Get ready for the date ——2 " Qi Qi!" The second Mo Qiang pushed the door of her house, something came flying into her arms. After she was done settling Lian Shou and her father in a small house which did not have any residents and was left untended, she thought that she was going to take a nap but instead, she found her over-excited father looking at her as if she was suffering from high fever which made her head all woozy.



" Is something the matter?" Mo Qiang looked down at her father who had his arms circled around her and questioned in a low voice. Since she had no idea what happened in the house when she was not here.

Wen Gui looked at her with an accusatory gaze and then asked, " What were you thinking? How can you even think of going on a date with that mer?" As he spoke he pointed to Yin Fu accusatory.

Today was one of the worst days for Wen Gui, he was just going to go up and about with his usual routine but then he saw Yin Fu shopping for new clothes. A bit surprised since they did not have anything planned and since Yin Fu had no family to return to, he asked what was going on and that mer told him that Mo Qiang was going on a date with him!

A date! Was his daughter not worried that mer would bury her alive?

Xiao Jiao: No wonder they are father and daughter, their thought process is actually the same.

" Jeez, father you are overthinking. It is just a normal date," Yin Fu exclaimed from behind the tablet on which he was surfing, he did not even look up from his tablet and simply continued with his surfing as he had heard the same thing over and over again.

Why was it that when Mo Qiang changed, his father-in-law accepted it wholeheartedly but when it was his turn, his father-in-law was looking at him with suspicion in his eyes?! This was so unfair!

If Mo Qiang does it then it's awesome but when he does it, then he will be pushed into the court to defend his rights? Humph, this was the difference between son-in-law and daughter!

" There is nothing normal you," Wen Gui gave his son-in-law a stinky eye as he turned to look at Mo Qiang and then asked in a worried voice, " If that mer is trying to blackmail you, then you need to blink eyes and tell me. I will see who dares to blackmail my daughter!"

"He is not blackmailing me, Daddy," though Mo Qiang would have loved to say that she was being blackmailed, she caught hold of that glint which just flashed in Yin Fu's eyes and forced back her words. She was worried that if she was to say that she was indeed getting blackmailed then she might lose more than just one thing tonight.

Xiao Jiao: Yeah your virtue and freedom.

When Wen Gui heard that Mo Qiang was going on a date with Yin Fu of her will, he was speechless. Just what kind of voodoo magic did that brat do on his daughter?

Yin Fu huffed a sigh before he turned his attention back to the clothes, he had been looking for cute and fitting clothes for himself since the morning but even after looking for the entire morning, he did not find anything.

" What do you think? Which one will look better on me?" He turned to look at Xie Jie since Shao Hui had gone to the company to submit the contract which he had signed, he needed to visit the company as well but Xie Jie was waiting to be done with his visit to his brother before heading to the company.

He wished to tell his brother the good news before signing with the Imperial star entertainment but now that he was looking at the casual clothes which were lined up on the screen, Xie Jie felt like he should have gone to the company instead with Shao Hui.

" For the last time, why don't you just try them on? Isn't there a virtual try-on available?" Xie Jie asked as he looked at the clothes which looked all the same to him.

It wasn't that his aesthetic view was bad, it was just that Yin Fu was very clear on what kind of colour coding he wanted from all the dramas that he had watched without taking note of the fact whether or not these clothes will look nice on him or not.

Maybe if Yin Fu was to try those clothes on, he will realise that he will look like a clown.

Yin Fu puffed up his cheeks as he turned to look at the tablet again, it wasn't that he did not want to use the virtual trial room but he wanted someone's opinion! This was about his happiness, if he succeeded in seducing Mo Qiang wouldn't his good brothers become daddies as well? It will be so nice to have a young girl with his hair and Mo Qiang's eyes. He was sure that she will be quite a heartbreaker when she grows up.

" I think I will go with this one!" He pointed to a certain pair of clothes which looked vibrant and flashy causing Xie Jie to choke on the sip of his honey water. Th...this?

Was Yin Fu joking with him?

Though as the next morning tumbled right after the night, Xie Jie realised that he was not joking, in fact, Yin Fu was quite serious with the clothes that he had chosen!

" Brother Fu! What are you wearing? You have to be kidding me if you think that this can make you get pregnant!" Shao Hui was jolted awake by a screech as he looked around in a hurry, for some reason the sudden yell was filled with anguish which made it impossible for him to continue sleeping.

" W...What? What is going on?" Shao Hui asked as he turned his head to look in the direction from where the scream came from and was speechless the second his gaze fell on the haughty-looking Yin Fu.

What kind of terrific nightmare was this? No was he even awake? Because why else would he see Yin Fu in such clothes?

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Get ready for the date —-3" What...What is this?" Mo Qiang stared at Yin Fu with her eyes popping out of her sockets. Behind him, she could see Xie Jie and Shao Hui holding a pair of decent-looking clothes, so why was he dressed like a peacock can someone tell her?



Don't tell her? He dressed up like this because he wished for her to get embarrassed once they were out in public which will lead to her jumping down the cliff out of sheer humiliation!

" Don't be stupid. No one will humiliate themselves just to kill you," stated Xiao Jiao calmly as she looked down at Mo Qiang while sitting on the top of her head.

Mo Qiang on the other hand, simply raised her head and asked, " Then how do you explain the exotic combination of tomato and green chilly?"

"That's because he is an idiot when it comes to clothing," there was no other explanation. Though Xiao Jiao would have loved one which would explain why this mer was dressed up like a parrot trying to woo his female partner, she knew that it was all because Yin Fu was an idiot through and through when it comes to dressing up.

Mo Qiang was speechless as she looked at the gorgeously dressed parrot with a green jacket and pants with a red inner shirt and scarf. Her eyebrows twitched heavily but she did not know what to say to Yin Fu, should she try to tell him that he was being too extraordinary? Or that his dressing sense was a bit on the heavier side?

