Chapter 1880 - 1880: She is back (2)
“Y—Your eye…” Chen Mi, who had followed behind Shen Li, looked at Yu Dong with shock and anguish in his eyes. He had prayed
for his wife to return safe and sound, so why was his wife missing an eye!?
“Its a small price to pay,” Yu Dong touched her eye, which she had lost and smiled at Chen Mi. Seeing that none of her husbands was smiling, she raised her hand and ruffled Chen Mi’s hair before saying, “Its alright; don’t look at me like that. It doesn’t hurt anymore; look—aren’t I back safe and sound?”
“Do you call this safe and sound?” Ye Liu asked as he looked at the hands and neck that were covered in scars. Who knows how many more scars were hiding within those crimson red robes? The more he looked at his wife, the more Ye Liu felt his heart ache.
He knew that it was a far-fetched dream to think that his wife would return without any injuries but now that he was seeing the horror of war etched on the skin of his wife, his eyes couldn’t help but turn red. Why did those who were sitting in higher positions have to be so greedy? Why can’t they live a life peacefully?
It was them who fought and started a war for the throne and the ones who suffered were people like them.
Yu Dong looked at her husbands, who were standing as if they had been turned into statues and said to them, “Hey, are you not going to hug me? I am back after so long—”
She didn’t even finish speaking when the one person whom she never thought would hug her in public reached out and hugged her.
“Li’er?”
Shen Li hugged her tight as if he wished he could melt her bones and flesh in his own flesh and carry her together, safe within him.
“You are so foolish! I was so worried—why did you leave me alone like this wuuu… I know that I was in the wrong; I should have trusted you more but how can you leave without selling Wooooo, goodbye. I was so scared, I couldn’t sleep for years.”
Shen Li cried and cried. He had been standing tall and straight for all these years and not once did he cry because he had to take care of his brothers and the children. As the official husband of Yu Dong, he didn’t have the privilege to cry either publicly or privately.
He could only wake up and protect the legacy that his wife left behind and, at the same time, make preparations for everything else in case something was to go wrong.
Every day his heart was wrought with worry as he tried to maintain law and order in the village while making sure that their family remained safe.
And he couldn’t do that if he was to show weakness.
So he could only suck in his tears and wait for his wife to return.
Only now did he dare to cry because she was back!
Yu Dong felt her throat getting choked up; she knew how much Shen Li had suffered these past two and a half years. This was the reason why she did not want to go to war but with how the situation escalated, there was nothing that she could have done about it.
She raised her hand and patted Shen Li on the back; if not for the fact that they were standing in public, she would have kissed him and coaxed him. But she knew how thin her husband’s skin was and thus didn’t do anything impulsive.
Instead she turned to look at the two women who were dragged out of the vat and looked at them with murderous intent leaking from her eyes. She asked, “Who are these two women? How dare they bully my family like this?”
As soon as Yu Dong finished speaking, Shen Li and the other mers’ eyes turned red. Oh, how long they have been waiting for someone to come and stand up for them like this. Even though they were strong enough to protect themselves, in the end, wasn’t it good to be protected by their wife?
Fang Chi, who was standing at the back, pointed at the two women and then said to Yu Dong, “Wife, these two women are simply beasts! They actually wanted to kidnap our cousin and even had their eyes on our sons. They wanted to sell them to the brothels. Fortunately, you taught us a way to deal with these beasts but who would have thought that instead of jumping on the other side of the wall, they jumped inside the courtyard and wanted to harm us all together.”
“Even when we gave Madam Li the money and made her sign the severance documents, she still came here to cause us trouble. Its a good thing that Brother Li was awake and heard them. If not, then we would have been ruined, wuwuwuwu wife—I was so scared.”
His slender body trembled when he thought about how these two women were actually aiming for his son; if Shen Li had not heard about their scheme by coincidence and if the guards were not paying attention, then his son—his son—would have been snatched away by these two women!
Though he did know that the chances of such a thing happening were impossible, he still felt worried.
How could he not when his son’s life was on the line? Bo Bo was his only child and he had raised him like a tender flower in the palm of his hands. Even the thought alone of someone harming his son was enough to make Fang Chi’s heart ache.
When Yu Dong saw that Fang Chi was scared, she immediately helped him. She said to him, “Don’t be afraid; I am here.”
She then turned to look at the two women and sneered, “Since you two love brothels so much, then I will teach you a good lesson!”
As she spoke, she walked over to Madam Lin and her sister-in-law before injecting them with a ‘poison’. No sooner did she embed the controlling chip in the necks of the two women, Madam Lin and her sister-in-law, than they started to roll on the ground as they felt an exploding pain in their heads.
It was so painful that they even forgot the burnt wounds on their skins!
Yu Dong sneered when she saw them rolling on the ground and said to Lang, “Dump them in the special brothel where men and mer visit.”
As she spoke, she threw a scar-healing medicine at Lang and said to her, “Make sure their appearance is perfect, or else it will be too much of a waste.” She then looked at the two women and sneered, “Don’t even think about escaping, because if you dared to escape, then you will feel double the pain that you just suffered from.”