The Guardians: The Swordsman of the Moon

The past.

"Xiao Xian what have you seen in the memory of this old man?" bao Yu asked as Mo Xian had regained his composure.

Mo Xian lowered his head took a breath and sighed deeply before replying. "The name of this old man is Lin, he is the one who works as Xiao Ma's personal servant."

Bao Yu nodded, while the others noticed.

"Then, what happened?"

Mo Xian looked at his teacher and recalled what he had seen in Uncle Lin's memory world.

Xiao Ma is a Young Master who has a strong ambition to become the most successful person in the business world, his encounter with a girl on the shore of a daffodil lake was the meeting of Xiao Ma with his first love who would become his first wife. However, Xiao Ma suddenly learns that the wife he once loved and adored married him because Xiao Ma was a Young Master made Xiao Ma hate his wife and devised an evil scheme to torture her.

He planned to pretend to be poor after being robbed by the people he paid to see how his wife behaved when she saw him as poor.

While pretending to be poor Xiao Ma and his wife live in a small house and plan to take care of the farm fields. Xiao Ma daily complained about his dream of making lily lakeside inns and restaurants for his wife to see if she would work hard with him shoulder to shoulder working the fields and rice fields to collect pennies.

However, it turns out that Xiao Ma's conjecture about his wife is the truth, his wife only loves his money, the woman, who had been married for a month, refused to set foot in the mud to grow rice or grow vegetables in the fields. The woman went wandering downtown almost every day from morning to morning again.

Xiao Ma wanted to know what his wife was doing while going to the city center from morning until morning again so that the woman did not have time to take care of it and let her work alone in the fields, cook herself, cook for herself, eat alone and sleep alone, then for what he has a wife.

It made Xiao Ma's hatred even more so when he told Uncle Lin to watch over him only to find his wife working in a brothel, chat with striped-nose men and show their pretty faces to tempt them.

"Fucking woman! He used to humiliate me because I wanted to use beautiful women as customers in my inn. Tell me if I want to open a brothel, pei! woman doesn't know herself, she turns out to be dirtier than I thought. For the sake of keeping all the luxury items he was wearing he was willing to plunge into that disgusting business!"

Xiao Ma was getting angrier day by day, but he still had no way of punishing his wife while he was reunited with the simple, hardworking girl who had always paid attention to him. After all after pretending to be poor and living in the sun that darkened his skin, Xiao Ma remained a handsome man who could attract girls with his charm.

Xiao Ma falls in love again with the girl he has always been there for, working in the fields together with her a little treat the heartache on his wife. The girl worked in the fields of her parents adjacent to the fields owned by Xiao Ma, but the girl always brought Xiao Ma food and drinks, even sent food to her house for dinner.

The attention the girl gave him made Xiao Ma want to marry him and immediately threw his wife to the saddest place for what his wife had done to him, left him, ignored him and just loved his money, Xiao Ma would make sure the woman lost everything she had and would not have the chance to get up again, Xiao Ma was determined to destroy her.

Until one day an evil thought appeared in his mind when two men came to him. The two men were people who also used to work in the fields with Xiao Ma.

"Your wife is so beautiful, I hear you're in need of money, we'll pay you to have your wife for tonight."

Xiao Ma smiled happily, not thinking that his wife's work would bring these people to him.

"Why don't you guys come to where he works" Xiao Ma replied. "You can have it there!"

"We didn't have a chance there, the cost installed in that place was too high for us who were just farmers."

Hearing him Xiao Ma became curious about how much the brothel pegged for his wife.

"What is the price of being installed there?"

"Eight hundred gold coins for an hour, you think we can afford it. That's why we came to you to ask for a little leniency."

Xiao Ma felt so angry that his eyes turned red, eight hundred gold coins was definitely not a small amount, but his wife had never given the money to him and had never spoken about it to him, she said, then where all the money went, the woman must have eaten it for herself!

Xiao Ma would actually punish him in the most disgusting way!

"Alright, then I will give it with eight hundred gold pieces for one night. Have I not been very generous to you?"

"From where we have that kind of money, we come to you for a price waiver."

