The Love-Hate and Grudges Between Me and the Mermaid - Chapter 21

Chapter 21

The moon, which had transformed into eyes, seemed to grow even brighter.

Bu Yan held her hand up before her face and blinked.

Silvery-blue light brushed past her fingertips, as if plating her entire hand with a border of azure silver.

Bu Yan squinted, staring directly at that pair of eyes. After an unknown amount of time, her arm grew tired from being held up, but before she could lower it, her face was cupped by someone’s hands.

“You have a mate?”

A person had suddenly appeared in front of her. This person’s gaze was scorching, looking at her anxiously. Their nose bridge drew close, sniffing near her lips, then leaned down to press close to her neck.

Then, blinking, they asked with a piteous air: “Why couldn’t you just wait for me?”

Wait for what?

Wait until I die of old age without a wife?

Bu Yan subconsciously wanted to say this, but when the words reached her lips, they turned into the three words: “I am sorry.”

“That’s more like it,” the girl muttered.

As soon as she finished speaking, the distance between the two was instantly pulled far apart.

Bu Yan lowered her hand and looked up at that pair of eyes once more.

Just as she was about to withdraw her gaze, she heard that person ask: “Is it beautiful?”

“Beautiful,” Ian (Bu Yan) admitted immediately without hesitation.

These two words seemed to strike a chord; the girl became excited again. Her height gradually leveled with Bu Yan’s, and finally, she actually grew several heads taller than Bu Yan. “Really? Then tell me, what part is beautiful? Why is it beautiful? Do you like it?”

At first, Bu Yan didn’t think much of it, assuming the girl was just surprised by her strange answer. But gradually, she noticed things were getting more and more unusual—until scales appeared before her eyes.

Almost at the same time, the scales turned into human legs. Bu Yan looked up, about to question it, but what met her at point-blank range was another pair of azure eyes.

Like deep, dark jewels soaked in cold seawater.

At this moment, these eyes overlapped with the eyes in the sky; when those blinked, these blinked too.

“Um… are you looking at me too?”

The girl spoke first.

She froze for a moment, as if sensing something. Her body moved downward at an extremely slow speed, submerging into the water until it passed over the top of her head.

After a while, she leaned against a rock, resting her chin on her hand as she curiously observed Bu Yan as well. Her wet, long blue hair draped over her shoulders. Her skin had a paleness from a perennial lack of sunlight, tinged with purple. She asked the previous question once more.

“No.” Bu Yan opened her mouth, unsure of how to interact with this strange girl.

What’s more, she was improperly dressed; her upper body was nearly naked.

As a person who was already married, Bu Yan would absolutely not violate her marriage.

Thus, her expression became flustered and her gaze wandered erratically, finally landing once again on the eyes in the night sky.

“You are unwilling to look at me?” Realizing this, the girl’s beautiful brow furrowed deeply. She reached out, tentatively tugging at Bu Yan’s sleeve, wanting her to lower her head.

“It’s not that.” But Yan moved back a bit, dodging her.

“You are unwilling to look at me!”

The girl’s expression became distorted, and her arms splashed wildly against the water’s surface. The moonlight seemed to grow even brighter.

It was as bright as day.

Everything in the world was covered in a layer of silver light. Bu Yan could see everything clearly, except for the girl’s face.

She didn’t know when she had arrived at the seaside, sitting on a jagged reef, facing an endless ocean.

The sea level rippled in waves under the girl’s violent splashing.

The moonlight shone upon it, stinging the eyes with its glare.

“I am not unwilling to look at you,” Bu Yan turned her face to the side, coaxing her in a soft, thin voice. “You are dressed too thinly.”

“But I don’t have human clothes,” the girl suddenly quieted down, covering her face and complaining. “You didn’t bring me any!”

Left with no choice, Bu Yan had to give her own overcoat to her.

“Thank you.” The girl draped the coat over her shoulders, covering the large areas of skin that, in human perception, would be exposed and cause shyness. She rose out of the water to sit on the reef with Bu Yan. “So, can I sit here like this?”

“You can.” Bu Yan nodded; she had never said she couldn’t sit there.

“Then can you look at me now?”

“I can.” Bu Yan slowly shifted her gaze back to the girl.

“Then what about like this?” The girl lifted her leg, and the coat slid off of it.

“That’s also fine…”

The girl: “Oh…”

Her leg slumped dejectedly back into the water.

Afterward, they fell into a long silence.

But Yan didn’t know how she had come to be here. Initially, she was shocked by the eyes in the sky.

Now, she was even more shocked by this world a world with nothing in it, only the sea, and—

The girl who had appeared out of thin air before her.

She spoke with a naive, innocent manner and a stubborn way of thinking; it was easy to be reminded of the Ian she first met.

But very quickly, she stopped thinking that way.

Ian was human.

This person was not human.

They were not the same.