28. Scarlet Star Thieves
Xi Zhengyu pulled Xie Shiyu by the hand and sat down on the sofa, glancing at the man with his clothes open in a carefree manner.
His brows furrowed, and his eyes showed impatience. "Huo Jinghan, put your clothes on properly."
When Huo Jinghan was called, he sat up straight and obediently buttoned up his white shirt.
He couldn't help but mutter, "Having a wife makes all the difference. Before, you wouldn't have said a word even if I took my shirt off."
"Good to know. Next time, my wife will be more careful around you and put away all your bad habits." Xi Zhengyu didn't refute him and went along with his words.
Huo Jinghan: ......
Xi Ge is a completely different person after he got married.
He looked at Xie Shiyu sitting to the side, gentle and soft-spoken, her hand holding Xi Zhengyu's sleeve, her eyes cautiously scanning their surroundings.
It's clear that she's very dependent on Xi Zhengyu.
"Hello, sister-in-law, my name is Huo Jinghan."
Xie Shiyu quickly replied, "Hello, hello, my name is Xie Shiyu."
Gu Tingshu, who was standing next to her, quickly introduced herself, "Hello, sister-in-law, my name is Gu Tingshu."
"Hello."
Xie Shiyu greeted him with a shy smile, then looked at the only other girl present and asked with a hint of doubt, "And who is this?"
Liu Nian, who had been ignored, was brought up by Xie Shiyu. She picked up her wine glass and walked up to Xie Shiyu, smiling as she said, "I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Liu Nian, and I am Brother Xi's first love."
Upon hearing the words "first love," Xie Shiyu silently rolled her eyes in her mind, thinking how annoying it was.
On the surface, Xie Shiyu acted timidly, moving even closer to Xi Zhengyu and speaking in a much softer voice, "Hello, Miss Liu."
Compared to Xie Shiyu, Liu Nian, who came over with two glasses of wine, seemed quite fierce.
Liu Nian paused, her hand still holding the bottles of wine; the woman had even packed them for her.
"Miss Xie, congratulations on marrying Brother Xi." Liu Nian said with a smile, then raised her glass of red wine to toast her, and took a sip.
The small talk ended there, and the men went off to talk about business, the friendship between the Federation and the Empire, and the rampant space pirates...
Xie Shiyu wasn't interested in any of this, but that didn't stop her from listening with great interest while sipping fruit tea and eating dried fish.
Sitting next to her, Xi Zhengyu would check on her from time to time, worried that the dried fish was too dry for her. He would pick up the water bottle on the coffee table, unscrew the cap, and hand it to Xie Shiyu halfway through their conversation.
Jing Zhan got bored halfway through the conversation and started singing karaoke.
As time went by, all the ordered dishes were gradually served.
Although they were chatting, everyone kept busy with their own things.
Only Liu Nian was forgotten in the corner.
She used to be surrounded by these people.
Now, upon returning, she finds that there is no longer a place for her here, and the people surrounding her have long since changed.
A wild mermaid, whose fertility isn't even as high as hers, what right does she have to snatch up Brother Xi's attention?
Having drunk too much water, Xie Shiyu whispered something in Xi Zhengyu's ear before getting up and leaving the private room.
Not long after she left the private room, Liu Nian, who was sitting in the corner, stood up and said with a smile, "I'm going to the restroom."
Xie Shiyu was washing her hands after rinsing her toilet bowl when she saw Liu Nian standing behind her in the mirror.
"Miss Xie, is that seat comfortable?" Liu Nian asked with a smile.
"It's alright," Xie Shiyu replied casually, looking down and enjoying the process of her hands being rinsed by water. Fish, after all, all love water.
“It’s time for you to give up this position as Mrs. Xi.” Liu Nian walked over and stood next to her, then took out a lipstick from the inside pocket of her skirt.
I opened the lipstick, looked at myself in the mirror, and started applying it.
Liu Nian didn't think this mermaid was her opponent at all; she had an absolute advantage.
She used to be Xi Zhengyu's girlfriend. Even though they broke up many years ago, they were in love during the six months they were together.
As for Xie Shiyu, it seems he only thought she had high fertility and brought her back to have children; Xi Zhengyu would never fall in love with Xie Shiyu.
Hearing her words, Xie Shiyu smiled faintly and then said, "The person who said that a while ago has now disappeared from the entertainment industry."
After saying that, he turned to look at Liu Nian and asked, "Miss Liu, would you like to give it a try too?"
"Hehe." Liu Nian chuckled, put away her lipstick, and looked at her with unwavering devotion to Xi Zhengyu in her eyes. "He wouldn't do that to me."
After saying that, Liu Nianyou said, "I heard that Miss Xie's fertility value is thirty percent."
At this point, Liu Nian's smile deepened, "Then I'm sorry, mine is taller than yours."
"I have a fertility rate of 58%."
"Giving birth to a child for the Xi family is simply too easy."
If it were before, Xie Shiyu would have definitely tried to cling to this powerful figure after hearing that someone had a higher fertility rate than her, thus losing her only advantage.
But now I'm 100%!
What's there to be afraid of!
Faced with Liu Nian's provocation, Xie Shiyu simply smiled faintly, then picked up a tissue to wipe her hands clean. "Then I wish Miss Liu success." After saying that, she threw the waste paper into the trash can, turned around and left the bathroom.
His calm and fearless demeanor was completely different from when he was in the private room.
When Liu Nian saw this side of her, she was so angry she laughed.
"You slut, you green tea bitch!" Liu Nian cursed a couple of times, but in the end, she could only leave in her high heels.
Inside the private room, Xie Shiyu reverted to her timid and shy demeanor.
The whole fish huddled next to Xi Zhengyu, silently watching them chat without saying a word.
When the topic of space pirates came up, she asked with curiosity, "Do space pirates make a living by robbing supplies?"
"And why did they become space pirates in the first place?"
When asked this question, Jing Zhan, who was in the interstellar trade business, was the most qualified to answer it.
"Sister-in-law, you have no idea how rampant those space pirates are. It's one thing for them to rob merchants like us of our supplies, but they even rob armies!"
Speaking of this, Jing Zhan was particularly angry because his goods had been robbed twice. And by the same pirate group no less; those guys really weren't afraid of anything.
"I want to specifically name and curse the Crimson Star Thieves here!" Jing Zhan was furious. The two batches of goods were stolen by the thieves, causing the Jing family to lose over a billion star coins at once.
That's over a billion!
Damn it!
He wanted nothing more than to beat the leader of the Scarlet Star Thieves so badly that even his own mother wouldn't recognize him.
Wearing a tattered mask all day long, you'd think you were as handsome as Pan An!
"Are they really that rampant?" Xie Shiyu asked, cupping her face in her hands. "Then why doesn't the legion crack down on them?"
“It’s no use. After we try to stop them, they’ll just spring up like mushrooms after rain. We can’t get rid of them no matter what we do.” Jing Zhan said, his voice filled with helplessness.
"Why?" Xie Shiyu asked, puzzled.
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