Ch99 - Wenwen is the person that you’ve been looking for? (2/2)

It was a very tragic war. Human beings had a completely new understanding of the so-called mermaid, and understood what dominating the ocean really meant.

Finally, the reason two sides were able to put aside their hatred of each other and talk calmly for once was because of Yan Qingjun and his good friend Lan’s influence.

Lan was one of the deep-sea merfolk who had been sent to the human world to find their ‘emperor’. He had been going back and forth between the land and ocean these years, and the place where he came ashore was near the courtyard where Yan Qingjun used to live, so he and Yan Qingjun who had been adopted by a fisherman and his wife, had been good friends for many years. This time, he had come to the capital because he had heard news that Yan Qingjun had found his birth family, and had not expected to meet their ‘emperor’ by chance.

Although he was still a juvenile, and although he was still young and immature, the ability to dominate the entire ocean could not be mistaken.

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Some small chit-chat was always necessary when good friends met again. While the two of them shook hands and chatted, Lou Cen had obtained permission to go upstairs to see Xue Ling. He also could not say why Xue Ling was now in the state that he was in, and the Duke’s Palace could not do anything to him based on a baseless assumption, so even though they were not in a good mood, they did not make things too hard for him.

“If you are talking about the little gongzi upstairs who is in a coma,” Lan began as he heard that they wanted to go upstairs, his smile wide as he interjected, “I may have an explanation.”

Suddenly, everyone’s eyes fell on him. Yan Qingjun’s expression turned strange, because he remembered Lan’s identity, and his magical ability to transform his fishtail into legs.

“Qingjun, do you remember?” Lan smiled as he spoke to Yan Qingjun, “When we met the first time, I told you that I had come out to find our missing prince?”

A scene flashed through Yan Qingjun’s mind as he recalled the storm that had happened when he was four years old. The sound of the ocean’s sorrow had been ringing in his ears, so he had snuck out for a look without telling his adoptive parents. He saw more than a dozen merfolk coming up to the shore from the depths of the ocean.

They were not the same at all compared to those little merchildren that had been raised up from birth. They were very strong, and even during the storm, they managed to fight against the surging tide and rush towards the shore.

It was that day that Lan came to him. According to him, their little prince had been stolen by the hated human beings. Their clansmen had constantly been trying to find him, but there were too few clues, and the coastline was too long, and they had no direction from which to start looking. After searching for several years in the ocean, they think that their little prince had entered the human world.

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

They wanted to come ashore to search.

It was precisely due to years of contact with Lan that Yan Qingjun’s thoughts were different from most merfolk in the Empire. He had his own pursuits, and knew what he was doing. His self-confidence and perseverance were all brought about by Lan.

Yan Qingjun nodded and suddenly understood Lan’s meaning. “Your meaning is…?”

“That’s our little master. Perhaps you are our lucky star. There has been no news for so many years, but because of the change in your destiny, he also appeared.”

The look on Yan Qingjun’s face was really too strange. The Duchess finally responded to Lan’s words. “Your little master was stolen? By the seaside?”

“Perhaps it was also in the same year that the Duchess lost Qingjun by the ocean?” Lan was still smiling faintly. Although he was truly very happy to have found their emperor, after so many years wandering through the human world, it had already become a habit to hide his emotions. “Who knows. Some things are just that coincidental. If that little merman’s tail is black and gold, and his scales are black with golden edges, then that is our little master. Under the heavens, he is the only merman who can match with that kind of tail.”

At last, the Duke came to a realization. As a member of the upper echelons of the Empire, he had access to many secrets, and even the chaos at the Imperial Research Academy this morning was within his jurisdiction. Although Lan’s words were vague, he still understood the implications, because information about that mysterious species had always been suppressed, and they had always troubled the upper levels of the Empire. In this moment, the information revealed in Lan’s words completely supported his speculations.

“Are you from the deep sea?” The Duke asked.

“Yes.” Lan felt no pressure admitting this. He had already sent out news regarding the discovery of their emperor, and within two days, all the deep-sea merfolk that were onshore would gather together. By then, even the humans’ SS-class powerhouses would not be able to do anything to them. They had sufficient fighting power, and were completely different from those fragile merfolk of the Empire.

Those were spoiled fish that had been raised up incorrectly.

“Wenwen is the person that you’ve been looking for?”

“Yes.” Lan calmly added another sentence. “If anything happens to him, our clan and you humans will truly be unable to resolve our differences.”

Having already spoken to this point, Xue Ling’s identity was no longer a secret. “He really is a deep-sea merperson. He’s going through the maturity phase now, and for the next half month, he will be in a state of deep sleep as the scales on his tail fall off and regrow. He will be fine as long as he is soaked in water.”

Everyone present looked at each other speechlessly. Although this method was strange, Xue Ling’s situation was also truly inexplicable. This method would not hurt Xue Ling, and if they adopted it for the time being, there should not be any problems.

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Although Xue Ling’s identity had been thoroughly exposed, it seemed to have little influence on him. After all, the Duke’s Palace did not seem to care too much about his identity, and was only worried about his health. Lan found their attitude very useful, and as long as they did not have any thoughts that they shouldn’t have about Xue Ling, Lan seemed to have no intention of taking Xue Ling away .

Oh, if he wanted to take him away, he would still need Lou Cen’s approval.

Xue Ling woke up from his coma after half a month. The first thing he saw when he woke up was Lou Cen’s rather surprised, and then ecstatic eyes. He had not even opened his mouth to speak when his lips were blocked by General Lou, who had acted faster than expected.

Xue Ling: ???