Establishing ones dominanceOn the other side, Mo Qiang took Wang Yuelin to the fields where corn and maple trees were growing. Even though the mer had full trust in her now that she had won the duel, she still wanted to clear everything up from her side lest the latter thought that she was keeping something from him.



With her reputation, the chances of people's trust wavering in her was quite a lot.

" Now, you can tell me what you want to say," Mo Qiang turned to look at Wang Yuelin who was still looking at the lavish green fields filled with corn and maple trees. Though Wang Yuelin did not understand how these trees were able to survive without any artificial sunlight and the special nutrients which the scientists of the lab, created just for the sake of raising the plants which were growing in the greenhouse of the imperial family, he did not ask Mo Qiang about the cause and effect behind the growth of these miraculous trees.

Instead, he turned to look at Mo Qiang who stood next to him and smiled politely, "It's nothing, I am only here to entrust the frozen eggs of the magma bees to you."

Earlier he did not want to hand the frozen eggs of the magma bees to Wen Gui or the rest of the Mo family since he did not trust them nor did know anyone. These eggs were Wang Yuelin's lifetime savings, for once he could put his life on the line but there was no way he was going to put these frozen eggs in someone else's hands when he did not trust them.

" Oh," Mo Qiang blinked her eyes in confusion, she thought that Wang Yuelin would investigate her thoroughly before handing her these eggs but surprisingly he brought those eggs without even seeing her fields.

" You look surprised?" Wang Yuelin asked with a gentle smile, his eyes did not hold any malice and even his favourability points were high. It shocked Mo Qiang so much that she wanted to cry tears of joy...finally ...finally someone trusted her without her dancing and singing to gain their favourability!

Mo Qiang : ~( ˘▾˘~).

" Well yes, I thought you will first take a look at the fields and go back home before coming back and offering me those eggs under severe conditions, I did not think that you will hand me those eggs so easily," Mo Qiang replied with her hand rubbing the back of her head as she looked at Wang Yuelin sheepishly who stared at her blankly for two seconds before he burst out laughing as he cupped his mouth.

" Oh dear no, I saw the duel which is why I am aware of the fact that you are the first and only spirit user in this world, if I don't trust you then I will make a fool out of myself," said Wang Yuelin as he stopped laughing and winked at Mo Qiang.

" Is he an angel?" Before she could stop herself, Mo Qiang ended up blurting out causing Xiao Jiao to look at her with sympathy. Just what kind of fear did those mers instil in this woman? She was finding this mer an angel? Well, his smile was charming but that was it.

Even Wang Yuelin blushed when he heard Mo Qiang calling him an angel.

" I am not an angel, I just trust people whom I find honourable and trusting," stated Wang Yuelin which only touched Mo Qiang even more.

Such a good mer!

" Don't worry!" When Mo Qiang heard Wang Yuelin's words filled with trust, she smiled at him and then said with a confident look on her face. " I will definitely not let you down."

" I know," Wang Yuelin gently simpered.

....

" I know, hihihi..." Behind a large boulder, Yin Fu mimicked Wang Yuelin while making a face as he dug his nails into the boulder. " Look at him, look at how he is smiling at our wife... she even called him an angel! I mean I accept that I am not good enough for her but how can she call that mer an angel, I am a pretty angel too!"

Shao Hui glanced at Yin Fu who was simmering with anger and then remarked, " You an angel? Forgive me for saying this to you Brother Fu. But with the kind of books you read, you are not an angel but a demon and that too of lust."

" Shut up, I don't want to hear it from an angel of death!" Yin Fu snapped back at Shao Hui reminding him of his deadly cooking and temper.

Shao Hui: "....."

" You two calm down," seeing that Shao Hui wanted to retort, Xie Jie turned his attention to the two mers and scolded them coldly, " I don't think that the two of you need to fight among yourself like kids for someone like Mo Qiang."

" You say that but did you not come running as well?" Yin Fu questioned with his brows raised causing Xie Jie to flush in embarrassment and say,

" I only followed you two because I knew you will make a mess."

" Ah huh," Shao Hui nodded on the side but before Xie Jie could clarify himself, Yin Fu banged his hand on the boulder leaving both him and Shao Hui shocked.

" How dare he touch my dear wife!" Yin Fu bristled with tiny flames alight in his eyes when he saw Wang Yuelin shake hands with Mo Qiang. He did not even get a chance to touch his wife's hand but that mer was already holding Mo Qiang's hand as if he had every right to do so!

Shao Hui looked at the boulder which had a dagger sticking out from it and then turned to look at Yin Fu before saying, " I say, Brother Fu, you should take some chill pill."

" Humph, there is no time for me to take a chill pill," replied Yin Fu as he flicked his hair behind with a flip of his hand. " This is the time to take action and establish one's dominance!"

Suffering from a disease----------------



Shao Hui and Xie Jie could only watch Yin Fu walk towards Mo Qiang helplessly. They did not know what Yin Fu was going to do but they still felt better after thinking about how Wang Yuelin and Mo Qiang will no longer act intimate with each other.

[ Wang Yuelin: Your honour, I never acted intimate with Miss Qiang. It's just that these two guys are simply too jealous.]

Shao Hui and Xie Jie: We are not!

" Then I will leave the frozen eggs of magma bees with you," Wang Yuelin handed Mo Qiang the small oval machine in which liquid uflite energy was filled to the brim. The liquid uflite energy was similar to liquid nitrogen as it was quite useful when it came to freezing eggs but it was just a lot more powerful as only a few drops of it were needed to freeze more than a hundred eggs.

Mo Qiang looked at the neatly arranged magma bees eggs in the oval-shaped machine and nodded, " Don't worry, I will keep them safe."

