The Haunted

The Fandi Kingdom is a beautiful and rich country located at the intersection of the East and the West. People live in abundance, and the king and queen have deep feelings and love.They have only one child, named Chi Yan. On the one hand, the king and queen strictly demand the prince as a heir to a country, and on the other hand, they can't help doting on their only child.This allows the prince to have the ability to handle affairs independently while still retaining innocent illusions.

The prince was going soon, and the king and queen promised to grant him one wish.

Chi Yan took his parents' hands, shaking them, and begged his parents to allow him to go to sea and hold his birthday party on the boat.

The territory of Fandi Kingdom includes a piece of sea area, but the capital is deeply inland. Chi Yan had only a handful of opportunities to get close to the sea since he was a child, and he was full of romantic and mysterious reverie about the mysterious blue.

Naturally, the king and queen were reluctant to refuse their son's simple wish, so they happily agreed with a smile.

Only one of the prince's teachers, the high priest of the Fandi Kingdom, raised hidden concerns. The old man clearly knew what their young prince was thinking.

"Your Highness, please don't believe the stories made up by bards. Those are all nonsense. There are no beautiful and kind mermaids and magnificent undersea kingdoms in the sea, but only cruel sea monsters. You must be careful at sea .”

"I understand," Chi Yan responded obediently, "Teacher, if you are worried, you can come together. The boat my father gave me is the most advanced and comfortable boat."

The old priest quickly refused, but he couldn't resist the wind, waves and turbulence at sea.

The prince's birthday is approaching day by day, the king will stay in the capital to deal with government affairs, the queen and a group of nobles accompanied the prince to board his brand new white luxury cruise ship.The cruise departs from Golden Sunset Port, and will return to this port again after ten days of sea voyage.The king also hoped that the prince would take this opportunity to get to know more about his sea territory, so he sent the best navigator to accompany Chi Yan to explain.

The queen was a little unwell after boarding the ship, and spent most of the time recuperating in her room, only making a symbolic appearance at the dinner on the first day.And everyone knows in their hearts that the prince has grown up, and the next priority is to choose the queen, so the nobles who have lost the big goal of the queen always bring their young and beautiful daughters in front of Chi Yan intentionally or unintentionally. Do your best to strike up a conversation with him.

Chi Yan didn't like to deal with these situations, so apart from visiting his mother in the queen's room every day, he took the navigators to stand on the deck and listen to them explain the situation at sea.He and the navigators put on an appearance of discussing political affairs, and the actions of those nobles will be restrained.As a prince, Chi Yan naturally enjoys one of the best rooms on the ship.His room is at the bow of the ship, and there is another spacious semi-circular balcony outside the room. The view from the balcony is excellent, and you can have a panoramic view of the sea and sky when you look up.

But sometimes he sits alone on the sofa in the living room and reads a book, looking at the sea outside through the large and bright glass window, he will suddenly feel that there will be a person behind him for no reason, and hug him like this to watch the sea together. , whispered some soft and vague words in his ear, he couldn't remember what those words were, he just remembered that the feeling should be very warm.

Then he would hold the book alone and fall into a deep, inextricable loneliness and loss.

Sometimes he would push open the balcony door alone in the middle of the night, looking at the bright starry sky and the sea darkened by the night in a trance under the sea breeze.He always has such a feeling that he is looking for someone, he is waiting for someone, but he doesn't know who the other party is.Instead of fading, this feeling increased as he got older, as he entered puberty, and as he became an adult.

So he likes to listen to those fantasy legends told by bards, he likes to listen to the legends about the sea and mermaids, he even fantasizes about whether there was a beautiful mermaid princess who saved him, but he and the mermaid in the story Like a foolish prince, he completely forgot about each other after waking up.

The cruise ship has sailed on the sea for five days, and the distance from the golden sunset port is getting farther and farther away, and the vast sea is showing its broad and deep side.The prince's birthday also arrived as scheduled.

Before dawn, the servants began to get busy. Chi Yan's servant waited on him to put on a brand new white dress, and the female officer adjusted his collar for him, and praised: "Your Highness, you are so handsome today."

The queen's complexion has also improved a lot today, and she is wearing a dignified and elegant palace dress to celebrate her son's coming of age.

But even if the venue of the banquet is moved from the palace to a ship at sea, the basic procedure and style are still the same. After the grand dinner, there will be a dance that Chi Yan dislikes the most. Chance slipped out of the ballroom and came alone to the top deck.

