Even Rain ——2Maybe Xie Jie realised that he slipped up which was why he immediately cleared his throat and looked away before saying in a cold voice, " I mean... I have never seen clear ponds in all my life. Even the one at the shooting is created through special effects. Don't think that I found you cool even for a minute. "



' Which means that he really found me cool for a minute there,' Mo Qiang seemed to have understood Xie Jie a little, compared to the other two at least he was a bit normal.

[ ...So you haven't told her?]

" I did not have the courage to do so," Xiao Jiao turned to look away upon the questioning of Xiao Ah. She really did not want to tell that among the three, the most dangerous one was Xie Jie——Mo Qiang was still finding it hard to stomach the idea of having a mafia drug lady's son as her husband if she found out that neither of the three husbands of hers were normal then she might really sit down and go on a strike in a form of protest.

" Yes, Yes... I get it," Mo Qiang nodded as she turned to walk over to the pond before turning to look at Xie Jie. She thought over something before smiling teasingly as she said, " Then does it mean that you are not going to watch me clean the pond either?"

Xie Jie frowned. He looked at Mo Qiang who was smiling at him before closing his eyes and turning to look at the maple trees again. ' Childish, she really thinks that she can tease me like that and I will respond like Brother Fu? He might be willing to be at the beck and call of Mo Qiang but I am different than him.'

With such thoughts, Xie Jie calmed down and no longer looked at Mo Qiang, it was as if she did not concern him in the slightest. He looked like an immortal who stood at the top of the mountain without a single thing that could move him.

" He is truly something isn't he?" Xiao Jiao spoke to Mo Qiang as the two came to a stop in front of the pond. " there is not even an ounce of change in his expression, he is truly a breath of fresh air."

Compared to Yin Fu who was willing to praise even how Mo Qiang ate, Xie Jie was someone with really firm ideals.

At least he did not even waver in front of Mo Qiang showing her powers.

" Do you really think so?" Mo Qiang turned her head and looked at Xie Jie who was staring at the maple trees as if they were really fascinating but if one were to pay attention they would be able to see him shaking his leg. And rubbing the tips of her fingers, this was something that he did quite usually when he was impatient.

'Heh,' Mo Qiang snickered inwardly but did not tease the mer as she knew that their relationship wasn't that good. She had yet to think of a way to bring his brother back and from what she had found out Xie Jie's brother was not living a good life with the official whom her predecessor sold Xie Jie's brother.

There was a hell lot of work for her to do.

Mo Qiang sighed and then crouched down, ignoring the icky feeling in her heart, she took out two tubes of protective creams that would protect her skin from radioactive reactions and then poured them all over her arms before rubbing them on her skin. Once she was sure that the cream had made a thick layer on her arm, she drew in a breath and then ignoring the urge to puke when she saw the greenish muck, she thrust her hand inside the pond in one go.

The second her skin made contact with the murky liquid, Mo Qiang felt her skin burn.

" What are you doing?" Xie Jie thought that she was going to use one of her spirits to do the purifying work. He never expected that she would actually thrust her hand inside the pond, it couldn't be even called a pond as most of the useless trash from the Imperial Star was thrown in that small pit before it was filled with brim with god knows what kind of chemicals.

" What do you think?" Mo Qiang answered through gritted teeth. She turned to look at Xie Jie and noticing the frown on his face smiled, " Don't worry I am fine."

" Just who do you think——" Xie Jie opened his mouth to speak but before he could tell Mo Qiang that he wasn't worried about her and he was only telling her to pull her hand out because if Wen Gui found out that Mo Qiang did something so reckless when he was with her then ——

' Hoho, my dear son-in-law. Did you have fun watching my daughter suffer like that? Then how about this... we are going to have a long father-in-law and son-in-law spa together where you will be getting a full body wax including your nether regions, what do you say?'

Xie Jie shuddered, he still hasn't forgotten, the last time he harmed Mo Qiang. Wen Gui took him to the Imperial star and got him to wax even his arsehole it was a pain that Xie Jie would rather not like to feel ever again.

But he didn't get a chance to say anything as the pond suddenly exploded with a loud bang. He raised his head worried that they would be covered in that green muck but to his surprise crystal clear droplets fell on his face from the sky.

It felt cold yet warm at the same time, his eyes widened at the small rain that happened due to the explosion before dropping his gaze to look at Mo Qiang's whose arm was now covered in pus-filled boils. She cheekily smiled at him and then said, " What do you say? Now you have seen not only a clear pond but even rain."



Bi polar muchXie Jie stared at the clear water and then touched the wetness on his face, he was not a fan of surprise in fact he never got a decent surprise in his life, especially from a woman. Every time his mother came looking for him, Xie Jie wished to drill himself further in the closet but she would always find him and then she would give him those nasty surprises that he hated.



So, when Mo Qiang showered him with the rain that he had always dreamed of Xie Jie felt like his head had short-circuited. He simply looked at the woman smiling at him and did not move nor did he say anything, he simply stared at her as if he was transfixed in his place by a magical spell.

Seeing him stare at her as if he had been stunned by what she had done, Mo Qiang's smile widened and she asked with a smug look on her face, " What are you shocked by how cool I look?"

Startled awake by what Mo Qiang said, Xie Jie's eyes widened as he realised what he had been doing till now.

' Am I stupid? Was I staring at her like a pervert just now?' Xie Jie thought in his head as his entire face turned red. His face looked like a cooked shrimp as he raised his hand to cover his blushing face.

" No this is not what you think——" Xie Jie tried to explain after all he could never allow himself to fall for a woman who made his brother suffer so much and was yet to apologize for it. However, the more he tried to explain it the more he realized that none of it made any sense, in the end like a coward he turned around to run back home.

This ... This was not a romantic comedy, so why was he acting like the male protagonist of it?!