Xiao Ma unconcernedly replied. "Four of you are two hundred pieces of gold each, and that will be eight hundred pieces of gold. Or, if you still can't afford it, bring in more men to pay for the shortfall."

The two men smiled broadly. "You're really smart, but don't you mind if your wife gets fucked by a lot of guys?"

"Who cares, he's been fucked by a lot of men in a brothel and I never complain, bring the money this afternoon and I'll take it for you guys."

That afternoon Xiao Ma got eight hundred gold pieces and used the money to buy him something that the girl he loved so much wanted. No matter the fate of his wife who is feeling the suffering at home. There were at least eight people who came to him, each of them paying a hundred gold pieces.

That night, Xiao Ma did not return home, he did not want to see the state of his wife so he chose to stay at the inn, proposed to his girl and admitted that he was just pretending to be poor, and promised to give the best life for the girl.

Xiao Ma and his lover spent the night inside the inn until the morning people flocked to the inn. A lady in thick clothes looked furious as she barged into the inn with the group of muscular men, leaving everyone inside the inn terrified.

Xiao Ma's bedroom door was kicked and broken just like that, revealing two people who were not wearing anything were still entangled on the bed.

Xiao Ma was startled and immediately protected his girl, he then scolded the people guarding the door, but his men had been beaten to a pulp.

Xiao Ma did not recognize the woman, but the woman was furious as she walked over and slapped Xiao Ma so hard that the girl shouted.

"What are you doing, why are you suddenly hitting me for no reason after breaking down our door!" Xiao Ma shouted furiously only to get another punch on his face.

"A hundred pulle in your face will never be enough to pay for what you've done to your wife!" his screams made Xiao Ma understand, but the crazy man just laughed loosely.

"Hahahaha, so you're the landlady the woman works for. Why did you hit me, did I make a mistake, did you sell it or did I sell it, did it make a difference?"

The woman was so angry that her face turned red, but she simply held back her trembling fist, holding back from hitting before smiling happily.

The woman then held hands. "True, what difference does it make if I sell or you sell, we both get money, don't we?"

Xiao Ma smiled, hugging his embarrassed lover surrounded by many people.

The woman nodded her head and hinted at one big man to come forward. The man was carrying a large pouch as he walked over and the woman referred to as the landlady said.

"Pour him with it."

The man nodded, he then opened the bag, stuck it over Xiao Ma's head until Xiao Ma raised his head only to see gold coins raining down on his body, the clattering sound of the falling coins more boisterous than the rainwater falling onto the bed and widening to the floor rolling and spinning made Xiao Ma confused.

"What are you doing, what's all this for?"

Xiao Ma looked at the landlady lady with a dead red face, he felt himself to have been humiliated, feeling the coldness of the gold coins on his body.

"That's eight hundred thousand pieces of gold that your wife has collected." Suddenly the woman's way of speaking became formal and more polite.

Xiao Ma who heard him laughed out loud, took his gold coins and showed them to the woman. "Eight hundred for an hour, and he's only collected a hundred thousand for three months, you're really a heartless landlady."

The woman smiled cynically. "What's more cruel to a husband who sells his wife to eight men at a time for eight hundred gold pieces?"

Xiao Ma only chuckled as he heard it before saying. "He deserves it."

The woman slapped Xiao Ma back. "How can you easily say that without feeling guilty, your wife was pregnant young when she first looked for a job downtown, I offered her to work in a brothel but she refused, I have no shortage of Qinglou Nuzi !"

*Qinglou Nuzi ( ⁇ ): A term for women2 living in Qinglou (a brothel) But not always comfort women/night butterflies. That includes singers, dancers and music performers.

"I asked him to work as a treasurer who takes care of finances in and out with a salary of one hundred gold pieces a day, but she said she needed more money to build an inn that was the ideal of her husband who was not self-knowing, and disgusting like you!"

"For the sake of a disgusting man like yourself he is willing to work hard from morning to morning with all his abilities, being a treasurer, a waiter, to playing music, receiving various harsh words to make money for you, but is this how you repay his kindness?"

