05

 The mermaid has been acting strangely lately.

She's become unusually irritable and aggressive.

Xing Hongyi's injuries are no longer minor; she's often severely injured by the mermaids who suddenly attack her.

Bandages and gauze have become Xing Hongyi's daily routine.

But Xing Hongyi doesn't think much of it; he's more worried about why the mermaid is like this. Is it because she's become human? Or is she uncomfortable?

Whatever it is, it pains Xing Hongyi.

But he doesn't understand mermaids. He doesn't know if they'll remain in this form indefinitely, nor when they'll revert back.

Xing Minzheng, who understands mermaids better than him, is now a corpse.

He tightly hugs the struggling mermaid; the mermaid's terrifying strength causes him considerable pain. Xing Hongyi kisses the mermaid's furrowed brow, comforting her, "Baby, what's wrong, baby? Tell me."

"Hah..."

"Xing...Hong...Yi..."

The mermaid speaks again, calling out Xing Hongyi's name.

Xing Hongyi felt a jolt of electricity strike his heart, spreading down his spine and throughout his body, leaving him tingling and speechless. He stammered, "Baby...you called my name..."

The mermaid ignored Xing Hongyi's dazed state. His green eyes deepened, and he gazed at Xing Hongyi, saying, "...Make...love...with me."

As the mermaid spoke, it seemed he had gotten used to speaking, and his words became increasingly fluent.

The mermaid's heat had arrived.

Whenever he was forcibly transformed into a human, he would experience a heat cycle, and the arrival of this cycle was not simply about making love.

Unfortunately, Xing Hongyi didn't know, and no one else did either. He only felt a tremendous surprise crashing down upon him.

While he was stunned, the mermaid's soft, boneless hands caressed Xing Hongyi's handsome cheeks, her breath sweet and alluring, carrying an irresistible temptation. She said, "Please eat me."

Xing Hongyi could no longer maintain his composure.

However, the overly excited virgin's first time was exceptionally quick.

His semen entered the mermaid's body.

Then came the mermaid's questioning gaze.

Xing Hongyi blushed, gently kissing the mermaid's cheek, saying, "I'm sorry, it felt just too good."

Before he could finish, Xing Hongyi was slapped across the face. Then the mermaid gently bit his thin lips, her sharp teeth grinding together suggestively, chuckling softly, "You're so silly."

This mermaid made Xing Hongyi even more infatuated, and soon they reached a second climax.

In the final moments, Xing Hongyi was choked by the still extremely irritable mermaid. As his vision blurred, he insisted on asking the mermaid, "Baby... what's your name?"

"Jiang Nian."

"Nian Nian..." Xing Hongyi murmured.

"I love you."

...

Xing Minzheng's heart finally grew back, the wound on his chest gradually healed, and after the last bit of skin and flesh connected, his eyes suddenly opened.

Moving his stiff body, the first thing Xing Minzheng did was go to the kitchen to check his heart in the freezer. However, as soon as he stepped inside, he saw the opened freezer and the bloodstains remaining on the ice.

His heart was gone.

A dark glint flashed in Xing Minzheng's eyes. He drove to the villa where Jiang Nian was hiding, and as expected, Jiang Nian was nowhere to be seen.

Standing in the deserted villa, Xing Minzheng's head felt like it had been hit by a hammer, buzzing. The intense emotional turmoil made his throat hurt, and he coughed up blood.

On the other side, Xing Hongyi was in paradise. Soft, delicious, joy and happiness were his descriptions. His heat was not short; every single day, he was rolling around with Jiang Nian.

In the midst of his passion, he didn't hear the sound of the door being violently opened because the servants had been dismissed. So when Xing Hongyi finally came to his senses, he saw Xing Minzheng raising a gun at him.

Bang.

Everything came to an end.

Xing Minzheng walked over and looked at Jiang Nian.

Blood stained Jiang Nian's fair skin, trickling down her cheeks. Her eyes were half-closed, her long, dark eyelashes trembling. She cradled Xing Hongyi's head and gently placed a kiss on his lifeless eyes.

The scene was horrific, yet it made Jiang Nian appear like a compassionate, saintly statue—

sacred and inviolable.

Xing Minzheng's fingers twitched slightly. He took a few steps forward, half-kneeling, as if reaching out, but then withdrew, staring at Jiang Nian, unable to comprehend what he was seeing.

Finally, Xing Minzheng calmly pulled out a dagger, the blade slicing open Xing Hongyi's chest cavity, ripping out his brother's heart, and feeding it to Jiang Nian's lips, uttering words that concealed anger and a humble plea, "I'm sorry, Nian Nian, I'm late. I couldn't protect you, and Xing Hongyi bullied you... Eat this quickly."

"This is his only meaning."

Jiang Nian tilted her head, lazily looking at Xing Minzheng, then opened her mouth, her sharp teeth gleaming white under the light. She swallowed Xing Hongyi's hot heart whole, blood staining her lips and tongue, and finally, reluctantly licking the blood from Xing Minzheng's new hand.

Xing Minzheng wiped the residue from Jiang Nian's lips, saying gently and fondly, "That's great, this is the third heart."

"There are two left."

Xing Minzheng rested his head on Jiang Nian's fair legs.

Looking into Jiang Nian's indifferent, condescending eyes, Xing Min, his gaze unfocused, said happily, "Niannian, this way you can live."

"For this, I'd do anything for you."

Three months later.

A torrential downpour.

Large raindrops lashed the ground, forming strings of splashes.

The sound of the rain was blocked outside the villa; the interior was as cold as an icebox. Xing Min held Jiang Nian, whose eyes were closed like Sleeping Beauty, and murmured desperately, "How could she not wake up? I did exactly as that voice said, I already have five hearts, how could she still be in a deep sleep..."

"Where did I go wrong?"

"Where?!"

"I will save you, Niannian. There's still time. I can definitely save you. Wait for me." Tears of pain, despair, and self-reproach streamed down Jiang Nian's face, but apart from her steady breathing, she showed no other reaction.

Five months later.

Lu Zhangjiang's trusted sworn brother died mysteriously a month ago. After a thorough investigation, he finally found him, and now he has avenged his brother, killing his enemy.

What puzzles him, however, is that

the enemy was clearly on the verge of a mental breakdown, unable to communicate or listen to human speech, showing no fear or remorse before his death, trapped in his own world.

He said, "He died willingly."

"Niannian is still waiting for me at home."

"I need to go back."

"I want to go back."

"I want to go back."

Perhaps it was the mad words of his enemy before his death that aroused Lu Zhangjiang's curiosity, or perhaps it was his desire to find his brother's missing heart. When Lu Zhangjiang found his enemy's house

, he kicked down the door without hesitation and led his brothers inside. In the eerily cold temperature, they saw a stunningly beautiful mermaid lying on layers of ice, her hands obediently folded on her lower abdomen, as if she were only in a light sleep, ready to open her eyes again at any moment.

This was definitely not a creature that should exist in this world.

She seemed to be dead, yet someone had tried every means to keep her alive.

Time stood still, and everyone stared at her speechlessly, until the heavy breathing brought Lu Zhangjiang back to his senses.

He swallowed hard.

As if guided by an unseen force, he walked to the mermaid with the pink fishtail and, like a fool, lowered his head, trying to awaken the sleeping princess with a kiss.

But she did not wake up.

However, her faint breath touched Lu Zhangjiang's face, and if Lu Zhangjiang hadn't been so perceptive, he might not have noticed it.

At this moment, Lu Zhangjiang felt genuinely fortunate.

Thank goodness, He was still alive.

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