Shuang Hua You Nuo

Xiao Xingchen is a fish, to be precise, a merman—a merman who weaves into silk and tears into pearls.

However, for him, these are just rumors. As far as he can remember, he has never shed tears or spun yarn. He has always been the only one in the empty deep seabed palace.

There are water-like silk and soft pearls everywhere in the palace, but to him, all of these are not as bright and moving as the first sunshine on the sea.

So he likes to swim from the deep under the sea to the surface of the sea, sit on the reef, hang the silvery white fish tail in the water, and watch the seabirds flying and the fish and shrimps swarming.

At this time, Xiao Xingchen would think of the boy he rescued the day before yesterday, and the tears when his parents hugged him and cried.

Human tears cannot be turned into pearls.

Humans are really strange creatures. They are cruel and ruthless, wantonly hunting and killing creatures in the sea, but they are so fragile that a small storm can kill them.

Another large ship approached from a distance, and humans began their massacre again.

Xiao Xingchen looked at the reef where he was hiding. Naturally, those people couldn't find such a hidden place, and he could quietly watch them pass by as before.

So when the fishing net covered him, Xiao Xingchen was completely at a loss.

Until he saw a middle-aged man leading a teenager appear, and then looked at himself with excited and fanatical eyes.

Such eyes are no strangers, and when humans catch big fish, they always have such eyes.However, compared to this, the boy's gaze made him even more frightened.

It was something he had never seen before, a greedy and deep demand, like the cold wind in the deep winter, frightening and disgusting.

"What a beautiful mermaid! It will definitely sell for a lot of money."

The hooded mermaid has pointed ears, long silvery-white shiny hair, a slender and beautiful fishtail with silvery light, a handsome and gentle face, and a pair of bright eyes.

The people on the boat were extremely excited, eager to draw the net, wanting to fish their glory and wealth onto the boat.

The boy looked at him with a smile and held out his hand.

"Leave with me, and I will protect you."

Bring people to capture me, imprison me, shed tears for people to enjoy, protect me like this?

Xiao Xingchen looked at the young man quietly, and erased the innocent impression left in his mind, and decisively revealed his sharp nails.

Capricious, greedy and cunning human beings.

The people on the boat never imagined that the legendary mermaid could tear their fishing nets in twos and threes.

"Use a harpoon!"

"kill him!"

Another net volleyed down.

The moment the gleaming harpoon stabbed at Xiao Xingchen, he thought in great annoyance, why did he die like this before he found that person?

A strong wind suddenly picked up, Xiao Xingchen opened his eyes again, and the overwhelming tide had already swept the boat and people into the sea without a trace.

"Stupid!"

A cold voice suddenly sounded above his head.

In the distant past, there was such a voice that said to myself who was injured by saving others: "Stupid!"

Xiao Xingchen raised his head, and in mid-air, the man in black was looking down at him, Yuan Shan's long eyebrows were slightly frowned, looking very distressed.

The man's long black hair gleamed coldly in the sun, his pale and handsome face seemed to be covered with frost and snow, without warmth, and his slender eyelashes were curved, covering his cold gaze, which was a third colder than the bright moon .

"...Thank you...," Xiao Xingchen raised his head in a daze, the ripples in his heart were almost like a wave.

He asked carefully again, "Who are you?"

"My name is Song Lan, and my name is Zichen."

"Song... Zichen, can I call you Zichen? My name is Xiao Xingchen, you can call me Xingchen."

Song Lan looked at Xiao Xingchen who was sitting on the rock looking up at her.

The other party's silver-white fish tail swayed happily in the water, and a gentle smile appeared on his always gentle face, which was more comforting than the beautiful scenery of all the flowers blooming in Tiangong.

If there is no objection, then it is agreed!Xiao Xingchen was silently happy in his heart, then patted the smooth and shiny reef beside him by the waves, and looked at Song Lan expectantly.

"Zichen, you sit too."

Song Lan frowned even more, her eyes almost stared at the rock.However, facing Xiao Xingchen's hidden expectant eyes, he finally sat down with his lips pursed, although before sitting down, he silently performed several dust removal formulas on the reef.

"Zichen, where were they swept away by the storm?"

Xiao Xingchen sat next to Song Lan, drowsy from the warm sun, and vaguely remembered the human being who wanted to capture him just now.

