Who harassed who ?' What the hell?' This was Mo Qiang's first thought as she realised that despite being the one who was bumped into, she was the one who was being treated as the person who committed the wrong!



" You...why are you——" she did not even get to finish her sentence as the mer who was knocked on the street while she was on top of him started to cry even louder as he screeched at the top of his lungs,

" Please let me go, I... I will dare not do it again..." as he cried he covered his face like a woman who was being harassed by a hooligan with her virtue on the line. His small hands covered his face while his shoulders trembled as he sobbed while muttering words like, ' I won't dare,' or ' I won't run away.'

His cries confused Mo Qiang but she shook her head and decided to think it over later, right now what she needed to do first was to get up from the street and then walk back home, who cares if this mer was crying? It was just a fall he wouldn't die from it!

With that thought in her head, she started to get up by pushing herself from the ground as she placed her palms flat on the ground and then gave herself a push.

Seeing that the woman was getting up, the mer who was crying paused before he raised his leg and kicked her in the knee, as the hot, red pain shot through her knee and right into her head, Mo Qiang's vision turned blurred and her head became dizzy, causing her to fall back onto him, this time the distance between the two was only a few inches with their lips almost touching.

" You...are you trying to scam me?" Mo Qiang asked furiously as she tried to take the pain which was throbbing in her knee silently without crying out loud. Just how bad her day could get? First, she was stabbed and then she was knocked into and now she was getting scammed? Whose face did she see first thing in the morning?

" Yours." Xiao Jiao deadpanned from the top of her head and that caused Mo Qiang's face to turn blacker than the bottom of the pot. Sure enough, her face was a jinx!

The mer with grey eyes looked at her furious expression and smiled haughtily causing a nerve to throb into Mo Qiang's forehead as he once again regained his sobbing expression and started to cry at the top of his lungs.

" I am just seventeen! Please for the love of god let me go!"

His cry was earth-shattering and the people on the street could not help but pause and look at what was going on and when they saw Mo Qiang lying on top of the young mer, all of them could not help but click their tongues.

"It's Mo Qiang again, sigh, when will she learn? If this goes on even the heroic acts of her mother will not be able to save her," said one of the onlookers.

Mo Qiang: "...." Meow?

" I know right, this time she attacked a minor, what is she going to do next? Attack an elderly? What are we supposed to do? Lock our daddies and children inside the house now? Seriously!"

" Someone, anyone call the police! A hooligan is harassing a minor!"

" She sure is going to taste every single flavour, how disgusting!"

" I say we should just lock her up in a cage, with her libido she will end up harming a lot of innocent mers!"

The cries of justice started to echo all over the street which annoyed Mo Qiang as she ignored the throbbing pain in her knee and then pushed herself up, what she did not notice was that as she was getting up the mer who was lying on the floor, snatched the ring on her finger sneakily before stuffing it in his pocket and then looking left and right to find a dog hole to sneak out.

And while the crowd was chanting slogans for Mo Qiang's arrest, he crouched on the floor and then started to crawl out from between the legs of the women and mers who were surrounding Mo Qiang like she was a criminal and they were the heroes of justice!

" Enough!" Seeing that the matter was getting out of hand, Mo Qiang shouted at the top of her lungs causing the crowd to shut up as she angrily glared at them. " That mer just knocked into me and made me fall, my clothes are intact and I did not even touch him! What do you mean by harassing him? Just because he cried harassment, I harassed him? What if he says that he is carrying my child? Will you all believe that too?"

" Who knows what you did? No mer will scream like that if he was not being harassed! You must have done something to him!" A mer who was standing in the front immediately countered as he spoke to Mo Qiang with a raise of his chin.

" That's right! Why will he damage his reputation like that?" Another mer asked while hiding behind his girlfriend.

Mo Qiang was enraged and speechless, but she could not carry this blame which was why she immediately snapped back at the crowd, " Fine, let me take the surveillance footage and then we will go to the police station and you ..." better confess—— was what she was going to say but when she turned her head to look at the mer who was on the floor, she was stunned to see that he was no longer there.

" Where is the mer? Where is he?" Mo Qiang asked the crowd which looked just as shocked as her, they looked at the spot where the mer was lying and then looked at Mo Qiang with a look of blame in their eyes.

Mo Qiang: "....." ?? Meow, Meow? What did they say?

who harassed who ?——2-----------------



" Do...Do I look like some sort of evil witch who eats living beings or what?" Mo Qiang was seriously offended this time, small nerves started to throb all over her face as she looked at the crowd with a smile which was not a smile at all.

The crowd looked away, they...they might have gone too far with that deduction just now. Even if Mo Qiang could eat living beings, there was no way she would be able to hide it from them and eat an entire mer without being caught right?

One of the mers opened his mouth to say something but his mouth was covered by his mother who shook her head and told him not to speak nonsense. No matter how cruel Mo Qiang was, they could not casually blame her for cannibalism!

" Jeez!" Seeing that the crowd was no longer blaming her, Mo Qiang scoffed and turned her head to look up but as she raised her head, her eyes fell on the finger which was missing a ring and her eyes widened in surprise as she shouted incredulously, " My ring? Where is my ring? That thing is not cheap who stole it!"

The ring which she was talking about was something that the original owner bought from an auction when she was still the young lady of the house of General Mo. Though it only had a cluster of rubies and a golden band, gold was something which was definitely hard to find after being mined for centuries and was being used to make pieces of jewellery without rest to reform which was why the ring cost more than thirty million golden coins!

This was something that the original owner truly loved and could not bear to sell it away, what was more it was the only thing that was left behind with her that reminded her of the pride she once had as the daughter of the famous General even Mo Qiang liked it which was why she did not sell it, in her heart this was something that the original owner adored and she could not just casually sell it away after taking possession of the original owner's body.

But now that ring was stolen!

