Let me go!While Wen Gui tried his best to coax Mo Qiang who was sulking, Shao Hui looked at the clear water in the container. In the past when he saw Mo Qiang grit her teeth and curse her fate for not being able to awaken, he secretly enjoyed that sight, in his eyes, it was retribution for making him and his brothers cry tears of blood.



But now, Mo Qiang awakened? And she awakened powers that were rarest among all? How can this be? !!

He refused to believe it! With that thought in his head, he looked at Mo Xifeng and asked in a soft yet firm voice, "Sister-in-law, are you really sure that this was something that was purified by her? I mean there is no way she can do something like this, after all, Qiang'er is way past the age where one can awaken."

Wen Gui paused in his coaxing as he turned to look at Shao Hui, he wanted to say something but he decided to ignore Shao Hui. Do not think that he had no idea what was going on in the head of these mers which was why he never liked them in the first place but his wife thought that they were pitiful and sometimes overlooked their actions.

' Even if you cannot trust them, you should trust Xifeng. She will never do anything that will disrespect her sister no matter what the situation.' This was what his wife told him and as much as he hated to admit it, he did trust Mo Xifeng more than the three mers after all Mo Xifeng was indebted to him for taking her in when her own father abandoned her in the streets and raising her!

Wen Gui turned to look at his daughter while leaving Shao Hui alone, he will let his wife and Mo Xifeng deal with him but for now, consoling Mo Qiang was his priority!

He continued to coax Mo Qiang who was feeling even worse with the taunt that Shao Hui threw her way. What was this? Why was everyone acting like this? She did something good, where was her praise damn it? Mo Qiang felt like she was once again back in her company where no one cared about her hard work and only knew how to complain without any bonus added!

And here she could not even say, ' I quit!'

" Qi Qi, do not listen to that little snarling cat, he is like that...come on, look at daddy, I have prepared chicken porridge for you today," Wen Gui saw that his daughter was not eating properly these days which was why he used some of his savings and then brought some rice and chicken for his daughter.

Sure enough, when he used food to lure Mo Qiang out of her shell, the latter turned over and looked at him with a blank look on her face and stretched out her hand before showing two fingers to her father.

" I want two bowls." She declared not giving the mer any chance to refuse.

" Sure, Sure...you can eat as much as you want." Wen Gui was happy when he heard that Mo Qiang was willing to talk to him but then he heard Shao Hui say, " You must be the one who awakened this power, sister-in-law! There is no need for you to lie for Qiang!"

" You little——" Wen Gui felt his patience snap as he whipped his head to glare at Wen Gui but he was interrupted by Mo Xifeng who shook her head and very honestly said, " No, brother-in-law Hui. This is something that sister Qiang did on her own, I will not lie about something like this."

Shao Hui heard Mo Xifeng's words and bit his lips before turning to look at Mo Qiang who was sitting on the couch with Wen Gui holding her hands, his eyes turned red as he shook his head violently and exclaimed, " I am never going to drink this water! Never!"

With that, he turned around and ran out while picking up his mask that was sitting on the cabinet next to the door.

" Fine! Don't drink it!" Wen Gui was not the cruel father-in-law who bullied his sons-in-law but sometimes enough was enough, his daughter was changing her way and also awakened her powers and yet this mer was talking to her like this, how can he not be upset?

" Gui Gui, calm down," Mo Yan knew that her husband was upset with his sons-in-law who were more close to Mo Xifeng than Mo Qiang but the thing was that Mo Qiang was not as innocent either. She walked towards her husband and then patted him on the shoulder as she softly coaxed him, " You need to understand that Hui'er is not in the wrong either, he lost almost everything."

When Wen Gui remembered that his daughter had caused Shao Hui's dream to break into pieces, half of his anger vanished in an instant. He knew that if he was in the shoes of Shao Hui, he too would have never been able to forgive Mo Qiang easily either which was why he sighed and did not speak.

However, his scream caused Yin Fu and Xie Jie to come down from the second floor as they looked at the tense atmosphere in the living room.

" What happened?" Yin Fu asked with a polite voice, he firmly believed that his in-laws had no idea what was going on in his head or the others. Thus, he continued to act as an understanding son-in-law.

Wen Gui looked at Yin Fu and then shook his head before excusing himself, leaving Mo Yan with her daughters and sons-in-law. Since his wife was the one who wanted to act like they were blind, she should also be the one who should be putting up with this act.

Yin Fu did not know that Wen Gui had some suspicions towards him instead he thought that his father-in-law simply disliked him like every other father-in-law.

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Let me go——2" It is nothing," Mo Yan smiled at Yin Fu placatingly and then turned to look at her daughter who was sitting on the couch silently while frowning. She sighed, though she was glad that her daughter was now better than before, she hoped that her daughter's EQ remained the same. This dunce should have chased after her husband just now but she was sitting on the couch calmly.



In fact, Mo Qiang was not sitting calmly, in her head she was listening to the screams of Little Jiao who kept shouting at her.

[ Go and bring that mer back! Coax him, kiss him .... If possible eat him clean! But bring him back, we can gain favourability points from him! Another follower of nature can be born!]

Little Jiao not only did she scream at Mo Qiang, she even continued to nibble on Mo Qiang's hair turning a bunch of strands on Mo Qiang's head to turn wet with her saliva.

" You are dirtying my hair! Will you be refining the water for me to wash my hair ?" Mo Qiang questioned the squirrel in her head who pulled her hair strands while holding them in her tiny paws and threatened her, " I will turn you bald if you do not chase that mer! He is my follower! He is my next servant! Do you even see his amazing luck? He is bound to become someone great! As long as he becomes my servant, I can make a ravishing comeback! Go after him if you do not want to wake up with a bald head tomorrow morning!"

