Chu Xinxin sighed once again, calling him a lunatic.
After a while, when there was nothing unusual around, the woman spoke again: "Let's make this clear first, you can't mention that name again. If you want to die, don't drag us down with you."
Chu Zheng nodded with tears in her eyes, and Nv Wei released her.
"How do you know him?" Nv Wei asked curiously. When Shang Li was imprisoned, Chu Zheng and the others had not yet entered the palace.
“He is my younger brother,” Chu Zheng said, surprising everyone.
"Impossible, he's a merman, you're human."
“Half-siblings,” Chu Zheng said. “My parents are both human, but his father is a merman, so naturally they are different.”
Chu Zheng's mother was a fisherman by the sea. One day, while she was catching fish by the sea, she was spotted by the Mermaid King who was resting on the shore because of her beautiful appearance.
The Mermaid King harbored evil intentions and kidnapped her mother back to the palace. Soon after, Shang Li was born.
Her mother exhausted her life force while giving birth to a powerful merman, and was abandoned on the shore by the Merman King.
On her deathbed, she was discovered by Chu Zheng, who then told her about it.
"Your younger brother is a black shark, and he has a birthmark on his hand that is exactly the same as yours..."
Before she could finish speaking, her mother passed away.
Chu Zheng hadn't expected to meet this younger brother. It was just that Shang Li was ridiculed and bullied because of his black tail, and he often went ashore to relax. That's how Chu Zheng became acquainted with him.
"Then wouldn't he and Shenyao be brothers too?" Chu Xinxin asked.
"Um."
"My brother's older sister is my favorite concubine, this feels a bit too much..."
"I am not the king's favorite concubine." Chu Zheng was afraid that Chu Xinxin would consider her a rival in love, so she hurriedly explained, "The king just likes my voice and often asks me to talk to him. He has not done anything else."
Got it, voice actor.
Chu Xinxin took the opportunity to ask about the past of Shenyao and Xingyuan, and Chu Zheng told her the truth.
"I have no friends in the sea, Shang... He used to swim to the surface to meet me, but suddenly for a while he rarely came. When I pressed him for an answer, he said he had met a human girl at the palace..."
This human girl was beautiful, bold, fearless of authority, and incredibly powerful, which deeply attracted a group of male merfolk.
Among them, Shenyao, who was then the crown prince, was the leader.
Chu Zheng remembered Shang Li saying, "Sister, her voice sounds a lot like yours. I felt a sense of familiarity as soon as I heard it."
Shang Li said that Xing Yuan said she liked him very much as soon as they met, and often asked him to play with her, even ignoring Shen Yao who was pursuing her.
Xingyuan would protect him when others bullied him.
Before he knew it, he had developed some feelings for Xingyuan.
He felt that Xingyuan was the same.
However, for some reason, one day Xingyuan suddenly stopped coming to see him and instead became very close to Shenyao, who had previously ignored him.
She said Wang was the person she was looking for...
"My feelings for my younger brother are just friendly affection..."
"She only comes to see my brother when the king is getting close to other women..."
When Chu Zheng said this, she glanced at Chu Xinxin cautiously.
"I hit my head and forgot everything from before."
Chu Xinxin explained.
Chu Zheng paused for a moment before continuing, "My younger brother was very sad, but he had to comfort Lord Xingyuan, which made the King very angry. He couldn't bear to vent his anger on Lord Xingyuan, so he could only make things even more difficult for my brother..."
When Xingyuan disappeared, Shenyao assumed that Shang Li had hidden him. In a fit of anger, he locked him in the crater and cut off all light sources around him, so that Shang Li would be punished endlessly in the scorching volcanic rock and darkness.
"I have his life imprint on me. He is dying. Lord Xingyuan, please save him. The king will only listen to you."
Chu Zheng wanted to kneel down again.
Chu Xinxin supported her: "I will find a way. You must promise me that you will not reveal any flaws in front of Shenyao."
"And..." the woman added, "If you know any new stories about the King and Lord Xingyuan's past, please tell us so that Lord Xingyuan can recover his memories more quickly."
"good."
......
"Suddenly appearing at the Mermaid Sacrifice Ceremony, acting boldly, and constantly coming up with new ideas... This Star Source either has a system with him, or he has transmigrated from another world, or both."
After leaving Chu Zheng, Chu Xinxin increased the probability of this to eighty percent.
However, how she got here had nothing to do with Chu Xinxin; what she should do now was get out of this awful place as quickly as possible.
Sister, you can't even take care of yourself, yet you agreed to save Shang Li?
Let's help each other.
Chu Zheng helped her extract information, and she devised a plan to save people.
"Lord Xingyuan, so you've been here!"
Qiang Lan, a servant beside Shen Yao, strode over and said, "Your Majesty requests your presence."
Chu Xinxin only found out when she arrived that Shen Yao wanted her to grill meat...
"You invented this way of eating. I haven't tasted your cooking in a long time, and I really miss it."
Shenyao standing next to the barbecue grill looked extremely out of place... and dangerous.
Chu Xin was in a panic: "Are you sure you want me to grill it?"
Is there a problem?
Shen Yao's face immediately darkened again: "Before, Shang Li didn't even have to ask; you would always do things for him on your own..."
"That's not the issue..."
The problem is, what she made was really hard to swallow.
"I've eaten it, it's the best thing in the world."
Chu Xinxin smiled and said, "Never mind, as long as you're happy."
Shenyao: "Of course I'm happy."
Chu Xinxin immediately cleared her mind of distractions and devoted herself wholeheartedly to the barbecue business.
The baked goods looked quite appetizing, but Shenyao almost spat them out after taking just one bite.
His face turned a deep purplish-red, and remembering what he had said, he had no choice but to swallow it back.
"Someone, take these..." Shen Yao pointed to Chu Xinxin's skewers, "and distribute them so they can all eat them."
Within ten seconds, the sound of vomiting echoed throughout the entire Crystal Palace.
Chu Xinxin placed her hands in front of her, nervously rubbing the hem of her clothes. "Um, I'm sorry, I'm really not good at this..."
"You used to be so..."
"I've lost my memory, why are you bringing up the past?"
Shenyao compromised and stopped asking Chu Xinxin to roast.
However, Chu Xinxin is human, and she gets hungry if she doesn't eat. He didn't want anyone to disturb his time alone with Chu Xinxin, so he had to cook for himself.
Chu Xinxin ate with gusto, her mouth greasy, and before leaving, she clinked glasses with Shen Yao: "Thank you for the treat."
Shenyao probably sensed her satisfaction, and the fish's mood improved as well: "If you want to eat it, send someone to tell me."
Are you going to tell me, and then bake it for me to eat?
Chu Xinxin didn't believe it. "Humph, men's words are deceitful."
"I'm not kidding you, really."
Shen Yao's expression was so sincere that Chu Xinxin temporarily forgot about the tyrannical king...
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