"Don't worry, I won't give you to the emperor, nor will I sell you to anyone else."
"Then what do you want to do to me?" The old man looked at him suspiciously.
"I want you to save someone."
These were her people, and he didn't want to touch them unless it was absolutely necessary.
He didn't want her to die, so he could only look for answers from other mermaids.
The old man suddenly realized and murmured, "No wonder."
"No wonder the scent of our kind I smell on you is so faint. But, this is not right?" The old man was full of doubts.
Feng Yi saw that he seemed to know something and asked hurriedly, "What's wrong?"
The old man asked, "Will you marry her?"
"yes."
"That's right, but also not right." The old man said something contradictory.
Feng Yi remained patient, even though he was burning with anxiety, "What do you mean?"
"Our mermaid tribe has a legend that has been passed down from ancient times to the present day. Any mermaid who falls in love with a human will be abandoned by the sea god. He will take away her longevity, her fish tail, and her powerful healing abilities. She will be completely transformed into an ordinary, yet fragile, human."
"Mermaids have a lifespan of over three hundred years. Mermen who bond with humans only have a lifespan of thirty years. Their bodies become extremely fragile, and a cold or an injury could kill them."
"When her legs could no longer transform into a fish tail, her life came to an end. The sea god took away everything she had: her beautiful singing voice and her life."
"Xiao Yu'er, if you stay with you humans for too long, problems will naturally arise. I just smelled a very faint mermaid scent on you, which means she will soon be completely abandoned by the Sea God. However, the strange thing is that she has only been on land for three years. According to the records of the mermaids, she should still have twenty more years to live."
"Are you sure your records are correct?"
The old man nodded. "No. I'm the oldest in the entire mermaid clan. No one knows more about mermaids than me."
"Why is she like this?"
The old man was also puzzled. "I don't know. This record was left by a mermaid ancestor. It is said that someone in the tribe fell in love with a human, and the tribe leader at the time recorded what happened to that person. Over the past tens of thousands of years, this incident has occurred several times, and the circumstances match what our ancestor left behind."
The old man didn't understand, but Feng Yi had a vague feeling that Tang'er was different from others because of him.
The people that the mermaids fell in love with were humans, but he was not a human at all. He was just an immortal monster that had lived for fifteen hundred years.
"Does your tribe have any way to save their lives?" Feng Yi asked.
"Let me think about it. I read the records in the family tree when I was young. It was so long ago that I can't remember them clearly."
Feng Yi did not disturb him and waited quietly.
Half an hour later, the old man's squinting eyes slowly opened, "I figured it out."
"What is it?"
"Once, a member of our tribe fell in love with a human. She was determined to be with that human, even if it meant giving up everything the Sea God had given her. Unfortunately, their good fortune didn't last long. The man who had promised her love and care for her forever found a new love. Heartbroken, the member told the Sea God she regretted her decision."
"She returned to the sea, quietly awaiting death. However, a miracle occurred. She survived and lived to be four hundred years old, far exceeding the normal lifespan of a mermaid."
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