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Rimbaud was swimming away with the baby cozied up in his arms while Bai Chunian was sitting with his legs crossed inside the bubble as he stared at the scars on Rimbaud’s back. Even though he had done prior mental preparation before coming, experiencing it was still no less than shocking.
Ever since Bai Chunian had laid eyes on him, Rimbaud’s upper body had always been tightly wrapped with medical bandages. Every part of Rimbaud’s body was flawless, therefore he probably actually minded the mottled marks on his back, right?
Rimbaud carefully returned the baby merman to his mother’s arms. When he turned around, he found that Bai Chunian was staring at him in a trance.
Rimbaud had been busy cleaning up the palace the past few days and had completely forgotten about the hideous scar. Startled, he quickly pulled out a piece of seaweed from the coral edge and draped it over his shoulders to cover his back. After doing so, he quietly swam back and pushed Bai Chunian deeper into the waters.
Bai Chunian turned around and pressed his palm against Rimbaud’s webbed hand through the air bubble. He swiftly grabbed Rimbaud’s slender hands and pulled him inside gently.
Rimbaud’s body was wet and the water dripping from his hair was sticking to his cheeks. He sheepishly threw himself into Bai Chunian’s arms.
Bai Chunian lifted the uncomfortable seaweed cover off Rimbaud’s back and he pressed Bai Chunian’s hand to stop him from removing it. He raised his hand to cover Bai Chunian’s eyes. “Rimbaud ugly…horrible.”
“Nonsense, my Rimbaud is beautiful and cute.” Bai Chunian shook off Rimbaud’s hand, cupped his face, and carefully picked out the aquatic plants that were strewn in his lush, blond hair. “How could you live in such a careless manner while I was away for a few days? You’re such a little princess when I’m here but you suddenly turn into a macho guy when I’m not?” After that, he pulled off the little purple-gold conch and the colorful starfish that were sucking on his tail, threw them into the water, and said, “Shoo, don’t take advantage of someone else’s wife.”
Rimbaud watched as the beautiful brooch he found after swimming through scavenging several deep ocean trenches was thrown away. It would truly be a waste, so he picked it up and stuffed it in Bai Chunian’s pocket instead. He’d roast it once they were ashore.
The actual seafloor was tens of thousands of times more spectacular than the average marine parks on land. Bai Chunian saw a lot of fish varieties that he hadn’t seen ever before.
Unlike the strong lighting created by humans, the soft shimmering glow emanating from Rimbaud’s body illuminated the profound darkness around them for tens of meters.
The oceanic world was very different from land. Inside the bubble, Bai Chunian could hear the sound of waves and the sound of a whale from afar. A huge shadow also slowly approached, with a gigantic body measuring about 30 meters in length passing by them.
It was his first time seeing such a large sea beast like a blue whale. For a long time, Bai Chunian was awestruck as he took in the magnificent scene. In all honesty, it was really scary and even gave one a slight sense of breathtaking terror when the blue whale swam head-on.
The body of the blue whale was too huge and seemed akin to a moving island. However, it simply passed by and paid no attention to them.
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Rimbaud wasn’t happy, so he quickly pushed the bubble Bai Chunian was in front of the blue whale’s eyes. He released a few jellyfish to illuminate Bai Chunian’s whole body.
“Lfs, fgyb! (biv wjc)” Elwyjev abemtfv atf yief ktjif’r ylu fsfr, qblcafv ja Djl Jtecljc ab rtbk tlw jcv rtbeafv, “Hejec! (Heffc)”
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The blue whale let out a long, overjoyed sound. It opened its gigantic mouth and spewed out a box from its relatively narrow throat.
The box looked similar to a treasure chest in video games. However, it was quite antique and it was unknown from which century this cultural relic was from but there was an engraving of the logo of pirates. As the heavy box slowly started to sink, the lid was lifted open.
Blocks of gold, crystal clear top ice imperial green jade, complete porcelain from an unknown dynasty, bright pigeon blood rubies, and chunks of Muzo emeralds were packed inside the box. There were also several tourmalines and three-carat diamonds scattered along which filled the gaps.