On the other hand, Wen Gui who was thinking of making crispy corn with some boiled eggs was trembling from head to foot, the only reason he did not run ahead and tear Yin Fu's clothes off was because he was held back by Mo Yan who told him that it was Yin Fu's first time going on a date and he should not do anything to upset the young mer who was still learning how to romance.

" He has to be joking if he thinks that I am letting him go anywhere with my daughter when he looks like that," said Wen Gui while staring at Mo Yan next to him.

Mo Yan was also having a hard time coming to an understanding with Yin Fu's clothing style but then she sighed and said, " Have you forgotten? What kind of family he lived in?"

No sooner than Mo Yan spoke those words, Wen Gui turned silent. Because their family had little to do with the Yin family, he completely forgot what kind of people his in-laws were.

" I have to say that they are really useless," Wen Gui muttered under his breath before turning around to head back inside the room. He truly had no intention of watching this monstrosity!

Mo Yan also agreed with what her husband said, her in-laws and Yin Fu's family truly were useless beings who did not know how to even raise their children. If not for the fact that they had sent one of their mer sons to the imperial family for him to become the Empress's consort, they should have been locked up and sent to the prison long ago!

While the parents were busy with their own thoughts, Mo Qiang was staring at the proud Yin Fu who came to a stop in front of her and then said, " I put quite a lot of thought into this pair of clothes, what do you think? I look dashing right?" As he spoke he flicked his long blonde hair making Mo Qiang swallow her words back but not because she was going for the considerate route but because——

She was going to tell him that he looked like a clown but before she could say anything her hair was pulled from the roots by Xiao Jiao as the latter screamed and then said to her, " What are you doing, are you going to break his heart? Look at him, how happy he is! How can you even think of ruining everything for him? Can you do it? Can you break the heart of an excited mer like that ?"

" If it means to stop getting humiliated?" Mo Qiang paused as if she was pondering before stating in a low voice, " I think I will."

" Don't you dare! Have you learned nothing in your world? Telling a lady that she looks ugly when she spent the time and effort to get ready for you is a sure swear way of dying, it is the same for the mers !" Xiao Jiao stopped Mo Qiang once again lest the latter called Yin Fu an ugly parrot.

Mo Qiang pursed her lips as she looked at Xiao Jiao who was stopping her from telling the truth and then turned to look at Yin Fu whose eyes were filled with stars in his eyes. Just her luck, she was the foolish one here, Mo Qiang should have taken Wen Gui's words to heart when he told Yin Fu that there was nothing normal about him.

He surely was a masterpiece!

" Shall we leave?" Yin Fu brushed his scarf once again to make sure that not even a single fabric was sticking to it and then turned to look at Mo Qiang with a smile playing on his lips.

NO! Was what Mo Qiang wanted to tell him but she still nodded jerkily and said, " Sure. Let us go." And become a bigger spectacle than the celebrity who dressed up as a worm.

Yin Fu smiled broadly, he did not think that the entire family was looking at him with a smile that was worse than crying and thought that he looked really good! Of course, he learned his dressing sense from his brother so he was a lot better than his mother and siblings!

Mo Qiang on the other felt like she was heading for the gallows because the second she pushed the door open, she met with Mo Xifeng who looked at Yin Fu and then turned her head to look at her before saying in a low voice, " Can I take a picture of you two?"

Though she did not laugh out like Ou Qi who noticed Mo Qiang's twisted expression and Yin Fu's witty fashion sense, Mo Qiang did catch her lips twitching! That girl was not fooling anyone!

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Ignoring Yin Fu" What are you doing? Smile?"



Mo Qiang looked at Ou Qi who was acting all smug and naughty and silently swore that she was going to arrange for her to work in the cowshed once she was done catching the violet cow with that stupid red gem in the centre of its head.

" I am smiling can't you see?" Mo Qiang retorted even though her lips were hardly an inch up causing Ou Qi to wriggle her finger and say, " That is not a smile, I want you to smile as if you are sincerely happy. Like super duper happy."

As if she was afraid that Mo Qiang will not get what she was trying to say, Ou Qi even smiled at Mo Qiang to teach how exactly she was supposed to smile.

" Think of something happy and then smile, you are going on a date with brother in law for the first time, you should be bursting with happiness."

' Then why don't you marry a dangerous mer like him and we will see if you can smile or not?' Mo Qiang looked at Ou Qi and thought in her head but she did not say those words out loud and only cursed Ou Qi in her head.

Though she was annoyed by Ou Qi's teasing, Mo Qiang knew that if she did not smile and got her picture clicked then she will stay standing like a fool which was why she thought of something that would bring joy to her and then flashed her a more vibrant smile.

The only downside was, the second she smiled Mo Qiang heard a child cry from the front lane which passed through the front of her house while the daddy of that child told his son that there was no need for him to cry as Mo Qiang was a nice woman.

Mo Qiang: "....."

" Are you happy now?" She turned to look at Ou Qi whose expression was filled with terror. Even though Mo Qiang looked much more beautiful than she did before why was it that every time she smiled, she made others cry tears of terror?

" I was going to but your smile shocked me so much that I forgot to click," Ou Qi replied quite honestly making Mo Qiang so frustrated that she almost rushed ahead and choked the life out of Ou Qi's body.

So annoying! She smiled for nothing.

" Don't worry wife," seeing the dissatisfied look on Mo Qiang's face, Yin Fu smiled happily at Mo Qiang and said, " I think your smile is beautiful. It's others who are lacking the aesthetic sense to see your charm! From now on you can smile only in front of me."

Hehe that way, Mo Qiang will only show her smile to him!

Ou Qi: "...."

Mo Xifeng: "....."

We did not know that you had such a heavy taste!

Even Mo Qiang did not know what to feel after hearing Yin Fu praise her smile, she simply nodded and then turned to look at Ou Qi before asking her to click a picture of the two of them such that they could leave.

