Chapter 253 The Truth
"Lu Yi?" Sai Ren said in disbelief.
Lu Yi's movements froze, and his back slowly straightened up.
"Father……"
Looking at Sairen's complicated eyes, Lu Yi coughed lightly.
He thought that maybe he should say something to ease the atmosphere, but it was obviously not a good place to speak in front of such a silent crowd.
Lu Yi opened his mouth, but before he could finish his words, a warm and soft body hugged him tightly.
The unique fragrance and warmth of his mother enveloped him, the same golden hair brushed his cheek, and Lu Yi heard the strong heartbeat in another chest.
Although they are the hearts of two bodies, the rhythm of their beats is so familiar, as if they have returned to the beginning when they were snuggling together and inseparable.
Lu Yi was stunned, and then tried to relax his body.
He could clearly feel her trembling, the fear underneath it, and some more complex and profound emotions.
But these emotions were like a tangled ball of wool that couldn't be untangled, blocking his throat so that he couldn't speak.
In just a few seconds, countless images flashed through Lu Yi's mind.
The several foster mothers who adopted him in his previous life, the "aunt" who was particularly caring for him in this life, and the "mother" who had an inconsistent attitude towards him when he was young.
They all played the role of mother in her life, but due to various reasons, one part was missing and her life seemed incomplete.
At this moment Lu Yi was suddenly thinking.
Did Mrs. Klein, the noble lady who was also known as Miss Hessel, actually already know his true background?
They are all "victims" of Sairen's impulsive and reckless behavior, and passively become victims and perpetrators of the marriage-swapping game.
In this bride-swap game, perhaps no one is a completely innocent victim.
After leaving the illusion of the Sea and Mirror Heart Trial, Lu Yi saw those clues that were previously unknown. These clues were connected together at this moment to form the complete truth①.
In order to protect her happy marriage, Lena forced her brother, who had a distorted love for her, to "steal the world". She wanted to keep the children in her sight, but also to protect herself from the possible influence of public opinion brought about by the twin curse.
Sairen, who was timid and in love with his own sister, abandoned the expectations of his people and left his hometown with his sister who fell in love with the human race. He even designed such a seemingly perfect marriage exchange plan after learning about the possibility of twins.
Miss Hessel, who coveted wealth and freedom and treated her husband with respect, after learning the truth about her stillbirth, made the best of a mistake and raised Lu Yi, whom Sairen particularly favored, and sat on her status as a noble lady.
Perhaps there is also King Wendel who condoned everything that happened, turned a blind eye to everything, indulged in its development, and arrogantly watched that his bloodline would eventually inherit the huge wealth of the entire Klein family, hiding behind the scenes and reaping the benefits.
And Xia's mother, whose life and death were planned by the plan. If Mrs. Klein had not been pregnant with a stillbirth, Xia would have no chance of survival given the identity that Sai Ren had originally arranged for Lu Yi.
This explains the direction of the original text, why Xia seemed innocent but actually hated the Klein family, and why the New Victory Royal Family frequently targeted Xia after Lu Yi's death...
Everything was a coincidence, and fate pushed them to their current position.
Lu Yi closed his eyes and allowed himself to briefly immerse in this warm embrace.
Just two extremely short seconds.
Two seconds later, he helped Lian Na away and said softly, "Your Highness."
Lena's body stiffened for a moment.
She lowered her eyes to hold back her tears, her gaze falling from Lu Yi's face to his blue tail.
"Lu Yi, you and Lulton are..."
Lu Yi interrupted her and whispered, "I know, I know everything."
Lian Na obviously did not expect Lu Yi's reaction, or rather, she did not expect him to remain so calm after knowing the truth.
"Mmm, mmmm!"
Ed, who was tied up very tightly, struggled to make a little sound and looked at Lena pleadingly, as if asking for help.
Lena looked sarcastic.
How dare he beg her? Did he still think she didn't know what he had done?
Sairen took a step forward and pulled out the rag that was stuffed in Ed's mouth, looking at him with the same extremely cold eyes.
Ed's expression suddenly changed, and he shouted at the soldiers outside the palace: "What are you doing, you idiots? Come over here and control these audacious mermaids!"
