Chapter 6 - Obtaining a Certificate

  Yes, I'm a materialistic person!/Yes, I worship gold!

  Yu Qing whispered in his heart, Marrying into a wealthy household is no easy task. And the worst possible outcome would be to run away.

  I've heard that some nobles still like to indulge [in retionship affairs outside of marriage]. Some even sired [or birthed] illegitimate children. It's better to marry a powerful aristocrat with high psychic abilities. Those people have low fertility rate and ordinary Omegas have difficulty to conceive. But even so, [that kind of thing] is disgusting.

  However, [if the person] only cares about the money, whatever the husband does outside the house doesn't matter.

  Regret. Really regretting it. After eating those luxuriously expensive cherries for days, Yu Qing very much really regrets it now.

  No matter how expensive or delicious those cherries are, they'll be gone after eating. So why hold onto them just for the sake of his appetite?

  Yu Qing has the idea of escaping. In the past, he paid an exorbitant amount of money to hire a hacker to infiltrate the system and change his genetic sequence. If he changes his identity again, he’ll have to spend a lot of money again. Yu Qing felt that he only made money for constantly changing his identity. He didn't even get to enjoy it himself.

  “You'll know when you meet the person.” The Mermaid Protection Association staff appeased Yu Qing.

  At noon, Yu Qing met Lei Meng at the hotel.

  Yu Qing felt that the other party’s face was somewhat familiar. And their pheromones, even if they have restrained it, he could still detect a light scent.

  “Hello.” Yu Qing was a bit restless. He wants to escape.

  These damn pheromones are so good… it smells so bad. Don't breathe in too much of such terrible smelling pheromones. What am I to do if I become addicted?

  Yu Qing whispered in his heart, Such pheromones have a terrible scent. However, his body is already rexing. He doesn't like this feeling. Whenever he meets an Alpha with a high compatibility match rate, his body always goes out of control.

  So far, Yu Qing has only met one such person. He remembers where he met Lei Meng. When he was still attending school under his previous identity, the school invited some people to give lectures. Yu Qing detected the same pheromone scent [at that time]. If the department hadn't required sign-ins, he would have run away already. In the end, he could only sit in the back row.

  Of course, Yu Qing couldn't ask for leave without any reasonable excuse. And he worries that others might detect any abnormality in him.

  Although the Empire does not oblige highly compatible AO pairs to be together. It’s still awful for such compatibility match rate results to be disclosed [publicly]. Because in the eyes of outsiders, such pairs of AOs are no different from being bound together.

  “Hello.” Lei Meng was stunned just now. After regaining his senses, he looked at Yu Qing again. He saw a hint of impatience and displeasure in the others' eyes. The other party still liked to fight against the body’s [physiological reaction] as always. “I have read the information sent by the Genetic Management Bureau. It's a 99.9% compatibility match rate. We’re a very good match.”

  The Empire never confirms a precise 100% genetic compatibility match rate because it only exists in theory. In reality, the 100% match rate is almost impossible to happen. For people like Yu Qing and Lei Meng with 99.9% match rate results, whose actual measured theoretical match rate value is 100%. But the Bureau didn't confirm the 100% rate value, they only released a 99.9% rate value.

  It can be presumed that the compatibility match rate between Lei Meng and Yu Qing is the highest in the whole Empire. Lei Meng secretly thought that this was predestined.

  “Let's get married.” Lei Meng straightforwardly said. He didn't want to become like before, not making a move when his beloved used to have a boyfriend. And ending only with loneliness.

  Yu Qing almost choked the water he's drinking. We've just met.

  “I've heard that when you were filling out the form, you’ve limited the scope to nobles.” Lei Meng said. “The matching results have come out. My compatibility with you is the highest, and I’m a high-ranking aristocrat. I meet all of your requirements. What do you think?”

  “This…” Yu Qing thought that he should be a materialistic person right now. Isn't it inappropriate to talk about marriage at the first meeting?