Xie Jie had never thought of himself as a male protagonist of a romantic movie, in his head, he was the sole survivor of those dark, tragic movies where no one stood by his side. So, the thumping heartbeat, startled thoughts and the various emotions that flashed past in his heart within a second confused him so much that he almost tumbled on the ground.

" Woah, are you okay?" Mo Qiang caught his arm just in time as he was about to kiss the ground but as soon as she touched him Xie Jie felt a sudden memory flash in his head. Hiding in the closet, getting found and dragged out of the hidden spot even when he begged and screamed —— and before he knew he flicked Mo Qiang's hand off his arm and shouted, " Don't touch me!"

His scream caught the two of them off guard, Mo Qiang looked at him in surprise while Xie Jie suddenly got overwhelmed with guilt. She was clearly trying to help him, she even made him watch the rain that he wanted to see so much including the clear water pond..now he could simply come here to practice his lines as the sight was too beautiful.

But he couldn't bring himself to say that he was sorry, it was as if he couldn't find the right word and in the end, all that left his lips was, " You better watch where you are touching."

Xie Jie: Wahh, this is not what I wanted to say. Σ(ಥ_ಥ).

" Oh sure," Mo Qiang stared at him as if he was a complete freak something that he did not blame her for, his colleagues and classmates all looked at him like this because he always spoke crassly, he could have spoken gently and nicely but in the end, he just had to open his mouth and curse!

This had always been an old problem of his, he clearly meant to say sorry but ended up saying something totally different and hurt Mo Qiang, looks like he had collected enough material to discuss with his psychiatrist for today.

Just as Xie Jie was about to leave, he heard Mo Qiang say, " I wasn't stopping you because I wanted to tease you anymore." She shrugged off her jacket that she was wearing and then stretched her hand in front of him, a light blush scattered over her cheeks. " Your shirt is completely soaked, it's better if you wear this over it."

Only then did Xie Jie look down and see that his white shirt was thoroughly soaked, it was sticking to his pale skin so closely that he could even make out the tiny moles that were scattered all over his waist. What's more, his pink pebbles were hardened and pushed against the fabric of the shirt as if wanting to be caressed and touched.

Xie Jie: ⁄(⁄ ⁄•⁄-⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄

' This...why was this happening to me!' He stared at his soaked figure and felt like jumping into the pond and laying down to eternal sleep once and for all. So embarrassing, not only did he scold Mo Qiang for no reason —— but he even flashed his body in front of her when she was trying to help him.

Xie Jie was so angry that he was trembling.

Never before had something like this happened to him, at least he had never made blunders like this.

He raised his head and looked at Mo Qiang who was staring at him while holding her jacket in her hand. He raised his hand to take the jacket from Mo Qiang, inwardly his mind was telling him to thank Mo Qiang but the second his mouth opened he ended up making another blunder,

" What is it? Are you feeling all hot and bothered just because you saw my bare chest? What a pervert."

Xie Jie: (.≖ˇｪˇ≖｡)

This was not what he wanted to say!

" Huh?" Mo Qiang stared at the mer with confusion marred on her face. her brows furrowed as she stretched her hand to take back her jacket, " Listen, dude, I have no idea what is wrong with you but if you don't want to take my jacket then don't."

However, as soon as he tried to take her jacket back, the mer snatched it away and then said, " I am taking it."

Then without saying another word, he turned on his heels and ran back home.

Mo Qiang stared at his back speechlessly before muttering, " Is his head okay? Do I need to arrange a doctor for him? Bipolar much. "

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The sound of the explosion attracted the attention of the soldiers working next to the fields they were taking care of the three-horned chicken along with the turtle tuber that needed extreme care as it was still a child when they heard the sudden bang as if the ground under their feet was going to be broken in half.

Thus, they rushed towards the sound of the explosion only to see Mo Qiang and Xie Jie quarrelling.

" Should we just take a look at what happened?" One of the soldiers asked while looking at Mo Qiang and Xie Jie quibble.

" What nonsense are you spouting?" Ye Shu immediately pulled the soldier behind and then said in an unhurried manner, " Miss Qiang and her husband are having a lover spat if you interrupt them, wouldn't they feel embarrassed? Read the room will you ?"

After being saved by Mo Qiang Ye Shu was now Mo Qiang's number fan and thus would fight with anyone who tried to harm Mo Qiang in any way.

When the soldiers were scolded for not reading the room, they could only pull themselves back into the shadows and hear Xie Jie call Mo Qiang a pervert.

'Damn, what a hardliner mer,' they all thought in their heads as they looked at Xie Jie. Compared to Yin Fu and Shao Hui, Xie Jie looked like a pretty doll with his blue eyes and black hair but it was only when his mouth was closed. The second he opened his mouth, he would end up creating a mess.

They all thought that Mo Qiang was going to punish Xie Jie for calling her a pervert but she only tried to take her jacket back, only for Xie Jie to snatch it away as he turned his face away and ran with the jacket.

At that moment, even the soldiers felt that Xie Jie might be suffering from bipolar disorder. How could he say one thing one second and another thing another second?

Only when he left did they step out of the small forest of maple trees and then walk over to Mo Qiang who stood next to the empty fields which were filled with zig-zag pits.

" Miss Qiang, are you all right?" Ou Qi asked as she looked at Mo Qiang who was frowning. " We heard a loud bang just now, is everything okay?"

Mo Qiang was surprised by the sudden words of concern but before she could answer Ou Qi's question, Mo Xifeng also came running with her sword in hand. She looked around the surroundings before turning to look at Mo Qiang and asking, " What happened? Who attacked?"

" No one attacked me," realizing that her small trick had attracted the attention of the entire group of people, Mo Qiang rubbed her nose awkwardly and then pointed at the pond which was now filled with clear water. " I just tried to clean the entire pond which is why it caused a massive explosion. I apologize if I startled anyone."

