After the scumbag female returns, the beautiful, strong, and tragic father and son become extremely

Chapter 54 Answer Me
The younger mermaids were a little confused, but they still obediently took the glass bottle to catch the little pearls that everyone dropped.

Soon, the bottom layer of Nan Zhisui's glass bottle was filled with pearls.

Wow!
So beautiful, such high-quality pearls!

Nan Zhisui's collecting obsession kicked in immediately, and she looked at the male mermaid beastmen with a smile.

The kind-hearted mermaids and beastmen were completely unaware that they were being targeted by an evil female!
stare--

Lanxing swam over from the side with Xiaofu.

Unexpectedly, they discovered that mermaids were swimming in circles in front of the mermaid prison where Nan Zhisui was being held.

These merfolk were all sobbing for some reason.

There was also a young male mermaid carrying a glass bottle he had never seen before, weaving through the crowd and collecting everyone's tears.

Xiao Fu starts crying as soon as she sees her mother.

She swam to the cage, clung to the bars to look at her mother, trying to get closer to her.

That stinky father of hers, he's holding her back from seeing her mother, and he's even locked her up.

She doesn't want to love her father anymore!
Nan Zhisui, however, showed no awareness of being a prisoner. Inside the cage, she began to tell a story vividly:
"The mermaid prince fell in love with a female princess on land, and he exchanged his sweet voice for her legs."

But every step he took felt like walking on a knife's edge, causing him immense pain.

However, the female princess on land mistakenly identified another prince as her savior!

When the Little Mermaid Prince learned the cruel truth and saw the princess and prince fall in love, he was heartbroken.

He regretted it; he regretted trading his singing voice for his legs.

He wanted to go home, to return to the sea!

However, without its tail, it can no longer return to the sea!

What should the Little Mermaid Prince do?!
On the night of the princess's wedding.

The mermaid prince's brothers handed him a dagger in exchange for their long, seaweed-like hair, and told him: "My youngest brother, you can only return to the sea by killing the princess."

The Little Mermaid Prince was heartbroken. He was in so much pain.

How could he bear to kill the female he loved!

As dawn broke, the mermaid prince gazed at his sleeping mate, unable to bring himself to kill her.

Finally, he threw the dagger into the sea.

He gave up on killing his lover.

He lost hope of returning to the sea, and in the morning light, he turned into rose-colored foam.

As Nan Zhisui spoke, she emotionally wiped her eyes.

"Waaaaah!" The male mermen burst into tears, some even hugging each other.

It's so touching, this story is so heartbreaking.

Even the little male collecting pearls was crying while collecting them.

The glass bottle in his hand was quickly filled, and then he switched to the next glass bottle to collect the princess's tears.

"The Little Mermaid Prince suffered too much."

"I told you that you can't love land-dwelling females."

"Yes, the mermaid prince who fell in love with a land-dwelling female is so pitiful. Waaaaaah."

"Walking is so painful, wouldn't it be better to just be a fish in the ocean?"

"But there aren't many female fish in the ocean!"

"Exactly! The male-to-female ratio on land is 1:10, but in the ocean it's 1:100! All you see are male fish. Where are there any female fish to mate with?!"

The male fish asked in a very soft voice, "Why are you keeping such a beautiful female fish like Princess Consort in a cage?"

"I don't know, I don't know. I heard it was His Highness Lanxing who gave the order."

The blue-purple mermaid swimming from afar was so beautiful it was like a dream. With a flick of his large tail, several small fish were attracted by his beauty and surrounded him.

Nan Zhisui called out to him in surprise, "Lanxing!"

Wearing a blue-purple mermaid veil, Lan Xing posed three soul-searching questions to Nan Zhisui:
“Answer me.”

Once a land-dwelling female has mated with a beast-man prince, can she also mate with a mermaid beast-man? Can't she take her mermaid beast-man with her?
Why must we abandon him, cause him pain, and let him turn into nothingness?!

Nan Zhisui: "...?"

This has nothing to do with me. This is Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid," and that's how he wrote it!

