The Love-Hate and Grudges Between Me and the Mermaid - Chapter 34

Chapter 34

What kind of talk was this?

What kind of person would ask such a foolish question!

Although she didn’t “like” Yi An in that way, there was absolutely no comparison between Yi An and this person, no, this fish.

What was wrong with today?

Why was everyone, one after another, asking this kind of question?!

She didn’t get it, she didn’t understand; she just really wanted to escape.

The mermaid, receiving no answer, knit her beautiful brows together again.

However, she soon let it go. Her cold, slender arm gently yet forcefully wrapped around Bu Yan’s waist, pinning her tightly against her chest. Her tone carried a faint hint of danger:

“Since you’re already here, isn’t it good to go on a date with me?”

“Why do you have to look for her?”

Seeing Bu Yan’s dazed and unwilling expression, and seeing her try to break free, the mermaid tasted the flavor of anger for the first time. She realized what the word “jealousy,” which they often mentioned in the laboratory, actually meant.

Anger, fear, and trepidation.

On one hand, she reproached the other for why they couldn’t like her, why their eyes couldn’t hold only her; on the other hand, she resented herself for why she hadn’t become good enough to make the other person like her willingly.

“Is she really that good?”

“She is clearly just a semi-finished product of mine,” the mermaid murmured to herself, her eyes filled with confusion, as if she had been agonizing over this question for a long time.

“I am the real one.”

“But why do you insist on having her?”

“Because she can cook? Because she can protect you?”

“But I can do those things too, and I can even do them better than she can.”

“I am stronger than her.”

But soon, the confusion was seized by an emotion that Bu Yan couldn’t decipher.

The mermaid forced Bu Yan’s head around, compelling her to meet her gaze.

At the same time, this sentence appeared in her mind of its own accord:

[Xenogeneic creatures possess a powerful desire for possession, even when facing a version of themselves.]

But Yan’s brain went buzzing, and her thoughts came to a standstill.

Why would she think that?

What did the original owner have to do with this sentence?

Before she could think deeper, a piercing pain called back her straying thoughts.

She looked down; everything within her sight was a sea of blue.

It was as if she had returned to that reef surrounded by the ocean.

“Can you let go of me first, please?” But Yan swallowed hard, gently grabbing the mermaid’s arm which was so white it was almost transparent and pleaded in a low voice, “We can talk this through…”

Her fingertips brushed against Bu Yan’s skin. The mermaid tilted her head, appearing somewhat hesitant.

Actually, even if the human hadn’t said so, she would have let go.

Humans were too fragile.

Even though she had suppressed the internal impulse to destroy and punish her, she could still hear the creaking sound of bones being squeezed.

The jaw was too thin, the neck too slender.

There was no meat on her body.

Her vitality was not tenacious.

She needs more nourishment, she immediately concluded.

Following that, she released Bu Yan.

“Forget it,” she said, her voice carrying an undetectable trace of sorrow.

This being their first meeting after a long time, the mermaid did not want to leave a bad impression on the human.

Her intention was not to intimidate or harm her, but to embrace her.

To this end, she had searched bitterly and paid many prices, yet she still could not reach her.

She let go of Bu Yan and instead took her hand, kneading the soft flesh of her arm, and sighed.

“I won’t ask anymore.”

The mermaid lowered her beautiful head, bending her body to lean on Bu Yan’s shoulder. It was as if there were only the two of them left in the world, huddling together, accompanying each other and licking their wounds.

The bone-chilling pain in her jaw instantly cleared Bu Yan’s mind. Her chaotic consciousness realized that the person in front of her was not human, but a mermaid, a creature that only existed in distant myths and legends, which no one dared believe existed in the real world.

She weighed the pros and cons and immediately quieted down.

She stopped struggling endlessly and stopped looking for Yi An, instead obediently acting as a human-shaped pillow, allowing the mermaid’s icy, pale fingers to stroke her body and play with her at will.

Nothing is worth mentioning in the face of life.

Moreover, the mermaid limited herself to the surface and did not go deeper.

Bu Yan closed her eyes and let her be.

Let her do whatever she wanted; she couldn’t be bothered with the original owner’s romantic debts.

After an unknown amount of time, a voice thick with a crying tone came from behind.

“Sister, where are you…”

Almost in an instant, a misty water vapor covered her eyes. When her vision cleared again, the mermaid on her had disappeared, replaced by Yi An’s warm and familiar embrace.

Yi An walked up behind her, standing where the mermaid had been, encircling her, gently patting her back to comfort her. “Where did you go?”

“I looked for a long time and couldn’t find you.”

She leaned against the spot the mermaid had leaned on, affectionately nuzzling Bu Yan’s soft neck. Between her inhales and exhales, the moist, hot air spilled onto the sensitive flesh, causing Bu Yan to involuntarily soften and let out a strained, low gasp.

“I didn’t go anywhere,” Bu Yan suddenly realized that doing this in public was very inappropriate. She shrank her neck, dodging forward away from Yi An’s further movements, and neurotically threw the question back at her:

“I was about to ask you, where did you go just now?”

“Do you know that just now there was a person…”

Her words came to an abrupt halt.

Because not far away, the mermaid was sitting on a chair, propping her head up with one hand, watching them with utter boredom. Seeing her look over, the mermaid smiled shallowly, raised her hand, and hooked a finger at her.

Her mouth opened and closed, but no sound could be heard.

Yet Bu Yan heard it anyway; she was saying:

“Come here.”

Come over my foot!

But Yan pretended not to see, shifting her gaze upward, and unexpectedly locked eyes with the sun.

