Chapter 66: Mo Li: I Want to Go Back and Attend Your Wedding
Zhou Siyan took off the plain ring on his ring finger and held it tightly in his palm, his knuckles turning white.
He didn’t want to return the ring to Xue Yu, and he wouldn’t. This was his, a gift that belonged to him alone.
Meng Wu was also stunned by Xue Yu’s actions. A mixture of surprise, suspicion, and sudden realization piled up, catching him off guard.
After he had recovered, he looked at Xue Yu with a pleasant expression. “Are you proposing to me?”
“Yes, sir!” Xue Yu was full of righteous ardor.
Meng Wu’s eyes crinkled with a smile. He then looked at Zhou Siyan. “Are you going to say something?”
Zhou Siyan gave him a cold glare, went to the lounge, opened a crack in the door just wide enough for himself to pass through, and immediately closed the door.
Meng Wu’s ears were sharp. The moment Zhou Siyan opened the door, he had clearly heard a childish voice, as if calling “daddy.”
But Zhou Siyan had closed the door too quickly. The cold, heavy, soundproof metal door soon blocked out all sound.
He withdrew his gaze and slowly moved it to Xue Yu’s face, his tone calm. “What’s the reason for proposing to me? Don’t use words like ‘like’ or ‘love’ to brush me off. I’m not Zhou Siyan. I don’t believe in those things.”
“You don’t believe in love? That’s so hard to deal with…” Xue Yu muttered.
She reached out her hand, led Meng Wu to sit down on the black sofa in the office, and said earnestly:
“Sir, I really want to propose to you. My current positions are mercenary and captain. Our extreme sexual conservatives are really too extreme. They’re actually interfering with my work.”
“The head deacon said that if I continue to be unable to attend meetings because I’m a captain, she will expel me from the church. And if I’m kicked out of the church, I can’t hold two jobs at the same time.”
Meng Wu raised his hand to signal. “The preamble doesn’t have to be this long. Please get to the point.”
Xue Yu held her head high. “If I want to be both a mercenary and a captain, and not attend meetings, I can only marry an open-minded person.”
“And have that open-minded person join the regular sexual conservatives. This way, I will also automatically be transferred to the regular sexual conservatives, and all problems will be solved.”
Meng Wu also knew this rule.
The conservatives were divided into [regular] sexual conservatives, [extreme] sexual conservatives, and [fanatical] sexual conservatives.
The “sexual” here referred to sexual relations.
Regular sexual conservatives were in a one-on-one, binding sexual relationship. To join the regular sexual conservatives, you had to get married and maintain a one-on-one relationship with your partner forever. Once you cheated, you would face a sentence of five years or more.
Meng Wu was afraid that Xue Yu didn’t know the details, so he confirmed with her again, “If we get married, we have to be faithful to each other. Otherwise, we might have to go to jail. Can you do that?”
“Of course not!” Xue Yu’s pupils were bright. What are you thinking? I’m the number one pervert in the White Tower.
She added, “We’re just getting a fake marriage. We have to do this for the sake of my great island-building cause.”
“When I’ve built my new safe zone in the future, I won’t be staying in the White Tower anymore. The rules of the conservatives will mean nothing to me.”
Meng Wu took off the black leather officer’s gloves on his hands and folded them in his fingertips. “Why did you choose me?”
Xue Yu had the smile of a good person. “Besides you, I can’t trust anyone else. And you already know about my plan to build a safe zone.”
She winked at Meng Wu. “Besides, you’re pregnant with my child. We’re completely tied together now. Who else would I look for but you?”
Meng Wu put on his gloves, a small curve appearing on his lips. “The reason is very sufficient. I’m convinced.”
“Thank you. I’ll give you a wedding ring later.”
Meng Wu didn’t quite understand. “What’s a wedding ring?”
Xue Yu slapped her forehead. She had forgotten again. The White Tower didn’t have the concept of a wedding ring. She had wanted to get the ring she had given to Zhou Siyan back and propose to Meng Wu with it. She had hurt his feelings for no reason. Now she had to comfort him.
“It’s nothing. Then it’s settled. We’ll find a time to get married as soon as possible.”
Meng Wu stood up. “You are the mother of my child. If you need anything, I have to help.”
After sending Meng Wu off, Xue Yu opened the door to the lounge and went in.
Xue Xiaohai sensed that her mother was outside and was fussing to go out. Zhou Siyan held her in his arms, saying nothing.
Xue Yu went over and sat down on the edge of the bed, picking up the child and bouncing her. “Oh my, our big fatty has grown so big. So amazing. Daddy has taken such good care of you.”
