Chapter 59 Husband Stealers

Watery South had been open for quite a long time by far. Except for the new male players who joined the game recently because of the “Beauty Contest”, most male players on this server had high levels and great equipment now, not to mention god-like players, such as Bluegreen-Clad and Blooming Pear Tree. Unfortunately, most of these high-level players were married.

As such, when girls of the Speaking Flowers wanted to marry high-level guys, they had no choice but to steal the other girls’ husbands.

“It’s easy for a girl to find a guy and get married in this game. After all, male players significantly outnumbered female players here. However, some girls are just determined to marry high-level guys.” Han Meimei snorted and continued, “My husband Li Lei started from scratch, and I’ve accompanied him all this time. In the past, there were not so many husband stealers. Look at the current situation… ”

Guys usually outnumbered girls in an online game. The same went for Shiny Sky Online. It was easy for a female player to find a male partner to play together, but just like the husband-seeking girls in the real life, most female players had high requirements for their male partners in the game. They just wanted to marry “successful male partners”.

As a result, a male player at a low level could hardly find a wife in the game. As for those “successful male players” who were popular with the female players, they usually had not only high levels but also wives who had accompanied them for a fairly long time.

As an old saying went, a barren farmland would usually be left uncultivated, but once it was turned into a good farmland by someone, others would want to steal the land. Gradually, more and more wives of the high-level male players got mad at the husbands stealers.

Zheng Xiaoguang could see the wife of a high-level guy shout on the Public Chat channel and call so-and-so from the Speaking Flowers a shameless bitch every day when she got online.

She thought, “Sigh, how can this small gang survive with such a bad reputation?”

To her surprise, although the Speaking Flowers stank its reputation, its girls still managed to hook up with some high-level married guys successfully.

One of these guys got caught by his wife. His wife kept taunting the guy and the marriage wrecker and calling them adulterer and adulteress for a day and a night on the Public Chat channel. Nevertheless, she still failed to get her husband back.

Later, someone teased on the Rumor channel. “It looks like girls of the Speaking Flowers must be super cute or good in bed. Otherwise, how could they succeed in seducing so many married guys. I just want to advise the abandoned wives to take it easy. Fickle guys aren’t worth your love.”

Even under such pressure of public opinion, the “adulterer and adulteress” still stayed happily together. That guy divorced his wife and married the marriage wrecker. He even joined the Speaking Flowers for her.

Upon knowing this, Zheng Xiaoguang was amazed and could not help but sigh in her heart, “Now, all the gangs are busy recruiting new members. The competition is fierce. The Speaking Flowers uses this kind of method to attract new members. These girls do think outside the box.”

When Zheng Xiaoguang continued to monitor the situation, Venus Will Cry found herself in trouble.

Since Zheng Xiaoguang had “replaced” Venus in Bluegreen-Clad’s regular team, Son of Heaven had seldom teamed up Bluegreen-Clad. Nowadays, he usually teamed up with Venus and her friends to gain levels. Sometimes, he would also team up with some strangers.

Son of Heaven and Venus played instances together in recent days. One day, when they needed a magical offensive force, they sent out a team invitation on the Public Chat channel and then teamed up with a female magician named Shallow Grass.

Sallow Grass seemed to like Son of Heaven very much and often teamed up with him to complete different kinds of missions after that day.

Every time Venus got online, Son of Heaven would send her a team invitation. Recently, every time Venus joined Son of Heaven’s team, she would meet Shallow Grass there.

[Team] Shallow Grass: Son of Heaven, can you help me unlock level-105 purple equipment today? There are not many strong warriors in my gang. I’m about to upgrade to level 105, but I still don’t have anything purple.

[Team Captain] Son of Heaven: Okay.

Upon seeing that, Venus tightly gripped her mouse and thought, “What? Why didn’t he ask for my advice first?”

She suppressed her emotions as usual and sent out a smiling face and said on the Team channel. “Son of Heaven is a warrior, and I’m a doctor, We just need some offensive forces anytime we want to play together.”

She implied that Son of Heaven and her were regular partners and that the other offensive forces could always be replaced in this team.

Just as she expected, Shallow Grass could not help but talk back: A doctor is fucking useless in a team when there’s no offensive force.

This was what Venus wanted.

[Team] Venus Will Cry: [Sad Face] Son of Heaven, did I say something wrong that upset Shallow Grass?

[Team Captain] Son of Heaven: Shallow Grass, don’t misunderstand Venus. She didn’t mean anything else.

Shallow Grass felt grumpy but did not say anything else. Venus invited Little Girl and Bluegreen Belt to join the team.

When a team decided to go to unlock some purple equipment, it would usually choose members of different professions. Now, as Venus brought Bluegreen Belt into the team, there were two magicians. Once they unlocked some purple equipment for a magician, they had to decide who they should give this piece of equipment to.

[Team] Shallow Grass: Our team has a magician now. Why didn’t you bring an assassin or a summoner into our team?

[Team] Venus Will Cry: I’m sorry. We’re a regular team, so…

Venus was implying that Shallow Grass was the extra magician.

