Give me your lips—-2When Mo Qiang woke up, it was already the next day. Her eyes which were glassy due to the drip were slightly more clearer—— with her eyelids dropping and rising, she looked at the white ceiling. A small frown was etched on her face as one by one the memories of everything that happened with her flittered inside her head.



" Chi Chi!"

The small chinchilla was the first one to notice that Mo Qiang was awake, he immediately dropped the water glass that he was holding in his hands while Ya Ya and Huhu tried to pour water inside it and rushed towards Mo Qiang.

" Chi chi! Chi chi chi!" The small chinchilla cried angrily while hitting Mo Qiang with his tiny fists causing Mo Qiang to laugh softly.

" I know, I know," she pushed herself off the bed and then picked Chi Chi in her hands. " You are angry that I did not call either of you three but the situation was too chaotic if I had called you then you would have gotten hurt."

Yaya and Huhu also rushed to hug Mo Qiang, they were terrified just thinking about how their master was so close to dying. If something happened to her then what would they have done?

The two cried while hugging Mo Qiang and telling her that she needed to take care of herself better. Chi Chi went ahead and made Mo Qiang promise that she would call them to help her no matter how dangerous the situation was, they were her spirits.

It did not make sense that they stayed at home living in protection while their master faced the dangers alone.

" Yes, I understand..." Mo Qiang patted the three spirits and soothed them for a long time, only then did they calm down but even so, they did not let go of Mo Qiang as they were still worried.

Seeing them act all clingy, Mo Qiang was amused but she did not push them away. Instead, she turned to look at Xiao Jiao whose back was facing her and then teasingly said, " Whats the matter? Are you too ashamed to look at me now?"

She thought that the little squirrel would turn around and start scolding her like always. In fact, she was waiting for Xiao Jiao to flare up but contrary to her expectations, Xiao Jiao stayed silent and did not say a word instead she calmly continued to sit still causing Mo Qiang to frown.

" Hey," she stretched her finger to poke the sulky squirrel when she heard a hoarse, sobbing voice.

" You are right, I am too ashamed to face you. It is my fault that you almost died—— I hate the humans which was why I wanted to go back to my realm as soon as possible, this place is dirty...filled with scheming and greedy humans who don't know what's good for them. And because I was in a hurry, I did not even pay attention to you and your health!"

Xiao Jiao's wings quivered as she took a large sniff and continued, " I knew that you were a human too but when I saw how resilient and strong-willed you were, I selfishly decided to move on with my own plans."

"The mission was way too high for someone like you who is still at level one but I wanted to go back and thus, I ignored everything and pushed you to your limits. I thought...just a little more... a bit more and then you will be able to break through two levels at once. In my greed, I completely forgot that you were a human with a fragile life as well."

This was what Xiao Jiao was more than ashamed of, she thought that the humans were in the wrong from the beginning so why should she care about them? But when Xiao Jiao saw Mo Qiang spit out blood, she realised that somewhere she became one of those humans that she despised so much.

Mo Qiang looked at the crying squirrel for a few minutes before she parted her lips and then very seriously said, " Wait hold on, you are apologizing? This is not done. Do it again, I want to record it, damn where is my monitor?"

" You ...can you be serious for once!" Xiao Jiao was beyond speechless when she thought how Mo Qiang instead of paying attention to her apology, this woman wanted to record her!

" Ah so you are finally willing to look at me," Mo Qiang caught hold of the hopping mad squirrel and then stopped her from scratching her face.

Sniff.

Xiao Jiao sniffed but the snort hanging out of her nose was so long that it did not go inside, sighing Mo Qiang took out her handkerchief and then wiped Xiao Jiao's nose before saying, " I already knew that the level of the mission was way to high. I might look like this but I am way smarter—— so you don't need to feel guilty, I went there knowing what was in store for me but just like you, I wanted to get stronger as well."

Mo Qiang knew that with her unique skills out in the open, it wouldn't take long for Madam Wei to start targeting her and her family. As that woman was one of those sneaky b*tches who would see through the end of everything.

Thus, when she realised that the level of the mission was way too high for her stats, Mo Qiang still went ahead as she wanted to gain new skills!

" So stop crying and show me, my new babies!" Mo Qiang remarked with a wicked smile. New skills! New powers and a whole new her —— hehehe, she was waiting for these so long!

" You are simply..." Xiao Jiao was once again robbed of her ability to speak but she still sighed and opened the blue screen which displayed all the skills that Mo Qiang had upgraded along with the one that she had gained.

As Mo Qiang read through the list of skills, her eyes couldn't help but widen as one word flashed in her head.

Give me your lips ——3

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Jackpot.

Mo Qiang whopped in her head as she went through the list one by one.

[ King of the Jungle —-stats increased by two per cent. Current level 3. ]

[ Green fingers—— power increased to two thousand mu of lands. Current level 3]

[ Serenade and poetry skills increased by three per cent, current level four.]

Among those useless skills, Mo Qiang's eyes fell on the newly introduced skill which caused her lips to curl up in a smile as she started reading the description of the new skill called ——

One hand hammer.

[ One hand hammer—— turning three mus of land in one go. Activation of this skill would give the host twenty times the strength, one hit would turn three mu of land. No need to waste your day digging away through the land! Swing the hoe and bring this world to a new beginning!"

Kekeke! Mo Qiang sinisterly laughed in her head as she looked at the wonderful skill in front of her. From the looks of it, she no longer had to worry about this feeble body of hers, as long as someone dared to go against her, she was going to turn this skill on and then smash every bone in the bodies of her enemies.

If anyone dared to get in her way then they would go back home in urns! That's right urns!

" Hahaha!" Mo Qiang cackled causing Xiao Jiao and the three spirits to take a step back while the blue screen stopped displaying the skills and instead showed a message ——

' You look really evil, what kind of barbaric thoughts are you thinking of?'