Xue Xiaohai took off her own hat and put it on Xue Yu’s head. “Mommy, hat.”
Xue Yu: “That’s right. This is a hat. Xiaohai is so smart.”
Xue Yu held the child and touched Zhou Siyan’s arm. “Baby’s dad, you can keep that ring. Also, let me explain first.”
She explained the whole story.
The frosty expression on Zhou Siyan’s face finally showed a slight sign of cracking. He picked up the socks that Xue Xiaohai had thrown around and put them back on her, his voice still cold. “You always do things without discussing them with me.”
“I’m here to discuss it with you now.”
Xue Yu moved closer to him, pressing against him. “I also want to marry you, but we are both extreme sexual conservatives. We can’t.”
She held Zhou Siyan’s arm. “You decide for me. If you don’t agree to me marrying Meng Wu, then you can help me find another suitable husband.”
She smiled at him with a thick face. “I’ll listen to you on this. You can be the head of the family.”
“I’ll go and talk to the head deacon,” Zhou Siyan said helplessly, kissing her on the face, and then left.
Xue Yu played with Xue Xiaohai in the room, lifting the child high and then lowering her. “Your dad is such a good person. Don’t worry. Mommy, I will definitely let you and your father live a good life.”
Xue Xiaohai crawled to grab her bottle, not falling for Xue Yu’s big talk.
Zhou Siyan went to the head deacon’s office of the conservatives, asking if he could make an exception and let him and Xue Yu get married, so that both of them could transfer from the extreme sexual conservatives to the regular sexual conservatives.
The internal regulations of the conservatives were very strict.
The head deacon said, “There is only one such transfer quota a year. I’ve already given it to Xue Yu, so I can’t give it to you.”
“Or you can go and discuss it with Xue Yu and have her give you the quota. You can find an open-minded person to marry instead, and then you can be transferred to the regular sexual conservatives.”
It just wouldn’t work.
Zhou Siyan even hinted to the head deacon that he could help her kill people, but he was still rejected by the head deacon.
He had no choice but to go back and find Xue Yu.
Xue Yu comforted him, “It’s just a fake marriage. What’s there to mind?”
She picked up Xue Xiaohai and stood up, continuing, “Zhou Siyan, why can’t you think straight about this? The rules of the White Tower mean nothing to us. As an extreme sexual conservative, you’ve even had a child for me. Why are you still minding this formality of marriage?”
Zhou Siyan still felt bad.
Xue Yu added, “If you think Meng Wu is not good, then let’s switch to Youke’en. In any case, we have to find someone we can trust.”
Zhou Siyan thought about it. Compared to Youke’en, he would rather have Xue Yu marry Meng Wu.
He was not familiar with Youke’en, and Youke’en was too handsome, which gave him an inexplicable sense of crisis.
If Xue Yu wasn’t so horny, he wouldn’t have this sense of crisis.
But Meng Wu was a friend he had grown up with, like a brother. If Xue Yu had a fake marriage with him, he would be more at ease.
“Then let’s go with Meng Wu,” Zhou Siyan said.
Xue Yu’s smile was sweet. “I’ll listen to you. I don’t understand these things and am easily fooled. If you make the decision for me, I’ll be much more at ease.”
“Don’t always be so playful,” Zhou Siyan whispered in her ear. “You can marry Meng Wu, but I have a condition. You must agree to this condition.”
Xue Yu’s heart pounded like a drum. Why is he setting conditions for an honest person? Is he trying to set a trap for me?
Zhou Siyan whispered a few words in her ear.
After hearing his condition, the smile on Xue Yu’s face froze. In the end, she only managed to say, “You’re so kinky…”
Zhou Siyan: “Do you agree?”
Xue Yu: “How can I not agree? Sigh, you have the final say.”
Xue Yu didn’t dare to go and tell Feng Qizhou about this alone, so she had Zhou Siyan invite Feng Qizhou to the director of the Security Division’s office.
Zhou Siyan didn’t have much patience. After calling Feng Qizhou over, he explained it directly.
Xue Yu had a premonition that Feng Qizhou would definitely make a big scene. She pretended to be playing hide-and-seek with the children and hid in a cabinet, not coming out.
“Huh? Mommy, Mommy,” Xue Xiaohai looked everywhere, flipping through the curtains and drilling under the sofa to look.
Xiaobei and Xiaonan were crawling everywhere, also looking for their mother.
Feng Qizhou shouted, “Don’t think I’m so narrow-minded! Come out!”
Xue Yu pushed open the cabinet and came out, scooped up the three children, and held them in her arms, saying, “There’s no other way. It’s all for the sake of our new home.”
Feng Qizhou: “Then should I say thank you for your hard work?”