" Then I will come to see you next week, I hope by then the magma bees will be hatched," Wang Yuelin's gaze fell on Yin Fu who was striding towards them, something flickered in his eyes before he smiled at Mo Qiang who looked confused and then added, " Till then take care, Miss Mo."

" Ah sure," Mo Qiang nodded as she had received what Wang Yuelin wanted to deliver she did not keep the mer from heading back. " You should take care as well, Mister Wang. Drive safely." She told the mer who smiled at her and then headed towards where he had parked his car.

Mo Qiang watched him leave with the miniature tank in her hand, while her gaze was fixed on the man, a hand stretched out from behind and then pattering her on the arm causing her to yelp.

" What?" She turned around to look at Yin Fu with a questioning look in her eyes. Her heart thudded in her chest at his sudden actions, why did he suddenly pop out of nowhere, he scared her! Did he not know it was not right to startle someone like this, it can decrease their life expectancy!

Yin Fu simply smiled at Mo Qiang before saying, " I have decided."

" You have decided?" Mo Qiang frowned with her brows furrowed dangerously. " What did you decide and how is that related to me?"

" Of course, it's related to you, Qi Qi," Yin Fu stated as he tapped on his monitor and showed off land which was covered in nothing but red sand and glowing purple gemstones with green vines which seemed to be moving like tied-up snakes. " Didn't I say that I wanted to go on a date with you? I have decided to go to this place. Its a quite a hot spot for couples as the glow of these Espside gemstones in the night is really a beautiful scene. So, when are you going to come with me?"

Only then did Mo Qiang remember that she had indeed promised Yin Fu that she will go on a date with him.

" Ah, the date?" Though this sudden change in topic made her frown, she was not someone who would break her promise to someone. Mo Qiang glanced at the popular dating spot where couples were going on a date and nodded but at the same time, she couldn't help but question what was going on in Yin Fu's head.

Why was he taking her where couples go on a date?

The two of them were not å couple!

Yin Fu's cheeks flushed with excitement when he saw Mo Qiang nod. Finally, he was going on a date with his wife!

Hehe, he heard from his brother that this spot was one of the most exciting spots. Even his sister-in-law couldn't resist the temptation and did the deed with his brother in the lush green vines.

As Yin Fu got lost in his own excitement, he suddenly started to imagine a fantasy which was buried in his head for a long time.

' What kind of prey did you bring this time?' Yin Fu who was dressed in an attire of a tribal chief looked down at his servants who for some reason resembled Shao Hui and Xie Jie.

In the middle of the two sat a rugged and harshly bleeding Mo Qiang. With her hands tied behind her back, she looked at him with a hateful gaze.

' So it's you...the evil tyrant of this tribe? Speak why did you ask your mers to kidnap and bring me here?! Is it my skills that you desire?' Mo Qiang questioned him with a heavy glare.

' Wild, I like it,' Yin Fu snickered as he stood up from his throne and then walked down the stairs before coming to a stop in front of Mo Qiang as he reached out and clutched her face in his hand. ' It will be fun to break you.'

' Heh,' Mo Qiang sneered as she looked at him before spitting at him. ' I will never submit to a mer like you.'

' We will see,' said Yin Fu with a determined gaze as he turned to his servants and then ordered, ' Take her to my bedroom and tie her up.'

' I will never forgive you, Yin Fu!'

" Yin Fu!"

" Yin Fu!"

The scream in his head turned louder and louder which caused Yin Fu to snap out of his fantasy and then he looked at Mo Qiang. She was staring at him with a half-concerned and half-confused expression looks in her eyes, while the squirrel who stayed with Mo Qiang all the time was looking at him with a sickened glance.

It was as if she could see what was going on in his head.

" Are you okay?" She asked while looking at Yin Fu. " You are salivating, do you have some health concerns?"

Xiao Jiao: Yeah he does have one and the disease he was suffering from was—— high libido.

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" Ahem," Yin Fu cleared his throat he did not wish to scare Mo Qiang with his rich imagination. The two of them were still getting to know each other, how can he even tell her what he was thinking just now? What if he scares her away?

With a sheepish smile, he answered, " There is nothing to worry about, I am fine just a bit excited. I always wanted to go to this place since not many couples go to this place every day ... we will be alone for a day hehe, sorry if I startled you."

He was excited? For what? Mo Qiang felt her heart jump as she looked at the images of the Esper Star. Why was this mer so excited?

Was he planning something? Mo Qiang suddenly thought in her head before she caught hold of Yin Fu's wrist and pulled him close. Her actions startled Yin Fu, causing him to fight a blush as he looked up at Mo Qiang who was staring at his monitor closely.

' Ah, Ah, Ah...she is touching me... those sharp eyes they look so intense, I am going to melt!' Yin Fu screamed in his head. He had to write this incident down in his diary no matter what!

' This place looks so desolate and silent...is he planning to kill me there and bury me behind those vines?' On the other hand, Mo Qiang's thought process was completely different. While Yin Fu was feeling excited about his wife touching him, Mo Qiang was carefully thinking about what kind of hidden intentions was he carrying in his heart.

Xiao Jiao who could see their thoughts: (╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻

How can they be so miles apart in their thinking process? They are making my head hurt!

While Mo Qiang was thinking, Yin Fu's face was turning redder by the minute. He looked at the wrist which Mo Qiang was holding and felt his heart skip several beats as his skin started to scald—— as the warmth of his wife's hand scalded him leaving a searing sting.

" Qi Qi...my hand..." he called Mo Qiang with a soft voice causing Mo Qiang to snap out of her daze. Her gaze fell on the wrist which she was holding and she immediately let go of Yin Fu's wrist as if it had burned her.

" Ahem, sorry about that," Mo Qiang cleared her throat and then turned on her heels. " You can make the preparations then... I ... I will go and take a look at the chicken coop."

