Her Tentacles 103

Chapter 103: Extra 5

The mermaid’s “bad” temper was beyond Situ Jin’s expectations.

The process of taming her also far exceeded Situ Jin’s initial plans.

Or rather, facing such a person who seemed to have serious psychological problems, was unable to accept her current appearance, and had also experienced the incident of having her pearls stolen and being maliciously harmed by the Situ family’s servants, Situ Jin almost didn’t know how to treat her.

Especially when her butler brought over the results of the investigation at this time.

On it was the story of this mermaid, before she had become a [Parasite].

She had been born with albinism, but her family had treasured her very much, giving her the best living environment. Her mother had specially quit her job to accompany her as she grew up. When she was in school, she would personally pick her up and drop her off, and would even specially hold an umbrella for her on cloudy days, just for fear that the ultraviolet rays would burn her skin.

At the same time, she would also regularly take her for eye exams every year, so that if any related problems arose, they could be treated in a timely manner.

Originally, she could have grown up in such a honey-pot of love and care.

If the monsters had not come to this world.

If the community where her family lived had not been attacked by a malignant [Parasite]… or rather, if her parents had not been killed by the monster, and she had not, in the subsequent disaster-stricken resettlement area, because of her overly conspicuous hair and skin color, been seen by a rich man with a special fetish, and had subsequently disappeared in the vast sea of people—

Her life should not have been so unfortunate.

Situ Jin glanced at the file a few times, and from the cold, narrative language, she read about the many dramatic changes in this little girl’s life experience, and even vaguely guessed how she had fallen from heaven to hell.

After she was born, her mother, who had not believed in any religion, but thinking that some regions regarded her illness as a symbol of the devil and rejected her as a heretic, so she didn’t know if it was to atone for her, or out of guilt for her own and her other half’s bad genes, which had brought her such a terrible life course, she had since had a faith, and had prayed to all the gods and buddhas, wanting her to have a safe and smooth life in the future.

Until her family was shattered like a story in a curse, and her fate was also displaced. In the end, even those pains were blurred, and only her scarred soul remembered the pain. In every dead of night, she would be in so much pain that she would repeatedly scratch off her scales and flesh, trying to see clearly what kind of injuries she had suffered deep in her body.

…

Situ Jin casually threw the file into the shredder. Looking at the machine mercilessly cutting the stack of A4 paper into pieces, she still felt it wasn’t enough, and had someone burn the remaining scraps.

As the flames were lit on the bright balcony, she thought of herself.

She thought of the chase with “Chu Wan.”

Although the reason was very oolong, she should not have been the prey targeted by this monster. But just because of the easily misunderstood address of “Her Highness,” she had, by a strange twist of fate, taken the blame for her friend.

Of course.

This was also very normal.

After all, she, who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and was dressed in gorgeous clothes and jewelry, was more like the carefree, well-born princess in a fairy tale. And in the end, she had also waited for her friend’s unhesitating rescue.

However, Situ Jin preferred to be a queen, or a queen. When she had read the story of Snow White as a child, she had never been able to understand why the queen would believe the magic mirror’s words so much, and would be so concerned about her beautiful appearance. After all, everyone with power knew that beauty, in this circle, was the most worthless thing.

And a beauty without the protection of a blade was like a rose without thorns, and also like this little girl in the file, who had lost her parents and had even disappeared without a sound.

Now the situation had turned around again.

By luck, she had first dodged Chu Wan, and then had dodged Lin Jingshu, who had been descended upon by a monster on the cruise ship, and that group of summoned jellyfish.

How long could she be lucky?

As for the [Parasite], who had unfortunately become a mermaid, had lost her relatives, and seemed to have no memory of her human period, she had become a possessor of power, and could, in this disaster, temporarily be the dominant one.

Would fate be so ruthless as to turn over again?

Situ Jin didn’t know.

But she was sure that she would be the one who would always be at the top, and also this mermaid she was keeping in her pool.

Just as she had warned that servant with unclean hands and feet, even if she was just an ordinary fish, as long as she had entered the Situ family and was recognized by her, then she was her fish.

