After a quick glance, Yanliuquanjian looked at Cangying, especially Quanjian, whose eyes gleamed with a wolfish light, like a wolf that hadn't eaten for days seeing a big piece of fresh meat. He pulled up the chair he was sitting on and leaned towards his High Priest: "High Priest, High Priest, you've predicted my future partner. He's coming to the Troia Empire soon to come back to Earth with me and become my son-in-law!"

Cangying paused his calculations, a hint of pity flashing in his eyes—the kind of pity one would show to an idiot. He looked at Quanjian and said, “Your Majesty, I just said that your future partner is the gossip you mentioned. In the near future, he will come to the Troia Empire. Once the Troia Empire’s space jump technology is mature, he will return to the Milky Way with us!”

"Apart from that, I didn't say anything else. Are you not listening to the whole story, or are you focusing on the wrong point? When did I ever say that he wanted to be your live-in son-in-law, a son-in-law of the deep-sea mermaid clan?"

Yanliu: "..."

That little dragon cub is really serious!

Look at how serious he is. He's a bit like the stubborn old man in ancient Chinese books who follows tradition, is unwilling to break with it, and is obstinate about his own opinions.

If others do not follow his so-called traditions or rules, he will keep correcting them until they change.

I wonder if this dragon cub lives a tiring life. He's three or five hundred years old. It's hard to explain. Whether you're a human or a dragon, you should enjoy life while you can so as not to waste your life.

Quanjian was puzzled: "My home is on Earth in the Milky Way. If he comes back to Earth with me, isn't that just being a live-in son-in-law?"

"Did I misunderstand? No, that's exactly what I meant, right, beautiful Yanliu?"

Yan Liu coughed lightly, "Strictly speaking, your understanding is not wrong!"

Upon hearing that someone agreed with her, Quanjian immediately felt emboldened: "High Priest, listen to this, listen to this! What you said is exactly what I heard."

"On another note, High Priest, if you can predict that my future partner will be a chatterbox, can you also predict what his characteristics are so I can recognize him and bring him back to me?"

Cangying placed his right hand on the table, then curled his fingers and placed it on his lap, saying mysteriously, "You don't need to know who he is, or what his characteristics are. When the time is right, he will naturally appear!"

"High Priest, can you just tell me a little bit?" Quanjian reached out to tug at her High Priest's sleeve, but stopped short. Her High Priest was a germaphobe and didn't like being touched, not even by her, the Queen. So she didn't touch her, but her voice changed to that of a little girl. She pinched her little finger and gestured, pleading, "Just a little bit, just this little bit, High Priest, just tell me this little bit."

“He’s already told you, what else do you want him to tell you?” Jiang Si brought over the shrimp porridge and continued Quan Jian’s words.

Quanjian's gaze immediately shifted: "When did he tell me that, Jiangjiang? Don't talk nonsense, I didn't hear a thing!"

Jiang Si placed a bowl of shrimp porridge in front of Quan Jian and Cangying, and a bowl of shrimp porridge in front of Yan Liu. "Didn't he just say that your future partner will come to the Troya Empire and return to the Milky Way with you? All of this shows that you don't have to do anything. You just need to wait quietly, and your future partner will appear in front of you."

"Fate is a wonderful thing, so you don't need to know what he looks like or what his features are. You just need to wait quietly and the flowers will bloom!"

As Jiang Si finished speaking, Cangying smiled slightly at her. Although he didn't know what species she was or could not predict her fate, she understood him!

"Oh, really?" Quanjian pouted, looking aggrieved. "If I wait patiently, the flowers will bloom, but I don't want to wait. I just want to know who my partner is!"

Jiang Si asked, puzzled, "Why are you so eager to get married?"

Quanjian chuckled: "Jiangjiang, you don't understand. Your human race relies on breeding banks for reproduction, but the population is still not very large. Every human nation is in a state of population decline."

"But we deep-sea mermaids are different. We are either born viviparous or oviparous, and we give birth on our own without using any high technology."

"There are 8.9 million deep-sea mermaids now. Although our group can reproduce as many times as we want, some deep-sea mermaids just don't know how to fall in love or have children. They only need one fish to eat their fill and their whole family isn't hungry. There are also some fish that only have one offspring, and after giving birth, they just throw the fish away and go live in their own little world!"

"I, the Queen of the Deep Sea, have already declared that if I find a mate in the future, I will have at least 10 fish to give birth to, setting an example for the deep-sea mermaids!"

This queen is capable of getting along; she really does give birth to children!

Jiang Si exclaimed, "Quanjian, you're going to boost the birth rate of the deep-sea mermaids all by yourself? My God, you're amazing!"

Yan Liu quickly chimed in, "Yes, yes, little mermaid, your goal is so ambitious and admirable! Could you tell us how many babies you usually have in your litter?"

Quanjian didn't hide anything and said truthfully, "In our clan, if the females give birth to a live baby, they usually give birth to one egg. If they lay eggs, they give birth to at least three eggs. It's also normal for them to have 5, 6, 7, or 8 eggs!"

"Our tribe's heroine mother, the record holder for laying the most fish eggs, laid 28 eggs, all of which hatched and survived. Isn't that amazing?"

Jiang Si was stunned. She never expected that the South China Sea merfolk could reproduce so well, laying 28 eggs in one go. "Amazing, amazing, incredible!"

As Jiang Si's companion, Yan Liu wasn't much better off, nodding vigorously as she rubbed her head: "Amazing, amazing, so amazing, little mermaid, when you have children in the future, will they be viviparous or egg-laying?"

Quanjian shrugged: "I don't know either. The birthing of children among us deep-sea mermaids is random. And after we give birth, whether it's an egg birth or a live birth, we have special institutions. Once the child is born, there are people to take care of it, and people to wait for it to hatch!"

“Once our children are born, as long as they are alive and not dead, our specialized agency only needs to look after them for one day, and they will start eating on their own the next day.”

“Once they start eating on their own, their parents can choose to raise them themselves or place them in an institution for care, and they only need to visit twice a week.”

"If they are placed in an institution, their parents won't have to take care of their food, drink, or toilet needs, nor will they need to pay for it. When they are seven or eight years old, they can go to school directly. Whether they do well or poorly in school, their parents won't have to worry about them at all!"

"It's all my fault as the queen, but even with such good benefits, my people are still unwilling to have children. I'm so angry that I wish I could just whip those fish that have reached reproductive age but don't want to have children to death!"