" You little!" Mo Qiang went to catch the squirrel but instead, she caught hold of something warm and hard. What the? She raised her head and looked at the metallic bottle that she was holding in her hand and then turned to look at her mother who was smiling at her, but that smile looked like one of those clients who wanted her to work for them day and night.

" Wh...What ?" Mo Qiang was scared by the expression of her mother who was smiling at her like an annoying little devil.

" Your husband is upset with you, bring this warm water to him and coax him," said Mo Yan as she placed her hand on Mo Qiang's shoulder and gave it a squeeze.

" But he just said that he will never drink it," Mo Qiang blinked her eyes as she looked at Mo Yan whose smile widened while her hold on her shoulder tightened. " Sometimes mer husbands can act like children, you need to lower your pride and coax them a little. Hui'er might have said that but he loves drinking hot water since it stops his throat from hurting every morning. Since you were at fault ... you should coax him."

Mo Qiang felt like she was even more wronged than that famous character whose death caused the sky to rain blood. She looked at her mother with an affronted expression and then said in a whiny voice, " Why am I at fault? I worked hard all day! I purified this water for the family and it was him who got angry at me for no reason! I did nothing wrong!"

" You were the one who got his contract which he worked hard for ten years to be cancelled, Qi Qi," Mo Yan sternly brought up her crimes and Mo Qiang pouted like a child while she inwardly cried, ' I did not do that! I am being wronged, your honour!'

But on the outside, she could only say, " Xifeng can bring him back, he will be happier that way as well since he does not like me."

At her words, Yin Fu and Xie Jie exchanged a look while Mo Yan's expression turned grave as she glowered at her daughter while giving her a white look. She bared her teeth and then said sternly, " Xifeng is not the wife of your husbands, she is her own person and has her own things to do. When you were irresponsible, I allowed her to take care of your husbands but do not forget that Xifeng will one day have someone whom she will like as well, do you wish for her to chase after your husbands even then?"

As she spoke, Mo Yan squeezed her daughter on the shoulder she added firmly, " Do not pass your responsibilities that you do not want to take on to your sister, Qi Qi."

"It's all right, Mother. I can——" Mo Xifeng began but Mo Yan glared at her and shut her up before she stared at her second daughter and asked solemnly, " Do you wish to take responsibility for them all your life? I have asked this question to you before and I will ask this question to you again, do you? Or do you not have feelings for your brothers-in-law?"

Her question stunned everyone in the room as Yin Fu and Xie Jie turned to look at their mother-in-law with pale complexion on their faces. Looks like they were not as sneaky as they thought they were!

Mo Xifeng frowned when she heard this question again from her mother and then she shook her head before solemnly declaring, " Of course not Mother."

Her response caused Yin Fu and Xie Jie's heart to ache a little but they did not show it on their faces, they in fact already knew that Mo Xifeng felt nothing for them and so did Shao Hui but they were so dependent on her that they ignored her feelings but Mo Yan took this opportunity to remind them and Mo Qiang that Mo Xifeng was her own person and they should not force their feelings on her.

" You heard that?" Mo Yan looked down at Mo Qiang who felt slightly guilty for pushing her responsibilities on Mo Xifeng while ignoring what the latter wanted. " So as the wife of your husbands, you should be taking care of them now that you are sober."

" But my muscles——" Though Mo Qiang understood what Mo Yan was telling her, she still did not like the idea of going after Shao Hui, the mer whose favourability points were the worst. What if he chokes her in a dark alley and buries her? There was a chance that he rushed out while being armed with scissors or knives!

What if she became a helpless fish to be chopped on his board?

" I will break your bones if you do not move right now, Qi Qi," as Mo Yan spoke her grip on Mo Qiang's shoulder tightened so much that the latter started to thrash on the couch while howling,

" I AM GOING! I AM GOING! I WILL BRING HIM IN A PRINCESS CARRY, ALL RIGHT? LET ME GO, GENERAL MO!"

Follow me instead of your wife" Jeez that woman nearly dislocated my shoulder," said Mo Qiang as she rolled her shoulder while trying to check whether or not she needed to visit the doctor and get her shoulder placed back in the socket.



Mo Qiang had never lived in a family before, she was an orphan with only kids around her age to play along with in the orphanage where she was abandoned by her parents, when she grew eighteen and was going to leave the orphanage she asked the head of the orphanage whether the old woman knew something about her parents or not. To her surprise, the old woman did know about her parents who abandoned her at the door of the orphanage and told her that they left her here because she was a daughter and they wanted a son.

When Mo Qiang left the orphanage, she went to her parent's house and was stunned to see that the two really got what they wished for, they had three sons, all good for nothing while living in a small rented apartment but for some reason they were happy. Back then she was filled with anger and swore that she will make them regret which was why she not only studied architecture, she even joined a company which was far better than what her brothers could ever get into —— of course, her parents later came to look for her once they saw her face in an architecture magazine.

They asked for forgiveness and Mo Qiang of course replied by having them thrown out of the company back then those two people have cursed at her to the point that they literally murdered her with their words. Because of this reason, Mo Qiang was even more reluctant to the idea of getting married and having a family, since her own left a scar.

But now, not only did she have a family but she also had a mother who was as strong as mini King Kong! And she had no idea how to deal with that woman since the one who cursed her the most was her mother.

" Ahem, if you have calmed down, can you let go of me?" She heard the little squirrel speak and looked down at Little Jiao whom she was using as a ball to squeeze out her frustration. " I mean I do understand that you are angry but I am still your boss, aren't I?"

