Several old trees in the yard are nestled against each other, their roots are intertwined, and their bare branches stretch upward feebly. Everywhere is covered with a thin layer of white snow, like pear blossoms blooming on the branches. The cold wind that blows from time to time accidentally blows away flakes of snow, scattering them all over the world like broken petals.
The moon is hidden in the clouds, like a candle blocked by curtains, its light is looming.
"I heard that the trophy sent this time is the most special." A magnetic voice suddenly sounded, which was particularly clear in the quiet night.
Looking through the voice, the owner of the voice was about sixteen or seventeen years old, with smooth eyebrows and bright eyes, like pearls and jade. Wearing a cyan robe with gold embroidery, a ruby belt around his waist, and a shining shark bead waist pendant, his long and jade-like figure complemented his unearthly elegance.
"It's indeed beautiful." He looked up and down and commented to himself.
This breath. Axi frowned and said, "Shark man?"
Suddenly the cold light appeared, and there was a thin blade on the neck. It felt cold against the skin, and it seemed that it would cut the faintly visible blood vessels in the next second.
"Who are you?" The young man flashed his figure, raised his sword and stopped at A Xi's step, his tone full of dangerous temptation.
"How strange. Aren't the sharks the lowest race among the demon clan? How come they appear in the palace?" Axi didn't care about the hostility of the other party, and said seriously and puzzled: "Besides, you can still freely enter and leave my courtyard. Presumably the status should be very noble."
"How do you know that I am a mermaid?" The young man's knife moved closer, "Since I arrived in the north, I have been trapped in this four-dimensional world. I have no chance to contact others, I have no demonic aura, and there are no immortal cultivators. How can you identify my true identity with just one glance?"
This is not difficult for God.
Axi tilted her head and looked at him, thought for a while, and could only answer: "Intuition."
"Do you think I will believe what you say?" The young man responded unceremoniously, "Say!"
"You broke into my territory first, why are you questioning me?" Ah Xi smiled slightly when he heard this, "I told you, intuition. A woman's sixth sense, isn't it?"
"Sharp teeth." The young man said this through gritted teeth. Seeing that she was not hostile to him, and that she was really not a person who knew magic and martial arts, he slowly put down the sword, "Princess Yi'an. It's interesting."
The young man's sharp eyes fell on her face, and he stared at her quietly, which seemed so meaningful that people couldn't help but avoid looking away.
"I heard that sharks are not good at close combat and are not aggressive by nature. Leaving water for more than twelve hours will endanger their lives. It is difficult to survive on land for a long time. Therefore, they are the most looked down upon among the brave and good fighting monsters. They can be bullied by anyone. ." Axi recalled the contents of the book, not noticing the other party's increasingly interested expression. "But you can freely enter and leave the palace, and you can also enter the princess's bedroom at will. Then you should be someone I have never met. Your husband?"
The young man's expression did not change at all, and there was even some appreciation in his eyes.
"I heard that there used to be a princess in the palace who was the most beloved of the country. She was famous among the demon clan for her voice of nature. However, I don’t know why she passed away three years after entering the palace. The origin of this princess and the cause of her death cannot be verified, but I guess the reason for keeping it secret is because she is a humble shark."
"And you are also a mermaid, so you can only be the child of this mermaid princess. And this princess has only one prince in her life, Xing Liu. Am I right? Your Highness, the sixth prince?"
Snap, snap, snap. The young man clapped his hands time and time again.
"I thought the human race were all stupid people." He raised his eyebrows and raised his lips, "You surprised me."
The way you praise people is also beyond my expectation.
Axi curled her lips and looked at his waist: "The shark bead you are wearing looks very special."
"Do you still know this?" The young man was stunned for a moment in surprise, and then laughed again, "You are really making me more and more curious."
Of course I do. I made this thing myself.
Nine hundred years ago, when Axi just woke up, he found himself lying on the edge of the distant sea connecting the human world and the divine world, covered in blood, as if he had experienced a fierce battle. But after checking, he found that there were no wounds on his body. He didn't know where the blood came from and why he was sleeping here. She looked confused, and the leader of the Sharman tribe was standing beside her, looking like he had been taking care of her for a long time. A-Xi was just about to ask, but when he saw her waking up safely, the other party saluted and was about to leave. Seeing that he was deliberately avoiding the question, Axi stopped talking and, as a token of gratitude, refined one of his tears into a shark bead and gave it to him. This bead can ensure that the Sharks can survive on land for a long time without being restricted by water sources.
Now that the beads are in his hands, he must be a descendant of that leader. After all, God’s gift is not something just anyone can receive.
"Your Highness, Sixth Highness, came uninvited in the middle of the night. You can't just come to chat with me, right?"
Hearing her words, the young man smiled and took a few steps forward, deeper into the yard. He turned his head and said to her, "I came here to let you go." After a pause, his smile deepened. "But now that you know my true identity, I can't let you leave."
"Let me go?" Hearing this, Axi frowned slightly, "Why do you want to let me go?"
"Don't you want to leave?" He asked her in turn, but Axi didn't know how to answer for a moment.
"Now that you know my true identity, you should know that I am too busy to take care of myself, and I am incapable of protecting you. If you stay, you will only live a worse life than death. This happened because of me, and I don't want to be involved. You." Seeing that she hesitated to speak, the young man turned around and walked to her bedroom, "You should know that the demon clan does not need the human princess to marry, so do you know why the demon clan forces you to come? ?"