“No need. You’re the one who’s worked hard, taking care of the children.”
Feng Qizhou’s eyes were as sharp as a cold blade. “Taking care of the children is not hard. It’s just hard to wear a green hat. This green hat comes one after another. It’s really uncomfortable.”
Xue Yu was aggrieved. “Why are you saying that about me? I’m just having a fake marriage with him. I have to do this to build a safe zone. I’m not really his wife. Why don’t you understand me? You know what kind of person I am.”
Feng Qizhou: “It’s because I know you too well that I feel like my head is glowing green.”
Zhou Siyan interrupted him, “Feng Qizhou, you have the least right to say these things.”
Feng Qizhou knew he was in the wrong. He remembered that when they were still at the military academy, he had been so eager to ask Zhou Siyan for a threesome, but he had been rejected.
Since it had come to this, Feng Qizhou had no reason to stand in the way of Xue Yu’s progress.
Xue Yu took a moment to understand the whole process.
She first had to go to the Affairs Department of the conservatives with Meng Wu to submit a marriage application, and at the same time, have Meng Wu fill out the information to join the regular sexual conservatives.
In this way, after they got married, Xue Yu’s religious status would automatically be transferred from the extreme sexual conservatives to the regular sexual conservatives.
After she became a regular sexual conservative, she would not have to attend meetings, because regular sexual conservatives basically did not hold meetings.
However, she and Meng Wu would be supervised by the supervisors. Once they were found to be unfaithful to their marriage, they would be sentenced.
Xue Yu had thought that the two of them only needed to fill out the information and go through some internal procedures to get their marriage certificate.
But after understanding everything, she found out that they also had to hold a mandatory wedding banquet and have many people witness it.
The main purpose of the wedding was to let everyone know that these two were a couple from now on and had to abide by the one-on-one relationship of the regular sexual conservatives.
It was to have everyone help to supervise these two people. As soon as one party was found to be unfaithful, they could report it at any time.
Xue Yu sat on a bench in the affairs hall, repeatedly looking at the manual, her brow furrowing deeper and deeper.
The officer Meng Wu stood in front of her, tall and slender. “What’s wrong? Are you not happy?”
Xue Yu raised an eyebrow. “We still have to have a wedding? This is too much trouble.”
Meng Wu: “You don’t want to have it?”
Xue Yu: “The two of us are just putting on a show. We still have to have a wedding and invite everyone. I don’t even have any money…”
“We don’t have to worry about the wedding. Everything will be handled by the regular conservatives. We just have to buy the wedding clothes.”
He took half a step forward, his leg brushing against Xue Yu’s knee. “If we have a wedding, we can also receive gift money.”
Xue Yu’s eyes lit up. She stood up abruptly. “Let’s do it! We have to do it! This wedding has to be a grand one! We’ll invite all our old classmates!”
“Okay, wifey,” Meng Wu said with a smile.
Xue Yu’s face turned red. “Oh my, don’t call me that. It’s too embarrassing.”
Meng Wu: “We have to put on a show.”
The wedding was entirely arranged by the Affairs Department of the conservatives. The date was set for a month later.
Before the wedding, Xue Yu had to go out to sea again, still to transport goods to the South Continent, but this time it was fine iron ore.
Xue Yu went to buy five small trucks, a sewage treatment plant, and a small excavator parts, and so on.
There were also self-defense weapons, light submachine guns, pistols, and bullets, all of which were secretly transported to the inner cabin of the ship under the cover of night.
The extreme sexual conservatives would randomly check their accounts, worried that someone would secretly transfer money to their lover. Every time Zhou Siyan and Feng Qizhou gave her money, they could only give her cash.
Now that she and Meng Wu were an engaged couple, she could directly use Meng Wu’s card, which was much more convenient.
After she had bought her things, she sent a message to Meng Wu: I still have to pay the workers’ wages. I’m afraid I won’t have enough money, so I used your card to buy some things. When we have our wedding later, I’ll give you a bigger share of the gift money.
Meng Wu replied to her: It’s okay, wifey. My money is your money.
Xue Yu stared at the two words “wifey” on the screen and shook her head hard. Her bad habit of falling in love 800 times a day was acting up again.
No, I have to be calm. I can’t let Zhou Siyan and the others down.
Blueberry slipped out and perched on her shoulder: You’re so fake.
Xue Yu: Good Blueberry, haven’t I hit you in a while?
Blueberry shook its head: Blah, blah, blah…
Xue Yu finally had a chance to go and find Youke’en.
Youke’en’s body had already fully recovered, but because he had committed suicide by shooting himself, he had broken the law of the White Tower. He had been sentenced to fifteen days in prison for [committing suicide without prior reporting] and was only released today.