"That's where you are wrong," Mo Qiang was no longer as scared as she was of this little thing as she was in the beginning. She calmly squeezed little Jiao and then continued to speak ignoring the peep that the thing made, " I am your partner you see? You gave me materials and in return, I help you reclaim your lost glory, do not make our relationship one that of slave and master, got it?"

Little Jiao who was being held in the fist of Mo Qiang sputtered, she wanted to say something but under another squeeze she could only helplessly agree. " All right but I am still the one with the majority of shares."

" Yeah, Yeah," replied Mo Qiang as she looked around the street ignoring the people who were ducking their heads upon seeing her and trying to make their presence as inconspicuous as possible. " Help me find that runaway child, I need to get hold of him and bring him back home or else I will lose my extra bowl of chicken porridge."

"No wonder you had no boyfriend," muttered Little Jiao under her breath causing Mo Qiang to look at her, her glare startled Little Jiao as she pointed to a dark alley and then said, " He is there."

Mo Qiang looked at the dark alley where Little Jiao was pointing and frowned, what was that mer doing in that alley? She walked towards the mouth of the dark alley and went speechless the second she looked at what was going on inside the dark alley.

Shao Hui was standing in the middle of a few thug-like-looking women, his eyes were rimmed red but he still seemed to be quarrelling with them.

" I don't know! I have no idea when she is going to pay your money back, if you have the guts go and ask her why are you cornering me here like this?" Mo Qiang heard the mer say as she stepped inside the alley and only then did she recognise these women, they were hired thugs who worked in the bar where Mo Qiang went and gambled.

Though Mo Yan repaid almost everything, she still asked for a few months to repay the rest since they needed to pay the compensation to the imperial family.

Mo Qiang: "...." These people, they just want to see her dead, don't they?

And sure enough, she heard the constant ding ding ding of Shao Hui's favourability points going down with each second.

[ Current favourability points: -730]

Mo Qiang: "..." Shall I look for a coffin now?

She looked down at Little Jiao who was snarling, from the looks of it the little squirrel was not liking this show of watching a helpless mer getting cornered as well. With a raise of her head, she stared at the group of women who were surrounding Shao Hui and then rubbed the back of her head.

Shao Hui stared at the group of women who were leering down at him, this was why he hardly ever stepped out alone of the house with Xie Jie who was tall and learned martial arts for a small role, these women stayed away from him but when they saw him alone they will come looking for him, each time and will tease and taunt him!

Just like how they were doing right now!

" Oh come one, Hui'er.." said the woman in the lead as she placed her hand on Shao Hui's shoulder. " There is no need for you to be so rude to us, we have known you for such a long time and ...." She dropped her gaze at the thin yet beautiful figure of Shao Hui before strapping her eyes back up on his ethereal face as she added, " And I intend to know you even more deeply, you get what I am saying right?"

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Follow me instead of your wife ——2Shao Hui's eyes filled with disgust as he slapped the hand that was sitting on his shoulder and coldly looked at the woman before saying, " My mother-in-law has paid back the majority of the debt and only a few hundred thousand golden star coins are left, there is no need for you to jump the gun, all right?"



There was no way he was going to sleep with a woman just to pay the debt of his wife!

" But I want to jump the gun, what to do eh, Hui'er," the woman licked her lips as she leered at Shao Hui and then raised her hand to hold the chin of the mer in front of her, such that she dragged him forward while holding onto his chin. " You see your wife has a debt of millions and yet even after six months, she hasn't paid back... I don't think that with your family's condition, you will be ever able to pay the remaining balance for the next two years and I have no intention of waiting till then."

The woman with brown hair tilted her head and smiled at Shao Hui with a greedy glint in her eyes and then added, " Come on, I am offering you a wonderful opportunity. You wanted to become an idol right? Sleep with me a few times and I will help you get what you want..." her gazed dipped at the virginity mark that was on the back of Shao Hui's wrist and immediately a sort of satisfaction filled her heart as she continued, " Your wife won't even find out about it since she has no interest in you...if she did, then you wouldn't have been untouched till now."

Shao Hui's eyes widened as he looked down at his wrist, upon seeing that his sleeves were rolled back he immediately pulled them down hiding the mark from the woman in front of him but it was already too late.

He closed his eyes and then gritted out, " No matter what you say, I am not going to agree to such a disgusting offer! Unless my wife divorces me, I will never sleep with another woman! And that too without a wedding band!"

Shao Hui might act recklessly because he was young but he was not a fool, he knew that the world outside was full of bad people, especially women. They can never be trusted! He knew that this woman called Big Li only wanted to sleep with him because he looked pretty and at the same time wanted to put a green hat on his wife. After all, there was one time when his wife entangled in a fight with this Big Li, this woman was not sincere and he was not a fool to get into bed with her!

And more importantly, his dream was his own to achieve, if he succeeded once, he can succeed again in the future! There was no need for him to take the back door.

Big Li's eyes narrowed when she heard the reply of the mer, she had been keeping her eyes on this mer for a long time and wanted him to follow her but of course, she had no plans to marry him. Other than his face, Shao Hui did not have anything else, he might have been a better asset if he had become an idol but Mo Qiang stopped him in fear that he will start taking back doors one after another if he went to the show biz, though her worries were correct and even Big Li agreed with her...it did drop Shao Hui's usefulness.

Seeing that the mer was still refusing, she clicked her tongue and decided to simply drag him with her since he was here alone and she was with her gang, there was no way a mer as frail as him could fight her. And after she was done with him, who will be able to do anything to her? Mo Yan might have been a general in the imperial family but now she was living in exile. And her life was like that of a criminal, there was no way she will be able to fight her.

With that thought in her head, she stretched her hand and then reached out to grab Shao Hui but before she could even touch his wrist, a weird thing popped out in front of her eyes.