She didn’t care about the past, but in the future, she would not let the other be dragged into the vortex and low point of fate again.

The flames licked the past beauty and pain into ashes.

Situ Jin heard the butler come to report that Miss Shu’s Mr. Hua Yu had already arrived at the villa. She had someone welcome him in, and at the same time, she got up and walked toward the elevator.

When she arrived, the silver mermaid in the pool seemed to have already heard the commotion. She, who would usually hide at the bottom of the pool to avoid the coming and going crowd, this time quietly floated to the surface, and half of her head emerged. Her eyes, which had mutated into a deep blue, looked over.

So cute.

Situ Jin thought so, and also felt that it was a kind of luck that she didn’t remember the past.

So she slowly walked to the side of the pool, half-squatted down, and said to the mermaid, who had never escaped, “Why aren’t you hiding from me now?”

That pair of deep blue eyes looked her up and down, and turned several circles on her. After a while, she puffed out her cheeks, and the silver-haired beauty unhesitatingly submerged herself in the pool again.

She even stirred up a little splash of water, which just happened to land on her head and shoulders like a mist.

Situ Jin, who had been able to read her mood from some of her small movements: “?”

Why was she fine just now, but now she’s unhappy?

She was a little dazed, and looked down at her clothes and attire, but couldn’t see what was not to the other’s liking.

It was at this moment that some light footsteps came out of the elevator, and very obediently stopped in the distance. “Miss Situ, hello. I am Hua Yu. The team leader has entrusted me to come and check on the situation here.”

He had been instructed by Shu Yao on many matters concerning this mermaid, so he would never approach the pool before Miss Situ agreed.

Miss Situ turned her head and glanced at Hua Yu, then back at the mermaid who was blowing bubbles in the water. She raised an eyebrow with some helplessness, and then said to her in the water again:

“I know you can hear me. There’s something I want to discuss with you now.”

“The beautiful woman who helped you find your pearls just now is my friend. She’s found someone to help you. If you want to live in this pool forever, then it doesn’t matter if you always hide. I will try my best to find some free time to come here and accompany you every day.”

“But I won’t stay here forever. I have many places to go.”

“If you also want to have more freedom, and don’t want to be just kept in this pool, then would you consider accepting his help?”

“Of course, during the process of your trying, I will also be with you.”

“If you feel scared or unhappy, you can tell me at any time.”

After she finished speaking, she had someone bring some pastries and invited Hua Yu to sit down at the table and chairs on the side. She herself also went over to have tea and pastries, and would not look back to put any pressure on the mermaid.

…

Hua Yu wasn’t as comfortable as she was.

Out of curiosity, and also out of vigilance against these [Parasites] with special abilities, he almost couldn’t help but turn his head when the ripples on the surface of the pool spread slightly.

And then he was accurately splashed in the face with water.

And the cake in Situ Jin’s hand, who was sitting next to him, was not even stained with a single drop of water.

Hua Yu: “…”

Situ Jin helplessly put down her fork, got up and walked over. The silver-haired mermaid had sunk the lower half of her face in the water, blowing a gurgling bubble, and looked at her with trepidation.

Seeing that she seemed to be a little bolder than before, Situ Jin slowly extended her palm and reached out to her. It wasn’t until she unexpectedly touched her head that she was not dodged.

Situ Jin herself was stunned for a moment.

She almost forgot what she was going to say.

Then she tried to gently rub the wet and cool, yet very unique texture of her silver hair, and then she restrainedly withdrew her action and said very lightly, “Alright, you see, I didn’t bring any weapons, and I didn’t hurt you. He’s the same—”

“Before he does anything that scares you, we’ll just stay on guard and not attack, okay?”

The unexpected warmth made the mermaid, whose fish instincts were not used to the cold water, subconsciously chase after it.

In these chaotic, countless days, the mermaid’s consciousness was also like her body, which was divided into two parts. The human side and the fish side were constantly tearing at each other, making her feel uneasy in the water, and even more uneasy when she lost the water.