However no one was listening to Mo Qiang anymore, they all had long rushed to the pond and were now looking at the clear water as if it was a rare treasure something which it was.

"I...It's really water! I only saw it in the pictures you know? My mom used to tell me that our great great great grandmother used to have a small pond in the back of her garden where she used to keep koi fish. The one which was rumoured to bring good luck," one of the soldiers excitedly chattered.

" I know, I know ... I haven't seen the koi fish or anything related to it but my great grandma used to have a large tattoo of the koi fish on her back, she said to my grandma that since they could no longer see koi in flesh they might as well make a tattoo. Now it's a tradition in my family for the head to have a koi fish drawn on her back," chimed in another soldier.

" But seriously this is water?" Ye Shu's eyes were shining brightly as she looked at the pond full of clear water and then raised her head to look at Mo Qiang before clasping her hands together and begging, " Sister Qiang, can I please...please touch the water? I promise I will only touch it and I won't do anything else."

Mo Qiang however had other plans as she smiled and then waved her hand before saying, " What are you saying? Mother Nature was the one who blessed me with this power, how can I ignore her children? You are not only allowed to touch it but you can also drink it but make sure to not waste the water as I cannot purify another water body for a week and we still need water for growing a few more crops."

" Thank you, Sister Qiang!" Her words brought extreme joy to the soldiers, they have seen the Mo family drink water but they have never thought of asking for drinking water from Mo Qiang or anyone else. As they knew water was a precious thing and if Mo Yan had enough to share then she would have done without them asking.

It must have been because they did not have enough for themselves, that the Mo family did not share the water with them. But now that this big pond was cleared up by Mo Qiang, the soldiers were no longer guilty about drinking from it.

With that, they rushed to drink the water but were stopped by Ou Qi.

" Everyone line up," However Ou Qi was worried that in their hurry, one of the soldiers might tumble down the pond and dirty the water which was so clean. They were covered in poisonous gases and fumes how could they dirty such clean water?

She looked sternly at her colleagues and then said, " First wipe your drinking vessels with sanitizing wet wipes and only then use them to fill up the water, no one is allowed to push one another. If anyone was to fall into the pond it would be troublesome." She then turned to Ye Shu and said, " Go and bring an ultraviolet protection lid for the pond, if something falls inside it, it will become unfit to drink once again."

" Yes, Sister Qi!"

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Is Mo Qiang bullying the soldiers?While the soldiers were busy lining up, Mo Xifeng turned to look at Mo Qiang whose entire arm was filled with pus-filled boils and found them extremely unsightly to look at, she caught Mo Qiang's wrist which was unaffected and then pulled her aside before taking out an anti reactive ointment.



" You...was there a need to hurry like this?" Mo Xifeng carefully applied the ointment on the boils but they were too large to be handled by a simple ointment at this point. " You could have slowly purified the water."

" Yeah, I could have," Mo Qiang had done it so many times that the boils no longer bothered her, at this point, she felt a bit uneasy if she did not feel the sting of the boils in her right arm.

Xiao Jiao: (¬_¬")

" What are you a masochist?" She remarked while looking at Mo Qiang.

" Hmm?" Mo Qiang turned to look at Xiao Jiao with a blazing smile on her face and then retorted, " Yeah, ever since I got entangled with you... I have never felt anything else other than pain. Now I am so used to it that I feel a bit empty," she sighed and then touched her heart before saying with a winded expression on her face, " I hope you will take responsibility for breaking me like this, Jiao Jiao."

Xiao Jiao felt so disgusted that she wanted to slap Mo Qiang but then she pondered over what Mo Qiang said to her and for the first time in her life realised that Mo Qiang was indeed right. Ever since the two became partners, Mo Qiang was either entangled with overly large chickens or killer perverts.

Seeing that Xiao Jiao was silent Mo Qiang smugly scoffed when she heard one of the soldiers exclaim.

" Wuwuwu! I never thought that this was how great water tasted! So fresh...just one sip is enough to wash all my tiredness vanish," with her arm covering her eyes the soldier cried as she finished drinking the water. Now she understood that the thing that they had been drinking in the name of water was a disgrace! A shame and a stain in the name of water! How can that water solution be anywhere close to the real deal? Even calling it a substitute for water was literally shaming water.

Even Ou Qi was in a daze as she looked at the bottle in her hand and then stared at the horizon before a single tear escaped her right eye and said, " Miss Qiang even if I have to give my life for you.. I wouldn't mind it now."

" What are you talking about? Just drink as much as you want just don't waste it," Mo Qiang waved her hand. The pond wasn't deep but it was not shallow either, what was more the rain in this place happened every three weeks, though it meant that she had to purify the water again and again, at least she did not have to worry about running out of the raw source for the time being.

She then turned to look at Mo Xifeng who was staring at her looking slightly upset because she had not given her a reply yet. Mo Qiang sighed and then took out the turtle tuber from her space ring before showing the germinated potato to Mo Xifeng.

" See this? This is called a potato," Mo Qiang explained as she pointed to the white roots that were poking out of the surface of the potato. " I am going to sow it in the soil and then leave it to grow but the thing is that the soil here is not exactly the kind of soil that will allow the growth of this tuber properly which is why I need a lot of water to make sure that the potatoes will grow without any trouble. I cannot bother to purify water every day and then irrigate the fields as I have other things to do."

The deadline of three days was coming to an end tomorrow which meant that Lian Shou would be done with the purification of the turtle tuber poison as well. If that woman was not inclined to lose her life so soon, Mo Qiang was sure that Lian Shou would deliver what she asked her to deliver.

She needed to revive the magma bees by tomorrow and then she also needed to go to the Srephre dimension to look for the Violet Mountain Cows after that she also needed to create the wooden structure to give support to the grape plants. There was a bunch of things for her to do which was watering the potatoes would definitely fall on someone else.