  Even though they have met before, he has changed his identity now ah. Even if his face hadn't changed, it’s still different ah.

  Yu Qing observed Lei Meng and didn't know how to answer for a moment and he's a bit gloomy. He has difficulty making choices being a procrastinator himself. He should have smmed the table and said: “Yes, let's get married!”

  But Yu Qing couldn't make such a move. He always felt that something is not quite right.

  “Your senior is going to have a mermaid transformation surgery and have registered with the Genetic Management Bureau before the surgery.” Lei Meng turned on his optical computer and let Yu Qing read the information. “The scope was limited to nobles. By the way, he also took a one million loan with high interest rate to qualify for a compatibility match with a noble Alpha. The highest matching rate is 6%. After the surgery, the compatibility match rate would greatly increase.”

  A compatibility match rate for AA pairs is difficult to have results. The match rate is generally less than 1% and a 6% compatibility match rate is already high.

  Tsk tsk. Yu Qing finally understood. The senior have made a comprehensive preparation. First, get a compatibility match and see if there’s any hope. Then just grit their teeth when experiencing agony during the mermaid transformation surgery. Once the suffering is over, they will rise and thrive.

  “There's nothing else to talk about, let's get married!” Yu Qing caressed his face. Am I so good looking that those people want to sp me in the face?

  “Then let’s go and register.” Lei Meng’s objectives were simple. Since his beloved sweetheart had already agreed, they should get the marriage certificate first. Cultivating feelings, proposing marriage… We can take our time doing all those things. It's important to settle down first.

  A bachelor like Lei Meng, who has been single for so long, does things directly. Not to mention that he has once lost his beloved for many years. It's impossible for him to dilly-dally and be as patient as a hunter.

  “...” Yu Qing's lips twitched slightly. He was not so eager to become a materialistic person, but the other party was so eager to marry a mermaid.

  Yu Qing's senior was named Xia Ziyan. Xia Ziyan’s physic was more masculine. Before undergoing mermaid transformation surgery, he registered for a compatibility match rate test first. Xia Ziyan thought that it didn't matter if he spent more money now. Once he became a mermaid and married into a noble household, that little money spent is nothing and would be returned even.

  Xia Ziyan originally wanted to contact the nobles through genetic matching but the policies of the Genetic Management Bureau were in pce. It's impossible for the staff to disclose any information to Xia Ziyan. Much less the genetic compatibility match rate was only 6%. The other AO, BO and BB match rates were even much higher. The staff won't dispatch messages unless it reaches a certain value.

  Oh, Xia Ziyan will undergo mermaid transformation surgery? Preparing to become a mermaid?

  Forget about it. Someone once used the pretext of preparing to undergo mermaid transformation surgery and wanted the noble’s information beforehand. How’s that possible? The Generic Management Bureau staff have seen too many people like that. We ought to wait for them to finish the mermaid transformation surgery first.

  So Xia Ziyan couldn't contact those nobles at all. He’s a transmigrator. According to the original body’s owner’s memories, he also has contact information of one or two low ranking nobles. They were the original body’s cssmates.

  Xia Ziyan contacted his old cssmates and informed them that he wanted to undergo mermaid transformation surgery. He assumed that the noble cssmate would answer that they could be together and pursue him. He was wrong and the noble cssmate didn't say that.

  Noble cssmate: “You’re a degenerate!”

  After all, the old noble cssmate doesn't talk much with Xia Ziyan. Especially when he learned that Xia Ziyan wanted to borrow money. A reasonably capable Alpha actually wanted to undergo mermaid transformation surgery with fear of failure. Did he not think that the noble cssmate might assume that this is a new money scam?

  “You're the one who's degenerate!” Xia Ziyan angrily hang up the optical computer . I truly wanted to undergo mermaid transformation surgery. Not a scam.