" I am thinking of how to catch you and fray you alive, you bastard," With her smile dropping Mo Qiang looked at the blue screen with a local street-like thug expression. " You seemed to have learned quite a lot of bad habits, don't you know that when someone's at work they need to let go of their personal grudge and focus on their work? How dare you mock me after stopping your work in between? Want me to hunt you down eh?"

The blue screen : (ᵒ̴̶̷᷄﹏ᵒ̴̶̷᷅)

' ....I apologize.'

Though the spirit handling the blue screen would have loved to retort Mo Qiang, he hated to admit that this woman was right!

Gahh! After stealing his precious Xiao Jiao, this woman was talking about hunting him! He will complain about her to the higher-ups!

"That's better, now get back to work," Mo Qiang ordered as she waited for the blue screen to load the screen with skills backup.

Once the skills were loaded on the screen again, she clapped her hands and then turned to look at Xiao Jiao and said, " You truly felt bad because of what happened at the startite star didn't you?"

In the middle of the skills, there was an additional level up added and to Mo Qiang's delight, that level up was actually related to her water purifying skills! Now she did not have to use small vats and vessels to purify water, with the help of this skill she can purify an entire water body!

" Don't celebrate too early," Xiao Jiao cleared her throat and then explained sternly, " The skills are only limited to a pond or a small creek. Don't think you will be able to purify an entire ocean with one single move understand?"

" As long as I can stop purifying the water bit by bit, this is excellent!" Mo Qiang smiled at Xiao Jiao who couldn't help but smile along with her. Looks like her decision to level up this skill along with adding the other skill was right.

Now Mo Qiang will no longer have to suffer like she did when she was growing crops.

" Ah, before I forget ...what did you do to the baby turtle tuber?" Mo Qiang was afraid that Mo Yan would end up sending that rare treasure to the imperial family, she had read through the rights of the imperial family and was shocked to see that the commoners hardly had any rights over mutants as they all belonged to the imperial family!

If one was to find an egg or a stranded baby mutant they had to send them to the imperial family, this was not something that Mo Qiang wanted! If that baby was sent to the imperial family then all her hard work would go down the drain, she would also get a very angry momma on her back!

" Your mother——" Xiao Jiao began but she was interrupted by Mo Qiang who clutched her head and howled, " I knew it! She must have sent the baby to the imperial family! Darned that woman's loyalty! At least take a look at the situation damn it!"

" Listen to me!" Xiao Jiao kicked Mo Qiang on the cheek before she continued sternly, " Your mother did want to send the baby turtle tuber but she was convinced by your father. Daddy Gui said that the baby was what you rescued after putting your life on the line and as you did the job of the reinforcements, the Empress should hand that baby turtle tuber to you as a reward and thus the two are going to talk with my darli...I mean the Empress."

Mo Qiang was so relieved upon hearing the words of Xiao Jiao that she ignored her mistake of calling the Empress, ' darling' because she was too busy thanking Wen Gui.

" My wife~," a voice called from the threshold of the ward causing Mo Qiang to snap out of her daze as she turned to look at Yin Fu who sauntered inside the ward and then sat down on the stool with a happy smile. " Today, I brought you some maple syrup water and scrambled eggs. I even went to the length to go to the black market and buy the flesh of the spearhead fish and made tantalizing soup with its meat!"

He cupped his cheek and then asked with a beaming smile, " Would you like to eat the scrambled eggs or would you like to drink soup? Maybe as a commemoration you can even give me a kiss as this is our first day as husband and wife. So what would you like to have? The eggs, the soup or my lips? They are extra soft because I scrubbed them, you can suck and nibble on them as well——"

"Your lips."

Just as Yin Fu was going to tease Mo Qiang even more he was stopped by Mo Qiang as the latter looked at Yin Fu dead in the eye and answered, " I would like to kiss you."

Hehe, this bastard, he teased her quite a lot yesterday when she was not feeling good but this time ... let's see who ends up getting teased!

A bomb of seductionMo Qiang looked at Yin Fu with a proud look on her face, though she was quite loopy yesterday it did not change the fact that she forgot how this mer teased her! She only made a small mistake and he teased her to the point where she was blushing, now she was going to take her revenge. She will tease him to the point that he will be flushed red with humiliation!



' Humph, he might be skilled but I am more skilled than him. I know that his feelings have changed for me but that doesn't mean that he will be willing to kiss me, this mer ...he dared to tease me!? I will teach him a good lesson,' Mo Qiang thought in her head as she looked at Yin Fu whose face was blank with his entire body stiff. Seeing him like this Mo Qiang was satisfied.

Did he really think that the same thing from yesterday will work today as well? She was no longer on the drip there was no way she was going to let him play her with the help of his words. It never occurred to Mo Qiang that Yin Fu would agree to kiss her, she thought that Yin Fu was simply joking about such things because he wanted to keep her on her toes.

As black-bellied as he was in Mo Qiang's eyes, his actions were not sincere at all, most probably he was just trying to have fun at her expense!

While Mo Qiang was feeling satisfied with Yin Fu's reaction, the latter was blowing firecrackers inside his head in celebration. Though he agreed to be husband and wife with Mo Qiang, he did not think that he would get the chance to taste the lips of his wife so soon! Yin Fu was over the moon just thinking about how he was going to touch those rosy lips about which he had been dreaming for ages.

' Ah, Ah, Ah! Did Qiang say that I can kiss her? Can I really kiss her? Should I act coy or should I jump on her?' Yin Fu thought in his head while sitting on the stool with a silly smile on his face. But then he frowned and thought of how his ex-girlfriends disliked it when he acted proactive. From what Master Shui taught him, a woman liked a mer who acted coy and shy —— he needed to act like a bullied kitten even if he wanted to pounce on his wife and ravage her whole!

What a sin! Now he had to waste his time on acting coy!

But when Yin Fu remembered the disgusted look on the faces of his girlfriends when he tried to kiss them first, he suppressed his eagerness in his heart. He did not want Mo Qiang to think that he was too easy, what if she thought that his virginity mark was a do-over and that he slept with someone else before like his other girlfriends?