Most probably Mo Yan as the latter was quite interested in gardening, Mo Qiang had noticed her mother pruning and cleaning the fields, she even took care of the pests that were bigger than rats from harming her fields.

In that case, she was going to leave Mo Yan to take care of the fields, maybe it was because Mo Yan did not get the chance to raise her daughters as she was always on the battleground. So out of guilt, she was now raising Mo Qiang's garden as her baby.

Mo Xifeng looked at the potato tuber and then sighed before saying, " You still should not have done something so reckless. I understand that your powers are different than mine but there are ways to deal with it, without harming yourself." As Mo Xifeng spoke, she thought that one of these days she would ask Lian Shou to make a cream which would protect Mo Qiang better than the ones which were in the market.

[Lian Shou: Demons! General Mo Yan did not give birth to two daughters she raised two demons! ]

" I understand," Mo Qiang smiled at Mo Xifeng when she suddenly felt someone walking towards her. She turned to look at the soldier who had come to a stop in front of her and was just about to ask what was wrong with her when the soldier suddenly knelt on the ground just in time for a bunch of mers to pass by the street.

"What's going on? Is Miss Qiang bullying the soldiers again?"

Mo Qiang: ,; (:fire: ﾛ :fire: ) ;, You are wrong! -

Sneaky, devious womanMo Qiang was stupefied, she did not know what to say anymore. She turned to look at Mo Xifeng and then asked, " Do I look like a mafia boss running a gang or something?"



Her sister who was staring at the soldier kneeling in front of them turned to look at her and then with a blink of her eyes asked, " Do you want me to say the truth or do you want me to lie sister?" Her voice did not change, it was calm and moderate as if Mo Xifeng was simply talking about how nice the morning sky looked.

" Never mind," Mo Qiang was aware of what Mo Xifeng was going to say and thus turned to look at the kneeling soldier before asking, " Who are you? What are you doing by kneeling on the ground like this?"

The soldier was kneeling on the ground with a straight back and her fists clenched on her knees, when Mo Qiang questioned her, the woman raised her head and then sternly spoke, " My name is Cao De, I worked under General—- Madam Mo ever since I was twenty. I was third in command and after Madam Lian, you can say that I looked after the team led by Mo Yan."

" And?" Mo Qiang blinked her eyes before stating calmly, " I mean I am not trying to be rude or anything but it still doesn't explain why are you kneeling on the ground."

Cao De sucked in a breath and then lowered her head before replying, " After I was sent to this Star, my husband divorced me. He said that I did not have anything more to offer to my children, so not only did he take all the money that I had but he also took my children to the Cartier Star and married someone else."

She clenched her fists tightly and then continued with tears brimming in her eyes, " For six months I haven't seen my children. I want to send something good to them but most importantly..." she raised her head and smirked coldly, " I want to show that bastard who ran away after abandoning me that I am doing well and much better than him. He often sends me photos on the monitor going here and there while trying to rub it in my face that he is doing good... I want to rub it in his face too."

" Enough," Mo Qiang felt her heart touched as she raised her hand and then patted Cao De on her shoulder as she wiped a single tear sticking to her eyelash before nodding, " I understand... you have suffered a lot. I give you permission to fill two water vessels and send them to your children. Make sure to make that cheating bastard cry tears of blood."

" Miss Qiang," Cao De was so touched that her eyes were filled with tears, even Mo Qiang nodded and said, " You need to make me proud, Sister Cao."

Mo Xifeng: "..." What a touching moment.

Once Cao De got up and bowed to Mo Qiang before returning to her friends, Mo Xifeng turned to look at Mo Qiang and asked, " Sister do you always act so nice or only when you have to play the devil's advocate?"

" What are you talking about? Of course the latter. The devil is my boo, got it ?" Mo Qiang smirked at Mo Xifeng before adding, " And don't you think it would be fun to watch Sister Cao's ex-husband cry tears of blood? More importantly, once he gets a sip of the cold, clear water...there is no way that he will be able to stop himself from wanting more, when that happens I will give him a special discount just because he is the rotten bas—- I mean the ex of one of our soldiers."

" You are going to rip him off, that's what you want to say," Mo Xifeng deadpanned.

" Aww aren't you the smartest, little sister?" Mo Qiang cooed as she patted Mo Xifeng on the head and even though Mo Xifeng knew that she was being praised for the wrong thing... she couldn't help but feel satisfied.

On the other hand, when the mers who were walking past the Mo family's fields heard that Mo Qiang had purified an entire pond of rotten muck and gunk, they felt their hearts jolt from shock.

They knew that Mo Qiang was no longer the same but the impression that she left on them was too deep, thus when they heard that Mo Qiang had purified the pond into clear water turning the highly reactive acids into drinking water, they immediately rushed towards the pond.

"It's really water!" One of the mers couldn't help but cry out in shock. He stared at the water which was so clear that they could see the bottom of the pond and then turned to look at each other.

Ye Shu, who felt proud upon seeing the look of half admiration and shock in the eyes of the mers, rubbed her nose and raised her nose in the air proudly, " What do you say? Isn't Miss Qiang the coolest woman, you have seen?"

The mers did not say anything but they were indeed filled with admiration for Mo Qiang now that they had seen what she could do with her powers.

They stared at the pond and then hesitated for a while before turning to look at Mo Qiang. One of the mers who was holding a trash bag that he was going to throw in the magma chasm couldn't help but ask, " Miss Qiang if you don't mind can we take a sip from the water of the pond?"

" Huh? Sure," Mo Qiang smiled angelically causing both Mo Xifeng and Xiao Jiao to stiffen and look at her in disbelief. They were sure that Mo Qiang would never waste her smiles for no reason and the fact that she was smiling so sweetly right now, could only mean that she was planning something in that head of hers.