  If it wasn't for the fact that the mermaid transformation surgery costs a huge sum, why else would I have taken a loan? This world is so weird. Those nobles have such a low fertility rate but they still want [to marry] a mermaid. Why do they still charge payment for the mermaid transformation surgery? It's so expensive.

  Xia Ziyan was in fact actually wrong. Regardless of the nobles’ low fertility rate, it won't reach the point of extinction. The nobles have a long life span and at most, they would give birth to one child every hundred years. Even if their popution decreases, it won't decline significantly.

  If the mermaid transformation surgery was free, there would be a lot of people who would want to undergo surgery for nothing. Which would also be detrimental to the stability of the Empire.

  A country not only needs the protection of the high level psychic ability of the nobles, but it also needs the people at the bottom.

  How could it be easy for a fish to leap at the dragon’s gate?

  The mermaid transformation surgery is difficult as it requires various precious medicinal materials. Thus, the success was not high. Failure of the surgery and those materials would be in vain. The nobles can afford the materials costs but that doesn't mean that they would willingly pay the bill. Don't say just because they can, each one of the nobles could have a mermaid or their own. It’s a sham.

  Those nobles are not fools. They all understand the importance of a country’s stability and they do not encourage such behavior of getting rich overnight. They can't control the illegal clinics, but the regur hospitals can't also be haphazard about it.

  Xia Ziyan naturally won't go to an illegal clinic. He has read the original novel. The illegal clinics do perform mermaid transformation surgery, but some illegal clinics were managed by human traffickers. Those clinics do not care about human life. If it fails, then it fails. If it’s successful, then the mermaid would be sold on underground auctions or sponsors who could afford the price.

  To undergo mermaid transformation surgery, it must be done in a regur hospital.

  So Xia Ziyan took a lot of high interest loans. In order to avoid the debt collectors, he went to the hospital in advance and urged the doctor to immediately perform the surgery. As long as he became a mermaid, those people won't dare to cause him trouble.

  “Be prepared, the surgery would start at three o’ clock in the afternoon.” The attending doctor notified Xia Ziyan once again. “It will take at least one month and at most half a year. If you have something to say to your family, you can tell them now.”

  Due to some patient’s bodies rejecting the foreign gene specimen infused into their bodies during the mermaid transformation surgery, which could cause them to be in coma for a period of time.

  Therefore, before undergoing surgery, the doctors would expin the relevant situation to the patients. In addition to electronic documents, there were also paper documents the person involved had to sign and seal.

  “It’s all been said.” Xia Ziyan certainly couldn't talk to the original body’s family. Otherwise, those people would definitely nag about how could such a good Alpha undergo mermaid transformation surgery.

  Normally, an Alpha who can make a living and have a good life won't undergo mermaid transformation surgery. And those who do most likely become the topic of gossip and were talked behind their back, especially those whose surgery failed.

  Xia Ziyan believed that since he had transmigrated into the book, he should be able to succeed, and he would definitely succeed.

  But just within this short period of one or two hours, Xia Ziyan received a call from his former colleague.

  “You're such a mean person. You already know that Yu Qing is a mermaid.” This colleague has a good retionship with Xia Ziyan. The original owner once told this colleague that he was going to marry Yu Qing and had already picked a house. And that he was going to work overtime to earn more so that he could buy a house and get married.

  But ter, this colleague never heard Xia Ziyan talk about this matter again. But found out that Xia Ziyan would undergo mermaid transformation surgery and even asked to borrow money from him.

  This shocked him greatly. Retionships can change at the drop of the hat. But this colleague doesn't overthink about it. He felt that if it were him, he would not have the surgery, and he would definitely treat the mermaid right, get married and have children.

  How many Alphas want to have a mermaid Omega. Even if they weren't nobles, they still want to. But Xia Ziyan rejected such an opportunity. There were rumours circling in the company that Xia Ziyan broke up with Yu Qing because he no longer liked him.

  Xia Ziyan broke up with Yu Qing with his own initiative. And was also intentionally spread by him. He didn't want his past retionships with Yu Qing to affect his future marriage. He wanted those people to know that it was him who dumped Yu Qing, so that he could say the same thing once he married into a noble household.