This time Ou Qi did not tease Mo Qiang anymore and then clicked the picture before saying, " It turned out to be better than I expected." After all, in the picture, Mo Qiang looked like someone had tied a noose around her neck and was dragging her around like a dog while Yin Fu was smiling broadly as if he was the one who tied the noose around the devil's neck.

Sure enough, every shoe has its own fit, even though the two of them looked incompatible. Somehow they indeed matched each other well.

" Make sure to send it to me," seeing that their image had been clicked, Yin Fu smiled even more widely as he looked at Ou Qi and asked her to send the image to his monitor.

Ah, Ah, Ah... this was the first picture that he and Mo Qiang clicked together. He was going to commemorate it by making an enlarged poster of it and then sticking it up on the ceiling of his bed! Ah it would have been better if he had his own room then he could have ordered a personal life-size body pillow and then ..... slurp, he was getting too ahead of himself!

On the other hand, Mo Qiang wished that the monitor on Ou Qi's wrist would fcking obliterate. But then she heard the ding of Yin Fu's favourability points going up by +1 points and swallowed her words, fine as long as the favourability points were going up, she was going to stay quiet and suffer in silence!

It was just a photo anyway!

" Shall we leave now?" She turned to look at Yin Fu whose face was flushed red with excitement while he smilingly exchanged the monitor code with Ou Qi such that he could receive the picture that the two of them have clicked together. Seeing him smile so widely, Mo Qiang pursed her lips ...was he truly this excited to go on a date with her? But that wasn't possible, right? He hated her just a few weeks ago —— there was no way he would suddenly start looking at her romantically.

Xiao Jiao: "...." Open your blind eyes and see! He is one of those who fall in love rather quickly!

Maybe she was thinking too much, thought Mo Qiang causing Xiao Jiao to look at her with a stinky eye.

' Dear Mother Nature, why did you make me so smart? It's really troublesome being the only one with a working brain in this world,' complained Xiao Jiao as she looked at Mo Qiang who simply pushed the notion to the side that Yin Fu can be interested in her.

" Yes, let's go," Yin Fu happily agreed as he set the first picture that he clicked with Mo Qiang as his wallpaper and then turned to look at his wife with shiny stars in his eyes. " I am so excited for today! I have it all planned, you will definitely love it, I swear."

Noticing his enthusiasm, Mo Qiang too smiled softly unconsciously. Yeah, maybe they will have fun today.

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Ignoring Yin Fu——2Maybe you know scratch that.



As soon as Mo Qiang stepped inside the public transport she attracted the attention of every passenger causing her to stiffen. Though this time it wasn't because of her but Yin Fu because he was dressed like those little elves of Santa Claus, everyone turned to look at him with wide eyes as if silently questioning whether or not to act as a kind Samaritan and tell Yin Fu that there was something very wrong with his dressing sense but then decided to say nothing as it was funny to watch.

" Look Qi Qi, everyone is looking at us. We must be looking great!" Yin Fi excitedly told Mo Qiang causing many women and mers to stifle a laugh. Beside him, Mo Qiang felt like she had nothing to live for anymore, with an expression that was quite similar to that of a dead fish she nodded and then said, " You are right, we indeed look wonderful." Wonderfully idiotic.

However, Mo Qiang was the type of person who would rather go with the flow when things do not go according to her wishes. Thus, even though she was blushing with embarrassment she allowed Yin Fu to act all giddy at least this way one of them would have fun.

While the two of them walk past the seats which were full, someone suddenly came to stand in front of Mo Qiang causing the latter to stop Yin Fu's expression turned unfriendly as he looked at the young mer standing in front of his wife with a shy expression.

" Is something the matter?" Mo Qiang asked worried that the mer was feeling uncomfortable because of her presence and was going to ask her to go down the Blue bus which ran on the startite energy core.

The young mer shyly wriggled his waist with his hands clasped in front of him while looking at Mo Qiang with a face which was blushing furiously, " Miss Mo if you don't mind can you ....can you take a picture with me?"

".... A picture with you?" Mo Qiang was stumped when she heard the request of the young mer. Why would anyone want to take a picture with her? She was not someone with whom anyone would like to click pictures right? Especially a mer this young and pretty right?

" That was indeed the case before but now that you have defeated Madam Lian and brought her treacherous acts to light, you are no longer the good-for-nothing Mo Qiang," explained Xiao Jiao while lying on top of Mo Qiang's head. " More importantly, you are the one and only spirit summoner of this world which makes you unique and interesting. The young generation of nowadays has a quirk for anything and everything interesting even if it's a dancing stinky cow poop. As long as it's interesting and gets them views, I am sure they will even take a picture with that dancing poo."

Mo Qiang: :heart_suit:( ˆ⌣ ˆ)

" By any chance did you just compare me with a dancing poo?" Mo Qiang questioned but unsurprisingly she did not receive a reply from the little squirrel.

Mo Qiang: ｀(^ ▼^)'↑ I am going to make grilled squirrel once we go back home.

" Sure," Though she was furious at Xiao Jiao, she did not show any displeasure in front of the young mer and allowed him to get close to her. To her surprise, the mer brought his face so close to her that he was almost touching her cheeks but then the surprise turned into terror as she felt a malicious and dangerous gaze aimed at her back.

What ...what is going on? Mo Qiang questioned in her head but did not move away from the mer until he was done clicking the picture. Many passengers on the bus thought that Mo Qiang will definitely take advantage of this situation and grope the mer who foolishly went to look for her but to their surprise, she remained respectful towards the mer from start to finish, instead, it was the young mer who tried to get close to Mo Qiang.

" Miss Qiang, if you don't mind...can we shake hands?" Once they were done taking pictures, the mer made another bold request which made Mo Qiang blink her eyes in surprise, was she a celebrity now?

On top of her head, Xiao Jiao clutched the strands of Mo Qiang's hair and prayed that the latter would not agree because if she did then someone was going to die!

Fortunately, Mo Qiang refused the young mer as she shook her head and then replied, " I don't think it will be nice if I were to shake your hands, in case your girlfriend was to get jealous, what will I do?" She winked at the young mer before walking past him.