She then turned around and walked away without looking at Yin Fu, the tips of her ears blushing red with embarrassment.

Behind her, Yin Fu raised his hand which was held by Mo Qiang and softly kissed the skin which was still warm because of the remnant of Mo Qiang's warmth.

" I will make you mine, Mo Qiang," he whispered thinking of the intense expression with which Mo Qiang was looking at him.

....

Sigh.

Sigh.

Sigh.

Mo Xifeng was practising her swordsmanship but under the constant sighs, she paused and then turned to look at her sister and asked, " Sister why are you sighing here? Did something happen?"

" Little Xifeng I think I am going to die very soon..." Mo Qiang finally got a chance to talk about her worries and immediately grasped it. She turned to look at Mo Xifeng and scandalously said, " Yin Fu asked me on a date!"

Mo Xifeng : (Ծ_Ծ what do you want me to about this?

" So? Are you trying to show off since I don't have anyone?" Mo Xifeng questioned with a frown on her lips.

" Of course not! I am trying to tell you that my life is in danger! What are you even thinking about?" Mo Qiang felt frustrated when she saw that Mo Xifeng was not getting what she was trying to tell her. " Have you forgotten? Those mers hate me! Why else will Yin Fu bring me to a desolate place where no one goes? Isn't he planning to silence me!?"

Mo Xifeng : (ㆆ ᴗ ㆆ) What kind of thought process is even that?

" I believe you are overthinking sister Qiang," Mo Xifeng told Mo Qiang. " I am afraid that Brother Fu will kill you."

" Can you say that with a guarantee?" Mo Qiang questioned causing Mo Xifeng to turn silent. " See even you don't trust him!"

" Then what do you want me to do?" Mo Xifeng asked with a scrunched-up pair of brows. " There is nothing that I can do regarding this, you were the one who promised Brother Fu a date didn't you?"

Mo Qiang pursed her lips, she indeed agreed to this date but she did not think that one day she will have to pay with her life just for getting her hands on Mo Xifeng's weakness. The more she thought about it, the more dissatisfied she became with Mo Xifeng and said, "It is your fault! You are the cause of this! I don't know you have to come with me!"

" Sister, are you even listening to yourself?" Mo Xifeng sighed with an annoyed expression. " You cannot bring your little sister as your patron when you are going on a date!"

" But you are my assistant, are you not? General Mo told me! Your duty is to protect me!" Mo Qiang insisted.

" From whom and what do you need protection for? Your non existent virtue?" Mo Xifeng clapped back causing Mo Qiang to gape at her and then she snapped, " Well shouldn't you?"

" He is your husband," Mo Xifeng deadpanned causing Mo Qiang to purse her lips angrily.

Mo Xifeng breathed out and then sighed, " Sister, you are thinking too much. Don't forget that there is something else that we need to do today." She reminded Mo Qiang hoping to change the topic. " We need to visit Madam Lian's daughter and her husband, they haven't paid us back."

Mo Qiang: (✧u✧)

Oh yes! My money! I haven't gotten it back yet.

A mouth that deserve to be hit" Chi Chi, I will be leaving the tasks in your hands alright?" Mo Qiang looked at the three spirits who stood in front of her. While the little chinchilla seemed to be much more confident after winning the duel, Ya Ya on the other hand had gotten even more shyer as she hugged the sheep doll which was gifted to her by Mo Xifeng.



Behind them, she could hear the shoo shoo of something being swung left and right but Mo Qiang did not pay attention to the wild dog who was tearing apart the head of the little pup doll he was gifted. As the sound of cloth tearing and something falling on the ground echoed, Mo Qiang was aware of the violent and sadistic tendency that her dog was born with.

" By all means make sure that he does not tear an arm and limb of a real person, all right?" Mo Qiang added as she commanded Chichi who turned to look at Huhu. It was just as Mo Qiang expected the half-human spirit with half-dog features was shaking his head left and right while growling and gnawing at the doll.

Mo Xifeng on the other hand looked at Mo Qiang and said, " You are being too harsh sister, he is just excited. There is no way, our precious Huhu will harm a person."

No sooner did she say those words, her precious Huhu was attracted by a soldier carrying a hoe on the back of her shoulder. No one knew what attracted the energetic dog's attention but within seconds, he was chomping down on the bottom of the soldier.

" Will never harm a person huh ?" Mo Qiang questioned Mo Xifeng with a smug look on her face. " This is what happens when you pamper someone too much."

Mo Xifeng: "....."

The latter did not say anything and simply went to help the soldier who was bitten by Huhu.

" You see that?" She turned to look at Chichi who was the most mature one among the three spirits. " I need you to keep an eye on that troublesome brat and make sure that he does not cause trouble. I would have taken you three with me but we are seriously behind the plan."

" Don't worry master, I will take care of Yaya and make sure that Huhu will not hurt anyone," Chichi nodded with a determined expression, since he was the oldest one among the three of them, he had to make sure that his little brother and sister were on their best behaviour!

Mo Qiang smiled and then patted Chichi on the head before handing him a handful of corn kernels for his good work, only then did she turn her attention to Mo Xifeng who was carrying a struggling Huhu in her arms and shouted, " Leave him alone, we need to leave."

" Yes sister," Mo Xifeng let go of the brat in her arms. No sooner did she let go the little husky started to look around once again and soon his eyes fell on the three-horned chickens. With a light glimmering in his eyes, he turned on his heels to rush towards the chickens but was caught by a hand as Mo Qiang dragged him back by his collar.

" Now, now... you better not harm those chickens, all right?" Mo Qiang caught hold of Huhu's collar and smiled at him darkly. " I brought them here at a heavy price that said it is my life. If you dare pluck a single feather of those chickens, I will hang you upside down on the surface of the pond, do you understand?"