For a while, she did not realise what it was until she saw that it was a flying squirrel as her eyes fell on the wings and the curled horns.

" What the—-" Big Li frowned when she the little thing snarling, she wanted to smack it away but the thing was faster. It dodged her hand and then rushed to her face where it started to scratch her face and that too with such a ferocity that it looked like Big Li cursed its ancestors. " What are ... ouch, hey! Someone come and stop this damned thing!" She tried to catch hold of the flying squirrel while dancing around, " If I get my hands on you, I will roast you alive!"

Who knew whether the squirrel understood what she said to her or not but she started to claw Big Li's face even more quickly causing blood to ooze out of the wounds.

" You want to roast me? Even Mo Qiang does not dare to roast me! How dare you!" Little Jiao shouted but of course, no one was able to understand her screeching, Big Li jumped around before she turned to look at her gang members, furious that they were just watching the drama but when she turned around, she was stunned to see that they all were on the ground with Mo Qiang holding a metal bat in her hands.

The woman raised her head and smiled at her with a dangerous glint in her eyes causing Big Li to shiver as she walked past the women who were on the ground. " So....you want to sleep with my husband?" Mo Qiang asked with a smile on her face while the droplets of red blood dripped down from her chin as she smacked the bloodied bat in the palm of her hand.

Little tomato" You..." Big Li was speechless as she looked at Mo Qiang whose face was covered with a blood-covered mask and then dropped her gaze at her gang members who were down on the ground, if not for the fact that they were still groaning she would have thought that they all were dead. " What have you done!" Her voice was demanding as she looked at Mo Qiang whose smile widened while Little Jiao flew back to sit on top of her head.



" I want to ask you the same thing, why have you cornered my husband? And what are you trying to do to him?" Mo Qiang asked as she placed the blood-covered bat on her shoulder while looking at Big Li whose face turned livid.

Just now she was fortunate enough to find this hard metal bat lying in the trash, though it had a few bumps here and there, it was still usable. And with Little Jiao's help, she was able to silence the groans of the women who were backing Big Li up by locking them in an air bubble.

Of course, Little Jiao did not give her a sudden buff up, it was all her skills that she learned while growing up as an orphan that she had to put to use while taking these women down. It could be said that she was slightly lucky that neither of them was awakeners but then again if they were one, they would not be working as local thugs in a small bar.

Big Li swallowed a huge lump that was lodged in her throat before she shook her head and summoned her courage that seemed to have taken a break after seeing Mo Qiang's brutal actions before she straightened up her spine and glared down at the woman in front of her as she rumbled in her most dangerous voice, " Is it, not your fault? You were the one who piled up one debt after another, and now you are refusing to pay it back! If I don't ask for your family to pay back the money who am I supposed to ask it for?"

" Oh? So your way of getting your money back is by pimping my husband?" Mo Qiang arched a brow as she raised the bat from her shoulder and smacked it on the ground with a loud thud, which made Big Li and even Shao Hui shudder as the two took a step back simultaneously from Mo Qiang. "Let's be very clear about this, did I allow you to look for my husbands in case I fail in paying my debts back?"

The reason Mo Qiang asked this was because she was very confident in her predecessor, that woman might be a trashy woman but she was very possessive of her husbands, there was no way she was going to hand over one of her husbands to Big Li.

Sure enough, as soon as she asked this question, Big Li's expression changed. In fact, she did try to get Mo Qiang into signing a document like this but the woman was stubborn as a bull, nor did she touch her husbands and neither did she allow anyone else to do so!

" But you haven't paid the debts——" However her words were lodged in her throat when Mo Qiang pointed the end of the bat with a swoop in front of her face causing her pupils to look at the bloodied end which further caused her head to go dizzy and she had to shake her head to get rid of the nausea.

" It does not matter whether I pay my debts back or not! The thing is that since I was the one who collected them then I will be the one who will pay them back! There is no need for you to look for my mother or husbands... even if my mother is now an exiled criminal, my husbands are not included in the same crime and nor am I. If you push us to a corner we have the right to take legal action against you and your people, so get away from that little tomato now!"

Though Shao Hui was a little touched by what his wife said just a moment ago, his expression changed when he heard her call him a little tomato.

' Li..little tomato?' Shao Hui's expression changed as he touched the bubblegum pink hair of his and looked at his wife in affronted manner, his hair was cherry blossom colour! How in the world did she compare it with a tomato?

And the favourability points that were about to go up also stopped.

" Was it necessary to call him a little tomato? His favourability points were going to raise," deadpanned Little Jiao.

" Was it necessary for me to fight these thugs with my strength when I have a magical fairy with me?" Mo Qiang shot back as she glanced at the little squirrel sideways.

" Fair enough," Little Jiao took a step back as she preened her feathers that were ruffled by Mo Qiang's squeezing.

Big Li looked at Mo Qiang with a gaping expression, seeing that the woman seemed to have enlightened all of a sudden, she gritted her teeth in annoyance. Why was it that this woman got better now? Did that woman not say that she will make sure that Mo Qiang died a sorry death along with her mother and father? What happened in between?

But upon seeing the situation, Big Li knew that she could not fight against Mo Qiang. Though she looked like she was stronger and fiercer, Big Li could see that Mo Qiang was quicker and more skilled than her if not she would not have taken her gang members down so easily.

" Fine, I will not touch him, so let's forget ——" she was still speaking when the gases around them started to move which stunned her, surprised she looked at Mo Qiang who was smiling at her with a villain-like expression causing Big Li to tremble until her legs turned soft as jelly. " What are you trying to do?"

