Chapter 249 The Mermaid Princess 3 (Bonus Chapter 2 for Donations)

Another month passed, and many people the original owner knew were captured.

Those mermaids, whether they knew her or not, familiar or unfamiliar, were slain one by one in front of Ning Yan. Before they died, they knelt before Ning Yan and begged her to shed a single tear, just as they had knelt down and begged the original owner to come to the capital to die.

That way they can live!

But on what grounds?

The eldest princess's life is also a life!

It was Aiman ​​who sneaked ashore to play, it was Aiman ​​who started the war between humans and mermaids, and it was Aiman ​​who caused them to be captured. Yet the original owner of this body became the one who sacrificed herself, and in the end, she even lost her life because of Aiman's selfish desires!

Others wanted her to sacrifice herself, but she refused!

Trying to make her cry, Ning Yan just smiled instead!

She just watched with a smile as the guards' knives cut their necks or pierced their stomachs, watching them slowly lose their breath in front of her.

Ning Yan felt no emotion whatsoever at this.

Of course, in order to ensure the perfect completion of her plan, Ning Yan still shed two tears in the end, showing her respect.

The Crown Prince received two flawless pink-gold pearls, but the Queen quickly took them, wanting to use them to make the most beautiful crown. So, the Crown Prince still has a long way to go.

So the imperial army set off again.

This time, the Crown Prince sent even more soldiers to the East Sea. Because of the second daughter's handwritten letter, the Mermaid King seemed to have lost his mind and sacrificed many ministers. Those people didn't want to leave either, but now someone was forcing them in the same way they had forced the eldest princess.

A race that is not united will inevitably perish sooner or later.

The ministers did not expect that they would see the eldest princess, whom they had forced to be presented to the emperor, so soon.

They knelt down and begged the eldest princess to cry, saying that if she cried, they would all live.

Ning Yan smiled brightly. She was already beautiful, and her smile was even more breathtaking. The Crown Prince saw that sweet words were useless, so he decided to just kill her.

Ning Yan did shed tears, but at first she would shed a tear for every two or three people they killed, then she would shed a tear for every seven or eight they killed, and finally she shed a total of nine tears after all the ministers had been killed.

But the Crown Prince saw some hope; at least nine pearls could make a small bracelet.

He then sent soldiers to the mermaid tribe to capture mermaids.

The war between humans and sea creatures has resumed after six years. However, the merfolk have suffered heavy losses, with less than one in ten remaining. Even though the empire's army is fighting on foreign soil, it still holds a significant advantage.

If it weren't for the need to capture prisoners alive, the merfolk would probably have been wiped out in this battle.

Of course, all of this was kept from Ayman, and even if she knew, she wouldn't care.

It was she who secretly ran ashore, allowing humans to discover the existence of the mermaid race and bringing a catastrophe upon her people. If she had even a shred of conscience, she wouldn't be living so peacefully.

Now, the idea of ​​capturing her own people was also hers.

She's the kind of person who doesn't care about the lives of others as long as she can achieve her own goals.

To put it bluntly, Ayman is an extremely selfish freak!

The battle lasted for nearly a year, but Ning Yan still lived a carefree life.

Finally, one day, the entire mermaid race was captured and sent back to the capital.

Ning Yan began her performance again.

This time, she finally stopped being stingy. She would pretend to cry when a few ordinary merfolk died, but when she killed the royal family, she would shed a tear or two. But when the butcher's knife fell on her father and mother, the two started cursing, "Lucica, how could you be so heartless? Just watching your people die like this! I really wish I had never given birth to you. Your blood is cold. You have no heart!"

The Mermaid King looked at her with resentment, but his words betrayed his heart: "Don't say that. Lucia is our most beloved daughter. We had no choice but to send her here. You don't know how much your mother cried after you left, and she almost cried herself sick."

Good child, you are our most beloved child!

If it weren't for your sister causing trouble, our family would still be living peacefully underwater, and it wouldn't be long before you took over the merfolk clan..."

The Mermaid King spoke for a full five minutes, and Ning Yan listened without showing any expression on her face, let alone shedding a tear.

The Mermaid King didn't show it on his face, but his heart was twisted with anger. Damn it, he had said so much, why didn't this brat shed a tear?

If she doesn't cry, they really are going to be killed.

The Mermaid King raised his hand to strike.

Ning Yan immediately dived into the water and wouldn't come out.

The Mermaid King's efforts were in vain.

Unable to vent his anger, and with the Crown Prince still eyeing the couple covetously, he could no longer hold back and unleashed a torrent of curses at his eldest daughter!

"I'm just going to let you shed a couple of tears, it's not like I'm going to kill you, why won't you cry?"

"If I had known you were so cold-blooded, I should have strangled you the moment you were born! I would have pretended I never gave birth to such a heartless thing!"

The Empress also joined in the cursing, reaching into Ning Yan's hand as she did so, trying to grab her out. She even suggested to the Crown Prince that they should just drag her out and beat her severely, so that she would cry when it hurt, without having to go through the trouble of killing her.

Crown Prince: ...Does that mean he doesn't want to? Or that he's afraid to?

He wanted the pearls to be the same color as the fish tail, fearing that if the eldest princess were injured, the color and quality of the pearls would be affected, and then they wouldn't be perfect.

Ning Yan didn't bother arguing with the dead; she'd just let them have their fun.

Of course, she gave a slightly sad expression.

Sure enough, seeing that the two men couldn't even make the eldest princess cry with their insults, the crown prince directly ordered the empress to be killed first.

The tears in Ning Yan's eyes were like those of the heroines in Qiong Yao's dramas; if a tear fell from her left eye, it would never appear in her right. With a plop, the teardrop turned into a perfect pink pearl and fell into the water.

A guard immediately retrieved the pearl. When the Crown Prince took a look, he exclaimed, "Good heavens! Sure enough, the closer someone is to a person, the more heartbroken the eldest princess becomes. The longer she holds her tears in her eyes, the larger they become when they fall, and the larger the pearl becomes!"

This one is more than twice the size of the first one I got; it's so beautiful!

Seeing his queen die before his eyes, the Mermaid King finally panicked. He knelt down before his daughter and cried, "Lucica, please save your father! I was wrong before. I will treat you well from now on. The Crown Prince only wants a few tears from you. Can you give them to him? Please give them to him!"

Ning Yan looked very sad, but she just wouldn't cry!

Seeing that the mermaid king's words had failed to move the eldest princess, the crown prince lost his patience and gave the order once more, resulting in the mermaid king being beheaded!

A crystal-clear tear appeared from her right eye. Indeed, she was fair; she shed a tear for both her biological parents' deaths, one from her left eye and one from her right, with the same amount of time to prepare. Therefore, the two pearls were absolutely the same size!