When Shallow Grass was about to say something, Son of Heaven made a decision.

[Team Captain] Son of Heaven: Alright, stop it. Once we unlock something for a magician. You two will roll the dice.

After that, they went to play the level-105 instance together.

As the front-line offensive force, Son of Heaven was busy fighting the Boss and did not notice what Venus did behind his back.

When they fighting against the Boss, Venus often “forgot” to add blood for Shallow Grass. A magician was quite fragile. As such, Shallow Grass was slain for several times during the fight.

For the sake of the purple equipment, Shallow Grass endured all of this and managed to get through the instance and slay all the Bosses together with the other team members. Unfortunately, they unlocked only one peice of purple equipment for a magician that day.

Much to her disappointment, when she rolled the dice, she got only 22 points and lost the equipment to Bluegreen Belt who got 56 points. The system automatically distributed the level-105 purple coat to Bluegreen Belt, a level-102 magician.

[Team] Shallow Grass: I don’t want to play anymore.

Upon seeing that Shallow Grass gave up so quickly, Venus could not help but smile. To her surprise, Shallow Grass sent out another message.

[Team] Shallow Grass: Son of Heaven, do you want to join the Speaking Flowers? I’ll ask my gang boss to make you the deputy gang boss.

In recent days, Son of Heaven had often discussed with Venus whether they had to leave the League of Strong Families and join another gang. He was afraid that Venus would feel awkward if she continued staying in the League of Strong Families. Upon seeing the message from Shallow Grass, he was intrigued.

[Team Captain] Son of Heaven: I will consider it.

Venus was surprised. “What? He said that he would consider it?”

She bit her lip and continued to think, “I know that he wants to leave the League of Strong Families, but I don’t want to. If I leave, it’ll look like that I admit defeat to Flowing Light. And this Shallow Grass, who suddenly asks Son of Heaven to join her gang, is clearly up to something.”

Venus, who always pretended to be a nice and simple girl, could not voice her thought now. Fortunately, she had her friends here.

[Team] Bluegreen Belt: Shallow Grass, why do you ask our Team Captain to join the Speaking Flowers?Do you like him?

[Team] Shallow Grass: Yes, I like him. So what?

[Team] Bluegreen Belt: Don’t you know that Son of Heaven is the winner of the contest held by Venus? Everyone knows that they’re a couple. What do you want to do now?

[Team] Shallow Grass: If they’re really a couple, why don’t they get married? To make myself clear, now I tell this to you, Son of Heaven. I like you. Do you want to join my gang, the Speaking Flowers?

Venus considered this a good opportunity. As she did not like Son of Heaven, if he really left with Shallow Grass, she would not have to worry about marrying him someday. After all, she had just used him to get close to Bluegreen-Clad in the past.

Despite that, she still felt somewhat reluctant to let Shallow Grass get what she wanted so easily.

Even though she did not like Son of Heaven, she would never want to give him to Shallow Grass or anyone else. She just did not want anyone else to replace her in the heart of Son of Heaven.

[Team] Venus Will Cry: If you don’t like me now, you can leave with her, Son of Heaven. I respect your decision. I won’t pester you in the future.

Shallow Grass knew clearly what Venus was up to and disdained her even more.

[Team] Shallow Grass: Save it, Venus. You keep Son of Heaven by your side all the time and never plan to marry him. You’re taking up space in the **without** (Inappropriate words were omitted by the system automatically.）

[Team] Venus Will Cry: No, it’s not like that. I never force him to stay with me.

Son of Heaven just could not tolerate seeing Venus being wronged.

[Team Captain] Son of Heaven: That’s enough, Shallow Grass. I like only Venus and will stay by her side forever. I’ll go wherever she goes. You can leave now.

[Team] Shallow Grass: You’re stupid, Son of Heaven. She doesn’t like you at all!

[Team Captain] Son of Heaven: I don’t want to talk to you anymore. Just leave now! Don’t team up with me again.

Upon seeing that, Shallow Grass had no choice but to quit the team.

[Team] Shallow Grass: Son of Heaven, you’ll regret it sooner or later.

After successfully driving Shallow Grass away, Venus Will Cry asked hypocritically, “Son of Heaven, do you bear a grudge against me for refusing to marry you?”

“I know that you want a seven-star Yellow Spring Sword,” said Son of Heaven.

As Son of Heaven did not reply yes or no to her question, she thought that he must have felt somewhat displeased with her. She thought grumpily, “That’s Shallow Grass’ fault. She deliberately mentioned this thing to drive a wedge between us?”

She pretended to be thoughtful and said, “In fact, I don’t really need such a sword. I know that you’ve tried your best. It’s difficult to collect the materials. It’s not your fault.”

She added, pitifully. “But I just feel unfair. Why does Flowing Light have such a sword? Do you think that I’m inferior to Flowing Light? Why can’t I have such a sword?”

Just as she expected, Son of Heaven took pity on her and comforted her by saying, “Just rest assured. I’ll give you a seven-star Yellow Spring Sword.”

Venus replied gratefully, “Thank you, Son of Heaven. You’re the best.”