Chapter 85 Mermaid on the Shore 7 "Am I crazy?"
085 Mermaid on the Shore 7
The cheerful singing reached a climax, the rhythm of the applause became rapid, and the female and male voices became louder together.
The dancers kicked and tapped their feet. Both teams were moving, but their frozen corner was met with strange looks.
Viscount Sunan was stunned by the word "wife".
"W-what wife, wife, wife——"
He became a stuck wind-up toy, only able to repeat the word stutteringly, his face flushing red.
Lu Jiu held his breath and raised his head.
The man in front of him also lowered his head to look at him at this moment.
The man also wore a mask on his face, a black one, like Batman's.
However, even though he was covered with a mask that did not match his temperament, one could still see that the face underneath the mask was very handsome.
Lu Jiu's heart was pounding and his Adam's apple was rolling.
...You know what, when this guy stands in the crowd, he really stands out from the crowd.
Suddenly, many people were looking at them.
Viscount Sunan asked anxiously: "My dear little friend, is this person trying to deceive me..."
... Lu Jiu straightened his neck: "When did I become your wife, sir?"
The lower half of the man's face was exposed.
The very familiar thin lips opened, and in a very gentle voice that only the two of them could hear, they said:
"Before talking about this, I think we need to clear up some misunderstandings first."
"What misunderstanding do we have? I don't even know you." Lu Jiu was still noble and cold.
On the side, Viscount Sunan heard Lu Jiu's words, his eyes lit up and he shouted to the man: "Look, friend Kitty said he doesn't know you!"
The dance just reached the step where the man and woman interlocked their fingers.
Wei Nanlou stared at Lu Jiu without blinking.
He just inserted himself into Lu Jiu's fingers and said slowly, "It's my fault. Then, can I dance with you first to get to know you, Mr. Little Goldfish?"
"..." Lu Jiu's ears felt a little hot, but he still said sarcastically, "Goldfish don't live in the sea."
The Duke was not angry at all after being rebuked repeatedly. He was quite willing to accept the advice: "Well, I said it wrong again, sorry. It was an angry little shark."
“…You’re scolding me!”
"No, I just think you're cute," the Duke looked at him in confusion, "My favorite marine creature is the shark."
“…………”
...Shameless! Shameless! Cunning!
Viscount Sunan was still jumping up and down anxiously. Lu Jiu glared at Wei Nanlou, then turned to Viscount Sunan and said, "Let someone else jump. He and I have something to say."
Viscount Sunan had an expression as if he was struck in half by lightning, but no one had the leisure to care about him at this moment.
Wei Nanlou curled his lips.
He lowered his head to Lu Jiu's ear and whispered softly, "Thank you."
"?" Lu Jiu, "Thank you for what?"
"You got rid of a love rival for me."
The man said this in such a gentlemanly and elegant manner, and before Lu Jiu could react, he held his hand and slowly retreated towards the men's dance team.
Lu Jiu was stunned.
At first, his whole hand was held in a gentle force.
As the man gradually moved away, his fingers gently scraped across his palm, the base of his fingers, until only his fingertips were pinched.
At this point, the man did not let go.
They moved forward with their respective teams, never loosening their hands, like a string pulling them in the vast ocean.
Lu Jiu's heart skipped a beat.
...What! Who replaced him? Who replaced him? He is really flattering himself!
But in the next moment, he thought secretly with his face flushed -
...Is this guy really going to dance with everyone?
… He had never seen this guy dance.
The honorable Duke danced the folk dance without any sense of incongruity. He held Lu Jiu's hand, and the two of them pulled closer to each other, then let go of each other. They were just like every other couple here, gazing at each other during the cheerful dance.
Lu Jiu finally managed to calm down his disturbed mood.
He cleared his throat and said in a pretentious tone: "Tell me, what do you want to explain? If I remember correctly, the Duke and I have never met, right?"
Lu Jiu's provocation did not make Wei Nanlou look embarrassed.
The man remained calm and his tone was gentle and soft.
"Half a month ago, you entered the breeding season."
"Yes," Lu Jiu sneered, "A human man helped me. He told me his name, identity and address, so I came to find him as he asked."
