng carried with her lit up with a message notification, Mo Xifeng looked down at the list of the medicines and then said, " These are pretty expensive, doctor Chen."
Doctor Chen sighed and then said, " Well, if you don't want to give her these medicines then you can bring her to the imperial city and have her stomach pumped out along with her lungs. Or else her life might get into danger."
Mo Qiang whose life was in danger again: "..." Fck this world! Fck!
Did not last five minutesOnce the examination was over, Mo Xifeng brought Mo Qiang to the small pharmacy that was just a few steps away from the clinic. Their family had little to no money after they were kicked to this star even though her mother's guilt was not proven it was enough to make the imperial family throw them all in this place.
Thus, even though their mother was the baron of this place it was more of a chain bound to their mother's feet such that she will not be able to leave or run away.
They were already having a hard time with the lack of money and resources in this place where they did not have a decent business from which they could take taxes and Mo Yan was not someone who would push the resident to the edge of death by asking them to pay taxes when they did not even have enough to feed themselves!
Mo Xifeng looked at the small amount of money that was in her account and sighed as she paid the bill for the medicine. Mo Qiang who was looking over her new sister's shoulder to see how the people paid money here was stunned when she saw that hundred thousand yuan being withdrawn from the account of Mo Xifeng's bank, she was stunned.
"That's a lot of money," remarked Mo Qiang as she looked at the blue screen of the monitor which was in the shape of a watch that was tied to Mo Xifeng's wrist. " Are medicine really that expensive here?"
"It's not expensive," replied Mo Xifeng who was getting used to Mo Qiang asking her question like a curious child. She turned to look at Mo Qiang sideways and then stated with a calm look on her face, " This is the cheapest medicine in the shop, usually a capsule costs more than a million but the pharmacy owner knows me. I once helped her which is why she gave me a discount."
When Mo Xifeng saw that Mo Qiang was looking at her with a stunned look on her face, she raised her brow and then said, " Don't tell me you even forgot that after fruits, vegetables and oxygen —- Medical expenses are the most expensive ones."
Mo Qiang shook her head causing Mo Xifeng to sigh again as she pointed to the front of the road and then said, " Follow me and don't run amok, I will bring you back home and make sure that you remember every turn and building which comes on our way to our home, I don't want you to go missing."
Mo Qiang's lips twitched when she heard Mo Xifeng say such words, did she think that she was a kid who will get lost? But when she looked up and saw the negative favourability that was like a death sign, Mo Qiang could only nod her head without replying.
Just wait! As long as this favourability turns zero I will show you how sharp my tongue is! Mo Qiang thought as she followed after Mo Xifeng who was leading her back to the house where they lived. As the two walked towards the house, Mo Qiang looked around so fast that her neck was creating afterimages behind her Mo Xifeng who could sense what her elder sister was doing felt her head throb.
Why was it that now that her thug-like sister was gone, the one who replaced her was a child-like one? Who was the one who was the kid sister here?
" Sister pay attention!" Mo Xifeng sternly told Mo Qiang who stopped her assessment of the place and pouted, she was only looking around to see how bad the situation of this place and to her surprise, the condition of this place was really bad. Other than the red clouds that covered the sky, Mo Qiang could not see anything —— not even a single river! Trees were simply impossible.
" I was just curious," said Mo Qiang as she stopped her antics and then started to follow her sister who was walking ahead of her properly. She suddenly remembered something and then turned to look at Mo Xifeng as she asked, " Do we have some debts left or something?"
If she was not wrong she did saw a few faces that looked like thugs in her memory that were demanding money from her mother.
Mo Xifeng turned to look at Mo Qiang and then closed her eyes as she turned her head in front and opened her eyes again before replying, " Mother has to pay compensation to the imperial family because she was deemed as a traitor by the officials."
" But she is not a traitor right?" Mo Qiang asked in a questioning voice, she was not sure since the owner of this body had always doubted her mother.
" Of course not!" Mo Xifeng paused and turned to look at Mo Qiang with a glare which made Mo Qiang take a step behind her. Seeing her act like this Mo Xifeng felt her head throb as she calmed down and then said, " Of course, Mother is not a traitor, she was framed by the Wei family who has always taken credit for her work. Why else do you think that our family was thrown to this place instead of being executed? There was no proof but the imperial family has always been suspicious of its officials."
