“Mmmm!” Shu Jintian pulled his hand. Hearing Shu Jintian’s voice, Shu Hanyu turned to look at him and saw his eyes filled with panic and a request for help.
He had just been using a hand to poke at that seemingly tender red flesh, but unexpectedly, the opening of that rock-like thing suddenly sandwiched his finger. Ah! It hurts so much, his hand was about to be pinched flat.
Shu Hanyu swiftly swam over, grabbed the sides of the Rock Shellfish with both hands and pulled them apart. The Rock Shellfish squishing Shu Jintian’s hand was thus broken into two halves by him.
Shu Hanyu pulled over the female’s hand and raised it to his face to check. His fingers were a little red but not broken ah! Why did the female cry out so loudly?
Shu Hanyu carefully used his forked tongue to lick Shu Jintian’s finger that was caught.
Shu Jintian was a little startled. In his heart, there was an instant where he felt incomparably soft. So it turned out that Shu Hanyu cared about him so much? He loved wrapping around him to this level, huh?
Shu Jintian judged him with his own standards. If he had liked wrapping around something or holding something, like his favourite bolster, if it was even a little damaged, he would be slightly regretful but wouldn’t care too much. If it was spoilt, it was fine just to switch to a new one. However, if it was keeping a pet… He had never raised one, so he couldn’t understand.
Shu Hanyu cared about the thing he loved wrapping around so much, and that thing just happened to be himself. Viewing it from the perspective of a person involved in that scenario, Shu Jintian suddenly felt that the big snake treated him fairly well.
However, who would want to be a bolster ah! In any case, he didn’t. Shu Jintian was teary-eyed.
Shu Jintian quickly tugged his hand back and hid it behind his back, and smiled a little awkwardly. Then he went closer to the big snake and pressed against his cool lips, gently sucking.
Shu Hanyu obligingly opened his mouth, using the tip of his tongue to mess with the female’s obediently still tongue.
Shu Jintian’s hand hidden behind his back forcefully rubbed against his back. Goddamn, it’s really fucking painful; his fingers were almost broken off, don’t you think?! Damned shell, see if laozi dares to eat you.
Shu Jintian parted from Shu Hanyu’s lips and squatted down, looking at the pitiful shell that had already been split into two. The sticky and soft flesh was sparse on the two shells and couldn’t even become formed into a proper mass.
With it being so ugly, was it edible? Shu Jintian was a little doubtful, but he had to vent his anger somehow.
Shu Jintian poked here and there on the Rock Shellfish. Feeling a comparatively firmer flesh, he wanted to pull it out.
Shu Hanyu’s gaze immediately became strange, and he uncertainly asked, “Tiantian wants to eat this?”
“Mnmn!” Shu Jintian nodded his head in affirmation. In any case, he could have a change of flavour, so just try it out ba! But he just couldn’t pull away this seemingly soft and limp meat, as it was firmly stuck to the shell.
There were a lot of Rock Shellfishes in the blue water, but he had never thought this thing could be eaten, and had never seen anything eat a Rock Shellfish. Seeing that the female genuinely wanted to eat it, he reached out to help him.
The soft flesh that was invulnerable to Shu Jintian’s tugging was easily pulled out with Shu Hanyu’s light tug and a handful of meat rested in his hand.
However, the shell of the Rock Shellfish still had very strong adhesive power. Though Shu Hanyu had torn out a large lump of meat, the bottom of the meat was still nailed firmly to the shell, and most of the meat was still on it.
In the wake of Shu Hanyu taking away the Rock Shellfish’s meat, a pearl emitting a faint purple glow was revealed in the ruined mess of meat in the shell. Even though it was wrapped up in white and red shell meat, the half-concealed and half-revealed style still couldn’t hide the enticing elegance and beauty.
“Ah~” A pearl! Shu Jintian’s eyes gleamed and he couldn’t help opening his mouth in surprise. He accidentally swallowed a mouthful of seawater and coughed a few times as he choked on it.
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Shu Hanyu helped stroke Shu Jintian’s back, then sent the meat in his hand over to the female’s mouth.
“Tiantian eat ba.”
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The shell flesh’s adhesiveness may be strong, but it seemed to be particularly tolerant towards this pearl and the pearl did not stick to it strongly. Instead, there seemed to be a layer of a protective membrane to separate it from the shell’s flesh.
The grape-sized purple glow that could be seen turned out to only be a small part of it. When touching it, it seemed about the size of a large lump.
Shu Jintian took out the entire pearl and breathed in cold water in surprise, and narrowly escaped choking again.
This pearl was unexpectedly the size of a fist, and was heavy in his hand; it really felt like it was high quality.
