Monster Hunter, start with a wife!

Why would Ruan Qinghe come to participate in the marriage matchmaking event organized by the Department of Childbearing?

Cheng Zhuo was somewhat surprised.

He suddenly remembered that yesterday afternoon, Ruan Qinghe stopped him at the school gate and asked him if he wanted a wife.

Could it be that she wasn't playing a prank?

Is there some unspeakable reason why you're in such a hurry to get married?

What was that guy talking about, marrying three people at the same time?

Cheng Zhuo's gaze fell on Ruan Qinghe's side.

A pair of twin girls were leaning against her. They looked to be just adults, dressed simply, and had very pure and lovely appearances.

However, it seems somewhat...

This is not normal.

One of the girls had one gray and one blue eye, and her eyes were vacant, while the other had a full head of silver hair and remained silent.

Standing beside them was a portly man who said impatiently:

"I'll give you one more chance. If you don't agree, I'm leaving."

The onlookers offered words of advice:

"Young lady, you really should think this over carefully. You said that you and two other disabled girls are registered together, but neither of them will receive any subsidies. How can an ordinary family afford to support them?"

"Young man, you're so picky. You have money, but you think she's too old. You're only good-looking, yet you still pick her."

"You yourself want to study at Kashu Academy for four years? You're after the money, she's after your looks, what are you pretending for?"

Ruan Qinghe blushed and denied it:

"I'm not after money. I just need my half of the marriage subsidy to pay for my tuition. I can support myself by working part-time. My Origin Card is an E-level Priest."

"Ridiculous." The pot-bellied tycoon scoffed, curling his lip.

"How much money can an E-rank priest earn? Even if you can support yourself, who will support these twins, one blind and one mute?"

"We can work together," the twin girl with heterochromia retorted.

"My sister and I are connected on a deep level; she can be my eyes, and I can speak up for her!"

"Come on, give me a break!"

A woman in the crowd scoffed, "Ordinary people have a hard time finding jobs, what can you possibly do?"

"Going to Heaven on Earth would be nice, twins, I'm sure a lot of bosses would like that."

"Haha, I just wonder if their husbands can handle being cuckolded."

As the words of the onlookers grew increasingly harsh, Ruan Qinghe's eyes gradually reddened, and Cheng Zhuo, after much hesitation, finally softened.

He pushed through the crowd and walked up to Ruan Qinghe.

When Ruan Qinghe saw him, she was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes instantly welled up with tears.

She lowered her head, looking somewhat flustered.

It seems like a moment of unease and awkwardness when encountering acquaintances in a disheveled state.

"Young man, judging by your faded clothes, your family must be of modest means. Don't be fooled by her looks; she has two burdens to bear," a middle-aged woman advised.

Then, a girl who looked like a kiwi squeezed next to Cheng Zhuo, her face full of excitement:

"Exactly! Young man, someone like her doesn't look like the type to get married and settle down. Someone like me is more suitable for you!"

"..."

Cheng Zhuo didn't think there was anything wrong with Ruan Qinghe being selective, given her qualifications.

The people around her who acted strangely were mostly women.

Those words of advice were hardly well-intentioned.

More often than not, it was jealousy and prejudice.

Cheng Zhuo ignored him and extended his hand to Ruan Qinghe, asking:

"Come with me?"

Upon seeing this, the pot-bellied tycoon scoffed:

"Kid, don't even dream about it. She won't go with someone like you..."

He was halfway through his sentence when he was surprised to find that Ruan Qinghe had only glanced at him in surprise before eagerly reaching out her hand, her face beaming with excitement.

Amidst the astonished gazes of the crowd, the four of them, linked together, pushed their way through the throng.

"That damn pretty boy," the pot-bellied tycoon muttered angrily.

After a while.

In a partitioned room next to the main hall.

Ruan Qinghe looked at Cheng Zhuo expectantly, her face flushed.

Of the twins, the silver-haired girl curiously sized him up, while the other girl with heterochromia pouted and sniffed around him.

"Sorry, yesterday afternoon, I thought you were playing a prank."

Cheng Zhuo broke the silence, looking at Ruan Qinghe with suspicion:

"But why are you in such a hurry to get married, and..."

Cheng Zhuo turned to look at the twins, his meaning clear.

Ruan Qinghe lowered her head slightly and explained in a somewhat dejected tone:

"After my father passed away, my stepmother refused to support my continued studies at Kashu Academy. She made me sign with a conglomerate's hunter team to earn money in the Ruins, but I was too timid to go. Later, she forced me to marry an old man, threatening to kick me out if I refused."

Ruan Qinghe reached out and grabbed the twin sisters, then said:

"They are my neighbor's two younger sisters. After my mother left when I was very young, my father became a different person and would beat me at the drop of a hat. I would hide at Aunt Zhang's house next door. Aunt Zhang treated me very well, but she went to the market town before the New Year and never came back. It was very difficult for the sisters to live alone. I can't abandon them..."

The girl with heterochromia hugged Ruan Qinghe and said softly:

"Sister He, if you take us with you, you won't be able to get married well. Maybe we should just separate."

Ruan Qinghe shook her head:

"My stepmother has taken over your house, and you haven't received any subsidies for your marriage. Am I supposed to just watch you end up homeless...?"

Cheng Zhuo was somewhat puzzled: "What's going on with this 'occupying the house' thing?"

Ruan Qinghe explained angrily:

"My stepmother must have used some connections to get Aunt Zhang's allocated apartment transferred to her name six months before the handover period. And lately, the way she looks at Xia Chan and her sister has been getting weirder and weirder, so I'm in a hurry to find good men for my two younger sisters to marry..."

