Shen Li and Ye Liu didn't say anything for a very long time, and neither did the doctor push them to say anything. She could more or less understand just what kind of impact this news will have on these two young mers. She has seen enough of mers like them, those who were harmed by their wives and those who were harmed by the official husbands of the wives, compared to them, Shen Li and Ye Liu's reaction was a lot more docile.

  She took a deep breath and tapped her brush on the table as she continued, " I know how you two are feeling though I can't say that I understand what you are feeling at the moment, I can sympathise with you two but that's the only thing that I can do, now……" she traced the rims of the two bowls and with a stern air further added. " Your womb has been poisoned and because they have been left untreated for a long while, you two are having a hard time when you get intimate with your wife. Now you two have two options left that are to keep taking a type of poison that I will prescribe which will slowly destroy your womb and eradicate it from your body or stay away from your wife for the rest of your life, because the one who gave you poison wasn't an expert, they couldn't administer it professionally. The poison has not only affected your womb but your private parts as well, I don't know what kind of effect it might have on your wife's body but if she is still sexually active with you two… then there will be many dangers involved."

  Shen Li and Ye Liu didn't nod, nor did they say anything—— it was as if they have stumbled into a dark void from which they couldn't escape. Poisoned? Eradicate? Stay away from their wife?

  None of these was an option that they can choose!

  Shen Li clenched his fingers and looked at the doctor as he tried to calm himself down but he couldn't do it, no matter how many times he tried, the tears in his eyes kept blurring his vision. " Do……doctor can we tell you are decision after we are done talking to our wife? We can't make such a decision without telling her about it."

  " Sure," said the doctor, of course, she had no problem with Shen Li and Ye Liu taking their time. The decision will change their life drastically, it was good enough that they were at least willing to consider her suggestion. " I know that you will have a hard time but please let your wife know that you need to make a decision as soon as poss or else who knows maybe you will end up getting paralysed in your old age if the poisoned parts of your body aren't taken out."

  " We understand." Shen Li stood up as he calmly paid the bill for their treatment and walked out of the clinic. Ye Liu followed after him, unlike Shen Li, Ye Liu was shaking as he looked around and kept clutching Shen Li's sleeves. He was feeling lost and confused, he couldn't understand who poisoned him and why? He wasn't the husband of a young official and neither was he living in the palace of the Empress, so why will anyone try to poison him? He was so worried that he couldn't think straight and that wasn't all, there was also the fact that he needed to tell this news to Yu Dong!

  What if she starts hating him? What if she pushes him away? What was he going to do now? Yu Dong will be angry right? Yes she will get really angry—— he and Shen Li were her official husbands and both of them were barren now, without them giving birth to an heir, wouldn't all her properties be seized by the government?

  Even though there was a law that they could always adopt a child from another mer of the same family, but that document too needed to be signed and permitted by the officials , only then the child will be taken as the heir of the family.

  Sometimes, the yamen officials would ignore the request of the commoners. Yu Dong might be rich but she was still a commoner, and even if she were to bribe the yamen officials, they might ignore her requests given that they would want to covet her properties.

  Without a child born out of their womb, Yu Dong's entire family would be destroyed!

  Ye Liu looked at his brother who was saying nothing and tugged on his sleeves. " Brother Li, what are we going to do now?" Both the official husband and the secondary husband were poisoned, if they couldn't get pregnant then Yu Dong will be heirless even if she was to give birth to a hundred children with Chen Mi and Fang Chi.

  The Empress of the country wasn't just and coveted the properties of those who were rich, which was why she made such a tricky law that was written in the law book of their Empire.

  " We have to make a decision, Liu," said Shen Li, his voice smooth as ever but Ye Liu could pick the tremors in his voice as Shen Li turned around and caressed his cheek. " But our choices are different from the one that the doctor gave us—-"

  " Brother Liu what do you mean, do……don't scare me, I don't—-" before Ye Liu could finish saying what he wanted to Shen Li pressed his finger o his mouth and smiled sadly. " I know that you don't like this, In fact, I don't like this too but you have to understand that if we were to stay here then Dong Dong will lose everything that she has worked so hard for, you understand that right?"

  " But we can step down from the position of the primary husbands, I believe that we can do that!"

  " Will you be able to live past that humiliation, Liu?" asked Shen Li, his long hair whistling in the wind. " Because I can't and I never will be able to do it."

  " Brother Li—-"

  "I am sorry Liu but maybe we had only this much time with Yu Dong."