Transmigrated as the Cannon Fodder Spouse of the Disabled Beauty - Chapter 24.1

An old woman sat alone by the sea at dusk. The seawater brushed against the long skirt in her hands. A tourist took a photo of this scene from a distance. Under the beautification of the twilight, the elderly woman in the photo looked like a mermaid guarding the shore alone. The tourist named the photo “Mermaid.”

Later, the photo was leaked, and the legend of the mermaid spread in a distorted form.

The mermaid was fake.

After bidding farewell to the head of the Li family, Xu Luo and Song Yunran took a car back to the villa they had rented for their vacation. Although they had left, the silhouette of the old woman sitting alone by the sea and the image of the Li family head carrying the old woman home step by step seemed to have taken root in Xu Luo’s mind, refusing to dissipate.

She took a shower and lay on the bed, tossing and turning.

Song Yunran was still holding a book and reading, seemingly unaffected by the story of the Li family mother and daughter.

Xu Luo stopped rolling around and grabbed a pillow to tuck under her chest, making her look like a sprawling panda.

Her expression was weary as she lamented, “I know now why the Li family head installed so many cameras in the house. It’s because she’s afraid the old Mrs. Li will wander off while confused, right?”

Things she found strange back then were now understandable. Once understood, the mottled decorations in that villa no longer felt eerie; instead, they were filled with a sense of tragedy.

Song Yunran gave a soft hum in response, casually flipping a page in her book.

The sound of the page turning reached Xu Luo’s ears. She looked at the beauty leaning against the headboard reading, watching her without moving.

Song Yunran did not look up. Her free hand reached out and accurately covered Xu Luo’s eyes. Xu Luo didn’t dodge. After a moment, Song Yunran moved her hand away herself.

“What is Lulu thinking about?” Song Yunran placed the book face down on her lap and pulled the pillow Xu Luo was pressing on, dragging the pillow and the person a bit closer.

Xu Luo didn’t beat around the bush and asked directly, “Song Yunran, are you looking for a mermaid?”

Song Yunran gave another “mm.” She let out a low laugh, tinged with a bit of self-deprecation. “I’ve rarely regretted things since becoming an adult. Even if some of the decisions I make aren’t satisfactory, I can work hard to make up for them afterward, because regret is the most useless thing in the world. But to be honest, I regret missing the Mermaid’s Tear at the Mo family auction.”

Xu Luo remained silent.

After humans learned about the effects of the Mermaid’s Tear, they yearned for it. This could be called greed, or it could be called human nature. But Xu Luo knew that the Mermaid’s Tear auctioned by the Mo family was useless to Song Yunran.

But Song Yunran didn’t know that, which was why she felt regret.

Xu Luo propped up her cheek, her eyes sparkling. “That Mermaid’s Tear was a hundred-year-old antique. Who knows if there are food safety issues? Stop thinking about that thing.”

Song Yunran: “…Okay.”

Xu Luo wiggled and nudged her way to Song Yunran’s legs. “Stop reading. Let’s watch some TV for a while.”

Song Yunran was about to continue reading, but hearing this, she closed the book and put it on the nightstand. She picked up the tablet that was originally on the nightstand, turned it on, and asked, “What do you want to watch?”

Xu Luo craned her neck. This movement caused half of her body to be tucked into Song Yunran’s embrace, but she seemed completely unaware of it.

She reached out to swipe the tablet screen, picked an urban romance, and asked Song Yunran, “How about this one?”

Song Yunran didn’t care: “It’s fine.”

Xu Luo swiped it away and chose the next one.

“Not watching that one?” Song Yunran asked.

Xu Luo’s attention was entirely on the screen. She said casually, “Didn’t you dislike it?”

Saying “it’s fine” with such an indifferent tone meant she didn’t like it, right?

They were watching TV together, not her accompanying her to watch TV.

Song Yunran: “…”

Xu Luo then selected a comedy and asked, “This one?”

The smile in her eyes couldn’t be suppressed. Song Yunran changed her attitude of “watching whatever” and began to choose seriously: “I think the one next to it is a bit better.”

Xu Luo’s eyes widened: “That one looks like a total flop at first glance! You can’t have such bad taste!”

Song Yunran argued her point: “I think it looks quite good.”

Xu Luo wouldn’t allow such a flop to pollute her eyes and wouldn’t budge. Song Yunran turned her head to grab her book again.

Xu Luo: “…”

A few minutes later, the two of them started watching a show the one Song Yunran chose.

