Chapter 68: Archived Sentence for Infidelity? Give Me Two Years First!
The entire venue was silent, everyone holding their breath.
Then, a second later, a whistle broke out from the dead-silent crowd. Lu Sen put down his chopsticks and stood up to applaud. “Xue Yu, good job! Hahaha!”
Then, the dead water turned into a huge wave. The wedding banquet, with no empty seats, erupted in thunderous applause that lasted for a long time, accompanied by bursts of laughter.
“I told you she was a pervert. As expected, Xue Yu never disappoints.”
“This is the first time I’ve seen someone cheat at their own wedding.”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. It’s actually understandable. Her husband looks quite boring.”
“…”
Xue Yu was thick-skinned and didn’t care. She had so many labels. Adding a topic of #cheating at her own wedding# was no big deal.
But it was hard on Meng Wu.
Her two hands were cuffed behind her back. She took the opportunity to glance at Meng Wu’s expression. She had rarely seen Meng Wu with this kind of expression. Embarrassment, shame, and frustration were all mixed together, making him feel ashamed.
Meng Wu’s sharp gaze swept over Zhou Siyan, Feng Qizhou, and Mo Li, a faint smile appearing on his lips. “You’re all dressed up. Is this what you wanted to see?”
The three men looked at each other.
Zhou Siyan’s face was ashen. He had indeed dressed up carefully, but he really had no other intentions. He just wanted to come and see Xue Yu’s wedding in a decent manner. He had never thought that the supervisor’s management would be so extreme.
He even suspected that from the very beginning, the head deacon’s suggestion for Xue Yu to change her religious status by getting married, and then being caught on the spot at the wedding, might have been a setup.
Feng Qizhou messed up his hair. “What a mess…” He should have stayed at home with the children.
Xue Yu’s shoulders were held down by the two supervisors. She struggled a little. “I’m innocent! I didn’t cheat! I didn’t even talk to them! Which of your eyes saw me cheat!”
The supervisor directly projected the video he had just recorded onto the large screen on the stage. “With that look in your eyes, you still dare to say you’re innocent?”
Xue Yu was indignant and refused to admit it. “Don’t slander me. I’m mentally retarded. It’s common for my eyes to be crooked and my mouth to be slanted. My eyes can’t focus. I have a doctor’s diagnosis. You can check it!”
The supervisor didn’t believe her and was about to take her away by holding her shoulders.
Meng Wu stepped forward and stopped them. “You two, my wife has always been very faithful in her relationships. She’s honest and decent. It’s impossible for her to have any improper behavior.”
He looked at Zhou Siyan and the other two, then continued, “If it weren’t for these gentlemen being dressed so gorgeously and attracting her first, she wouldn’t have looked at them.”
A faint light flickered in Feng Qizhou’s pupils, and he couldn’t help but sneer.
Xue Yu followed suit and said, “That’s right, that’s right! It’s because they were dressed so handsomely that I couldn’t help but look. I was just looking with an appreciative attitude. I definitely had no other intentions.”
The supervisor turned to examine the three of them. “Did you deliberately seduce Xue Yu and try to ruin her marriage?”
The three men said nothing.
The supervisor added, “An extreme sexual conservative deliberately sabotaging the marriage of a regular conservative, the crime is even greater. The three of you, please cooperate with our investigation.”
With that, he took out three pairs of shiny silver handcuffs from his waist.
Xue Yu was secretly panicked. It was one thing for her to be arrested, but Zhou Siyan and the others couldn’t go to jail. If they went to jail, what would happen to the children?
And Mo Li was still pregnant, his belly very obvious. If he was investigated, it would definitely be discovered.
She stepped forward and took all the blame on herself, admitting her guilt with a heavy heart. “It’s my fault. They didn’t seduce me. I was the one who wanted to look at them. They didn’t respond to me.”
The supervisor gave Zhou Siyan, Feng Qizhou, and Mo Li a serious warning within the conservatives and was about to take Xue Yu away.
Meng Wu still wanted to stop them.
The supervisor said, “Mr. Meng, I hope you can remember the marriage rules of the conservatives. Harboring a cheating wife will also be subject to judgment.”
Meng Wu didn’t say any more. The more he said, the more he would be wrong. It was better for one of them to go in than for both of them. If one stayed outside, they could find a way to get the other out.
The venue was once again silent.