Lu Jiu turned her body like the other girls, and as their figures intertwined, Wei Nanlou's words were heard.
"The human used his second name, which was his mother's surname and the nickname his mother gave him when he was a child. He didn't know what the merman wanted to do, but he never had the habit of directly reporting his real name to strangers."
Lu Jiu sneered: "But he would do it with a stranger?"
They separated again with the two teams.
The next second, the men pulled the women closer again.
Lu Jiu was violently dragged in front of Wei Nanlou.
"Yes, it's very strange, isn't it?" The man said in a low voice, "He shouldn't have developed feelings for a stranger, but such a strange thing did happen. He had planned to take the mermaid away after it was over. This way they would have plenty of time to solve the mystery, including his identity. The mermaid would naturally know it by then."
"But after they were done, the merman disappeared."
Lu Jiu was stunned.
The men and women separated again.
They held each other's hands, turned around, and followed the team forward.
Lu Jiu felt a little confused.
Wei Nanlou originally planned to take him away directly... ?
Well, in this case, he would naturally know the identity of this guy, but...but he didn’t have the final say on the bug of the quick-pass game!!!
He turned around with the women's team and faced the men's team again.
They moved closer to each other.
Lu Jiu looked so aggrieved that Wei Nanlou tilted his head.
"I'm not saying this to shirk my responsibility, but to tell you that I didn't mean to make it harder for you to find me," the man said, looking at him. "My people haven't been able to find you these days. Thinking back on what happened that day, I have to admit that I was too hasty in my handling of the situation."
"If I could do it all over again, I would tell you where to find me directly. Or I would ask you to tell me where I can go to pick you up."
"You shouldn't have walked this far with legs like that, and you shouldn't have been treated like that by them in a water tank. This is all my fault."
Having said that, the man raised his hand, placed the back of his hand on his cheek, and stroked it gently.
"Do you find it strange? I seem to have gotten used to my own weirdness recently." He stared at him and said calmly and gently, "Lu Jiu, I hope you have never encountered those things."
Lu Jiu shuddered.
His eyes were about to well up with tears.
They separated from the team again and turned to move forward.
The bonfire crackled, the sound was messy and crisp, the firelight shone on their faces and into their hearts.
After taking two steps and facing each other again, Lu Jiu lowered his head and said, "I thought you had left."
Wei Nanlou paused.
"I saw the white ship sailing away and chased it for a long time but couldn't catch up."
Lu Jiu felt that the hand that had been holding him tightened.
"That ship sent some people away," the man said slowly, "I didn't plan to leave this town before finding you."
"...I don't know. I'm still wondering where I'll go to find you if you leave." Lu Jiu paused. He was not used to talking to this guy about this, so he raised his eyes and changed the subject. "Will you think that I have ulterior motives by looking for you like this?"
"A person with bad intentions will not push me away when I walk in front of him."
"...Do you think I pushed you away? This is normal. Excuse me!"
Lu Jiu immediately perked up again.
He thought for a moment and asked in a muffled voice, "You said you were looking for me, too. How did you find me?"
How come he didn't feel it?
"I've been sending people to wait for you at the shoreline."
Lu Jiu: “???”
He looked confused: "Are those your people?"
Wei Nanlou narrowed his eyes: "Do you know them?"
"…They pretended well, but they could have pretended better."
"..."Wei Nanlou let out an ambiguous laugh.
"Forget it, they're actually pretending pretty well." Lu Jiu decided to speak up for those guys who had been exposed to the wind and sun for many days.
But to be fair... weren't those people sent by that earl?
What kind of oolong is this...
Wei Nanlou looked at him with a half-smile and continued, "After the auction house caught fire, I went to the scene, but I didn't find you. After the trial, I went to see those troublemakers, and none of them admitted to having seen you. But my intuition tells me that you are still alive."
The man paused.
"I never stopped the search." He tilted his head and looked at Lu Jiu, his voice softening. "In between dealing with the things at hand, I also walked around the town."
Sometimes I ride in a carriage, sometimes I ride a horse.
Of course, the former is more common. After all, his identity makes it inconvenient for him to show up too often in such places, as it would attract too much attention.
However, no matter how many times, when his eyes swept across the crisscrossing streets of the town and the faces of the simple residents, he never saw the figure in his heart.