Xiao Ma suddenly froze for a moment before laughing like a madman. "Hahaha, you came here just to defend her, the women who work in brothels are all the same! You guys use your bodies to make money!"

The woman began to lose her patience and signaled her men to drag the eight men who had paid eight hundred gold pieces to Xiao Ma.

Xiao Ma stared in surprise. "Why are they here!"

One burly man hit one of the eight men on the head and they screamed in fear.

"Punish us, forgive us!" whining.

One of them then crawled forward to stare at Xiao Ma with a battered face. "Xiao Ma, Xiao Ma forgive us. We have deceived you, we have truly deceived you!"

Xiao Ma was confused. "What do you really mean?"

The man held onto his head. "Xiao Ma, Xiao Ma. We have deceived you, your wife has never sold herself in a brothel, your wife is so beautiful and we wanted to taste her, but she does not work in a brothel as p*l*c*r so he always refused our wishes and we always ended up being chased out by the landlady. That's why we came to you so we could have your wife."

Xiao Ma was like he had just been hit on the head with a stone, so painful that his chest was throbbing.

The woman saw that Xiao Ma had been struck by her feelings. So he'll flush the salt. "Your wife never sold herself and always talked about your dream of building an inn by the lake of lilies. He even laughs when he imagines how when your son was born and the money you raised managed to build an inn and start a business. The reason he doesn't help you out in the fields is because he thinks it will be faster when the two go shoulder to shoulder looking for money. He's not very good at farming so he's looking for a job downtown, he wants to tell you about his work but you always find it, he thinks you're mad at him so he's working harder to raise money so he can hand the money over to you immediately. But you turned out to be nothing more than b*j*ng*n shameless. Torturing your wife in such a vile way, killing your son and making love to another woman. You're really amazing."

The landlady clapped her hands softly, filling the void of the room, seeing how Xiao Ma's face had become so pale as if she had lost her soul. The landlady then continued,

"What mistake did he make to get this kind of retribution from you. He loves you so much but you betrayed him in a very cruel way. God must be blind to have tied the thread of fate between the two of you."

Xiao Ma's mind was completely chaotic from how his gaze had become blank and his face was deathly pale, after that the landlady carried away her people leaving Xiao Ma with her lover in a pool of eight hundred thousand cold gold coins.

After that Xiao Ma collected the scattered gold coins, refusing the help of others, crying he gathered one by one eight hundred thousand gold pieces into his cloth. I don't know what the man was thinking, perhaps an endless sense of regret.

Gathering all eight hundred thousand pieces of gold, Xiao Ma came home clutching his gold coins in a hurry to his little house only to find the place so chaotic, blood splattering everywhere, and everything else, he could not imagine what had happened that night and what his wife was doing.

Xiao Ma then ran to the brothel, he shouted his wife's name.

"Fai Mu Yan! It's me, I'm sorry, let's go home and treat your wounds."

However, Xiao Ma did not receive an answer from his wife and only got an answer from the landlady.

"Your wife's wounds will be untreatable and your son can't live anymore, he doesn't want to see you again, go and live your life with your little lover!"

Xiao Ma refused to leave, he would come back and come back again no matter how much he was kicked by the guards. He waited and waited, calling his wife's name, but she never came to see him.

Xiao Ma felt very desperate and went home, took all his money and took it with three horse carriages at once to the brothel.

"Mu Yan does not need it, even if you bring eight hundred chariots full of gold coins he will not return to your side."

Xiao Ma grew increasingly upset. "I will bring more gold coins for him, he likes gold coins so he will come back to me if I have more gold coins. I have to produce more gold coins, more gold coins!"

Out of nowhere Xiao Ma got the thought, but uncle Lin back then could see that his Young Master had gone mad with guilt. The wife he loved did not love the gold coins, had Xiao Ma stayed longer back then.

"Of course I love the money, why do you think I want to marry her?"

"In this world where there are women who don't like money, but marry her obviously because I love her, if I don't love her I won't marry her."

Xiao Ma had never known that, slowly his guilt burned his soul and mind, he was getting crazy and ambitious to collect more gold coins, he said, working day and night building a business until he does not realize that he is dead and still working like a madman.