"I'm going to kill them all! And give them all to the sea god!"
Lu Yi raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and looked sideways at the mermaid guards of all shapes and sizes outside the palace.
He didn't say anything, but silently stretched out his right hand at his side, with the flame-blue soul fire burning "crackling" on his fingertips.
Even the mere appearance of this soul fire made all the mermaids present feel the trembling and fear rising from the depths of their souls.
Mermaids specialize in the art of the soul, so no one knows better than them the dangers of soul damage, which is a horrible injury that is several times more severe than physical damage.
If at the beginning these mermaid guards did not dare to ignore Ed's orders and desert even though they were afraid, then the moment the soul fire appeared, all their concerns disappeared.
The mermaid guards in the front row had cold sweat on their foreheads, their eyes darting around, not knowing where to look. The guards behind them shrank like quails, with the word "honest and simple-minded" written all over their faces.
Lu Yi had no intention of killing people in large numbers. He lightly flicked his fingertips, and the flame-blue soul fire expanded several times like a blooming flower.
"Put down your weapons and get out. I'll spare your life, so hurry up."
He said this in a lighthearted tone, his incredibly beautiful face reflecting the blue light of the flames, making it sound more like a teasing joke between friends than a deadly threat.
But the reality is that no one dares to take this as a joke.
One second.
No, less than half a second.
The large group of mermaid guards outside the palace disappeared, leaving only a few slow-reacting ones still standing there in a daze.
"Waste! You are a bunch of cowards! You take the money but do nothing! Damn it! Poseidon will punish you! You will be cursed!" Ed cursed.
"No, you really just ran away like that? ? !" The guard holding the trident who hadn't had time to run away was dumbfounded and instantly in a dilemma.
"Not bad, you have backbone." Lu Yi praised seriously.
He originally thought that these fence-sitter guards would slip away in an instant, but he didn't expect that there would still be some mermen who would not leave.
After all, Lu Yi just learned about the history of royal dynasty changes from the mermaids at the banquet.
The reason why Ed was able to gain the position of leader so easily was that he secretly colluded with the high priest and poisoned the Mermaid King, catching the other royal families off guard.
On the other hand, it is because of these life-saving mermaid guards who surrender at any time. Loyalty is also flexible. As long as they are from the royal family, they don't care which royal family it is. Life is the most important thing.
The smile on Lu Yi's lips disappeared. He swam a step toward the door, and flames leaped up from his fingertips.
“Plop——”
The only mermaid left closed her eyes and fainted on the ground, losing consciousness.
Sairen cautiously stepped forward to observe, "...she fainted from shock."
Lu Yi sneered.
Mermaid.
After dealing with these small fry, we can now move on to settling accounts with the real culprit.
Lu Yi retracted the flame in his hand, turned around and walked back to Ed.
"Well, you were right in one thing. You will be cursed and punished. Look, your punishment has come now, hasn't it?"
Ed said nothing, but just stared at Lu Yi with hatred, as if he wanted to skin him alive, drink his blood and eat his flesh.
Lu Yi didn't like this kind of look, as if he was a vicious villain who had done all kinds of bad things.
The more people he met, the more Lu Yi felt that not just anyone could be a villain. Being ruthless enough to kill was only one of the most important things. The most important thing was to have self-identification and logical consistency.
For example, Ed in front of us, even if he killed his father and brother before, he would not think that he had done anything wrong. It is not the difference between "I owe the world" and "the world owes me", but the difference between "the whole world and everyone owes me".
Ed was not the first person he met who had this idea.
Lu Yi lost interest in continuing the confrontation.
Every extra second wasted was a waste of his life.
He turned around and walked back to Sairen, "Father, what are we going to do with them? Are we going to kill them directly?"
Sairen glanced at the immobile Ed and the unconscious high priest. Before he could say anything, Lena said, "I want them to pay with their lives!"
Lu Yi nodded, then remembered something and explained, "I had already figured it out before you came. It was Ed's fault that I appeared here in this state.
“He pulled me back to the deep sea through the water of Lake Braeside, just to take the mermaid blood in my body and sacrifice it to the sea god.
“But maybe they didn’t expect that before the subconscious thought of ‘return to the deep sea’ could affect my body, I would arrive at the reef in this spiritual state.
