Although she didn't know what the dream was about, Gu Qingqiu tried her best to treat it as reality and continued to interact with Troye in the way she had originally planned. She went home, found a few of her father's old clothes, and quickly ran back to where she had been.
Troye behaved very obediently, even his posture was almost the same as when Gu Qingqiu left, except that he seemed to dislike the clothes Gu Qingqiu brought, saying that they had the scent of other males on them and he didn't like that feeling.
Gu Qingqiu persuaded him repeatedly and promised to take him to buy new clothes immediately before he agreed to change into them.
However, because he was not used to walking on two legs, Troye stumbled along the way, and put all his weight on Gu Qingqiu.
Many people on the street cast strange glances at the two of them. Gu Qingqiu knew the reason without even thinking—Troy was too handsome, so beautiful that he didn't seem human. No, he wasn't human to begin with. Whether it was his long, silvery-white curly hair or his deep blue eyes, he attracted everyone's attention.
There is curiosity, exploration, and envy; but if it comes from a man, it is mostly hostility.
Other girls even blushed and boldly came up to chat him up, but Troyes remained silent with his lips tightly pressed together, while his arm around Gu Qingqiu tightened even more.
So Gu Qingqiu could only patiently explain again and again: "He's a foreigner and doesn't understand the language here. His leg... um... he just went swimming in the sea and accidentally bumped into a rock, so he sprained it. He'll be fine after applying some ointment when he gets home."
Of course, there were also people who wanted to help, but Gu Qingqiu was afraid that Troye's strange behavior would be discovered by others, so she refused them all.
After a long and tiring journey home, Gu Qingqiu felt sore all over. But she couldn't hide such a big person, and there were so many "eyewitnesses" along the way, so she simply had Troyes sit at the dining table that was visible as soon as she entered the door and poured him a glass of water.
Troye took a sip of water and reminded him, "Clothes."
"Wait here, I'll go buy it for you." Gu Qingqiu was helpless and could only turn around and go out the door again. "Don't run around! And don't touch anything in the house."
When Gu Qingqiu returned with the new clothes, her father had already come home. He looked at the unexpected guest with disdain. This man was even wearing his clothes. What kind of behavior was this?
Upon seeing Gu Qingqiu return, her father immediately questioned, "Where did this wild man come from?"
His gaze fell on the clothes Gu Qingqiu was holding, and his father seemed even angrier. "Don't you have any shame? Bringing a man home to mess around, ruining his clothes, and you still want to go out and buy him new ones? I..."
"No!" To prevent her father from making unfounded guesses, Gu Qingqiu immediately denied it, but for a moment she didn't know how to explain Troye's origins, and the words got stuck in her throat.
This looked more like an excuse. The father was about to send them away when the mother returned. She was clearly amazed when she saw Troye, but reason made her join the group questioning Gu Qingqiu.
The fact that she's a mermaid is absolutely forbidden! After all, the townspeople are far too sensitive about mermaids. If anything were to happen, even Gu Qingqiu might not be able to protect Troye.
After thinking for a long time, Gu Qingqiu finally came up with a clumsy excuse: "Actually, Xiao Luo is someone I just rescued on the road. He's a powerful figure from another country who was kidnapped. The kidnappers were arguing about dividing their property on the road and didn't know what to do with Xiao Luo, so they simply sold him here. Because he's good-looking, he fetched a good price. But Xiao Luo suffered a lot of abuse from the kidnappers along the way, so he has some leg deformities. Due to excessive fright, he also has some intellectual and language system impairments. So the seller thought he was unlucky and kicked him out. I saw that he was really pitiful, so I brought him home."
The father and mother were skeptical, but after observing that Troyes seemed to have really not said a word the whole time, and his eyes were staring blankly in a certain direction (where Gu Qingqiu was), they believed him to some extent.
The mother, in particular, immediately showed a look of sympathy: "My God, such a beautiful child, how pitiful!"
Seeing that her mother's attitude had softened, Gu Qingqiu pressed on, saying, "It's not like our family can't afford to add another pair of chopsticks, and Xiao Luo also said that once he recovers, he's willing to repay me properly."
Now the father seemed to have no objections. He pondered for a moment and said, "Since that's the case, let's keep him. After all, he's a man and can be the pillar of the family in the future. It's not a bad idea to let him be a son-in-law. I really don't like that young man next door who's pursuing you. You're getting on in years, and I'm reluctant to marry you off. But if there's a man willing to stay at home and protect you, that would be good too. You should hurry up and have a child. Your mother and I can help take care of it."
Gu Qingqiu was dumbfounded, never expecting things to develop in such an unexpected way.
That night, Troyes slept in Gu Qingqiu's room. His mother brought him a simple bed board and an old quilt.
Troye behaved very obediently and cooperated fully with all the arrangements, which matched Gu Qingqiu's description of him as "intellectually disabled." However, after his parents left the room that night, he indeed climbed onto Gu Qingqiu's bed and whispered in her ear, "Your parents don't object to me being with you. Can we be together forever and have a child?"
Gu Qingqiu's ears turned red: "What nonsense are you talking about!" She originally wanted to retort that there might be reproductive isolation between humans and mermaids, but then she thought of the tragic story that happened in the town before, and swallowed her words back.
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