" Who stole my thirty million gold coins ring? You better spit it out or I am taking it to the police! I still have its bill you hear me?" Mo Qiang yelled at the crowd of people who looked at each other with confusion in their eyes, they did not even approach Mo Qiang just now, how will they steal the ring?

Mo Qiang thought the same as she turned to look at the shop owner behind her and then said, " Mam, can you play the surveillance footage of what happened just now? And send a copy to me as well." She had a guess of what went down but without proof, if she was to say anything she will not be able to prove it to this crowd which was bent on standing up for that mer!

Her tone was polite and she was looking at the shop owner without a harsh look on her face, seeing this the middle-aged woman could not refuse her and then started to play the footage. In fact, she was one of those very few women who saw the mer knocking into Mo Qiang and though she did not see what happened afterwards since she was more focused on the drama, she still knew that Mo Qiang was not in the wrong.



More importantly, something expensive was stolen, even if she did not show the footage to Mo Qiang, she will have to show it to the police officers once Mo Qiang made reported the incident and that would be more troublesome!

The shop owner hated trouble the most which was why she did not speak up for Mo Qiang just now when she was being blamed and questioned.

With her fingers clicking on her monitor, the shop owner started playing the recording. No one needed to take a step closer because the recording was being played on a greenish blue screen which looked like a squarish hologram screen and in the recording despite the face of the mer being hidden by the board which was hovering outside the shop, one could easily see him leaning forward and snatching the ring which Mo Qiang was wearing.

So all of this was caused for the sake of pickpocketing?

The crowd was speechless! And they turned even more speechless and awkward when Mo Qiang whipped her head and glared at them with an enraged expression on her face as her eyes glinted sharply.

" So...." She drawled loud enough for the crowd to hear what she was saying. " Who was the one who said that a mer would not ruin his reputation like that? And that he will only cry like that when he was being harassed? Now what!"

Upon her questioning the heroes of justice blushed in shame before they made one excuse after another and then started to leave.

" Hey ! Hey! Hey, where are you going? What happened to your fair and heroic spirit? If it happens to a mer, it's harassment but when I was pickpocketed, you all are running away? Is that the so-called gender equality? Hey!" Mo Qiang shouted after the crowd who instead of stopping started to run even faster as they rushed to the other side of the street, seeing them leave Mo Qiang kicked the pebble on the gas-covered street.

Even though she was angry, Mo Qiang did not chase after the crowd instead she went to the shop owner had her send a copy to her of the recording and then went looking for the police station where the officers had a hearty laugh at her account.

" So...you also have such days...haha... Mo...Qiang..haha," the young police officer who was in charge of noting down complaints laughed so hard that Mo Qiang stabbed her in her imagination a millionth time. It took several minutes for the officer to stop laughing as she wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes and then said, " So..you say that you ...haha...you were pickpocketed. Wh...who would have thought th..that haha one day you will be the one filing a complaint instead of being filed against one ...haha!"

" That's right, my ring was stolen by a mer who bumped into me——" Mo Qiang replied dryly but ended up stopping in between when the officer once again started to laugh out loud as she banged on the table.

" Haha, a mer...a mer...stole your ring! Oh God to think a hooligan like you was fooled by him, he mu...must have been s...so haha skilled!"

Mo Qiang: "....." if that mer ever fell into my hands, I will rip him a new arsehole! That jerk!

Three secondsAll Mo Qiang wanted was to return home after filing the complaint but it was as if the heavens were deliberately going against her.



Though it was only a small case of pickpocketing and she only needed to tell them about how the mer looked and what his height and features were, it still took her three hours.

All because the police officers were having a jolly time while laughing at her!

She would have not said a thing about this but then the officer who wrote her complaint told her that there was a new dye trending in the market these days which only lasted for an hour along with masks that looked like human skin.

Though the police officer did not say it outright, she was basically telling her that the chances of finding her ring were next to none because the sneaky thief might be using these items.

And of course, that sticky fingers were using them!

What kind of idiot would not be using such good things when they were stealing to avoid being caught?

When Mo Qiang realised that she only wasted her three hours without getting anything in return she wished she could commit arson at the police station but she held herself back for the sake of being a good citizen.

And lighting up a police station on fire was definitely not the correct way to lead the life of a good citizen!

However, as she took three steps out of the police station, those evil thoughts once again made their way to her head when she realised that her knee which was kicked by the little sneaky mer thief had swollen up!

Because of the redness of her knee which looked quite alarming, she had to once again visit the clinic where Doctor Chen told her that her knee was inflamed with an ointment which was made from the pollen of green snap.

Green snap was a monstrous carnivore plant which was found in the dungeons which opened at regular intervals.

According to Doctor Chen, the green snap was taller than a normal person and it hunted its prey by using its pollen which was highly allergic, the major symptoms when facing the pollens of the green snap were feeling lethargy, slowing down of speed because of inflammation and skin redness which started to feel itchy after a short pause.

" But don't worry it's not poison and that is all that matters," Doctor Chen told her as she jotted down something on her electronic notepad as Mo Qiang stared at her swollen knee.

So, she lost thirty million gold coins and even got a swollen knee for which she had to pay money to treat?

Damn, that sneaky mer thief, he better not fall in her hands or else!

A part of Mo Qiang wanted to ignore the knee and leave it to heal on its own but then she heard Doctor Chen tell her in a solemn voice, "It's better to treat it when it's still at an early stage, in case you leave it alone, you will end up with boils all over your knee and then it will be twice as troublesome to treat, not to mention painful."

After Mo Qiang heard Doctor Chen's warning, she did not dare to leave the knee as it was and immediately took the medicine which Doctor Chen had written down on the electronic notepad and sent her through star drop.

Of course, the medicine for dealing with the allergy caused by the green snap pollen was not cheap, Mo Qiang had to take a huge chunk out of her savings and as she looked at the small sum of fifty thousand gold coins in her bank account, she wished she could drag the sticky fingers and whip him to death!

She worked so damn hard to earn that money and all of it was sent flying in just a day! Mo Qiang wanted to cry but she was so tired that she could not even summon tears and could only trudge back to her house.

After what happened in the afternoon, she was not even surprised when she saw that everyone had gone to sleep, Wen Gui did leave a chicken stew-flavoured solution out for her but Mo Qiang was not the Mo Qiang of this world, she was very well aware of how good a well-cooked chicken stew tasted.

This flavoured solution was nothing but a big, fat slap in the name of chicken stew but she knew that she could not go hungry after suffering so much which was why even though the solution tasted very bad in her opinion, she still swallowed it down and then took the medicine for the green snap pollen allergy before going to sleep.

" Tomorrow will be better," she told herself as she buried herself in the bed and then tapped the button to cover her bed with a transparent bubble-like cover which looked like an egg which was cut in half with enough space to fit her body inside.

The cover blocked the chill and warmed her cold skin allowing Mo Qiang to sleep like a baby.

Next to her, the three spirits also went to sleep quietly and did not bother their master since they knew just how much trouble their master had to go through today.

Since they were of almost no use to Mo Qiang, they shouldn't bother her either!

....

The night passed by in a blink of an eye, the star where the Mo family lived was covered with poisonous gases and clouds which were dark red in shade thus, there was no sunlight breaking through the horizon.

But even so, the alarms started blaring on time waking up the residents of the Mo house.

Wen Gui was the first to wake up but he only rolled over and pushed his wife with his foot and then said, "Turn the alarm clock off."

After he was done speaking he rolled back and closed his eyes, Mo Yan who was woken up by him, looked at him with a helpless look on her face but then she shook her head and she slid down the bed after the cover rolled down and then went to turn the alarm off.

Once her feet were on the ground, she arched her back and let out a yawn before walking out of her bedroom and headed to the main entrance from where she picked up the news tablet from the rectangular slot outside her house.

"Let us see what happened——??" Mo Yan trailed off as she read the headline before raising her hand and then rubbing her eyes roughly but the headlines remained the same causing her face to turn red and then purple as if she was choking on something and then ——

" MO YAN QIANG! YOU GET YOUR ARSE DOWN NOW!"

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Three seconds ——-2Mo Yan's roar was not soft at all, because she was once a General who dominated the war field, her voice was already loud enough and when she got angry, she would sometimes end up using her core energy subconsciously.



Thus, her voice even in the absence of a microphone was ten times louder than it usually was causing not only Mo Qiang but everyone else to wake up as well.

" Why is she shouting at me like that?" Mo Qiang woke up in a daze as she blinked her eyes and looked at the time on the clock which was sitting on the floating surface next to her bed, it wasn't even five in the morning and Mo Qiang was still feeling really sleepy.

" Maybe she found out that you lost your thirty million gold coins ring?" Xiao Jiao suggested as Chi Chi and Ya Ya also chirped next to her.

When Mo Qiang heard Xiao Jiao mention the thirty million ring, she sat up almost instantly. Though the ring was worn by her predecessor the one who paid for it was Mo Yan, if she was in her shoes, she too would be screeching like that maybe even louder.

But ...who told her?

" Don't tell me that ugly officer couldn't sit still and came to look for General Mo?" Mo Qiang muttered under her breath, the more she thought about it, the more she realised that it was highly plausible.

After all, that police officer was born to go against her! What if she came looking for Mo Yan regarding the ring since the transaction id was linked with Mo Yan's bank account?

" That damned——"

" MO QIANG! I SAID OUT NOW!"

Mo Qiang shuddered inside her bedroom as she tried to huddle inside the blanket, hoping that someone would go in her stead and tackle the angry Mo Yan, once that woman was calm enough, she will step out of her room.

" Who are you screaming at? What did my daughter ever do to you?" Wen Gui originally wanted to ignore the screams of his wife and continue sleeping but the more he ignored her, the louder she screamed and when he realised that she was yelling at his daughter, he hurriedly jumped off the bed and then wore his jacket before coming out of his room.

With a sharp glare, he looked at his wife and said, " You better tone that voice down or else I will rip your vocal cords outs and then use them to tie my shoes! How dare you yell at my daughter!? Don't you remember what happened to her yesterday, can you not give her a day before starting with your antics?"

Mo Yan choked on the belly full of words that she wanted to shout, that was right. How can she forget that Mo Qiang was attacked by her husband yesterday afternoon, was it because of that incident she did such a thing——

No, no matter how upset she was, how can she do something as crazy as this?!

" Ah Gui, you do speak less this time round! If we leave our daughter to make a mess like this, she will be locked up in the prison!" As she spoke, she turned the blue glass tablet such that Wen Gui would be able to read the headlines.

Wen Gui had just taken a cup of water from the kitchen which was brought by Mo Qiang to take a sip, ever since Mo Qiang started to purify the water, Wen Gui developed the habit of drinking a cup of water every morning for the corn and honey, they were supposed to be used for sales which was why no one in their family dared to eat them.

Therefore, just like every morning, he scooped a cup of water and brought it to take a sip but as soon as he took a sip of the water, Mo Yan turned the news tablet around for him to see and as soon as his gaze fell on the tablet Wen Gui spat a mouthful of water on the tablet.

Mo Yan looked at the tablet which was dripping with water and could not help but think, 'It is a good thing that it's waterproof, or else we would have to compensate the press department.'

" Thi...what is this!!" Wen Gui stared at the shocking headlines as he let out a screech, he could not believe it! Even though Mo Qiang was a bit of a bad girl, he could never believe that she would do something like this!

" This is why we need to scold her properly this time!" Mo Yan told her husband as she turned to walk towards the escalator stairs and started climbing, Wen Gui who snapped out of his daze immediately chased after her as he shouted after her,

" There is no way my Qi Qi will do something like this, surely ...surely it's a scheme! A trap to make her look bad."

" If so then she deserves to get scolded even more, how can my daughter fall for a honey trap like this?" Mo Yan was ruthless as she continued to climb the stairs without halting for even a minute.

'...this woman! Sometimes I think that I gave birth to Qi Qi alone and she had no hand in it!' Wen Gui thought angrily as he chased after his wife. He could not allow her to hit his precious daughter, especially not without finding out what actually happened!

As the two of them climbed up the stairs, Mo Xifeng and Yin Fu were peeking out of the door wanting to ask what was going on and why Mo Yan was this angry with Mo Qiang but when they saw the expression on Mo Yan's face, they started to hesitate.

After all Mo Yan was not just anyone, she was once a general who took down the Zergs alone with her mecha form, her aura was no joke when she was angry!

Thus, neither of them spoke as Mo Yan came to stand in front of Mo Qiang's door and raised her hand to knock on the door as she warned, " Mo Qiang, I will give you three seconds! You better come out now or else!"

Cannot divorceMo Qiang knew that she will not be able to dodge this bullet which was aimed at her head which was why she sighed and then slid down from the bed after she was done turning off the cover which was over her head, she then headed towards the door where she raised her hand and was just going to press her thumb on the pad of the lock when she paused ——



" What are you doing?" Xiao Jiao who was woken up by the yell of General Mo could not help but ask when she saw that Mo Qiang was not opening the door. " Why don't you open it?"

Mo Qiang turned her head such that she could look at Xiao Jiao and then instead of replying she asked back, " Hypothetically speaking, if General Mo was to slap me in the face, what are my chances of staying alive?"

She knew that Mo Yan was a superhuman who awakened her core when she was only fifteen. Her mecha form was so strong that when she transformed after activating her mecha core, she would become a thirty-foot-tall mechanical human. Even though she was banned from using that form of hers after she was exiled, she could still use her energy, right? What if she unconsciously used her core energy on her? Will she be able to survive that?

" Zero," Xiao Jiao answered with a deadpanned expression as she looked at her host who seemed like a chicken under the rain. Seeing her scared look, she could not help but get annoyed as she said in a vexed voice, " Just open it and get over with it, it can't be that bad —- I am sure that your daddy who adores you will definitely stop her in case she became violent. The worst that might happen is that you will receive the scolding of the century!"

" This scolding could have been avoided if you were properly guarding me instead of enjoying the drama, tsk, you cannot even manage to keep your host safe and yet you speak of raising this world from the dead!" Mo Qiang clicked her tongue as she mocked Xiao Jiao, in fact, the incident from yesterday could have been stopped if Xiao Jiao and the two spirits were paying attention to that mer but those idiots who never saw a fight of humans before were too much invested in the drama and did not bother with that mer who fooled them.

Xiao Jiao received a bolt out of the blue when she heard the disdainful voice of Mo Qiang.

She stumbled back even when she was flying and looked at Mo Qiang with shock in her eyes, she wanted to say this and that were different things but when she opened her mouth, she could not bring herself to say anything because what Mo Qiang said was right! The first step started from their home and when she could not even protect her host, how was she supposed to protect this world and raise it?

Clouds of gloom hung up over Xiao Jiao while the two spirits tried to soothe her soul which received a great blow.

While the four of them were entangled in their own mess, Mo Yan was already on the verge of snapping, she raised her bear paw and then smacked it on the door causing a dent to appear on it which was in the shape of a palm with all of its five fingers stretched.

" Mo Qiang! I am asking you to open your door before I count to three!" As Mo Yan spoke from the other side, she started to count slowly and deliberately.

Mo Qiang looked at the dent in her door and gulped, even though this door was not that sturdy it was still painted with a bulletproof coating and was made of metal! Yet Mo Yan put a dent in it without even the slightest bit of grimace!

In the end, even though she was scared, she did not dare to go against the great General of the Imperial star and then opened the door but as soon as the door swiped open and her gaze fell on the dark expression of Mo Yan——

' I should have just jumped out of the window, it might have resulted in a breaking of a limb or two but now that I am looking at General Mo, I fear ... it will cost me, my life!' Mo Qiang could not stop herself from taking a step back as she looked at Mo Yan's ugly expression but at the same time, she was a bit furious as well.

All right, she lost a thirty million ring, big deal! She was still Mo Yan's daughter, for a meagre thirty million star coins, a mother forgot all about their relationship? The good memories she shared with her daughter? Not fair.

" Mo Yan Qiang!" Mo Yan called Mo Qiang by her full name as she stepped inside the room as if she was going to eat Mo Qiang alive.

Even though Mo Qiang did not believe nor did she want to admit that she was a daddy's little girl when she saw Mo Yan towering at her like that, apoplectic with rage, she could not help but cry, " Daddy!"

Of course, Daddy Wen Gui would never let his daughter down, he immediately pushed his wife aside and then stood in front of his daughter and said, "You... speak properly. If you dare to raise your hand on my daughter, I will divorce you! I will divorce you right now and leave with my daughter!"

Mo Yan was speechless, she wanted to tell Wen Gui that this was why Mo Qiang was spoiled but then she remembered that Wen Gui was being this protective of Mo Qiang only after she started to correct her ways, in the past even though he went against her, he did not stop her from straightening their daughter up.

She sighed and then nursed her temple even though she very much wanted to smack her daughter in the bottom as she used to when Mo Qiang was young, she still controlled her rage under the divorce threat and asked, " Mo Qiang be honest with me ...do...do you...." Even though she was the one who wanted to ask this question Mo Yan still felt awkward as she tried to speak it out loud.

But when she saw that Mo Qiang and the rest were waiting for her to speak, she gritted her teeth and then asked, " Do you have a thing for minors?"

Mo fetish of minors Qiang: "....." I might look like a thug but I am not a criminal my lord!

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Cannot divorce ——2Now it was Mo Qiang to receive a bolt out of the blue, imaginary thunderbolts flashed behind her as her eyes popped out of their sockets. While hiding behind Wen Gui, she could not help but ask, " How ...How in the world did losing a thirty million star coins ring resulted in me getting interested in minors ?"



Don't tell her, that the mer sold that ring and then used that money to dabble in some really nauseating and unspeakable things —— which caused the money to be traced back to her? And now the police officers were standing outside her house wanting to bring her to the prison!?

All sorts of imaginary scenarios popped into Mo Qiang's head as she worried about this and that, on the other hand, her words caused Mo Yan and Wen Gui to get even more confused. What was their daughter talking about now?

" What are you saying? Speak properly," Mo Yan could not help but say as she lifted the news tablet and then showed the headlines to Mo Qiang. " I am talking about you assaulting this mer who is yet to come of age how come you are speaking of ring and coins?"

Mo Qiang was still worried about being locked up in the prison when she heard that she assaulted someone. When did this happen? And how come she did not remember assaulting someone? Did the previous owner's soul woke up inside her and then went assaulting someone?

Though Mo Qiang was curious and confused, she still turned her head and looked at the headlines at which Mo Yan was pointing and when she saw the familiar clothes which were born by that sticky fingers, she gasped and then exclaimed, "It's that bastard!"

Her exclamation attracted the attention of everyone who was standing inside as well as outside the room. That's right, Yin Fu and the rest were skulking outside eavesdropping on the conversation, only heavens knew how stunned they were when they heard that Mo Qiang was interested in minors—— especially Yin Fu, he was already past twenty-two and even if he wished to act coy and shy like a young mer it was not going to suit him at all!

Even Shao Hui and Xie Jie were feeling a bit complicated even though they were given a divorce agreement each they were not willing to sign those agreements. In fact, they were thinking of ways to apologise to Mo Qiang but they were not used to apologising to Mo Qiang and the fuss was so loud yesterday that even if they were to apologise there was a chance that Mo Qiang might not forgive them!

While Shao Hui was both embarrassed and guilty, Xie Jie was the one who was tangled up in a mess which was not even his but he was still willing to lower his head for the sake of having Mo's family's protection.

A starving tiger was still a tiger, after all.

The same could be said for Shao Hui, now that he was calm enough, he realised that yesterday his brain was simply flooded with water. He did not know what came over him, Mo Qiang might be useless but the name that she carried with her was far more useful than his entire existence! He did not wish to divorce, after thinking about it all night —— all he knew was that he could not leave the Mo house or else that half-brother and step father of his wouldn't let him off easily!

But in case Mo Qiang really had such heavy tastes, they might not be able to fulfil them!

Thus when they heard Mo Qiang curse the mer who was rumoured to be with her, they heaved a sigh of relief. If that mer was really thrown in the mix with Qi Hong, they will never get a chance to apologise before being thrown out of the house!

Mo Yan blinked her eyes when she heard her daughter curse as she looked at Mo Qiang, " What do you mean by ' its that bastard,'?"

Though she was partial towards Mo Xifeng rather than Mo Qiang—— she would not wrong the child for no reason.

When Mo Qiang read the headlines, she felt even more wronged than the most tragic heroine of the most tragic film that she had seen. How in the world she assaulted that mer? It was her who was assaulted!

With a fire burning in her chest, Mo Qiang ver fervently told Mo Yan and the rest about what happened in the afternoon, she even showed them the video evidence that she was carrying with her.

" And then that cheeky thief ran away after stealing from me!" As Mo Yan finished speaking she was breathing harshly, in fact, if not for the fact that Mo Xifeng came to stand next to her when she was telling her tale, she would have run out to chase that thief down!

Not only did that bastard steal from her but he also made her into someone who had a fetish for minor mers. Where was she supposed to put her face?

Mo Yan looked at her daughter who was breathing like a bull and then turned to look at Wen Gui who was smirking at her proudly and sighed, she should have known that this would happen.

" Now... do you have something to say?" Wen Gui asked with a proud face, he knew that his daughter would never fall for that tiny thing! Not even a decent curve in place yet he wants to pit his daughter? In his dreams!

" Don't be so proud," Mo Yan saw how arrogant Wen Gui looked and did not know whether to laugh or cry in the end she could not help but say, " Because of this matter, the matter of Qiang's divorce needs to be out on a halt for the time being."

And sure enough just as Mo Yan expected both father and daughter who were smirking proudly lost all colour from their faces when they heard her words.

You have to be kidding me" What do you mean that she cannot divorce? What does this have to do with my Qi Qi's divorce?" Wen Gui was the first to ask as he looked at his wife as if she had gone crazy all of a sudden.



"That's right, why can I not divorce?" Mo Qiang also could not help but ask as she looked at her mother with an expression which mirrored Wen Gui's who was standing on the side while looking at his wife with a frown on his face. " I only got involved in a scandal with a mer——"

"Who just happens to be a minor," Mo Yan finished for her even though she did not have any need to do so. She moved the news tablet which was in her hand in front of Mo Qiang and then said in a quiet voice, " It does not matter whether you got involved with that mer because of a mistake or that he was the one who pulled you in a mess, the thing that matters the most is that your reputation is in shambles outside."

She then looked down at the news tablet and then clicked on the link which was posted next to it where the link took her to the active site where the netizens were commenting on the news which shook the imperial star in the morning and said, " Look at this."

As she turned the news tablet such that Mo Qiang could read the comments everyone else could read the comments which were being posted on the main page of the printing tablet's website.

User A commented: I bet that she is already far beyond the limits of being saved, she should just be executed by being thrown into the automatic grinder and turned into patty meat.

User B commented: I knew it, the daughter of a traitor can never be anything good! Just look at this, her mother was a traitor and she is a paedophile, might as well execute the two and end the entire thing at once.