"As for why they must have the mermaid blood in my body? Maybe it's a curse! After killing my father and brother to become king, all mermaids were abandoned by the gods. The number of newborn mermaids is decreasing, the power of their blood is getting thinner, and the talents of mature mermaids are actually regressing and dissipating.
"The high priest said that we should use a mermaid with strong blood power as a sacrifice. His blood will support the talents of mature mermaids, and his flesh will supply the blood of newborn mermaids. And this mermaid with strong blood power is me and Lulton."
How ridiculous! Among all the mermaids, the two mixed-blood mermaids have the strongest bloodline power.
The biggest surprise in this incident was that Lu Yi was not the soft persimmon they had expected. Instead, they were trying to fight a rock with an egg, but ended up getting caught in their own trap and reaping the consequences.
You want his blood and flesh, but you don't even consider whether you will survive to get it. Lu Yi sneered.
Sai Ren realized it belatedly at this moment, and nervously looked Lu Yi up and down, asking: "Are you not injured? Is there anything wrong with your body? Consuming your soul like this will definitely affect your state..."
He wanted to ask how Lu Yi did it. Lu Yi was just a little half-blood mermaid who had just grown a tail. How could he fight against a hundred people alone? Neither Ed nor the high priest were easy to deal with.
But these questions turned around and around in Sairen's throat, and finally he swallowed them down as if nothing had happened.
"It's okay. I'm not injured. I'm doing fine. Because I was prepared in advance, I didn't suffer any loss."
Of course Lu Yi could see that Sai Ren was hesitant to speak, but he could only play dumb.
Otherwise he couldn't explain it at all.
How could he explain that he, a mermaid-human fourth-level magician, could ignore the bloodline level suppression and beat up a large group of mermaids alone?
Since the explanation doesn't make sense, then he won't explain it!
Even if Sai Ren really asked, Lu Yi would just laugh it off.
Fortunately, Sairen did not pursue him relentlessly.
"Prepared in advance?" Lian Na asked doubtfully, "Lu Yi, did you know something a long time ago?"
Of course someone must have tipped off in advance!
Before going to the banquet, when Ares was helping him put on the fancy pearl necklace, after they exchanged a lingering kiss because of a confused look, Ares whispered in his ear, "betrayed" his own people and became the "informer" of the mermaid.
Lu Yi finally remembered Ares whom he had forgotten, but the figure of the black-haired and black-tailed mermaid was no longer in the corner.
When did he leave?
...When will he appear next time, and in what capacity?
Lu Yi stared at the corner for a while, feeling quite regretful.
Although he himself didn't know what he was regretting.
The author has something to say:
①, summarize what happened.
Queen Lena was pregnant and found out that she was having twins (Lu Yi and Lu Dun). Because of the curse of the twins in the new Victory royal family, she and Sai Ren decided to secretly hide one of the twins (Lu Yi) out of the palace when giving birth.
The original plan was for Mrs. Klein to also become pregnant and give birth to (premature) twins (Lu Yi and Xiao X).
As a result, Xia's mother appeared at this time. He was the scandal of "affair and illegitimate child (Xia)" deliberately designed for him by Sairen's political enemies.
Sai Ren just made the best of a bad situation and redesigned it so that Lu Yi was taken back to the Klein family as an illegitimate child (this was because he was worried that if Mrs. Klein's twins (Lu Yi and Xiaox) didn't look alike, they would be exposed in the future, so he simply didn't arrange the identities of twins and let Mrs. Klein give birth normally).
As a result, Mrs. Klein was later diagnosed with a congenital deficiency and the baby she was carrying (Xiaox) could not survive, so Lu Yi finally replaced Xiaox who died in the fetus. Although Xia was forced to give birth prematurely, she was not used in the final plan.
The above, so I said earlier that Sairen is not a good person either.
Finally, the characters in the novel do not represent the author's values [pitiful] [folded hands], do not recognize or accept it! Sairen's behavior should be condemned! Scumbag!
What did Lu Yi regret at the end——
I could have gone to meet my parents!
There will be another update later, but it will probably be quite late, ladies, don’t wait, come back tomorrow~ [pat head]
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