Sneaky, devious woman——2I have sore throat, runny nose and a fever. Please make do with two chapters today. Achoo!



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Of course, Mo Qiang was planning something, there was no way she was going to let these mers who just treated her as a gangster drink the water for free after all! The more she thought about it the more satisfied her smile became causing Mo Xifeng and Xiao Jiao to hug each other.

'What was it? Why was she smiling like that?' The two of them thought in sync.

Once Mo Qiang gave her permission Ou Qi and the rest of the soldiers did not stop the three mers from taking a few sips of clear water. They handed their drinking vessels to the mers who took a few gulps silently, however, Mo Qiang noticed the shock and surprise filling their eyes and snapped her fingers.

'Gotcha,' she exclaimed in her head.

Once the three mers were done drinking the water, they thanked Mo Qiang once again before leaving. They were in such a hurry that they did not even pay attention to the trash bags in their hands and continued to rush back home.

Mo Qiang did not ask them to pay nor did she say anything to them which stuck as ominous to Mo Xifeng. She looked at her sister who was waving to the three mers with a kind smile on her face and couldn't help but frown.

' What is she thinking? There is no way my sister would allow three unknown mers to take something that she had gotten her hands on after working and suffering from pain for so long, will she?' Mo Xifeng questioned in her head, given Mo Qiang's personality this was simply next to impossible.

" Sister," As Mo Qiang headed to her fields, Mo Xifeng couldn't help but follow after her. " What are you planning, I mean you are not someone who would just help someone who is dying unless the latter tells you the PIN of their transaction app."

Mo Qiang turned to look at Mo Xifeng and then said, "Gosh, you are over-exaggerating. I would never do that, I mean I would at least call for an ambulance before that happens," she refuted Mo Xifeng before stepping inside the fields which had multiple zig-zag internal colonies to give enough space for the potatoes to grow. She looked down and nodded when she saw that Yuya had made sure that the hard lumps of rock and soil were all broken up.

"However you are right, I did not allow them to drink water for free I guess," she crouched down and then took out a miniature shovel that she asked Mo Yan to make for her. With the red shovel in her hand she started digging the centre of the field and then continued explaining, " Pretty soon, the entire Dead Star will know that I can purify the radioactive acids into drinking water."

Mo Xifeng frowned and then asked, " Pardon me sister, but I am afraid that I don't understand."

" You see, the greed of humans is simply insatiable. If it was so easy to take care of the green-eyed monster within all of us do you think the world would be reduced to a horrid place like this? Those small sips that those mers took are not going to be enough," Mo Qiang dug the soil out and then took the germinated tuber before placing it inside and picking up the soil from the side and then covering the potato nicely. " They are going to tell their wives and neighbours, basically everyone whom they can reach maybe even their in-laws."

Mo Xifeng's eyes widened as she realized what Mo Qiang was saying, of course, those mers are not going to stay quiet about something like that they will definitely gossip about it to everyone but if that was the case then wouldn't it mean that her sister will be in danger?

" Wait a minute... you knew this was going to happen and yet you still let them——" Mo Xifeng took a step closer to the field, she couldn't help but worry about what might happen to her sister, now that she knew that mers were going to simply broadcast this piece of information to basically everyone.

All sorts of thoughts started to swivel inside Mo Xifeng's head before she said, " You should just stay inside the house from now on, Sister." Her expression was quite serious while looking at Mo Qiang as she added, " I will hire a special bodyguard."

"I knew you would react that," Mo Qiang snapped her fingers at Mo Xifeng. She then tilted her head and said, " But you don't have to worry about something like this... I did it because I wanted to. The reason I allowed those mers to take a sip of the water was because I am laying down the foundation of my second money-making scheme."

She placed her hand on the ground and dug her fingers inside before instilling the green energy as she continued, " Now that they have taken a sip of clear water it's impossible for them to go back to drinking solution. They would be wanting more and more... and more! Which was why their wives, sisters and neighbours everyone will come looking for me asking me to purify the nearest water source that they had. And there is no way I am going to do that for free! It's a huge markup I am telling you! Ahahaha!"

As the ground glowed with a green glow, she added, " But of course, since they are going to advertise my skills. I am going to give them a small discount but it is going to be a small one. No in fact its going to be really, really small." A wicked grin etched on Mo Qiang's face as the germinated tuber started to grow all over the fields.

Small green stems popped out of the land and quivered as if they had broken out of the eggs in which they were sleeping. It was a beautiful sight but all Mo Xifeng could think while looking at Mo Qiang was, ' So sneaky! Such a devious woman, I knew she was not going to drop the matter so easily.'

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Dared to cheat meMo Qiang stood up from the ground after she was done growing the potato stems and then turned to look at Mo Xifeng before asking with a suspicious look on her face, " You just thought of me as a devious woman who is acting sneaky right?"



Hearing her question, Mo Xifeng flinched as she had indeed called Mo Qiang sneaky and devious in her head just now. But she was quick to calm down as she did not want Mo Qiang to throw a tantrum at her and then said, " I didn't. I simply thought that if you have such a wonderful power should you not be using it for the betterment of this world without asking anything in return? I did not expect that you would ask for money."

" Xifeng, Xifeng..Xifeng," Mo Qiang wriggled her finger left and right before she stepped out of the fields and then threw an arm around Mo Xifeng's shoulders. She peered up at her little sister and then smiled at her with a devilish expression as she explained, " There was once a wise man or woman, I don't know who but they gave the world a wonderful quote. And that was —— If you are good at something never do it for free. Do you understand what I am trying to say?"