He had only been sentenced to fifteen days because of his relationship with Ms. Bai Long, and also because Youke’en had argued that he had accidentally misfired while practicing his marksmanship, so he had received a lighter sentence.
If another officer or soldier had committed suicide, the sentence would have been at least a year.
Xue Yu went to the detention room to pick up Youke’en from prison and happened to run into Youke’en’s parents.
She had heard from Youke’en before that his mother was Ms. Bai Long’s wife, and his father was Ms. Bai Long’s husband.
Xue Yu was inevitably curious and took a few more glances.
Youke’en’s parents looked very young, both in their early thirties.
The woman was wearing a black suit and black leather shoes, with a metal nameplate hanging around her neck. On it was her identity—Yuxin, the chairman of the White Tower Pharmaceutical Company.
Her shoulder-length hair was very straight, with yellow, black, and white highlights, like a calico cat.
She did indeed show some cat-like features. Her two upright ears were in the shape of cat ears, and they also had fur.
The man, on the other hand, was wearing a dark blue officer’s uniform, and he also had a metal nameplate. His identity was—Jintong, the head of the White Tower’s S-class combat command.
His hairstyle was very neat, and his ears were also in the shape of beast ears, with fluffy yellow fur, much like the ears of a golden retriever.
“Who are you?” noticing Xue Yu’s gaze, the woman asked her.
Xue Yu bowed to her. “Hello, Chairman Yuxin. I’m a friend of Youke’en’s. I’m here to welcome him.”
Yuxin smiled at her friendly. “I’m very happy that Youke’en has made a new friend. I hope your friendship will last for a long time.”
Xue Yu nodded. “Thank you, Chairman.”
When Youke’en came out, his father, Jintong, went up and scolded him, “What on earth is wrong with you? I heard from the military court that you were playing with suicide?”
Youke’en lowered his head deeply and accepted the scolding. “I’m sorry, Father. I’ve caused you trouble.”
Yuxin said, “Alright, don’t scold him. He just got out of prison. Youke’en, you’ve disappointed us very much. I hope you won’t do this again next time.”
Youke’en apologized sincerely. “I’m sorry, Mother. I was wrong.”
After a few simple words and telling Youke’en to rest for a while, Yuxin and Jintong left.
Xue Yu and Youke’en walked side by side.
She analyzed Youke’en’s thoughts and was surprised to find that after this incident of shooting himself, this kid’s mental state had actually improved.
He was no longer obsessed with playing the father-daughter game with her, but was much more peaceful, treating her as a real master.
“Youke’en, how are you?” Xue Yu asked with concern.
Youke’en: “I’m sorry, Xue Yu. I scared you before.”
Xue Yu: “It’s okay. Why don’t you tell me about your parents?”
Youke’en walked forward with her.
“It’s very simple. My parents are actually Ms. Bai Long’s cat and dog. My mother is a cat, and my father is a dog.”
“You should have seen it too. Their ears are all in a bestial form. This is Ms. Bai Long’s preference.”
He spread his hands nonchalantly. “As for me, I was adopted. I’m basically my parents’ pet orca.”
Xue Yu’s mind spun for a few circles before she said, “So you’re saying that your parents are Ms. Bai Long’s pets, and you are Ms. Bai Long’s pets’ pet?”
Youke’en smiled. “That’s about it.”
He raised his elbow and put it on Xue Yu’s shoulder. “Now I’m also your pet.”
Xue Yu’s shoulders slumped. “I can’t treat you as a pet. I don’t have the means to spoil you right now! I have to take you with me to endure hardship.”
“Endure hardship?”
Xue Yu pulled Youke’en to the side and laid all her cards on the table with him.
She didn’t have to worry that Youke’en would betray her. She had already marked him. Youke’en, from his spirit to his body, belonged to her completely.
“Okay, I’ll help you build the island,” Youke’en was very excited and completely followed Xue Yu’s instructions.
He then showed a worried expression. “But what about Xue Xiaohai? I want to take care of her. Xue Yu, why don’t we take Xue Xiaohai to the island too? This way, I can help you build the island and take care of her at the same time. It’s the best of both worlds!”
Xue Yu pouted. “How could Zhou Siyan agree?”
Youke’en: “I can go and steal Xue Xiaohai. I’m very good at this. It’s definitely no problem to steal a child.”
Xue Yu tapped him on the head. “Don’t get any funny ideas. If you steal Xue Xiaohai, Zhou Siyan will definitely cut you into a thousand pieces.”
“Alright then. Sigh, I really want a child!” he shook his silver hair, his expression mournful. “They all have children, but I don’t. I’m so pitiful.”