“…” Lu Jiu’s face fell.
It turns out that they had all looked for each other in this way, but just happened to miss each other?
"…On the day the auction house caught fire, Wen Ying and I left. He said his brother's name was Wen Ling."
"Yes, his partner just let it slip today."
Wen Ying and his companions were probably afraid that Wei Nanlou might have some ill intentions towards him...
After all, although Wei Nanlou saved them, the sudden presence of a duke looking for him might have reminded them of their orc relatives and friends who had met with misfortune.
"...Whose fault is this?" Lu Jiu glared at the guy.
If this guy hadn't given a fake name, there wouldn't have been so many misunderstandings between them!
Speaking of this issue, the Duke was quite calm: "I didn't expect that there would be someone with the same name as me in this town."
"Who has the same name as who? Why don't you just call them by their real names?"
Brother Wen is so wronged!
"I didn't hear your voice just now, and I thought it was just an ordinary friend of his who came to see him," Wei Nanlou changed the subject and asked in a gentle voice, "Have you been with him these days?"
"I just stayed at their house for a few days... No, what's that look on your face? Brother Wen and I are just ordinary friends." Lu Jiu suddenly remembered something. "What did you just ask Brother Wen to ask me? Did he tell you that?"
"I told him you are my wife." The man blew up his truck without batting an eyelid.
Lu Jiu: “…………”
You haven't even found me yet and you've already announced to the world that I'm your wife?!
"He has a crush on you." The man's eyes were bright.
"...So this is your strategy to deal with your love rival?" Lu Jiu's mouth twitched.
"So, you already know that he has a good impression of you." Wei Nanlou captured this point accurately.
Lu Jiu was not surprised by this.
After hearing this, Lu Jiu calmed down and said, “I just realized it when I went to see him just now… But I said, I only regard him as a friend.”
He looked away and muttered quietly, "You don't have to be jealous of anyone."
Wei Nanlou paused for a moment.
Lu Jiu raised her eyes quickly, caught a glimpse of the expression on the man's face, and her ears began to burn.
...Why do you look at him like that?
...as if she were not around at the moment, she would do something to him immediately.
Lu Jiu pursed her lips, suppressed the rising heat, glared at this guy fiercely and said: "So...you told all your rivals that I'm your wife?"
"Aren't you?" Wei Nanlou looked at him straight, "I think you are."
Lu Jiu laughed out loud.
"You think so, that's it?"
What kind of bandit logic is this!
Wei Nanlou also laughed.
At this moment, the singing and dancing reached their final climax.
He, along with the other men, tightened their arms and pulled their dance partners into their arms.
"Then tell me," Wei Nanlou lowered his head, looked at him and asked softly, "What is our relationship?"
It was clearly the first time we met, but it seemed like we had met countless times.
Although it was their first time making love, they were already very familiar with each other's bodies.
We only met once, but it seems like I'm already obsessed with you.
"Lu Jiu," Wei Nanlou lowered his head further and put his lips close to his ear. His low and magnetic voice turned into a charming whisper, "That day, I saw you on the boat."
Lu Jiu was stunned.
……What?
"The sword pierced my body from behind. Although it was a penetrating wound, it was not enough to make me fall off the boat." The man spoke slowly, "But I saw you in the sea."
Lu Jiu suddenly opened his eyes wide.
This guy made his own choice at that time...? !
His breath trembled: "You..."
"There are so many 'whys'. Even if I want to answer them one by one, I can't answer them clearly, right?" The man turned his face slightly and put the tip of his nose against his ear. "I rarely act according to my instincts because instincts are unreliable and have no logic. But after meeting you, I think I shouldn't go against my instincts."
"No—I followed it without even thinking about it."
"Those things that are not clear can be put aside for the time being. But you can't be put aside. You are very important and should be put first."
He was silent for a while, and then said again: "You tell me the answer, what is the relationship between us?"
Lu Jiu's chest rose and fell rapidly with a small amplitude.
His heart was beating wildly.
"I think we should be husband and wife," the man said softly, "or... is this just my personal wish?"
"Lu Jiu," he called his name gently and calmly, "Am I crazy?"
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