The story is simple; it's just the old trope of repaying kindness with enmity.

Bora is a lone fish and is very good at making the king of the mermaid race—that young blond mermaid, Diesel—happy.

Although mermaids have a wide range of diets, they are simple-minded and have uncomplicated personalities.

This king was powerful, but simple-minded and prone to anger. Once you grasped his thoughts, it was easy to win his favor. As they were mermaids from the same clan, the young king almost regarded Bora as his younger brother. He would give Bora a share of everything he had, which allowed the skinny, neglected little mermaid to grow up successfully.

As a result, Bora betrayed its trust. When Diesel proposed to Lisa, the princess of another sea who is now his wife, Bora was entrusted with an important task: to present the princess with the treasure symbolizing the mermaid king, as a sign of Diesel's sincerity in marriage and his fidelity in love.

On the way back, Bora was unfortunately dragged into a deep trench known as the graveyard of the ocean by a giant sea monster, and all the mermaids who were with her thought she was dead.

Diesel was so depressed by this that he postponed the wedding. It was only because Lisa was gentle and understanding of Diesel's guilt and sadness that the mermaid clan might have experienced its first tragic case of a king remaining single.

Two years after Lisa married Diesel and became pregnant, the symbolic jewel remained unconcealed. It was supposed to shine brightly and then fade with the birth of the heir to the throne, but things did not go as planned.

This immediately alarmed the elders of the merfolk, who quickly discovered that the treasure was a fake.

Such a serious incident had never occurred among the mermaid race. Diesel and Lisa didn't even suspect Bora, assuming that something was wrong with the treasure.

However, without the power of the treasure, the heir to the throne will never reach adulthood even if born. He will remain forever in the form of a cub, and his innate abilities will not even meet the required standards.

Faced with the mysterious dangers of the ocean, without the protection of a royal heir, the mermaids will sooner or later be devoured by the giant sea monsters.

Their species will face extinction.

Twenty years have passed, and Diesel and Lisa's child should have come of age long ago. If the treasure is not found soon, it will not only affect the succession hundreds of years later, but also make the child weak and sickly, and gradually weaken.

As a mother, how could Lisa not be anxious?

Fortunately, news of the war between Algarde and its neighboring country over the ocean's darling reached the seas, making all the mermaids who were busy searching for treasures more cautious and specifically investigate the veracity of the news.

The ocean's darlings—humans wouldn't call any other marine creatures except for the mermaids.

Golden hair was originally a symbol of the heir to a king. Ordinary mermaids who secretly absorb the power of treasures will also gradually acquire golden hair, but their physique will shrink to that of an immature person, and their talents and abilities will be far less powerful than those of a true king.

Bora is wasting the treasures of the mermaid race for her own selfish desires.

Lisa never mentioned what the treasure actually was.

Twenty years of torment have almost completely eroded its simplicity.

Cheng Shuang wouldn't ask, because the moment the story ended, a mechanical voice sounded: 'Do you wish to initiate the main quest of assisting the Mermaid King in capturing the traitor—Polvenslatchi—and retrieving the Ocean Treasure, while abandoning your support for the Kingdom of Algard's war against the Kingdom of Beate for land?'

The little girl snorted coldly. She knew it all: the whole thing about the prince being disrespectful to the ocean's darling was just a high-sounding lie.

Human ambition, tsk tsk!

As soon as the mechanical voice stopped, Lisa's earnest plea followed, "I wonder if I could ask you to help the merfolk capture the traitor—Polvenslatchi—and retrieve our treasure!"

"Lisa, those humans are so cunning, what if they steal the treasure..."

"Shut up!" For the first time, the gentle female mermaid revealed the ferocity that was typical of the mermaid race to her husband. She felt sorry for her son, and every glance at his small, weak, and curled-up figure was heartbreaking.

Diesel is the king, and he has too many concerns, but Lisa is different; her son is her most important treasure.

Cheng Shuang's eyes flickered a few times. When she saw Lisa, it was as if she saw her parents. During the years when her illness was at its worst, her suffering was physical, while their suffering was emotional.

A family member once suggested giving up, since the cost of treatment was too high and would burden the whole family, and there was no guarantee of a full recovery. My parents got really angry with that uncle, and almost cut off all ties with him for life.

Although her older sister covered her ears at that time, she had eyes and could see clearly that her parents' bloodshot eyes contained worry, anger, and even more exhaustion.

That uncle was only speaking the truth, even if it was unpleasant to hear, because he was thinking of them. But to the parents who loved their daughter, those words were far too cruel and heartless.

Fortunately, medical technology has advanced, and her condition has been brought under control. Now, she has this incredible stroke of luck that is neither good nor bad...

The little girl stopped thinking about it.

Although she was deeply moved by Lisa's experience, she could not agree to it on her own.

Du Jun frowned slightly, gently rubbing the little girl's reddened eyes with his fingertips, his eyes indicating that she could agree. Before parting ways with Brother Sun, Brother Sun had anticipated this situation; neither of them believed that working under the King and Countess of Algarde would be a reassuring job.

It also involves the brutal war.

As for the old man and Lianrong, they will not interfere, since these two main storylines do not conflict.

Cheng Shuang kept her mouth shut and tugged at the hem of the young man's clothes. She didn't want to speak, afraid that she would act impulsively.

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