Xue Yu said, “You can be the children’s godfather.”
Youke’en raised an eyebrow. “Do you really not understand my hint? Please give me a child!”
“We’ll talk about it after our safe zone is built,” Xue Yu started to make big promises again.
Xue Yu said a simple goodbye to Zhou Siyan and Feng Qizhou and then had to set off with Youke’en.
Youke’en had the relationship of his parents. He was a person with connections. He just told the pilot that he was going out to sea with Xue Yu to play, and the pilot didn’t ask any more questions.
Meng Wu came to see Xue Yu off and prepared a lot of daily necessities for her. “I’ll go and look at the wedding dress styles myself first. I’ll pick a few sets, and you can make a decision when you come back.”
“By the way, what’s the password to your dorm? Why don’t I go and help you move your things to my place? Even if it’s a fake marriage, we have to live together to put on a show.”
“Okay,” Xue Yu told him the password.
Lu Sen came to find Xue Yu and called her from a distance. “Hey, serial killer, are you going out to sea? Can you help me bring something from the South Continent?”
Xue Yu: “The service fee is 8,000.”
Lu Sen took out his wallet and counted the money. “You’re so stingy. We’re so good, and you’re still asking me for a service fee.”
He asked Xue Yu to help him buy some food from the South Continent. The service fee was only 5,000. “I really don’t have any money. Can I owe you for now? I’ll pay you back when I get my salary next month. You’ve ripped me off so much before. I really don’t have any money.”
Xue Yu glared at him fiercely, her killing intent exposed. The aura of the number one executioner of the White Tower was firm.
Lu Sen had no choice but to honestly give her 8,000.
After Lu Sen left, Meng Wu asked Xue Yu, “You’re just glaring at people like that. Will he get pregnant?”
Xue Yu’s smile was stiff. “I know what I’m doing. I didn’t glare at him hard. I just glanced at him.”
Xue Yu and Youke’en got on the ship and set sail with a full load of fine iron ore.
With the experience from last time, Xue Yu planned a closer route this time and only took eight days to reach the island.
Mo Li was leading the workers to cut down trees and clear a suitable route, waiting for Xue Yu to come and give further instructions.
When Xue Yu arrived on the island, she rushed over and hugged Mo Li. “Mo Li, I’m here! I missed you so much.”
She opened her backpack. It was full of food, and also the nutritional soup she had guided Youke’en to make on the ship.
She pulled Mo Li to the shade of a tree, opened the thermos, took out the nutritional soup, and scooped it up to his mouth. “Mo Li, you should drink it. It’s still warm.”
Mo Li took a sip. “It’s delicious. Did you make it yourself?”
Xue Yu: “I guided Youke’en to make it. Youke’en is here too. He’s on the ship packing things.”
After Mo Li had finished the nutritional soup, Xue Yu took out new clothes and new shoes from her bag for him. “I bought all of these for you. They’ve all been washed. Do you want to try them on?”
Mo Li opened the clothes and looked at them. “They’re very nice. I like them very much.”
Xue Yu hugged him, her face buried in his chest. “Mo Li, I’m going to have a fake marriage with Meng Wu. I have no other choice. Don’t worry. I will definitely not make it real.”
“Why a fake marriage?”
Xue Yu explained the matter again.
Mo Li held her hand for a long time, his head always lowered. “Xue Yu, I’m a little sad.”
Xue Yu held him. “Mo Li, it’s just a formality. I promise you, if you want to get married in the future, I will give you the most romantic wedding in the world.”
Mo Li turned to face her. “I want to go back and attend your wedding. Can I?”
He was worried that Xue Yu would refuse and hurriedly said, “I’m not going back to cause trouble. I won’t do anything to affect the wedding. I just want to see what a wedding is like.”
“Okay, I’ll take you back to the feast!” Xue Yu held his face and kissed him several times, almost making Mo Li dazed.
She pulled open Mo Li’s collar and kissed him on the chest. “A kiss for your wounded heart. Are you not sad now?”
“I’m still a little sad,” Mo Li had discovered a pattern. Every time he said he was sad or aggrieved, Xue Yu’s love would increase a little.
“Then I’ll continue to kiss,” Xue Yu kissed him several more times.
Mo Li’s face turned red, and he leaned back. “That’s enough, Xue Yu. Don’t kiss like that. It’s too strange.”
“Sorry.”
Xue Yu touched her head in embarrassment. It was all Feng Qizhou’s fault for feeding her milk every day, which had made her a lot more lewd. She had just wanted to kiss Mo Li’s heart to comfort him, but she had habitually sucked on another place.