Chapter 249: Where to Live After Marriage?
At that moment, the Pet Servant stood beside Mrs. Bai, staring at the pale and dejected Mr. Bai sitting on the floor. He sneered again, "Bai Xiao, what else do you have to say for yourself?"
"How dare you deceive our wife, swapping out a useless female and replacing your own biological daughter with Bai Rao. Heh, a good-for-nothing can only produce something like a useless female, after all."
Hearing this, Mr. Bai was filled with rage and hatred. The genetic test report in his hand was nearly crumpled into a ball. He had no way to refute the claim.
Mrs. Bai wasn’t too pleased to hear this either. Even if the child was a useless female, she had come from her own womb. The Pet Servant’s words were, in effect, insulting her as well.
She shot him a cold glance, and he realized he had gotten carried away. He immediately tried to curry favor, saying softly, "Wife, I wasn’t talking about you, only Bai Xiao. If it weren’t for his sickly constitution and inferior genes, how could someone as amazing as you give birth to a child like that?"
Mrs. Bai sat on the sofa, her expression dark. She angrily smashed the teacup in her hand on the floor next to Mr. Bai. After a long moment, she said, "Enough. This ends here. Bai Ruo must not find out. Regardless of the truth, Bai Rao is my daughter."
A useless female has no value whatsoever. The Bai Family has no need for one.
A flicker of light appeared in Mr. Bai’s eyes.
The Pet Servant was in disbelief and wanted to say more, but Mrs. Bai glared at him. "That’s enough. You should know very well what can and cannot be said."
Then, her voice quickly softened. She pulled him down to sit beside her and whispered intimately in his ear, "Be good. You need to understand that whether Bai Rao exists or not, Bai Xiao can’t affect your position. I have no interest in that sickly weakling. You are my true love."
Hearing this, the Pet Servant’s expression finally improved, but he was still a little resentful. He didn’t just want his wife’s love; he wanted the position of main husband.
However, he knew Mrs. Bai’s temperament. Pushing the matter would only displease her, so he kept his mouth shut.
Shi Lan was still unaware of the Bai Family’s affairs.
After finishing her meal, she sat contentedly on a soft chair in the dining room. She rubbed her full stomach and let out a small burp.
’Having so many Beast Husbands is a sweet problem to have.’
During the meal, they all knew her preferences and couldn’t help but pile her plate with food. Unwilling to refuse their kindness, Shi Lan ate everything, and before she knew it, she had eaten more than usual.
Yan Huoshui, who was sitting beside her, gently placed his large, slender, and burning-hot palm on her stomach.
Shi Lan’s body trembled sensitively. She subconsciously tensed her stomach, held her breath, and looked at him with wide, questioning eyes. "What are you doing?"
He chuckled softly. "I’ll rub your stomach. It’ll make you feel a little more comfortable."
Shi Lan opened her mouth to refuse, but he had already begun. He was a fox and loved soaking in hot springs back on Black Star, so his body temperature was very high. When his hand rested on her stomach, it felt as comfortable as a heating pad.
Her mind wandered. ’This would be perfect for warming my body when I get my period.’
Then again, since coming to this world, her period only came once every three months, and she didn’t get cramps, so it wasn’t so bad.
She had actually asked Jiang Yan about this. Her cycle was even longer, maybe only once a year. ’Honestly, I’m a little envious. It would save so much trouble.’
But even this was much better than before she transmigrated into the book. Back then, it was once a month, and because she hadn’t been well taken care of as a child, her cramps were frequent, unlike now.
’This is true happiness.’
She looked around at the people she loved and sighed in contentment.
Since it wasn’t good to rub her stomach for too long right after eating, Yan Huoshui only did it for two or three minutes before stopping. He Hanshi then pulled out some digestive pills from his storage space.
Jiang Xia ate a lot, but his digestion was also very good. He stared eagerly at the digestive pills in He Hanshi’s hand. "Give me one to try."
Looking slightly speechless, He Hanshi tossed him a pill.
Jiang Xia immediately popped it into his mouth. It had a sweet, hawthorn-like flavor and wasn’t bad at all.
Mu Tangfeng scoffed, "Heh, Jiang Xia, look at how much you eat every time. If you keep this up, you’ll be a big fatty sooner or later."
"That’s fine by me. When Lanlan doesn’t like you anymore, I’ll have one less competitor."
Hearing this, Jiang Xia quickly pinched the flesh on his arm. ’Have I gotten fat?’
He cautiously put down his chopsticks. "Hmph, how do you know I won’t work out?"
"Pfft, like hell I’d believe you."
The two started bickering again, as they usually did, while Ye Ming smoothly brewed a cup of hot tea for Shi Lan.
Shi Lan blew on the steam from her cup, leisurely watching the show. ’Married life should be pretty interesting,’ she thought.
However, now that she had a moment of peace, a more serious problem occurred to her.
’Where are we going to live? I haven’t even bought a house yet.’
She frowned in thought, then decided to discuss the matter with everyone. "Now that we’re married, where is everyone going to live?"
Jiang Xia immediately replied, "Naturally, we’ll go wherever our wife goes."
The others nodded slightly, not refuting his words. They clearly felt the same.
Shi Lan felt a little embarrassed. "But... I don’t have a house on Capital Star yet."
She was temporarily staying at He Hanshi’s place, but it would definitely be inconvenient for the others to live there too.
Mu Tangfeng said without hesitation, "Let’s buy one, Lanlan. I’ve already sent you my dowry list. I’ll transfer the assets to your card in a bit."
He Hanshi also nodded. "We could consider Interstellar Mansion. Or we could build a new house on the plot of land I gave you. Robot construction is very fast these days; it would take a month at most. But we could also just buy a house in Interstellar Mansion for now."
Yan Huoshui chimed in with his approval. "I looked into Interstellar Mansion before. Many of their floor plans are designed for married couples and are basically standalone structures. We could each have our own floor."
Ye Ming agreed. "That’s a good idea. For the price, Interstellar Mansion is the most secure community. We could buy a place there for the time being, then move into the new house once it’s built."
Listening to them talk so casually about buying a property in Interstellar Mansion, Shi Lan felt a little dazed, her mind still not adjusted from having only a few million in assets.
She remembered that the cheapest houses in Interstellar Mansion cost tens of millions. If it was a multi-story villa, it would probably be close to a hundred million.
Shi Lan subconsciously glanced again at the dowry lists they had privately sent her before proposing, and she counted the number of zeros in the asset totals.
’So many zeros.’
’I never thought the day would come when I’d get dizzy from counting zeros, getting rich overnight just by getting married.’
After a while, Shi Lan made the final decision. "Alright then. We’ll go look at houses tomorrow. For tonight, I’ll sleep at He Hanshi’s place."
The moment the words left her mouth, a shocked and joyful light appeared in He Hanshi’s eyes. The other four men’s eyes dimmed, and their smiles faded considerably.
They had already registered their marriage and were a legally married couple. They all knew exactly what Shi Lan’s words implied.
’So, does she want to spend her first night with He Hanshi?’