Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

After Tamo escaped from the palace, he disappeared without a trace. Lin Shuang searched for half a month but still couldn't find any information about him.

Qi Mohan also disappeared without a trace.

Zhou Yanshu didn't pursue them relentlessly. The merfolk ruled over countless seas, and once they left the royal palace area, it would be difficult for them to find Tamo and Qi Mohan anywhere else.

During this time, the merfolk had also elected a new leader. With the palace fallen and King Tamo missing, they naturally re-elected Zhou Yanshu as their king.

The heavy crown was placed on Zhou Yanshu's head again. Zhou Yanshu remained calm on the surface and took the crown off his head not long after returning.

What he once had, once lost and then regained, had already caused Zhou Yanshu to lose his initial interest and enthusiasm.

This crown isn't something that can be easily made; it's just something that's dispensable.

Yu Zhuo was quite pleased with himself. He took the crown off the cabinet, put it on his head, and then took several selfies.

Zhou Yanshu lifted his eyelids and glanced at him: "What, are you interested in this little thing again now?"

“This isn’t a small thing anymore, it’s a big crown!” Yu Zhuo said, taking several more selfies. He praised, “Really good, really good.”

Zhou Yanshu snorted: "Didn't you have a crown before? You don't care about your own, you only care about mine."

“Mine can’t compare to yours. My crown was made of glass, nothing like yours… Besides, it’s gone now.” Yu Zhuo said, squeezing next to Zhou Yanshu. He smiled at the camera lens, “Shall we take a picture together?”

Zhou Yanshu's golden curly hair, which fell to his waist, was neatly combed. Yu Zhuo placed the crown on his head and smiled, "It really suits you. Your aura is completely different now."

Zhou Yanshu slightly curved the corners of his lips, smiled silently, and suddenly stood up.

Yu Zhuo turned to look at him, but Zhou Yanshu didn't say a word. He walked straight to Yu Zhuo and sat on his lap, pretending to be reserved.

"Let's shoot it like this." Zhou Yanshu sat upright, pressing down on the flesh beneath him, and placed the crown on Yu Zhuo's head.

Yu Zhuo laughed, put his arm around Zhou Yanshu's waist, and affectionately tapped the tip of his nose on his neck: "Your Majesty, do you like this?"

Zhou Yanshu slightly raised her chin: "What, you don't like it?"

“I like it too.” Yu Zhuo took out his camera, pointed the lens at the two of them, and raised his eyes. “Brother, look at the camera.”

Zhou Yanshu raised his eyes. He was not as sharp as he appeared in public. His eyes were slightly upturned and his lips were slightly curved. Even the lines of his face became softer, eventually forming a smiling face that resembled a good-tempered one.

Compared to that, Yu Zhuo is much less disciplined.

He hadn't even put on his crown properly, and was leaning towards Zhou Yanshu at a slight angle. The crown tilted to the right with his movement, and Yu Zhuo's eyes curved into crescent shapes. His face was pressed against Zhou Yanshu's, and he grinned without any attempt to hide his smile.

"Click."

Time stood still, leaving behind a photo of the two of them together.

After receiving the photo, Zhou Yanshu looked at it for a long time. He gently stroked the exquisite face in the photo with his fingertips and unconsciously raised the corners of his lips.

Five hundred years ago, after their defeat, the main system erased everything about Yu Zhuo.

So much so that in the photos that Zhou Yanshu carefully preserved, only his own image remained.

Each photo had a large blank space next to it, and each photo only showed Zhou Yanshu and other people he didn't know very well.

But in fact, in every blank space, there was once the figure of Yu Zhuo.

He was deleted.

Only now... do they have a complete photograph again.

There were no inexplicable blank spaces, no people deliberately deleted; there were only two people: Zhou Yanshu and Yu Zhuo.

Zhou Yanshu pressed down on the corner of the photo, put it away, and said to Yu Zhuo, "Take a few more."

Yu Zhuo had already stood up. His gaze swept over the photos on the table, and he smiled, "Sure, let's take a few more pictures outside the palace in a few days after things are over."

"Just you and me?"

“Of course it’s just you and me.” Yu Zhuo raised an eyebrow and said, “Your Majesty, who else would you like to bring?”

“I’m not bringing anyone. If it’s just you and me, we can go to the sea to take pictures…” Zhou Yanshu lowered his white eyelashes slightly, half-covering his silver eyes below, “I’ll show you the tail.”

Yu Zhuo laughed out loud: "Can I still touch it?"

“…” Zhou Yanshu paused for a moment, “You can touch it.”

"Then can I still..."

Zhou Yanshu glanced at him, and he calmly replied, "I can also do field combat."

Yu Zhuo: "..."

He was actually just wondering if he could buy some decorations to hang on his tail, but he didn't expect Zhou Yanshu to be even more lecherous than him.

"We can talk about this later, it's not important." Yu Zhu frowned, then his tone changed as he asked Zhou Yanshu, "Shall we go pick out a few locations first?"

Zhou Yanshu lifted his eyelids and chuckled slowly.

"Row."

*

Shortly after Zhou Yanshu ascended the throne, Yu Zhuo set the time for going to the abyss.

The Black Heart app on his phone was completely broken. Yu Zhuo spent the last few days fixing it and managed to inject some energy into the app.

He also sent a message to Yu Xiangwan, and they arranged a meeting place in the deep sea, which was closest to the territory ruled by the merfolk royal family.

Before leaving, Zhou Yanshu also arranged all the affairs of the merfolk. He specially left behind several ministers to be in charge of the operation of various tasks of the merfolk together with Lin Shuang.

At 2:30 pm on the 17th, Yu Zhuo and Zhou Yanshu entered the deep sea together.

After Zhou Yanshu entered the water, the silver tail automatically took shape, and the layers of fish scales shimmered under the sunlight, dazzling and eye-catching, just like many years ago, and went straight into Yu Zhuo's eyes.

Yu Zhu activated the waterproofing device of his system, jumped into the water, and followed Zhou Yanshu to the deep seabed.

Yu Xiangwan followed them.

He was clearly not as relaxed as Zhou Yanshu and Yu Zhuo, because he was the spiritual body of a tabby cat, and soon after diving into the water, he began to experience physiological rejection.

Yu Zhuo glanced at him out of the corner of his eye and lent some energy to Yu Xiangwan to breathe, to ensure that he could reach the seabed with them safely.

The interior of the deep sea is relatively bright, but the deeper you go, the less blue light there is.

Yu Zhuo could sense the energy fluctuations at the very bottom of the deep sea. That was where he was first created and grew, and even after all these years, the system's energy still lingered there.

Once they understood the underlying structure, they knew that by continuously diving down and exploring, they would eventually reach a barrier-free space.

Yu Zhuo stared at the silver-white figure ahead and quickened his pace as he swam downstream.

After an unknown amount of time, Yu Zhuo sensed that the darkness in front of him was gradually decreasing, and his vision became clearer. Looking down, he saw a huge barrier below.