Her Tentacles 104

Chapter 104: Extra 6

Situ Jin pressed her temples and turned around in the walk-in closet.

Finally, in a corner cabinet, she found the sinking agarwood box she had given away before. The lid was still half-closed, and inside, where her mermaid pearl tears should have been, were now all the other jewelry that had disappeared from the cabinet.

A diamond watch, a classic brand gem snake necklace and bracelet, which should have been shining brightly in a spacious and bright display case, were now aggrievedly squeezed into a small wooden box.

Situ Jin: “…”

The culprit didn’t even bother to hide her identity.

At the height of her helplessness, she instead let out a light laugh in the room.

She had originally wanted to go out and call the troublemaker over to ask her why she had done this, but thinking of the fish who didn’t even remember her own name, she could only rub her temples again.

Then she looked at the room full of pearl jewelry and thought, what on earth did she want to do?

A few minutes later.

Miss Situ, on her morning run, had a pink pearl bracelet on her wrist, which was extremely different from her usual simple style of only wearing a wristband and a sports bracelet.

When she was running, she would pass by her own small garden.

The fresh flowers in the small garden were planted outside a glass wall. The glass faced the swimming pool area on the basement level. Not only could one see the ice-blue from the outside, but one could also look up from the inside to see the beautiful tulip flower balls on the ground, and the golden morning glow.

When her shadow was reflected on the glass window, it also fell into a pair of deep blue eyes that were staring intently.

…

Situ Jin had changed her morning run route today.

She had specially chosen a path that repeatedly circled her own house, instead of, as usual, taking a longer route through the woods outside to breathe in the fragrance of the grass and trees in the morning.

And because of this, her morning run time was half of what it usually was.

Then she took a shortcut from the outside and pulled open the door leading to the swimming pool. Sure enough, she saw that mermaid, as usual, lying by the side of the pool closest to her.

As if she had been waiting for her in this posture for a long time.

There was a thin layer of sweat on her forehead. She did not choose to get close to the cool water at this time, but just extended the hand with the pearl bracelet to her. “Good morning. Do you want to come up today?”

The silver-haired mermaid’s tail moved, and the surface of the pool was shaken into a layer of snow-white foam.

A smile appeared in Situ Jin’s eyes.

She felt as if she were seeing a big dog wagging its tail hard in the water, and its tail was probably about to turn into a propeller.

She waited patiently for a while, and then suddenly withdrew her hand, pretending to turn and leave. “I forgot you haven’t learned how to turn into a human yet. Then I’ll go up and take a shower, change clothes, and have breakfast, and then I’ll come down to see you—”

Just as she turned around, she heard a “thump” sound behind her.

It was as if something had hit the surface of the water hard.

Then, a weight flew onto her back, pressing Situ Jin’s knees forward, and her whole body almost fell forward.

It was the cool arms that came from behind and hugged her neck that pulled her a little. However, in this way, it was as if she were being hugged tightly from behind.

Previously, when she was in the pool, Situ Jin had observed that this mermaid, including her tail, was probably nearly two meters long. Now, although she did not turn her head, she could still feel the figure hugging her, and its aura completely enveloped her.

It should still be a little taller than her.

Situ Jin thought so, and felt the other’s hair, which was as cold as the pool water, fall on her neck. The same cool breath came closer, and for some reason, she had the eerie feeling of being approached by a cold-blooded snake with its tongue flicking out.

And then she heard the voice by her ear:

“Be good, and you can pet me.”

Situ Jin: “?”

She reacted for two seconds before she remembered that she had promised this mermaid that if she was willing to accept Hua Yu’s help and learn some essential common sense about [Parasites] and the rules of survival in human society, and could learn to walk normally on shore, she could always pet her head.

The dangerous illusion of being enveloped by the aura of an overly tall monster suddenly dissipated.

She was now like being held onto by a large dog, begging for a bone as a reward.

And so her expression returned to its usual helplessness. “You let go of me first.”

When she turned around.

Situ Jin remembered that she had forgotten a very important thing—

Previously, the mermaid had always lived in the pool, and her long silver hair was as thick and beautiful as seaweed, always falling in front of her, making her look like the most perfect work of art.

However.

Her tail had turned into long legs. After she came ashore, standing in the bright sunlight, her body and posture were completely the same as a human’s. The demonic beauty was suppressed, and it would make people obviously put their gaze on her bare skin.

Situ Jin caught a glimpse of the little girl standing in front of her, her expression very calm, letting herself be sized up. She reflexively looked away, not wanting to look at her now overly obvious body curve. She turned her head to look at the direction where the bathrobes were placed by the swimming pool.