" Oh, I see," Mo Qiang nodded as she felt a weight lift from her shoulders, as long as the mother of this body was not a real traitor everything was fine. As she raised her head after patting her chest, she looked at Mo Xifeng who was looking at her with a dubious look on her face and asked, " What?"
" You are not going to ask whether I am lying or not?" Mo Xifeng questioned as she looked at Mo Qiang who frowned and shook her head as she replied, " No." She paused and added, " And you don't look like you will lie to me, little Xifeng."
As she spoke to Mo Xifeng, she raised her hand and patted Mo Xifeng on the shoulder. Though she was an orphan, she had often seen her colleagues praise their siblings like this, she only hoped that this will work on Mo Xifeng as well.
Mo Xifeng looked at the smile of her sister who had always looked at her with a gloomy expression like she owed her millions of gold coins and her eyes widened as soon as her eyes widened, a ding echoed in the ears of Mo Qiang.
[ Favourability + 1
Current Favourability: - 150.]
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Did not last five minutes ——2Mo Qiang pumped her fist inwardly when she saw the rise in the favourability but then her happiness balloon was punctured by Little Jiao who crawled up her head and muttered, " Don't be happy with just this much, it's just one number up."
" Don't blow farts in my bubble of happiness," snapped Mo Qiang silently wishing she could squeeze the thing at the top of her head until it was dead. " Whose fault is that I am in this mess? Why is that I am getting punished like this? Shouldn't it be my boss?"
" Your boss is currently drowning in a marsh made of dead animal remains and trees that he ruined, if you want to exchange places with him, I can do that," remarked Little Jiao as she scratched her back with her hind paw. " I am sure that he will be happy since he does not like being chased and poked by spears of Nature fairies."
" Do you know? I really love nature," said Mo Qiang as she immediately back-peddled when she heard what kind of punishment her boss was receiving. " I will definitely give it my all to revive nature and the animal in this place!"
" Like you have any other choice," scoffed Little Jiao as she plopped back on Mo Qiang's head and then said with an eye roll, " Make sure you do a satisfactory job, I want the people here to understand that it is very important to have a balance rather than relying on technology alone. If you fail then I will make my colleagues chase you with thunder spears rather than just spears while they ride hogs."
" Aye Aye," Mo Qiang felt tears running down her cheeks, she worked hard under her boss and now that she was dead and revived again she needed to work hard another a squirrel.
" We are here," While Mo Qiang was talking with Little Jiao, the two of them arrived at the Mo house. Mo Qiang expected it to be run down since no house in this place was in good condition but she never expected the house she was going to live in would look like a standing cylinder that seemed to be covered in rust.
She saw Mo Xifeng press the button on the door but the front door only moved a little on its own before Mo Xifeng pressed her finger on the button again only for the door to make a screeching noise before it completely stopped moving.
Mo Qiang heard a sigh escape those beautiful lips of her sister as she raised her hand, hooked her fingers in the gap and then ——
Bang with a push of her fingers she opened the door that was stuck in place and said to no one in particular, " We are back."
Mo Qiang looked at Mo Xifeng who moved the thick door with a flick of her fingers and felt her mouth drop. Little Jiao, who could not see her master acting like a total nerd, dropped down and then closed her mouth as she said, "What's there to be shocked about? She is a mecha morph, of course, she is going to be super strong!"
" I just feel like if she used all her power while punching me, she could have killed me," stated Mo Qiang as she walked inside the house but as soon as she stepped inside, a man with slightly bluish-black hair rushed out, his eyes were a dark shade of purple martini. His arms were open as he plunged himself at Mo Qiang who darted out of his path worried that she will be tackled down on the ground because of the man who was rushing at her.
It was only when the feminine-looking man straightened up did Mo Qiang realise that the man was not anyone else but her father, a mer to be exact.
" Qin Qin, are you unhappy with Daddy?" The mer spoke with tears shimmering in his eyes as he looked at his daughter who refused to hug him even when she hugged him every time she came back home. " Don't worry, I have punished your mother, how dare she take advantage of my absence and send you away?"