The old man put down his welcome gift, slowly turned, and swam away.
“F-f-fu, fuck…!!” Bai Chunian held onto the bubble in order to avoid fainting on the spot and dazedly asked Rimbaud, “All of this isn’t for me…right?”
Rimbaud nodded and ordered a cast of crabs to send the treasure chest ashore.
Bai Chunian thought that this would be his grandest welcome gift, but he didn’t expect that this was just the beginning.
Rimbaud pushed Bai Chunian toward a dark cave in the deep ocean trench and knocked a few times on the reef outside the cave. “Hey, Quaun kaming. (The Queen has arrived.)”
Bai Chunian followed and looked inside. Suddenly, a huge golden eye with a vertical pupil appeared in the pitch-black cave.
Bai Chunian startledly took a few steps back. It turned out that this wasn’t a cave, but the closed eyes of a giant deep sea animal.
The golden eye stared at Bai Chunian for a short moment and then a lustrous, round and luminous night-shining pearl slowly came out from its tear duct. After a while, another one came out. It was about five centimeters in diameter and the kind of night-shining pearl that was able to emit light by itself.
Bai Chunian hurriedly picked them up one by one and put them in his pockets as he said, “No need, no need. Grandma, you’re too polite. There is no need to give so many precious things. This is enough, even one is enough for a luxurious suite in the capital.”
Just then, Rimbaud came back from the far side of the claw-shaped reef. He was struggling to carry the treasure that had been in grandma’s hands for hundreds of years. He saw Bai Chunian pick up the night-shining pearl on the ground and said in surprise, “Randi? Ermo glarbo yineya ye. (Grandma just cried with excitement.)”
After meeting all the relatives of Rimbaud, the gifts received by Bai Chunian could almost fill a boat. A group of crabs and sea turtles were huffing and panting carrying the boxes ashore.
Time passed quickly and they stayed underwater for more than six hours. Rimbaud thought that his Randi must be hungry so he dragged him to swim above the surface. At the same time, he heaved two oversized scallops under his arms and brought Bai Chunian to the surface.
The ship that Bai Chunian came on stopped at a place around 10 meters away from the island. The people on deck were still a bit muddle-headed. There would always be a bunch of merfolks singing on merfolk island. Once people heard their singing voice, they would lose cognizance. However, the singing of a single merman didn’t have this kind of ability.
Bai Chunian flipped into the cabin, then brought down the stuff he had prepared: 20 cases of canned cooked meat, seasoning, various styles of jackets, trunks of stainless steel woks, lighters, power cords, light bulbs, a portable stove, a small gas canister, and an assault shotgun rifle with bullets.
The merfolks gathered together to look at the strange things they had never seen before. They cautiously stretched out their long webbed hands to touch them but quickly retracted them in the next second.
“This is how it works.” Bai Chunian sat on the ground, attached the small gas canister to the portable stove, unscrewed it, and used a lighter to ignite it.
The moment the flames were ignited, the merfolks screamed in panic and retreated.
Rimbaud slunk on the ground, raised his reddened tail to scold them for making a fuss, and told them to come back quickly.
Bai Chunian put the wok on top of the fire and poured in water to boil. He cut the oversized scallops that Rimbaud brought ashore into pieces, blanched them in water, drained them out, and put them back in the scallop shells for later use.
He poured out the water, wiped the bottom of the pot, poured the oil, cut onion, ginger, and garlic and sauteed them until they turned nice and fragrant. He dressed it with some seasonings and cooked it into a thick sauce.
Bai Chunian sat on the floor with his legs crossed. His right hand rested on his knee while his left hand held a spoon, slowly stirring the sauce in the wok.
Rimbaud was lying beside him. His cheeks were propped up and his raised tail was lazily swinging in the air. His eyes curved into tiny crescents as he gazed at Bai Chunian.
