Recap
Gu Minghuai’s pupils shrank and his whole body froze.
Only then did he notice that what was pressed against his legs was not human legs, but a gorgeous and huge red fish tail.
The pillow suddenly moved. Rong Yu frowned and complained in a low voice: “Don’t move, I haven’t slept enough.”
Gu Minghuai stared at him for a moment, and an incredible thought came to him. He asked tentatively——
“…Xiao Yu’er?”
Rong Yu leaned against his chest with his eyes closed, his voice vague: “Yeah.”
Gu Minghuai’s calm expression cracked on the spot.
He said fuck.
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What collapsed earlier than the world was Gu Minghuai’s worldview.
He would like to ask, after being a staunch materialist for twenty-eight years, how should one feel when one wakes up and sees a mermaid lying on top of them?
This sounds like a fairy tale, but in reality, this scene is simply a horror story.
Gu Minghuai sat up suddenly, and Rong Yu, who was lying on top of him, was caught off guard and slid down, hitting his head on the hard edge of the swimming pool.
“Hiss—” Rong Yu immediately woke up from the pain, opened his eyes and angrily shouted, “Drag him out and kill him!”
He was dreaming about the peaceful days of song and dance in the palace, and before his favorite wine entered his throat, he was awakened by pain.
If you dare to disturb His Majesty the Demon King’s sleep, don’t even think about getting out alive.
He got up very angry.
Rong Yu was very angry, but his tone of voice when he woke up in the morning was still lazy, and the carp spirit’s voice was soft and sweet, sounding a little coquettish.
Gu Minghuai looked at him: “Who do you want to kill?”
Rong Yu: “…”
He is now completely awake.
A row of crows flew across the sky.
Rong Yu looked down at his lower body and touched the fins on his ears.
He washed his face with pool water and took a closer look.
The tail is still there, and so are the fins.
Alright, the transformation failed.
Rong Yu accepted the reality calmly: “No, I just had a dream.”
Gu Minghuai said slowly: “I also feel like I’m dreaming.”
Rong Yu said: “It’s an illusion, you are not dreaming.”
The young man has a good appearance, gleaming eyes, half-naked body, long hair spread on the water, and his appearance is like the essence of the water, displaying a lively and fragrant temptation.
Gu Minghuai stared at it for a moment, then turned away: “Please let me calm down.”
Rong Yu waited patiently for a minute for him to digest: “Have you calmed down now?”
Gu Minghuai said he was not feeling well yet and tried his best to calm down: “Get off me first.”
How could he be calm with such a big tail resting on his lap?
He climbed up as softly as possible, hugging Gu Minghuai’s neck, and exhaled, making people blush and their heartbeat sped up.
He did the most seductive thing while saying in the most confident tone: “No, please let me hold you for a while.”
It’s been all night, why haven’t my tail transformed into legs yet? There must not be enough time, I need more hugs.
The beautiful mermaid took the initiative to throw himself into Gu Minghuai’s arms. Gu Minghuai’s whole body stiffened, feeling the young man’s coquettish words echoing in his ears.
“Xiao Yu’er.” Gu Minghuai turned his head to avoid his gaze, blinking more frequently, which was a sign of panic, “Humans have a saying that men should not be intimate with each other.”
He suspected that the drug hadn’t worn off yet, otherwise why would he feel his heartbeat speed up just from a hug?
——Nonsense, who in their right mind wouldn’t have their heart beat faster when they see a carp transform into a human?
Rong Yu raised his head and looked at him: “You must have invented this saying yourself.” He had only heard of the saying that men and women are not to be intimate with each other*.
*(男女授受不亲 is a saying that men and women should not be too close unless you are a couple.)
What’s wrong with two grown men hugging each other for a while? If it weren’t for the fact that he wanted to become a human quickly, he wouldn’t be happy with it either.
Gu Minghuai asked stiffly: “Then how long do you want to hold me?”
