The Van Empire Kingdom is a beautiful and rich country located at the intersection of the East and the West. People live affluent lives, and the king and queen have deep affection and love. They have only one child, named Chi Yan. On the one hand, the king and the queen strictly demand the prince by the standard of a heir to a country, and on the other hand, they can't help but dote on their only child. This gives the prince the ability to manage his affairs independently while still maintaining naive fantasies.
The prince would soon be eighteen, and the king and queen promised to grant him a wish.
Chi Yan took the hands of his parents, shaking them and begging them to allow him to go to sea to see and hold his eighteenth birthday party on the boat.
The territory of the Kingdom of Fan includes a sea area, but the capital is deep inland. Chi Yan has only a few opportunities to get close to the sea from childhood to adulthood. He is full of romantic and mysterious reverie about the mysterious blue.
The king and queen were naturally reluctant to reject their son's simple wish, and happily agreed with a smile.
Only one of the prince's teachers, the high priest of the Van Emperor Kingdom, raised concerns, and the old man knew exactly what their young prince was thinking.
"His Royal Highness, please don't believe the stories made up by bards, those are all nonsense. There are no beautiful and kind mermaids and splendid underwater kingdoms in the sea, there are only brutal sea monsters, you must be careful at sea. ."
"I understand," Chi Yan replied obediently, "Teacher, if you're worried, you can come together. My father gave me the most advanced and comfortable boat."
The old priest hurriedly rejected it. With a handful of old bones, he couldn't help the wind, waves and bumps at sea.
The prince's birthday is approaching day by day. The king will stay in the capital to handle government affairs. The queen and a group of nobles will accompany the prince to board his brand-new white luxury cruise ship. The cruise departs from Golden Sunset Port and will return to this port again after ten days at sea. The king also hoped that the prince could take this opportunity to get to know more about his own maritime territory, so he sent the best navigator to accompany Chi Yan to explain.
The queen felt a little unwell after getting on the ship, and spent most of the time in her own room to cultivate, and only made a symbolic appearance at the dinner party on the first day. And everyone knows in their hearts that the prince is already an adult, and the next priority is to choose the princess, so the nobles who have lost the big goal of the queen always bring their young and beautiful daughters to dangle in front of Chi Yan, consciously or not. I tried my best to talk to him.
Chi Yan didn't like to deal with these scenes, so every day in addition to visiting his mother in the queen's room, he took the navigation officers to stand on the deck to listen to them explain the situation at sea. He and the navigators pretended to be discussing political affairs, and the actions of those nobles would be restrained. As a prince, Chi Yan deservedly had one of the best rooms on the ship. His room is at the bow, and there is a spacious semi-circular balcony outside the room. The balcony has an excellent view, and he can look up to the sea and sky.
But sometimes he sits alone on the sofa in the living room, reading a book, looking out at the sea through the large and bright glass window, and suddenly feels that there is a person behind him for no reason, so he hugs him and looks at the sea. , whispering some gentle vague words in his ear, he couldn't remember what those words were, only that the feeling should be very warm.
Then he would hold the book alone and fall into a deep, inextricable loneliness and loss.
Sometimes he would push open the door of the balcony alone in the middle of the night, staring at the bright starry sky and the darkened sea under the sea breeze. He always had this feeling that he was looking for someone, he was waiting for someone, but he didn't know who it was. Instead of going away, this feeling increased as he got older, as he entered puberty, as he became an adult.
So he likes to listen to the fantasy stories told by the bard, he likes to listen to the legends about the sea and the mermaid, he even fantasizes, if there was a beautiful mermaid princess who once rescued him, it was just him and the man in the story. Like a foolish prince, he completely forgot about each other after waking up.
The cruise ship sailed on the sea for five days, and the distance from the golden sunset port was getting farther and farther. The vast sea became more and more profound. The prince's birthday also came as scheduled.
Before dawn, the servants began to get busy. Chi Yan's servant waited for him to put on a new white dress, and the female officer adjusted his collar for him and praised: "Your Highness, you are really handsome today."
The queen's complexion has also improved significantly today, wearing a dignified and elegant palace dress to celebrate her beloved son's coming of age.