Behind her, Yin Fu slid his dagger back inside his storage ring. If that young mer had held hands with his wife then he would have not stayed silent!

Xiao Jiao who saw the young mer dodge a bullet heaved a sigh of relief but at the same time, she couldn't help but complain inwardly. It was just shaking hands there was no need to—— but then she suddenly stopped in the middle of her thought process and thought of the family in which Yin Fu was raised when he was a child.

Compared to the rest of the Yin family.... It could be said that Yin Fu was still much more decent. Or else Mo Qiang would have been stuffed with cotton and then placed on a rack.

When the others saw how gentle Mo Qiang was, the young mers couldn't help but swoon. Everyone loved a beautiful woman but if she was gentle and respectful on top of being beautiful that was like the cherry on top of a cake!

With this small incident, Mo Qiang soon gained a little bit of popularity at least the mers found her much more pleasing to the eye as they swiftly took out their camera apps and then started to take Mo Qiang's picture completely ignoring Yin Fu.

In urgent need of bleachNote: This is your author's brother. She currently had a small operation to reduce the swelling in her liver. I don't know how things go around here, just updating as per I was told, if any complaints wait for two more days until she returns. Thank you.



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When Yin Fu saw that the mers sitting in the Blue bus were ignoring him, his expression went taut. Can't they see him? He was standing right next to his wife! His wife! Whom he lawfully wedded!

Annoyed Yin Fu reached out and stretched his hands to hold Mo Qiang's hands before interlocking their fingers.

"What's wrong?" When Mo Qiang felt Yin Fu intertwine their fingers, she turned around and looked at the mer with a questioning look on her face. Was there something that she was not aware of?

Yin Fu calmly smiled at Mo Qiang. He wanted to tell her that he did this because he wanted to claim his ownership of her but then he thought of how Mo Qiang was a novice when it came to a romantic relationship and thus, shook his head and then replied, " Its nothing, I am worried that I will be left behind which is why I held hands with you." He then turned to look at the mers who were snapping pictures of his wife and then smiled dangerously, " As your husband, I can not make things difficult for you, Qi Qi."

His gaze caused many mers to lower their monitors, it was simply too terrifying to be looked at by that gaze with which Yin Fu was looking at them.

Only then did Yin Fu turn around and beamed at Mo Qiang before saying, " If I was left behind then you will have to trouble yourself by reaching out to hold me. Now I cannot allow that to happen can I?"

Though what he said did not make any sense Mo Qiang did not say anything after all, she could see the favourability points going up.

It's all right, she told herself. As long as she got favourability points to raise her level, she was willing to do anything!

Xiao Jiao: Just keep going like that and soon you will be rolling in the sheets with him for the sake of those favourability points.

' Maybe I should look for some crops and meat which would strengthen one's kidney, who knows, she might need it?' Thought Xiao Jiao as she opened her own blue screen and started looking for the necessary ingredients.

The blue screen flickered slightly before displaying a set of words —— ' Oh ho someone's getting frisky.'

Xiao Jiao: ...( ..*) I will send it to the dump yard once I am done with this task.

Mo Qiang did not have even the slightest bit of idea that the little squirrel was worrying about her kidney, instead, she walked past the seats and then reached the end of the Blue bus where a few seats were empty and then turned to look at Yin Fu before saying, " Do you like to sit on the seat next to the window or the aisle?"

' Ah, look at this! His wife is so caring!' Yin Fu covered his heart as he sobbed inwardly.

' It will be troublesome if he was to vomit on me once the bus starts,' thought Mo Qiang on the other hand.

Xiao Jiao who was looking for kidney strengthening pills: "....." You know what never mind, with the pace they are going it will take the world to end before they do anything.

It did not take long for the bus to start as it rose in the air and then drove right inside the transparent hollow tube which lead to the star where the Startite energy core was found. The stars which were closer to one another they were joined together with a hollow channel which allowed the vehicles of the interstellar world to travel from one star to another.

While travelling to different galaxies required mecha crafts as buses and normal vehicles cannot travel that far without breaking down into bits under pressure.

" Would you like something to drink?" Yin Fu asked while playing with the serving tab which was fixed at the back of the seat in front of him. " I think we should drink something to fill our stomach, though it might not taste good, we should prepare for the things that I have arranged for us."

'What's with him? Is he thinking of chopping me up or something like feeding a sacrificial lamb before cutting its head off?' Thought Mo Qiang when she saw that Yin Fu was looking up solutions for them to drink.

" There is no need, I am not sure that I will like the taste of those solutions," though she was questioning his intentions inwardly, Mo Qiang still refused Yin Fu kindly on the surface. The solutions which were displayed on the screen were low-quality ones, even the high-quality ones which Wen Gui brought for their family tasted like slime with some flavour added to it.

Mo Qiang was sure that these solutions might taste even worse than the ones which her father brought back home from the supermarket.

" You are right," when Yin Fu thought of the A+++ maple honey water and boiled corn, he also agreed with Mo Qiang. There was no way these things were going to taste good, what negligence on his part, he should have prepared some maple syrup water and omelettes for their date but he was in such a hurry to leave the house that it completely escaped from his head.

' I will have to keep these things in mind next time, I can't let such stupid actions of mine ruin our date. If Qiang Qiang has less energy? How will she be in any mood in pushing me into a corner and have her way with me?' Yin Fu thought in his head as his imagination got the best of him.

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' Ah, what are you doing, wife?' He asked Mo Qiang as the latter reached out and placed her hands on his thigh, his turquoise eyes looking at the passengers sitting around them. ' We are in public, we can't do this.'

' What are you scared of?' Mo Qiang pushed him against the window of the bus as she reached for the zipper of his pants. ' If you stay quiet then we will be able to get away without anyone knowing just stay silent and let me make you feel good.'

' Oh...Ah...'