Rong Yu said: “I don’t know.” He didn’t know when he would have legs.
“I can’t stand up,” Rong Yu added.
So that’s it. Gu Minghuai felt slightly relieved: “You can stay in the water.”
Rong Yu hugged him and said, “I think your arms are much more comfortable.”
It’s true, the feeling of being nourished by spiritual energy is wonderful.
Gu Minghuai was stuck for a moment and was speechless.
“Can you turn them into legs?” Gu Minghuai’s eyes fell on the gorgeous and beautiful fish tail. “It would be very troublesome to be seen like this…”
Rong Yu: “I can’t do it for the time being.”
Gu Minghuai: “Then change back?”
Rong Yu tried: “No way. I can’t change back.”
His current physical state is completely out of his control, and his transformation is a passive ability. He doesn’t know when the transformation will become complete, and he doesn’t know when he will change back to the form of a carp.
Things are getting a little tricky.
Gu Minghuai took a deep breath, felt around the ground for his mobile phone in the pocket of his coat, and gave Gu family home’s servant a few days’ leave.
Rong Yu must never be seen by a third person like this.
Rong Yu watched him finish making the phone call in a calm voice, as calm as before, as if his expression remained unchanged despite the collapse of his world views.
As soon as he hung up, he looked like he had a headache.
Gu Minghuai rubbed his temples: “Get off me for now. I need a change of clothes.”
After soaking in cold water all night, having a great shock early in the morning made him feel uncomfortable.
Rong Yu hugged him tightly and expressed his reluctance with his actions.
No one should separate him from his spiritual energy.
Gu Minghuai was helpless with the mermaid who relied so much on him, and his tone was more helpless: “Be obedient.”
Rong Yu said stubbornly: “I won’t listen.”
Gu Minghuai subconsciously threatened again: “I’ll make you into a braised carp——”
“Are you able to eat it?” Rong Yu raised his eyes, “What? Keep my upper body while eating my lower body?”
Gu Minghuai: “…”
He imagined it for a moment. The picture was so grotesque that he felt a little nauseous.
Moreover, such a big fish is almost lethal to him who is allergic, and he will die after eating it.
It would be a problem to remain in a stalemate in the water.
Gu Minghuai picked up Rong Yu in a princess carry. The moment Rong Yu came out of the water, the entire fish tail emerged from the water, his scales glowed dazzlingly in the sun, and water droplets flowed down the fish’s tail. The long-haired mermaid young man clings to the man’s neck, lowers his eyes, and has a beautiful profile. The scene is extremely stunning, and paired with a romantic BGM, it can become a classic scene in film and television——
Gu Minghuai staggered, almost lost his grip, and fell back into the water.
Rong Yu was so frightened that he hugged his neck tightly: “Be careful!” It’s okay for Gu Minghuai to fall, but don’t make him fall too.
Fortunately, Gu Minghuai stood firm in time and didn’t fall back down in embarrassment.
Rong Yu breathed a sigh of relief and complained: “You are too weak…” Are all mortals so weak?
Gu Minghuai pulled his lower lip: “I asked you to lose weight, but you gained a hundred pounds overnight, yet you still think I am weak.”
I don’t even think you’re dirty.
Of course, Gu Minghuai wisely did not say this.
Who would have thought that a fish tail is so heavy.
Gu Minghuai had a strong objection to the slimy fish scales, so one of such a large size almost made him give way on the spot.
It would be nice to be able to hold back his instinctual rejection and hug Rong Yu freely.
Gu Minghuai strode onto the shore, restraining himself from looking down, fearing that he would drop the mermaid in his arms as soon as he saw the large fish scales.
For the first time, Rong Yu felt that the land was so wonderful – he really didn’t want to soak in the water anymore.
His body attribute is fire, even though it’s not uncomfortable to be in the water, it’s definitely not comfortable.
This time he didn’t have difficulty breathing after leaving the water. He now has a nose and is no longer a red carp that can only breathe through gills.