  “What?” Xia Ziyan was shocked. He had not contacted Yu Qing these past few days. We’ve already broken up so why would I contact him? He had already bck listed Yu Qing.

  Yes, Xia Ziyan said that Yu Qing could find him if he had any trouble in the future, but he had actually blocklisted Yu Qing a long time ago. He didn't want Yu Qing to approach him in the future. Such a high grade ex-boyfriend must be eliminated as early as possible.

  “Yu Qing is a mermaid.” The colleague mented. “If you don't like him, why didn't you tell us? Maybe we can hook up with him. As, it's just a thought. I can never get someone like beauty Yu.”

  “Uh-huh.” Xia Ziyan hummed. He’s very unhappy now. How could Yu Qing be a mermaid?

  “The staff from the Mermaid Protection Association came to the company and requested for his sary.” The colleague seemed to be unaware of Xia Ziyan’s perfunctory reply and continued, “You're gonna have the mermaid surgery. Go ahead, maybe you’ll meet beauty Yu again in the future.”

  “Yeah, I’m going to have the surgery.” Xia Ziyan hang up the optical computer . He now felt that Yu Qing deceived him!

  Fortunately he’s not the original Xia Ziyan, he doesn't like Yu Qing. The heartache was just a remnant from the original owner.

  Xia Ziyan believed it was not true. Maybe it was because Yu Qing couldn't find him so he deliberately mentioned it to his former colleagues. His determination to undergo mermaid transformation surgery wouldn't be shaken. He must have this surgery and he will definitely become a higher css person.

  This is the interstelr era. Xia Ziyan, a transmigrator, even though he has the original body’s memories, there are many things he doesn't know how to do. Only the identity of a mermaid suits him. Once he becomes a mermaid, everything will be fine.

  At three o’clock in the afternoon, Yu Qing and Lei Meng came out of the Noble Marriage Registration Office.

  The two of them got their marriage certificate just like that!

  The sun was shining brightly, but Yu Qing felt a little cold in his heart and a little hot in his head. Both cold and hot.

  Yu Qing never imagined that he would get married and obtain the marriage certificate so easily. As if his previous determination was nothing but a jest. He once longed to be an ordinary Omega, finding an ordinary Alpha, and live an ordinary and cozy life.

  He never imagined that one day he would walk into the Genetic Management Bureau and say calmly: “Noble!”

  “Is it too te to divorce now?” Yu Qing unconsciously blurted out what's in his heart.

  “No!” Lei Meng refused to get a divorce. He was finally able to confirm that this person was his long lost beloved sweetheart. We've just gotten married. How could I divorce my sweetheart?

  Yu Qing came back to his senses. Why did I blurted that out?

  “Sorry, I'm just not used to it.” Since they are already married, they should try being together first. Yu Qing thought that life has to go on, maybe he will like him one day.

  Wealthy households, noble households. So many people wanted it and he got it so easily.

  Yu Qing contempted, after a period of time, he would know if such a wealthy life is what he wanted.

  “Start getting used to it starting from today.” Lei Meng held Yu Qing's hand. He’s a little excited. His beloved was finally his wife, “From the moment you appeared at the Genetic Management Bureau to fill out the form, you should get used to marrying a noble. You have a lifetime to experience what it's like to marry into a wealthy household. And spent a lifetime blessed with gold.”

  “...” Yu Qing suspects that Lei Meng eavesdropped on his inner thoughts. Blessed with gold for a lifetime sounds enjoyable.

  “You don't have to formute medicine and sell those. Nor do you have to work part-time jobs. You just have to live comfortably.” Lei Meng has already heard how Yu Qing lived a difficult life. In addition to a full-time job, he also sells his medicine formu.