What if Mo Qiang taught that he was a sleazy mer and divorced him? What will he do then? His dream of getting tied and spanked while getting dominated by this total mommy package wife of his? What will happen to that, where will he get another wife as good as her?

Thus, Yin Fu suppressed his urges and then lowered his head like a meek wife before speaking in a soft voice, " I ... I was only teasing you, wife. We shouldn't do something like this in such a place."

Bah! This was one of the most exciting places of all! The fear of getting caught, the thrill, the excitement. What a waste! He could be rolling in that small bed with his wife but now he had to act like this —— yuck, so disgusting! Why do women even like timid mers? What's wrong with bold!?

As Yin Fu thought of those things, a sudden fantasy popped into his head.

....

' How many times have I told you to stay away from me?' He looked at Mo Qiang who sat on the bed with a bleeding wound. Her dark clothes were ripped and covered with blood. With tattoos lining her skin, she looked broody and dangerous but the thrill in her eyes was hard to miss.

' Come on doc, you are being too judgemental,' said Mo Qiang as she leaned back on the bed with a lazy expression on her face as she licked her lips while looking up and down at his body causing Yin Fu to shudder. ' I got caught in the middle of a gang war and ended up tearing my shoulder up. My underlings brought me here because they know how 'well' you treat me.'

Yin Fu glared at her with his turquoise eyes as he took a cotton ball in his hands and walked closer to Mo Qiang before picking up the bottle of alcohol that he used to clean wounds. Only then did he say, ' Stop your underlings from saying such words to outsiders, what will happen to my reputation if someone was to hear such words about me? '

Her hand shot out and held his wrist while her eyes narrowed dangerously as she said, ' Is there someone whom you are seeing? Is that why you don't want such rumours to get out? If that is the case then I have to make sure that the rumours become reality.'

' Stop it, what nonsense... let me go——' Yin Fu yelled at her but Mo Qiang pulled him down while bringing his face closer to her core as she ordered, ' Make me come...if you finish in five minutes then I will let you go.' She raised her left foot and then pressed it on his member, while a wicked smile decorated her lips as she added, ' Hurry up doctor...if you fail then your beloved will come barging inside and catch you bringing another woman to orgasm. You wouldn't want that, right?'

Yin Fu's eyes blazed as he said, 'Five minutes, that's all you got huh?'

' Looks like Doctor Fu is unsatisfied,' Mo Qiang unbuttoned her pants and then pulled them down before spreading her legs wide. ' Fine, then I will try to hold back as much as possible ... I just hope that no one comes inside this ward while you are eating me out.'

...

" Hehe, hehehe..." Yin Fu giggled to himself while his head was lowered, Xiao Jiao who could see through his thoughts on the other hand was on her knees while dry heaving.

A bomb of seduction ——2---------------------



The more Yin Fu thought of the exciting plays that he could play with Mo Qiang if he was to act all shy, the more excited he became. Thus he lowered his head and then continued speaking, " I am afraid that this is not something that we should be doing at this place."

While he spoke, his shoulders which were trembling due to his laugh were noticed by Mo Qiang. She looked at the trembling mer and clapped her hands as if suddenly arriving at a wonderful realization. This mer...could it be? Was he afraid of physical contact?

Maybe this was the reason why he was shivering and trembling like this!?

Xiao Jiao was looking for the parental tab button when she caught hold of where Mo Qiang's train of thought was going. She whipped her head to look at Mo Qiang and screamed, " Look at him carefully, if you act so recklessly. He will eat you whole! Literally!"

However this time around instead of words, Xiao Jiao let out a round of squeaks causing both Mo Qiang and herself to be stunned. Even the three spirits were stunned by the squeaking of Xiao Jiao.

" Whats the matter with you?" Mo Qiang asked while the three spirits continued to stare at Xiao Jiao as well while the latter simply clutched her mouth and stared at the blue screen which was warning her not to say something that she shouldn't be saying.

It was only then did Xiao Jiao remembered that fairies like her were not allowed to disrupt the relationships of their hosts. Countless times, fairies had fallen for their host and thus tried to disrupt their host's relationship with their partners. For the sake of stopping something like this from happening ever again, fairies were then bound by a curse that stopped them from causing any disruption in the relationship of their host.

But she was not causing any disruption!

" I am protecting my host from a pervert! There is a difference! I demand a recheck!" Xiao Jiao screamed at the blue screen. Her tiny fists were pounding on the screen asking for a re-do but the screen did not listen to her instead it displayed a string of messages that made her struggle futile.

' The pervert is your host's husband.'

That's right, since Yin Fu was Mo Qiang's husband, he had the right to be perverse around Mo Qiang but how can she allow her beloved child to be tainted by that venomous bastard?

Xiao Jiao wanted to fight back but because she tried to go against the bound twice, she was punished by the heavenly powers and was knocked out cold.

Xiao Jiao:,; (ง :fire: ﾛ :fire: )ง; I will not let this go...zzzzZZZZ.

Mo Qiang on the other hand did not think that Yin Fu was harbouring any bad intentions towards her after all, he hated her so much just a couple of months ago. How could a person who despised her so much suddenly want to kiss and hug her?

Thus, she immediately concluded that Yin Fu was scared of her touch!

If that was the case then she would touch him so much that he would be submissive towards her!

As soon as this evil thought came to her head, Mo Qiang raised her head and then beckoned Yin Fu to come closer as she smilingly said, " What now you are not even going to kiss your wife? Weren't you the one who offered to kiss me right now, are you backing off now?"

' Not only do I want to kiss you ...I want you to fck me on this hospital bed!' Yin Fu cried in his head while pulling a handkerchief in his heart but even though he was crying tears of anger inwardly. On the outside, he continued to put up a resisting front as he cupped his cheek and then said with hesitation and helpless expression, "I was just teasing wife a little, how can I even think of kissing you? We just established our relationship ...how can we move so fast?"

Mo Qiang smiled even more when she saw Yin Fu act so shy, it looked like she finally caught hold of the weakness of one of these evil mers!