Then she said to her, “You should put on some clothes first.”

Fortunately, after the mermaid had turned into a human, her height was only about one meter seventy, about the same as hers, which made her breathe a slight sigh of relief.

The silver-haired woman tilted her head, followed her gaze to look at the bathrobe hanging in the distance, and then put her gaze back on her.

She pretended not to understand and stood there without moving.

Her deep blue eyes were still filled with a persistent expectation.

She wouldn’t do the next thing until she had been rewarded for the last one.

Situ Jin: “…”

She raised an eyebrow. The hand by her side had just been raised when the person who had been standing straight suddenly leaned toward her, lowered her head, and actively came to reach her palm.

As she moved, her long silver hair, which was no longer able to freely control the water in the swimming pool, moved slightly with its weight, separating from her graceful body, like a crystal tassel, unscrupulously showing the curve of her chest and waist.

The arc of Situ Jin’s head turning became more and more obvious.

Until in the end, she couldn’t hold back anymore, and her palm forcefully rubbed that head with its special hair quality. Then she unhesitatingly raised her hand and grabbed the other’s shoulder, turned her around, and pushed her forward. “Alright, go and put on some clothes!”

…

The big dog, even after putting on clothes, was still not very well-behaved.

She didn’t know if it was because she disliked the fabric of the bathrobe for not being soft enough, or if she was not used to it sticking to her skin. Following Situ Jin, she sat on a chair by the swimming pool, and would still from time to time move, causing the robe, which was only tied with a belt and had no buttons to fix it, to slip off as she rubbed against it.

Exposing a large part of her shoulder.

And it was on the verge of becoming a deep V, and then slowly opening up more from the middle.

Situ Jin had originally been asking her name, if she had one she liked, or if she should choose a new one. At this moment, she quickly grabbed her collar and, with a furrowed brow, asked instead, “Is it uncomfortable to wear?”

The silver-haired beauty blinked and watched her get closer.

The warmth released from every pore of her body was very attractive to her.

And so, she, who had always liked to fight against her instincts, at this moment, gladly chose to follow the thought in her heart, and used both her hands and feet to wrap around the person. As Situ Jin was entangled by her strength and fell into her chair with her, to be precise, she fell into her arms.

She happily narrowed her eyes.

And then she rubbed her silver head against the other’s cheek.

Situ Jin, who was like a pillow: “…”

Although she was in human form, at this moment, with their skin touching, she could so clearly feel the inhuman coldness of the other’s body temperature. Fortunately, there were clothes separating them now. She propped her palm on the armrest of the chair and said to the creature that was unscrupulously hugging her:

“Let go.”

With one hand barely supporting the chair, she raised the other and pinched the silver-haired woman’s cheek. Situ Jin stared at her deep blue eyes at close range. “I forgot to teach you the most important thing.”

“—In the future, if you want to do anything, you must ask first. You can only proceed to the next step after I agree. Do you understand?”

She let go of the hand that was pinching the other’s cheek, and let the pink pearl bracelet on her wrist sway in front of the other’s eyes.

“Just like this. If you want me to wear it, you can just say so. You’re not allowed to make a mess in my walk-in closet and do bad things.”

“If your clothes are uncomfortable and you want to change them or take them off, that’s fine too, but you have to give a reason.”

“And now, if you want to get close to me, you also have to get my permission. You can only do it after I nod. Do you understand?”

She patiently, one by one, corrected the other’s willful behavior, as if she were re-imprinting the etiquette of human society back into the other’s memory, bit by bit.

A look of innocent confusion and sudden realization appeared in the mermaid’s deep blue eyes.

By the time she had gotten up and had retreated from her embrace, she immediately opened her arms again and eagerly learned to ask, “Hug?”

Situ Jin graciously refused her. “No.”

She pointed at the clothes on her body that she had not changed. “I’m going to take a shower, and I haven’t had breakfast yet.”

The mermaid’s eyes immediately showed annoyance and disappointment.

As if to say, if she had known, she wouldn’t have learned this kind of politeness.

Situ Jin was almost tripped by the person guarding the door as she walked out of the bathroom.

Even though she really disliked that bathrobe, the silver-haired mermaid still tried her best to tie it tightly. At this moment, she was holding a breakfast tray that she had snatched from someone, and held it up to her, her eyes shining as she looked at her. “Breakfast!”

“…Thank you.”

The young lady was stunned for a moment before she took it. She was still thinking about what she was imitating this time when she heard her next sentence, “Hug?”

She had taken a shower, changed her clothes, and had also taken the breakfast to eat—

Can I hug you now?

