And was there a need for her to lie?

” I do,” Yu Dong honestly replied. ” But you don’t have to worry, I will not bring me in the house until you all accept him.” What she did not say was that she will not bring Xiao Hua into their house if Shen Li were to refuse, she was willing to wait for the four of them to accept Xiao Hua but she would not leave him. This was her bottom line.

Shen Li too understood what Yu Dong was trying to say and felt his lower lips tremble, he knew that compared to other women who married multiple husbands and treated them like they were a burden, Yu Dong was much better than them. He also knew that he, Ye Liu and Chen Mi were husbands that Yu Dong had to accept even when she did not want to, she could have left them but instead, she accepted them.

However, when someone gets hold of something they always want more and he too wanted more, he was getting greedy because he did not want to share Yu Dong with anyone.

” Give me some time,” even though he knew the answer, after receiving a positive response from Yu Dong, he felt his heart crumbling a little. Though the matter of having a lot of husbands was normal but so was his feeling upset when his wife found another mer she loved and this time without the added responsibility.

Yu Dong watched him go back inside the house and then sighed before pinching the bridge of her nose, she knew that this was a shock for Shen Li but she hoped that he will be able to overcome it and accept Xiao Hua, she would not like it if they could not accept each other then it will only troublesome for her.

…

As promised Yu Mai finished running around the entire tree house for ten minutes and then he was rewarded with two bowls of rice with a sticky pork belly.

” Uwahh! You are the best sister!” Yu Mai whose world did not have any problem at all was really happy and so were Chen Mi and Ye Liu who did not know anything but Shen Li who received a bomb from Yu Dong as a gift just now was silent while munching simply on rice. He seemed to be lost in his thoughts at first no one paid any attention to his peculiarity but when Chen Mi noticed that Shen Li has not eaten a piece of pork belly, he could not help but say, ” Brother Li? Are you okay? You haven’t eaten any meat, are you fasting or something?”

Yu Dong choked on her the bite of the pork belly that she has taken just now, she raised her head and looked at Shen Li who was now looking at the pork that was a bit further from him. Earlier she was thinking about something and did not look at Shen Li but now she that she was looking at him for some reason, she was feeling a bit guilty. Should she have waited for a little while?

But at this moment she could not worry about this, what she was worried about was that Shen Li might tell Chen Mi and Ye Liu what she has told him and then the three of them will rebel against her.

She waited with bated breath as she looked at the mer in front of her while he looked back at her and just as she was thinking what he was going to say, she heard him say, ” Yu Dong——”

Her name? And that too her full name? Was he going to attack her? Here and right now? In front of kids? Will she look good kneeling on durian in front of kids now? At least wait for the kids to go to sleep!

Yu Dong looked at Shen Li, her heart thumping as she waited for him to finish.

Maybe he was also enjoying hanging her like this, she waited for him to speak and was on the verge of standing from her seat when she heard Shen Li speak, ” Pass me the bowl of sticky pork belly.”

” Oh sure,” Yu Dong hurriedly picked up the bowl of sticky pork belly and handed it to Shen Li who smiled at her in a manner that scared her so much that she dropped her chopsticks from her hand.

” Dong Dong?” Fang Chi was eating right beside Yu Dong, so when he saw that she dropped her chopsticks, he picked the chopsticks up and handed them back with a confused look on his face. ” What happened?”

“It’s nothing,” Yu Dong smiled as she looked at him and then took the chopsticks from him before she turned to look at Shen Li who was eating peacefully. Though he was eating peacefully, she was sure that the upcoming days will no longer be as peaceful as they were right now.

….

The Yu family was in a mess and so was the old Yu family, Old man Tang who has been divorced and abandoned by his lover on the same day was in a rather foul mood and what was, even more, he needed to think of a way to get rid of the child in his belly. He was hoping that this child would become his ace card but now that he was abandoned by his lover who was not willing to marry him and was asking him to get rid of it, he had no other choice but to take care of the child once and for all.

And to top it all, he was being bullied by the villagers!

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