This mer was called Wen Gui and he was the first husband of this body's mother, he was just like his name valuable and dear to his wife. Even more so than her daughter, Mo Qiang was certain that if not for the fact that Mo Qiang was Wen Gui's daughter, she would have been kicked out by her mother long ago.
"That's right," Mo Yan who heard her daughters returning got up from the chair on which she was sitting and then walked up to see her eldest daughter, she frowned when she saw the pitiful appearance of her daughter and then said, " Why do you look like that? And why are you making your father cry?"
Mo Qiang did not know how to react to this sudden situation where she had not only gained husbands, and a sister but also a pair of parents. She blinked her eyes and then said, " I——"
" Sister was out in the open without her mask, mother" Before Mo Qiang could say anything Mo Xifeng spoke up for her. She handed the medicine that she had brought with her to Wen Gui and then said, " I am afraid that we will have to keep a tight budget this week since the next dungeon will not open till the end of this week ."
Wen Gui almost felt his heart drop when he heard that his daughter was left in the street with no mask, he cupped her face with his hands and then looked at her carefully when he saw the bluish-purple veins poking out of his daughter's pale skin, his eyes started to spew fire as he rolled his sleeves and then turned to his wife.
" MO YAN!" He roared at the top of his lungs before lunging at his wife as he started scratching her face again. " Look at you what you did! My daughter is unrecognisable because of you!"
Mo Yan did not dare to say anything as she let her husband take his anger out on her.
" Wait, you don't have to..." Mo Qiang began speaking but she was stopped by Mo Xifeng who said, " Let them be, it is their daily routine."
She was not lying while their mother was strict with Mo Qiang, Wen Gui doted on his daughter to the heavens and back.
Thus, it was not a surprise that they fought every day.
Mo Qiang heard Mo Xifeng's words and then did as the latter said, she let them fight out and soon she heard the coaxing voice of her supposed-to-be mother which was followed by the coquettish voice of her supposed-to-be father.
That's it? That fight did not even go on for more than ten minutes!
Meeting the husbandsMother Yu coaxed her husband who was angry with her before she turned to look at Mo Qiang who was standing in front of her and then asked in a subtle voice, " Are you okay, Qiang'er?"
Mo Qiang looked at the top of her supposed-to-be mother's head, the favourability that was displayed on top of the head of her supposed-to-be mother was in negative points as well but maybe because she was her mother, the numbers were only in double digits, on the other hand, the favourability points on top of her father's head was simply outrageous, he was most probably one of those parents who believed that there was no way their kid was in the wrong.
" Qin Qin?" Mo Yan called her daughter again when she saw that the latter was not replying to her and Mo Qiang who was looking at the top of their heads, turned to look her supposed-to-be mother in the eye and nodded, " I am fine, just a bit woozy."
Mo Yan nodded and then after hesitating for a while she spoke, " I am not angry at you regarding last night's incident, but you need to understand that you cannot treat your husbands as you wish. They are your partners and not toys whom you can break and put them together as you wish."
" Wife!" Wen Gui was afraid that his daughter will get upset again which was why he tried to stop his wife but the latter patted his hand and then turned to look at Mo Qiang who was listening to her quietly, " Qin Qin, you should go and apologise to Hui'er, he is still young and him saying something that did not sit well with you is only normal, breaking his leg was a bit too much on your part."
At this moment even Wen Gui did not say anything because he too did not want unwanted chaos in his house, his three sons-in-law were a bit headstrong but they were good kids and they were good-looking as well!
Hui'er? If she was not wrong this was the third and the youngest husband, right? Mo Qiang thought about how this husband of hers had deliberately provoked the previous owner such that she will harm him and he will be able to get some cosy time with Mo Xifeng and her lips twitched.
But there was no way she could say something out loud, so she could only nod and say, " I understand."
Mo Yan was going to say a few more words to make her daughter understand the importance of being a good and understanding wife when she heard her daughter agree with her suggestion. Stunned, she raised her head and looked at her daughter before asking in surprise, " You? You agreed just like that?"