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While Yin Fu was lost in his fantasies, Xiao Jiao who could see through his thoughts was disgusted.

Xiao Jiao: _('ཀ'」 ∠)

Someone go and get me some bleach that can clean my brain, I need it urgently.

What it means to be in loveThe blue bus travelled through the tunnel which connected the two stars and with its speed, it did not take long for it to arrive at the Startite star. With the bus stopping at the parking lot, the passengers started to climb down the steps of the bus which automatically opened themselves the second the bus's doors opened.



The only person who did not move and instead stayed put was Yin Fu.

" Is he sleeping with his eyes open? Why is he not moving?" Mo Qiang questioned Xiao Jiao while looking at Yin Fu whose eyes were starry and staring at the horizon. She raised her hand and then waved it in front of Yin Fu who did not seem to see it and continued to shake his head as if lost in some thought.

" Don't ask me anything," Xiao Jiao was simply disgusted after peeking inside Yin Fu's thoughts. Where was the morality? Where was the shame? How deep was the moral corruption of humans? No wonder the only ones whose powers did not degrade were the demons.

Mo Qiang looked at the pale-looking Xiao Jiao and did not ask her anything as she thought that the poor little thing was suffering from motion sickness because the driver was driving the blue bus at a really fast speed.

Xiao Jiao: I am sick but not because of the driver driving the bus it's your husband who is getting driven in his thoughts and it is simply disgusting!

A part of Xiao Jiao wished to shut off Yin Fu's thoughts as she clutched her head with her little paws but for some reason, she was truly invested in watching what was going to happen next. Was she getting corrupted as well? She must be!

" Yin Fu?"

" Yin Fu!"

" YIN FU!!!"

Mo Qiang shook the mer who was sitting next to her by his shoulder causing him to snap out of his thoughts. He turned to look at Mo Qiang who stood next to him looking at him with concern in her eyes and was simply speechless. Don't tell him...he continued to fantasize for the entire ride?

" Ah, did we arrive already?" He questioned as he looked around the bus which wasn't moving and then turned to look at Mo Qiang with a sheepish smile and said, " I am sorry, I think I got lost in a daze."

However, Mo Qiang did not listen to his words instead she narrowed her gaze and stared at Yin Fu with a suspicious look on her face. " You..."

Yin Fu felt his heart skip a beat thinking that he was caught because of his blatant actions. Oh no, looks like Mo Qiang caught me ...what now? He thought in his head.

She was surely going to hate him now! As Yin Fu thought of Mo Qiang's disgusted expression, his eyes dimmed. In the past when he would tell his partners that he wanted a wedding like this or if he was to express the things that he liked to do...they would stare at him with disgust.

But there was nothing he could do—— this was how he was raised, his mother often sent him to seduction classes causing his thoughts to go crooked.

His teacher taught him that there was only one kind of love and that was —— physical love. As long as a mer could charm a woman with his body, he will be the winner. He did not even know if there was any other emotion involved other than lust when two people were dating.

Though that was what his teacher told him but no one liked a bold mer who was always lost in thoughts. To them, he was good for a one-night stand but not good enough to become their husband.

Even Xiao Jiao thought that Mo Qiang caught something and thus waited for her to harshly berate the mer for acting too out of the line.

" Are you sure that you are all right?" Mo Qiang asked with her voice lined with concern as she looked at the mer in front of her, though she wished to divorce him. She couldn't turn a blind eye to his medical condition if he was truly sick. " You are drooling and your eyes were all glassy, I think you are suffering from something really serious, why don't we make a trip to the doctor?"

It wasn't that Mo Qiang was a fool but she never saw any men attracted to her. She was too independent and vociferous for most of them which was why they did not like her.

As she did not wish to stop working and take care of the family alone. She wanted someone who would be willing to share her burdens and not add more to those burdens.

And because she was too busy making sure that she will not starve to death, romance was never on her list.

If anyone was to step out of the house and ask a homeless woman who did not know whether or not she will get another meal the next day, what her take on marriage and love, she would simply stare at the person until they leave.

The same could be said for Mo Qiang as she only knew how to work hard but if someone was to ask her to woo someone she would make a disgusted face as she had no idea where to start.

Thus, in her eyes, a woman like her could never catch the attention of the opposite gender. More importantly, Yin Fu hated her quite a lot, in the beginning, causing her to keep a guard against him.

Xiao Jiao : (ノ_<.)

Yin Fu was stunned at first but seeing the genuine concern in Mo Qiang's eyes, he burst out laughing and then shook his head before replying, " I am good don't worry. I was just being ... a little silly." He then stretched out his hand for Mo Qiang to take and said, "Let's go."

Well, this was good as well. It was a fool leading fool situation maybe together the two of them will find what it means to be in love?

The world is coming to an end —— is the book ending?The star which Yin Fu chose to have a date on was indeed beautiful if one was to ignore the moving green vines that protected the startite boulders which stuck out of the ground. It was indeed a relaxing place as the air around this star was not as poisonous as it was in the dead star.



Small stalls were lined across the streets which were filled with couples who seemed to be shopping for souvenirs. On the other side of the street guides were trying to catch a patron as they fitted through the crowd, with the smell of the monster skewers which had no seasoning scattered on top of them, Mo Qiang continued to glance at the star in front of her.

" Isn't it beautiful?" Yin Fu asked feeling a certain sense of accomplishment, though he only knew how to make a woman fall in bed, he was able to somehow think of this date where it did not involve ropes, candles and aphrodisiacs. It was indeed his best attempt! At least Mo Qiang did not look scared.

" It is," Mo Qiang nodded. She had to admit that this date was something that she did not expect from Yin Fu, she was expecting him to drag her to the middle of the desert and leave her to her own resources but looks like he did not have any plans like that which could be counted as an improvement.

Yin Fu smiled with glee when he heard Mo Qiang's praise, this was good at least he did not make any mistake till now. Thus, filled with pride he texted his brother about his good job only to get a reply that it was too taxing and his sister-in-law was happy with the ropes alone.

