Invisible Security Guard
Chapter 1074 - 1073: What Am I Helping You With?

Chapter 1074: Chapter 1073: What Am I Helping You With?

"Where is my Superior Immortal Spirit Stone?" Within Miss Fatty’s boudoir, all the maids and servants had left, leaving only Miss Fatty and Yusuf Zuck alone.

Yusuf Zuck got straight to the point. He had completed his task successfully, after all. The Chief Steward of the Shepherd Family had been rescued, and those Shepherds who had caused the trouble were all dead. Even the dozen or so Nascent Souls he had collected earlier had been burned to ash by him. Thus, the crisis facing the Shepherd Family was over.

"My husband, Gareth misspoke," Miss Fatty predictably began to renege. How could she possibly hand over the Superior Immortal Spirit Stone to Yusuf Zuck?

"Gareth only has one, which I had planned to ask my father for after this matter was settled, but who could have known that my father would die in the City Lord’s Mansion, and to keep me safe, had given his ring to the City Lord."

"And in his ring, there were at least twenty Superior Immortal Spirit Stones!"

"Wait a minute..." Fatty was saying this when Yusuf Zuck suddenly stood up because, in that instant, he understood why Miss Fatty hadn’t pursued him, hadn’t divorced him, hadn’t screamed and shouted at him.

She still wanted to use him.

That’s right. Although on the surface, it was him who had foiled her plan, the real culprits were still the City Lord of the City Lord’s Mansion and those nobles within!

If those people hadn’t pushed her, her father wouldn’t have died, so even though Miss Fatty certainly resented him, she probably hated those nobles of the City Lord’s Mansion even more.

And what did she have now? Perhaps her Clan still had a few patrons, but she couldn’t compare to the City Lord’s Mansion.

Additionally, she must have heard about his killing of an Immortal Monarch, his acquaintance with the City Lord, and the House Steward of the City Master’s Mansion treating him with great courtesy!

So even if she turned against him now, she had no trump card, no capital to do so.

Though she was overweight, she wasn’t stupid. He was very eager to get the Superior Immortal Spirit Stone, and she had taken advantage of that. So she diverted the trouble elsewhere, "You want it, right? Sorry, my dad already gave it all to the City Lord, so if you want it, you should go find the City Lord. Why don’t you just kill the City Lord and his whole family?"

She had planted a seed of trouble. Perhaps it wouldn’t cause problems now, but as long as he still coveted the Superior Immortal Spirit Stone, it was bound to erupt sooner or later!

"Heh." Yusuf Zuck laughed suddenly, having figured it all out. He had to admit, this Miss Fatty did have some smarts, and man, her schemes ran deep, anything she could endure.

"What’s so funny, husband?" Miss Fatty asked, looking at him.

"Nothing much, you only have one? Well, one is still one, give it to me!" Yusuf Zuck wasn’t fussy; a louse was still flesh after all.

"Don’t rush, husband, this one is a token of our love, and after we share our bed tonight..." Fatty’s face turned a shade of red, seeming a bit embarrassed as she spoke.

Yusuf Zuck felt slightly nauseous. This... sharing a bed? Could she not be so frightening?

"Gareth Cooke, this is pointless, isn’t it? Didn’t we agree before? After the matter was over, you would go your separate way, and I’d go mine. I just want the Superior Immortal Spirit Stones, and now I’ve helped you to kill your whole family, even though your father’s death was an accident. I didn’t know anything about it. Who knew your family had so many twists and turns?"

"Subjectively, I meant you no harm, no intention to harm your father. So, what grudges or hatreds could you have against me? You also can’t think to use me to oppose the City Lord anymore; I know my own strength. So give me a Superior Immortal Spirit Stone and a letter of divorce, and I’ll return to my own business at the Rising Dragon Road!"

"Also, just drop the marriage talk; it’s meaningless!"

"I know I can be frightening, but that was never my intention." Fatty finally sighed, "I hate the City Lord’s entire family, so I must kill them all!"

"I’m not afraid you know the City Lord personally, nor am I afraid you’ll go tattle. You’re a smart person. Looks like I misjudged you, thinking I could use you and have you in the palm of my hand. So that’s my mistake. I admit it!"

"The whole marriage thing is quite frightening," Gareth Cooke said with a self-mocking laugh, "I won’t mention it again from now on. But I won’t give you a letter of divorce. Since we’ve become husband and wife, unless you kill me, our marital status is confirmed, you can’t get rid of it!"

"Stop, just stop!" Yusuf Zuck hadn’t the slightest desire to stay married to her for life; this was simply degrading. It was best to cut ties sooner rather than later. He glanced at Fatty and said, "The truth is, it doesn’t matter whether you divorce me or not. Right now, I just want that Superior Immortal Spirit Stone. Can you give that to me?"

"Sure." Fatty thought for a moment and then conjured a Superior Immortal Spirit Stone onto the table like a magic trick.

Yusuf Zuck took a deep breath and couldn’t wait to sweep up the Superior Immortal Spirit Stone with his sleeve.

"Fine, I’m leaving. If you don’t divorce me, I’ll never return to this family again. We’ll each go our own way, becoming strangers from this point on!" With his goal achieved, Yusuf Zuck didn’t care about the whole divorce matter, because they hadn’t truly married in the first place. Shepherd Family just decided it so? There was no registration, was there? Surely, the Heavenly Origin City didn’t have a marriage registration office?

"As long as you’re in Heavenly Origin City for one day, as long as there’s no divorce letter on you, everyone in the city will think you are my husband. So, you can’t escape unless you leave Heavenly Origin City." Miss Fatty suddenly said, "Also, I don’t know how you came to know the City Lord, but I know him best: He is heartless and ungrateful. He never gets involved in something that doesn’t profit him. Your association with him is like negotiating with a tiger for its skin—how he’ll devour you, in the end, you won’t even realize!"

Yusuf Zuck stopped, not because of the negotiating with a tiger part, but because of that line about not having a divorce letter would make the people of Heavenly Origin City think he was Fatty’s husband.

This was troublesome; he had to stay in Heavenly Origin City for a while, right? At least a year or two?

"I heard you’re attending a banquet tonight? A private banquet just for you? Gathering the city’s nobility to introduce them to you? I’m well aware of what kind of person Brigham Shepherd is. To give you such honor, he must be plotting something—I don’t believe otherwise. Moreover, I’ll also be there tonight. Regardless of whether you acknowledge me as your wife, others will think I am!"

"And don’t start about how strong your Cultivation level is, or how vast your Divine Skills are, and that he admires your Divine Skills, which is why he wishes to befriend and exchange ideas with you. If I’m not mistaken, you must have given him some benefits before. So, he wants to entertain you, to introduce you, and then continue to squeeze treasures out of you. If you don’t believe me, just try it tonight. He will surely ask for something, and then what will you do? Give in or not? If you give in, he will keep asking. If you don’t, there will be no place for you in Heavenly Origin City!"

Yusuf Zuck sat back down, realizing Fatty was damn clever; this woman was practically a genius.

"So, what are you suggesting?" Yusuf Zuck suddenly asked with a smile.

Fatty looked at him and said, "If you help me, then tonight at the City Lord’s banquet, I will announce publicly that I am selling all Shepherd Family’s shops, only accepting Superior Immortal Spirit Stones, and all the stones from the exchange will go to you!"

"What do you need my help with?" Yusuf Zuck narrowed his eyes and asked.