" Am I not supposed to?" Mo Qiang asked back to her mother while blinking her eyes, she knew that the previous owner would have stubbornly refused to agree with her mother's word much less apologise to her husband but ——
When she thought about all the bad ideas that were stored in the stomachs of her husbands, she decided it was better to keep her distance from them and divorce them as quickly as possible!
There was no need for her to go against them, turning her head green? Haha, they were welcomed to turn her hair into a prairie—— she will work hard into turning these barren lands green and her husbands can work hard to turn her hair green.
" No, that's not it," Mo Yan was really shocked when she saw that her daughter did not fight with her. Was this because of all the poisonous gases that filled her head? If she knew that her daughter will become this polite then she would have thrown her out in the streets earlier!
But she was still worried since her daughter was someone who could not be trusted which was why Mo Yan turned to look at Mo Xifeng, her second daughter and said, " You go with her, Xifeng. If there is any need for you to intervene then please do as you deem fit."
As Mo Yan gave full permission to Mo Xifeng, the latter nodded and then clenched her fingers into fists. " I understand Mother."
Mo Qiang: "....."
There was no need to talk with fists! She was a peaceful and honest office worker!
In the end, there was nothing that Mo Qiang could say, she could see that the people in this house did not even place the bare minimum trust in her which was why she could only turn around and wait for Mo Xifeng to guide her to the room where her husbands stayed.
Since their family had no money... their house barely had any rooms. Though the building looked rather cool even though it was run down, Mo Qiang could see that the condition of the building was really bad, with all the rust that was covering the walls, she was worried that the building might fall at any second.
She raised her hand and then placed her fingers on the rusting wall, her eyes flickered and Mo Qiang could not help but frown. This place was really not liveable, it was covered in rust and bolts and nuts were poking out from all over the place, it was really dangerous to live here but if she had some logs and——
"I hope you are not thinking about using your eggs before they are even laid?" Before she could finish thinking Mo Qiang heard the voice of Little Jiao echo in her head as she domineeringly looked down at her. " You are here to revive nature, not start another slaughter!"
" Yeah, Yeah...I understand," Mo Qiang replied but her head did not stop working, she had to think of a way to deal with these conditions but first ——
" We are here," her thoughts were broken by Mo Xifeng who was standing in front of a metal door that was in the shape of a capsule as she raised her hand and pressed the button on the intercom sitting next to it.
She turned to look at Mo Qiang and then said in a stoic voice, " Be gentle and kind, if you raise your hand again then I will have to knock you out again sister."
Mo Qiang: .... This sister of hers was really uptight.
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Meeting the husbands——2As soon as Mo Xifeng pressed the button of the intercom that was next to the door, a sweet and gentle voice came from the other side of the intercom, " Who?"
The voice was like a gentle trickle of water, serene and calm. Mo Qiang, however, did not feel the same, instead, she immediately raised her guard when she realised to whom this voice belonged, if she was not wrong then it belonged to the previous owner and now her first husband, Yin Fu. Unlike his name he was neither rich nor affluent, in fact, it could be said that he was more or less a commoner who married Mo Qiang because his family could not pay their debts.
She did not have much memory of his since the previous owner did not like spending time with her husbands who were like a constant reminder that she was no longer the daughter of the general of the imperial army and was a commoner who could not marry her favourite imperial prince and had to marry commoners.
Though she knew one thing and that was, the three husbands were really handsome.
"It's me," Mo Xifeng answered in the intercom which remained silent for a few minutes but then there was a thud followed by a scrambling noise as the door was pulled open and a mer with darker blonde hair which was parted in the middle, bangs hanged over his forehead loosely and his slightly longer hair was tied with a golden ribbon in a side ponytail.
His blue eyes were shimmering as he looked at Mo Xifeng and shyly greeted her, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing here?"
Mo Qiang looked at the mer in front of her, she could easily see that the man did have some rather sweet feelings for Mo Xifeng, especially with the way his eyes lit up when he looked at Mo Xifeng as if expecting something from her.