Blood Jade Bracelet: The status progress bar has been turned on, please check it carefully.
Two more lines of progress bars appeared in Rong Yu’s mind, one blue and one red. The blue indicator is at 100% while the red indicator is at 60%.
Blood Jade Bracelet: Blue represents water source. The carp spirit cannot stay out of water for too long and needs to be rehydrated from time to time to maintain its human form. More than 50% is in a safe state and can maintain human form. If it is less than 50%, you will be in a water deprived state and you will turn into a mermaid form and the bar will need to be replenished. If it is lower than 20%, you will return to your original form. When it returns to zero, you will dry up and die, the soul lamp will go out, and the mission will fail. Please pay attention to replenish the water bar at all times. The host’s current water source value is 100%.
Rong Yu had been in the water for so long and was now well hydrated. But when he thinks about the fact that he has to deal with water all the time in this world, he feels suffocated.
Fire and water are incompatible, and the world is definitely here to punish him.
The Blood Jade Bracelet continues to explain: Red represents spiritual energy. If the value is higher than 80%, your human form can be maintained, if the value is higher than 50%, the mermaid form can be maintained, and if the aura value is lower than 50%, the carp form will be restored. The host’s current aura value is 60%. Only when the water value and spiritual energy value reaches the standard at the same time can you turn into a human. Please keep up your efforts.
After thinking about it for a long time, the value was only 60% after such a long period of hard work.
This way, he cannot leave Gu Minghuai for a moment, otherwise he may return to his original form at any time.
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Gu Minghuai’s jaw was tense, his lips pursed, and he carried Rong Yu to the third floor and went straight to the bedroom.
He kicked open the bathroom door, slammed the door shut with his back, put Rong Yu into the bathtub like hot potato, turned on the faucet and filled the bathtub with water.
Gu Minghuai took a clean towel from the towel rack: “Can you take a bath by yourself?”
Rong Yu said: “No.”
Actually, yes, but that would reduce the chance of contact with Gu Minghuai.
Opportunities must be created by yourself.
Gu Minghuai frowned, preparing to wipe Rong Yu’s body and wash his wet hair.
The wet shirt clung to his body uncomfortably, so Gu Minghuai simply took off his shirt, revealing a body that looked lean and muscular even when he was undressed.
Rong Yu clicked his tongue, he has eight pack abs.
He was lying in the bathtub, his head resting on the edge of the bathtub, and his long hair hanging on the smooth tile floor.
Gu Minghuai took a visual inspection and found that it was at least waist-deep.
“Is it okay to cut your hair?”
This length made his eyes go dark when washed.
He was afraid that the hair was actually formed from a certain part of the carp’s body, and that Rong Yu would die if he cut it off.
Rong Yu said: “It’s okay.”
Anyway, this body is not Chi Yu’s original body, it’s just a copy generated by the system. It’s up to him to do what he wants.
It takes at least hundreds of years for a demon to become a spirit. Chi Yu is an ancient fish, and he only had waist-length hair because he followed the local customs. In modern society, there is no need for it.
After Gu Minghuai received the confirmation, he picked up the scissors and neatly cut the long hair. He moved a small bench to sit down, poured some shampoo into his hands, and washed Rong Yu’s hair.
He had never served anyone in his life, and his movements were not very skillful, but the pressure was very comfortable, and the feeling of the spiritual energy from his fingertips constantly flowing into his scalp was even more exciting. Rong Yu closed his eyes and enjoyed the service, wanting to give him a five-star rating.
Gu Minghuai found it strange and ridiculous.
It really felt like a dream.
He was actually washing a carp spirit’s hair and bathing him.
Rong Yu refused to stay in the swimming pool. But Gu Minghuai couldn’t let him drip with water everywhere. The servants at home are on break and there is no one to clean the house. The water on the floor will make Gu Minghuai, a germaphobe, go crazy first.