" I am going to make you pay interest for grabbing my husband's chin with those dirty paws of yours," Mo Qiang's face was on the rougher and gruffer side because she took after her mother, with her sharp eyes she looked just like some villainous from an A grade horror movie. Thus, when she smiled it only caused people who were looking at her to quake with fear, the same thing was happening to Big Li as the two started to get trapped in a gas bubble.

While the bubble was in making, Mo Qiang turned to look at Shao Hui and said, " And you little tomato, close your eyes, don't blame me if you get nightmares later on."

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Little tomato —-2Shao Hui was stunned but he did as his wife asked him to do, though a bit angrily since he did not like the nickname she gave him. With his hands covering his eyes, he stood a bit further from the gas bubble where Mo Qiang was smacking Big Li with her bat.



" You are suffering from extreme internal heat huh? Just take a few good hits of bat and you will be just all right!" Mo Qiang smacked Big Li on the back with her bat while the latter tried to get away from the woman behind her while trying to get away from the little squirrel that was scratching her face.

" Stop! Stop! Mo Qiang, don't forget that you still have to pay a hundred thousand golden star coins, if you continue to act like this, I am afraid that you will be causing trouble for yourself in the future!" Even though she was getting hit and scratched Big Li did not want to submit, she continued to act tough and threatened Mo Qiang.

" Oh yeah? But that's where you are wrong, I am hitting you because you were daring enough to touch my husband when he did not want to be touched, that's another thing and my debt is another matter. If you drag me for debt then I am afraid that I can drag you down as well!" Mo Qiang did not stop, she truly did not like people who thought that they could take advantage of someone's poverty.

In her world, she had to do all sorts of odd jobs from being a bartender to a waitress and because of her decent looks, she was often cornered by the rich generation male heirs who wanted to hire for a night or two. They all thought that because she was poor, she was going to agree and when she did not, they would corner her —— saying that they can give her full ride for her college as long as she rode them well.

It was disgusting.

And seeing the same thing happen to Shao Hui sort of blew up her fuse which was why she did not stop hitting Big Li even when the woman was on her knees with blood dripping down on the ground from all the scratches and hits that she had received.

" Stop! Stop! I will apologise all right?" Big Girl Li was stumped upon seeing that Mo Qiang was not willing to give up in the end she could only cover the back of her head and say that she was willing to apologise only then did Mo Qiang stop.

In fact, Mo Qiang knew that she could not kill Big Girl Li either which was why she was only playing around with her, though it looked like she was beating the hell out of Big Girl Li the truth was that she had only hit the spots that hurt like hell but did not get injured that easily.

" All right," Mo Qiang stopped hitting Big Girl Li while Little Jiao chirped and then rushed back to Mo Qiang while snapping her little furry fingers and dissipating the gas bubble that trapped Big Girl Li in a place.

When the hits stopped coming down on her body, Big Girl Li raised her head and then looked around, she was thinking about running away when she felt the cold sting of the metal bat on her bottom.

" Do not even think about it," Mo Qiang said as she kicked Big Girl Li on the side of her waist causing the latter to drop to the ground and then took a snap of her bloodied face with the monitor that she wore on her wrist. Though she was still not good with the technology here, she could at least take snaps easily along with making calls.

In fact, if Big Girl Li hadn't touched Shao Hui willy-nilly while making not-so-subtle innuendo about him, she was going to call Mo Xifeng to take these women down since she was not much of a fighter.

" If you run away then I will circulate this image of yours in the entire dead star," threatened Mo Qiang, she knew that with big thugs like Big Girl Li, their reputation was what mattered to them the most, which was why she took more than ten to twenty snaps of Big Girl Li's battered and bruised face before smiling at her sweetly. " If you try to pull up any stunt on either three of my husbands from now on, then I will make sure that everyone in this star knows that I was the one who beat you up."

" You are a psycho," Big girl Li was speechless, she never thought that Mo Qiang was this crazy, just now this girl did not fight her fairly but pulled all sorts of sneaky back street fight moves and played her in her own game!

" Yeah, Yeah... thanks for the compliment but now if you don't mind will you start with your apology?" Mo Qiang asked with a brow raised in a perfect arch. " Of course, if you dont want to then I will in no situation be able to make you but if my husband received a mental trauma from this incident then I am afraid that I will have to look for you again...." As she trailed off, Big Girl Li swore that she saw the shadow of the devils behind Mo Qiang.

' This...This woman is really ...terrifying!' Big Girl Li quaked as she scrambled to her feet and bowed in front of Shao Hui who had dropped his hand somewhere around when Mo Qiang started to threaten Big Girl Li.

" I am sorry, I did not know any better and scared you. Please forgive Mr Mo," Big Girl Li apologised to Shao Hui with such a sincere attitude that the latter felt his mouth drop in surprise while raising his head and looking at his wife who arched a brow at him and said, "What you don't like her apology?"

And then without giving a chance to him to say anything she raised the bat in her hands again and said, " Little tomato does not like your apology, do it right!"

300 million" No ..No, I like it, I like it very much!" The reason Shao Hui hesitated just now was because he did not like Mo Qiang calling him little tomato just now, he never thought that his momentary hesitation will cause the woman to raise the bat again and hit Big Girl Li on the head.



He then turned to look at Big Girl Li who was cowering like a helpless woman and was slightly annoyed, this woman was so fierce with him just now but the second his wife arrived and gave a few nice hits she was cowering like she was some sort of delicate beauty who was being harassed by some hooligan. It was too embarrassing to watch, on one side he stopped Mo Qiang and on the other side, he hid the itchy powder bomb in his space kit.

