Because of the sticky post on the official forum, Zheng Xiaoguang finally purged herself of the suspicion and received Bluegreen-Clad’s invitation to join the League of Strong Families again.

Bluegreen Belt and the other friends of Venus were not pleased with her return, but they did not dare to complain.

Venus Will Cry “sincerely” apologized to Flowing Light in the gang and said that Flowing Light would have never been misunderstood if she could have dealt with other men besides her husband in a bit more principled way. Zheng Xiaoguang felt quite uncomfortable upon seeing the message, but as Venus did not verbally attack her, she decided to ignore it.

Probably because of this frame-up, the Sacred Temple had kept a low profile recently. The entire Watery South enjoyed an unprecedented run of peace.

As peace was never preferred by the scheming game operator, Shiny Sky’s official website announced that the game system would let players to upgrade to level 110 in two weeks. More importantly, it also announced that it would hold a beauty contest called “Shiny Sky Beauty Contest” in the near future.

Players who wanted to participate in the “beauty contest” had to log into their game accounts to sign up for the contest. They were also required to upload some of their personal information and their photos. The player whose photo won the most votes would be awarded the title “Beauty Queen of Shiny Sky” and a mysterious gift.

Shortly after the announcement, many players from Watery South signed up for the contest, but most of them just did this for fun. Only a few of them were really attractive girls.

The competition was not fierce in the beginning. As such, when Saori, the first lady of the Sacred Temple, uploaded her photo to the official website, she immediately attracted numerous voters. Zheng Xiaoguang also went to check out Saori’s photo, and she had to admit that Saori was a beautiful woman. She had bright eyes, red lips and white teeth. The only problem was that she wore quite heavy makeup and was dressed in a somewhat sluttish black dress.

Upon seeing Saori’s photo, Han Meimei commented scornfully. “No wonder the gang boss of the Sacred Temple adores her so much and lets her sit on the floor to gain levels every day. Whew, this world is indeed obsessed with appearances.”

Zheng Xiaoguang laughed without thinking too much.

Good-looking female players were important for every online game. Shiny Sky enticed the female players to upload their photos to its official website by creating this beauty contest and promising them generous rewards, because it planned to use these beautiful girls to attract more male players to join the game. In this way, Shiny Sky could ensure that they could operate the game in the long run.

Watery South had not attracted many new players recently. When high-level players significantly outnumbered beginners here, this zone would be merged into another zone. It was reasonable for the company to hold such a contest now.

Sacred TempleメCloud Top, who had felt humiliated after losing Azure Dragon City to the Matchless and Vermilion Bird City to Bluegreen-Clad successively, now felt great about himself. When his wife Saori uploaded her photo to the official website, he become the envy of nearly all male players. Not long after that, he became city governor of White Tiger City. (As he knew that he could never defeat Bluegreen-Clad, he gave up the idea of recapturing Vermilion Bird City and led his gang to occupy the unowned White Tiger City.)

As this beauty contest was hyped up, many male players heard of Saori, and some male players even came from the other servers to Watery South for her. Sacred TempleメCloud Top was immensely proud. As a level-100 player, he had nothing to do before the game system allowed him to gain more levels. As such, he asked his wife to fly around together with him on his flying mount “Fiery Phoenix” to court envy every day.

Sacred TempleメCloud Top thought proudly, “Yes, I was defeated by the Matchless and the League of Strong Families, but what’s the big deal? I have a hot wife. My wife is a woman of enviable beauty. Do Blooming Pear Tree and Bluegreen-Clad really think that they can compete with me in everything? Hah-hah.”

Blooming Pear Tree, who was never married in the game, did not care much about Sacred TempleメCloud Top and Saori. Bluegreen-Clad’s wife Flowing Light did not take part in the beauty contest and always kept a low profile. As for Bluegreen-Clad himself, he seemed to care nothing about this contest.

Zheng Xiaoguang and her friends did not pay much heed to the beauty contest, but Saori tried really hard to arouse her attention. Saori was a pretty girl, but she sucked at the game. As such, she considered this contest a huge opportunity for her to make a hit in the game. She kept sending out Loudspeaker messages, asking Flowing Light to upload her photo to the official website to compete with her.

[Loudspeaker] Saori: Hey, the first lady of the League of Strong Families. Can you upload your photo to the official website for us?

As Flowing Light did not reply to her message, she began to mock her on the Public Chat channel.

[Public Chat] Saori: The first lady of the League of Strong Families must be ugly. Otherwise, why is she so afraid of unloading a photo of herself to the website.

As on any other server of any other online game, most players on Watery South just played the game to kill time. Some of them really liked to stir up disputes between rival gangs or gossip about some other players.

At present, the most popular topic among these “gossipers” was “What does Flowing Light really look like?”

When Zheng Xiaoguang used her alternate account to sell goods on a market stall, she saw players in the market talking about it.

[Nearby] Gossiper 1: Is the first lady of the League of Strong Families really ugly? I heard that she even dared not to upload her photo to the official website.

[Nearby] Gossiper 2: I think she’s probably really ugly. Otherwise, why didn’t she upload a photo of herself to the website. How could she let Saori openly humiliate her?

[Nearby] Gossiper 3: You know what. I heard that the first lady of the League of Strong Families is actually a transvestite!

[Nearby] Gossiper 1: Gee, the god-like Bluegreen-Clad spent so much money for a transvestite? Really? Does the god-like player actually like men?

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Gossipers really enjoyed talking about this topic. Every time they met, no matter whether they were friends, they would ask one another, “Have you heard that the first lady of the League of Strong Families is ugly?”

The gossipers just talked about this for fun, but members of the League of Strong Families could hardly tolerate the spreading gossip about their gang boss’ wife.

Gossips, if repeated enough, would be accepted as truth. Gradually, more and more players firmly believed that Bluegreen-Clad married a transvestite.

[Gang] One-inch Monk: First lady, if you see some people gossiping about you, just tell me. I’ll slay all of them. I happen to have an itch to kill. We have to teach these gossipers a lesson!

One-inch Monk regretted not having chosen to trust Flowing Light when she had been framed by the Sacred Temple before. He wanted to make it up to her and thus showed great enthusiasm for helping her out now. He was the first one in the gang, who made such an offer to Flowing Light.

[Gang] Big Fish Eats Small Fish: Those gossips are really ridiculous. All of us have heard our first lady’s voice on YY. She’s a girl, not a transvestite.

[Gang] Beating War Drums in Spring Breeze: First lady, I firmly believe that you’re a pretty girl. I trust our gang boss’ opinion on that. I believe that you’ll win the title “Beauty Queen of Shiny Sky”. Come on, first lady, join the beauty contest! We’ll support you all the way! Keep it up downstairs!