"Brother-in-law," Mo Xifeng however did not seem to have any feelings towards this dainty-looking flower-like mer. She calmly looked at the mer and then said, " Is third brother-in-law inside? Sister Qiang is here to apologise to him."
Only then did Yin Fu turn to look at Mo Qiang and his eyes that were shining like millions of stars suddenly turned gloomy when he looked at Mo Qiang, if Mo Qiang was not wrong, she even saw the guy flinch as he dropped his sweet smile and said in an explanatory voice, " I was just smiling at sister in law because I was greeting her and nothing else."
Mo Qiang who knew the feelings of her husbands would often beat them up for choosing her sister instead of her but the more she acted like that the more they inclined towards Mo Xifeng who was not only a mecha morph but also a good woman who never raised her hands on mers.
Just now he was too excited when he saw Mo Xifeng and completely ignored Mo Qiang, Yin Fu was worried that he was going to receive thirty to forty lashings again. The last time he smiled at Mo Xifeng, Mo Qiang had whipped him until he fainted because of the blood loss if not for his sister-in-law who came to rescue him from his wife, he was afraid that he would have died that day.
Yin Fu hated his wife, he wished she would die somewhere such that no one will come back and whip him bloody every third day of the week but his wife was like a scrooge, she would somehow survive every time she was in a life or death situation!
He was certain that because he smiled at Mo Xifeng, he was at least going to receive a slap or two but to his surprise, he heard his wife say, " Can you move? You are blocking my way."
When he raised his head, he was stunned to see that his wife was standing in front of him but she did not raise her hand to slap him nor did she spit at his face and called him a dog who wagged his tail every time he saw Mo Xifeng.
" Yes?" Yin Fu asked in a daze to which Mo Qiang rolled her eyes and raised her hand which caused the latter to flinch as he was expecting Mo Qiang to hit him but then to his surprise, she just waved her hand which was motioning him to move out of her way and looked at him with an annoyed look.
" You get out of my way, can you not see? I am a patient as well, I stayed on the streets all night, I need to apologise and go on my way," Mo Qiang was not going to act kindly to these mers, she knew that if she was to treat them well, they will only get more suspicious of her.
She had read the same in a book once, in the book, the villain suddenly gained his conscience and tried to help the female lead but instead, the female lead got suspicious of him and then poisoned him! Mo Qiang did not want to get poisoned!
She will think about treating them well later on but currently, she raised her head and looked at the top of Yin Fu head's
[ favourability: -370]
With this favourability, she might as well get poisoned by just breathing!
" Oh," Yin Fu stepped aside and Mo Qiang walked inside the room followed by Mo Xifeng. As soon as she walked inside the room, she saw three beds that were placed on the other side of the wall, they were half floating in the air with an old lava lamp burning at the side while two mers.
One with blue eyes and black hair that was slightly curly with a pair of glasses sitting on the bridge of his nose and the other one had cherry pink shoulder-length wavy hair with one violet eye and the other one was golden. His left leg was in a cast and he was eyeing Mo Qiang with a suspicious look in his eyes, Mo Qiang looked at the mer who was sitting on the third bed carefully and was surprised to find that he was actually holding a pair of scissors in his hand and seemed to be rather prepared to lunge at her.
Mo Qiang: "....." I just stepped into this room give me a minute, sweetie.
A typical villain" They absolutely detest you, haha," said little Jiao as she looked at the mer with cherry blossom hair who was clutching a pair of scissors in his hands. He looked like he would rather kill or get killed than get close to Mo Qiang.
" I can see that, you do not need to give me a commentary on how bad the relationships between the original owner and her husbands were," Mo Qiang spoke to Little Jiao who was sitting on top of her head, she looked at the three mers who were looking at her with a highly alert expression and sighed.
'Why? Wasn't she here just to revive nature? Why is wiping the a*s of this woman who left a pile of s*it to be cleaned?' Mo Qiang roared in her head but she still politely smiled at the three mers, her smile instead of reassuring the three mers seemed to have terrified them because she saw them slowly taking a few steps away from her.
Do they have to react like this? It was kind of hurtful. Mo Qiang thought in her head as she looked at the shaking and terrified mers.