As someone who was harassed by Big Girl Li and many other thugs because of his pretty face, he was used to carrying some defence tools with him that big brother Fu made for the three of them, though they could not use them on Mo Qiang, they could still use it on outsiders. Originally, Shao Hui was planning to make Big Girl Li itch to death until she scratched her skin and bled dry but now—— he looked at the many lumps on her head and arms and a small pang of sympathy rose in his heart when he thought about how Big Girl Li had a photo shoot in such a condition.

" You can leave," he told Big Girl Li since he had no intention of beating her any more and bringing trouble to their family.

Big Girl Li felt like she received amnesty from God herself which was why she turned on her heels and then rushed out of the alley, however, as soon as she reached the end of the alley with people surrounding her left and right, she was once again emboldened and shouted at Mo Qiang, " Mo Qiang! You better prepare the money for the debt because if you don't then humph... do not blame me for being harsh."

Her condition at the moment was like a shaven tiger who was still trying to roar even though it had a squeaking bath duck stuck in his mouth, it was a sorry sight. Instead of feeling threatened Mo Qiang looked at the beaten-up Big Girl Li and thought that she might have gone a bit too far while beating her just now.

That woman was screaming like a duck whose throat was caught and wrung pitifully.

Big Girl Li kept screaming and threatening but which each threat she moved away like she was scared of getting beaten until she vanished looking rather comical. Once she was gone, Shao Hui who was holding on to his breath sunk down to his knees and buried his face causing Mo Qiang to receive a fright.

She stared at the redhead before she hesitated a little and then she too crouched down and called Shao Hui out softly, " Umm, little tomato... no, Hui Hui... " She changed her wording when she noticed the glare that the mer shot her with his dual-coloured eyes. " Are you okay?"

" I am not little tomato, my hair is cherry blossom shade, you get that?" The man was very obsessed with his looks, he was once a mer who almost became an idol what kind of idol will he be if he was nicknamed little tomato? He would be laughed at by his fans!

And what will his fans be called? Little cherry tomatoes?

He could almost imagine a sea of red while he was performing. It will look more like a devilish ritual than an idol performance!

" Ah yes," Mo Qiang agreed as she looked around and then took out the warm water bottle that her mother gave her and handed it to Shao Hui who was looking at her suspiciously. " Don't look at me like that, this was prepared by Mother, I haven't touched it... no I mean I did not touch the water but I did touch the bottle."

Gosh, why was she even scared of this tiny little thing?

Shao Hui stared at her without saying anything just as she was thinking that he was going to reject her, he took the water bottle from her hand and then as if realising something he added, " I am only taking this on account of mother-in-law."

"Sure," Mo Qiang did not even know what to say at his sudden change of attitude, she watched the man gulp a few sips of water and waited until he looked in a good mood before asking, " Why did you not call for help? If you did someone would have definitely come to help you right?"

Mo Qiang could not help but ask these husbands of hers especially the third one was so fierce in front of her why was it that he did not do anything to that Big Girl Li right now. What happened to those growls and scissors that he was showing her when she saw him for the first time?

Shao Hui did not answer her right away instead he swallowed a few more gulps of hot water treasuring each sip, the bottles that were sold in the imperial star were more than a thousand golden star coins, and they did not even hold half litres of water just a few gulps, so much hot water was hard to come by and he, of course, was going to treasure it, what was more unlike the processed and heavily mineralised water sold in the imperial main star, this water that was purified by his wife was much more clean and sweet.

It was nice to drink.

However, Shao Hui knew that there was a limit to such a sweet thing which was why he only took a few more sips and then closed the water bottle. He took a sideway glance at Mo Qiang and then said, " I never needed anyone's help, I had an itchy bomb... if I had used that then the woman would have died while scratching her skin."

Mo Qiang: "....." Oh, this was why she was scared of this little thing.

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300 millionNow Mo Qiang thought that she only made a mistake by helping this mer, he clearly had everything under control and might have as well been waiting to enjoy a show, did she interrupt his fun?



Mo Qiang wanted to ask Shao Hui about it but later on decided that she did not want to ask anything like that to this mer, what if he said that she indeed interrupted his enjoyment, what was she going to do then? Suggest that he have fun with her? Though she wanted those favourability points she did not want them at the cost of her life.

" Okay... shall we go back?" She asked but the mer did not say anything nor did he move from his place causing Mo Qiang to stay where she was not knowing what to do, she thought about leaving him alone but when she was reminded of the fact that a lady King Kong was waiting for her at their home, she changed her decision almost at once.

" You know that I hate you right?" Shao Hui spoke after a long time, he stared at her with those murky eyes of his which caused Mo Qiang to stiffen and widen her eyes in surprise while looking at him. The alarm bells in her head rang all over telling and screaming 'danger' while telling her to run and Mo Qiang was going to listen to the voice in her head but then the mer reached out and held her hand causing her body to turn harder than wood.

Oh, she was going to die, she was going to die, all right.

" So...if you don't want me to get stronger in future and kill you then you might as well kill me now," said the mer causing Mo Qiang to be even more surprised when she saw the hatred in the eyes of the mers. No, it was not right to say that it was hatred, it was absolute loathing.

" I..."

" You say that you have forgotten everything, right? It is funny." Shao Hui laughed interrupting her but there was no humour in his eyes, he simply looked at her with a smiling face and a pair of murderous eyes as he leaned in close and whispered in a viper-like cold voice, " You might have forgotten but I will never forget how you almost killed my father who is ill, I could have given him enough money to treat his condition and he would not have been abandoned by my mother in this rotten place at that rotten hospital with no possibility of recovering with the lack of resources. But because of you and your stubbornness, he was divorced and he was even sent here! I have no money and no resources to treat him, the only thing I can do is helplessly watch my father who gave birth to me die!"