The emcee who had hosted the wedding had never seen such a scene. He lowered his head and flipped through the marriage rulebook of the regular sexual conservatives. After flipping for a full three minutes, he finally found a suitable solution.
She looked at the time on her watch and went to Meng Wu:
“Mr. Meng, according to the regulations of the one-on-one, binding marriage of the regular faction, if one party cheats within twelve hours of the marriage, the other party can apply for an unconditional dissolution of the marriage. Do you want to apply to dissolve your marriage with Ms. Xue Yu?”
Meng Wu said without thinking, “I don’t.”
The emcee’s mouth opened and closed. She continued to flip through the marriage rulebook. “Mr. Meng, do you mean you want to forgive your new wife’s infidelity? Please think carefully before you answer.”
Meng Wu: “Yes, I forgive her. This is the result of my careful consideration.”
The emcee took out a letter of understanding from the file bag she was carrying. “Please sign the letter of understanding. This will affect your wife’s subsequent judgment.”
Meng Wu took the letter of understanding and briefly looked at it. The time, place, and event were all clear.
He placed the letter of understanding on the table, picked up a pen, and copied according to the template:
[I, Meng Wu, voluntarily forgive my wife, Xue Yu’s, spiritual infidelity. I hope the judge will be lenient with my wife.]
He didn’t quite understand the specific details of this type of marriage law.
There were almost no such examples in the White Tower. The marriages in the White Tower were divided into two types: one was the open marriage of the open-minded faction, and the other was the one-on-one, regular sexual conservative marriage like his and Xue Yu’s.
There were not many regular sexual conservative marriages. You could count them on one hand in the White Tower.
And among the regular sexual conservative marriages, Xue Yu was the first to be sentenced for cheating.
Generally, people with the intention of cheating would directly choose an open marriage. They wouldn’t be like Xue Yu, who looked honest on the surface but had a spiritual affair at her own wedding.
Meng Wu handed the letter of understanding to the emcee. “How long will my wife be sentenced for?”
The emcee didn’t quite understand either. “I’m sorry. This will be decided by the internal sexual relations court of the conservatives.”
The White Tower did not have a special court to deal with marriage relations. To judge this kind of problem, everything was based on the standard of [sexual relations].
The emcee left with the letter of understanding.
With Xue Yu not present, this wedding banquet seemed to have lost its meaning. Everything was tasteless. With the main character of the gossip gone, this gossip was a rotten one. It was too boring.
Lu Sen and Bai Qi both stood up and left with a swagger. “Let’s go. The bride has been arrested. What’s there to see? Let’s all disperse.”
Everyone whistled and left one after another. A colleague deliberately smiled at Meng Wu.
“Happy wedding, Major Meng.”
“Major Meng, don’t be unhappy. It’s no big deal. Don’t have a long face on your big day. It’s unlucky.”
“That’s right. Why are you so upset over such a small matter? Xue Yu is not having an easy time either.”
Meng Wu stood motionless, his black wedding suit and cold features complementing each other.
The captain of the Public Security Brigade, Wei Zhuangsu, was also an old classmate of Meng Wu’s. He came over and patted Meng Wu’s shoulder, comforting him calmly:
“You have to be calm to get through this. I think Xue Yu still has you in her heart. It’s just a spiritual affair. It’s no big deal.”
He cleared his throat and continued to persuade him nicely, “Look at my Wantang. She has many partners, but I don’t think that’s cheating. It’s just a lifestyle. Wantang also has her own difficulties. Most of the time, she’s just putting on a show…”
Meng Wu impatiently raised his eyelids. “I’m sorry. I’m not very interested in Yan Wantang’s matters.”
Wei Zhuangsu’s expression instantly changed. His previous kindness disappeared, and he said coldly, “You don’t appreciate kindness.”
With that, his military boots rhythmically tapped on the floor, and he left with a cold face.
Everyone dispersed. Only Meng Wu, the groom, and Xue Yu’s “spiritual affair” partners, Zhou Siyan, Feng Qizhou, and Mo Li, were left.
Feng Qizhou was the first to break the awkwardness. He went to get the glass box for the gift money, forced it open, and touched the stacks of money inside.
“Our little Xue Yu is really popular. She’s received so much money.”
He weighed the box in his hand. “I’ll take this money and keep it for her. I’ll give it to her when she gets out. After all, I have the best relationship with her. I’m the most qualified to keep these things for her.”
Mo Li went to Meng Wu and opened the screen on his watch. “Let’s add each other as contacts.”