User C commented: Bet she is thinking of a way to divorce her husbands and then marry that mer, since her sexual desires are inclined towards the minors, I am sure that she will want one to keep her desires in check.

User D: No wonder her husbands are still wearing the virginity signs.

User E: If she gets a divorce, I hope the authorities take action and put her behind bars.

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Just like that the comments continued to pile up to the point where half of the netizens were calling out Mo Qiang while the other half were demanding immediate execution.

Mo Qiang read each comment carefully and by the time Mo Yan closed the news tablet, she knew one thing for sure and that was —— she somehow became the public enemy of the entire imperial star as well as the ones who were closer to the imperial star.

" Wow, this is really.. if things go like this I will be executed just because I bumped into a mer ?" Mo Qiang asked nonchalantly while Wen Gui reached out his hand and then closed the screen before crossing his arms in front of him as he said, "But that still does not explain why I have to keep a guy in my house even after he dared to hurt my daughter! If he kills our daughter and then buries her body what are we going to do? You might have two daughters but I only have one!"

Though Wen Gui did not say anything about Mo Xifeng's presence in the house, he truly could not accept her. First of all, Mo Xifeng's father's identity was dubious, he was a runaway mer and he seduced his wife when she went on an excursion to his town. He would have accepted Mo Xifeng if her father was a decent person, but trying to kill his daughter when she was in her belly and trying to sneak in poisonous wily leaves in his daughter's milk before running away —— Wen Gui understood that none of this was Mo Xifeng's fault but he couldn't just forget what her father did to him.

Mo Xifeng who was standing next to Mo Qiang stiffened when she heard Wen Gui's words, the light in her eyes dimmed as the hand which was on Mo Qiang's shoulder fell and she curled her fingers, she wanted to say something but she did not dare to because this was what she owed Wen Gui.

She knew everything that her father did to Wen Gui because Mo Yan had told her why Wen Gui disliked her once she grew up but ...she truly hoped that her father could accept her and his words just now were like a sharpened knife aimed straight at her heart.

Mo Qiang noticed the change in the atmosphere and maybe Mo Yan did too because a second later, Mo Qiang heard her mother say, " Ah Gui please be restrained a little," her gaze fell on Mo Xifeng who looked a bit heartbroken and sighed. " There is no need to say such things is it?"

Wen Gui only huffed and turned his head away, he did feel a bit bad for saying those words but he was too proud to apologise.

" Anyway...why can I, not divorce?" Mo Qiang could not take anyone's side at this point, if she was to support Wen Gui then Mo Xifeng's favourability points might drop and if she was to support Mo Xifeng then her daddy might hold it against her. "It's not like divorcing them will prove as a guarantee that I am into minors?"

Mo Yan shook her head and then said, "That's where you are wrong. If you were still the daughter of an official nothing would have gone wrong but you are now a commoner and a commoner is only allowed to have three husbands and not more than that, your act of divorcing will push our family in the centre of the storm, for the time being, you need to keep a low profile, Qi Qi."

" You have to be kidding me," a look of shock and disbelief came over Mo Qiang's face as she looked over at the three mers and then turned to look at Mo Yan who was stopping her from divorcing them. "You have to be freaking kidding me!"

Colour of treasonMo Qiang was depressed, no she was more than depressed. She thought that with everything that she had done for Shao Hui and Xie Jie, she will be able to peacefully divorce them. Now that they had jobs in their hands, there was a chance that neither of them would make things difficult for her, all she needed was to pack their bags and send them off with a wave but now her mother was telling her that she could not divorce them?!



How can Mo Qiang not be upset?

" This cannot be done," Wen Gui also knew that his wife was right but he did not wish to stop the divorce from happening. " I am not allowing that mer to stay in our house, where he can attack my daughter as he wants and when he wants."

" I know what you are worried about and I assure you that nothing like that will happen," Mo Yan said to Wen Gui before turning to look at Shao Hui who was skulking outside the door and when Mo Yan turned to look at him, he flinched with a guilty expression on his face. " Ah Hui, you will make sure that what happened yesterday will not have another repetition, I am the one who is taking guarantee for you. Do you understand the severity of the situation?"

Shao Hui of course understood the severity of the situation, he also understood that he could not divorce Mo Qiang until his status was firmly stabilised in the imperial star where that man and his half-brother would not be able to cause trouble for him which was why he lowered his head obediently and then bowed his head before saying,

" I really regret my actions from yesterday Dad. I was far too agitated and did something I should not have, I gravelly apologise for my actions, please do forgive me."

His voice was sincere as he spoke but Wen Gui did not even give Shao Hui a good look as he glared at Shao Hui but no matter what he did now, he knew it would be useless since his wife had already spoken and it was indeed impossible for him to get his daughter and Shao Hui divorce.

" Only for a few days...I am only going to let him stay at our house for a few days until this matter pass, after that he has to leave!" He turned to his wife and announced loudly while Mo Yan nodded her head and agreed at once,

" Of course, the matter of divorce is ultimately in the hands of the kids, if they want a divorce then there is nothing that you and I can do about it."

Only then did Wen Gui huff and top making a ruckus but Mo Qiang on the other side had already lost her soul, she looked at Wen Gui who had given up and knew that she could no longer send this little devil away which was why her mouth fell agape as something white and floaty escaped her mouth while her eyes rolled in her head and she fell on her back.

" Sister!"

"Qi Qi!"

' I... I ... I still have to stay with that demon? I don't want to! That bastard! I will kill him once I get my hands on him!' While lying on the floor, Mo Qiang severely cursed the mer who was the cause of her current situation.

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Once Mo Qiang passed out from severe stress, Mo Yan called Doctor Chen who did a check-up on Mo Qiang and asked the Mo family to not give any more stress to Mo Qiang. Of course, Wen Gui glared at his wife who raised her hands and tried to clear herself off the charges but Wen Gui was pissed enough to not listen to anything as he turned on his heels and then left the house without saying anything.