" No, I just think that you are being overly selfish," stated Mo Xifeng but that only made Mo Qiang laugh. She patted Mo Xifeng on the shoulder and calmly said, " I am not trying to be rude, but you see if I just selflessly hand out things then I am afraid we will never be able to get away from the situation we are in at the moment. Have you forgotten Xifeng? We still have millions of coins to earn before we can start building our house and the red storm is going to hit the Dead Star in six months, if we don't build a sturdy house then I am afraid we will be sent flying in the air in the middle of the night."

The Red Storm was a storm filled with electric particles, it would rise from the land of Red Star before moving through various channels and hitting several stars before it came to a stop at the Dead Star. It was not a violent storm but it wasn't a small one either and with their house like this, Mo Qiang was sure that the first one to get roasted would be their family if she did not build a decent house by then.

While the others might be all right, she couldn't help but worry about herself and her father.

Mo Xifeng stared at her sister's serious expression and then sighed. She carefully pondered over what Mo Qiang said and then stated, " I understand what you are trying to do but don't you think that you are rushing too much? What if someone targets you because of your powers?"

" Hmm," Mo Qiang tilted her head and then hummed lightly. She glanced at the magma chasm which glowed a dangerous orange and then remarked, "It's not that I haven't thought about it but the thing is that even if I worry about something like that, I don't think it is going to change anything. After the telecast of the duel with Madam Lian, I don't think I am going to be safe anyway."

She turned to look at Mo Xifeng and then grinned before saying, " If that's the case then I might as well earn as much money as I can till everything is peaceful."

Mo Xifeng closed her eyes after inhaling deeply, she shook her head and then huffed, "It's fine if that is what you want to do but I would like it if you keep me close every time you leave the house. I would be worried in case something happens to you."

Mo Qiang was surprised by Mo Xifeng's words an awkward expression flashed on her face before she smiled and patted Mo Xifeng on the back, " Haha, if someone was to hear you... they would think that you are the eldest one among us two."

With that, she turned on her heels and then said, "Let's go check up on Lian Shou, I want to see whether or not she is done with the Caffeitrol lotion. We can't delay the revival of magma bees anymore... I want to do it before heading to the dimension of Srephere."

While Mo Qiang was walking towards the laboratory, Mo Xifeng turned on her spot and looked at her with a frown on her face.

'Once again, she looked so awkward when I showed my concern for her...why does it feel like she isn't used to anyone showing any concern for her?' Mo Xifeng couldn't help but worry about Mo Qiang, ever since she woke up in the dark alley—— she had been giving everything she could to their family but when it came for her to take anything back, she suddenly stepped back.

What makes her so awkward with love and care? Why does it feel like she wasn't used to such words and actions?

Mo Xifeng followed after Mo Qiang, her eyes fell on her sister and even though she did not understand a word that was coming out of Mo Qiang's mouth as she tried to change the topic, Mo Xifeng did not say anything.

'It's fine even if she isn't used to warmth, I will make sure that she gets used to the warmth of a family soon.' Mo Xifeng thought in her head.

The two sisters walked for a long time before they came to a stop at the laboratory. As soon as Mo Qiang came to a stop in front of the laboratory instead of knocking on the door like a normal woman, she pushed it open and the second she walked inside, her lips curled in a nasty smile as she looked at the empty laboratory.

" So she dared to cheat me huh?"

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Dared to cheat me huh?Mo Xifeng looked at Mo Qiang whose entire being was covered in flames...at least that's how it looked in her eyes. With two horns protruding out of her head and eyes glowing red, she looked like a demon coming up to the surface of the earth to rip someone's soul.



' Is it the death march that I am hearing?' She questioned in her head as she watched Mo Qiang step inside the laboratory and then look at every nook and cranny of the laboratory only to find nothing but trash scattered all over.

" Xifeng," Mo Qiang turned around to look at her with a creak of the bones in her neck.

" Yes sister," Mo Xifeng had hardly seen Mo Qiang getting angry and thus she couldn't help but light a candle for Lian Shou in her heart but at the same time, she couldn't help but blame the latter for acting all sneaky and witty. Why didn't she work hard instead of running away? Does she think that she can get away from someone like Mo Qiang?

" Go and get her," Mo Qiang ordered as she summoned Huhu and handed him to Mo Xifeng. Though she was smiling Mo Xifeng could see that there were a few nerves that were dangerously twitching in Mo Qiang's face. " Bring her back as soon as possible," she said with her hand squeezing Mo Xifeng's shoulder. " She must have run out just now after seeing us arrive, so she might have not gone too far ...once you catch her —— drag her back."

" ....I understand sister," though a part of Mo Xifeng felt conflicted as she thought that she was now acting like one of those thugs who were responsible for hunting those who escaped with the money, she still somehow managed to convince herself by thinking that what she was doing was comparably different than the work done by those loan sharks.

...

" I am not... I am not going! Let me go...this is so wrong! You are trying to murder me! I am telling you this is murder!"

It did not take long for Mo Xifeng to find Lian Shou, with the help of Huhu who caught the trail of scent left behind by Lian Shou, she was able to arrive at the small rock forest where Lian Shou was hiding. She never thought that this woman who had such puny guts would one day be courageous enough to hide somewhere as close as the chasm of magma.

" I am not killing you, I simply asked you to come with me which you refused and thus we are now like this," Mo Xifeng stated as she looked at Lian Shou whom she was dragging by her collar as the latter tried to struggle such that she would be able to get away from her grasp.

Lian Shou shook left and right but when she realized that she couldn't get away from the hands of an S-class mecha morph, her eyes turned red as she complained, " You two are simply bullying me because I am not strong enough aren't you?"

" Oh, are you going to start there?" The two of them did not even enter the laboratory when the door opened with a creak causing Lian Shou to raise her head and look at the Queen of demons staring down at her with a blessing smile as if she was here to grant her death.