In order to prevent himself from going crazy, he could only patiently wash Rong Yu’s hair and body.
Gu Minghuai washed Rong Yu’s hair, asked him to sit up, and used a hair dryer to dry his hair.
As soon as the hair dryer was turned on, Rong Yu immediately opened his eyes warily: “What is this?”
Although he had been to many worlds before, they were all just a fleeting sight as he was mainly busy dealing with the Lord God. Rong Yu is not 100% familiar with these new things.
He had magic power before, and he could do everything with one cleaning technique, so why would he need such a thing.
Gu Minghuai explained: “This is a hair dryer, used to dry your hair quickly.”
Only then did the tight lines of his face relax.
When his hair was half dry, Gu Minghuai turned the hair dryer off.
Gu Minghuai held a towel and wiped Rong Yu’s body. He raised his chest when he was asked and raised his hands when he was asked. He was extremely obedient.
——Of course he behaved. After taking such a bath, his spiritual energy value increased by 5%.
Rong Yu discovered that the more private and intimate the place of contact, the faster his spiritual energy value increases.
He also discovered that Gu Minghuai seemed to have no memories of his past.
Whether it is his actions that do not match the original world line or the abundant spiritual energy flowing inside of him that does not exist in this world, it shows that Gu Minghuai is not an aborigine of this world. But if he is a traveler and has seen all kinds of strange things in the world, how can he still be shocked by the existence of spirits?
The shock in Gu Minghuai’s eyes when he woke up today and saw him didn’t seem to be fake, it was exactly how an ordinary person would react when they see something beyond their cognition.
An extraordinary person, for some reason, became an ordinary person living here. This is very intriguing.
Rong Yu: Could it be that he was also captured by the Space-Time Management Bureau, had his memory erased and thrown into the small world for punishment?
Blood Jade Bracelet: Guess.
It has learned to be smart and will not narrow the scope for the big devil rule.
Rong Yu: I guess not.
Blood Jade Bracelet: I won’t tell you whether you’re right or wrong.
Rong Yu said in surprise: Have you gone to recharge your IQ?
Blood Jade Bracelet: Haha.
Don’t want to pay attention to him.
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If you ignore the fish tail sinking under the water, their way of getting along is no different from that of an ordinary old married couple.
As he wiped the cloth past his chest, Gu Minghuai asked, “Do you have a name?”
Rong Yu raised his eyelids: “Chi Yu.”*
*(池渔 – first word means pond. Second word has the same pronunciation as fish in chinese but it means ‘to fish/fishermen’)
“A fish in the pond?” Gu Minghuai thought for a while, “It’s simple and straightforward. Then I will still call you Xiaoyu’er from now on.”
Rong Yu didn’t correct which fish it was.
Anyway, it’s neither of them. The ‘yu’ in his name is “与”, the third tone.*
*(鱼 (yú) is fish, 渔 (yú) is to fish/fishermen, 与(yǔ) has various meanings like ‘and’, ‘with’, ‘to’, ‘give’, ‘grant’)
Gu Minghuai rubbed his face and waist, the lower parts were buried in the water and could not be seen.
Gu Minghuai didn’t know how to deal with that part so he deliberately avoided it.
“I was drunk last night.” Gu Minghuai had nothing to say, “I shouldn’t have done anything to you, right?”
Rong Yu lifted his red tail from the water: “What do you think you can do to me?”
He doesn’t even have legs, so how can Gu Minghuai find the entrance no matter what he wants to do.
Gu Minghuai: “…just pretend I didn’t say anything.”
Rong Yu dropped his tail back again, splashing water on Gu Minghuai’s face.
Gu Minghuai’s mouth twitched and he immediately closed his eyes to prevent water splash from entering his eyes.
He instantly remembered that when Rong Yu was a carp, he would flap his tail and splash him with water.
At that time, he would lift the carp’s tail out of the water and teach it a lesson.
Now… Gu Minghuai glanced at the mermaid who was almost as tall as him.