The sky was gloomy, and there were no bright stars to be seen, and there was a different kind of moisture in the air.Chi Yan remembered what the navigator said, that there should be rain tonight.

The surrounding fields are completely silent, the sea and the sky are terribly dark, the wind brings the tide of the sea more and more intense, visible to the naked eye, a whirlpool-shaped storm eye has rolled up on the sea not far from the cruise ship!

But in an instant, the wind was so strong that people could hardly stand still, and all the chairs placed on the deck were lifted up, rolling on the deck in a disorderly manner.Chi Yan barely clung to the railing on the edge of the deck to stabilize himself, and tried to walk into the cabin in a staggered manner.

Everything on the deck had been blown up into the sky by the wind, and it became extremely difficult for Chi Yan to take a step back.At this moment, a strong wind carried a chair and struck towards Chi Yan's direction. He was caught off guard and was directly thrown into the sea by the force of the wind...

The cabin was already in chaos. The nobles hid in their rooms under the guidance and guidance of the palace attendants. The queen still barely maintained her composure and sat in the ball hall to calm her heart.

This scene is too terrifying, from the window you can see the five huge black vortexes surrounding the hull, like the mouth of a giant beast that chooses to devour people.

The well-informed navigator reported to the queen with a pale face: "Your Majesty, this is the handiwork of the siren. We must have strayed into the hunting area of ​​the siren by mistake. The captain has ordered the rudder to be turned."

To ordinary people, sea monsters are just powerful creatures in legends. They overwhelm rivers and seas, roll up huge waves, devour huge ships and sailors, they are cruel, powerful, bloody and inhumane.They can be called the masters of the sea, standing at the top of the sea food chain, meeting them means death.

The navigator trembled all over.Fear is divided into two types, one is fear because of the unknown; the other is fear because of knowledge.No one is more familiar with the horror of this kind of monster than them. He knows that they have fallen into a near-death situation. The only thing they can rely on now is the protective barrier that the high priest placed on the cruise ship before departure. I hope it can stop those sea monsters .

The queen's dignified and beautiful face had a layer of obvious worry, and she anxiously asked her most concerned question: "Have you found the prince?"

When the storm blew up, it was soon discovered that the Prince had disappeared.Chi Yan's entourage reported that the prince went to the deck alone before, but when they went to the deck to look for it against the strong wind, they didn't see anyone. They could only start with the hope that "the prince has returned to the cabin". Find someone in the cabin.

The chief guard who was in charge of organizing the search for the prince did not dare to look at the queen's face, but only lowered his head deeply and said, "...Your Highness will be safe and sound."

The queen closed her eyes and fell back on the chair—at this point, she could only pray to God to bless them from this catastrophe, and to keep her only son safe.

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Chi Yan was shot down on the surface of the sea, and the impact of that moment made him faint.

Gradually, he became slightly lucid, but he only felt that the surroundings were surrounded by icy sea water, his limbs became heavier and weaker, and he tried to move his fingers, but it was in vain.

He couldn't open his eyes, the surrounding was too quiet, he was too cold, but he couldn't break free from the icy sea.

At that moment, Chi Yan even thought of death.He thought maybe this was death, and he would be buried in this icy sea.

A pair of equally cold hands supported him, hugged his waist, and sank to the deeper seabed together with his arms.

The huge water pressure and the bone-piercing sea made Chi Yan struggle painfully, he desperately slapped the "person" who was hugging him, trying to break free from the other's grip.

The other party suddenly hugged him frontally into his arms and hugged him tightly.

Something stuck to his lips, tentatively poking in——

The icy liquid was poured into the mouth, the pressure around him disappeared instantly, and the inside of his body began to become warm, only the body wrapped around him was still ice-cold.

Chi Yan hugged him instinctively, asking him for more.

All greedy and unscrupulous pursuits have been satisfied, and in this trance of sweetness and darkness, he is entangled with each other and falls into the bottom of the endless deep sea together...

On the night of the prince's birthday, just as the storm vortex suddenly appeared, those black storms suddenly disappeared without warning.The nobles guessed that the high priest's enchantment had played a role, but the oldest navigator stared at the sea and whispered, "The sea monster has already got the prey it wants."

But they still did not find the prince.

The king sent another [-] ships to carry out the search and rescue work for the prince, and he himself went to the scene to direct the ship. The cruise ship took the nobles back to the Golden Sunset Port, but the queen refused to go back with them, but continued to stay at sea waiting to be found. Prince's result.