With an evil smile decorating her face, Mo Qiang asked, " Should I bully you maybe then you will realize how nice I am being with you at the moment?"

A shiver crawled up Lian Shou's spine as she shook her head fervently, " No...No... I did not mean that——"

"You did not mean that?" Mo Qiang's smile widened until her eyes turned into crescents as she said, " But it is too late," she opened her eyes and stretched her hand to grab hold of Lian Shou before saying, " I am going to tell you how it feels to be bullied."

" NOOOOO!!!"

Lian Shou looked at the vivid colours that had been used to dye her hair and did not know what to say.

Her hair looked like she had plucked some unique chicken and then used its feathers to decorate her head. She wanted to say something but was scared that Mo Qiang might do something worse to her. She still could not help but shake from the terror from earlier where she was almost killed by Mo Qiang.

" T...This is wrong...you are manhandling me..." though scared Lian Shou still wanted to voice out her rights as an employee.

" And you are making me annoyed but here we are," Mo Qiang spoke with a smile. She pointed to the mess on the desk before asking, " Where is my caffeitrol ?"

Having noticed that she wouldn't be able to get away from Mo Qiang and her sudden obsession with Caffeitrol, Lian Shou rubbed the space between her brows and came clean, " Its not like that I did not try... I already said that Caffeitrol needs at least three weeks of refining and if not three, I at least need a week. Three days is a bit too less——"

" You should say that after cleaning your table, I can see fat stains," Mo Qiang pointed out causing Lian Shou to stiffen. The latter turned to look at the stains of fat from the monster meat that her father cooked for her and licked her lips before saying, " I was hungry."

" Which means you spent your time eating if you ate then you must have also slept after feeling full ...and if you ate and slept then it's quite clear that you must have even gone to relieve yourself," Mo Qiang finished speaking as the smile from her lips drop and she looked at Lian Shou with a heavy expression. " It seems like you are treating my warning way too lightly huh?!"

She pushed herself from the stool on which she was sitting and took two steps close to Lian Shou before saying, " Should I hang you by your feet in the chasm of magma? Since you are trash then you should also get an ending like that of trash. Do you even know because of you, all my plans have been delayed—— how are you going to make it to me?"

Lian Shou quaked as she knew that Mo Qiang was not just saying empty words, she lowered her head and then knelt before saying, " Please give me another chance.... I promise to seriously work this time around."

" You don't have to worry because you will definitely work seriously this time," Mo Qiang smiled and the smile on her face made Lian Shou shiver with fright. Wh...What was the meaning of this?

Why is my husband tied up?" Make sure to peck her if she refuses to work. Do you understand?" Mo Qiang looked at the young three-horned chicken who was standing behind Lian Shou. Because this three-horned chicken was born just a few weeks ago, Mo Qiang was able to influence it with ease what was more, this young one listened to her really well.



The three-horned chicken tilted her head before turning to look at Lian Shou and started pecking the back of her head when she saw that the latter was not working.

" Stop it, you are going to make me bald!" Lian Shou covered her head because she was worried that she might end up losing all her hair but the second she covered the back of her head, the three-horned chicken started to peck her hands causing Lian Shou to take her hands off her head she was worried that the three-horned chicken would peck her hand until they were bloody.

" Thats right, thats right ...just like that peck her until she finishes her job," Mo Qiang on the other hand praised the young chicken who immediately turned pleased upon being praised by her master and then shyly rubbed her head against Mo Qiang.

Mo Qiang rubbed the head of the three-headed chicken and then said, " Keep an eye on her...she can act sneaky sometimes so don't let her escape."

With her large wing placed on her forehead, the young three-headed chicken nodded as she understood everything that Mo Qiang was saying to her, she grew up eating and drinking the A+++ grade crops leaves and water thus she was much more sentient than any other being.

Mo Qiang smiled at the understanding three-headed chicken before turning to look at the aggrieved-looking Lian Shou, she was going to say something but then her monitor rang causing her to turn her attention to the incoming call.

" Hmm, who is this?" She muttered as she tapped on the screen only to see Shao Hui calling her. When Mo Qiang saw that it was Shao Hui who was calling her, she thought that he called her by mistake but when the call ended and he called her again, she had no other choice but to answer the call.

" Hello?" She spoke with a calm voice.

" Hello? Is this Mo Qiang?" An unknown voice answered from the other side causing Mo Qiang to furrow her brows as she replied, " Thats right. This is Mo Qiang but can I ask who is this? And why are you calling from Shao Hui's number?"

Was it that Jiang bastard again or what was his name? Mo Qiang did not bother herself with remembering the names of people who meant nothing to her obviously. Her memory was already limited enough, why should she waste the space within her head for no reason by remembering the names of those whom she might never see?

" Haha, it's actually a bit funny," came the answer from the other side. " Since it was Shao Hui's first week at work, we thought about celebrating with him but who would have thought that he would get drunk with something like the alcohol flavour solutions? I seriously underestimated his capacity..."

" And you are calling me because?" Mo Qiang did not think that this call was for help as she knew that Shao Hui would rather die than to take help from her.

There was no answer from the other side and just as Mo Qiang thought that the call ended, she heard the voice of the mer again, " Miss Qiang, your husband is drunk out of his mind, don't you think it's fitting for you to come and pick him up? You are his family member right?"

Well, when he spoke like this, she was indeed Shao Hui's wife and until they were divorced, she had to pay attention to his safety.

But was it safe for her to go and pick that mer up who flailed knife at her? Mo Qiang thought about it and carefully flipped through the laws of this world and came to realize that in case a mer was to kill her in the state of intoxication he might not receive because there was a chance that the case might be overruled as her trying to force him.

The law will protect him which means that this was the correct opportunity for him to clean her up for good.