Meng Wu nodded and added him as a contact.
Mo Li added, “If there are any developments on Xue Yu’s side, please let me know anytime.”
Then, he just nodded slightly at Zhou Siyan and Feng Qizhou as a greeting and left nimbly.
Feng Qizhou took a handful of money from the box and chased after him. “Mo Li, wait a minute.”
Mo Li stopped and turned to look at him.
Feng Qizhou stuffed the money in his hand to him. “Take it. Buy some nutritional supplements to replenish your body.”
Mo Li did not reply, nor did he take the money. He turned his shoe and was about to go around him.
Feng Qizhou added, “Take it. Xue Yu asked me to give it to you.”
With Xue Yu’s name, Mo Li finally took the money.
Feng Qizhou looked around warily and lowered his voice. “I heard from Xue Yu that you have two children in your belly, just like me.”
“You have to be careful. In the late stages of pregnancy, your body may not be able to bear two children. You might have to have a premature C-section to deliver one first. If you feel anything unusual in your belly, let me know in time. I’ll perform the surgery for you for free.”
Mo Li: “Thank you.”
Feng Qizhou smiled. “Just say a few good words about me in front of Xue Yu.”
Mo Li: “I will.”
Mo Li left.
Meng Wu said, “I will find out what’s going on with Xue Yu as soon as possible.”
He walked a few steps to the side and then turned back. “Also, please be careful in the future. Don’t be so blatant. If it weren’t for you guys coming tonight, it wouldn’t have turned out like this.”
The meaning of his complaint was very obvious.
Feng Qizhou picked up the gift money box, strode forward, and raised his chin arrogantly. “You really think you’re something.”
Only Meng Wu and Zhou Siyan were left in the church. Meng Wu smiled. “It seems the heavens are not on our side, hehe.”
The condition that Zhou Siyan had proposed to Xue Yu was that they could get married, but he had to spend the wedding night with her. Xue Yu had agreed at that time.
Unfortunately, on the wedding night, Xue Yu was arrested.
***
It was very late tonight. The supervisor took Xue Yu to the regular prison on the eighth basement floor and had her wait there, to be tried in court tomorrow.
Xue Yu couldn’t believe it. “No way. Are you really locking me up? Are you serious?”
The supervisor: “What do you think?”
Xue Yu held onto the iron bars. “I still have to contribute to the White Tower! I have to be a captain! If you lock me up, who will transport the goods? Besides, I just glanced at a handsome guy, and you’re locking me up. That’s too extreme!”
“The judge will consider all these problems. You will be given an answer in court tomorrow. Don’t be anxious for now.”
Xue Yu had no choice but to calm down.
The place she was being held was a collective prison. There were about twenty people in a cell, and it was co-ed. It was generally clean, with no strange smells.
Xue Yu sat down in a corner. A young woman came over and asked her, “Why are you in here?”
Xue Yu asked back, “Why are you in here?”
The woman: “Attempted suicide.”
A young man next to her said, “I also attempted suicide.”
Xue Yu looked at them one by one. “And you?”
Several people answered one after another, “Attempted suicide, attempted suicide…”
Xue Yu: “All of you attempted suicide?”
Everyone nodded. “And you? Did you also attempt suicide?”
Xue Yu shook her head. “No.”
Everyone kept asking, “Then why are you in here?”
Xue Yu touched the back of her head in embarrassment. “Attempted infidelity.”
“Ew~~” a chorus of disgusted sounds, and everyone moved away from her.
At that moment, someone recognized Xue Yu. “Hey, aren’t you the number one executioner of the White Tower? The one who killed until you became a pervert?”
Xue Yu smiled and cupped her fists. “That’s me.”
That person moved towards Xue Yu. “Can you kill me? I can give you money, and I can also give you all my inheritance.”
Xue Yu put on the calm demeanor of a top expert. “Why?”
That person: “If I commit suicide, they always save me and then sentence me. If you kill me, they won’t save me.”
Xue Yu flicked the dust from her sleeve. “I never kill alone. Killing alone is too boring. I have to kill a bunch at once. That’s more satisfying.”
A group of people gathered around her:
“Then kill me too! Please, kill me, Xue Yu!”
“Please, as long as you kill me, I’ll do whatever you want!”
Xue Yu pinched her fingers with a profound expression. “What are your identities? Report them one by one.”
Everyone rushed to offer their necks to her.
The young man knelt in front of Xue Yu and showed her his throat. “Here, here! Kill me first! I’m a captain in the air combat team! Kill me quickly!”
