Xiao Fan taking control

The bits of advice gotten from Duan Hin, and to some degree from Qian Bai and Zhuan Shan felt all worthless right now, not that his own actions and ideas had been perfect. Nevertheless, he wanted these three women of his to stop fighting right now. He didn't even want to think about how hard stopping this would be with all five of them!

So, hurling words out of his mouth and pointing fingers at them, Xiao Fan wanted to make sure that they would feel some shame if nothing else. The cup that had been trying to contain his feeling concerning their way of fighting had finally overflown, and the women at the receiving end would feel this.

Qian Ki, Fei Sun, and Zhuan An were attempting to come up with words to say back at their man suddenly lashing out against them, yet under those words and tone of voice Zhuan An had long since given up on any resistance.

Zhuan An had just wanted to spend all the time possible with him; nothing would stop her from attempting to hog Xiao Fan for herself much as possible. To his words, she had nothing to counter, nor could she anyway. She could only listen to his scolding and wait—her chin pushing into her chest.

Qian Ki when hearing him criticise her habits and way of gaining anything wasn't any better. She knew that if there was something out of her reach would she use or gain enough power to seize it for herself without asking.

How had she gotten Xiao Fan to be hers the first place? By driving him into a corner and forcing him to be a tool for her ambitions and even that held through till now only because she had been extremely lucky by choosing Xiao Fan, a man not caring of her inherently evil ways.

Fei Sun? Being the clever one was doing the best, but Xiao Fan's words against her were the most severe. After all, he was talking about their relationship itself and how it could break due to her actions. Was Xiao Fan, in her opinion, in the wrong? No, he was not. She knew very well that she herself thought of this wife and husband thing to be a business transaction, nothing else.

Fei Sun had no real love towards Xiao Fan, maybe a small like, but even that was coming from what he could provide her with, not her feelings towards him. Fei Peng, her father, hadn't been overstating his words when telling Xiao Fan and Zhuan Shan how she thought Xiao Fan to be an idiot.

However, now that Xiao Fan was acting like he would dare to end their relationship? Fei Sun, not even having thought of him being capable of voicing that was shocked. Her brain that was always swift to come out with answers was now taking way too long.

"NONE OF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY? NOTHING?" Xiao Fan, at the end of his fit, not minding his parched throat continued to shout at the silent women for one more time. Finally done with his fit, Xiao Fan sat back down into the chair, waiting for them to say something back at him.

"Well? You have anything to say?" Not hearing a reply, he repeated in a normal volume while his head went around the three women around him. His eyes glaring at them, noted that there wouldn't be a response coming in a while, yet he didn't care, he would be here till the end of time if needed.

The wait wasn't till the end of times, but it was still a long time before Fei Sun getting a counter formed spoke it, "S-so what? Without me, you would be dead by now? Some appreciation?"

"Without you? Without you, where would I be right now?" Xiao Fan spoke back, not saving anything. So far, he hadn't gotten anything from Fei Sun but trouble.

"Hmph!" Fei Sun, realising this, didn't say more to that.

Zhuan An and Qian Ki looked at Fei Sun attempting to counter Xiao Fan's words but seeing her attempt crumble made them continue their silence.

"Nothing? Can any of you three say anything that could reason your constant bickering? And why do you continue to do it straight in front of me? As if I'm not present?" As time passed, Xiao Fan continued to speak.

More time passed and still not hearing, their mouths hadn't even opened, did Xiao Fan state some new rules, "From now on, I'll be the one calling the shots"—he got up from his chair— "When I let these matters to be decided by you, I hoped that you could come together and work out something, but as you haven't, it seems that I need to take control."

The first thing standing up, Xiao Fan walked over to Fei Sun, who was still on the high ground. "Fei Sun, I do not hate you for calling me names, though it is not nice of you either." Ending his first sentence, he had walked next to her. "We might have started on a bad foot, but if you want, we can try, or I can leave you here when I leave." He wasn't talking about the Tomb of the Four Ancient ones, but about the Ohin Continent and him leaving it.

Xiao Fan was the same as Fei Sun, in a way that, there was no love between them. At the moment, if needed, he could let her go. He didn't wish it to be the case, but spending time like this was just as foolish, he had enough love that he had no want for a relationship based on transactions and fake words.