Yin Fu: "...." Well his sister-in-law was from the same world as their mother and couldn't be relied upon.

" Whats the matter?" Seeing that Yin Fu was looking at his monitor with a blazing look on his face, Mo Qiang asked. Was there something that made him act like this? As she thought she tilted her head a little to look at what was written on the monitor but then her vision turned dark as she was pushed to the side by Yin Fu.

"It's nothing just my brother, he said he ate something funny and lost control of his head," Yin Fu gritted out as he closed his monitor. What did his brother mean by too taxing? Mo Qiang was a normal person, all right? A normal person!

" Huh?" How can a person eat something wrong and lose control of his head?

Mo Qiang was simply dumbfounded but upon seeing how Yin Fu was grinding his teeth she did not question him any further.

"Let's go," not wanting to think about his stupid brother whose motto was that a seductive body moves all heart, Yin Fu changed the topic as he turned to look at Mo Qiang and then said in a faintly enraged voice, " I looked for a good place to have fun, it's one of the most visited spots of this star."

" Okay?" Mo Qiang smiled back as she looked at Yin Fu whose lips were firmly twitching. Why does it seem like he was about to curse someone but was holding back because of her?

" Humph," though Yin Fu did not curse he did walk towards the so-called popular spot with steps as if he wished to stomp on someone's face.

Mo Qiang glanced at Xiao Jiao while the latter looked back at her before the two of them looked away. Following the quote spoken by a very wise woman 'Never engage with an angry mer'.

Yin brought Mo Qiang past the stall to a very large line which seemed to be heading somewhere. Mo Qiang raised her head and looked at the large line only for her mouth to drop open as she looked at the gigantic elephant which seemed to have been coated with something glossy that shone under the light of the sky. It was so big that if seen from afar one would take it as a mountain on which people climbed but that wasn't what surprised Mo Qiang, the thing that surprised her was that there was a ride which was built around the somewhat preserved elephant and that ride took the visitors inside the body of that preserved elephant.

W. T. F.?!!!

"It's the greatest tourist spot of this star, in the past, there was a scientist who tried to combine the DNA of an animal with the composition of vegetables and crops. Of course, he failed causing the birth of mutated animals, among those animals this one was the only one which was caught and died while fighting its hunter. Ever since then, the scientific research lab made an exhibition out of this mutated animal, it's awe-inspiring, right?"

" Yeah, it is," quickly grabbing hold of the squirrel who looked rather violent for something so small Mo Qiang agreed with Yin Fu. She looked at the dead elephant that had gigantic mushrooms growing on its tusks and felt a sudden urge to ask the scientists whether or not this was necessary. Was there a need to commemorate a dead body but then she thought of the dead bodies being dug out of their tombs and placed in the museum only to be gazed upon by millions and squashed her thoughts.

What a question to ask, it was absolutely necessary even if it wasn't.

" Let me go! These capitalists! These horrible humans! They tortured these poor things when they were alive and now they won't let them go even when they are dead!" Xiao Jiao struggled to escape from Mo Qiang's grip as she flailed in her fist. If not for the fact that Mo Qiang was holding her back, she would have started world war seven.

" I know how you feel but there is nothing that you can do ... this is how things work," Mo Qiang soothed Xiao Jiao while running her fingers on the little squirrel's back as the latter pursed her lips and pouted. Of course, she understood, humans were the apex predator and it was only right for them to be on top of the food chain, she just hoped that they would respect animals and plants! Was it too much to ask?

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The world is coming to an end —— is the book ending ?"She seems to dislike the ride," sensing Xiao Jiao's anger towards the ride, Yin Fu glanced at the little squirrel which was hugged by Mo Qiang and remarked. With his forefinger outstretched, he stroked Xiao Jiao's head and questioned, " Is she scared?"



' Scared? If I let go of her, she will every human in this line shake in terror there is no way she can ever be scared of anything,' Mo Qiang thought in her head before she nodded and replied, " Maybe she is, after all, she has never seen something so big before."

Yin Fu also thought that it made sense as he turned his attention back to the front of the line while Xiao Jiao muttered under her breath about how humans were getting crueller by the minute.

" I think that what they need is a complete annihilation and start from the very beginning that is from the creature of the sea as everything came from the sea, what do you say?" With her hands outstretched in front of her, Xiao Jiao had a helpless expression on her face. " There is so much wrong with the humans of this world, I am afraid that a single nature revival will not help. Do you know yesterday I was looking at a clothing site and in the gender category, I noticed a gender that said —— helicopter attack. Who even identifies as a helicopter attack?"

" Don't say that everyone has the right to live as they want," corrected Mo Qiang.

" I am not saying that it's wrong, it just bewilders me... I feel like I am so behind the times that I cannot catch up. At times like this ending the entire world looks quite amusing to me," muttered Xiao Jiao darkly. " Ah, How great were the times when I could understand what others said."

Mo Qiang : (⌒_⌒;) Let her say what she wants to, she will calm down very soon.

While Mo Qiang listened to Xiao Jiao's muttering the three of them continued to move forward. As the line moved, Xiao Jiao's muttering got more and more vicious by the time they were sitting inside the metallic trolley which resembled the one in a roller coaster, Xiao Jiao was telling a gruesome murder mystery where all humans died with a dish soap and she was the only one who stayed alive.

"It seems that she is no longer as terrified as she was before," Yin Fu glanced at the little squirrel that was chattering away and commented. " She seems quite happy."

Mo Qiang who knew what Xiao Jiao was talking about: (•‿•)

What a beautiful misunderstanding.

" Here you go miss," an assistant who was helping them tie the seat belt handed Mo Qiang and Yin Fu two bags that were of the shape of a ballon.

Mo Qiang looked at the balloon shape bag and then raised her head to look at the assistant in question.

" You might be in severe need of this bag once you are inside," explained the assistant as she understood what Mo Qiang meant. " Some people find it really queasy when they visit this White lion Elephant for the first time."