" I... I understand mistress!" Huhu gulped as he dropped to his feet and then rushed to hide behind Chichi.

"That's a good boy, it will be better if you don't make trouble because if you do then I will have to punish you," Mo Qiang patted Huhu on his head which caused the latter to shiver. It wasn't his fault the smile of his mistress was simply too scary!

Once they were settled Mo Qiang asked them to start working.

On one hand, Yaya summoned the sand soldiers to plough the land while Chichi turned the soil fertile to make sure that those seeds which Mo Qiang was going to bring will grow well. Huhu on the other hand cheered the two making their efficiency go double the ranks.

" What are they doing?" Mo Xifeng asked with a calm look on her face as she watched Yaya and Chichi working on a plot of land.

" They are fertilizing a part of the land," replied Mo Qiang as she headed towards the mecha craft that Mo Xifeng had borrowed from Mo Yan. Now that they no longer hand the title of betrayer and the country traitors, Mo Yan's mecha crafts which were taken away were returned of course the Empress asked Mo Yan to return but the latter refused.

Though she was no longer called the traitor, Mo Yan did not wish to back to the imperial star and become a part of those shady schemes anymore. She was worried that if she was to return to the imperial star then Madam Wei who had always been hell-bent on going against her would surely make a fuss again.

At least as long as she was living in this dead star, Madam Wei would have a lot fewer chances of getting her hands on her.

But with some benefits came some real pain in the bottom and one of those was —— the land of this place was incredibly barren. It was not a surprise though after all this was a place where criminals with small crimes were sent to finish their sentences but still they could have given her a better setting!

Every time Chichi finished fertilizing the land and Mo Qiang had to purify water for it, she felt like she was going to cough up blood. It was so damn hard!

If this place was a bit more fertilized then she wouldn't have to suffer like this damn it!

" Now that we are no longer under the scrutiny of the capital, I think we can start ploughing and growing vegetables and crops without any worries, whats more we also have soldiers who no longer look as feeble as before as they did! So, it will only increase the pace of our work."

A mouth that deserve to be hit——2---------------



"You don't know but humans cannot survive with just solutions that give you all the nutrients, you need much more than that. Why do you think the imperial family has a greenhouse which they use solely for themselves? There is a reason why they are so obsessed with those lush greens which grow in the greenhouse," explained Mo Qiang as she continued walking towards the mecha craft.

With her eyes facing forward she grinned and added, " Imagine a world where you can see flourishing green everywhere you go, with clean water trickling down the streams and clear air without an ounce of poison floating within it. What do you think? Is it, not a world that you would like to see?"

" I will like that," stated Mo Xifeng as she linked into the mecha craft's ignition with her monitor and then turned to look at Mo Qiang. " I am sure everyone will be enamoured by a world like that."

" Isn't that so?" Mo Qiang grinned while watching the mecha craft opening as an automatic ladder. She stepped on it and started climbing before saying, " I plan to make this small star which belongs to us the very world that you think will enamour everyone. Don't ask me how I will do it but somehow I will and not only will I make this star the best one among the rest... those bastards who dared to look down on us, I will make them my b*tches."

It was all because of them that she was trapped in this rotten place where she had to use twice the effort. Just last night she was taking a look at the acidic concentration of the rainwater in the imperial star and was surprised to find that it was only 5% per cent acidic while the rainwater in this star was at least 10 % more acidic than the imperial star!

Doesn't that mean she had to use twice the effort to purify the water of this star when she could have used a lot less energy than she had to use in this place?

Mo Xifeng followed her sister with a frown on her face as she asked, " But why are you doing this? I don't think that you have ever cared for something like this before."

" Why can't I? I think it's a pretty good ambition when compared to drinking and making a ruckus," stated Mo Qiang as she sat on the passenger seat of the mecha craft and then turned to look at Mo Xifeng. " By the way, when is your second and third brother-in-law's training going to start? Did they tell you anything?"

She hurriedly changed the topic as Mo Qiang had seen what Mo Xifeng could do when she was suspicious of her identity. From what Mo Qiang learned about Mo Xifeng, she knew that this woman cared about her family even if Mo Qiang was good for nothing, she will not accept the fact that someone else took over the body of her sister and was now living here with her.

In the worst situation, she might send Mo Qiang to the laboratory and ask the scientists to go ahead and experiment on her to find out what happened to the previous Mo Qiang. This was something that she couldn't allow to happen which was why —— tactic one zero three from the corporate world, divert attention! Implemented!

" Should you not be aware of this more than me?" Mo Xifeng questioned back as she looked at her sister with a subtle sigh.

Mo Qiang threw her arm back on the seat on which she was sitting and then said with a scoff, " They tell you about themselves more than they to me, though I was the one who got them their contracts. I am yet to receive a verbal thank you much less their plans."

' Isn't that because you always run away when you are alone with them?' Mo Xifeng thought in her head but did not correct her sister as she parted her lips and then said in a low voice, " I haven't heard much from second brother in law but Brother Hui did tell me that he was thinking of joining the company on the twenty second. Now that Mother is no longer carrying the title of a traitor, he can enter the imperial star once everything is over."

" Hmm," Mo Qiang did not comment anything on the decision which was taken by Shao Hui. Since he did not come to tell her that he was going to join the company on the twenty-second then she was not going to bother him either, ever since that dagger-flailing incident things have been awkward between the two of them.

" You are not going to ask him about it?" Mo Xifeng questioned, in fact, she knew that with Shao Hui's temper, he was having a hard time bowing his head in front of Mo Qiang. Though he was touched by what Mo Qiang did to him, that mer was too guarded, after all, he was abandoned by his mother the second his sister was sent to a faraway galaxy to fight the Zergs.

