Lady Meilin is seduced by her green tea brother-in-law everyday

After leaving the funeral, Mei Mei met up with Jingzhe at the location of the area where she wanted to open her space camp. She could not go to the developed areas, rent there was extremely high and there was no space for and amusement park so she had to settle for the ignored part of the city.

She chose a district that everyone called The Hollow because it was considered a scar on the dazzling beautiful face of the capital city. Once upon a time it was called the Muyu slum but the government designated it for development and it grew rapidly. At the height of technological development and expansion, it had been abandoned. The once beautiful skyscrapers which echoed prosperity were now like abandoned ghosts.

The inhabitants of The Hollow were mostly poor, those forgotten by the wealthy who had soared to the skies. In this shadow of the city, Mei Mei hoped to forge her own empire.

A realtor was showing them around, he had a small air filtration device on his nose but even that did not stop him from from frowning and looking disgusted.

Jingzhe almost stepped in shit and drew his leg back quickly. He could not tell if the shit was human or animal, either way it was shit.

"Mei Mei, are you sure that you want to buy land here? It stinks so much that even the flies that live here are looking for ways to move to the clean city."

He got a sky float from his bag pack, activated pulled it, pulled her hand and made her stand on it. They both elevated a few feet from the ground. When the realtor saw this, he got a sky float from his briefcase and did the same thing.

Sky floats had been invented by a scientist that watched cultivation animations so much that he had desired to create a flying sword. Unfortunately for him, flying swords were deemed dangerous and illegal so he had to adjust the design and create what looked like an oval shaped flying carpet with protective shields on the side to prevent the users from falling out. It was foldable so it could be carried around in any bag.

The sky float Jingzhe owned was the latest design which was sold for two million, nine hundred thousand nine nine yuan. The one the realtor had was an older model which cost one hundred thirty thousand yuan.

The one Jingzhe owned could change into three shapes, hover all the way to mid-air, change color and could seat or stand six people. In terms of speed, it was also superior to many of the older models.

Sky floats were like smaller, open flying cars. They were not allowed in the sky and there was a predetermined height that they could fly at. Those that used outdoors them also had to wear helmets and obey traffic laws.

While the realtor drooled over Jingzhe’s sky float, Mei Mei frowned.

"Jingzhe, how can you afford the Sky float 1000 on an interns salary?"

"Mom." he blurted out quickly. "She gave it to me as a birthday gift last month."

Mei Mei recalled the birthday and it was because she and Mingzhu had given him a homemade birthday card. Suddenly that card paled in comparison to what his mother had given.

"Miss Meilin, how much space are you looking to rent?" The realtor asked.

"I need fifty to two thousand acres." she answered.

The realtor lost control of his sky float and it fell to the ground, landing in the shit that Jingzhe had avoided. However, he paid no mind to it. Looking up with dismay on his face he said, "Miss Meilin, that is a lot of space. You would be taking up nearly a quarter of the land in The Hollow."

"And half of The Hollow is empty, I see no big deal with my request." Mei Mei shrugged. "It is so so cheap here that rent for a house is three hundred to eight hundred yuan and yet even at those prices, nobody wants to live here, not even for free. Your company owns three thousand acres and I want one or two thousand. I have already calculated the price, fifty nine million yuan. I am willing to pay it all up front if we sign the contract today. If you wont sell, I can go elsewhere, everyone in The Hollow is looking to sell."

The realtor shook his head quickly. His boss had been looking to sell off most of the property he owned in The Hollow for ten years and there had never been a single buyer.

Jingzhe pulled on Mei Mei’s arm, looking at her curiously. "Sister, fifty nine million is a lot of money. Neither one of us can afford it, should we borrow money from my mum?"

Mei Mei shook her head. "I can afford it. Have you forgotten that I have shares in Space M. As long as as I sell even two percent only I can get at least sixty to one hundred million. I don’t care about that company anymore, I want to get as much as I can out of it before it sinks with old Mo."

As the realtor was calling his boss, she got her phone and put the shares up for sale on a website where private individuals with verified identification from companies could buy and sell shares. At the same time, Mo Jingzhe got his phone out and instructed his subordinates to buy the shares.

"Oh, someone is offering me one hundred million for them and they are willing to transfer the money immediately." Mei Mei nearly squealed.

She activated the hologram feature which scanned her face, finger prints and voice. The buyer did the same, after both identities were verified, an e-contract was signed and the money was transferred immediately.

After the process was completed, she turned to Mo Jingzhe and hugged him.

"A Zhe, look, I feel excited about after so long. You don’t know how hopeless the last few years of my life have been. If I didn’t have Mingzhu, I don’t know how I would have survived. A Zhe, I am feeling weightless, like I have been reborn." She looked up and laughed.

The sound was unburdened, free of all the constraints that had been holding her back. It was like petals scattered in the wind, each one a shard of her reclaimed self.

She wanted to shout to the skies. ’I am free’ but this would have to be reserved for after the divorce. Still, just the thought of letting go of the heaviest weights in her life, Mo Liang, Mrs. Sun and the rest of the Mo family made her skin hum with bold hope.

Life was so beautiful, why had she chosen to live in the dark ugly side? She sniffed the air, not even the rancid smell of shit made her squirm. It all smelled like freedom to her.

Mo Jingzhe leaned into the hug, tightly wrapping his arms her waist. "Mei Mei, in future I will make your life more exciting, I promise that you will never be bound by anyone again."