On the other hand, Mo Xifeng was holding the news tablet in her hands and looking at the printing tab's name. She knew this printing tab and also knew that it was one of the very famous printing tabs of the dead star where they lived—— her eyes flickered she knew that something was fishy about this matter.

" Mom, I am going out..." Mo Xifeng left the house just after Wen Gui, as she strapped the mask around her face, she headed straight to the printing tab but instead of going inside the printing tab, she headed straight for the back alley and started to wait for something or more like someone.

As Mo Xifeng leaned on the wall behind her with her arms crossed in front and her eyes closed, three hours passed by in a jiffy. But Mo Xifeng did not move because she knew that if she wanted to catch that person, she will have to be patient.

At the fourth hour, the back door of the printing tab building was pushed open and a woman with black cloth and a mask that covered her face completely walked out of the building.

She was talking with someone and did not notice Mo Xifeng who was standing in a dark corner. As Mo Xifeng opened her eyes and looked at the woman who walked out of the building and was now talking with the owner of the printing tab, her lips curled up.

Of course, it was Madam Lian!

Madam Lian did not know that she was being watched at the moment, instead, she was quite proud of what she had done —— General Wei's praise had made her head inflate and now she was walking on those pearly white clouds which people spoke off but have never seen them.

Once she finished talking with the owner of the printing tab, she turned to walk away but no sooner did she reach the corner of the street than someone threw a black ball straight at her causing her vision to turn dark as she realised that she had been blindsided by someone.

" Wh..who are you? Do you even know who I am?!" Madam Lian spoke to the culprit who trapped her in Black Globe.

But the culprit did not even speak, instead, they attacked her without giving her a chance to defend herself.

" You ...bastard! If you have the guts come and face me!" Madam Lian spoke as she covered her face while receiving punches left and right from the person who was hiding in the dark.

' Who is this b*tch? Who dared to do this to her?' Madam Lian had too many enemies but she never thought that one day someone would come and make a fool out of her like this.

No matter how much Madam Lian screamed at the person who trapped her in the Black globe, that person did not stop instead they caught her by her neck and slammed her on the ground before kicking her as hard as they could... not a single place on her body was left intact as that person continued to kick her.

Madam Lian could only cover her head and try her best to stop herself from getting a severe injury but even so, she did hear the cracking sounds of the bones as pain similar to having a red hot poker stab seared through her body causing her eyes to roll in their sockets as she passed out.

Mo Xifeng looked at the woman who had passed out, her eyes were cold as she scoffed and then took out a yellow dye from her pocket and then crouched down before sneering coldly at the woman who was now unconscious as she spoke, " Since you are so proud of being a traitor, then I hope you will wear the colour of treason just as proudly, Madam Lian."

A flasherMadam Lian woke up after a long time, she did not know what happened to her, with a hand resting on her forehead she moaned in pain before opening her eyes as she looked at the dark red sky which was spotted with vibrant red clouds that looked like cotton balls dipped in red paint and thrown in the blood red canvas, for two minutes Madam Lian did not understand why she was lying here where she could see the sky and feel the subtle stabs of something digging in her back but that was only until a gust of wind blew by her and she felt her skin burn.



" What the..." Given that she was dressed in clothes which were resistant to these dry winds and protected her well enough, she should not be feeling this burning sensation which was why she raised her head and looked down, only to realise that she was lying in the back alley completely naked!

" No way..." Madam Lian scrambled to look around for something to cover up her body and fortunately for her, Mo Xifeng only wanted to teach her a lesson for ruining Mo Qiang's reputation and not kill her which was why she left the long overcoat which Madam Lian wore every day to cover her body.

Madam Lian covered her body with the overcoat while looking for the clothes which she was wearing but she did not even find a sock much less her clothes. Upon realising that she had been made a fool, Madam Lian hatefully gritted her teeth so hard that churning sounds could be heard from her mouth, now she remember that she was blindsided and beaten up and of course, she knew who it was, now that she was calm enough to think carefully!

Though she had many enemies they did not have a reason to attack her like this, there was only one person and what was more her attacker used a black globe which was a specialised weapon which was only given to someone who was enlisted in the imperial army and being the member of Mo Yan's fraction, she had done a great job to make everyone trust her which was why she knew that no one from Mo Yan's fraction would make a move on her if anyone was daring enough to do something like this to her it was none other than ——

Mo Xifeng!

" That damned bi*ch," Madam Lian cursed, she had completely forgotten about Mo Xifeng when she planned this scheme. Yes, it was indeed her who came up with this plan to ruin Mo Qiang's reputation, it did not need much work on her side, all she needed was to catch a skilled thief whose elder sister was lying in bed with a fever after trying to raid a dungeon with the promise that she will pay him enough money to treat his sister and everything was set in motion.

Though Mo Qiang did nothing wrong, as long as she was covered in the mud no one would forget the treason that Mo Yan committed and the more the Mo family was in trouble the less would be their chances of making a comeback.

This was the reason why General Wei sent her here with Mo Yan.

And because Mo Qiang was not a good person either, she never faced any situation like this before because even Mo Xifeng had simply given up on that woman but today for the first time Mo Xifeng made a move on her, it served as both a warning and a reminder that if she tried to overstep her limit, Mo Xifeng had no qualms to make her vanish from the surface of this world without anyone finding out about it.

Madam Lian stepped out of the alley with her trembling legs, Mo Xifeng had used her core energy to hit her and thus even though the injuries on her body looked like they were not severe, they hurt a lot. Each step that Madam Lian took caused her to suck in a deep breath as she closed her eyes and prepared herself to take another step.