Thus, it was truly hard for someone like Shao Hui to lower his guard and accept that Mo Qiang had changed for the good. Or it was better to say that he was terrified of the fact that she will return to her old self which was why he was keeping his distance from her.

" Why should I?" Mo Qiang arched a brow as she turned to look at Mo Xifeng. " He is going to leave once he settles down, right? So I don't think that there is a need for me to act as if we are suddenly close. I am sure he will only feel burdened by it if I were to suddenly act close to him."

' Ah, so she is still thinking of divorcing him huh?' Mo Xifeng thought that her sister was going to give up on the idea of divorcing her husband but it seems as if her sister was still hung up on the idea.

Mo Xifeng parted her lips wanting to say something but then thought of something and stopped herself. This was a matter between her sister and brothers-in-law, she should not poke her nose in between, with that she turned her attention back to controlling the mecha craft.

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A mouth that deserve to be hit——3Bang!



" Father, what are you doing? We have to get out of this place as soon as possible. Who knows when Mo Qiang and her sister might come looking for us? Just pack your bags and leave with me as soon as possible." A young woman was throwing a bunch of things in the small and portable carry bags which could bring more than a hundred clothes despite being rather small and then yelled at the mer who was sobbing on the bed next to hers.

" How can we leave? Your mother was captured by the army and sent away... her arms and legs have been broken and she can't even eat her meals these days... if we leave who is going to take care of her?" A gentle and frail mer spoke with tears brimming in his eyes. He looked at his daughter who was packing his bags and asked in a sobbing voice, "Why are you leaving your mother in a lurch, Shou'er?"

The young woman stopped as she turned to look at her father and snapped harshly, " Do you think that I want to leave Mother as well? But have you forgotten father? She betrayed the imperial star! The Empress herself punished her, if we stay close to her then we will be sent to that rotten star as well. And I cannot mine in that awful place, what's more, what will everyone say? I am the star student of my university and my professors have high hopes for me! Do you want me to give up all of that?" Lian Shou asked one question after another causing the mer to cry relentlessly.

Yu Hai knew that his daughter was right but he truly cared for Madam Lian, his wife. She had treated him well and never slighted him. Now that she was sent away to the Star of Dread where she will be locked for the rest of her life, he could not bring himself to leave her.

" Are you two done?" A woman with a muscular figure walked inside the room where Yu Hai and Lian Shou were, her sharp eyes gleamed as she looked at the mess and clicked her tongue. " If you are not leaving then I will make my move first, it is not as if you have any more money to pay me for my protection fee."

" Who said that to you?" Lian Shou panicked and then turned to look at her bodyguard. This woman was appointed as her bodyguard by her mother but the second her mother was sent to exile, Chu Ling started to make a fuss. " I have enough money to pay for your protection fee, don't worry."

Lian Shou did not awaken her mecha core despite being in her early twenties, which was why she had to rely on someone else to protect her. With the situation being so severe if Chu Ling was to leave who will protect her?

" I hope you will keep that in mind," stated Chu Ling with a calm expression on her face as the scar on the side of her cheek twitched lightly because of her movements. " If you don't pay me then I will leave you stranded."

She then turned to look at Yu Hai and added, " And you too make a move, I am not going to stand here all day when you are doing nothing but crying. It has been a night already so make a move!"

" Yes, Yes we will make a move!" Without letting her father say anything, Lian Shou nodded and then turned to look at Yu Hai before glaring at him and saying, " Father are you getting up or should I and Chu Ling leave you here? If you miss Mother so much then you can surrender and go where she is but don't expect me to follow you!"

" How can you say that? She is your mother!" Yu Hai was shocked when he saw just how ruthless his daughter was being towards her own mother. Though Madam Lian was not a good woman, she gave everything to Lian Shou! How can she treat her mother like this just because Madam Lian was in trouble now?

" I am only looking out for myself is that wrong?" Lian Shou asked with a fierce expression. " If we get caught, all the properties, money and jewels will be taken away and confiscated by the Mo family. I am so young, Father do you wish to see me getting sent to that dreaded star and work in mines all day long? I can clearly work for the Imperial Laboratory! Why should I do work in that rotten mine? Anyway, its mother who was in the wrong why should I pay for her sins?"

With that Lian Shou packed her carry bags and then strode out of the room, she was not joking when she said that she was going to leave Yu Hai behind if he did not make a move. This was something that Yu Hai also understood which was why even though he was upset, he still followed after his daughter.

While the three of them were walking towards the mecha craft, Lian Shou muttered, " I seriously don't want to be caught by that Mo Qiang... she is cruel, vicious and petty. If she was to catch us then all the money that we have under our name will be snatched away.. we can't let that happen. For now, we will hide in a small star and wait for the tide to pass, once it goes away we will come back. Anyway the Mo family is used to living in poverty a few more months will not make any change, but I cannot do the same!"

She then turned to head towards the mecha craft, thinking of hopping inside and flying as soon as possible but the second her gaze landed on the mecha craft which belonged to her family, something came zooming and hit the block of metal with a bang.

The sound of an explosion echoed in the clearing while Lian Shou fell to her bottom. From behind her, she heard an evil voice——

" Oh? You seem to be quite dainty. I am afraid that unlike your mother you will not be able to take a single hit! So why did you inherit that chatty mouth of your mothers which makes others' hands itch to hit you?"

A stinky research" W...Who did this?" Lian Shou screamed while sitting on the ground, next to her, Chu Ling already summoned her mecha arm with her core activated. She was holding a long sword staring at the burning rubble of the mecha craft and waiting for the culprit to step out.



" What do you mean who did this ?" Mo Qiang stepped out of the grayish smoke billowing around the mecha craft which was still burning and then looked down at Lian Shou. " You were running away without paying, shouldn't we stop you? If you got in the craft and left, were you expecting us to give you a chase? That's too much hard work you know." With her hands in the pockets of her pants, Mo Qiang came to a stop in front of Lian Shou.