Behind her, she felt Mo Xifeng move but she reached out her hand and then grabbed the collar of the woman who was trying to escape. There was no way she was going to let her sister leave her alone in this mess, if she was going down then she was taking someone down with her!

Corporate world rule number two hundred ninety-nine —— if you make a mistake make sure to drag your senior down with you!

And since Mo Xifeng was the stronger one among the two of them... she was superior to her which means, she had to play as her shield!

" Is he really drunk?" Mo Qiang asked not wanting to get into a trap for no reason.

"Yes he is, he is pissed drunk and can't even open his eyes much less walk back to the bus stop," replied the mer from the other side. " If he was not this drunk then I wouldn't have called you, I would have let him leave on his own accord."

Now that he said that—— Mo Qiang felt her head throb before she remarked, " Then I will be there, would you mind sending your location to me?"

After she was done speaking she ended the call before turning to look behind her but instead of finding Mo Xifeng standing behind her dutifully —— she found Lian Shou with her mouth stuffed with a fabric of cloth.

Damn, her sister learned how to be sneaky as well. Where did she learn all this? Mo Qiang questioned in her head.

" You," replied Xiao Jiao remembering how many times Mo Qiang acted sneaky.

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Why is my husband tied up?——2Mo Qiang stepped out of the laboratory after speaking a bit with the three horned chicken as she knew that Lian Shou was not going to listen to her, as she walked outside she looked around for Mo Xifeng, hoping to drag her along to the bar where Shao Hui was but even after looking for ten minutes she couldn't find Mo Xifeng.



" She must have gone back home," Xiao Jiao remarked while sitting on top of Mo Qiang's head. She looked down at Mo Qiang and then stated, " She knows that you are running away from Yin Fu, thus she must have returned home thinking that you will not look for her there."

" Does she thinks, she is safe if she hides herself in the house?" Mo Qiang huffed as she strode towards the house but as soon as she came closer to the house, Mo Qiang noticed Yin Fu standing in the backyard with his back to her. In his hand was a sharp knife while on the hand, he was holding something slimy and black which was as thick as the foot of an elephant.

And it was as if everything was happening in slow motion, Mo Qiang saw Yin Fu raise his hand before bringing it down and just like that the black think was chopped into half splattering blood and greenish looking slime all over. And even though he was wearing an apron that was made with the self cleaning fabric, the blood that splattered over his face remained where it was.

" How..how can she just use me and leave me like that...?" She heard Yin Fu mutter while holding the knife in his hands. A sniff rang out in the backyard followed by a sudden complaint, " She was the first woman to touch me like that but she acted like such...what am I supposed to do now? I am angry ...so angry!"

As he spoke he chopped the thick, black and slimy thing!

Mo Qiang whose foot was hovering over the threshold of her house, immediately went back as she turned on her heels and then started walking towards the spot where she had parked the car last time.

" Not going in anymore?" Xiao Jiao asked as she looked at Mo Qiang.

" Do you not know?" Mo Qiang spoke as she headed towards the flying craft and then opened it with the help of her monitor identification. " One should never approach someone with knife... it's foolishness and I am not a fool."

With that she turned the engine on and drove past the house heading towards the channel that would take her to the Feth Star.

The address of the bar where Shao Hui was at the moment was far from the imperial star and because of this Mo Qiang couldn't help but question what he was doing in that damned star. If he wanted to enjoy wasn't there any bars at the Imperial Star? Why did he have to go so far?

Mo Qiang stared in the front while steering the wheel, her eyes fell on the streets which were lit up with the hovering mana orbs that glowed silverly white. People were walking on the side of the street with tablets hovering in front of them even though it could be said that everything changed...Mo Qiang had a feeling that nothing much changed.

She drove past the large buildings before coming to a stop at a flashy looking bar. As she stepped outside the car, she looked at the building that was glittering red, white, green and with all sorts of neon colors. Her eyes fell on the sign board of the bar that said —— Kuafant before ignoring the gazes of the mers who seem to be inviting her to go with them.

As soon as Mo Qiang stepped inside the bar, her brows couldn't help but frown when she smelled the scent of musk, s*x and sweat. Her eyes fell on the couples who were grinding against each other on the dance floor before rubbing her forehead, " Just what kind of place did he come to?" She questioned to no one in particular before heading towards the private rooms.

Though Mo Qiang did not want to overstep her boundaries, she hoped that Shao Hui would not let anyone take advantage of him or worse stab someone to death.

If he did that ...then how much compensation would she have to pay that person? Ah just thinking about it made her head swell because Mo Qiang knew that the chances of Shao Hui harming someone when drunk were way more than him letting anyone take advantage of him.

' Ah for the love of the God please don't kill someone,' Mo Qiang thought in her head as she knocked on the door of room five hundred and six open.

" Hello ?" She spoke while knocking on the door hoping for the mer who called her to oopen the door.

Two seconds later, the door was pulled open but instead of a mer, Mo Qiang's gaze met with a woman. What the——

Worried that something happened to Shao Hui, she pushed the woman aside and then stepped inside but thankfully, she found Shao Hui sprawled on the couch with all his clothes on. He was heaving with his eyes closed but other than his flushed cheeks, he looked completely fine.

Seeing that he looked fine, Mo Qiang heaved a sigh of relief.

" You see to be worried, Miss Mo," a sweet voice called out to her and she turned to look at the mer. As soon as her eyes fell on the mer, Mo Qiang's brows furrowed as she realised that though this mer looked considerably different from Shao Hui, his eyes were same as Shao Hui.

' But Shao Hui does not have a brother does he?' Mo Qiang knew that Shao Hui had a sister with whom he broke his relationship with but she had never heard of a younger or older mer brother. So who was this mer? And why was he with Shao Hui.. and more importantly her eyes flicked to Shao Hui's hands ——

" Can I ask why my husband is all tied up?" Mo Qiang asked as she looked at the mer.