Chapter 23

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“I’d like to see how far you can go.” Zhu Yan could not help laughing and pointing at the child with the tip of the whip. “Little bunny, you don’t know what’s good or bad for you, you are just ungrateful! Just leave now, but when the time comes to starve to death and freeze to death and be beaten to death, you will have to grow a backbone, don’t come back and beg me!”

The child gave her a stern look and walked forward without looking back.

Zhu Yan stomped her foot in anger and wished she had whipped the cub to the ground.

“Princess, come back to the carriage quickly!” Behind her, Grandma’s Sheng voice urged, “Stop fighting with him. We can’t afford losing all this time. We’re still in a hurry to get to Yecheng.”

Zhu Yan groaned angrily as she walked back, and there was nowhere she could vent her anger. When she passed by, she saw the consignor and the other merchants huddled there, scrambling to pick up the pearls of the shark fallen to the ground, and gave them a whip: “How dare you pick them up? Someone, collect them and bring them all to the Red King’s Mansion. How dare you take in the ownerless shark and sell it privately?”

The cargo owner cried out in pain, released the hand holding the pearl, and pleaded repeatedly for mercy, but Zhu Yan had already jumped back into the carriage full of anger. However, as soon as she got into the carriage, she poked her head out again and called a scout: “Go, take somebody, and follow that little bastard for me! Follow him from a distance; When the little guy can’t hold on anymore and is about to die, come back and tell me right away!”

“Yes.” The scout was ordered to retreat.

Zhu Yan sneered: “Humph, I want to see, until when can that little brat still be stubborn? If you have the ability, don’t come back and beg me when you die!”

The carriage reeled forward. It was very quiet inside for a while. Zhu Yan seemed to be in a daze, holding her cheek in the palm of her hand, and looking outside in stupor.

“I mean, Princess…” Grandma Sheng sighed and started to nag.

“I know, I know, I’m in trouble this time!” As if she knew what Nanny was going to say, “I shouldn’t have meddled in this! Let the boy be run over and be killed by a car!”

“Actually…” Grandma Sheng wanted to say something, but she finally sighed, “Actually, I don’t blame the Princess. You’ve been… well, you’ve been… especially good with the sharks since you were a kid. How could you let him die?”

Especially good? Zhu Yan was stupefied for a moment, and when she finally understood what Nanny was talking about, her face became hot for a moment; Yes, the old Nanny watched her growing up, of course she knew her little thoughts. At the age of sixteen, when she first realized what it meant to be heartbroken, it was the old Nanny who was always by her side. In the eyes of this old woman, she will always be a child, and there is no way to hide her joys and sorrows.

“Nanny,” she asked, raising her hand and gently stroking the pendant of dragon blood around her neck. After a long hesitation, she took the initiative to mention the name she had not heard for a long time, “have you… heard anything about Yuan over the years?”

Granny Sheng looked up at her in astonishment, “Princess, didn’t you give up?”

“I want to see him again.” Zhu Yan slowly lowered her head. “I think there should be fate between us, and it shouldn’t end like that; that night shouldn’t have been our last anyway.”

“…” Grandma Sheng was obviously a little surprised, she remained silent for a long time before she said, “Princess, you must know that the so-called fate is often just a delusion of self-deception when you can’t let go.”

Zhu Yan turned pale and suddenly stomped her foot: “But I just want to see him again!”

“What about him wanting to see you again?” Granny Sheng sighed. “Oh, Princess, the man has made it very clear that he doesn’t like you. You have driven him away from the palace, but now you still want to chase him and force him to the end of the earth?”

“I…” Zhu Yan sighed and lowered her head in sorrow. In fact, she didn’t know what would happen if she met Yuan again, maybe she was just not reconciled.

The man who had accompanied her since she was a child, handsome, gentle, and kind, had spent countless days and nights with her, but in the end, he was not belonging to her; Her first love and first pain were intimately related to him, how can she say it have all gone?

Zhu Yan held her cheek in a daze, but Grandma Sheng sighed in her ear and kept nagging, “You also know how the sharks are made… Not only do they live ten times longer than the humans, but they are born genderless.” Grandma Sheng coughed a few times, as if she was talking to herself: “When they become an adult and meet someone they like and fall in love for the first time, they will finally be divided. If the person they like is a woman, they will become a man accordingly. Or if two young genderless sharks decide to have a date with each other, and they promise to each other in front of the High Priest of the Kingdom of the Sea, and later they both change their body into…”

“I know.” She knew the meaning of Nanny’s words, murmured softly, and sighed almost imperceptibly, “I know everything…”

Yes, when she met Yuan, the shark who lived in the hidden hut of the Red King’s Mansion was already two hundred years old, and was already a handsome and gentle adult man; So, what kind of past did he encounter? What kind of woman did he fall in love with? Where did that person go? And why did he live in seclusion in the Red King’s Mansion?

These are all things that happened in her previous life and can never be traced back.

According to the legend, the sharks can only choose their gender once in their lives, just as they can only love one person in their lifetime. Once they choose, they will never change; is not that she doesn’t know these things. But the sixteen-year-old girl, who was in love for the first time, rushed forward bravely and fearlessly, thinking that she could challenge her fate. Because before that, her life went smooth and there was almost nothing she could not get. She furiously rushed forward smashing her head recklessly, but only in exchange of such an outcome.

More than two years have passed ever since, she thought that the memory of the events will slowly fade away and will not be so painful to remember. However, at the thought of that terrible and chaotic night, the surprised and angry expression on Yuan’s face, she felt a severe pain in her heart, as if she had been just slapped in the face.