A bad premonition rose in Lian Shou's heart as she scrambled back on her arms and feet before asking Mo Qiang while trying to pretend that she was calm and not scared, " W...What? What payment? And who are you? Do you even know that attacking someone can bring you a lot of trouble? You will be sent to jail if I were to complain."

"Ooooh," Mo Qiang nodded after hearing Lian Shou's words as if she was seriously thinking about what Lian Shou said to her but then she snapped her fingers and then smiled at Lian Shou, " And what about you? How will you be punished for being Madam Lian's daughter and leaving without paying the debts that you owe?"

Du dong.

Lian Shou felt her heart drop into the pit of her stomach as she looked at Mo Qiang and shakingly asked, " W..Who are you?"

" Ah yes, you don't know me, right?" Mo Qiang pointed at herself with a grin. " I am Mo Qiang, the daughter of the woman whom your mother betrayed and brought this much money for you...did you have fun living on my money, Miss Lian?"

Lian Shou trembled, her expression worsening as she looked at Mo Qiang. She knew that the Mo sisters would come looking for her but she didn't think that they would so quickly. Were they flying at the speed of light or what?! At the same time she glared at her father for wasting so much time, if he had packed his bags and left with her last night then things wouldn't have gone awry like this! But he just had to moan and groan like a little ——

" Shall I kill her?" Chu Ling asked while looking at Mo Qiang, since she could not sense any mecha energy from Mo Qiang, she was confident that she will be able to take her down.

" Are you stupid? She is a spirit summoner! Did you forget how she brought my mother down? Let us run! Get me out of here," Lian Shou turned around and ran, she did not even care about the bags or her father whom she left behind, all she cared about was to get away from Mo Qiang.

Since Lian Shou was the one who was paying her, Chu Ling also did not bother with Yu Hai and simply chased after the young woman to protect her.

" You..." Yu Hai was speechless when he saw that neither his daughter nor the bodyguard hired by his wife cared about him and then turned to look at Mo Qiang who smiled back at him and said, " Gotcha."

Yu Hai: "...." There was no need to catch him since he never ran from the start.

On the other hand, Lian Shou and Chu Ling rushed to the main town, they were hoping that someone would help them but just as they walked out of the house which belonged to Madam Lian, they were intercepted by Mo Xifeng.

" If I were you, I would leave that woman and walk away," said Mo Xifeng as she summoned her own mecha sword and looked at Chu Ling with a stern expression. Her blue eyes ablaze as she looked at the manor which was bigger and better than the house in which they lived, all of this...all of this was made with the money that her mother earned by putting her life on the line many times.

She glanced at the woman who was most probably a mercenary and added, " If you leave now I will let you go without killing you but if you dare to stay behind and protect her then I will have no choice but to behead you because then you will be regarded as a traitor as well."

" No! Don't leave me!" Worried that Chu Ling will really leave her just as Mo Xifeng said, Lian Shou hurriedly clung to her sleeves. " If you protect me now and bring me somewhere safe, I will double your salary! I will also add another bonus! Just save me!"

Lian Shou did not wish to be caught by Mo Xifeng, even though she did not know who among the two sisters was more ruthless, she knew that it must be Mo Xifeng. The youngest mecha morph of the imperial star.

Chu Ling's eyes flickered, though she was indeed tempted to leave Lian Shou, the offer which the young woman gave her was a bit too attractive. Her salary was grand to begin with, if it was doubled then she will have nothing to worry about!

" I am sorry about this," said Chu Ling as she raised her sword and faced Mo Xifeng. " I have no hard feelings towards you but I have to do this as I am also someone who relies on money."

Mo Qiang came over to see what was going on while bringing Yu Hai with her, the mer had long given up and did not even make a fuss when he was caught. He simply asked her to let Lian Shou leave but how can that be allowed? Lian Shou was Madam Lian's daughter and she was the one who used most of the money which Madam Lian sent to the red star to her second husband's family.

More importantly, Yu Hai was old and did not have any strength left in his body. There was no way she could make him work and repay what he owes her.

A stinky research ——2" I hate to do things in a roundabout manner anyway," stated Mo Xifeng with a sigh as she raised her sword and breathed out a sigh. " If this is what you want then, I can only make it easy for you."



" You speak too much for someone young," sneered Chu Ling as she pressed the front of her feet on the ground and rushed at Mo Xifeng aiming her sword at her neck as if hoping to end everything in one clean swipe.

Mo Xifeng did not move instead she waited for the woman to come closer before she raised her hand and then intercepted the sword which was aimed at her neck with her own sword.

With a loud noise, the two swords clashed with one another as Mo Xifeng stopped the sword in between but the woman who was attacking her did not seem to be bothered by her quick reflexes, she simply sneered and then said coldly, " You see? You are still young if you believe that your opponent shall fight righteously. This is all about life and death child, there is no fairness in such scenarios."

Chu Ling then used her other arm to summon a small dagger which she aimed at Mo Xifeng's abdomen. When the latter was busy stopping the sword which was aiming at her neck, seeing Mo Xifeng remain unmoved, Chu Ling thought that she was going to win this small face off but that was until ——

The sound of a large bazooka loading echoed in the surroundings echoed as Mo Xifeng summoned her back armour and loaded it into becoming a bazooka. Even though she couldn't summon the entire mecha energy inside her core, she could still use bits and pieces of it after learning the Seism core technique from her sister, instead of using her core to summon the entire mecha armour, she only used a part of it to morph into a large bazooka.

" You are right, everything is fair in love and war," remarked Mo Xifeng with a calm face as if she hadn't just summoned a grand canon to shoot her opponent down. " I was going to go easy on you but you reminded me why I shouldn't do it, thanks."