However, even if the venue for the banquet is moved from the palace to the ship at sea, the basic process and style are the same. After the grand banquet is the dance that Chi Yan dislikes the most. Opportunity slipped out of the ballroom and went to the top deck alone.
The sky was overcast, no bright stars could be seen, and there was a different kind of moisture in the air. Chi Yan remembered what the navigator had said, there should be rain tonight.
All the fields are silent, the sky and the sea are terrifyingly dark, the wind and the tide of the sea are getting stronger and stronger, and it is visible to the naked eye that a vortex-shaped storm eye has rolled up on the sea not far from the cruise ship!
But in an instant, the wind was so strong that people could hardly stand still, and all the chairs placed on the deck were lifted up and rolled on the deck without any rules. Chi Yan reluctantly climbed on the railing on the edge of the deck to stabilize her body, and stumbled and tried to walk into the cabin.
Everything on the deck had been swept up in the sky by the wind, and it became extremely difficult for Chi Yan to take a step back. At this moment, a strong wind came in the direction of Chi Yan with a chair wrapped in it. He was caught off guard and was shot directly into the sea under the action of the wind...
The cabin was already in chaos, and the nobles hid in their rooms under the guidance and guidance of the palace attendants. The queen still barely maintained her composure and sat in the ballroom to stabilize her heart.
This scene is too terrifying, from the window, you can see the five huge black vortexes surrounding the hull, like the mouth of a giant beast.
The well-informed navigator reported to the queen with a pale face: "Your Majesty, this is the handwriting of the siren. We should have entered the hunting area of the siren by mistake. The captain has ordered the rudder to be turned."
Sirens, to ordinary people, are nothing but powerful creatures in legends. They overturn rivers and seas, roll up huge waves, and devour giant ships and sailors. They are brutal, powerful, bloody, and inhuman. They can be called the masters of the sea, standing at the top of the sea food chain, and meeting them means perishing.
The navigator trembled. There are two kinds of fear, one is fear because of the unknown; the other is fear because of knowing. No one is more familiar with the horror of this kind of monster than them. He knows that they have fallen into a situation of near death. The only way to rely now is the protective barrier that the high priest laid out for this cruise ship before departure. I hope it can stop those Krakens. .
There was an obvious worry on the beautiful face of the Queen's Back House. She anxiously asked the question she cared about most: "Have you found the prince?"
As the storm rolled, the prince was soon found to be gone. Chi Yan's entourage reported that the prince went to the deck alone before, but when they went to the deck to look for it in the strong wind, they didn't see anyone. They could only start with the hope that "the prince has already returned to the cabin". Find someone in the cabin.
The head of the bodyguard, who was in charge of organizing the search for the prince, did not dare to look at the queen's face, so he lowered his head deeply and said, "... Your Highness will be safe."
The queen closed her eyes and fell back in her chair—for now, she could only pray to God to save them from this catastrophe, and to keep her only son safe.
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Chi Yan was shot down on the sea, and the shock of that moment made him faint.
Gradually, he became slightly awake, but he only felt that the surrounding water was icy cold, his limbs became heavier and weaker, and he tried to move his fingers, but it was in vain.
He couldn't open his eyes, the surroundings were too quiet, he was too cold, but he was unable to break free from this icy sea.
At that moment, Chi Yan even thought of death. He thought that maybe this was death, and he would be buried in this cold water.
A pair of equally cold hands supported him, hugged his waist, and sank to the deeper seabed together.
The huge water pressure and the biting sea water made Chi Yan start to struggle in pain. He desperately slapped the "man" who was holding him, trying to break free from the opponent's restraint.
The other party suddenly took him into his arms and hugged him tightly.
Something stuck to his lips, and tentatively poked in—
The cold liquid was poured into the mouth, the pressure on the whole body disappeared instantly, and the inside of the body began to become warm, only the body wrapped around him was still cold.
Chi Yan instinctively hugged each other and asked him for more.
All greedy and unscrupulous demands have been satisfied, and in this trance of sweetness and darkness, he entangled with the other party and fell into the bottom of the endless deep sea...
On the night of the prince's birthday, just as the storm whirlpool suddenly appeared, those black storms suddenly disappeared without warning. The nobles guessed that the barrier of the high priest played a role, but the oldest navigator stared at the sea and whispered, "It's the siren that has got the prey it wants."
However, they still did not find the prince.