Mo Qiang did not have any idea what the assistant meant by 'severe need' but once the cart went inside the mouth of the well-preserved elephant, past its chest where a heart which was bigger than a truck was kept and down to the bile in the stomach of the elephant she understood what the assistant meant because soon the cart was moving down the large intestine! And to top it all for the sake of a better study of the white lion elephant, everything was preserved really well.

Though it did not smell the sight was ——

<('ཀ'」<)

" Blegh," Mo Qiang emptied her stomach in the ballon-shaped bag as soon as she finished riding the entire thing. She was crouching on the ground with the bag against her mouth while trying her best to keep herself from fainting, never again, never again will she come on a date with Yin Fu!

" I am so sorry," seeing her getting sick Yin Fu rubbed Mo Qiang on the back. " I thought you will like it since it is for educational purposes! I did not think that your stomach was this weak ... if I had known..."

" How...How are you fine?" Why was she the one who was throwing up and yet this mer was completely fine.

Yin Fu blinked his eyes and then replied in a calm voice as if surprised by the question, "That's because I have seen worse than that."

Mo Qiang: （╬￣ V￣）

Thanks for clearing that up.

Having given up on getting an answer from Yin Fu, Mo Qiang returned her attention to the bag in which she emptied her entire breakfast only then was she able to feel a bit lighter than she did before.

Once she was done, Mo Qiang picked up the bag and then threw it in the trash can which completely annihilated the evidence of her lack of cowardice before turning to look at Yin Fu and said, " If there is another ride like this one, please cancel it before I throw up my stomach as well."

Yin Fu: "....."

Sliding the pamphlet inside his pocket, Yin Fu quickly shook his head and then replied, " There is no more, I was thinking of trying some grand magma pollock, they are found at the hottest star and are really hard to catch but I heard that they taste great. Would you like some?"

Though Mo Qiang did not think that she could eat anything after watching that horrible sight. She did not refuse Yin Fu as her stomach was growling after throwing everything up, she gave him a nod and then stated, " All right lets——"

Her words were cut off when the ground under her feet trembled, a crackling sound echoed in the entire clearing and soon a rumble followed. It was so loud that Mo Qiang felt like the world was tearing up into halves and turned to look at Xiao Jiao.

Did this thing really submit some kind of application to get this world destroyed?

Xiao Jiao: I didn't. I am innocent!

Don't give up so soonWhen Mo Qiang continued to look at her suspiciously, Xiao Jiao kicked her in the face with a terrible expression as she snapped, " Do I look that unreliable? Though I don't really have any love for the humans of your world, I will not kill them unreasonably! This is something else."



Before Mo Qiang could ask what it was, someone screamed from behind at the top of their lungs, "It's a dungeon crack! Everyone run for your lives."

No sooner did those words echo in the eerily quiet surroundings than screams of panic and fear exploded at once. The crowd which was enjoying the rides and the street food immediately started to rush towards the Blue bus stand wanting to get out of this star as soon as possible.

Even Yin Fu could not stay calm as he grabbed Mo Qiang's wrist and then pulled her along with the crowd towards the bus stop which was a mile away from the main town where the two of them were strolling. As they rushed past the streets, Mo Qiang watched the residents of the houses on each side of the street running outside.

Some were holding their children in their arms while the rest who were unmarried were bringing their precious belongings out of their houses and running with the crowd. The panic of the crowd was so palpable that Mo Qiang almost tasted it on her own tongue and felt her heartbeat increasing as she looked at the people running in front of her.

"What's going on?" She asked Yin Fu as she had no idea what made the residents abandon their homes. Just what kind of danger could make one leave everything behind and run like their lives were on the line, she heard from Xiao Jiao that the safety measures of this world were greatly developed even a high-magnitude earthquake couldn't shake the foundation of a house or a city.

As they were residing on stars where earthquakes were considered quite normal, thus it would be weird if they did not develop equipment which would keep them safe.

This was why Mo Qiang was quite surprised to see these people run as if they were in grave danger. Weren't their houses equipped with pieces of equipment which would keep them safe?

Yin Fu thought that Mo Qiang was joking with him but that was until he remembered that she had lost all memories of this world or more like she had none as she was no longer the same Mo Qiang. He turned to look at Mo Qiang and then explained while running, "It is a dungeon crack, sometimes the dimensions of two stars which are at close distance collide and merge together, which caused the two stars to combine causing a void to open. You can think of it as a meteor crashing on the surface of the world in which we live. But instead of bringing chaos and rubble which our stars are equipped with dealing, it will——"

ROAR!

A loud, ground-shattering roar echoed from behind causing Mo Qiang to turn around and look at the source of the noise. What she saw made her question the entire world and the views of the universe as behind her were two skies. One was a violent red while the other was slightly blue—— like a tear appearing out of nowhere in a paper, there was a crack which stood in the middle of the streets where she and Yin Fu were strolling just now.

Behind the crack was a dark star which was covered with deserts and sand mounds that seemed to be made of dark gravel and in front of the tear were the houses which were getting crashed and crumbled by something that was stepping out of the crack.

" It will bring a creature of the other star," Yin Fu finished with a solemn voice, the crack was not a problem as it will get filled once the star moves away. The defence equipment would protect their world with ease but even those pieces of equipment would crumble the second they had to hold against the creatures that stepped out of the void.

Most of the time these cracks never happened but when they did, more than thousands of humans were killed!

Mo Qiang's eyes widened once she realised the danger they were in, if what Yin Fu said was the truth then could they even leave this star without getting hurt? She turned to look at the expression of the mer next to her and realising that he looked much more serious than before, Mo Qiang knew that their chances to get out of this place were second to none.

' Damn if I had known I would have brought the spirits with me,' she cursed in her head before turning around and joining the crowd around her. With panic filling the hearts of the people around the two of them, Mo Qiang felt herself being pushed and jostled around by the crowd, if she wasn't holding on to Yin Fu's wrist she was sure that she would have lost him.