Bai Chunian poured the cooked sauce over the scallop meat. After it had cooled, he picked up a piece and fed Rimbaud.
Rimbaud opened his mouth to eat and chewed it happily. Little stars adorned his eyes and the tip of his tail curled up in satisfaction.
The other merfolks drooled as they crawled over. However, without the king’s permission, they could only watch from the sidelines and didn’t dare to approach.
Rimbaud didn’t want to share the meal made by his Randi with others, but Bai Chunian pushed the big shell towards them and gestured to them to eat together. “Feel free.”
Each of the merfolks went over to take a piece and crawled away. After that, the sound of several smacking lips rang out on the island.
They had never tasted cooked food. Moreover, the cooking skills that Bai Chunian had intently refined were simply exquisite delicacies for these merfolks who had never eaten human food.
“Hen.” Rimbaud looked at the shells that were emptied to the bottom, and turned to the side to sulk with his arms crossed.
“You eat the food I cook every day, haven’t you had enough?” Bai Chunian turned off the stove, casually placed the clutter on the floor, and cleared out an open space.
“Not enough.” Rimbaud turned his head, “Eat more…a thousand years.”
Bai Chunian embraced Rimbaud from behind and brought him into his lap. He took out a roll of medical bandages from the first-aid box he had brought and meticulously wrapped it around Rimbaud’s body. Rimbaud’s waist was so slender that Bai Chunian could easily wrap him around the crook of his arm. The bandages wrapped around Rimbaud’s body repeatedly, completely covering the scars on his back.
There was a shallow mark that already seemed to have healed on top of the deep scars, but it looked like it was a recently made wound.
Bai Chunian asked, “Did you fight with someone?”
Rimbaud recalled the white shark omega that he had torn apart. He hesitated for a moment before replying softly, “He hurt me first.”
“You hit back?”
“En.”
“That’s good then. If you are still unsatisfied, I’ll go and thrash him up for you.”
Rimbaud looked down and his lips couldn’t help curling into a fond smile.
The alpha’s fingers occasionally rubbed against the omega’s spine and the temperature on his fingertips passed through the thin bandage. Rimbaud quietly scratched the ground with the tip of his tail.
“At first…didn’t plan to return… I was very disappointed.” With downcast eyes, Rimbaud said, “You made me change my mind.”
“The clan has flaws…were deceived.”
“But I still love…these silly ones.”
Bai Chunian rested his chin on Rimbaud’s shoulder, wrapped his arms around Rimbaud from behind, and interlocked fingers with him, but he didn’t dare hold them too tight in fear that the webs would tear.
Due to Rimbaud, the detection device beside him could still work properly. The detection images transmitted from 100 underwater drones were displayed on the device. On the lower left corner of the screen, a quaintly shaped foreign object passed by in a blink. Bai Chunian accurately caught this miniscule movement from the corner of his eye.
“Experimental Subject No. 809 Kraken has been roaming around the western regions of the Atlantic, have you come across him? Reportedly, it is an enormous octopus. Moreover, its weight and volume keeps increasing with every passing day.” Bai Chunian whispered in Rimbaud’s ear, “His motives are still unknown, so we must be careful.”
Rimbaud raised his brows. “There’s nothing that is capable of challenging me in the Caribbean Sea.”
They were whispering to each other when a sharp finger suddenly pulled at the hem of Bai Chunian’s clothes.
Bai Chunian looked back and saw those merfolks crawling ashore with six or seven kilograms of abalone, lobster, scallops, sea snails, starfish, and sea cucumbers on their backs.
The merfolks looked at Bai Chunian with reverent eyes as if they were looking at a god. They all knelt down, raised the seafood with both hands, kissed the tip of Bai Chunian’s shoes, and begged the queen to give them a sumptuous meal.
Bai Chunian said, “Ah—?”
The one they were calling Queen all this while was actually me??!
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Thanks for the new chapter!~
Bai Chunian who had his world views shaken: (ー_ー゛)
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Bai Chunian who won over the mermaid clan with his cooking skills is simply amazing
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