Fei Sun well understanding what she was being told, thought of her options for a while, 'He is the best man I can get...' Of course this was her first topic, but she quickly realised the err in her thought. 'I do not dislike him, but even after everything... I don't like him either.' When thinking of the more proper question, she couldn't make out a clear picture.

"If you are having such a hard time thinking of an answer, I can give you more time. We have had some good moments." Xiao Fan eased her thought process. He didn't see the relationship to be a complete failure since during their travel to find him the ingredients he had had some good time with her.

"That'll be fine... From now on I'll try to be more honest with you." Fei Sun, hearing him say so agreed, maybe with more time they could find common ground, and at the current moment, neither of them wanted to break ties to the other.

"Thanks," he said, smiling at her for a moment before turning around and walking towards his next target, Qian Ki.

Qian Ki knowing that she was going to be the next victim, embraced herself emotionally. "Ki'er." Him speaking that name was already enough to shook that embrace, for when she heard it, her eyes looked towards the approaching figure.

Who continued, "Just stop abusing your powers when it comes to my friends. I love you, but there are other ways to gain what you want. Well, get to rebuilding your collection soon." There wasn't a whole lot to be said to her. To him, the only problem in Qian Ki was how she had come accustomed to using her status or power to gain what she wanted.

"This gift, this power is all that I have..." Qian Ki replied. Her way of life was tied to her power, literally.

Xiao Fan looked at her weirdly for a second. "You have me, right? I even share a part of that power— "

"Of course, there is you, but you are part of my power," She lamented.

Xiao Fan having been cut off, waited till she was done with her sentence before replying, "There you go again, cutting off other's from speaking."

"Sorry..." Qian Ki realised her mistake. "Please continue."

"Didn't you want to live by this power? At least I like this connection we have as it let me find you and help you. So what if you have this power and nothing else? I have a part of it too, and I want us to grow around this power that you have. If you learn to control your wants, then everything will be fine."

Watching Qian Ki react to his words, Xiao Fan realised that he had been too harsh on his words. The shouting he had done might have been too much. 'Nothing can change that now though.' To that realisation, he thought so and continued without saying sorries.

Thinking so, the reaction of Qian Ki was going towards was a happy smile. 'I'm not getting shouted at?' she grasped that there was no huge fight on the horizon, neither did he bring up what she had by mistake done to Zhuan An.

"I want us to grow around my power too." At the end of her thought, she agreed with Xiao Fan's want of growing their relationship around the gift she had. For her, that gift and Xiao Fan were the two most important things.

"Keep what I told you in mind." As his words were leaving his smiling mouth, he went over to the easiest target of these three women, Zhuan An. With her, there should be no trouble.

"An'er, what have you come up with?" Needing only to turn around to face Zhuan An, Xiao Fan didn't need much time before getting to ask her this.

The girl, still pressing her chin into her chest, replied in a meek tone that Xiao Fan had heard from before, "I shouldn't try to compete to get you all the time."

The meek tone was from last night, making Xiao Fan a little sceptical if this was a healthy progression. "I will never leave you. We will have enough time to do everything you want to do in the future, even if I'm not with you all the time." Speaking like this, Xiao Fan tried to subtly raise the woman's confidence.

"If you promise me that I'll be a fortunate woman." Xiao Fan's subtle hints worked, for she did ask something from him.

"Now there's the romantic I like"—his hand went over to her downwards chin and lifted it to look at him—"I promise." When her eyes were staring into his, he promised.

"I'm a fortunate woman," she quickly returned while rushing her head into his chest, her hand going behind his back for a tight hug.

"You are a good wife," he stated as he returned the hug.

The two other women watched this from the sidelines, yet didn't raise their voice, nor did they express anything on their face.

Xiao Fan's eyes noting this, made his head come up with a conclusion to this event, 'Everything seems to have gone smoothly. They are much calmer.' The feeling he got from this was a pleasant one.

His attempt of raining in the unruly women had been so far successful, and with this move, he could have more moving space when doing, well, anything. No more would there be bickering in front of him or ignoring his wishes.

From now on, he would try to stay on top of these women.

Xiao Fan didn't know if that would last and how long, but no more would he stay in the sidelines when it came to the matters of his women since clearly they could not be trusted to handle those matters themselves.

Of course, there were still other matters like bringing Du Lan into the picture or Meng Chin, yet for now, the situation appeared to have cooled down.

"Now let's get to business." And as everything had calmed down, he could start with the plan that Wang Geming had given him, while hiding his own in them, of course.