Thus, she turned her head and then pointed to her lips with a satisfied look on her face, " I don't know what you are thinking but since you promised a kiss, then you might as well come closer to me before I get angry. Didn't you say that you want to be my husband? Then what's wrong with a wife asking her husband for a kiss?" She was going to subdue this brat! As for the other two, once they leave she doesn't have to worry about anything!

Ah!! Looks like Master Shui was right! Acting coy was the way to a woman's heart! Look just because he acted stubborn and resisted, his wife wanted to kiss him! If he had jumped the gun then surely she would have hated it!

Yin Fu was more than excited to jump into Mo Qiang's arms but he was too afraid to show it on his face, what if he showed his excitement on his face and she pushed him away?

Thus with a fake fearful and shy look, he got close to Mo Qiang. His fingers twiddled with each other as he gazed up at Mo Qiang and then said in a soft voice, " I still think that we shouldn't do it ...you are not feeling good and in case someone comes inside then they will see us kissing——"

He was still talking when Mo Qiang caught hold of his wrist and pulled him close before saying in a sniggering voice, " Why are you so scared? Weren't you the one who wanted this...so what's the point of getting cold feet now..." she leaned close to his lips which caused their lips to brush against one another and muttered, " You teased me ...so shouldn't you be getting punished for going too far, eh? Now calm down and let me do my thing."

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A bomb of seduction ——3After speaking Mo Qiang pressed her lips against Yin Fu, she was only thinking of teasing him a little. After all, kissing someone and pecking someone on the lips were two different things—— Mo Qiang expected that as long as she kissed Yin Fu a little on his lips, he would be so disgusted that he would push her away.



That was how it was supposed to go but——

Can someone tell her why her fingers were knotted in his hair and why in the world she was sucking on his lips like he was some goddamn wine?

Mo Qiang had no idea how it happened, one second she leaned in close to Yin Fu supposedly only to peck Yin Fu on the lips but the second she kissed him on the lips, something ignited inside her.

With a tug she pulled him onto her lap and then thrust her hand in his hair as she pulled him closer—- the peck turned into a full-blown heavy kiss as her tongue entwined with his. Soft moans and slippery, squelchy sounds filled the ward as heat started to pool in her lower abdomen.

" Hah, wife..." Yin Fu moaned against her lips as she moved her lips along with his, the more he tried to escape the more she chased after his lips. Just what kind of aphrodisiac was he using on his lips?

Mo Qiang had no idea that for the sake of making Yin Fu the ultimate weapon of the Yin family after his elder brother eloped with another woman of the enemy fraction, Madam Yin pushed Yin Fu harder than ever.

She even pushed him to take all sorts of drugs and injected all kinds of aphrodisiacs into his body.

Madam Yin wished that all her mer sons would become seduction bombs which means she did not even care if those high levels of aphrodisiacs killed her sons. Her crazy antics coupled with the experiments killed many of the Yin family mer sons but Madam Yin had so many concubines that even if twenty or so mers died, it wouldn't make a difference to their family.

Yin Fu was one of those few mers who survived the onslaught of that torturous experiment but it ruined him forever. He was unhinged and lustful—— a mer whom every woman would detest. But even if he wanted to hide his perverted side, those aphrodisiacs were now deep in his bones and lust was like his second name, there was no separating the two of them anymore.

Thus, even though Yin Fu was no longer related to the Yin family —— he still had those aphrodisiac drugs inside his body. As long as he wanted to drive a woman crazy, it wouldn't take long for him to make the woman lose all her control and give in to his whims, from his touch to his eyes, he could make a woman submit as long as he wanted her to kneel in front of him.

All he needed was to kiss them once.

And because he very much wanted Mo Qiang to take him, Yin Fu did not hold back in the slightest or more like he couldn't hold back—— Mo Qiang was the first woman who attracted his attention like this and thus he wanted her ——body and soul. He wanted to swallow her whole and make her get him pregnant such that she would never be able to leave him like those women who threw him aside after finding out what kind of monster he was.

With his seduction skills working, Mo Qiang could only drown in his taste as she sucked his lower lip while kissing him.

" More..." she whispered as she went for his shirt, wanting to take it off and just as Yin Fu's eyes brightened with glee and excitement when Mo Qiang buried her face in the crook of his neck and sucked on his skin, the door of the ward slid open.

Yin Fu : ⁽⁽(੭ꐦ •̀_•́ )੭*⁾⁾

Who was the one who ruined his first time with his wife?!

He turned to look at the door but swallowed his words down as the one who stepped inside was none other than the Empress, Fu Zhao.

" Ahem, looks like we came at the wrong time?" Fu Zhao spoke smilingly as Yin Fu slid down from the bed and adjusted his collar to hide the hickey that Mo Qiang planted on his neck.

A teasing twinkle was glittering in the eyes of Fu Zhao as she looked at Yin Fu with a knowing look while turning to glance at the disoriented Mo Qiang who was still trying to reel back from what happened just now.

" I heard from the rumours that the relationship between you and your husbands is not good, Qi Qi but from the looks of it, those rumours did not have any truth in them," Fu Zhao teased Mo Qiang who frowned and then looked at the Empress with a guarded look.

Though Mo Qiang was confused about her sudden loss of control, she lowered her head and politely greeted Fu Zhao, " Your majesty."

But at the same time she really really wanted to give this woman a piece of her mind. Fine, they were in the wrong for getting hot and heavy in a hospital ward but any decent person would ring the bell and then slide the door open, who will just come barging inside? What if she was changing clothes?! Or what if she and Yin Fu went down to do the deed?

Though she did not have any intention to do something like this, but because of this woman, Mo Qiang was sure that she would have turned into a wooden pillar for all her life! Even if one day she suddenly decided to let go of her virginity, she would have been haunted by this woman's face!

Gahh! Was she born to be her nemesis or what?

While Mo Qiang gave Fu Zhao a stinky look, the latter simply ignored her and then turned to look at Mo Yan and the stupefied Wen Gui who seemed to have lost his soul before saying, " Should I commission some extra rewards? Looks like you two are going to be grandparents soon."