Chu Ling: "....."

Her eyes flickered to the bazooka which was hovering over her head and then she turned to look at Lian Shou. For a minute nothing happened but then,

" I think I need to take my medicine," said Chu Ling suddenly as she retracted her sword and dagger while smiling politely as if she did not just try to kill Mo Xifeng. " You have no idea sometimes I would end up getting attacks of craziness and I end up doing some things that I shouldn't do, don't worry.... I am awake now and I will go to take my medicine."

With that, she turned on her heels and then ran away leaving Lian Shou alone.

" Hey you! You cannot leave me here like this!" Lian Shou shorted at the woman who was running away after breaking her contract. " I will not pay you if you leave me alone here!"

Lian Shou thought that with how crazy Chu Ling was for money, she will most probably stop and then turn around to help her but instead, she only increased her pace and then left her behind.

" Did you think that she will waste her time trying to fight a match she cannot even win?" Mo Xifeng asked as she looked at Lian Shou who yelped and then tried to back off but was stopped by Mo Qiang.

" I would stop if I were you," she told the woman who was yet to give up. With a dazzling smile, Mo Qiang placed a hand on Lian Shou's shoulder and then stated, " We are not here to find trouble with you, we are just here to get our money back. As long as you pay the money which your mother smuggled from ours, we will let you and your father go. So stop worrying all right!"

She jovially patted Lian Shou on her shoulder before dropping her smile and adding with a grim expression, " But of course, that is only when you didn't spend that money recklessly."

Her words only caused Lian Shou to tremble even more because unfortunately for her, she had spent that money quite recklessly!

Sure enough, once Mo Qiang was done calculating the assets which were under Lian Shou's name she was stunned to find that despite only being handed the bank account six months ago, Lian Shou had spent more than a hundred million golden coins as if she was some sort of royal heir.

" You ...really don't hold back, do you ?" Mo Qiang drawled after a long time as she looked at Lian Shou who sat on the chair with her hands and feet bounded by non-metallic handcuffs which were purely made out of harmless energy strings. But of course, it was only harmless till Lian Shou sat on the chair without doing anything if she was to find trouble with Mo Qiang and Mo Xifeng then those handcuffs would cut off her wrist and ankle without wasting a single minute.

" I ... I did not know that the money was not from legal sources!" Lian Shou tried to quibble while trembling, she twiddled her thumbs together and pushed all the blame on her mother. ".... She did not tell me that she made that money through illegal channels, I have no idea what she did to get that money."

Lian Shou was not lying for the sake of protecting her, Madam Lian never disclosed the channels from where the money was coming and because Lian Shou did not wish to get entangled with her parents' mess she also never asked what was going on. She was only responsible for wasting money and nothing else!

" Hmm," Mo Qiang placed the tab in her hands down and then nodded her head with an easygoing smile. " I understand you had nothing to do with this matter, it was all your mother who dabbled in illegal business to make money right?"

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"That's right!" Lian Shou looked up at Mo Qiang who was smiling vibrantly and then said in a hurry, " I am just a young college student, I have no idea what my parents were doing behind my back... as for the money," she hesitated and softly said, " I went a bit too far with the spending but I did that because I thought it belonged to my family."

' What nonsense,' thought Mo Qiang while she looked at Lian Shou, though it might be true that Lian Shou did not know where the money came from, there was no way she was unaware of the fact that the money she was spending so grandly did not come from an illegal channel.

Madam Lian did not earn such a big sum when she was working for the army but ended up collecting a lot of money once she was exiled, how can no one question something like this unless they were not aware of who their mother was, which was not the case with Lian Shou.

However, Mo Qiang did not say anything instead she nodded in approval and then said, " You are right as a college goer it is only normal that you spend a lot of money on parties and your friends, after all, I was just like you when you were young. Studying in college is something a person only gets to do once in his lifetime."

When Lian Shou heard Mo Qiang's words she felt like she had gone through a rebirth, she heaved a sigh of relief. She looked at Mo Qiang with hope filling every inch of her face and then asked, " Th..then you are going to let me go right?"

" Yeah why not, I am not going to take you to the court," Mo Qiang smiled politely and then turned to look at the living room which was filled with all sorts of luxuries. Even the couch that was sitting in the middle seemed to be a lot more comfortable than her bed—— suddenly she wished to snap madam Lian's waist.

She then turned to look at Lian Shou and continued, " I will be taking everything that is worth money in this house including seizing your assets, do you have anything to say about that?"

" Of course not! I will definitely not say anything, this is yours to begin with! How can I even stop you?" Lian Shou immediately agreed with Mo Qiang's suggestion of taking hold of the assets which belonged to her mother. As long as she could cleanly cut off her relationship with Madam Lian, Lian Shou was willing to do anything. If anyone found out that she was the daughter of a traitor, she will be kicked out of the college and her future will be shrouded in nothing but darkness. "But...But you will let me go after everything is taken over right?"

" Oh no, what are you even talking about?" Mo Qiang parted her lips and widened her eyes before leaning forward on the table as she looked at Lian Shou. " We are just getting started, the money after selling your assets is nowhere enough to make up for the loss that we have suffered but we cannot send you to the star of dread either where a youngster like you will have no future."

" Th...Then what do you suggest?" Though Lian Shou did not wish to hand the ball to Mo Qiang, she also knew that there was nothing that she could do against Mo Qiang. If this woman did not let go of her then she will have to mine for energy cores all her life, she did not want to do that.

"It's nothing ... I was just thinking that I have some serious lack of resources," Mo Qiang tapped her fingers on the table and then pulled out a tablet which she put in front of Lian Shou. " You see I am trying to do something that no one has ever done for that I need an intelligent woman who will help me while I am working on my little project which is why I need you who have a degree in biomedical engineering."

