It was like a bucket of ice water poured over him, chilling him to the bone.
Candlelight's eyes were filled with bitterness, brimming with resentment and grievance. "I was the one who touched you first, how can you show no mercy?"
Bad woman.
He bit her back as punishment, but he couldn't bring himself to bite hard enough that not even a tooth mark appeared.
He seems to be becoming less and less like himself.
Zhuyue gently carried her to wash, cleaning every part of her body meticulously.
*
"Jialan, between you and Yunlian..."
Sang Ruo smelled her scent on Jia Lan, and her heart almost shattered into pieces, but she still wanted to get an answer from her own mouth so that she could give up.
She had been chasing after Jialan for far too long.
Jialan looked at her friend beside her, whose red hair had dimmed slightly, and made no attempt to hide her joy.
"I want to woo her, Sang Ruo. You've lived in the human world the longest. Can you tell me how human courtship differs from ours?"
"But didn't Yun Lian already..."
She couldn't understand it. Aren't humans supposed to be monogamous? How could someone be with two people at the same time...?
Jialan was furious: "I brought Yunlian back, but I was careless and Master beat me to it."
But my master has been kind to me, and she'll forgive and forget what happened in the past. If I successfully woo her, she'll be mine alone from now on.
No one can share it.
Sang Ruo endured the suffocating feeling in her chest.
She used to follow Jialan around, wanting to give him all the good things in life. She thought Jialan was too young to understand love, but she never imagined that she wasn't the one he was in love with.
Sang Ruo helped decorate Jia Lan's room.
“In the human world, confirming a relationship requires a marriage proposal. If she agrees, the proposal is considered successful. Jialan, if the person beside you is her, I wish you happiness.”
Yun Lian is a very, very good human being.
Not only did he not hold a prejudice against her because of her mermaid identity, he also used her intelligence to help him break off the engagement.
Jialan was holding the jellyfish in one place when she heard her answer, and her heart was filled with even more joy.
He will definitely succeed in proposing.
If she's unwilling to give herself an identity, then it's fine for him to continue with the status quo.
As soon as he finished decorating the room, he couldn't wait to run to the craftsman's residence.
"Just because I showed you that place, you hate me too?"
"Yes, I am human, and I do not belong to the same race as you. My fellow human beings are tortured by you in a completely inhuman way. Candle Moon, how do you expect me to get along with you as before?"
Zhuyue slammed the medicine in her hand onto the ground.
"Torture?"
"Isn't skinning and bone-ripping torture for us humans? Isn't making us bleed and shed tears torture? Isn't electrocution and burning torture?"
"What you see now is not even one ten-thousandth of the harm we mermaids suffered when we were captured by humans."
"It is already a great blessing that I did not exterminate humanity."
Did she even realize that if she hadn't suddenly appeared beside him, all those humans outside would have died again?
Yun Lian suddenly moved closer to him, her beautiful eyes becoming bloodshot.
"Then why don't you kill me? According to you, every human being must die to atone for their sins, and I am human too."
Zhuyue avoided her gaze: "You're different."
Yun Lian laughed until tears streamed down her face.
"How am I any different? I haven't seen the torture that humans inflict on you, but I don't deny it either."
But what I see in Zhuyue is that humans always mysteriously disappear. I see a perfectly good human family being torn apart because a member is chosen to be sacrificed to a mermaid.
I see the sky above human freedom shrouded in gloom; I see that humans who once yearned for the sea now break out in rashes the moment they touch it.
Candle Moon, I am just one of the masses. I am no different from them. The air we breathe is even mixed with harmful substances.
We haven't seen schools of fish in a long time. Do we really have to pay for the evil deeds of a small minority?
The smile on Jialan's face vanished when she saw the two arguing, and she stood at the door like a wooden sculpture.
Yun Lian also looked up at him at this moment, but her eyes were filled with desolation.
It was a sight he had never seen before.
"Jialan, do you remember where you kidnapped me here?"
Jialan's beautiful eyes dared not meet her gaze.
"I...I forgot."
She stunned the audience with her dance, and he robbed her of her when she had just picked up the trophy and was at the height of her glory.
He didn't care about the fear and unease at the scene; he was only thinking that the little human was such a good dancer, and he would catch her and have her dance for his master to see. His master would be very happy.
"Is it true forgetting, or is it that you dare not remember?"
Zhuyue and Jialan exchanged a glance, both recalling their initial arrangements for the little humans.
They wanted to use her to their advantage, but they haven't done it yet, have they?
They protected her very well.
"Yun Lian, the things that happened before were our fault. Please stop making a fuss. If we can go back to how we were before, I will grant you any request you make."
Every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt its debtor.
They were simply too angry to treat humans as equals.
Just like humans, would they give up eating a fish that can't talk?
They were never going to be on the same level in the first place.
"Okay, let me go back to the human world. I still have family and friends there."
"I'll grant you anything except this request."
"What if I ask humans and merfolk to restore their previous peaceful coexistence?"
Zhuyue frowned: "Even if I am a wizard of the merfolk, they may not listen to me when their own interests are involved. I will do my best, okay?"
"Yes, Lord Zhuyue, I will await your good news."
Since the last incident, Yun Lian hasn't seen Jia Lan and Zhu Yue for a long time.
She actually spends a lot of time with Sang Ruo.
Sang Ruo gazed at Yun Lian, who was lazily basking in the sun, and paused slightly in waving the fan for her. Finally, she asked the question she had never dared to ask before.
"Yun Lian, between the Wizard and Jia Lan, who would you choose as your partner?"
Yun Lian closed her eyes: "I don't want anyone else, I only want Sang Ruo."
Sang Ruo was extremely anxious at this moment.
"But I heard that Garan has brought another human, and that human is now in frequent contact with the wizard. Are you really not concerned?"
Yun Lian pulled her into her arms and held her close, enjoying the rare moment of peace together.
“Sang Ruo, men are not the only ones. If you are always worried about who comes and goes, it only means that you are not destined to be together.”
"What belongs to me, no one can take away; and what can be taken away has no right to belong to me."
"is that so?"
Jialan never belonged to her from the beginning; she only occasionally helped her out of trouble, which is why she revered her as a god.
Sang Ruo let her mind wander, and it seemed she had truly let go of Jia Lan.
"Of course, Sang Ruo is the best girl ever. No one is unworthy of you; they are the ones who look up to you."
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