Mo Yan: ⁄(⁄ ⁄•⁄-⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄

Wen Gui: ( ◜◡༎ຶ), Grandparents???

The Majestic Empress" Your majesty please stop joking," Wen Gui's lips twitched as he looked at Fu Zhao. Though he couldn't understand why his daughter was kissing that mer, Wen Gui knew that unless his daughter didn't take the initiative to kiss Yin Fu, his skills would not have worked for her.



Thus, even if he was slightly upset about having this mer continue living as his son-in-law—— for the sake of his daughter's happiness, he was willing to adjust with Yin Fu. But even so, he would rather not become a grandfather so quickly! He was still very young to receive such a piece of shocking news after all, it wasn't every day a mafia prince gave birth to a child for their family!

Fu Zhao simply chuckled as she turned to look at Yin Fu and Mo Qiang before saying, " I am really sorry for disrupting your good time but as you already know I am a busy woman. I came here because as the Empress I have to visit people who got injured because of a sudden breach between two dimensions." With a smile playing on her lips she continued, " If I had the time, I would have allowed you to grace your parents with good news."

" Mother!" A voice interrupted Fu Zhao causing her to stop teasing Mo Qiang whose expression was getting worse by the minute while Yin Fu was still suppressing his anger which surged in his veins the second the door of this ward slid open.

" Ah," Fu Zhao turned to look at her beloved son before turning to look at Mo Qiang with a smile that was quite similar to that of a Cheshire Cat. " I brought my son with me to wish you a speedy recovery, I hope you are feeling good now?"

" What do you mean by that Your Majesty? I am more than enough——" Yin Fu exploded the second he heard Fu Zhao bring Fu Qi Hong with her but he was silenced by Xie Jie and Shao Hui. While one placed a hand on his mouth, the latter pulled Yin Fu's hand down which was showing a middle finger to the prince of the country.

Though they knew Yin Fu with his newfound feelings would be feeling upset because of Fu Qi Hong's presence they did not think that he would start treating Fu Qi Hong as his arch-enemy.

" Hm?" Fu Zhao turned to look at the struggling Yin Fu and then turned to look at Mo Qiang before continuing with her teasing as she remarked, " You sure are loved, Miss Qiang."

" Uh huh," Mo Qiang replied half-heartedly as her attention was on the mer behind Fu Zhao. Though she already knew that Fu Qi Hong was beautiful, she had to admit that those photo shoots did not do justice to him. With his inky black hair that resembled his mother and green eyes that glowed brightly, he looked quite ethereal and maybe he would have looked even better if he did not have that haughty expression on his face.

The way he was looking down at her made Mo Qiang wonder just what her predecessor did to this mer for him to hate her guts like this.

" Humph," Fu Qi Hong harumphed before turning his face away from Mo Qiang, he came with his mother just because he wanted to thank Mo Xifeng for that wonderful poem she wrote in his praise and nothing else.

He truly did not come here to check Mo Qiang out!

" You fcking——" Yin Fu wanted to curse at Fu Qi Hong for ignoring his wife but he couldn't as Xie Jie closed his mouth once again. He could not understand how someone like Fu Qi Hong could even harumph at his wife, though he was happy about it but still, how dare that mer 'humph' at his wife?

Fu Qi Hong narrowed his eyes at Yin Fu but he did not bother himself to fight with that mer. Unlike that lowly mer who was born and raised as a prostitute, he was the prince of this imperial star, his mother was the Empress and not a mafia lord with hundreds and thousands of murders of innocents on her head.

Thus, he did not bother with Yin Fu at all and simply turned to look at Mo Qiang before saying in a sniffy voice, " Don't think that you can go back to stealing my underpants just because I came to see you. I am doing this because I am the prince of the Imperial Star and this is my responsibility...don't think I gave you consent for anything. I hope you understand what the word consent means."

" I am not going to do anything like that!" Mo Qiang wished to drag her predecessor out of hell and give her a piece of her mind but she couldn't instead she could only bear the consequences of the actions of that idiotic Mo Qiang. " I was not in my right mind...and I do understand what consent is."

Fu Qi Hong sneered and then retorted, " What a majestic discovery! The last time you tried to sneak in my bed just because I scolded you. You thought that I was playing hard to get by asking you to leave me alone!"

Mo Qiang: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

" Something like this happened?" Fu Zhao turned to look at Mo Qiang with her red eyes glowing dangerously as she asked, " I wonder what Miss Qiang had to say about this?"

What could Mo Qiang even say, she could only kowtow on the hospital bed with her head bowed as she cried tears of anger and regret. " I apologize, I might have done some really stupid things but I have changed for the better and will not do something like that ever again. Please let me live."

Gosh! Even when she almost got killed by that turtle tuber, and saved more than a hundred lives —— she was still being treated like she was some damn criminal! Can't these people lighten up a little? At least let her breathe a little!

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The Majestic Empress——2" There is no need to bow so deep," Fu Zhao sat down on the stool and crossed her legs before staring at the back of Mo Qiang's head. " I know that my son is the most beautiful mer in the Imperial star, it must be hard for some to hold themselves back most of the time. But I would like it if you pursue him in a much normal manner."



" Yes, Your Majesty," Mo Qiang agreed with her head still lowered, forget about pursuing, she was going to run in the opposite direction the second her gaze landed on that mer in the future. They have to be joking if they thought that she was going to pursue that sharp-tongued mer, just a few careless words and he almost got her to lose her neck!

Fu Zhao waved her hand ordering Mo Qiang to sit up straight before she started speaking once again, " Anyway, the reason I came here isn't to settle the old scores that were left uncleared. I am here to thank Miss Qiang for her help and quick thinking in the face of danger that saved more than a hundred lives, if not for you diverting the attention of that turtle tuber, there was a very high possibility that all those people poisoned by the turtle tuber would be squashed to death."

Praise? Doesn't that mean that she was going to get a reward as well? Mo Qiang thought in her head. Back in her world, when a citizen did a good job not only did they get a trophy but they were given a small reward such as cheques or money! She saved hundreds of lives as well, so she should be given some money as well right?