In a few words, the young man had already walked to the hall, found a pear wood chair and sat down, looking at her with burning eyes.
"You exist solely to humiliate me."
Yes.
The princess of the prince of the monster clan is actually as humble as a human being. When word spread, she could no longer hold her head high.
In the north, the wolf tribe is king, and the princes either marry the demon kings and princesses from other realms, or they also marry demon women with outstanding abilities. As for a low-status shark marrying a lowly and useless human being, this marriage will not benefit him in the slightest. It will only hinder him and ruin his future.
Axi seemed to understand a little bit why he was so guarded when his identity was revealed.
Probably because he has long been accustomed to living on thin ice.
The unfavored prince. The unloved princess.
It's quite a match.
Thinking of this, a faint smile flashed in Axi's eyes, and she met his gaze: "I think they made a wrong decision."
"Oh?" The two looked at each other, the clouds dispersed, and the moonlight shone on her body, reflecting into the young man's dark eyes, "I would like to hear the details."
"The demon race and the human race are hostile to each other, but I think that the best future is to turn their hostility into friendship. We are all human beings. Who says that different races cannot coexist peacefully?"
He deliberately didn't send anyone to meet her to embarrass her, and deliberately ignored her and refused to meet her, showing his dissatisfaction with the marriage. All her actions were trying to persuade her to stop.
"Perhaps in the eyes of the demons, the human race is ordinary and weak, but aren't there some immortal cultivators who have become the demon catchers that the demon clan fears? Why do they think that the human race princess is just a casual person?"
He knew that he was the one who caused her to leave her hometown and jump into dire straits. If he shows half-hearted pain and can't bear it, people who don't see his kindness will jump out and create more difficulties and pain to embarrass her, so he uses his own way to protect her without leaving any trace.
Awkward, but sincerely kind.
He must be a good monster like the little cat monster.
"There is one thing His Highness Sixth Prince said that is wrong."
Axi walked up to him, made him a pot of tea herself, and put in some sweet-scented osmanthus petals that she had secretly hidden.
"I don't want to leave."
The tea was filled with the fragrance of flowers, and the steaming heat filled the young man's sight.
"Coming here is my choice."
Axi raised her eyes and found that he was looking at her with interest, with a faint smile hidden in his eyes, and a hint of strange emotion that Axi could not understand.
At that moment, the heartbeat in the chest was inexplicably out of rhythm, and Axi moved her body restlessly and adjusted her sitting posture.
"This, this is the tea brought from my hometown, try it." She calmed down her tone and suppressed the strange feeling in her heart, "I put some osmanthus in it, it's very special."
The young man took the tea cup obediently, drank it, and then motioned for her to pour another cup.
He looked straight at her without any hesitation, and smiled brightly: "It's indeed special."
At the moment, I didn't know whether he was commenting on tea or praising her.
Axi felt that her cheeks seemed a little hot, probably because the stove was too hot.
"I have three brothers above me, two sisters, and a brother and a sister behind me." He did not look away, and the heat on Axi's face did not diminish. "Your Highness is frail and taciturn, and has never had any contact with me. We don't communicate much, and we don't participate in any fights. Your Highness attaches great importance to blood, and is most at odds with me. He has always deliberately made things difficult for you, and he will probably be mean to you. The third princess likes to wield swords, she is upright, and will not Hurt you. The fourth princess is unruly and willful and likes to bully others, but stupid, if you pay attention, nothing will happen. The fifth prince is an idiot. He is a follower of the second prince, so he probably won’t treat you well. The biological mother of the seventh prince is The current princess is arrogant and spoiled, so she doesn’t need to be on the same level as him. The eighth princess is still young, so she can be considered a compatriot with the seventh prince’s first mother.”
He spoke so eloquently that Ah Xi was stunned.
"Tomorrow you and I will go to church. We will have to meet them. It's a good idea to familiarize ourselves with them and get to know their temperaments in advance. It's my fault that I looked down on you at the beginning, so I can only help you so far. Let me see how you deal with tomorrow's scene." At the end, he added, "Princess Yi'an, don't disappoint me."
Axi suddenly became interested.
She was used to being left out and rarely interacted with outsiders. She thought her life would pass by in a hurry, but she didn't expect to experience such a complicated situation. She could learn more about all sentient beings.
"Then may I know His Highness's name now?"
"You will know tomorrow of course." The young man stood up, straightened his clothes, and finally withdrew his scorching gaze, "If you follow me to see your father tomorrow, it will be a tough battle, so you must be mentally alert."
"Will there be a lot of people?"
"Of course." He was a little surprised, then smiled again, "Are you afraid?"
"No." Axi shook his head, "I rarely have the opportunity to interact with people. I'm afraid that if I don't do well, I will bring you trouble."
After all, after so many days here, he was the only one who showed kindness to her. This Sixth Highness had survived in a very difficult situation, and Axi did not want to become a tool to cause trouble for him.
"I'm not at the point where I need you to worry about me." He smiled even more and waved to Axi, "Go to bed early and I'll pick you up tomorrow morning."
His figure disappeared into the boundless moonlight, just as he suddenly appeared in the darkness when he came.