If Mo Xifeng was in front of her, Madam Lian was sure she would have given everything to kill her. But no matter what, this incident could only be buried deep down because just as Mo Xifeng did not have any evidence that she was the one who was behind Mo Qiang's incident, she too did not have any evidence that Mo Xifeng was the one who hit her.

Even if she was to tell Mo Yan her doubts, the latter will refuse to believe it because Mo Xifeng was the kinder and politer one of the two sisters, in Mo Yan's eyes, Mo Xifeng would never do anything sinister as blindsiding someone and hitting them if it was Mo Qiang, she might have trusted her a little but when it came to Mo Xifeng, she will think that she was trying to make things difficult for no reason.

Madam Lian could only curse Mo Xifeng in her head while swearing that she was definitely going to make her suffer in the future but then her feet stumbled and she knocked into someone, her first reaction was to apologise to the person with whom she bumped into but before she could say anything, the person started to scream.

" Kyaaa! It's a flasher!"

Madam Lian's eyes widened when she realised that the person who was screaming was Wen Gui who was pointing at her and screaming as if his life depended on it but then she looked down and immediately felt all her blood drain out of her body and she saw that her overcoat had moved a little showing the curve of her breasts which showed that she was not wearing anything.

" No...No... Brother-in-law, it's me——" Madam Lian tried to explain herself but how could Wen Gui listen to a woman whose hair was a vibrant shade of yellow and who was completely naked?

He turned his head to the side while taking several steps back as he shouted for help, "Someone! Someone come and save me! AHHHH!"

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Pig headWen Gui's scream attracted the attention of the pedestrians who were walking ideally by the sides of the street, they turned to look at the mer who was screaming and then looked at the woman who was scrambling to take care of her overcoat and fumbling with the straps but even so the sharp-eyed pedestrians caught notice of the woman's lack of clothing.



" Aiya! There is a flasher walking on the streets? What should we mers do now? Shall we lock ourselves up in the house or what?!"

" Someone call the police! There is a pervert on the loose!"

"My eyes! My eyes! I am still sixteen!"

All sorts of screams started to resonate in the street while Madam Lian tried to cover her face as the onlookers tried to snap her pictures, what the hell? Today was supposed to be her day, so why such things were happening to her? First, she was beaten up and now she was being treated as a pervert.

Madam Lian wanted to explain herself but every time she opened her mouth, someone would start screaming making it impossible for her to say anything. In the end, she wanted to turn around and leave but the crowd which was bursting with feelings of justice and fairness did not want to let her go, they securely tied her down and waited until the police officers came only then did they let go of Madam Lian who was thoroughly embarrassed by how she was treated by the crowd.

But no matter how embarrassed she was, there was nothing she could do when she was packed up and thrown into the police car which was suspended in the air while hot air flew from the bottom.

Even Wen Gui was asked to come with them but his treatment was considerably different than Madam Lian who was thrown into the back, Wen Gui who was really 'terrified' after being assaulted by a pervert had tears in his eyes as he cried softly, " I am married and have a daughter as well, I don't know how I will face the two of them now that something like this has happened to me. What if my wife thinks that I am interested in someone like that and finds me filthy?"

Wen Gui was a good-looking mer, with his palm size face and eyes which were shiny green like pools of emeralds, coupled with the tears which were cascading down his cheeks, he looked like an ethereal mer who walked down the heavens.

Of course, Wen Gui knew his charms as well, if he was not this beautiful then he wouldn't have been able to marry Mo Yan who was in her prime when the two of them met. Thus, he made use of his beauty to the max as he was being escorted by the officers and cried softly.

The police officers of course could not help but soften up their stance when they saw a mer crying so desperately that he was choking.

" Here you go, Mister," the police officer who was a mer handed Wen Gui a bottle of solution which was not cheap while handing him a cleaning tissue which was made of a special fabric that did not need to be washed to wipe his tears.

Wen Gui took the tissue and wiped his tears as he spoke in a choked-up voice, " T..Thank you, officer."

His good and cooperating behaviour gained even more favour from the officers who started to take care of him very enthusiastically and behind the police van, in the small prison-like space, Madam Lian glared at Wen Gui who was acting as if he was a charming flower who was tainted by a hooligan.

She wished to yell at him but the police officers had stuffed a huge block in her mouth making it impossible for her to scream at Wen Gui.



Soon, Wen Gui and Madam Lian were brought to the police station where Madam Lian's identity was finally revealed.

" I told you! I was attacked by the space bandits and they stole everything from me, instead of taking care of them, you brought me and then gave them the opportunity to run away!" Since the jar was already broken Madam Lian decided to take it further and break it even more, it was not that she wanted to protect Mo Xifeng, in fact, she wished that she could drag that woman out and have her executed right here and now but the thing was that she was also in the wrong if an investigation was started then she will be in trouble as well which was why she could only turn the situation around for both her and Mo Xifeng.

She then turned to look at Wen Gui who was sitting on the chair in front of the table behind which the police officer was sitting and said, "And brother-in-law, why did you pretend that you did not know me? Why did you do something like that?"

Her voice was heartbroken as if she really did not expect Wen Gui to betray her like this but before she could say anything anymore, Wen Gui very calmly opened his compact powder box and then turned the mirror of it around, allowing Madam Lian to take a look at her face.

Because one thing after another happened, Madam Lian did not get a chance to see her face which was swollen up like a red boar's head which was twice the size of a pig, her left eye was swollen and red while the right one was blackened. Her lips looked like she took a double dose of lip-plumping injection and the black hair which she was proud of was chopped up unevenly and coloured yellow.

Yellow.

The colour of a traitor.

That damned bi*ch!

Madam Lian roared in her heart but she could not say anything given that she had not even the smallest bit of evidence which would prove that Mo Xifeng was the one who attacked her making her look like this.

And to add injury to the burn, Wen Gui opened his mouth and very patiently said, "You look like you are one of those monsters that were let out of the dungeons, Madam Lian. Tell me how was I supposed to know it was you?"