"Death or life is determined by fate."

"What about my life?"

"Do you know that boy just now is the child you saved back then?"

"It's him?"

"Why do I say you are stupid!"

There was a hint of anger in this voice, it turned out that he knew that that person would bring disaster to him, no wonder he didn't like his act of saving people back then.

Then Xiao Xingchen fell into a dream, and when he woke up, he was already in the familiar palace that was fluttering in the sky.

Song Lan was meditating with her eyes closed on the side of the stone bed. When she heard the movement, she opened her eyes and looked at the dazed Xiao Xingchen.

"woke up?"

"Zichen? You sent me back? How do you know I live here?" Xiao Xingchen realized later, "You can also enter the water?"

Song Lan showed a trace of helplessness in his eyes, and sighed: "I am a god, and I have the ability to enter the sea."

"God? So...you were the one who saved me that time?"

Song Lan was taken aback when he heard the words, slightly surprised, and said softly, "Do you still remember?"

Xiao Xingchen's ears trembled, he wagged his tail quietly, took out a crimson bead from under the pillow, and said, "Of course I remember, at that time... you left this behind."

Song Lan took the beads, and finally understood why she returned to her hometown in secret, "So it's here."

Before he finished speaking, the palm beads emitted a burst of light, and then shot into the center of Song Lan's eyebrows.

Xiao Xingchen was startled, got up and looked, where there were no beads, only Song Lan's brows were a little dark red, which made his face like ice and snow even more contrasting, not like ordinary people.

"Don't worry, this is my natural life pearl, and it is one with me."

"I found the Life Orb, I should go back to Heaven." Song Lan looked down at Xiao Xingchen, "You...will you go back with me?"

Xiao Xingchen shook his head with a smile, and said, "You are a fairy, I'm just a mermaid in the sea, how can I go back with you?"

"I was the one who was abrupt." Song Lan wasn't surprised by his answer, so he didn't mention it anymore.

Xiao Xingchen suddenly said, "When... are you leaving?"

Song Lan pondered for a moment, and when the life pearl was found, the heavens would sense it, and if they stayed, it would only last for an hour at most.

"In January."

One month is enough.

"Zichen... have you ever been to the bottom of the sea?"

Song Lan shook his head, he was an immortal, he lived in the Jiuzhong Immortal Tower, he drank fairy dew and ate spiritual fruits, he had only come to the mortal world twice in thousands of years, and he had never entered the sea.

"Then I'll show you my house!"

Xiao Xingchen grabbed Song Lan's wrist and shuttled through the palace, showing the beauties he discovered since he was a child one by one like a treasure.

"This is Shuyun Palace. It used to be the residence of women of our clan, but now I am alone, and there are no more clan members, so this place is vacant. However, there are pearls and jade strings here, and every night, the brilliance cruises around."

The Mermaid Clan moved away from this place thousands of years ago, and the only Merman who lives here probably doesn't know about it, and it's okay if he doesn't know about it.

"Here is the Huanchi. There are raccoon grass in the pool. I like to wash clothes. I have a peaceful temperament. I usually like to play with me."

"here……"

Song Lan followed Xiao Xingchen and listened carefully until Xiao Xingchen took him to swim all over the bottom of the sea and returned to the rocks above the sea.

The sky is full of stars, and a Milky Way flows quietly.

Xiao Xingchen looked up at the sky, his clear eyes reflected the stars all over the sky.

"At that time, it was the same as this time. You saved me and dropped the beads. I thought, if I meet you again one day, I will take you to watch the starry sky with me. This is my favorite place."

Song Lan naturally knows that Xiao Xingchen loves this place the most. Ever since he fell into the world and rescued this mermaid by coincidence a hundred years ago, he has often peeked at this place with a water mirror. Almost every day, Xiao Xingchen is here, not to admire The moon is to look at the sun.

I don't know when, observing this person became a habit.Going down to the world to look for the life bead, she came here unconsciously, and happened to bet that this person was in danger.

Xiao Xingchen turned sideways, showing a gentle and satisfied smile, and said, "Zichen, thank you!"

Song Lan unconsciously bent her fingers, and sat beside Xiao Xingchen, admiring the stars in the sky.