  High-end medicines require high-end herbs. And those high-end herbs are rare in the market. Yu Qing's previous identity was a pharmacist, and he could formute a lot of medicines. After changing his identity, his medical formus were sold privately at a low price from time to time.

  The Empire has done a great job in managing pharmacies and has developed numerous medicines and pharmaceuticals. Citizens can basically buy what they need from regur channels, except for some rare medicines or medical formu made by pharmacists that are different from medical formus in the market.

  Even so, pharmacists are still highly respected.

  Lei Meng mused that Yu Qing didn't openly sell [his medical formus] as a pharmacist because he’s afraid of being discovered. His beloved is quite amusing. He’s afraid of being discovered, but still using his original appearance and formuting medicines in private. Is he not afraid of being suspected? Or the more he reveals [his talent], the more he shines brightly on those people's eyes, the more they wouldn't believe him?

  “Alright.” Yu Qing didn't know what Lei Meng was thinking, otherwise he would have fiercely shaken Lei Meng’s shoulders and say: “That’s because I like my face too much.”

  Yu Qing very much likes his face. He likes his natural face, his natural hands and feet. He will never have pstic surgery just because he changed his identity, nor could he always wear a mask every day. So he just uses his original appearance.

  The world is so huge. There are so many pnets and innumerable people. It’s common to have people who look alike.

  Yu Qing didn't even think about whether he would be discovered by others because of his face. It's not like he hasn't met people he knew in his previous identity. He would just coldly refuted [them]: “You’ve got the wrong person.”

  Recognizing the wrong person is just a passing matter. No one would hold unto it.

  “Move in today or tomorrow?” Lei Meng’s lips slightly curled upward. Unable to restrain the smile on his face. My sweetheart and I are going to live under the same roof.

  “So soon?” Yu Qing slightly frowned.

  “The Mermaid Protection Association’s residence is a public resource.” Lei Meng deliberately replied, “ Wasting public resources is inappropriate behavior. They will also come to me and ask when you will move out.”

  Yu Qing turned to look at Lei Meng, “You talk a lot.”

  I always felt that this person should be a taciturn. But now he talks a lot.

  “You and I are husband and wife, this is what I should do.” Lei Meng expined, “The Mermaid Protection Association's staff didn't tell you because you're a mermaid.”

  “...” Yu Qing had to admit that what the other party said was right. The Association staff would probably ask Lei Meng instead of directly informing a mermaid like him. They are reluctant to hurt the fragile hearts of mermaids.

  If the Mermaid Protection Associations staff drive him away, it would be an unpleasant scene. They are married, so of course they have to move out.

  “Move.” Yu Qing nodded. He was thin-skinned, so he wouldn't wait to be driven out. It would be embarrassing.

  Yu Qing looked at his optical computer on his wrist and remembered that before he and Lei Meng registered their marriage, Xia Ziyan had called his optical computer number. Yu Qing didn't pick it up. He didn't think that there's still anything the two of them have to talk about, so he directly blocklisted him.

  Does he have to wait for him to brag before he has to blocklist him? He's not mentally ill to listen to his bragging. Of course he would ignore him.

  “Today then.” His beloved didn't say which day [to move out], so it is definitely today. Lei Meng believed he is correct

  “Okay.” Yu Qing nodded. The Lei household residence must be huge and have many rooms. If he moves in, he should be able to have his own room.

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  T/N: Apologies for two months long without updating. I am swamped with work and IRL issues. I can only transte and edit the MTL in my free time. My pace is already slow and gets even slower when I transte and edit both the published and new chapters back and forth when I see anything wrong or decide to change something. And this chapter is double the size than the previous chapters ?? This chapter alone almost drained my motivation to transte and edit the MTL, specially on Xia Ziyan’s part. He irritates me a lot.

  I have edited the previous chapters and included some footnotes and commentaries that I wasn't able to add before. How many chapters I can post in the future depends on how much free time I could have.

  Obligatory meme of the chapter:

  Lei Meng in this chapter be like:

  Meanwhile, Yu Qing: