Wan Tong stared at Lu Yun silently for just a few seconds before he averted his gaze.
He was very anxious, very angry, but still struggling to suppress it, and his breath slightly intensifying.
“Do you know what Yu Sheng is?” he asked in a low voice after a moment.
He held Wan Tong’s hand tightly, his eyes bloodshot, filled with disgust.
Wan Tong frowned, and the next moment, she was pulled up by him.
He opened a screen in his room and manipulated it a few times.
After the screen lit up, a large enclosed glass tank appeared on the screen, with a small blue figure inside.
With waist-length blue hair, a fair and beautiful yet youthful face, and a lively tail, this was a mermaid in his childhood.
The video seemed a bit old and blurry, but Wan Tong recognized it at a glance—it was Yu Sheng from his teenage years.
What surprised her even more was that as the camera zoomed in, Yu Sheng’s paleness was so evident, and his deep blue eyes were filled with vigilance and disgust.
This was a side of Yu Sheng that Wan Tong had never seen before. The Yu Sheng she knew was occasionally awkward, occasionally cunning, but always pure and quiet.
The camera shook a bit and moved closer to the glass tank. At this moment, Wan Tong heard an off-screen voice—it was the voice of a little girl!
“Hey… sister, what are you doing? Your mermaid suit looks much more realistic than mine…” Wan Tong was very familiar with this innocent voice.
She had many CDs recorded from her childhood, and she quickly realized it was her voice.
The camera almost pressed against the glass tank, and Yu Sheng’s youthful face also leaned in, almost just separated by the thick glass, facing the person filming.
Gradually, he softened the hostility in his gaze, his blue eyes immersed in the water like two precious and perfect sapphires, clear and captivating.
“Save me…” he blinked his eyes, bubbles overflowing from his mouth, as if drowning, and he reached out to pound the glass.
To an adult, his acting was too obvious.
He was obviously taking advantage of the fact that the other person was a child and unaware of his identity, so he was trying to manipulate her into helping him.
“Sister, are you feeling uncomfortable? Come out quickly… Oh, why is there no way out? Are you going to drown? How can I help you…” the voice of the little girl occasionally sounded, becoming more and more anxious.
The recording device was thrown aside, the camera facing the floor, occasionally capturing her disheveled figure passing by.
Various sounds of tapping on the glass and the girl’s anxious voice came through. In no time, there was a loud bang, and the floor was quickly covered with water.
After the girl cried out in pain, her figure was also swept into the frame by the water. The broken glass shimmered with a cold light, she curled up, emitting a low sob, and gradually, she had a few bloodstains on her body, trickling blood, and in no time, a circle around her turned red.
A pair of beautifully shaped feet paused beside her, with faint blue light shimmering on the calves and insteps, like scales reflecting sunlight, and like stars falling from the sky.
But the person quickly left, leaving only a clear and indifferent word, “Foolish.”
The video ended there, and Wan Tong felt a bit dazed. She looked at Lu Yun, “I… why don’t I remember this?”
There was absolutely no such thing in her memory.
Has she lost her memory?”
Lu Yun turned his head to look at her, his fingertips gently touching her icy cold cheek, his voice low and soft, “After you woke up, you lost your memory.”
“But I don’t have any scars on my body.”
“…,” Wǎn Tóng finished speaking, suddenly remembering the scar on her back, only one, but in the video, the girl’s body had quite a few wounds from being cut by glass.
Perhaps her metabolism was good, and the other scars had healed?
“Tongtong, you didn’t recognize him?”
“He is… Yu Sheng…” She took a deep breath, feeling her brain wasn’t quite enough, “Lu Yun, what exactly do you want to tell me today?”
Yu Sheng was actually imprisoned when he was young, and she had even saved him once, but none of these things were mentioned in the world’s plot.
Did Yu Sheng recognize her before?
Seeing her so calm, Lu Yun’s eyes darkened, “Tongtong, you’re not surprised at all. You’ve known for a long time, haven’t you?”
Wan Tong didn’t hide it from him either, nodding lightly.
Lu Yun’s face changed slightly, then he spoke word by word, “Yu Sheng is not human, he is cold-blooded and bloodthirsty, I can’t let him stay by your side, you will understand me, won’t you?”
At first, he didn’t recognize Yu Sheng, even saw him as a harmless human girl, but later, seeing Yu Sheng’s extraordinary abilities, he began to suspect.
Before he could figure it out, Yu Sheng changed his gender.
Only then did he dare to be sure that Yu Sheng was a mermaid, and the one he had seen in the research institute more than a decade ago.
Wan Tong heard the strangeness in Lu Yun’s voice, what was he nervous about?
“Lu Yun, first tell me why I met Yu Sheng in that place?”
She was only seven or eight at the time, she remembered she was indeed abroad during that time, and it was for treatment.
Right, she was often sick when she was young, but after that time, her health improved.
Now she seriously doubted if she had drunk mermaid blood at that time.
Thinking of this, her heart became even more chaotic, what were all these things…
The cold and indifferent little Yu Sheng in the video just now also made her feel uncomfortable.
Lu Yun lightly patted her shoulder, with a comforting tone, “It’s just an accident, forgetting it is nothing, just don’t be deceived by him in the future.”
“You said Yu Sheng deceived me? How did he deceive me?” Wan Tong grasped the key point in his words.
“Tongtong, didn’t you see his appearance? He was once imprisoned by humans, would he still trust humans, like humans?”
Lu Yun had also been curious, after so many years, why did Yu Sheng appear by Tongtong’s side?
And that Yu Jian, they were obviously in the same group…
Suddenly, as if confirming something, Lu Yun grasped her shoulders, his expression showing a hint of excitement, “They’re here to take revenge on us, they must be.”
Being chased three times in a short period, Lu Yun’s whole person was tense now, all the alarm bells in his mind immediately went off, shifting suspicion to Yu Sheng and Yu Jian.
After the sound fell, he suddenly released Wan Tong’s shoulder and turned away, calming the anger and hatred rising in his heart.
Enduring hatred from the mermaid clan since childhood, he couldn’t control his emotions whenever he thought of this.
Why should he be destined to be wiped out?
Wan Tong furrowed her brows, walked up to him, brushed aside the bangs covering his eyes, and asked softly, “Why seek revenge?”
With his hand clenched tightly by his side, Lu Yun remained silent. His gaze grew deeper, he lowered his head, lightly leaning on her shoulder, his voice returning to its usual harmlessness, “Don’t ask, Tongtong, they and I are natural enemies.”
Supporting his weight on her shoulder, Wan Tong didn’t immediately push him away but lowered her voice and continued, “Lu Yun, is something happening to you recently?”
Lu Yun didn’t respond. From an angle no one could see, he closed his eyes, and a hint of affection, unnoticed even by himself, emerged between his brows.
“Tell me, what’s going on with you? I can help you.” Wan Tong reached out to push him away gently, wanting to have a proper conversation with him.
Though she knew he was the villain in the plot, the many years of memories were real. If possible, she wanted to save his life.
But suddenly, her hands were firmly held by him, pressed against his chest.
Lu Yun seized her waist and effortlessly laid her down on the bed, his body pressing down on hers.
Wan Tong disliked being in such a disadvantaged position. She frowned and scolded, “Lu Yun, can’t you talk to me properly?”
Lu Yun’s thoughts were too hard to decipher, and his emotions were also unpredictable.
At this moment, his eyes revealed a hint of madness as he stared at the delicate collarbone beneath her loosened neckline. Then, he seemed to calm down gradually, his trembling pupils becoming steady.
“I want you, Tongtong.” He pressed her hands above her head, his head tilting to nuzzle her neck, his soft brown hair cascading down, brushing against Wan Tong’s skin, making her want to escape.
“Lu Yun, are you trying to force me?” Wan Tong struggled, turning her head away.
Lu Yun sniffed her faint scent, and a hum escaped his lips, “Yes, force.”
Wan Tong’s face turned cold, her voice dropping to freezing point, “Try it.”
She couldn’t see his expression, but she noticed his lips pressing tightly together and the grip on her hands tightened, making them ache.
His breath was a little hurried, spraying on her neck, sending chills down her spine.
But he didn’t dare to kiss her after all, keeping his head a bit distant from her.