Xue Yu touched his neck and then his thin shoulders. “Too skinny. Get lost. I don’t kill skinny dogs.”
The air force captain was not satisfied and showed his abs. “What skinny dog? I train for lean muscles! Lean muscles are the best! Don’t you understand?”
Xue Yu pushed him away. “Skinny dog. Go to the side.”
A woman came up to Xue Yu. “Kill me. I’m a technician in the armored team.”
Xue Yu touched her arm. “Skinny monkey. You go to the side too.”
A strong middle-aged man came over. “I’m not a skinny dog, and I’m not a skinny monkey. I’m a tank assembler in the armored team. Kill me.”
Xue Yu shook her head. “You look like a bullfrog that’s eaten protein powder. I don’t kill bullfrogs. You get lost too.”
After asking one by one, Xue Yu had a rough idea of their identities.
They were all officers and technical soldiers. No wonder they were sentenced for attempting suicide. The White Tower did not allow such talents to commit suicide.
These people had a certain weight in the great machine of the White Tower. If they committed suicide, it was as if this machine had lost a few screws.
The population cleaning of the White Tower was aimed at the useless workers at the bottom, not these officer talents.
Xue Yu sat cross-legged. “As long as I agree to kill you, you’ll do whatever I want?”
A group of people nodded like pecking chicks. “That’s right! We’ll do whatever you want.”
Xue Yu smiled secretly. These people all seemed to be talents. They could be put to good use. Maybe she could have them help her find meteorite crystals.
She added, “I told you, I don’t like to kill alone. I only like the thrill of a group kill. I’m currently researching a group kill method. I can only implement it when my spiritual power reaches a certain level. As long as you help me increase my spiritual power, I can kill you.”
The air force captain kowtowed to her. “For death, I’m willing to do anything! Even if it costs me my life!”
“That sounds really awkward.”
After chatting with this group of people, Xue Yu gradually learned how difficult it was for these military officers who had awakened their spirit bodies in the White Tower to commit suicide.
The people of the White Tower were strong and had extremely strong resistance. Almost all viruses could not invade them. To this day, there was no poison that could easily kill them.
The only thing that could cause serious damage to their bodies was external injury.
The surgical skills of the doctors in the White Tower were superb. There was no external injury that could not be treated. Just like when Youke’en had committed suicide, he had shot himself in the forehead, and the bullet had pierced his skull and was embedded in his brain, but he could still be saved.
This made suicide a task as difficult as climbing to the sky. Jumping off a building or shooting yourself would not work.
Someone had even lain on the tracks before. Because the ambulance had arrived in time, the doctors and nurses had shoveled up the body that had been crushed into a pulp and sent it to the operating room, and in the end, they could also bring the dead back to life.
After chatting for a while, this group of people did not have a strong desire to chat. They all lay down on the floor and went to sleep.
Xue Yu leaned against a corner, not sleepy at all.
Suddenly, Blueberry came out and kept licking the metal wall, its caudal fin wagging happily.
“Blueberry, don’t be so embarrassing!” Xue Yu grabbed it into her arms.
Blueberry said aggrievedly, I’m just playing with a friend.
Xue Yu: Where is your friend?
Blueberry tapped the metal wall with its caudal fin. My friend is here.
Xue Yu carefully observed the metal wall. The surface was smooth, and there was nothing. Blueberry, can you ask your friend to come out for me to see?
Blueberry circled the prison and finally licked the gap between the iron plates on the wall. Finally, a small white tendril extended from the gap between the iron plates. The tendril wrapped around Blueberry, and the two of them started to play together.
Xue Yu looked closely and found that this tendril should be a plant root, possibly the root of some kind of tree.
Strange. The prison she was in was on the eighth basement floor under the Manster Building. Above was a towering metal building. How could there be a plant root here?
And there were very few plants in the White Tower. There were metal roads and metal buildings everywhere, which made it difficult for plants to survive here.
Xue Yu asked Blueberry again, Is this new friend someone’s spirit body?
Blueberry: Yes, yes!
Xue Yu: Do you know who its master is?
Blueberry and the root were communicating. A moment later, it told Xue Yu, It said its master is very powerful and can’t be mentioned.
Xue Yu: How powerful?
Blueberry: Anyway, the most powerful, especially powerful!
Xue Yu thought to herself, So powerful. Could it be the supreme leader of the White Tower—Ms. Bai Long?
