The sickly boss always wants to get close to her

Qu Shang swam into the building, his movements smooth and swift.

In just a moment, he saw the elderly elder sitting on a seat woven from water grass.

She is very old and can hardly move. Every day a mermaid brings her food and takes her out for some exercise.

Her wisdom is unparalleled, and she has led the tribe through crisis after crisis.

The old mermaid elder had thick long white curly hair that flowed behind her and almost covered half of the room.

The mermaid elder saw Qu Shang and waved at him, "Good boy, come here."

Qu Shang, who did not see Qu Youyou, swam over with a gloomy expression and sat obediently under the seat of the mermaid elder.

The mermaid elder stretched out his wrinkled hand, placed it on Qu Shang's head and rubbed it slowly, "Are you looking for Youyou?"

Her tone was kind and calm, "The child is gone, don't scare her."

Qu Shang lowered his head in grievance in front of the elders. He was not as delicate and intimate as he was with Chu Bainiao. Instead, he complained like a child, "Qu Youyou hooked up with my partner!"

"Youyou told me that she doesn't have that intention, she's just curious about humans."

The elder gently combed his red curly hair, "Have you decided on her as your partner? Has she agreed?"

Qu Shang nodded firmly, but his voice became low: "I like her, I just want to be her partner, but I don't know if she is willing, I can't understand her."

"Is that so?" the elder said, "Do you want to trap her on the island for life?"

The young mermaid lowered her head, her eyes confused and conflicted.

"Good boy, I have to tell you."

"Humans are social animals like us. They cannot live alone on an isolated island. They are physically fragile and can easily die if they get sick."

Qu Shang silently clasped his fingers and said, "But Elder, I really like her. If she is not on the island, I am afraid she will leave me."

The elder sighed slowly, "If you really want her, you need to make her fall in love with you."

"A long time ago, there were legends among our tribe about love between humans and our tribe, but except for a few perfect legends, the other legends were very tragic."

"Especially now that humans have access to the ocean, good boy, you know what that means."

"If she doesn't love you and returns to the human world, she will tell other people about us. Some people won't believe it, and some will."

"Those who believe think day and night about how to get us."

"The love of humans is also different from that of our race. Once our race has chosen a partner, it will not change. But humans are different. They can love many people in just a few decades."

"Similarly, child, this is also very dangerous. If you are discovered by humans, you may be sent to a place called a laboratory."

"The humans there will stick knives and tubes into your body. They will peel off your scales and skin, and cut from your chest and abdomen to your tail to study your body."

When Qu Shang heard this, he frowned uncontrollably.

"Also, we can live to be 300 years old, but humans only live for a few decades."

"In contrast, humans have immortal souls that can continue to be reincarnated after death, but we can only turn into foam on the sea after death."

“We are like seaweed. Once cut, we are gone and can never grow green again. But the human soul lives on forever.”

"If she doesn't love you, you will never be happy. She will have her human partner and will die soon. When she is reborn, you will be old and decrepit."

"Even so, do you still like her?"

After hesitating and struggling, Qu Shang nodded firmly. He wanted to be with the little female. Even in the face of pain and death, he still loved her.

The elder waved his hand and said, "You have grown up. You must have your own ideas and learn to be responsible for your own life. But there is only one thing you must promise to do."

"If she leaves the island and returns to the human world, you must inform me immediately. We will move to a new home."

Qu Shang suppressed his guilt towards his clansmen and said softly, "Okay."

Returning from the elders' residence, he saw Qu Youyou and two other mermaids looking at him timidly on the cliff.

The male mermaid stood in front of Qu Youyou and persuaded her: "Qu Shang, we all know that Youyou didn't do it on purpose. She is just curious about humans."

Qu Youyou pinched her own boneless fingers and said delicately, "I'm sorry, Qu Shang, I shouldn't have gone to see your partner without permission."

Mermaids have been a species of infatuated animals since ancient times, with strong possessiveness over their partners.

And within the mermaid tribe, both same-sex love and heterosexual love are accepted by everyone.

This is also one of the reasons why the mermaid tribe is so rare. They are like elves in the sea, living freely according to their own hearts.

Therefore, he was really angry that Qu Youyou approached the person he had chosen as his partner without Qu Shang's consent.

Qu Shang stared at Qu Youyou with a gloomy expression, thinking that from the time the incident happened until now, young females had successively asked the elders to intercede for her, and after she came out, even other friends were speaking for her.

Qu Shang couldn't understand. Qu Youyou was obviously pretending, so why didn't anyone notice?

She was obviously not really afraid or timid.

Qu Shang thought about it again and again, and finally resisted the urge to attack her. He just looked at her gloomily and warned her: "Stay away from my partner."

After Qu Shang left, Qu Youyou looked at his angry back and tilted her head, not knowing whether she had heard him or not.

In the early morning of the next day, Chu Bainiao was sleeping in a daze when he heard some noise coming from outside the beach.

She opened her eyes suddenly and met a pair of blue eyes.

Qu Shang called out quietly, "Chu Bainiao."

Seeing that it was her senior brother, she was so sleepy that she closed her eyes again and fell asleep peacefully.

Qu Shang looked at the little female's face, wrung out his wet hair, brushed it to the other side, then crawled onto the leaves on the ground and held her loosely in his arms.

After spending a whole day together, Chu Bainiao taught the mermaid a lot of words.

As night fell in the evening, Qu Shang returned to the sea. When Chu Bainiao was about to move the fire on the beach to the vicinity of the shelter.

The little blue-haired mermaid is here again.

Chu Bainiao looked back at her while holding the burning firewood. After thinking for two seconds, she put the firewood back on the beach and stared at the beautiful little mermaid.

Some are curious about the other party's purpose.

Qu Youyou pursed her lips and gave her a friendly smile, then pointed her slender arm at the coconut not far away from her and whined twice.

Chu Bainiao guessed what she meant. She walked over with the coconut and taught her how to use sharp nails to scratch and tear the coconut like a senior teacher.

She went back and sat cross-legged not far away, watching the little mermaid curiously open the coconut and then make a hole in the top.

I learned to secretly watch them drink coconut milk, and then I picked up the coconut and drank it from it.