As he said those last words, his voice rose and Shao Hui flung her hand away from his hand like touching her disgusted him. His eyes were brimming with tears as he sneered and coldly spat, " Not only did you break my dream but you also took away the only lifeline that my father had, I will never forget this and I will never allow you to forget this either when my father dies, I wish you will remember that you and my mother collectively murdered him!"

With that, he stood up from the ground and was prepared to leave when he heard Mo Qiang say from behind, " I will save him."

" What?" At first, Shao Hui thought that he had misheard Mo Qiang but when he turned and looked at Mo Qiang again he was surprised to see that the woman was looking at him seriously causing his heart to skitter a little which he suppressed at once wishing he could throw this stupid one out and get another one —— one that smart to be transplanted in his body.

" I will save your father and I will make your dream of becoming an idol come true as well," Mo Qiang repeated as she looked at the mer in front of her. She did not know how she was going to do it but seeing how desperate Shao Hui was, she could not just ignore him, he might not be the mer she loved but she still had the responsibility to take care of him as his nominal wife. " Just three weeks, just give me another three weeks."

In three weeks as long as she did not sleep or drink, she will be able to raise those trees and corn seeds. After that, she will see how it will go...though she was going to push her body to the extreme but for the sake of life and her favourability points along with her own life —— she was going to work hard.

She did not want to die while itching herself to death!

" Heh," Shao Hui mockingly sneered as he looked at his wife. " Very well then I will give you three weeks then ... but if you fail, then you better sleep with an eye open, Mo Qiang."

After he was done speaking he turned on his feet and walked away leaving Mo Qiang alone in the alley as the latter rubbed the back of her head in frustration. " That guy did not even thank me!"

However, Mo Qiang had no wish to go after the mer and ask him to show his gratitude when he clearly felt nothing but hatred for her, the hate he had for the original owner was too big to let go so easily. And she did not even blame him——

" Just what kind of disease does that guy's father have?" She asked Little Jiao who was silent for a change.

" Hmm," the small thing summoned her encyclopaedia that had information about this world and the members of the Mo Qiang family before she stiffened and then very hesitatingly replied, " Shao Hui's father has a grade second poison injury, it seemed that he was once pushed in a toxic river by the second husband of his wife...it affected his womb as well as his physical features, not only he requires a complete facial surgery but also anti toxin removal from his body."

" And the price of all of this is?"

"300 million golden star coins."

Fck. Was it too late to take her words back?

A+++ cropMo Qiang originally wanted to forget the promise that she had given to Shao Hui but it turned out that even if she wanted to forget it Shao Hui was not willing to forget it that easily, the next morning when Mo Qiang woke up she found a very attractive letter which was written on a tablet lying in front of her door.



It was not attractive because it was written with red blood-like colour but because there was a flashy image of a woman who looked exceptionally similar to her and was being roasted on fire while being rotated three hundred and sixty degrees.

Mo Qiang: ....?

She looked at the tablet which was lying casually on the threshold of her room and started to read it,

' Dear wife,' it read. ' I am sending this letter to remind you of the promise that you made to me yesterday. Though my father still has some time and I am bent on becoming an idol for some quick money, I am writing this letter to remind you that if you dared to lie to me, I will have to upgrade the punishment that I have for you in my mind, love Hui'er.'

" That brat is seriously unhinged in his head, isn't he?" Mo Qiang muttered as she looked at the flashy screen that was getting covered with blood again and again as Mo Qiang look like got burned to death.

She was thinking about forgetting the promise but here she was reminding her that if she failed, he will come after her life.

"Looks like you have no other choice but to fulfil the promise," said Little Jiao as she looked at the flashy screen with a curious expression before turning to look at Mo Qiang and asking, " What do you think? If I start giving out such letters to my subordinates what will they do?"

" Jump off the cliff what else?" Mo Qiang answered as she threw the tablet on the bed and then walked out of the room, looks like she had no other choice but to work harder than before.

" What? Are you going to jump off the cliff as well? There is no need to take things so hard we can discuss it, Mo Qiang!" Little Jiao screeched into Mo Qiang's ear who ignored him and then walked down to the living room where everyone was sitting on the floating dining table with matching chairs that hovered in the air with circular bottom and a deep crevice in the shape of an oval in the middle that glowed with a blue light.

Though that was not what caught her attention, it was the grilled whole chicken that was sitting in the middle while being charred to the point that it could not even be called chicken that caused her mouth to fall agape while looking at the poor thing and pray for its soul that died for such a horrible result.

" What is going on?" She asked thinking that this was some sort of new ritual that she did not know about was this chicken of this world supposed to be cooked like this? But no matter what it looked like it was burned right?

Wen Gui who was trying to hold the bite that he had taken in his mouth chewed the burned chicken for a few minutes in the end when he could not chew it, he simply drowned it in water that was sitting in front of him while shaking his head in exasperation, " You guys do it, I am giving up."

If he continued he will have six-pack abs on his jaw by the time this chicken was finished. He gulped the chicken that was giving him a hell of torture and then turned to look at his daughter before saying, " Its actually Hui Hui, who cooked this despite his evident lack of skills——"

" Ahem," Mo Yan stepped in and stopped her husband who glared at her and moved his mouth rather rapidly like he was throwing a silent diatribe at her before turning to look at his daughter and said with a smile, " But who cares about the charred, still raw on the inside yet somehow burned meat on the outside as long as it was cooked with love." He then cut a piece of the blackened coal-like thing and then asked his daughter, " Do you want to taste the love of your husband?"

As soon as he spoke, Shao Hui turned to look at Mo Qiang who was confused about whether this burned chicken was there on the table as a warning for her or was it because Shao Hui who was bad at cooking.