" So, as a thank you for your hard work, we have come up with a reward to praise you," Fu Zhao finished her speech as she rummaged through her space ring and then brought out the so-called gift that she had prepared for Mo Qiang.

At first, Mo Qiang was holding her hands out more than willing to accept the gift but the next second she saw a flashy magazine handed to her. It both surprised and annoyed her but more than anything she was shocked when she saw the cover page.

On the cover page of the magazine was Fu Qi Hong dressed in a little rabbit cosplay with a small white tail at his bottom. It was both racy and seductive if another woman was to see it, they would have gotten a nosebleed but Mo Qiang was not like other women. She did not chase after beauty instead she chased after money!

Mo Qiang stared at the magazine in her hands for two seconds before she picked it by its back and then shook it with her hand. She thought that there were coins hiding inside the magazine if not there must be a cheque but even after shaking the magazine for more than two minutes she did not see anything drop and thus looked up at Fu Zhao who arched a brow and then questioned,

" What? Are you looking for photo cards? Those are yet to come out."

" No! I am looking for—— mumph!" her mother moved faster than her mouth and silenced her as Mo Yan knew what Mo Qiang was going to say, their entire family knew that Mo Qiang was no longer obsessed with Fu Qi Hong and instead her new found obsession was nothing but shiny, tinkling coins!

However, they couldn't disregard a gift handed by the imperial family! Thus Mo Yan could only accept the magazine with a stiff smile on her face and said,

" My daughter likes this gift very much, Your Majesty...thank you for thinking so much about her likes and dislikes."

Fu Zhao waved her hand as she calmly stated, " There is no need for you to thank me, at first I was going to hand Miss Qiang ten million imperial gold coins but then I remembered that one time at a banquet she sang a love song for my son claiming to love him more than trillions of gold... that's when I realised that handing your daughter money would be too bad. I would be looking down on her passionate love...and so I brought the latest copy of my son's shoot."

Mo Qiang for the first time in her life felt so angry that her heart was feeling stuffy and her mouth was filled with fishy taste. Was that woman an idiot? How can trillions of gold coin not compare with this mer? Sure he was beautiful but he was just like any other mer!

Who said that she did not want money? She wanted money! More than anything in this world!

Maybe her fury was so palpable that Fu Zhao also noticed it, she raised her brow as her voice dipped down and she said in a threatening voice, " I hope that Miss Qiang's feelings for my son haven't changed in just a few months. I truly hate liar especially those who stalk my son for fun and then move on like he was not worth their time....." her eyes turned darker and darker as she continued, " Every time a woman does something like that, I make sure to break their legs and wrench their eyes out. Since they cannot see whom they can offend and whom they cannot, they might as well become blind. After all, my son is not someone they can date and dump."

Mo Qiang: (˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ ) ‧º, if you cheat like this what am I supposed to do?

She picked up the magazine from the bed and hugged it to her chest before smiling through her pain as she spoke through her gritted teeth, " You have no idea how much I adore this magazine, Your Majesty. My heart started beating wildly ( with fear) the second I received it."

Damn her predecessor to hell! Of all the mers, she had to provoke the one whose mother was the final boss! Mo Qiang was afraid that if she dared to say that she no longer had any feelings for Fu Qi Hong, she would be blown into smithereens!

The Majestic Empress——3---------------



" I am glad that your feelings are still the same, Miss Qiang," the pressure that was filling the entire ward loosened the second Fu Zhao smiled causing the others to heave a sigh of relief. " I would have hated to make you depart from this world, more importantly, your mother is my dear friend and subject. It would be quite terrible if I was to hurt you."

" Haha," Mo Qiang did not say anything and simply laughed, she did not know about anyone but she was feeling quite troubled. At this moment she felt like a groom who was being forcefully married at gunpoint but even so, she could only put the magazine in her hands carefully to the side and under Fu Zhao's eyes she even caressed it a little to make it look like she really thought of it as a treasure.

It was all because of her bad luck, if she was born a bit luckier then——

" Don't worry," just as Mo Qiang thought that she was not going to do anything more, Fu Zhao parted her lips and then interrupted Mo Qiang's train of thought again. " I am not here to only hand a magazine to you," With a smile on her face she looked at Mo Qiang with a knowing look. " This was just a small appreciation for doing something good, the true reward is something else."

Mo Qiang's eyes lit up as she turned to look at Fu Zhao, this time she was sure that she was going to get a large sum of money as a reward but instead of hearing the wonderful tone of money being added to her back account, she heard Fu Zhao say, " I thought long and hard before deciding that its better for our star nation to have a responsible guardian like you, which is why I came here to offer you the position of assistant General, what do you think? If you take this position then you will be sitting in the same position as your mother in a few years."

This time it was Mo Yan who stiffened beside her Wen Gui too turned to look at Fu Zhao, he had a feeling that the reason Fu Zhao was bringing Mo Qiang to the imperial star with her was because she wanted to balance the power out in the court but they did not want to do anything with the imperial court anymore!

Even the three mers were shocked, they looked at Mo Qiang and then turned to glance at each other. Though this position was respectable it was too flashy and dangerous, what was more this post was right under Madam Wei.

There was no way that woman would sit still if Mo Qiang was to accept that position!

Fu Qi Hong turned to look at his mother with a suspicious look on his face, as far as he was aware, his mother did not discuss this matter with the officials in the court nor did she hold a discussion with Madam Wei. What was she trying to do by pulling Mo Qiang back into the power struggle?

Though he was slightly confused he did not say anything and simply left his mother alone. Instead, he turned his attention to Mo Xifeng who stood behind her mother but the second he turned to look at Mo Xifeng, the latter sensed his gaze and looked up at him.

As soon as Fu Qi Hong's gaze met with Mo Xifeng, he blushed heavily before turning to look away. This woman ...this woman wrote that poem for him, she must truly like him!

Mo Xifeng: (｡· _ ·｡) ? Why was the prince looking at her as if they were some distant lovers who became estranged from each other?