In fact, after that night, she should have given up, right?

That year, at the age of sixteen, she had just grown into a graceful girl with bright eyes and white teeth, charming and attractive, and the fame of her gorgeous face spread in the Western Wilderness. Almost every nobleman praised the only daughter of the Red King as beautiful and extraordinary as a walking flower.

“Is Ah-Yan a flower?” When the father heard this, he just laughed. “Is the overlord a flower?”

“Father!” She was so angry that she managed to resist the urge to sway a whip.

However, from that year on, it was obvious that the child who was growing up had reached the age of love. Yuan began to deliberately keep a distance from her everywhere; He no longer read and rode with her, nor did he travel with her at night by candle. Many times, when she was going to find him too frequently, he was getting tired of her, he even started to dodge her, and sometimes he was leaving his private hut on the Red King’s Mansion and was disappearing without notice for several days. If she were an ordinary woman, she would have known such an obvious dodge and would have backed down in the face of difficulties. But the 16-year-old girl was too ignorant and full of enthusiasm, how could she be splashed out by a few pots of cold water? However, inexperienced, she did not know that the feelings are like quicksand in her hands, the more tightly she tried to hold onto them, the faster they will vanish.

That night, she tried every means and finally blocked Yuan in his room.

“Don’t leave! I… I have something to tell you!” The sixteen-year-old girl is about to make the first confession of her life, her heartbeat is like a drum, nervous and shy, clumsy and anxious, “You… you…”

“If you have anything to say, we’ll talk about it tomorrow.” It was obvious that something was wrong with her. Yuan’s attitude was cold, and he pushed her away and wanted to go out. “It’s too late now.”

Seeing that he was about to leave again, she became so anxious that she pulled the Jade Bone from her head.

That was the first time she used a spell after leaving the Jiuyi Temple. Using the Jade Bone as a paintbrush, she drew her eyebrows and eyes stroke by stroke, and a soft spell that was barely audible came out from her lips. When the tip of the Jade Bone swept inch by inch across the corner of her eyebrows, the appearance of the girl under the lamp quietly changed; The spell is called deception. With this magic, she can be transformed into the appearance of the woman he most desires to see.

“Yuan!” Before he left the room, she finished the spell and called him from behind. He frowned and glanced back at her subconsciously: on the moment he turned his head, a sudden shock could be noticed on his face, and the expression in his eyes instantly changed.

Did it work? At that moment, her heart beat wildly.

“Is it… Is it you?” Yuan’s eyes were full of shock and disbelief, with a burning heat that she had never seen before. That kind of look made her heart jump, and she almost wanted to subconsciously pick up the mirror and take a look at what she looked like in that moment; she wanted to know, who’s exactly was the face carved in Yuan’s heart?

“How could it be you?” At the moment when she was about to get the mirror, he suddenly reached out and grabbed her, blurting out, “It’s you… Is it you coming back? Impossible! You… why are you still here?”

The fawn in her heart jumped wildly, breathing hurriedly, not daring to speak. His breathing was so close to her ears. At that moment, her thoughts were so confused, her mind went blank, she didn’t know what to do. She had still a shallow cultivation base, this illusion could only be supported for one hour, every minute and every second was precious. However, Yuan stopped a step away, staring at her, stretched out his hand, and dared not touch her cheek for a long time.

What? Why he is not moving? She held her breath and waited for a long time, but he did not move, his fingertips froze an inch away from her cheek, trembling slightly, as if wondering something.

For fear that time would go by, the sixteen-year-old girl summoned up all her courage, suddenly stood on tiptoe, put her arms around his neck, and gave him a clumsy, awkward kiss!

The Shark’s skin was cold, even his lips were slightly cold.

She kissed him, then stopped, looking at him somewhat bewildered, as if she didn’t know what to do next; She was a fearless person from an early age, but now she was so nervous that her hands and feet went cold and her face was so red that she could hardly lift her head.

However, that clumsy kiss seemed to ignite the hesitant and silent heart of the man in an instant.

“Yao Yi!” Yuan hugged her and whispered, “Oh, my God… You’re back?!” His kiss was scorching hot, with a fierceness very different from the usual tenderness. She let out an exhortation, and for a moment she only felt dizzy, her whole body softened and her mind went blank.

As soon as her hand loosened, the Jade Bone slipped from between her fingers and fell to the ground with a “ding”.

The sound was extremely thin, but it broke the illusion that she had meticulously created, as if a crack spread rapidly, breaking the original bewitching spell in an instant!

At that moment, the flaming pupils on the opposite side suddenly changed, as if the wind blew over and quickly swept away the dark clouds that covered his mind. Yuan froze instantly, staring at her, and suddenly saw the pendant exposed from her neck; with a trace of suspicion and surprise in his eyes, he pulled it out, held it in his hand and looked at it again. Her heart was pounding, and she struggled to keep the spell from failing.

“Who are you?” Yuan asked abruptly, frowning.

“…” She dared not speak, and quickly bowed her head; she was not so good at this illusion, she could only change her appearance, but not her voice at the same time, so she was afraid that as soon as she opened her mouth, the difference in voice would reveal her face.

“Why don’t you speak?” The doubt in Yuan’s eyes became deeper, “Why don’t you dare to look at me?”

She was so nervous that she dared not breathe, but bowed her head in silence. He looked at her, his eyes changed: “No… The time is not right! When Yao Yi was alive, I hadn’t got the ancient dragon blood jade!” He looked at the pendant on her neck, his tone confused, his mind in chaos: “No, she should be dead… she died many, many years ago, she was already dead! You… Who are you?”

“I…” She opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.

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