With that, she pushed the tablet towards Lian Shou.

Though Lian Shou was a bit startled by what Mo Qiang said, she still pursed her lips and then looked at the tablet which displayed the contract that Mo Qiang was talking about. She wanted to see what Mo Qiang was trying to do but after she was done reading the contract, only one sentence came to her head

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This woman was crazy!

" You... you have gone crazy haven't you?" She looked at Mo Qiang as if waiting for her to suddenly act like a maniac. " How can you even say something like this? You want me to work until I have paid back the sum that my mother owes you? It will not be done even if I were to work until I die!"

" Heh," a sneer crawled up Mo Qiang's lips as she looked at the indignant-looking Lian Shou and then said, " So you do know that your mother had leeched off us to the point where the amount has turned astronomically great? Yet you were thinking of running away while taking all the money and assets which should have gone to us?"

" Y...you heard that?" Lian Shou stiffened as she realised that Mo Qiang heard what she said when she was trying to run out of this place.

" Of course, I heard that," Mo Qiang nodded with a solemn look on her face. " I even heard about you mentioning how our family was used to living a hard life while you, who was born in the lap of luxury cannot withstand the same suffering as us." Her lips twisted into a malicious grin as Mo Qiang added, " I am sure you will have a great time researching chicken poop and cow dung and making them into a non-poisonous energy means."

Lian Shou: 〣 ( ºΔº ) 〣

Get ready for the dateMo Xifeng turned to look at Mo Qiang with an expression of disbelief, when Mo Qiang told her that she needed to hold herself back from killing this woman, she thought that it was because Mo Qiang felt apologetic towards Lian Shou and her father but from the looks of it she was clearly here to make Lian Shou a free labour!



On the other hand, Mo Qiang smiled widely as she looked at Lian Shou whose eyes were popping out of their sockets in shock. Did they really think that she was going to drop the matter without making them pay? Haha, they have to be kidding her.

Lian Shou clearly did not have even half the money that her mother had taken away from them, how can she even let her go so easily? Did she think that as long as she cried and made a fuss she did not have those hundred million imperial coins, she will be fine?

Never!

If you don't have the money then you will have to work until you pay that money! Wasn't it fun using Mo Yan and Mo Xifeng's hard-earned money all these months? Now it was the time to pay it all back. Unless she pays all that money she had squandered away, Mo Qiang was not going to let her go, it was just right as well.

Because they did not have a large-scale incinerator machine and neither did they have the budget to waste their hard-earned money on it. Though she had arranged for someone to take care of the waste which came out of the three-horned chicken clearly it was too much for a few people to take control and from what Xiao Jiao told her the waste pellets of the three-horned chickens can be used to make renewable energy which they can use to run their house and the small town where they lived.

There was no need to buy extraordinarily expensive energy cores.

" T...This is slavery!" Lian Shou exclaimed after being robbed of her ability to speak, she looked at Mo Qiang and then said in a hurried voice, " This is not funny, from what you have returned in a contract I have to work until I pay those hundred million coins back but ...but the interest you have set is impossible to be paid! You are just taking blatant advantage of me since I am in this situation. "

" Ah, you think that it is not fair?" Mo Qiang asked as the smile on her face dropped, with her gaze fixed on Lian Shou, she spoke in an emotionless voice, " If that is the case then I cannot force you to sign the contract but if your face and identity get leaked to your university along with how you and your mother had fun on the hard-earned money of the ex-general whom your mother betrayed and took advantage of....I am afraid there will be no such thing as a future for you."

She reached forward and picked up the tab before smiling sinisterly at Lian Shou, " Just so you know, I am being kind to you by showing you mercy and giving you the chance to grow. But if you don't want that...then I can only ask you to come with me to the court, we will discuss it there further."

The more she spoke the more her voice became more and more sinister, " And once your identity is out, I don't think even the judge who is responsible for handing out justice will help you."

" I will sign it, no please let me sign it...even if I have to hand you my life... I will make sure to make it worth it," Lian Shou felt like crying as she looked at Mo Qiang no wonder others called her a devil, she was truly a devil! What kind of Demon did Mo Yan and Wen Gui have given birth to!?

Even Yu Hai stared at Mo Qiang in shock, a part of him was quite curious to question Wen Gui what he ate when he was pregnant with Mo Qiang because a child-like Mo Qiang couldn't be born from a simple diet!

Once the contract was signed, Mo Qiang brought everything worth keeping back to the Dead Star with her while Mo Xifeng was responsible for bringing Lian Shou who looked as if she had lost her soul.

" Come on, you are being too hard on yourself," said Mo Qiang as she turned to look at Lian Shou. "It's not going to be that bad."

Lian Shou felt like she had nothing to live for, she was dreaming of becoming a well-known researcher in the future but now she was going to research on chicken's waste pellets and cow dung. No one could even understand what she was going through!

" Easy for you to say, since you are not the one who is going to stay coped in a laboratory and work on stinky waste!" She cried while sitting on the floor of the mecha craft which Mo Xifeng drove back to the Dead Star. " I am the one whose entire future has gone down the ditch what do you even know?"

As she spoke, Lian Shou shed tears of grief making Mo Qiang feel a bit annoyed. If she was going to cry like this, then she should have just sent her to the court and be done with it!

Though she was annoyed Mo Qiang restrained herself when she thought of how she did not have anyone smart enough to research renewable energy. Though she did have three witty mers in her house, all of their wits were haywire.

" You are lucky that I still have some use for you," sneered Mo Qiang as the mecha craft came to a stop at their house. " Or else I would have dropped you in the middle of the ride for crying like you lost your daddy in the middle of the supermarket." Her words were so serious that Lian Shou stopped crying within a second.

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