It wasn’t until she was touched on the head by this human’s palm that she vaguely felt that someone had once touched her like this, and it was a feeling she liked, a feeling that made her feel at ease.

Half of her was soaked in cold water, and the other half could touch the warmth. At this moment, a subtle balance was reached, and her always painful, wailing, and boiling soul also rested at this moment.

And so, the moment the other person withdrew her hand.

Her fishtail subconsciously flicked at the bottom of the water, and with the force, she lifted her light body up again, and her head once again hit Situ Jin’s palm.

“…Mmm?”

Situ Jin keenly realized that she seemed to really want to be close to her.

But just as the mermaid was about to get a reward on her own, she quickly dodged the other’s action, and then, under the slightly dazed gaze of the deep blue pupils, she replied with a smile:

“You haven’t given me an answer to what I just said.”

“Which one will you choose?”

“Let’s say this first. If you choose to accept Hua Yu’s help, and you perform well, you can always have me pat your head. How about that?”

The evil human was coaxing the innocent mermaid.

And in the end.

As expected, she had the other make the choice she liked, according to her own wishes.

But this was only the first step.

Hua Yu’s teaching was a bit too stream-of-consciousness. He could only vaguely describe the unknown feeling of turning from a human into a [Parasite], and he attributed his very superb swimming skills from the cruise ship shipwreck to his instincts.

And then he said to the mermaid, “Why don’t you try to find the feeling? The feeling of wanting to become a normal person, of wanting to walk on land?”

Situ Jin took a slight breath.

She was very worried that Hua Yu would remind the mermaid at this time, and let the other remember some overly painful memories.

However, in the end, nothing happened.

Because the mermaid glanced at her, then at the other, and only moved her tail from side to side in the pool, as if she didn’t understand why she had to become like them.

The first day of teaching ended in failure.

But Teacher Hua was persistent, believing that it was unreasonable for a mermaid with special abilities and such unparalleled beauty to be even more stupid than a good-for-nothing like him.

Besides, if he couldn’t teach this mermaid, he would seem even more useless to the team leader, wuwu.

And so Hua Yu diligently came to clock in every day. Three days later, he even took out a very professional notebook, on which he had recorded his thoughts on the changes and use of the abilities of other [Parasites].

And then he would come and read the heavenly book to the mermaid every day.

As for Situ Jin, because the mermaid no longer showed such a strong aggressive tendency as before, she was happy to wear different beautiful clothes and beautiful jewelry every day, and to have afternoon tea by her own swimming pool and take pictures and clock in.

Click.

The front-facing camera of her phone took a picture of her sparkling gem ring, which was extremely magnificent.

She kissed the beautiful ring on her finger with a good mood, and in the background, Hua Yu’s patient guidance to the mermaid in the pool sounded:

“Don’t you have anything you particularly want to do?”

“If your beautiful tail could turn into two legs, and you could walk on shore, have you ever thought about where you would want to go first?”

Situ Jin casually looked back.

But she saw the mermaid in the transparent pool also just happened to be looking in her direction, her gaze deep.

…

The next morning.

Situ Jin got up early as usual, thinking that the beautiful clothes she had ordered this quarter should have been delivered by now, and wanting to think about which set to wear later while she was running in the morning.

She walked into her walk-in closet, but almost thought her house had been robbed.

Wait.

Where did her diamond watch, which she had just bought last week, and all her gemstone jewelry go?

The walk-in closet, which should have been displaying all kinds of luxury goods, was still exuding a sense of wealth, but it was not illuminated by the light of her original necklaces, bracelets, rings, watches, and other brands.

In its place—

Were one after another of round, pink, and white pearl jewelry.

On the automatic watch winder, in front of the transparent glass display case with jewelry, and on the closets with clothes of different seasons and types, were all decorated with all kinds of different pearl accessories by some unknown person.

And the quality of these lustrous, large pearls, no matter how she looked at it, was very familiar.

Situ Jin’s expression was subtle, and her mood was complicated.