As it turned out, Song Yunran’s taste was decent. The show’s cover made it look like a flop, but its core was actually quite good. It was a romantic comedy. Xu Luo watched until she almost choked with laughter. In order to see the tablet screen held by Song Yunran better, she didn’t notice that she was leaning closer and closer to Song Yunran…

In the show, the plot that was originally comedic began to get sentimental. The atmosphere was being built up to be a bit…

“I bet a bag of chips that the leads will kiss within five minutes,” Xu Luo said, looking like an experienced viewer.

Song Yunran glanced lazily at the screen and said, “Within two minutes.”

Xu Luo shook her head. “Two minutes is too short; five minutes is just right.”

Two minutes later, the leads embraced.

Xu Luo sat up straight, full of energy.

Then she saw the leads start bickering. The more they bickered, the more ridiculous it got. The ambiguous atmosphere vanished instantly, and the comedic style returned.

Xu Luo: “…”

Her eye twitched, and she slumped back, clicking her tongue in dissatisfaction. “What’s wrong with this director? They didn’t even kiss?!”

Song Yunran chuckled. “Disappointed?”

Xu Luo said, “I wouldn’t say disappointed, but it just feels…”

“Feels like what?”

“It hindered my healthy physical and mental development.”

She had actually been getting excited, and then this happened. It left her heart hanging, which seriously hindered her health!

Song Yunran suddenly lowered her head and pressed closer toward Xu Luo. Xu Luo was already very close to her, and with this sudden lean, the distance between their faces was reduced to the width of a fist.

Her breath brushed against Xu Luo’s face. Xu Luo’s breathing paused slightly.

“What are you doing?” Xu Luo blinked.

Song Yunran’s eyes curved as she smiled. “I thought Lulu was disappointed and wanted to see a kiss. I thought if you couldn’t see one, I’d act one out with you.”

Xu Luo: “…”

She reached out both arms and hooked them around Song Yunran’s neck, suddenly pulling the person toward her. In an instant, the distance between them went from a fist to being as thin as paper, their breaths intertwining.

Song Yunran: “???”

Xu Luo said expressionlessly, “Don’t tease me.”

Otherwise, she would tease back twice as hard!

Song Yunran: “…”

“Pffft!”

Song Yunran burst out laughing, shifted slightly, and fell against Xu Luo’s shoulder, her whole body trembling with laughter. “Lulu is so cute.”

Xu Luo huffed and laughed along. “That’s exactly right. Lulu has always been cute!”

“Puff!”

“They kissed.”

“What?”

“The leads in the show kissed,” Song Yunran said.

Xu Luo snapped her head around to look, only to see that the kiss had already ended.

Song Yunran said, “Want to replay it?”

Xu Luo was energized; she had a fixation now. “Replay it twenty times!”

“Okay.”

Xu Luo fell asleep during the twentieth replay. Once she was asleep, Song Yunran turned off the tablet, got out of bed, and went to close the curtains she had forgotten. Yesterday, because they weren’t closed, Xu Luo had nagged for a long time after waking up in the morning, saying she was woken up too early by the sun and didn’t get enough sleep.

When Song Yunran reached the window and her hand touched the curtain, the night view outside burst into her eyes. Suddenly, she stopped moving.

She stared out the window for a long time.

The night was very dark tonight. The moon was blocked by thick clouds, the sea wind was strong, and it was pitch black outside.

Song Yunran looked at such a night scene, and suddenly, her hostility surged violently.

Because she hadn’t found the Mermaid’s Tear and her hopes were dashed, Song Yunran wasn’t as calm as she appeared.

Her calmness was only shown to a certain someone. When that person fell asleep, hostility surged into her eyes, turning into a cold, thin layer on her face.

She stared quietly out the window, the aura surrounding her as dangerous as the waves surging under the sea breeze in the moonless, dark night.

Behind her, Xu Luo suddenly snapped her eyes open. As a mermaid, her keen perception of dangerous auras pulled her out of her drowsy sleep, and she immediately pinpointed where the danger was coming from.

Song Yunran?

Upon realizing the dangerous signal was coming from Song Yunran, Xu Luo’s tense body instinctively relaxed a bit.

“What are you doing by the window?” she asked. “Aren’t you going to sleep yet?”

Song Yunran hadn’t expected the sleeping Xu Luo to wake up. Her body stiffened, and in the next second, the negative aura on her body vanished completely.

She pulled the curtains closed and said, “I forgot to close the curtains.”

Xu Luo said “oh” and watched her.

“What are you looking at me for?” Song Yunran asked with a smile.

Xu Luo sat up. “You look… a bit different from usual.”

Was I exposed?

Song Yunran’s eyelashes trembled.

She had no intention of showing her dark side to the person in front of her, fearing she would scare them away.

“…I just suddenly thought of my mother,” she said. “After hearing the story of the Li family mother and daughter, I thought of my own mother.”

She lied. The story of the Li family mother and daughter hadn’t left a single mark on her heart.

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