Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 373 The Bride of the Sea God (32)

Yan Zhen, who was staring intently at Asya, reacted just before Asya made his move and shouted, "Nolan!"

Nolan acted immediately, grabbing Wei Shucheng just before Asaya's scales grazed his neck, and with a flick of his wrist, throwing him away.

With a loud bang, Asaya was slammed onto a dining table more than ten meters away, shattering the solid wood table into pieces.

Wei Shucheng, sitting on the sofa, suddenly narrowed his eyes, his face still showing shock.

Asya almost killed him.

Asya took a hard fall, losing several scales. He quickly got up, bracing himself with one hand on the ground, and assumed an attacking stance, letting out a dangerous growl.

Seeing this, Nolan turned his questioning gaze to Yan Zhen.

Yan Zhen nodded.

He received clear instructions to launch a sonic wave at Asya.

Asaya, who had been baring his teeth and looking fierce just a moment ago, immediately collapsed to the ground as if he had been injected with a tranquilizer.

His pupils could not focus, but he still retained consciousness. His lower body gradually returned to its purple fishtail form, weakly pounding the ground.

Yan Zhen looked at the large purple tail, then at Asaya's purple eyes, and combined with the "sister" he had said to Wei Shucheng, she remembered the mermaid eyes that had been made into specimens at Si Lan's house.

Those eyes were also purple; they were from a B-grade mermaid that Si Lan personally hunted down on her eighteenth birthday.

Could the owner of those eyes be Asya's sister?

"Go and bring him here," Yan Zhen ordered.

Nolan received the order, went over and dragged Asya out of the wreckage of the dining table, all the way to the sofa and put him down.

After making sure Asya could hear their conversation, Yan Zhen said to Wei Shucheng, "Alright, let's continue our topic."

Wei Shucheng: "...Now that things have come to this, I have nothing more to say."

Unless he can kill one person and two fish present today, if the news of his concealment of important information reaches the merfolk, not only will his years of planning fail, but the merfolk will also blame him for all the deaths of the merfolk sent ashore in the past eight years to carry out the plan.

He was doomed to die.

Clearly, he did not have the ability to kill the man and the two fish.

Yan Zhen looked at Wei Shucheng thoughtfully: "Tell me about your relationship with Sister Asaya."

Wei Shucheng was taken aback.

He remained silent for a long time before finally speaking: "She saved my life."

Wei Shucheng was born into a middle-class family with some assets. When he was ten years old, his mother passed away due to illness, and his father quickly remarried. In less than two years, his stepmother gave birth to twins.

As the saying goes, "If you have a stepmother, you'll have a stepfather," and this saying is perfectly exemplified in Wei's father's case.

When his new wife first entered the family, Wei's father still felt guilty towards Wei Shucheng and tried his best to compensate him materially.

But this guilt gradually faded with the birth of his two younger brothers, and with his stepmother sowing discord, he became increasingly estranged from Wei's father.

Wei Shucheng chose to study abroad at the age of sixteen.

Two years later, his maternal grandfather passed away, leaving a large inheritance to his grandson, Wei Shucheng.

The stepmother has her eye on this inheritance. If Wei Shucheng dies unexpectedly, the inheritance will belong to Wei's father and eventually end up in her son's hands.

In order to secure the inheritance, the stepmother used the occasion of Wei's father's sixtieth birthday to meticulously plan a family cruise trip.

On that large cruise ship that could hold tens of thousands of people, nineteen-year-old Wei Shucheng "accidentally fell into the water" at night and fell into the sea.

The seawater was icy cold on a winter night, and Wei Shucheng, who couldn't swim, sank into the sea after a brief struggle.

Asaya's sister, the female mermaid named Mia, appeared at this time. She carried Wei Shucheng and took him to a nearby deserted island.

Wei Shucheng woke up the next morning.

He embarked on a two-month wilderness survival adventure on a deserted island.

At first, Mia didn't dare to get close to him. Every day, she would bring him all kinds of fish that humans could eat, put them on the beach, and then quickly swim back into the sea, watching him from a distance.

Wei Shucheng also remained highly wary of this unfamiliar creature, the mermaid.

He didn't want to accept Mia's offer of food, but as a bookworm who only knew how to study, he couldn't hunt any prey on the island.

Survival is an instinct, and driven by extreme hunger, he compromised in less than three days, using the lenses of his glasses to reflect sunlight and start a fire to cook the fish to fill his stomach.

As they interacted more frequently and realized that neither of them meant any harm, Mia began to shorten the distance she would travel each time she delivered the fish.

Thirteen days after Wei Shucheng was rescued, he lit a fire on the beach that night and sat down with Mia for the first time, looking each other over.

Since then, Mia seems to have treated him like a pet, swimming hundreds of kilometers every day to visit and feed him on the island.

Wei Shucheng then taught Mia to learn human languages.

Mia was soon able to communicate with him haltingly, and even showed him her missing fingers—her webbed right hand had only four fingers, her little finger having been bitten off by a tiger shark when she was a child.

Mia is straightforward and says whatever comes to mind. She never hides anything from her. Being with her makes Wei Shucheng, who grew up in a world of deceit and treachery, feel incredibly relaxed.

That period was the happiest time for Wei Shucheng since his mother's death. Originally full of resentment, gloomy and negative, he was influenced by the cheerful and simple Mia and gradually became more talkative and cheerful.

More than forty days after she met Mia, she differentiated.

It was at this moment that Wei Shucheng learned that Mia had lived underwater for over a hundred years.

Other mermaids differentiate and go into heat around the age of two, but she had lived in a daze for the past few hundred years, and this was her first differentiation.

“I might love you a little,” Mia said earnestly in her still somewhat broken human language, “so I can’t come looking for you anymore.”

Wei Shucheng asked why, and Mia said that mermaids only have one partner in their lifetime. If they like someone but cannot be together, they will become depressed, sick, and eventually die young.

In the past, there have been instances of humans falling in love with mermaids, but without exception, all of them met tragic ends. She did not want to die young and cause her beloved younger brother Asaya grief, so she wanted to cut off the source of the problem in time.

These words were like a knife to Wei Shucheng's heart.

He immediately decided to return to the human world to take revenge on his stepmother, then buy the most basic necessities for life before returning to this deserted island.

He didn't care about his studies or future prospects; all he wanted was to stay here with Mia forever.

After reaching an agreement with Mia, he spent half a month building a simple wooden raft, which Mia towed, avoiding ocean currents and reefs, and successfully returned to Shengjing.

He spent three months bringing his stepmother to justice, reclaiming his rightful property, and then happily purchased the necessities for living on the deserted island.

However, when he returned to the shore where they had agreed to meet, carrying his luggage and a gift for Mia, Mia never appeared again.