However, after a short while she decided that she was not going to bother with it and then said, " No thanks, I have gotten so much love from him that I am afraid I will explode." By the stuffing that he will fill inside in case she did not fulfil her promise.

With that Mo Qiang not even bothered having breakfast and then left the house behind her Mo Xifeng banged her fist on her thighs as she finished half of the chicken with tears in her eyes that were hidden. In fact this time she didnt even do this for her brother in law but the thing was that this chicken was hard to come by and her third brother-in-law brought it with his own savings since he was going to visit his father in the hospital this afternoon and prepared one for his own father along with their family.

If not for the fact that it cost them an arm and leg, she would have not swallowed this thing down.

Mo Xifeng worked her mouth furiously before drowning her fifth glass of water and then breathed heavily as if she just finished battling a monster but she still looked at Shao Hui while trying to suppress her gag reflex and said, " It ...is really...good... cough...awh"

" Stop before your soul escapes from your mouth and don't vomit on my dining table I brought the table cloth for fifty gold coins," said Wen Gui with a disgusted look before turning to look at Shao Hui who was playing with his breakfast. " Please tell me that you have not cooked this thing for your father?"

" I... did?" Shao Hui answered with a raise of his head causing Wen Gui to smile as he turned to look at his wife and said, " Dear will you please order a customised coffin? customized ----death by an abomination written on it please lest someone says that my daughter killed their father.."

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A+++ crop——2Mo Xifeng who saw Shao Hui raise his head like a cornered chicken who was going to fight to death immediately got up and rushed out of the house, she was not willing to get involved in the fight of mers, especially when one was her father and the other one was her brother in law, she was sure that she was going to get dragged into the mess while trying to separate those two and since her sister wasn't here, she might as well chase after the latter.



Sure enough, as soon as she rushed outside she could hear the sound of quarrelling coming from the inside causing Mo Xifeng to increase her pace as she rushed to the spot where her sister was working.

Mo Xifeng had been following her sister these days and even though the things that raised by her sister was doing well, Mo Qiang had not much hope for them after all the atmosphere where they lived was not suitable for even humans who had their core developed to survive how will those frail things survive? She was sure that sooner or later they will simply wither away.

But as she approached the small plot of land she suddenly heard a loud bang and her eyes widened in shock, did something happen? Did the entire cliff collapse or what? From the sturdy rock underneath it, such a thing was not possible but what if that evil woman did something behind their backs?

With so many thoughts running through her head, Mo Xifeng immediately summoned her sword which was longer than her own arm with a small sharp carved in between while a blue glow hummed inside it. She rushed towards the plot of land prepared to fight to the death but as soon as she turned around the corner and came to a stop, she saw Mo Qiang on the floor covered in blood while bleeding from her seven orifices while the trees and the corn crops were fluttering wildly in the middle of the land and what was more the sizes of those crops were humongous.

She was sure that the size of one corn stalk was double her own! But this was not what she was worried about at the moment, she rushed to her sister who was on the floor and helped her sit up.

" Sister Qiang, can you hear me?" Mo Xifeng shook her sister who was breathing heavily but when she saw that the latter was not showing any response, she immediately picked up her water bottle and used a few handfuls of water to splash on Mo Qiang's face who frowned and looked up.

At first Mo Qiang could not see who was holding her but when she blinked her eyes a few times she was able to see Mo Xifeng who was looking at her with worry, the favourability points on the top of her head also rolled and advanced to another eight points up causing Mo Qiang to smirk with delight.

Seeing that her sister was still smiling despite bleeding from her eyes, nose and ears, Mo Xifeng was speechless. She slapped her sister on the face and woke her up completely before snappishly asking, " What were you doing? How did you get yourself injured like this?"

" Ah, nothing, I just pushed myself a bit too much," Mo Qiang did not like getting threatened, in her mind the sooner she grew these crops the sooner she will be done with her task and the sooner she will be able to make some money.

Much to her surprise because she was able to purify water last night, she was able to gain a lot of favourability points from everyone except Shao Hui who hated her to her bones. Even though her other two husbands, favourability points were not any higher, the favourability points that she got from her father and mother along with Mo Xifeng were enough to give her a ten minutes buff where she could instil three days' worth of spiritual energy in the crops onetime.

These crops were grade one so she did not need too much spiritual energy while growing them which was why Mo Qiang was able to reach the peak in just a few minutes even though Little Jiao warned her that her body was not compatible with the energy yet and she should slowly get used to it —— Mo Qiang wanted to shut that brat up.

Seriously, he was so annoying like that cat whom she always fed and gave water to but every time she tried to pat it, it will scratch her hand but he was totally fine with others sometimes she wanted to ask Little Jiao whether that cat reincarnated as a human and became her husband.

The two of them were too similar.

And more importantly, the sooner she made that guy an idol the sooner she will divorce him. That's right, she still had not given up the idea of divorcing those three mers, in her eyes, she was not their wife and she did not marry them nor did she have any emotion or feelings for them so why should she even bother with them?

They did not like her and she did not like them end of the story.

She will work hard and then give them what they wanted to become but could not because of her predecessor and then send them away. And if not for those favourability points she would have divorced them on the first day.

' That brat, he dared to threaten me huh?' Mo Qiang thought while a fire burned inside of her. ' I will show him what kind of woman I am! Just wait and see when she will be signing the divorce papers that mer will cry tears of blood!'

As she thought of this, Mo Qiang pushed herself off the ground and wiped the blood off her nose before walking towards the corn stalk and taking an ear off it, she opened her assessing window and was stunned when she read the information displayed on it——

[ Corn ear: quality —— high.

Grade: A+++

Benefits: Extra boost for fifteen minutes to mecha morphs.]