The Moon Immortal snagged against Li Ming, both of his arms loosely circling around her waist as he rested his face in the crook of her neck.

"Are you all right?" Li Ming softly asked as she rubbed one of her hands over his back to soothe him, while the other remained tangled in his long silky hair.

The Moon Immortal did not reply for a long time as he kept breathing heavily, trying his best to calm his soul and body down.

He felt so warm and comfortable in the arms of his little mate. She smelled so good, almost intoxicating him and he just wanted to lose himself in her scent.

He inhaled her lilac scent a few times which finally made him soothe down a little.

"I...I have never been better. This feels so good, Little One." He whispered finally after a few minutes and his warm breath tickled the skin of her nape.

A very small smile made its way to her lips as she asked, "Don't you wanna know what I just did?"

"Only if you want to tell. Whatever it is, it feels so good and feels like a part of you. It's soothing my heart and soul in a way that I never knew was possible." Lord Yueliang replied as he tightened his arms around his mate.

The mighty Deity of the Moon was currently looking like a sated baby as he clung to Li Ming like a baby koala.

His already cerulean eyes still held the blue glow of light that had taken over them ever since the kiss that they shared a few moments ago.

Li Ming chuckled softly as she kept patting his head warmly as she replied, "I just transferred a little bit of my soul and qi essence into you. Though I can't give you the soul mark yet but this is also something sacred that is shared between mates and it will help us strengthen our bond."

Just like Lord Yueliang's bright blue glowing eyes, the soul mark on Li Ming's wrist was also glowing.

One of the tendrils glowed in blue color as it matched the brightness of the Moon Immortal's glowing eyes.

"Don't worry. I'll cherish it with all my heart for the rest of my life." Lord Yueliang softly whispered as he placed a very light kiss on her nape, making a soft sigh left her lips.

The two of them kept standing there in each other's warm and protective embrace inside the private room of the Black Jade Inn for the next several minutes, each of them lost in their own world of thoughts.

Normally, when it came to finalizing the bond between mates, it was usually the males who marked their female mate and completed the bond.

The newly completed bond and the process of marking always left the female in a submissive and deprived state, who needed all the attention and affection of her mate or mates.

Sometimes, both the males and females needed to mark each other, and even then the females were the ones who ended up more sensitive and submissive than their male partners.

There were very rare cases where the females were the ones who marked their mates and completed the bond, and the only cases where males were the ones who ended up in the submissive state no matter how dominant their actual personalities were.

Due to some good luck, Li Ming ended up being one of those rare females who would get the chance of marking her mates.

She could not wait to see them in their submissive and most vulnerable phase.

Not because she wanted to see them weak and helpless, rather the reason behind her wish of seeing every single one of her mates in their submissive form during their bond completion was totally different.

The pleasure and contentment that a person received while taking care of all the needs of their mate during the bond completion could be counted as one of the best moments of their lives.

That few days when she would be busy in taking care of them after the completion of their bonds would make their bond more powerful and strong.

She would make sure to take care of all the needs and wants of each one of her mates.

However, that day was still far away and she needed to wait quite some time for that day to finally arrive.

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"Master, out of all those people who were saved from the slave market, around twelve youngsters and four women along with two men in their mid-forties, have been discharged from the hospital. What's your next plan for them?" Sue Mei asked as she one by one returned all the account books in the huge wooden box.

Each account book was related to the different businesses running under Li Ming's authority.

"Don't worry, I have already passed my orders to Old Mo. It's a good thing that most of them are on their way towards recovery while some have already recovered. But we still need to stay calm around them. It will take them some time to readjust to their new lives. Keep your eyes on their situation."

Li Ming told the girl who looked far more beautiful and mature in her yellow dress with silver hairpins adorning her long hair than the first Li Ming met her when she returned from the Iron mines.

"Yes, Master!" Sue Mei accepted the task as she bowed in greetings as she stood up from her seat and left the room with all the account books.

Only a few days were left before her sixteenth birthday that was approaching very rapidly. And with that, her tension was also increasing.

The banshee was still ignoring her even after Li Ming had tried various ways of calming her anger down. However, nothing worked.

And as the days passed and it was already the end of the October month, the winter season was once again about to knock on their doorsteps.

For the past few days, she had been busy in preparing a new plan for the coming Winter season and the next year that was only at a distance of a few months.

Although she could not plan everything in advance for the next few years, but she still wanted to create a rough draft that could help her people in focusing on the main objectives of the businesses.

The good thing was that she now had an entire team of talented people under her who mostly took care of all the businesses.

All that she had done in the past seven or eight months was to take a look at the account books and some important data collections.

Other than that, there was barely any need for her in any of the businesses.

According to her team of talented associates, the only that she should do was to either cultivate the entire day and became an Immortal cultivator or she could just sit on her throne of the Young Miss of the Li Empire that she had created.

However, no matter how good everything was going on. As the boss of all the businesses and workers, she could not help but worry about them.

The knock on the door of the room disturbed Li Ming's thoughts.

"Master!"

A young boy in his late teens entered the room as he bowed to greet the girl who was busy in making notes.

Li Ming nodded her head as she looked up at the boy in front of her.

The boy took out a bag from his spatial ring that was gifted to him by his generous and kind Master the day she took him in under her wing along with his old mother and nine-year-old cousin brother.

He still remembered the day nine months ago when he was running around the streets of the capital city of Wang Empire in the chilled weather to find some food for his mother and little brother.

He had stayed away from his family for almost a year as he went to learn martial arts from the Daoist master who lived a few miles away from the Dark Valley Mountain Ranges.

Though he made sure that his mother and younger brother won't face any problems in his absence, little did he knew that just a few months after he left their house caught fire.

Though both his mother and younger brother were saved by the neighbors but their house got completely destroyed along with those few possessions that they held.

His mother refused to notify him because she did not want to become baggage for him, therefore she started working as a maid in one of the noble families.

His mother was already old and the constant labor made a very bad impact on her health.

By the time he decided to return and pay his family a short visit, his mother's health had already declined while his younger brother looked malnourished.

The day he returned back to his home which somehow looked like a collection of wooden planks and hay, he found out that his family had barely eaten anything for the past two days.

And as he was running around the streets in the heavy snowfall to found any open shop or inn to find food for his family, he bumped into a Young Miss who changed his and his family's life forever.