" Well they were abused quite badly by the previous owner, it's only obvious that they will hate you and be wary of you," Little Jiao said to her while going pliant against Mo Qiang's hair, before she frowned and then said, " Your hair is so rough like a horse tail, no even the tail of a horse will be better than this."
" And do you know that the meat of flying squirrels is really tasty as well?" Mo Qiang snapped back at Little Jiao who was making comments about the brittle hair of the previous owner.
" I can throw you to hell——"
" Do you think this is freaking heaven?"
" Sister Qiang," just as a fight was about to break between a flying squirrel and Mo Qiang, Mo Xifeng interrupted them. She looked at Mo Qiang who was glaring at the squirrel at the top of her head while the squirrel glared right back at her and said, " You were here to apologise were you not? Or ..." Mo Xifeng's eyes narrowed in suspicion. " Were you lying about apologising to Mother?"
"Who was lying?" Mo Qiang turned to look at Mo Xifeng as she snatched the squirrel off her head, she ignored the flailing of the squirrel and instead turned to look at the man with cherry blossom hair and sighed before she bowed her head and sincerely said, " I am sorry about what happened yesterday, no matter what I should not have raised my hands on you. Last night's incident was my fault, no matter how angry I was —— and the reason, it does not justify me breaking your leg. I can't help you mend it back but I will hope that you will find the heart to forgive me."
As she finished speaking she straightened up only to see four surprised expressions looking at her while Little Jiao whose face was sticking out of Mo Qiang's fist laughed heartily, before she teased Mo Qiang, " They seemed to be completely shocked by your apology, can this be even counted as one?"
Oh come on give her some credit, would you? Mo Qiang roared in her head as she rubbed her head and then said to Mo Xifeng with a deadpanned expression, " I did as Mother wanted me to, can I leave now?"
She had seen the favourability of the two remaining husbands and they were just as worse as the first one. While the blue eyes had a negative favourability of minus four hundred and fifty, the third one had it worse, he had a favourability of minus six hundred and eighty points!
What did the original owner do to him anyway? Stripped him off his pants in the middle of the streets or dug his ancestors' graves? What kind of favourability was not? No seriously?
Mo Xifeng was already surprised when she heard her sister agree to apologise to Shao Hui but she was simply stunned beyond belief when she heard her apologise to Shao Hui and that too with such a sincere tone. Did her sister really change? But what made her change so suddenly?
" Yes, you can," she replied to Mo Qiang who sighed in relief and then walked to the threshold of the room but just as she reached the room, she stopped and turned to look at Mo Xifeng instead of her husbands and asked, " Which one is my room?"
" The one next to this one," answered Mo Xifeng as she pointed to the opposite wall which was separating Mo Qiang and her husbands.
Her answer made Mo Qiang's lips twitch, looks like she will have to change the intercom and lock of her room. She cannot have three enemies close by!
" Thank you." She nodded at Mo Xifeng who got further shocked when she heard her sister thank her but before she could ask what was going on with Mo Qiang, the latter was already on her way to her room.
" Why did you not try to get close to your husbands?" Litle Jiao asked as she looked at Mo Qiang who was pressing her thumb on the intercom and lock pad. She was still clutched in Mo Qiang's fist which made it kind of impossible for her to see the latter's face.
" Because that will only make them more suspicious of me." Mo Qiang replied with a calm voice as the door of her room opened and she walked inside the small room that only had one bed with posters of a mer plastered all over the wall.
His white hair that went past his waist was tied in a loose ponytail at the end while the remaining hair was flying behind him carelessly. He looked effortlessly charming with his emerald eyes and a mole underneath his long lashes.
Mo Qiang looked at the hundred and thousands of posters that were sticking on the wall and was speechless. Guess the three mers were not the only ones who were pinning after someone else.
Looks like she will have to do some cleanup.
However, first, she will have to see her appearance! With that thought in her head, Mo Qiang stomped to the mirror in the room.
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A typical villain ———2" NOOOOOOOOO!"
A mournful scream rang in the house of the Mo family causing everyone to be startled. Yin Fu and the other mers jumped when they heard Mo Qiang scream before they turned to look at Mo Xifeng who was frowning at the wall opposite her.
