Guide To Reign My Tycoon Husbands - Chapter 504

Chapter 504: A Harsh lesson
Luo Huian knew that Luo Qingling must be thinking that she was being ruthless towards Qi Yongrui but seriously, who asked that mer to listen to his sister so much?

Since he wanted to listen to her, then listen! And suffer.

“Achoo!” Qi Yongrui sneezed loudly. While lying inside the shack, he couldn’t help but shiver. After the sunset, the weather suddenly turned cold. Even though he was wearing a light jacket, he couldn’t help but shiver in the cold because of how chilly it had become. He blinked his eyes and sniffed before raising his head and looking at Long Zhong, who was huddled in the corner.

Seeing the mer like this, he couldn’t help but turn guilty. “I am sorry.”

“You—you should be sorry indeed,” Long Zhong snapped with his teeth chattering. He hated that Qi Yongrui had fallen into an obvious trap; even though he knew that there was something wrong, he still jumped into the pit. “I told you that there was something wrong, didn’t I? Why did you not listen to me, kid? Now look where we ended!”

Long Zhong was cold and hungry and most of all, he was terrified. He turned to look at Gu Qinfan, who was sitting in the other corner without showing any expression on his face and shivered. Something was really wrong with this mer.

It was so cold but he was not even shivering.

When Gu Qinfan noticed Long Zhong’s gaze, he was amused. He said to him, “What’s wrong? Do you think that there is something wrong with me because I am not shivering, unlike you two?”

“Isn’t that it?” Long Zhong stretched his neck and questioned, causing Gu Qinfan to chuckle.

The mer simply rolled his eyes and said, “It has nothing to do with me being a vessel for gloom; you are just weak.”

“What did you say?” Long Zhong was not a man but he still felt upset when he heard Gu Qinfan calling him weak. Where was he weak? He was obviously very sturdy, was he not?

“You are weak.” Gu Qinfan didn’t show any respect to Long Zhong and repeated his words with a mocking smile. “Young master, you must live in a big mansion with all the comfort, right? Unlike you, I grew up in this shack. After the death of my mother, I was thrown here by my stepfather. How can I feel cold?”

He had been living in this shack ever since his mother left him.

Xiang Zhu threw him into this shack and never took him back; it would be a surprise if he still felt hot and cold even though he had been living in this shack for more than three years. Now he was used to suffering.

Whether it was too hot or cold, he didn’t feel anything. Not to mention, the presence of the Gloom inside of his body meant that his temperature was inherently colder than others.

“I am sorry.” Qi Yongrui glared at his assistant and then turned to look at Gu Qinfan with an apologetic look on his face. “He didn’t mean to be rude; my assistant just doesn’t know how to filter his words when he is angry.”

“There is no need to apologise.” Gu Qinfan shook his head, looking completely unbothered. This was not the first time anyone had looked at him warily; even though the villagers were the ones who made him drink the essence of Gloom, they still looked at him as if he were a monster.

As if it wasn’t them who turned him into one.

He paused and asked after a few seconds, “Your wife, will she really return to save you?”

Gu Qinfan didn’t have much hope. After all, he had tried to escape so many times but not once did he succeed. He wondered if he was destined to die in this small shack. Sometimes he couldn’t help but miss his mother. His mother was kind and loving.

She even wanted to send him to the capital to study, even when the villagers told her that there was no point in sending a mer to college, as he would one day marry a man or a woman and leave the house. But his mother didn’t listen and then sent him to the school in the town.

She even brought him fish and meat to eat but then that mer sent her to the dungeon and she never returned. Gu Qinfan’s eyes turned red when he thought about how his mother might be schemed against by that mer. Maybe the entire village planned the death of his mother such that they could make him the vessel of the Gloom.

With luck like this, could he even escape?

Qi Yongrui turned silent. He blinked his eyes and then said to Gu Qinfan in a calm voice, “I don’t know. My wife and I don’t have a good relationship, as you already saw but..” he paused and added, “But I will let you know one thing… My wife doesn’t have the habit of lying. Since she said that she will come to rescue us, then she will certainly do it.”

It is just that he didn’t know how long he had to wait for it.

“What an idiot,” Luo Huian, who was sitting on a long, gnarled branch that stretched out right on top of the shack, munched on the apple that she was holding and remarked. She knew that Qi Yongrui was somewhat innocent and an optimistic mer, she didn’t know that he was this naive.

She threw the rind of the apple after she had finished eating and then jumped down from the branch. She only came to see if the mers were doing alright or not. Now that she knew that they were doing fine, Luo Huian didn’t want to waste her time anymore.

She arched her arms over her head and yawned.

“Maybe I should go back and sleep,” she muttered before jumping on Xiao Hei and disappearing from the village.

Four days passed by just like that.

In the beginning, Long Zhong and Qi Yongrui were not troubled, but as the days continued to pass one by one, their condition started to deteriorate. They were really hungry and thirsty.

And the people of this village were simply inhuman; they came to check up on Gu Qinfan but they didn’t give them any food or water to drink. They left them on their own devices.

Even when Long Zhong asked them to untie his hands because he wanted to go to relieve himself, the villagers told him to do it right in front of them. They even teased him.

No matter how hot-tempered Long Zhong was, in the end, he was also a mer. How could he undo his pants and relieve himself in front of so many women? Thus, he simply refused the offer of those thugs.

By the third day, the two mers were simply harassed by the villagers and their cruelty.

“I am going to kill Qi Changpu.” On the morning of the fourth day, Long Zhong, who was hungry, thirsty and having a headache due to hunger, was filled with rage and gloom. He didn’t know whether it was due to the presence of a Gloom vessel, but he was filled with murderous thoughts.

He wanted Qi Changpu to die a horrible death!

“Argh, it hurts so much!” Long Zhong groaned as he rolled on the floor. He had been hungry for the last three days and three nights; if this went on, then he would become a starved ghost before Luo Huian could come and rescue him.

He turned to look at Qi Yongrui and resentfully said to him, “Can’t you have refused? I am sorry, Yongrui but just because you never stood against your sister doesn’t mean that you should never do it!”

“You are the only one who could bring the falling Qi corporation to where it is at the moment with your awakened skills. If you had put your foot down, then nothing like this would have happened.”

Qi Yongrui pursed his lips. He didn’t say anything and simply let Long Zhong blame him. He knew that it was his fault. After all, he asked Long Zhong to follow him even though he knew that this was most likely a trap that was dug for him.

And he also agreed with what Long Zhong said to him.

He should have stood up against his sister and refused to come to this village.

But it was too late to think about what he should and shouldn’t have done.

He closed his eyes and sighed. However, because of how hungry and thirsty he was, he couldn’t even fall asleep. His stomach was churning and knotting. It was simply painful to the point where he wanted to pass out but the pain was so excruciating that he couldn’t do it!

If only he hadn’t listened to his sister.

“How do you feel now? Was it worth it?”