He can’t carry it with one hand.
Now the little fish can only be held in a princess carry.
Gu Minghuai’s mind was filled with random thoughts, and his hand movements were also chaotic. He wiped it hastily a few times and then stopped. He drained the water from the bathtub and had no idea what to do with Rong Yu’s tail.
No matter how beautiful those gleaming fish scales were, he could only feel his scalp tingling just looking at them.
Rong Yu didn’t embarrass him: “I’ll do it myself.”
Gu Minghuai: “Don’t you know how to wipe yourself?”
Rong Yu: “I remembered it after seeing it once.”
Gu Minghuai: “I thought the fish’s memory was only seven seconds.”
Rong Yu stretched his tail out: “Then I forgot. Come.”
Gu Minghuai threw the towel to him decisively.
Rong Yu made a sound, wiped the water off his tail, sat in the bathtub and opened his arms: “Hug.”
Gu Minghuai glanced at the fish tail, then looked away unbearably: “Can you climb out by yourself?”
Rong Yu: “Are you speaking human language?”
Gu Minghuai had no choice but to lean down and pick up Rong Yu and put him on the bed. He took out a shirt from the closet and put it on for him. Finally, he used the remote control to turn on the TV: “You should watch TV here for a while, I’ll take a bath too.”
Rong Yu: “Oh.”
Gu Minghuai immediately closed the bathroom door again.
He felt that his whole body was so dirty and in need of a grand baptism.
This wash was particularly long. After watching three episodes, the sound of water from the shower in the bathroom never stopped.
Rong Yu chatted with the Blood Jade Bracelet while watching TV: “His water bill must be very high.”
With such a mysophobic houseowner and a carp spirit that needs to be replenished from time to time, the water bill will not be improved.
Blood Jade Bracelet: It’s okay, he has money.
In the past two hours, Rong Yu stayed in bed, and the water value dropped by 1%, and is currently stable at 99%. The spiritual energy value…
The spiritual energy value dropped to 51%.
Rong Yu was shocked: “Is the spiritual energy consumed so quickly?”
At this rate, it won’t be long before he turns back into a fish.
Blood Jade Bracelet: Maintaining the mermaid form will consume a lot of spiritual energy, and the human form consumes even more. Host, please note that if you are not in the water when changing back to carp form, the water value will decrease rapidly, which may be life-threatening.
Only when in carp form, the accumulated value will not be reduced. After the value reaches the upper limit of 100%, it can not be stored. Therefore, Rong Yu must draw spiritual energy from Gu Minghuai regularly. It is better for the two of them not to be separated, which is safer.
In short, there’s no way out.
Seeing that the value was about to drop below 50% yet the bathroom door still made no move. Rong Yu watched TV while his mind drifted off, turning his head frequently and staring at the door with eyes wide open: “Why hasn’t he finished taking a bath? Does it take that long to take a bath?”
If it weren’t for the fact that he was dragging his fish tail and it was inconvenient to move around, he wouldn’t care if Gu Minghuai was taking a shower or not, he would just rush in and hug him and take a breath of spiritual energy.
If he doesn’t come out, he will turn into a fish again!
Blood Jade Bracelet: No.
Rong Yu didn’t believe it: “But he has been bathing for an hour. In this world’s measurement of time, it is a full two hours.”
Blood Jade Bracelet: He is washing it for the seventh time.
Rong Yu: “…”
His mysophobia deserves its reputation.
Fortunately, when the spiritual energy value was at 50%, the bathroom door opened.
Gu Minghuai took a shower for two hours and finally calmed down completely. He put on his pajamas, took a deep breath, opened the door with one hand, and raised his other hand: “Let’s discuss this–“
A figure pounced directly on him.
“There’s nothing to discuss!” Rong Yu couldn’t wait to wrap his arms around his waist, “Let me hug.”
Gu Minghuai’s hand paused in mid-air.
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