The pearl’s colour was also completely released. It wasn’t the pure opaque purple as he had imagined, but instead transparent like a crystal, faintly emitting a violet glow.
It was unexpectedly a night pearl! A purple night pearl!
Shu Jintian clasped the night pearl in his palms and rubbed it admiringly. The surface of the luminous pearl was sleek and cold, like the big snake’s skin. The light in the seawater passed through the purple pearl, and refracted a dazzling brilliance in his hands.
“You like it a lot?” Shu Hanyu looked at the female and carelessly asked.
“Mhm!” Shu Jintian held out the purple night pearl towards Shu Hanyu like presenting a treasure.
“Can’t be eaten,” Shu Hanyu coolly said, and was a little envious of the female’s excessive fondness for the pearl.
“Pft!” Who would want to eat it? Shu Jintian tried his best to hold back his laughter. No, he’ll choke on water if he laughed.
Shu Jintian felt a little twinge in his chest from holding back, and maybe he was lacking oxygen again ba! Shu Jintian noticed that the time he could hold his breath in the water was getting shorter; it was very likely because of the water pressure!
Shu Jintian once again moved closer to Shu Hanyu’s lips and inhaled the clean and cold oxygen.
It was also unavoidable that this gave Shu Hanyu a chance to eat his tofu; but fortunately, it wasn’t too excessive, so Shu Jintian simply turned a blind eye.
Shu Jintian pointed a finger upwards, asking Shu Hanyu if they could go up.
Even though he still hadn’t played enough in the water, he felt a bit of an irregular heartbeat and shortness of breath underwater, and was unbearably stifled. It was still fine at the beginning, but became very difficult to bear after a long while.
Shu Hanyu could see that the female’s complexion didn’t look good, and with an arm around the female’s waist, prepared to swim up.
“Mnnn!” Shu Jintian called to Shu Hanyu and pointed at the seabed with mixed golden and brown colours. Just now the sea mushrooms looked pretty good, so let’s bring some back to eat ba!
Shu Hanyu didn’t react, and Shu Jintian could only open his own palm to show Shu Hanyu his Yellow-spotted Zao.
Shu Jintian was also afraid of provoking Shu Hanyu. Seeing that he didn’t react, he hurriedly supported himself with the rocks and walked over, worried that he would be impatient.
Eh? Wasn’t there still a patch of it? Why did it disappear? Could it all have been frightened by them and drilled in further?
Probingly, Shu Jintian tried to dig into the golden sand, but only saw a few rock granules.
Sure enough, they were fishes and had all run away. Shu Jintian gladly thought that fortunately, he didn’t directly eat it raw just now.
Shu Hanyu was a little embarrassed, and his fair face was slightly reddened.
Shu Jintian walked over to Shu Hanyu, his expression tinged with disappointment.
“No more? If Tiantian likes it, let’s look a bit more ba!”
“Mm mm~” Shu Jintian shook his head. He couldn’t quite bear it anymore and wanted to go out to take a breath, so there was no time to look around everywhere.
“Then we’ll catch some next time. There’s a lot here,” Shu Hanyu said a little regretfully.
“Mhmm!” Shu Jintian immediately nodded in agreement, then realised that something was wrong. When was the big snake so chatty? Surprisingly, he cared about his opinion so much.
Sure enough, there was meat to eat when he submitted to the big snake! He just didn’t resist that much when the big snake wrapped around him with his forked tongue, and this treatment was immediately different, damn it!
Fuck! This forceful and tyrannical big snake!
Shu Jintian gave another once over to his surroundings and spotted the seaweed he had just eaten, and wanted to bring some back. It was refreshing and crisp when he bit it, and must be quite delicious. He finally could have a change of taste.
Shu Jintian had only released his hand grasping the rock and his body naturally floated up. Upon reaching the height of the Lian Fish Zao, Shu Jintian took a firm grasp of a thick Lian Fish Zao, stopping his body from floating upwards.
Shu Jintian’s sudden pull involved the entire seaweed. The little Lian Fish hiding inside immediately scuttled out and instantly swam very far away.
Ah! There were fish. What a pity that they fled too quickly.
When Shu Hanyu saw the female’s eyes, he knew that he wanted to eat. As such, his body shot forward and chased after the Lian Fish. Not a moment later, he caught three little Lian Fishes and brought them back.
Shu Jintian appreciatively watched Shu Hanyu catch fish. He really was especially fast, like an arrow that left a bow.
Shu Hanyu gave the fish to Shu Jintian to eat. Shu Jintian looked at the little blue fishes that were still leaping and frisking about, his lips quirking. Laozi doesn’t eat raw fish, thank you!