Everyone knows that the prince is already in danger.But if they don't see the evidence, the king and queen will not believe it or give up.

However, a month later, when everyone had slowly given up hope, the prince suddenly appeared.

He was sitting on a raft and appeared not far from the search and rescue ship. His face was pale, his short black hair was sticking wetly to his face, and his eyes were also wet, showing a little bewilderment and bewilderment.He was wearing a white robe, which was warm and dry, wrapping him well.

The attendants hurriedly rescued their highness the prince aboard, and the queen rushed to see him immediately, hugging him tightly into her arms, weeping uncontrollably. "Mom, I'm back." Chi Yan called his mother in a low voice like when he was a child, hesitating, and hugged his mother's body back.

He is back.

He's already, back.

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Five years later, the old king and queen abdicated and began to travel around the world. Chi Yan officially ascended the throne and became the new king of Fandi Kingdom.His marriage was inevitably put on the agenda again.And Chi Yan once again forcibly suppressed this topic.

Back in the bedroom, he dismissed all the attendants around him, and walked to the sink alone to wash his face with cold water.

He never mentioned what happened five years ago to anyone. Facing the outside world, even his own parents, he always said "I don't know" "I slipped and fell into the water on the deck that night, after that I just lost consciousness" "He's already here after waking up"... He used his coma to prevaricate everything, and others didn't dare to ask in detail. The queen and king felt sorry for him, and they were full of joy when they saw him come back, and they wouldn't press him again others.

Only he himself knows exactly what happened during that month in the sea five years ago—bit by bit, he remembers it clearly.

He remembered that thing, his cold and powerful arms, his pale and handsome face, the evil smile on his mouth, his powerful and powerful fish tail, and his imitation of human pronunciation. The humidity of calling him "A Yan" in his ear... I remember those chaotic and indulgent, endless close entanglements in the cold and dark seabed.

He knew what the other party was—even with the same strange and deceptive appearance, the other party was not the gentle and kind mermaid in the bard's story, but the cruel and cold-blooded siren that the high priest had repeatedly warned him to be careful of.

He still remembers how he cried, pandered, flattered, and begged the other party to let him go and let him go back in those days when day and night were indistinguishable... The other party never responded, just kissing him with cold lips little by little Get rid of the tears hanging on his face.

So he didn't expect that the thing would really send him back in the end.

Chi Yan washed his face, dressed neatly and went to the temple.

He would go to pray every day, asking God to forgive his sins—the sin of wanton intercourse with a dark and cruel monster...the sin of thinking about that monster and being unable to extricate himself from it.

Sometimes he even dreamed that he was floating on the surface of the sea, and a pair of icy arms suddenly wrapped around him, constantly dragging him to the depths... dreaming that the cold lips and breath fell silently on his body ...

In the dream, he didn't cry and beg for mercy, but stretched out his arms to hug that person in response, and sighed: "I miss you so much..."

Intimate as if coquettish between long-lost lovers.

The scene in the dream often wakes him up, but it reveals the secret desire in his heart that he dare not admit.

Such days began after he returned from the sea that year, and did not end until half a year after he ascended the throne.

It wasn't because he suddenly forgot what happened back then, the sea monster, but because he met someone.

That is an extremely wealthy foreigner, possessing unimaginable wealth that is truly incomparable.He said that he came from the mainland on the other side of the sea. He was a nobleman in his original country and also ran a family business.He can easily produce treasures that are the envy of the wealthiest nobles in the Van Emperor Kingdom. His extraordinary appearance, extensive knowledge, noble and elegant speech and amazing financial resources quickly made him popular among the upper-class nobles in the Van Emperor Kingdom. sought after and welcomed.

Chi Yan had heard rumors about this man in the court before, but he didn't pay attention to it until he saw that man for the first time at a banquet hosted by his uncle.

The other party did have a handsome and noble appearance, he gracefully took Chi Yan's hand, and put a polite kiss on it: "Your Majesty, my name is Ye Yingzhi."

Chi Yan's mind was shocked at that moment.

There is no other reason, just because the man has a face that is exactly the same as the sea monster in the memory.But it is no longer strange and cold, but dignified, noble, gentle and amiable.

It's like a cold-blooded monster in the deep sea has covered itself with a layer of delicate human skin.

