Chapter – 71
Marriage
Chi Lin hesitated before speaking.
“She… is gone.”
Li Yue’s face immediately turned pale. “What exactly happened?”
Chi Chenyán held Li Yue and looked at Chi Lin. “Stop standing there. Speak!”
Chi Lin shook his head and told them everything that had just happened.
Li Yue could barely stand. She looked anxiously at the witch doctor.
“Quick! Save this merman and ask him where Qingqing went!”
The witch doctor could only try his best.
He crushed the herbs into juice, helped Su Han sit up, and fed the medicine into his mouth.
Then he used his healing power.
The treatment worked well. Soon, all his external wounds healed.
His eyes slowly opened.
“Where is Qingqing? Where did my daughter go?” Li Yue grabbed Su Han, her eyes full of urgency and fear.
Su Han felt his head splitting with pain. In his mind, the last conversation between Li Qingqing and Li Mujin replayed again and again.
“Atlantis! He took Qingqing to Atlantis!”
He was filled with regret. If it weren’t for him, Qingqing would not have been taken away. He hated himself for being so weak.
Li Qingqing was dragged into the deep sea by Li Mujin.
Although she had water powers protecting her body, the pressure under the sea still made her feel uncomfortable.
Li Mujin held her face and quickly pecked her lips. She did not know what he did, but suddenly she could move freely underwater.
It was her first time seeing the underwater world.
Countless fish swam in groups in front of her.
There were also jellyfish.
Curious, she reached out and touched one.
It was electric.
“Ah!”
Li Mujin laughed. “Haha, I told you not to touch things randomly.”
He kept holding her hand tightly, afraid she would escape.
Soon, they arrived at a magnificent underwater city.
In the center stood a tall and dazzling palace.
Li Qingqing could not believe her eyes.
The beastmen on land still lived in caves like primitive people.
But the mermaids had built such a beautiful city underwater.
No wonder Su Han said the cave they dug for him was ugly.
“Come with me!” Li Mujin smiled and pulled her into the city.
According to reason, Li Mujin was the cursed child. He escaped from the Sea Abyss and even killed his own father.
The people of Atlantis should have feared him.
But everyone they met treated him with great respect.
Some even looked at him with admiration.
More and more people followed them to the city square.
He raised Li Qingqing’s hand high.
“I have a name now. From today on, I am Li Mujin! And this is my wife — Li Qingqing!”
Li Qingqing tried to pull her hand back awkwardly, but he held it tightly.
The mermaids of Atlantis raised their hands and cheered loudly.
Li Mujin picked her up and swam toward the palace.
At some point, his legs had turned into a fish tail, moving smoothly through the sea.
The palace shone with golden light. It seemed to be made entirely of gold, and the ground was covered with pearls.
Li Qingqing’s eyes widened. If someone walked on that floor, they would probably slide all the way.
“Isn’t it beautiful?” Li Mujin’s eyes sparkled.
But in truth, he had only been in this palace for one month. He did not know much about it either.
So when Li Qingqing asked, “Are all the pearls on the floor made from your tears?”
He thought for a long time before answering blankly, “Probably.”
He brought her into a room.
Inside was a huge golden shell.
So luxurious.
She had not expected that when Su Han said they slept in shells, he meant golden shells.
But besides the golden shell, the room was small and simple, with almost no decorations.
She struggled and finally jumped down from his arms.
“Why is this room so small?”
Even though it was better than their cave, it did not match the grand palace at all.
“I don’t have my own room here, so I chose the smallest one.”
There was a hint of sadness in his voice.
“Sometimes I really envy Su Han. From birth, he was surrounded by attention and lived in such beautiful houses. But I survived in the Sea Abyss, in endless darkness.”
As he spoke, tears fell from his eyes.
They turned into pearls and dropped onto the floor.
Li Qingqing crouched down and picked them up.
Then she gently hugged him.
“It’s okay. Everything will pass.”
Neither of them had lived easy lives. Even Su Han might not have had a truly good life for those twenty years.
“It’s okay. Everything is better now!” he said, comforting himself as he hugged her tightly.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
“Let’s get married! Right here! Then we can be together forever!”
Before Li Qingqing could answer, he rushed out of the room excitedly.
Then he came back quickly and said, “Wait here for me! I’ll go get everything ready!”
Li Qingqing smiled and nodded.
After a while, she thought he must have gone far.
She carefully leaned on the doorframe and looked outside.
Luckily, there were no guards inside the palace.
She quietly began walking out.
“System, quickly project the map of Atlantis into my mind. I’m going to run.”
【Host, he seems to like you a lot. Why not marry him and accept him?】
“Are you trying to harm me, or are you stupid? Mermaids are monogamous. If I marry him, I would have to abandon my original beast husbands!”
“One or five — I can tell the difference.”
“Besides, our main mission is to攻略 five beast husbands, not to become a mermaid’s wife!”
She still had to return to the Silver Tiger Tribe and be their leader.
The system stopped speaking.
Soon, she became familiar with the palace layout.
She quickly left the palace and entered the city of Atlantis.
Along the way, since she had no fish tail and walked with legs, many mermaids looked at her strangely.
She pretended not to notice and kept her head down.
Suddenly, she bumped into someone.
“Sorry! Sorry!”
“Qingqing!”
It was Xiao Ziye’s voice.
She looked up. It was really him.
She threw herself into his arms.
“Wuwuwu, you actually came to save me!”
Then she looked behind him.
“Why are you the only one here?”
“They don’t have water powers. If they came into the sea, wouldn’t they die?”
Li Qingqing smacked her forehead.
“I’ve become stupid. I even forgot that.”
Xiao Ziye gently rubbed the back of her head. It was the first time he spoke so softly.
“Alright. I’ll take you away from here now.”