Shu Jintian accepted the fish Shu Hanyu caught for him, a little unsure as to how to deal with them. Holding a fish meant he couldn’t take other things with him. But he still wanted to bring back some seaweed ne!
Shu Jintian glanced around, and his eyes brightened immediately when he caught sight of a seaweed as thin as silk that he had pulled before.
“Owuu!” Shu Jintian pointed at the fluttering seaweed and indicated Shu Hanyu to look.
Shu Hanyu quickly understood the female’s meaning, and swam over to pull out a long strip for him.
Shu Jintian took the seaweed; it felt quite broad. And so he used his mouth to hold one end, and one hand pulled and proceeded to tear it. The seaweed which was as tough as a cow’s tendon was torn apart when pulled along its vein. Shu Jintian was pleasantly surprised. He had even planned to ask Shu Hanyu for help ne.
Shu Jintian used the seaweed that was torn into thin strips to string the three palm-sized Lian Fishes together from their mouth to their gills, then tied a knot. Like that, he didn’t have to worry about the fishes swimming away.
The fishes that were threaded together immediately fled in disarray the moment they gained their freedom. However, they were controlled by the ring of seaweed rope wound in Shu Jintian’s hands, and could only flop around to no avail.
Shu Jintian used a hand to hold the Yellow-spotted Zao and the seaweed rope, the other hand breaking off about a dozen tender Lian Fish Zao shoots, then neatly used the ribbon-like seaweed to tie them together.
With a final sweep of his gaze, Shu Jintian decided to bring the large shell along too. It would be good to pack things in.
“Mmm mm!” Shu Jintian carried the shell with one hand and held the two strings of Lian Fishes and Lian Fish Zaos, then nodded at Shu Hanyu to indicate that he was done.
Shu Hanyu had been standing at the side and watching the female bustle about, his face suffused with gentleness. Hearing the female, he lightly hummed in agreement.
The speed heading upwards was much quicker than going down. Shu Hanyu used only his human form and soon brought Shu Jintian to the surface.
“Hah~ huuuu!!” The moment they broke through the sea surface, Shu Jintian opened his mouth wide and breathed in, inhaling and exhaling for his lungs that had been restricted for a long time. He finally relaxed after a good while.
“Haha… Today’s harvest really is great, and we even collected such a big night pearl. In the future, let’s put it in the cave and use it as a lightbulb, and we won’t have to be afraid of having no light when it’s night anymore. Hahaha- Cough cough!” Having just surfaced, Shu Jintian’s lungs haven’t completely regulated their breathing yet, and he became a little short of breath after a hearty laugh.
When this purple night pearl emerged from the sea surface and was revealed under the scorching sun, it still dimly emitted a faint, purple glow.
Shu Hanyu had long already wound around Shu Jintian’s body like a vine, even his legs were closely wrapped around Shu Jintian’s. The two of them were naked, and their skin was intimately touching, rubbing against each other.
“If Tiantian likes it, we can go to the bottom of the ocean every day. There’s still a lot of this down there.” Shu Hanyu nestled against the female’s shoulder, his fair and clear face lightly rubbing against his skin.
“Are you talking about this?” Shu Jintian carefully opened his palm to show the Yellow-spotted Zao and asked Shu Hanyu.
“Mn, there’s still a lot.”
“These fellows really are sly. At the start, they even pretended to be dead to deceive me, then all of them ran away when I left. Damn it, next time I have to catch even more.” Shu Jintian had only loosened his fist for a while and immediately closed it tight, afraid that they would hop out.
Shu Hanyu stiffened slightly, his gaze a little shifty.
Baobao Notes
Hanyu eating up all the mushroom thingies is so cute lmao
also yeah I forgot to post AGAIN
Ooh! They found an something similar to an oyster with a pearl! Also, I wonder why Shu Hanyu is so guilty at the end. .
Because he ate all of the mushroom things 🤣
He has found two sources of light on one day_ the pearl and his admirer. lol
Shu Hanyu: eats all the Yellow-spotted Zao
Shu Jintian: thinking they fled and were actually animals instead of mushrooms, Damn, they swam away
Shu Hanyu: acts shifty
lol
Thank you for the chapter. Shu Hanyu has found a fail proof way to eat Tiantian’s tofu. 🤭
Whew. Thank goodness this turned out okay. I was worried something bad might happen with that clam xD
Thank yuu!
Kkkkkk the culprit is feeling guilty!
Thank you for the great translation ♥️♥️♥️
It ended well but he still dragged him down with no warning or prep. That’s how you drown folks, dumb snake.