Chi Yan couldn't help looking at his lower body - that's right, it was a pair of slender and straight human legs, not the cold and powerful fish tail in memory.

The man smiled gently and politely at him: "Your Majesty, what are you looking at?"

Chi Yan tried his best to maintain his composure, but he left early at the dinner party.

That night he had another nightmare.He dreamed that he was tightly locked in the arms of the sea monster, pressed on the dark and empty seabed, the monster wantonly robbed him of everything, and smiled in his ear: "Baby, I finally caught you."

It was the voice of the man named Ye Yingzhi.

Chi Yan woke up from the dream, sat on the bed with his head down, trying to calm down his emotions.He thought for a long time alone in the dark, and sat quietly until the next morning.

Afterwards, Chi Yan began to summon men to the palace intentionally or unintentionally, sometimes playing chess with him, sometimes drinking tea with him, sometimes watching performances with him... Everyone knew that this foreigner named Ye Yingzhi became His Majesty's new favorite.

Chi Yan couldn't tell what exactly he wanted from the other party, did he want to see through the other party's human disguise?Or do you want to prove that the man is just an ordinary stranger and has nothing to do with that sea monster?

He couldn't tell the difference, and he didn't know whether he wanted to prove that Ye Yingzhi was human or whether he wanted to prove that Ye Yingzhi was not human.

But his heart was unconsciously captured by the other party in the process.He dreamed less and less of the cold and dark seabed, and more and more thought of the stone road the two walked together, and the scenery of the four seasons they had seen together.

A year passed quickly, and the contact between the two became more and more frequent. Chi Yan even prepared a room for the other party in the palace.He thinks less and less whether a man is a human or a sea monster. He only knows that Ye Yingzhi can easily occupy his full attention. The time with him always makes people feel warm and fulfilling, as if there is something missing Things are filled by the presence of the other party.

Finally, at the end of summer and early autumn of this year, the young king of Fandi Kingdom proposed to this unidentified mysterious foreigner.

He held each other's hand in the garden of the palace, and asked with a smile: "Yingzhi, are you willing to stay with me forever? Until death takes one of us."

He was confident and sure that Ye Yingzhi would agree, after all, the man's love and focus on him were obvious.

And the result was as he expected.

Ye Yingzhi kissed his forehead lightly, and replied in a low voice: "I think even death can't separate us. We will always be together until eternity."

Chi Yan couldn't wait to set their wedding date and organize a grand wedding ceremony, and formally took his queen back to the palace before winter came.

He hugged and kissed his queen in the bedroom, and pushed Ye Yingzhi into the bedroom amidst the other's smile.

He sat alone on the bed that would belong to two people from now on, feeling a little embarrassed and impatient, and finally couldn't help but quietly opened the bathroom door and slipped in.

As the lord of a country, he has a bathroom that can be described as "luxurious", and the bathtub in it is enough to accommodate ten adults.

After Chi Yan walked in, he quietly closed the door, looked around, the bathroom was filled with white mist and water vapor dispersed, he looked carefully twice, but he didn't see his queen.

At this moment, a cold hand stretched out from the bath and pulled him in with all his might——

Chi Yan was caught off guard and fell into a cold embrace.

He froze in place in astonishment, feeling the familiar cold touch engraved into the bone marrow, and had a faint premonition in his heart, but he didn't dare to turn his head.

Until the other party gently put his chin on his shoulder, and said with a light smile, "Baby, I finally caught you."

Chi Yan swallowed his saliva, lowered his eyes and looked down, the arms that hugged him were pale and powerful, with slender fingers, and the long nails were extremely sharp like the deep sea, shining like a hunter.

The strong fish's tail was slightly curved, clinging to him, playing with his calves and ankles.

The sea monster hugged the person in its arms and turned around, Chi Yan was forced to see the familiar appearance of the sea monster, with pointed ears, scarlet eyes, and evil smile.

He closed his mouth tightly and let out a small whimper from his throat.He couldn't even react for a moment to what was going on in the scene in front of him.

The siren kissed irresistibly, just like he did five years ago.

We will always be together, and death will never part us.

According to legend, after the lover of the sea monster dies, the sea monster will hold her and sink into the bottom of the sea, into a place that no one can touch, and then die with her.

And I will accompany you, as a "person", until that day comes.

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Legend has it that the young king of the Fandi Kingdom had a very beloved queen from a foreign land. The story of their love was spread widely through the bards.

But no one knows that on the side of the throne, on the back seat are people or monsters.