Ch93 - I should have the right to pursue the merperson that I like (2/2)
The Duke’s expression was also ugly. Although he was normally quite reserved, he still cared for Yan Qiwen very much. Otherwise, he would not have taken pains to arrange the engagement for him when he kicked up a fuss. “The engagement has already been terminated, which should be exactly what you want. If there is nothing else, I hope that you will no longer appear in front of Wenwen. He was originally unhappy because of this affair, and since you can’t give him what he wants, don’t come and show up in front of him to hurt his heart even more.”
Xue Ling hid behind the Duchess in silence. Yan Qingjun took his hand to comfort him, and the Duchess who had just found her real son also calmed down her feelings and looked coldly at General Lou. “I know that General Lou has just been promoted after waking up, and there is no limit to how far you can go in the future. Our family’s Wenwen is unable to climb up so high, so it would be better if the General showed some self respect.”
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Amongst everyone there, none of them showed good expressions to Lou Cen.
Lou Cen realized that because of the previous cancelled engagement, the Yan family’s feelings towards him were very negative. The possibility of reversing the situation now was very low, but there were still some things that he needed to say. “I did come because of the broken engagement. Since it has already come to this point, there is nothing I can do about it. But what I can do is to pursue Wenwen all over again and hope that he will accept me again and be willing to be with me.”
“Are you kidding?” Yan Zhaiyan was a fierce-tempered man. Even before his words were finished, he had already exploded. “What are you treating our family’s Wenwen as? Needing your approval for the engagement, and then cancelling it whenever you want to pull out!”
The Duchess looked at Lou Cen as if she were looking at scum. “The General must be joking. Our family’s Wenwen is very pure, and can’t play these roundabout games with you. It would be better for the General to go back, and I’d rather we not meet again in the future.”
“My pursuit of Wenwen is my own business. I think, I should have the right to pursue the merperson that I like.”
“Ha-ha.” Yan Chuhuan sneered and laughed coldly. The sound of that laughter made the rest of the people present shudder. “The lord General naturally has the right to pursue, and we also have the right to protect young adolescent merfolk. I hope that the lord General has enough willpower to persevere.”
These words were like a declaration of war that directly pulled both sides into battle. For a time, both groups became at odds with each other.
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But, it was impossible to just start fighting here. After throwing down a ‘just wait and see’, Lou Cen looked deeply at Xue Ling.
As an innocent melon seed eating bystander, Xue Ling lowered his head quietly and pretended that he did not exist.
Yan Qingjun worriedly clutched his hand and asked, “Did he do anything to you?”
Xue Ling shook his head. The man was too pathetic. It would be better if he didn’t mess things up for him further.
Although he bowed his head and did not speak, people automatically understood what he meant. As a matter of fact, Lou Cen was just a scum! Their engagement had obviously been terminated, but he still came to provoke Wenwen, did he think that Wenwen wasn’t sad enough yet?!
The entire group of people looked on as Xue Ling kept his head down and did not speak, but eventually the Duke sighed helplessly and said, “Let’s go back. It has been messy ever since you all came back, and nobody has eaten yet. We’ll go back and have dinner first.”
“Yes. Qingjun, you…” The Duchess opened her mouth and looked at Xue Ling, her thoughts tangled.
Xue Ling grabbed Yan Qingjun’s hand and opened his mouth to say, “Let’s just have Junjun stay over tonight. How about you move back and live with us starting from tomorrow? We can sleep together tonight, and you can keep me company.”
Yan Qingjun looked at his somewhat pitiful gaze, smiled gently, and nodded. “Okay.”
The Duchess heaved a sigh of relief. “That’s good. Let’s go back to dinner.” Yan Qingjun was her own son, the child that she had waited so many years for, but Yan Qiwen was occasionally her spiritual sustenance, and the little merchild that she had loved and cared for all along. If possible, she still hoped that the two of them could get along well, and now it seemed that Yan Qiwen did not hate Yan Qingjun for his identity, and the situation could not be any better.
This child was simple, and had just lost his love. The person he liked was also a scum, and the Duchess’ heart was biased. At least at this moment, she cared a little more about Xue Ling.
This meal was not as happy as expected, and after eating, the family quickly dispersed. Yan Chuhuan pulled Yan Zhai Yan directly into his study while Yan Qingjun asked to stay behind by the Duke and Duchess for a chat. Xue Ling went back to the room by himself first.
Because he was a merperson, his room was on the other side of the villa, and there was an open-air swimming pool in the balcony outside of his room. It connected his room with the room next door, which was the room that the Duchess had prepared for Yan Qingjun. When it was tidied up tomorrow, Yan Qingjun would be able to live there.
Xue Ling had no objection to this. As long as he closed the glass door that reached the ground, no one would be able to see him walking around on two legs inside the room. Sharing a swimming pool with Yan Qingjun and things like that did not affect his plan at all.
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With this in mind, Xue Ling pulled off his fishtail skirt, found a bigger shirt in the wardrobe and put it on before changing his fishtail into two legs to begin practicing walking by going around the room.
Because the original body’s host was afraid of his own legs, he seldom brought them out. After Xue Ling came, he regularly trained his legs to ensure that he would be able to walk normally on land.
Thanks to these two legs, Xue Ling has a new understanding of the deep-sea merfolk population. As long as they were a deep-sea merperson, they would be able to transform their tail into legs and walk on land at will. Their fighting power was fierce, and it was very easy for them to come out and make a living on land. And human beings did not have any understanding towards them. Although the appearance of merfolk back then was somewhat related to the deep-sea merfolk, due to the ferocity of the deep-sea merfolk, humans knew very little about them.
They didn’t even know they could walk on land.
Xue Ling did not plan to spend his entire life in the floating chair. After all, he had legs, and there were many things that he still needed to do.
For example, he still needed to ruin the research laboratory that wanted to study him, and so on.
Xue Ling planned to make his move after he became more familiar with walking on his legs, and could run, jump, and kick as he wanted.
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He was walking around in a circle while looking at all kinds of news on the web when the there was a knock at the door. Xue Ling knew that Yan Qingjun had arrived, so he plunged into the water at once and called out towards the door, “Open.”