Chapter 543: His Majesty’s Gifts (2/2)
”Please forgive me, Your Majesty!” Shu Man'er was crying.
”Your Majesty, she is here now!” A guard announced with a cold voice. At the same time, they all heard Shu Man'er gasping, ”Elder Sis!”
”Man'er! Why are you here?” Shu Man'er asked , surprised.
Shu Man'er knew that she had screwed up mightily this time. She grabbed Shu Mo'er's dress and cried again.
Shu Mo'er noticed Ye Chong then. She looked back at her sister, who was now crying all over the place, and seemed to deduce something from it. She cried out accusingly at Ye Chong, ”You, what did you do?”
”How dare you? Show your respect to the King!” The guard yelled at her, then kicked Shu Mo'er from behind her knees. Shu Mo'er cried out in pain and fell onto the floor on her knees.
Sun Sieha smiled coldly at her and said, ”Shu Mo'er, I am not killing you now in consideration of your teacher, but don't think I will not do it in future. No one can stop me, not your teacher back then, and definitely not you!”
Sun Sieha seemed to recall something unpleasant from the past. His expression twisted menacingly before he finally got a hold of himself. However, his eyes were still shining threateningly when he said to Ye Chong, ”I give these two women to you.”
”I don't want them,” Ye Chong said calmly.
Sun Sieha was taken aback. ”Do you know what other people are willing to do to obtain these two sisters? Why won't you have them?”
”They're a nuisance,” Ye Chong replied with one lifted eyebrow.
”A nuisance?” Sun Sieha was surprised, but laughed out loud, ”Haha, indeed! You're absolutely right, absolutely! However, I, Sun Sieha, never accept returned gifts.” The King said this with an air of dominance.
Ye Chong could not be bothered to respond. He stepped out of the car and said, ”Remember to send the money over.” He then vanished into the night.
Sun Sieha watched with amusement as Ye Chong made his exit.
He then turned back to the two women and said coldly, ”From now on, you are both his. I don't care how you do it, but you must stay with him. If you can't achieve this, humph, then the Shu Family has no reason to continue existing. If you can get him interested in you, then you'll both be rewarded. Of course, the Shu Family will also benefit. You know what to do.” The King took one last look at the two sisters of the Shu Family, then waved them off. The two women left escorted by the King's guard.
Shu Mo'er looked very pale. Her arms were around her young sister, who was crying herself into a mess. Her lips were already bleeding from biting too hard on them. A late night breeze caressed her long hair. Her determined gaze showed how humiliated, lost and hopeless she felt.
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Yi Ju Planet was now a very busy place. Skyscrapers covered the land, bringing life to the once quiet and desolate planet. It was now one of the most modernized planets in the vicinity. High end commercial centres and the advanced academic institutions could be found on this planet.
The Sang Tribe did not expand rapidly, but even so, they already had 52 planets under their power. These 52 planets had Yi Ju as their center. The area became a newly established territory, known by people now as the Yi Ju Zone.
Since Ye Chong was not there, the Sang Tribe could only decide through a vote on how to respond to the request for assistance from the Three Aristocratic Families. As expected, about 80 percent of them did not agree to travel so far to their aid. However, Sang Pu and his team gave them enough reason. …
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Qiu Man's competence in governance and Sang Pu's military strength allowed the commercial centre known as the Yi Ju Zone to flourish like never before. The greatest benefit they derived from this position was having enough funds. Newcomers who chose to move to the Yi Ju Zone also brought in plenty of resources and, more importantly, advanced technology.
As for the research organizations which were short of money, it was decided that the government would extend financial assistance to them, even in the form of loans. This was because Qiu Man had enough funds. She had been trying to figure out how to spend the money in a way that could encourage growth in the place. This was one of the measures she had come up with.
Aried was short, and had been looked down by others because of this ever since he was a young boy. Nevertheless, he was an unconventional genius. This was because his theories were not acknowledged by any known research center, which refused to fund him because of his weird ideas.
He arrived on Planet Yi Ju to escape the red-tailed beasts. He saw the new policy in place to help academics, and decided to just try it out.
To his surprise, he passed the initial and a few subsequent interview rounds, and finally made it to the final round of interview. He also managed to meet a few legendary figures in the Yi Ju leadership, including the legendary beauty, Ms Qiu Man.
”Ms Qiu Man is more beautiful than the rumors suggested!” Aried thought to himself.
Qiu Man was used to this kind of attention. She coughed softly and smiled at the man, ”You must be Mr Aried. A pleasure to meet you. We have looked over your proposed subject, 'V-shaped Spatial Techniques'. We were not familiar with your subject before this, so we have asked for opinions from a few experts in spatial science. They all agreed that your proposal is interesting. They cannot prove that it will work, but it is worth a look. Hence, we have decided to invest in your project.”