Jiu Li held his head in his hands, suddenly recalling the moment he stepped into that house.
That day, Haibo was calm. As he was led into the house, he cautiously looked at the handsome young mermaid standing quietly inside. That was his older brother, and while his parents had introduced him, his brother had said...
"You guys are disgusting, you even prey on such tiny mermaids."
Then what?
Then his adoptive parents said nonchalantly, "It's precisely because he's young that he's easy to raise."
He was too young to understand what that meant, and before he could even understand, the racial identification results came out. He was just an ordinary, unpopular poison-attribute mermaid.
That day, his kind adoptive parents beat him up and scolded him for being a money-loser, wasting so much grain and not being able to sell it for a penny.
He had absolutely no idea what was going on.
As he grew up, the constant beatings, hunger, and envy of his older brother filled his meager life, quickly shattering the memories closest to the truth and burying them deep in his mind.
...
Therefore, those so-called adoptive parents really had no feelings for them at all; they only treated them as tools to make money, as fish to be slaughtered and eaten once they were grown up.
The eldest brother is a levitation mermaid, who can fetch an astronomical price, so they treat him well.
He was just an ordinary mixed-race mermaid, and a poisonous one at that, so they hated him and eventually abandoned him.
That's the truth.
Seeing Jiu Li's expression of extreme pain and utter emptiness, Jiu Xiao felt extremely sorry for her and quickly said, "Jiu Li, don't be sad for those fish scraps, I've already killed them!"
Jiu Li suddenly looked up and murmured, "What...did you say? You killed them? Even if...even if they treated you badly, you can't...you can't..."
Even someone as impulsive as Jiu Li, who speaks without thinking, couldn't bring himself to kill them.
As a bar owner, I've dealt with all sorts of shady characters and witnessed all kinds of darkness. Although the Mystic Bar doesn't have any of that dirty stuff, Jiu Li still knows everything that's necessary to her.
He knew what the mermaid, destined to be sold, would go through.
But the debt of gratitude for raising and nurturing...
Dragon God's Assistance Xun spoke up again: "Why don't you ask him why?"
In a state of confusion where she could no longer think, Jiu Li instinctively asked, "Why...did you kill them?"
Jiuxiao looked at him intently and said in a deep voice, "They shouldn't have lost you."
It doesn't matter what we do to him; his life is what it is anyway.
But they shouldn't have lost Jiu Li.
That was the only light he ever had. Even if he were to leave, he should have done so after he had enough power to protect himself, not when he was still a child and was abandoned.
Jiu Li suddenly opened her eyes wide, staring blankly at Jiu Xiao, unable to utter a word.
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