Lan Xing snorted and continued to question, "So you're just like that land female, right? You've chosen a land beast husband, so you don't want a mermaid beast husband anymore, right?!"

"You, you're talking nonsense!" Nan Zhisui exclaimed in a panic.

"Nan Zhisui, in your eyes, shouldn't the mermaid beastman return to the sea, be abandoned, and become nothing more than bubbles?!"

The merfolk panicked. Why were the prince and princess arguing?!
Nan Zhisui was even more bewildered. All she did was adapt a story to trick the mermaids into shedding tears, how did it develop into this?
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Five years ago, after leaving Hu Bai and his son behind, Nan Zhisui was forced to leave Stone Village because the birth system relentlessly pressured her to have a child.

She stumbled and wandered aimlessly. Although she encountered several male orcs along the way, she didn't find any of them appealing because of her looks.

Even if I'm forced to have children, I don't want to make myself suffer too much.

She mustered all her strength and ran all the way from Shicun to the seaside in one go.

Her countdown to giving birth had turned red and was beeping incessantly.

Nan Zhisui thought to herself, there are so many fishermen by the sea, if all else fails, I can just close my eyes and randomly contract a fisherman.

They were just tools anyway. And at least they completed their mission and saved their lives.

But at that moment, she heard a fisherman calling out his wares.

"Fish for sale! Fish for sale! Freshly caught mermaids today!"

Nan Zhisui pushed through the crowd and looked over. Inside the fishing net lay a young, handsome, and fragile male mermaid, about 18 years old.

The mermaid's eyes were filled with terror. He was terrified. In his despair, he saw Nan Zhisui and reached out his hand to her.

"help me……"

Nan Zhisui's heart softened, so she asked the fisherman, "How much is this mermaid?"

The male fisherman looked up and his eyes lit up when he saw Nan Zhisui. “A beautiful female? You want a mermaid too? This fish of mine looks young. Buy it, put a slave contract on it, and it can be your beast slave. You can keep having it catch fish for you to eat.”

Nan Zhisui asked curiously, "It's so useful!"

Did she also want him to be a beast slave? The fish's eyes dimmed slightly.

Nan Zhisui asked, "What do you want in exchange?"

The fisherman thought for a moment and said, "We are at sea here, so I don't want anything from the sea. I'm short of animal hides at home, so I want animal hides."

"One?" Nan Zhisui asked.

The fisherman said, "Ten sheets."

"So many?" Nan Zhisui asked in surprise.

She had previously given almost all of her accumulated supplies to the village chief of Stone Village, asking them to take care of Fox White and his son. Now she was in dire need of supplies.

Nan Zhisui thought for a moment and said, "I only have an animal hide on me."

"I can't sell it to you." The fisherman turned to leave.

The mermaid grew even more terrified, her eyes filled with struggle as she looked at Nan Zhisui.

Those wet, blue-violet eyes are absolutely stunning.

Nan Zhisui really couldn't bear to disappoint this fish!

"Hey, wait a minute!"

After stopping the fisherman, Nan Zhisui said, "Look at this fish. Many of its scales have fallen off. It's not perfect or pretty, and it looks too thin and small."

When the mermaid Lanxing heard her belittling words, he felt something touch a sensitive spot in his heart, and he felt wronged and wanted to cry.

The fisherman knew she was there to bargain, so he said, "You can't say that. How can such a healthy and strong male mermaid not be perfect or beautiful? The scales that fell off his body were from when I was fishing. They're just external injuries. He'll be beautiful again after some healing."

Nan Zhisui said, "I don't have that many animal hides on hand. But... I have some commonly used external wound medicine, would you like some?"

"Medicine for external injuries?" The herbs in Nan Zhisui's hand clearly caught the fisherman's attention.

Nan Zhisui examined the fisherman's foot injury: "You fishermen are prone to injury... I see that the wound on your leg is not shallow either. Why don't you consider changing some medicine to treat the injury?"
The medicine from the witch doctor is so expensive, but the prices here are much cheaper!
"Look at this huge bunch of herbal medicine for external wounds, I'll trade it to you for a mermaid. How about it? Want it or not?"

(End of this chapter)