Song Lan lived in Xiao Xingchen's palace like this, and nothing happened, so Song Lan passed Xiao Xingchen a set of cultivation techniques and taught Xiao Xingchen spells.

It was clear that Song Lan was taciturn, but Xiao Xingchen got along with each other and was at ease.

There are only four days left in January.

After Song Lan instructed Xiao Xingchen, she suddenly asked, "Do you want to go to the human world to have a look?"

The gods in the sky like to go to the mortal world to play, especially the naughty saying. How lively the temple fair is, how interesting the market is, it must be... very attractive.

Xiao Xingchen looked down at one of his fish tails.

"Don't worry."

Song Lan held Xiao Xingchen's arm and stepped on a soft white cloud.

It wasn't until his feet stepped on the clouds that Xiao Xingchen realized that one of his fish tails had turned into a human leg at some point. He was dressed in white, and his hair was black and translucent.

Xiao Xingchen was dazzled by the temple fairs in the human world.Candied haws, oiled paper umbrellas, rouge and gouache, jewelry decorations, and lanterns.

"Like it?" Song Lan held a candied haws in one hand and two packs of Yunpian Cake in the other.

Xiao Xingchen nodded, looking regretfully at the Yunpian Cake and candied haws in Song Lan's hands.

Then Song Lan said indifferently: "I used the fairy technique, these two items can be stored."

The lanterns in the river are very beautiful, and it is said that making a wish is very effective.

Xiao Xingchen bought two and secretly wrote down his wish for his own.When putting on the lamp, the other party's ice-like face was completely in my mind.

Passing Yuelao Temple, Xiao Xingchen paused, and Song Lan's voice sounded like broken jade.

"The moon is old and sleeps all day long, and the wish does not work."

Marriage depends on karma, how can a wish be fulfilled.

"Oh."

Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering sneezing sound from the Moon Lao Palace in the Nine Heavens.

Back at sea, the hour is approaching.

There are no stars tonight, and there is a full moon hanging in the sky, shining so brightly that people's eyes hurt.

Song Lan's spell hadn't expired yet, Xiao Xingchen stood shoulder to shoulder with him on the reef, and the strong wind blew their long hair intertwined.

All of a sudden, I remembered... "Tie hair as husband and wife, there is no doubt about love and affection."

Song Lan suddenly raised his sleeves, shaking off the red lotuses that filled the sky and fell to the sea, flowing into the distance with the waves.

That lantern was an unforgettable beauty in Xiao Xingchen's life. In his whole life, there was no more beautiful lantern than this one.

"If you succeed in your cultivation and come to find me, I will promise you to form a friendship."

Only then did Xiao Xingchen realize that he had accidentally read that line of the poem.

On the reef in front of him, there are also several shining shark beads.

It turns out... the tears I shed will really turn into pearls.

"Xianjun? Why did you fall asleep here again?"

Song Lan opened his eyes, only to realize that he was dreaming again.

500 years have passed since that day of the parting promise.

Perhaps there was a karma somewhere, and the water mirror no longer showed that person, and the days that I didn't notice before, now seem to be long.

The man's gentle brows and eyes became clearer.

The words of the fairy maidservant sounded softly again.

"Xianjun, the pear blossoms you planted when you returned to the palace 500 years ago are in perfect condition now, you should take a look."

Clusters of pure white pear blossoms spread to the sky one by one, forming a piece with the plum blossoms.

The fresh fragrance is not as cold as the plum blossom, but has a soft mood, just like that person.

Song Lan stared blankly for a moment, then let out a faint sigh.

"Stardust..."

Song Lan stood for a long time, then turned around and was about to leave when she suddenly froze in place.

Not far away, a man in white was looking at him with a smile, like thousands of trees and pear blossoms in full bloom.

Xiao Xingchen stood silently behind the man in black, watching his black clothes like ink crow silk, and listening to his low sighs to reveal his thoughts.

Until the man turned around slowly, he was dazed at first, and then burst into a smile of surprise that melted away.

Xiao Xingchen heard himself say in a trembling voice:

"Zichen... I'm here to pursue the promise."

The author has something to say:

This is a side story that started with Beiming Youyu and has nothing to do with the main text. Don’t ask me why, because I don’t know (～￣▽￣)～

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