Though Mo Xifeng was confused she did not ponder on the question for long as all her attention was on Mo Qiang. She was afraid to hear the answer from her sister, as she knew how much Mo Qiang wanted to be a general. It was her dream to succeed Mo Yan and it was also the reason why she hated her. Mo Qiang thought that with her skills, Mo Xifeng would snatch the position which belonged to her and thus she was always on guard with her ....

And so, if Mo Qiang became the General then doesn't that mean that she will start being on guard with her once again? Mo Xifeng did not want that...the two of them were finally getting close even Wen Gui was willing to accept her a little bit.

Just as the tension was running high, Mo Qiang shook her head and then determinedly refused, " I am thankful that her majesty thinks so highly of me but I am afraid that I cannot take on this responsibility. I have something that I want to do very much and I am afraid that becoming an assistant General would make me stray from the path that I have decided for myself."

Fu Zhao narrowed her eyes as she slowly raised from her chair causing the rest of the Mo family to go down on their knees as she asked in a rumbling voice, " Are you refusing to accept the offer handed to you by the Empress?"

No sooner did she finish speaking Mo Qiang felt the pressure from earlier come back and this time it was twice as edgy as before. Her hands clenched in her lap as she parted her lips to say something but the pressure was too much for her to bear.

And just as Mo Qiang thought that she was going to end up fainting once again, she heard a chilly growl from behind followed by a set of 'woofs'.

At first, she did not pay attention to Huhu's barking but as the tension started to leave her body, Mo Qiang's eyes widened as she remembered that if her level was to rise the powers of her spirits would also rise.

Thus, she immediately yelled at the pup to stop, " Huhu no!"

But it was too late, a set of five long fingers stretched forward and picked Huhu up from the bed as Fu Zhao's eyes twinkled with glee of satisfaction, " Looks like you are hiding a lot from me, Miss Qiang. Would you confess on your own...or should I make you confess?"

Mo Qiang was slapped



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Game over.

Mo Qiang would be lying if these words did not ring inside her head because they did, the second Fu Zhao picked up Huhu with the back of his neck, she knew that she was in rather big trouble.

But even so, Mo Qiang tried to play it safe by lowering her head as she smiled awkwardly and replied, " I have no idea what you are talking about Your Majesty."

" Is that so?" However, she seemed to have underestimated Fu Zhao by a great shot because the next second the woman beamed brilliantly and threatened, " Then I guess you will not find it troublesome if I was to take this pup away? For some reason I find him really cute, what do you say, Miss Qiang?"

Mo Qiang went pliant on the bed then and there as she kowtowed in front of Fu Zhao before pleading the fifth, " Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I will be honest with you that pup is my spirit and I cannot live without him and neither can my sister or my family."

" How so?" Fu Zhao sat down on the chair with her ankles crossed as she placed Huhu on her lap and started to skim her fingers through the fur of the puppy as she added in a tinkling voice, " And I would suggest that you speak the truth because I really hate liars."

Mo Qiang : ( ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ഒ

Noticing that she had no other choice than to speak the truth, Mo Qiang could only tell the truth to Fu Zhao once she was done speaking Mo Qiang took a tentative peek at Fu Zhao and seeing the smile on the woman's face, she couldn't help but shudder. Why? Why was this woman smiling like this?

" Miss Qiang, it seems that you don't know..." Fu Zhao drawled as she stared at Mo Qiang with her red eyes that seemed to be flickering with black dots when her eyes became lively. " People with spiritual energy as you are supposed to report to the administrative office of the imperial family as your powers lie under our jurisdiction."

Mo Qiang of course knew this but she did not wish to work under someone which was why she deliberately skipped the registration process who would have thought that this woman would come looking for her?! Damn, there were millions of citizens out there so why was this Empress only focusing on her.

" Your majesty," just as Mo Qiang was shedding tears of anger and helplessness inside her heart, Mo Yan suddenly spoke up. " I know that my daughter should have registered herself but she is still the daughter of an exiled woman. Even if the charges on my head have been cleared it doesn't change the fact that we were sent to Dead Star after getting ruled against. So, I don't think there was any need for Mo Qiang to register herself."

Fu Zhao did not say anything for two seconds before she turned to look at Mo Yan and asked, "Are you saying that I should let this slide as your family is still living in an exiled star?"

" I am just saying that I would like my daughters to live a normal life without being targeted," stated Mo Yan with a determined expression. " Since the people of Imperial Star turned their back on us already, I think we should stay where we were kicked, Your Majesty. I do not think that bringing a wild spirit under subjugation would help you, Your Majesty, if anything it will only cause you chaos."

Mo Yan's words brought a smile to Fu Zhao's lips as she remarked, " I have more than one way to tame a wild woman, Ah Yan."

" I know but I also know that you wish to have loyal subordinates more than powerful ones, Your Majesty," countered Mo Yan.

At first Mo Qiang thought that Fu Zhao was going to go ballistic and blow Mo Yan up when she saw Mo Yan contradicting Fu Zhao but instead contrary to her expectation, Fu Zhao burst out laughing as she slapped her thighs and said, " You do know me better than anyone, Ah Yan."

She then turned to look at Mo Qiang who immediately raised her guard as she looked at the woman who was eyeing her as if she was thinking of the funniest way of making trouble for her. Or sadistic. Either of the two.

Sure enough, when Fu Zhao opened her mouth she immediately caused Mo Qiang to shed tears of blood.

" I will not ask Miss Qiang to share her skills with the imperial family then if she doesn't wish to work under me then I am not going to force her either but ...since I am keeping my mouth close—— I think I need some treats as well, what do you think Miss Qiang?"

' I knew it! This woman never wanted me to work under her. Her target was on my goods!' Mo Qiang thought in her head but even though she was quite upset about handing the 'treats' to Fu Zhao at a much lower charge, she could only smile like an experienced saleswoman and then clap her hands together as she agreed with Fu Zhao, " Sure, your majesty. I will give you a fifty per cent discount at each——"

"Nuh-uh," Fu Zhao raised her hand and then wriggled a finger as she refused to agree with Mo Qiang as she said, " Free of charge. I am your queen, you are supposed to be offering such good things to me for me."

