Chapter 148 He will offer pearls to his wife and he will shed tears.
[This Huaijun! When did you develop this habit of getting close to your family at the slightest disagreement?]
[Are you so happy to hear that I want to marry him? ]
[It seems that holding the ceremony in the deep sea was indeed the right decision.]
[After all, this is where he grew up.]
[However, there was no one else present at the ceremony, just the two of us. Would Huaijun feel regretful...]
Their lips suddenly parted, and Huai Jun pressed his forehead against hers, very close to her. "No regrets."
His hot breath sprayed on the skin of Sheng Ran's cheeks, making her face red all the way to her ears.
Huai Jun seemed to understand what she was thinking. He stroked her face with the back of his palm and smiled softly, "Even if it's just me and my wife, I'm satisfied."
"This vast ocean, with its schools of swimming fish, are all witnesses to our marriage ceremony."
"We have made our marriage vows before all living things, and we will surely be together forever."
Huai Jun finally confirmed from Sheng Ran's inner voice that his wife really wanted to remarry him, and before going to the central city to register the contract, she was willing to hold a ceremony in the deep sea that was exclusive to the two of them.
"I'm so... happy today," Huai Jun said, his voice trembling slightly. "Not only did I awaken my second superpower, but I was also able to remarry my wife."
He pecked Sheng Ran's lips twice tenderly and cherishingly, then joyfully held her hand. "Then my dear wife, let's go quickly."
He spoke impatiently, using his water ability to wrap Sheng Ran with a layer of water film that allowed her to breathe freely in the deep sea.
The two went to the depths of the sea again, but their state of mind was very different from the last time.
The sunlight filtered through the layers of water, turning into tiny golden specks that sprinkled on Huai Jun and Sheng Ran.
Huaijun took her hand and swam with her to a flat coral reef.
The view here is wide, you can see schools of fish swimming in the distance, and you can also feel the unique tranquility of the deep sea.
Around the two people, beautiful fish swam in groups, and colorful corals swayed gently in the water, as if decorating the venue for this special wedding ceremony.
Several luminous jellyfish floated over and hung above the coral reef. The fluorescence of the jellyfish and the refracted sunlight intertwined, illuminating the entire venue gently and brightly.
"Wife, please wait for me for a moment." Huai Jun said softly, let go of her hand, and swam to another coral reef not far away.
On the way over here, he had been holding his wife's hand tightly, and the water-based ability at his fingertips emitted a soft blue light.
Not only did it maintain the water film and protect her breathing, it also quietly attracted the surrounding water elements and gathered the scattered shells here one by one.
These shells are a species unique to the deep sea. The shell surface has a warm gilded luster and the edges are decorated with tiny patterns. At this moment, they have become the most precious marriage tokens.
He nimbly moved among the corals, picked up the shells that had just gathered, strung them together one by one, and used flexible seaweed to weave them into ropes, making two simple yet exquisite shell necklaces.
Huaijun looked at it for a moment and always felt that something was missing.
——He will offer pearls to his wife and he will shed tears.
Mermaids shed tears that turn into pearls, but these pearls cannot be formed from ordinary tears. Only when the love is deep and the feelings are sincere, and the tears that hurt the heart, can they condense into warm and shiny pearls.
Huai Jun looked up at the tall and uneven coral reefs. They looked familiar, reminding him of the place where he hid when he was wronged as a child.
That piece of coral can block the undercurrents of the deep sea, and it can also hide his unknown fragility.
Then, he closed his eyes, and his mind flashed back to the loneliness of being a hostage on the mainland - being ostracized and ridiculed as an "alien from the deep sea"; being humiliated and tortured after being sold to Zuixianlou...
Until he met Sheng Ran, she held his hand, soothed all the injuries and pain he had experienced, and brought him out of that hellish place.
She encouraged him over and over again, praising his handsome appearance and powerful abilities. When he was injured, she used her own energy to heal him. She cried while using all her strength to pull him up in the misty forest.
A soreness surged in my heart, and I couldn't help but let a tear fall.
As soon as the transparent tears touched the sea water, they turned into round pearls, emitting a faint blue light, as if the stars were crushed inside.
He raised his hand to catch the pearl, his fingertips trembling slightly, and forced himself to remember Sheng Ran's weak appearance, and the way she was frightened in the misty forest -
More tears fell, condensing into a string of pearls of varying lengths, emitting a gentle glow in the water.
But he still felt it was not enough.
The Deep Sea Kingdom has an ancient custom:
If a mermaid loves someone, she will use her heart scales as a guide to take a drop of her heart's blood, condense it into a red pearl, and give it to her partner.
The heart-protecting scales are the barrier that protects the mermaid's heart, and it will hurt if you remove them; the heart blood is the symbol of the mermaid's vitality, and taking it will consume your cultivation.
But this scarlet pearl is the most precious promise a mermaid can give to her partner, meaning "I will protect you with my heart and certify you with my blood."
Huai Jun took a deep breath, and gathered a weak water-based power at the fingertips of his right hand, gently stroking it towards his left chest. There was a silver-blue scale that was brighter than the other scales. It was his heart-protecting scale.
It was the same piece Sheng Ran had helped retrieve in Beining City. He had put a lot of effort into fitting it back to his body, and it had only just grown back.
Huai Jun did not hesitate at all and moved the scales that covered all five senses of his body.
The moment he opened it, he groaned and felt a sharp pain in his chest, as if a knife had stabbed into his heart, leaving a shallow scar.
He didn't stop, dipped his fingertips in the blood oozing from the wound, and probed deep into his heart, forcing out a drop of bright red blood.
As soon as the blood bead left his body, he wrapped it up with his supernatural powers and strung it together with the pearls and shells.
Light blue pearls and colorful shells surround the only red blood bead, and a strange light flows in the water, like the only red sun in the deep sea, held by the stars.
Huaijun covered his bleeding chest, his face pale, but he smiled as he looked at the necklace.
Only in this way can he be worthy of his wife.
When he swam back to Sheng Ran, the wound on his chest was still bleeding, but he hid it behind his back and just handed the necklace to her.
"Wife, this... is for you."
His voice was a little weak and his fingertips were still shaking.
Sheng Ran's eyes fell on the necklace, and her pupils suddenly contracted.
She knew mermaid pearls, but she had never seen pearls with such a blue glow, let alone the red bead in the middle.
There was a faint smell of blood on the bead, and she instantly understood something. She reached out and grabbed Huai Jun's wrist, reaching towards his chest.
When his fingertips touched a cold wound, the scales protecting his heart loosened, and he could clearly feel the beating heart.
Sheng Ran's tears instantly fell. She opened her mouth and sobbed, squeezing out only one word, "You, you——"
She never thought that Huai Jun moved the heart-protecting scales and... took the blood from her heart.
It was just to give her a string of pearls.
Huai Jun gently wiped away Sheng Ran's tears, and said in a gentle tone without a trace of regret: "I don't want this marriage ceremony to have any regrets."
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