As mentioned before, the weather was very good today—so good it was abnormal.

Bu Yan raised a hand to her forehead, carefully scrutinizing the sky.

A clear, boundless azure sky was dotted with a few fake, white, marshmallow-like clouds. The crimson sun hid behind one cloud, revealing half of its round face.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew, kicking up a bit of dust. When the sunlight hit it, it took on a shape and a color: golden.

They floated before her eyes, and in a daze, the dust turned yellow.

The distant trees and buildings all turned yellow.

Bu Yan hurriedly looked at the mermaid.

The sunlight hit the mermaid, and her deep blue hair also turned yellow.

Bu Yan took out her phone, opened the camera, and was shocked to find that she had also turned yellow.

It couldn’t be like this.

This situation was impossible.

But Yan tried taking a few steps forward to hide in a place without sun, but her body still didn’t change back.

At this time, Yi An also seemed to have noticed something was wrong. She hurried to Bu Yan’s side and asked in a low voice what was wrong and why her face was so pale.

As Yi An spoke, she looked up at the sky, seeming to like today’s weather very much. She nodded with satisfaction and, with eyes sparkling, sought credit from Bu Yan: “Sister, what do you think of the weather today? Isn’t it great?”

“Let me tell you, do you know how long it took me to fix this weather?”

Yi An wanted Bu Yan to feel bad for her, so she intentionally exaggerated: “Seventy-two hours!”

“Do you know? For a full seventy-two hours, I haven’t closed my eyes. It’s been so exhausting!”

Bu Yan nodded perfunctorily. “It’s really thanks to you, Yi An.”

Immediately, she asked the next question, “But haven’t you noticed anything wrong?”

Yi An stared straight at Bu Yan for a long time before asking confusedly, “What?”

“Me,” Bu Yan pointed at herself, “Do you notice anything wrong?”

Yi An shook her head.

It was very normal.

But Yan was as beautiful as ever; her eyes were eyes, her nose was a nose, her mouth was a mouth…

Oh, wait. After looking for nearly a minute, Yi An finally discovered it—

But Yan was wearing lip glaze today. Hehe, it was a very gentle bean-paste color.

She excitedly told Bu Yan the result.

Bu Yan’s mouth twitched, and she couldn’t help but raise her hand to give Yi An’s head a light rap: “What are you thinking about?”

“I’m asking about other areas.”

“No,” Yi An nodded honestly and pecked the corner of Bu Yan’s mouth.

But Yan felt inexplicably guilty. She stole a quick glance at the mermaid; after seeing no sign of her, her heart rate suddenly accelerated.

But in the next second, the face of the Yi An in front of her turned into the mermaid.

The mermaid licked the corner of her mouth with lingering desire, looking eager to try, and asked: “Can we do that again?”

“I want you to take the initiative.”

Bu Yan: “?”

Holy father, why is this guy here again?

Where was her wife? Where did her giant wife go?

A lunatic no, a neuro-fish!

The source of the wrongness she had suppressed since morning finally appeared.

Could all of this be the work of this fish?

Including the small train they encountered when they went out, the things in the sky, Yi An’s loss of emotional control and her asking out of nowhere if she liked her…

Could all of this, every bit of it, be an illusion created by this fish?

Then from when… did they enter it?

Bu Yan took several deep breaths, suppressing the endless stream of questions popping up in her mind, and asked the most critical one first:

“Where is Yi An? Where did you put her again?”

Her wife was almost gone; why would she care about her life?

But Yan didn’t care how fierce or terrifying this mermaid had been before, she asked in an angry voice.

The mermaid was instantly stunned. After a moment of daze, she asked: “Why are you looking for her again?”

“Am I not good enough?”

Why?

But Yan was so angry she laughed. She hadn’t even asked her why she pulled her into an illusion again!

How many days are left to live in reality?

Based on her previous experience, in reality, she and Yi An were probably standing at the door, their hearts full of anticipation, ready to head out.

But at such a beautiful moment, they were pulled in by this fish.

To accompany her in her boring and uninteresting game!

Thinking of this, Bu Yan felt a surge of nameless fire.

What stupid things did the original owner do before she died!

Clearly having a wife, yet flirting with this one and that one.

If you’re going to flirt, fine, but you flirted with a fish.

If it’s a fish, fine, but it’s a fish with so many issues!

Don’t fish all have to stay away from land for a long time? Why hasn’t this fish died yet!

The mermaid keenly sensed Bu Yan’s change, reading these emotions from her eyes.

So, the human, the lifelong partner she had always wanted to find, was just like the other people in the laboratory.

They all wanted her to die?

However, there was still a slight difference. One side simply wanted her to die.

While the other side wanted to squeeze every bit of value out of her before letting her die.

Time fell into a long silence.

Seeing that the mermaid didn’t speak, Bu Yan took it as her being too guilty to talk. She fiercely shook off her hand and strode toward the sunlight.

Since she wouldn’t say, she would find herself!

The illusion was only this tiny; she didn’t believe she couldn’t find her!

She was going to take Yi An out of here, take her home.

Bu Yan didn’t look back once, walking forward with unwavering determination.

Little did she know that behind her, Yi An stepped out from a mass of thin mist and stood before the mermaid. Casting aside her usual simple and harmless appearance, she looked provocatively at the mermaid, boastfully showing off her victory:

“See? So what if I’m not real? So what if you told Bu Yan about it?”

“Doesn’t Bu Yan still choose me?”

“You, you should just stay in the laboratory and stop coming out all the time.”

“She doesn’t welcome you at all.”