Mo Qiang: ....?

Mo Qiang: .....?!

Mo Qiang:...!!!!!

" Why don't you——mph!" Her words were cut off by Mo Yan who lowered her head and then agreed with the request of Fu Zhao, " As you wish Your Majesty, we will offer the new crops to you free of charge."

" Excellent," ignoring the throbbing nerve on Mo Qiang's face Fu Zhao grinned shamelessly. Now that she had gotten what she wanted, Fu Zhao did not wish to linger anymore as she stood up from the chair and looked at Mo Qiang with a glint in her eyes. " We will meet again soon, Miss Qiang."

" Ai nevah wanmt toh meet youh again!" Mo Qiang spoke against her mother's palm while grinding her teeth. This petty miser! She not only took away her monetary reward and handed her a Playgirl magazine but she also took advantage of her!

Oh her heart! It's bleeding buckets!

While Mo Qiang was crying in her heart, Fu Qi Hong was standing in front of Mo Xifeng as he shyly said, " Miss Xifeng, I want to speak to you alone."

Mo Xifeng: (¬_¬")

Mo Qiang was slapped ——2--------------



Mo Xifeng still could not understand why Fu Qi Hong was looking at her like they were having some secret affair. However since the other party was an imperial prince, she couldn't refuse him and thus agreed with a soft bow, " I understand your highness. Please follow me."

With that, she turned on her heels and then headed towards the resting area with Fu Qi Hong following closely behind her.

As the others watched them leave, Fu Zhao turned to look at Mo Yan and then remarked in a teasing manner, " I think we will become in-laws one way or another, Ah Yan. Why don't you think about coming back to the imperial Star?"

" Please stop joking, Your Majesty," Though Mo Yan did not know why Fu Qi Hong called Mo Xifeng out to talk without anyone prying into their conversation, she had a feeling that even if this was a confession Mo Xifeng might not accept Fu Qi Hong because her daughter —— still hadn't moved on from the heartbreak.

Six years of relationship broken in a matter of seconds all because of a fake accusation. If that mer truly loved her daughter then he would have stayed with her no matter what situation she was in, after all, it was she who was accused as a traitor and not her daughters.

But that mer jumped into the arms of another woman the second he found out that Mo Xifeng's future prospects were in shambles after the sudden accusation. For Mo Xifeng to forget about that betrayal so quickly, it was nearly impossible.

While Mo Yan had her worries, the mers had their own worries.

Yin Fu who clearly sensed Fu Qi Hong's interest towards his wife was quite uneasy in his heart. He had a feeling that whatever was going to happen now, was definitely not something that he wished to see, his right eye was twitching and every time his right eye twitched, something bad happened!

While Shao Hui frowned at the two, he waited for jealousy to usurp his heart but scarily enough nothing like that happened to make his face turn extraordinarily pale. On the other Xie Jie calmly glanced at the two figures walking out of the ward and blinked his eyes while rubbing his fingers —— he too waited for a sort of nervousness to hit his heart but unfortunately for him, he did not feel a flicker of emotions.

It looks like he didn't like Mo Xifeng as much as he thought he did.

....

On the other side, inside the resting room, Mo Xifeng poured some maple syrup water for Fu Qi Hong. Since the two of them were alone, she did not stay close to Fu Qi Hong, once she was done pouring the water in a small drinking vessel, she sat on the bed which was quite far from the chair on which Fu Qi Hong was sitting.

When Fu Qi Hong saw Mo Xifeng pour out clean and refreshing water from the thermos, he was stunned beyond his beliefs. At first, when he heard Mo Qiang tell his mother that she could purify water, he thought that she was exaggerating her skills as there were many core users who could purify water but their purification skills were never up to the mark as the water purified by them was not fit for human consumption.

But the clear liquid in the small thermo cup was enough to relay just how powerful Mo Qiang's skills were!

' However, does this taste good?' Fu Qi Hong thought in his head before bringing the thermo cup to his lips and then taking a sip. The second the warm water trickled down his throat, Fu Qi Hong felt his eyes widen as a refreshing taste burst in his mouth, clearing half of his stress away.

He brought his hand close to his mouth in shock as he commented, " This is wonderful!"

"Of course, Daddy Gui added A+++ grade maple syrup in it which is why the water tastes sweeter and refreshing," explained Mo Xifeng, there was a touch of warmth in her voice as she spoke highly of Mo Qiang. " My sister did a great job in raising those maple trees and corn seeds."

Once Mo Xifeng brought the matter of those maple and corn seeds up, Fu Qi Hong could not stop himself from lowering his head as he shyly said, " Well, half of the credit goes to you as well, Miss Xifeng." He placed the cup on the table before smiling at Mo Xifeng and adding softly, " If not for you, Miss Qiang would've never gotten the chance to grow those trees."

This time, Mo Xifeng was even more confused as she furrowed her brows and then said, " Half of my credit? How? I did not do anything."

While Mo Xifeng was speaking the truth, Fu Qi Hong thought that she was just being humble and praised her even more passionately, " Miss Xifeng, your heart is really big. You were the one who won the contest and handed the seeds to your sister but even so, you refuse to let others know of your contribution."

" Contest? What contest?" Mo Xifeng got more and more confused with the conversation, she felt like the prince and her were not even having a conversation on the same plane. What contest was he talking about?

" You don't have to be shy," Fu Qi Hong smiled at Mo Xifeng understandingly, he knew that Mo Xifeng was a woman of few words and thus she must be having a hard time accepting the fact that she wrote such wonderful romantic poetry for him.

But this was what he liked about her! This woman expressed her heartfelt feelings for him silently but now that he was in front of her, she was having a hard time being honest in front of him!

It was just so 'moe'! Kyaaah!!

With his hands cupping his face, he continued, " I know everything Miss Xifeng and just so you know I am willing to try it out with you as you are the kind of woman, I like."

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