"Damn it, those people actually dared to poison a pregnant female!" 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Jiang Qin guessed, "It must have been in the elevator. The smell of the sea and blood on those warriors was so strong it masked the scent of the poison."

She had felt dizzy smelling it at the time.

But considering the warriors had just come from a battle, she hadn’t given it a second thought.

To think that unpleasant smell was actually a problem.

"I knew it! I don’t even get seasick, but I actually felt dizzy on the cruise ship. Now that I think about it, the dizziness started after I was with my new partner."

Hearing this, a nearby Mo Han grew jealous. "See? Males from the outside are all so conniving. Not like me. I’m so pure."

Everyone gave him a look that was hard to put into words.

’A Star Thief? How is he pure in any way?’

"What are you all looking at me for? I would absolutely never deceive a female!"

However, not a single person present paid any mind to his declaration.

Long Yue, completely unbothered, simply continued discussing the plot of a TV drama with Jiang Qin as if she hadn’t heard a thing.

Although Zhan Xiao and his men hadn’t given them Light Computers, they did have a projector. They could watch TV shows, movies, listen to music, or listen to audiobooks.

After her acupuncture session ended, Long Yue still didn’t want to leave. "This place is so big, anyway. Why don’t I just live on the first floor?"

Mo Han gave her a reproachful look. "That’s not a good idea. Xiao doesn’t like having people stay over."

’Can’t she see? Even I have to live next door instead of staying here.’

Zhan Xiao truly disliked having outsiders in his home. It made him feel like his territory was being invaded.

So at night, it was once again just him and Jiang Qin.

Tonight, he didn’t pace outside her door. Instead, he went into her room to massage her legs.

"The medical facilities in our gang are pretty good. I’ve already arranged everything you’ll need for the delivery.

I’ve also scheduled a Medical Master to come and check on you every other day."

"Isn’t every other day a bit too frequent?"

Zhan Xiao said dismissively, "It’s fine. They just sit around in the medical bay staring into space all day anyway."

Most of the gang members were male, and aside from injuries, they rarely got sick. As a result, the Medical Masters had a lot of free time.

...

After five days with the Golden Sand Gang, Jiang Qin and Long Yue had become quite familiar with the place.

They were now walking down a street, once again trying to find an opportunity to contact the outside world.

Seeing them, the gang members on the street politely kept their distance and greeted them.

"Good day, the Gang Leader’s wife. Good day, Miss Bai Yue."

"The Gang Leader’s wife, would you like a ride?"

"Thank you, but that won’t be necessary," Jiang Qin politely declined.

The men looked at her baby bump, their eyes filled with envy.

Only after the two were out of earshot did they start to talk. "Our Gang Leader is so lucky. Not only did he get a female, but he’s about to have a cub too."

"I hear her due date is in less than three months."

"That’s great. We haven’t seen a cute cub around here in years. I’m getting excited just thinking about it."

"Do you guys think we’ll get to help the Gang Leader take care of the baby? I love kids. If I hadn’t become a Star Thief, I probably would have been a preschool teacher!"

The others just rolled their eyes at him.

’A preschool teacher? What kind? One who teaches cubs how to hold a dagger?’

***

"Sigh... Jiang Qin, what am I going to do? I nearly beat Mo Han to a pulp, and he still won’t agree to give me a Light Computer."

He wouldn’t agree even after I promised to get him citizenship in the Empire and marry him once we get back.

Although, he was dead set against it at first, and now he’s just avoiding the topic. I guess that’s some progress.

Jiang Qin hadn’t been idle lately, either.

She had been using the ancient, offline, handheld Light Computer in Zhan Xiao’s house to write a novel.

Then, whenever Zhan Xiao had a free moment, she’d ask him to help her upload it.

She tacitly allowed him to read the novel during the upload process.

’Given Zhan Xiao’s current interest in me, he’d never pass up a chance to learn more about me on the sly.’

The protagonist of the novel she wrote was a child who grew up in a den of Star Thieves.

He was beloved in the den, and the various "uncles" would even take him along on missions.

So, at a tender age, he was already a minor wanted criminal.

When he grew up, he took over his father’s gang.

However, he botched a mission and was saved by a kind female, falling in love with her at first sight.

To get close to her, he went as far as to alter his appearance and pose as an undocumented resident from a low-level star.

Just as their relationship was heating up, someone exposed his identity.

Overnight, the whole world learned he was the son of a Star Thief, trained in depraved and ruthless methods since childhood.

The girl he had worked so hard to win over left him, and he was forced to become a fugitive.

He ultimately died while on the run.

That same day, the girl married her partner. The lavish wedding was broadcast across the entire Star Network.

She had been writing this short story for a few days and had just finished it today.

Zhan Xiao, who had been secretly reading it for the past few days, fell silent after finishing it.

After that, Jiang Qin started a second novel.

’This time, I won’t give the Star Thief protagonist a tragic ending. I’m still in their den, after all.’

’If I keep writing things like that, the Star Thieves will start to suspect I’m targeting them or that I look down on their origins.’

So for her second book, she wrote a "real and fake young master" story.

It opened with the meeting of two young men.

One was noble and refined, the other, unscrupulous.

The Star Thieves had never read anything like it. Lately, all they did was constantly refresh their Light Computers for updates.

Some even started specifically tracking Zhan Xiao’s movements. The moment they saw him heading home, they immediately notified everyone else.

"Quick, quick, get ready! The Gang Leader is home, which means he’s about to drop the next Chapter!"

"SOB... What’s the Gang Leader been so busy with these last couple of days? He keeps coming home so late, leaving us waiting around all day for nothing."

"I wonder when the wealthy Fu Family will finally discover their child was switched."

Even though they thought the idea of a child being switched at birth was absurd in the Interstellar era, it wasn’t entirely impossible.

After all, a baby’s Genes are only tested at birth before their Light Computer is bound to them.

In the past, someone with the right skills could have swapped the Light Computers of two infants.

And after that, their Genes would likely never be tested again.

Medical reports would only record blood type, not perform a full genetic identification.

As long as there were no blood type discrepancies, almost no one would ever suspect their child wasn’t their own.

The most melodramatic part was that the two switched young masters turned out to be incredibly distant maternal relatives.

Thus, when the fake young master’s Spiritual Body awakened at the age of three, it was the same type of Beastman as his wealthy father’s.

Meanwhile, the real young master had been switched to a Garbage Star, where he lived as an undocumented resident and endured endless hardship.