Is Ms. Bai Long’s spirit body a plant? This thought shocked Xue Yu.
Logically, it shouldn’t be. The spirit bodies of the people of the White Tower were divided into water-type, air-type, and land-type, and a small number of amphibious-type.
Whether it was sea, land, or air, or amphibious, everyone’s spirit body was an animal-type. She had never heard of a plant-type.
With these confused thoughts, she passed the night.
The next day, Xue Yu was taken to court. She was not given a chance to defend herself, but was directly sentenced.
“Xue Yu, according to the marriage rules of the conservatives, a spiritual affair is sentenced to five months in prison. The sentence increases according to the number of people. You had a spiritual affair with three members of the opposite sex at your own wedding last night. You are now sentenced to fifteen months in prison.”
Xue Yu immediately shouted, “I don’t accept it! I want to appeal! I want to hire a lawyer.”
The judge: “The profession of a lawyer has long been eliminated.”
Xue Yu was completely at a loss. “No way. Are you really going to lock me up for fifteen months? Isn’t the population burden of the White Tower very large? Do you still have the energy to raise prisoners?”
The judge tapped the table to calm her down. “Given that your husband has issued a letter of understanding, and you are busy with work, we have set up a sentence archive for you.”
“What is a sentence archive?”
The judge patiently explained to her, “That is to say, you can go out to work normally, but you need to wear a criminal’s insignia. When you have time, you can come and serve your sentence, one day at a time, until you have accumulated fifteen months.”
Xue Yu was overjoyed. “I can come and serve my sentence when I have time! Why didn’t you say so earlier? Is it the same for the sentence for physical infidelity?”
The judge: “Yes. I have issued a sentence archive card for you here. When you can get your husband’s letter of understanding, you can archive your sentence.”
Xue Yu smiled so wide her teeth showed.
The judge’s brow furrowed. “Xue Yu, please don’t smile so perversely.”
Then, the supervisor put on the criminal’s insignia of [attempted infidelity] for her and reminded her, “As long as you are active in the White Tower, you cannot take off the insignia at will, otherwise your sentence will be increased.”
Xue Yu made an OK gesture. “I understand.”
She left the court. Meng Wu was waiting for her outside. Zhou Siyan was also there.
Xue Yu rushed over, hugged Zhou Siyan, and kissed him. The supervisor’s eyes widened and he ran over. “Xue Yu, please don’t provoke the marriage rules!”
Xue Yu held Zhou Siyan and said, “If you kiss someone other than your partner, you will be sentenced to two years in prison. Just two years. Put it on my account first. I’ll come and serve my sentence when I have time.”
The supervisor gritted his teeth.
Xue Yu showed her sentence archive card. “I have an archive card. I can archive my sentence. I didn’t say I won’t serve my sentence. Can’t I come and serve it when I have time?”
The supervisor took a picture of Xue Yu kissing Zhou Siyan as evidence of infidelity and then added an application of [Xue Yu’s infidelity, requesting a sentence of two years in prison] to the database.
Soon, it was approved by the judge.
The supervisor reminded Xue Yu, “You have a fifteen-month sentence for your spiritual infidelity, plus a two-year sentence for kissing a non-partner. Your total archived sentence is now thirty-nine months. Please arrange your time reasonably to serve your sentence.”
Xue Yu thanked the other person with a good attitude. “Thank you for your hard work. Just put it on my account for now. I will come and serve my sentence when I have time.”
A blessing in disguise. If it weren’t for this imprisonment, she wouldn’t have known about the sentence archive.
In this way, she wouldn’t have to secretly contact Zhou Siyan and the others anymore. If she was caught, she would be sentenced for infidelity and sexual harassment at worst, and then she would continue to apply for an archived sentence. Wouldn’t she be able to do whatever she wanted?
When her Shanhai Safe Zone was built, she would just leave. Who would stay here to serve a sentence!
And she could choose to serve her sentence at any time. Wouldn’t she be able to continue to cooperate with that suicide squad in the prison? Two birds with one stone!
“I can see that you’re very happy,” Zhou Siyan said.
Xue Yu squinted and smiled. “Little Zhou, the wedding night you wanted, I’ll give it to you. It’s in exchange for serving a sentence. Are you tempted?”
Zhou Siyan glanced at Meng Wu on the side. “Remember to issue a letter of understanding. Thanks.”
Meng Wu smiled faintly. “You’re welcome.”