Xie Jie knew that he was overstepping his boundaries by making such an unreasonable offer. After all, Mo Qiang was the one who worked her arse off to clean the ocean and he had no rights over that property but when he thought about how his brother had to suffer even more at the Long family along with his child once he or she was born, he decided that he would rather lower his head and owe Mo Qiang an extra fifty billion star coins than let Long Ju keep his brother by her side anymore.
Maybe Mo Qiang would understand his reasoning, after all, she was willing to exchange the cleaned side of the ocean for Xie Li.
In the past, he did not have the power to deal with Long Ju or the Long family but this time around, Xie Jie had some foothold to make offers in front of Long Ju.
' It feels quite amazing to be on the same foothold as this woman,' he thought in his head. Xie Jie did not even realize that the security that he was relishing came from the woman whom he was resisting with all his might.
Long Ju gulped harshly. She stood up from the seat on which she was sitting pushed herself off the chair and looked down at Xie Jie with a stern expression on her face.
She said, " You are forgetting that the child in your brother's belly belongs to me, Master Jie. And I haven't reached the point where I will sell my flesh and blood for profits."
" And yet you are willing to force a helpless mer on your bed?" Xie Jie sneered as he looked at Long Ju. He wished he could slap this woman bloody but he could not, this world was ruled by law and even if his instincts were telling him to shoot this woman dead —— or choke her in her dreams, he knew that if he did that then he would become a low life murderer in the eyes of his mother and father in law.
Xie Jie did not want to lower his stance in front of his in-laws, not because he was careful about his image but because he once promised Mo Yan and Wen Gui that he would not degrade to the level of those who lost themselves in the hands of the Zerg Queen's poison.
Because of that promise, he had held himself back from touching Long Ju's dreams as he knew that he would lose control. Though he had tried to sneak into the dreams of his brother Xie Li had blocked him. He knew that the reason Xie Li did this was because he was afraid that Xie Jie would lose himself and try to take revenge on Long Ju.
His brother had sacrificed so much and his in-laws had placed their trust in him, Xie Jie did not think that Long Ju was worthy enough to break that trust.
" He is carrying my child," Long Ju repeated as she reminded Xie Jie once more. " I am not going to let you take him away, not unless he gives birth to my child safely."
SLAP!
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