Liu Xueying was trembling all over.

After hearing Wen Yao's words, her head was buzzing.

Who would have thought that such an unintentional act would bring disaster upon us!

Yan Chiyu casually rested his chin on his hand. "Hmm? How do you plan to handle this?"

Liu Xueying shook her head frantically: "I don't want to continue... Please, please let me go! I had no idea that asking for a kiss was a sign of mating, who would have thought it would be you. It was just an accident!"

"If you had rejected me the first time, I probably would have left."

Wen Yao stared at Liu Xueying, who didn't even dare to look at him, with a half-smile, and then let out another cold laugh: "You're enjoying it so much, it's a matter of mutual consent, so why blame me?"

"I thought it was a dream! How could I have known!" Liu Xueying shouted, her eyes red. "You're a monster, how could you not have thought that monsters and humans are impossible!"

While tensions were high on one side, the girl on the other was lost in thought, her mind elsewhere.

Wu Yue couldn't help but yawn, a few drops of water welling up in the corners of her eyes: "Yan Chiyu, I'm sleepy, I have to go back first."

Thinking that the topic ahead was indeed not suitable for Wu Yue to hear, Yan Chiyu did not try to stop her. He nodded and said, "Uncle Min is waiting outside. Let him take you home."

"Thank you for your kindness, but no need."

Wu Yue nodded slightly and left, yawning repeatedly.

After the girl left, Yan Chiyu's expression grew even colder.

"Wen Yao, severing the relationship between you two is simple. Just pluck a fish scale from your body and make Miss Liu eat it."

Wen Yao was so angry she jumped up and down: "How could that be? I'd have to be crazy to pluck out my precious fish scales! Ha, no way!"

"I don't want to eat it either, it's disgusting!" Liu Xueying said angrily, "Second Young Master, is there any other way?"

Yan Chiyu's expression was complicated: "When male and female Wenyao fish mate and lay eggs, the male fish will eat the female fish, signifying that they have become one. The Wenyao fish eggs are already inside you. This matter will not be over until you give birth to his child and are willing to be eaten by him."

"No! I'll eat it, I'll eat the fish scales, okay?! Waaah!" Liu Xueying cried and gagged, her eyes red and her appearance disheveled.

Wenyao: ...

How come I didn't know about this?

Wen Yao was about to speak when the cold-faced boy suddenly raised his hand and threw a heavy little object at him.

He caught it without hesitation.

It was a unique badge-like object with a faint "2" visible on the surface and his name in the lower right corner.

Wen Yao's expression changed drastically.

"Grind the fish scales into powder for her, and come find me after you're done."

As soon as the boy finished speaking, Wenyao looked up again, only to find the boy had vanished into the darkness.

Two windows near the garden suddenly burst open, revealing the chill of early spring.

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Inside the villa, Lu Shu fiddled with the badge that gleamed white in his hand, pacing back and forth in the hall like an old father worried about his daughter not returning home late at night.

"Squeak—"

It was the sound of a door opening.

Lu Shu's eyes lit up. He casually put the badge in his pocket and ran over with quick steps: "Little Wu Yue, you're back?"

Lu Shu's smile vanished abruptly, and he froze on the spot.

It wasn't Wu Yue, but a couple who looked very young.

The light on the fingerprint lock on the door gradually dimmed.

The deer-like creature floated in mid-air and blinked.

I vaguely remember...

These look like Xiao Wuyue's parents, right?

Thinking about when they come back each year, it seems they come back too early.

Wu Yue's parents couldn't see Lu Shu. After changing out of their slippers in the entryway, they walked straight through his body into the hall.