" Don't panic, the reinforcements from the imperial star will come soon," said Yin Fu but Mo Qiang could hear the faint note of worry in his voice. The startite star was miles away from the imperial star, even if they were to leave now it will take a long time before they will be arriving here.

Mo Qiang pursed her lips as she continued to hold onto Yin Fu's wrist, though it was hard to keep up with the crowd where they were being pushed and left right without getting a chance to stabilise their footing nor did they have any space to manoeuvre around, they could only go in the direction where the crowd was heading.

Behind them, Mo Qiang could hear the sound of buildings crashing down while the terrible roars of the being which stepped out of the chasm reverberated in their ears.

As the crowd turned left, Mo Qiang felt a child knock against her and he would have fallen to the ground if not for her catching the mer on time and helping him up.

" Watch where you are going kid," she warned him before pushing him towards his parents who bowed in gratitude.

" Mo Qiang! We gotta turn around," Just as Mo Qiang was going to turn right and continue running, she heard Xiao Jiao speak from the top of her head.

" You have to be joking with me, I am not playing hero!" Mo Qiang thought that Xiao Jiao was asking her to turn around because she wanted her to save everyone.

" Who cares about playing a hero ?" Xiao Jiao clicked her tongue and then flew down before gripping Mo Qiang's face and twisting it around. "It's a turtle tuber!"

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Don't give up so soon——2 Mo Qiang knew that she was born unlucky. From the day her parents abandoned her in front of an orphanage after finding out that she was a girl to the day when she had to move out of the orphanage because the number of children who were younger than her was increasing in the orphanage where she lived—— she knew that God did not pour any condiment named ' good luck' when they made her but now that she looked at the mountainous being that was approaching her, Mo Qiang knew that God replaced the condiment of 'good luck' with ' let's mess with her.'



" No! You have to be kidding me!" Mo Qiang absolutely, resolutely and very firmly refused to face the turtle tuber. "It is different from the turtle tuber that you showed me, it wasn't that big! You are scamming me here! I am not playing anymore if you are going to act like this!"

Xiao Jiao stared down at the woman who refused to budge and then tried to coax her with a voice which was very similar to that of a kidnapper, " I know that its a bit bigger but that is because it's old. That turtle tuber is an adult which is why it is so big and the one which I showed you was in its teen years —— and you know the older the tuber is the more the chances of us refining it into S-grade potatoes are, so why don't you pull up your mommy pants and face your fear?"

" You do it if you are so great!" Mo Qiang screamed at the squirrel. " My bottom has split into four halves after just looking at that thing. I feel like I have lost control of my bowels and you want me to face that thing? With what army?!"

" But if you do this then your green vein energy will level up," Xiao Jiao tried to offer the carrot to Mo Qiang while hiding the stick behind her back but this time Mo Qiang was smart, she refused to fall for the same trick as before, the last time Xiao Jiao coaxed her like this, she ended up challenging that Madam Lian because one thing led to another.

She wasn't going to fall for the same coaxing again!

Seeing that she was still acting stubborn Xiao Jiao's eyes flashed with determination and then she vindictively said, " You better agree, considering the older ones which are past five hundred years this turtle tuber is still tame but if you refuse to deal with it then I will look for a dungeon which is infested with more than one turtle tuber, all over five hundred years and just so you know, the older they get the more violent they become."

Mo Qiang: You are cheating!

Though Mo Qiang hoped to believe that Xiao Jiao was only exaggerating to scare her. But she knew the squirrel well enough to know that she was very much serious.

Tch! If she had known she would have signed up for health insurance! At least she would have gotten money after facing that thing! Damn it! A mistake, she made a terrible mistake! If she manages to escape this star safely, she was going to join in at least three medical insurance schemes! And as for this malicious spirit, she was going to shave it and change its appearance to that of a poodle!

" You go with the crowd," said Mo Qiang to Yin Fu who was running next to her. Her words caught Yin Fu by surprise but before he could say anything he felt the warmth of his wrist vanish as the woman next to her turned on her heels and ran in the opposite direction in which the crowd was running —— that was to say straight towards that turtle tuber!

" Wife!" Yin Fu's eyes widened as he realised what Mo Qiang was doing. However his scream was suppressed under the many screams which were echoing in the streets, he looked at the crowd helpless and scared —— as he had never faced a dungeon crack before. His heart thudded against his ribs as he was pushed around by the people in the crowd.

" Move if you don't want to die!" A woman screamed at the mer when she saw that he was standing stiffly in the middle of the street. She thought that Yin Fu was scared but Yin Fu wasn't scared instead ——

He was very....

Very...

Very very...

Angry.

( ⋋ · ⋌ ).

Thats right.

His date which he planned with great care was ruined, his clothes which he bought from the Internet were now covered in dirt and his wife who was supposed to hug him in her arms and take him somewhere safe left him behind to fend for himself. He admitted that he was no normal mer but he was still counted as the fairer gender what did his wife mean by leaving him all alone in this chaos?

Did...Did it mean that she did not even see him as a gentle mer who needed protection?

Yin Fu: ヾ(.◣∀◢.)ﾉ

Haha, now this was making him really annoyed.

" My lovely Ah Qiang," Yin Fu raised his head, his lips curled up in a smile which was full of unspoken threats and anger. " I will make you pay for this little slight that you made but first I will roast that thing up for ruining my grand date!"

....

Mo Qiang felt a chill climb up on her spine but she blamed it on the task in front of her. After all, how will she not feel a chill climbing down her spine when she was this close to hugging death?

" If I die, I am haunting you," said Mo Qiang as she approached the turtle tuber.

" You are exaggerating, it can't even see where you are compared to it —— you are so tiny!" Xiao Jiao rolled her eyes though she said that, she was holding Mo Qiang's hair tightly in her paws as she was this close to being sent flying away as each step of the turtle tuber caused a storm to rise that rose in the air.

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