"So that's how it is." Cheng Zhuo suddenly realized.

Unlike in peacetime, in today's beacon city, disabled people have virtually no human rights.

The city-state regularly clears out a group of homeless people and sends them to the slums outside the city.

After the twin sisters' parents passed away, they lost their right to reside in the allocated housing. Once the owner dies and the handover period expires, the house will be allocated to someone else, and they will have to either rent or buy a new house.

Nowadays, the outer city is crowded and job opportunities are saturated. Many able-bodied people are unemployed, let alone disabled people like the twin sisters.

If Ruan Qinghe really doesn't care and doesn't care.

The twin sisters will either become playthings for the rich.

They either end up homeless or are deported from the city.

They might even be captured by underground organizations, have their organs harvested, and be dumped in the wilderness.

Cheng Zhuo was stunned.

The silver-haired girl suddenly walked up to him.

Her pearly white teeth bit her red lips until they turned white, as if she had made a great decision. Her face flushed, she stretched out her hand and gestured in front of Cheng Zhuo.

The gist of it is: "If you're willing to take us in, we'll work hard to support ourselves, and the three of us will keep you company at night. Aren't you tempted...?"

Cheng Zhuo couldn't understand sign language and looked blankly at Ruan Qinghe.

But Ruan Qinghe bit her red lips tightly, and her originally fair and delicate cheeks were so red that they seemed to be bleeding.

The girl with heterochromia just laughed it off:

"Young man, my sister means that if you marry us and help Qinghe complete her studies, we sisters will work hard and diligently to earn money. Besides, we're kindred spirits and have specially learned many positions, making our sex life quite unique. Do you prefer maids or black stockings? My sister's also... *sobs*..."

As the girl with heterochromia was speaking, the silver-haired girl suddenly covered her mouth tightly.

Her pretty face flushed red, her eyes filled with disbelief.

Despite making no movement, the heterochromatic-eyed girl seemed to understand her meaning, and pulled her fingers apart, saying:

"Oh dear, you didn't say that much, but the meaning is roughly the same... Also, I can see it when I hold my sister's hand, although it's not as clear as a normal person's. What I mean is, we won't completely hold you back..."

Cheng Zhuo hesitated for a moment.

Honestly, it's impossible not to be tempted when faced with three beautiful young women, each with their own unique charm, wanting to marry you at the same time.

But the reality is cruel.

In the outer city, it would be extremely difficult for him to support a family of four on his own.

Even if he were willing to become a servant in the Void Hunting Team and venture into the Void Realm.

Even then, it's not guaranteed that you'll be able to seize the opportunity.

Attendants risk their lives for money, earning substantial incomes, and positions are always in short supply.

As for resettlement jobs like sewer rat catchers, they would at most keep him from starving to death.

Cheng Zhuo was deep in thought.

Although Ruan Qinghe was shy and apprehensive, she mustered her courage again and spoke:

"Cheng Zhuo, I only need half of the subsidy to pay for my tuition, and I can work part-time to support myself. Are you willing to...?"

Cheng Zhuo snapped out of his daze and his gaze fell on Ruan Qinghe's pure and sweet face, which was free of makeup.

He suddenly realized...

Ruan Qinghe's Origin Card is Grade E, and it's a rare healing card!

Even if she doesn't dare to go to the Void Realm, as long as she can enter the academy and become a Card Master, she can definitely work as a medical support staff in hospitals or Void Hunting teams of conglomerates after graduation.

These professions all offer high incomes.

In other words, as long as he can hold out until Ruan Qinghe graduates, he might be able to live off his wife.

It's only four years, we can just tough it out!

This damn outer city could easily lead to us being caught in a randomly appearing portal and losing our lives.

Why are you looking ahead and behind?

Having missed out on Ruan Qinghe and the twins, is he really going to go back to the hall and find those weirdos to marry?

Thinking of this, Cheng Zhuo stared intently at the anxious girl in front of him and said seriously:

"I have very little talent and my family is poor. I might have a hard life with you."

Ruan Qinghe shook her head repeatedly, her eyes glistening with tears of emotion.

"It's okay, it won't get any worse than before..."

Cheng Zhuo was slightly taken aback.

That's when I remembered,

The girl before me was not one of those flowers that grew up in love in my past life. She was only eighteen years old, but she had experienced poverty, a chaotic family, and the loss of loved ones...

She was just a lost girl.

I want to try my best to find a way.

Even she herself wasn't entirely sure about the path.

Perhaps this was their destiny, Cheng Zhuo thought, since they had no choice but to get married...

"No matter how poor we are, no matter what setbacks we encounter, I promise I will never abandon you..." He took a deep breath and solemnly said:

"Will you marry me? Will you become my legal wives?"

"I do..."

Ruan Qinghe's eyes instantly reddened.

It wasn't so much excitement, but more of a lingering fear after the initial shock.

After participating in the matchmaking event, she regretted it somewhat. The people she met made her realize that her original ideas were too idealistic.

Fortunately, fate smiled upon her and she met Cheng Zhuo again.

For some reason, there was always a sense of peace about this man.

"If Sister Qinghe is willing, then I am willing too."

The girl with heterochromia smiled sweetly, her empty eyes fixed on Cheng Zhuo, her upturned nose twitching as if trying to remember Cheng Zhuo's scent.

The silver-haired girl stepped forward, reached out, and gently placed her hand on Cheng Zhuo's.

Her hands were cold and soft.

He touched it lightly, seemingly hesitantly, then gripped it tightly, as if he had made up his mind.

Just then.

A clear, ethereal voice rang in his ears, filling Cheng Zhuo with immense joy:

"Ding!"

"The host has found a true love partner; the Harmonious Union System is activated..."

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