"Sister-in-law," Yin Fu who finally summoned his courage to speak to Mo Xifeng opened his mouth and then asked in a soft voice, " What happened to wife? Do you have any idea?"
He was worried that Mo Qiang will hear him talk with Mo Xifeng which was why he lowered his voice. Yin Fu had no idea why Mo Xifeng left him alone without slapping or trash-talking about him or his family for not teaching him good manners but he had heard a proverb from his daddy who once told him that a tail of a dog remains bent all his life no matter how much they try to straighten it up.
There was no way a woman who was hitting and using abusive words would change so easily!
" I don't know, Brother Fu," said Mo Xifeng as she turned to look at her brother-in-law who was standing in front of him and smiled at him delicately. " You don't need to worry about anything, if sister tries anything then you can call me... I will come to your aide as soon as I can ."
" I...I know sister-in-law," Yin Fu lowered his head as he tried his best to fight the blush off his face. His sister-in-law was the sweetest and gentlest woman, it would have been so good if she was the one who married him and became his wife instead of Mo Qiang!
" Then I will be going, if my sister acts up again, remember to call me," Mo Xifeng was worried that her sister was only suppressing herself and that once she leaves her brothers-in-law, her sister will come to hurt them again.
" Of course, we will, thank you for looking out for us, Sister-in-law." Yin Fu smiled at Mo Xifeng before sending her out of the room, he wished he could stay with her just a bit longer but he did not want to push his luck, he might have escaped getting hit just now but if his wife was to get angry at him then who knows how she will beat him up.
Mo Xifeng left the room giving one last smile to her brothers in law and just as the door closed behind her, the smiles on the three mers' faces dropped as they all turned to look at each other.
" What do you think happened? She knew that I broke my leg deliberately but she still did not hit me, instead, she even apologised to me!" Shao Hui was really worried that Mo Qiang was planning something sinister. Last night even though their scuffle was loud, and Shao Hui was able to make his father and mother-in-law believe that he was not in the wrong, he knew that his wife knew that he purposely broke his leg.
" I don't think she is someone who will sit quietly," said Xie Jie who was sitting on the second bed while reading the magazine that was sitting in his lap. " She is someone who hates getting played and last night you played her so bad that she was thrown off on the streets, there is a high chance that we will all suffer real bad in her hands."
" Are you blaming me?" Shao Hui glared at the mer next to him but did not say anything wrong since the latter was older than her and was Mo Qiang's second husband.
Xia Jie raised his head and calmly glanced at Shao Hui with a blank expression as he stated, " I just think that you were too hasty, even if you wish to marry Sister Xifeng, you cannot just make a scene like this, now we all in a mess because of you."
Shao Hui bit his lips as he lowered his head in shame, he knew that he brought a lot of trouble to his brothers but he was just done with Mo Qiang and her abuse which was why he took such a drastic step!
" All right calm down you two," Yin Fu said to the two sharply as he looked at Xie Jie and Shao Hui who was sitting on their bed, his eyes flickered with a glint before he came up with a plan and said, " If she is planning something then we just need to plan ahead of her such that she will not be able to harm us!"
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What the three mers did not know was that Mo Qiang was at the moment planning nothing, she was instead sitting —— no kneeling in desperation in front of the dressing table with her hands clutching the white chipped paint of the wooden plank.
" Why?" She asked no one in particular. " Why do I look like a typical villain from a D-rated movie?"
Mo Qiang turned to look at Little Jiao who was now sitting at the top of her wardrobe and pointed at her reflection in the mirror as she cried, " Look at this—— blue hair, which is so dark that it almost looks black, green eyes like poison and smile that can make Maleficent look like a dainty little girl! And what is this?" She placed her hand on her chest which was humongous to the point that the dress she was wearing was about to be torn. " Why am I in the body of a woman who looked like she stepped straight out of an adult movie!"
" No wonder they all look at me like that when I smile at them! I look like a typical villain who sucks the blood of young men after seducing them! Fine, you made me a thug! Gave me this stupid task of growing plants but the least you could have done was to give me a beautiful face! Why is it that my sister looks like an angel and I look like the devil?"