Situ Jin was a little puzzled as to why she was suddenly so obsessed with this kind of close contact. She held the breakfast tray with one hand and reached out to touch her cheek with the other. “Do you like the warm feeling? Why don’t I have someone turn on the heating on the basement level?”

“Or should I turn up the water temperature for you?”

The mermaid tilted her head and did not answer her.

She just stubbornly wanted to get close to her.

Situ Jin had no choice but to assume that she disliked the pool water being too cold. After all, there was no research data that could teach people how to raise a mermaid now, let alone this [Parasite] in front of her, who had been a human before, and had later lost her memory and had become a mermaid.

Hiss.

So hard to raise.

She thought so, and on the one hand, she ordered the butler to collect information on the water temperature and environment for tropical fish, and at the same time, she had him try to raise the temperature of the basement level. On the other hand, she nodded at the mermaid who was persistently approaching her. “Go ahead and hug.”

But in the end, it turned into her using the other as a chair cushion and backrest, and she was completely sitting on another person while eating breakfast, and at the same time, she continued to read the business analysis cases and reading notes she had been looking at before.

From time to time, she would also have to have one of her hands pulled over, and be forced to stroke that head with its unique hair quality. For a moment, Situ Jin couldn’t even tell which of the two of them was more like a tool.

Looking at the person who was being used as a cushion and was having her head stroked like a pet, and was still happily squinting her deep blue eyes, Situ Jin was silent for a moment and decided to add some psychology content to her recent reading list.

Thinking this.

She handed over a few strips of paper with names she had just listed. “Choose one. It will be your name. You can change it later if you want, but it’s for convenience of address.”

A few of the names were very close to her original name.

When she saw the mermaid casually intending to directly touch the top piece of paper and hand it over, Situ Jin’s voice became a little heavier, with a hint of a command. “Choose carefully.”

The mermaid paused for a moment.

She slowly opened the paper, and after reading the Chinese characters on it, she finally handed one of them to her.

‘Xuan Zhu’

She had completely avoided her original name, and she didn’t know if it was intentional or unintentional.

Situ Jin looked at her with a meaningful gaze, and then gently touched her head. “Alright, then from today on, your name is Xuan Zhu.”

It was another name for the moon.

Not bad. At least it was very in line with her appearance and this brilliant hair color.

…

That night.

When Situ Jin had finished her home study for the day and wanted to rest and sleep, she found a big problem:

“You’re not going back yet?”

She looked at Xuan Zhu with a puzzled expression.

In the afternoon, Hua Yu had originally planned to come over, but after hearing from Situ Jin that she had already learned how to turn into a human, and that her comprehension and communication skills were still normal, he had said that there was nothing more he could teach her. But he had sent over the notes on the land life of other [Parasites], and had let this mermaid study on her own.

At night, Situ Jin was still reading her own books with her. She heard her flipping the pages of the book with a rustling sound, and she didn’t know if she had actually read a few words.

Anyway.

The academic performance of this little one, as shown in the previous file… was not very good.

And now.

She looked at the mermaid who had been in her room all day, and had no intention of returning to the pool downstairs even at night. She was a little worried that it would be bad for her body to stay out of the water and in her room all the time.

But Xuan Zhu didn’t seem to think so. After smelling the scent of shower gel on her after she had come out of the bathroom, her dark eyes were also like the night, like a sea that had fallen into a deep sleep, with a mysterious magic that was hard to see through.

She just stared at Situ Jin like this. When she found that the direction the other was walking was no longer the desk and chair area where she was, but the softer bed, she said:

“Stay?”

Situ Jin reacted for a while. “You want to stay? You don’t like to stay in the pool anymore? Then I’ll have the butler prepare a room for you. Do you want me to take you out to have a look and pick a room you like?”

Xuan Zhu sat on the chair without moving.

Her gaze went from her to her bed, and then her eyes slowly showed anticipation.

Situ Jin, who completely understood her hint: “…”

She answered very calmly, “I’m not used to sleeping with others.”

She had had her own room since she was very young. When she was studying before, she had basically never stayed over with Shu Yao and Lin Jingshu outside, because with Shu Yao, this obedient good baby who went home, they all went back to their own homes at night.

Later, during her dating period, it was mostly when she was studying abroad. The safety of those places was not as good as at home, and Situ Jin had no interest in hiring bodyguards with great fanfare, so she had even less interest in sleeping with someone.

“Others?”

Xuan Zhu slowly repeated this word.

Just as Situ Jin thought her refusal was clear enough, she saw Xuan Zhu raise her finger, point at her own beautiful and demonic face, and correct her with an innocent expression, “Not others, a different fish.”

She was not others.

She was a different fish.

If she was a fish, then they could sleep together, right?