The king sent another 20 ships to carry out the search and rescue of the prince, and he personally commanded the scene. The cruise took the nobles back to the golden sunset port, but the queen refused to go back with them, but continued to stay at sea waiting to find Prince's result.
Everyone knows that the prince is already in bad luck. But if there is no evidence, the king and queen are unwilling to believe and unwilling to give up.
However, a month later, just when everyone had slowly given up hope, the prince suddenly appeared.
He was sitting on a raft and appeared not far from the search and rescue boat, his face was pale, his short black hair was wet sticking to his face, and his eyes were also wet, with a little helplessness and daze. He was wearing a white robe, which was warm and dry, and wrapped him well.
The attendants hurriedly rescued their prince on the boat, and the queen came to see him as soon as possible, hugged him tightly into her arms, and burst into tears. "Mom, I'm back." Chi Yan called to her mother in a low voice like a child, hesitated, and hugged her mother's body back.
He is back.
He is already back.
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Five years later, the old king and queen abdicated and began to travel around the world. Chi Yan officially ascended the throne and became the new king of the Fan Empire Kingdom. His marriage was inevitably on the agenda again. And Chi Yan once again forcibly suppressed the topic.
Back in the bedroom, he dismissed all the attendants around him, walked to the sink alone and washed his face with cold water.
Five years ago, he never mentioned it to anyone. Facing the outside world, even his own parents, his rhetoric was a uniform set of "I don't know" "I stumbled on the deck that night and fell into the water, after that. I just lost consciousness." "I'll be here when I wake up again"... He used a coma to block everything, and others didn't dare to ask in detail. The queen and the king felt sorry for him. of.
Only he himself knew what had happened in that month in the sea five years ago - bit by bit, remembered clearly.
He remembered that thing, his cold and powerful arms, his pale and handsome face, the sinister smile on his lips, his powerful fish tail, his imitation of human pronunciation, The humidity that called him "A Yan" in his ear... I remember those chaotic indulgences, endlessly tightly entangled in the cold and dark seabed.
He knew what the other party was—even with the same bewitching and demagogic appearance, the other party was not the gentle and kind mermaid in the bard's tales, but the cruel and cold-blooded siren that the high priest had repeatedly warned him to beware of.
He still remembered how in those days when he couldn't tell the difference between day and night, how he cried, catered to, ingratiated, and begged the other party to let him go and let him go back... The other party never responded, just kissed it a little bit with cold lips Tears dripping from his eyes.
So he never thought that that thing would really send him back in the end.
Chi Yan washed his face, dressed neatly and went to the temple.
He would pray every day, asking God to forgive his sin—the sin of wanton intercourse with the dark and cruel monster... The sin of thinking about that monster and unable to extricate himself.
Sometimes I even dream that he was floating on the sea, and a pair of icy arms suddenly wrapped around him, constantly dragging him to the depths and dragging him... I dreamed that the icy lips and breath fell silently on his body...
In the dream, he didn't cry and beg for mercy, but in response stretched out his arms and hugged the person back, sighing: "I miss you so much..."
The intimacy is like a coquettish coquettish between long-lost lovers.
The scene in the dream often wakes him up, but it expresses the hidden longing in his heart that he dare not admit.
Such days began when he returned from the sea when he was eighteen years old, and finally ended half a year after he ascended the throne.
Not because he suddenly forgot what happened back then, the Kraken, but because he met someone.
He was an extremely wealthy stranger, possessing unimaginable wealth that was truly unbelievable. He said that he came up from the continent on the other side of the sea, was a nobleman in his original country, and also ran a family business. He can easily come up with treasures that make the richest nobles of the Mortal Empire jealous. His extraordinary appearance, extensive knowledge, noble and elegant conversation, and amazing wealth make him quickly among the upper-class noble circles of the Mortal Empire. sought after and welcomed.
Chi Yan had heard rumors about this man in the palace before, but he didn't care until he saw the man for the first time at a banquet hosted by his uncle.
The other party did have a handsome and noble appearance. He held Chi Yan's hand gracefully and placed a polite kiss on it: "Your Majesty, my name is Ye Yingzhi."
Chi Yan was shocked at that moment.
There is no other reason, just because the man has a face that is exactly the same as the sea monster in the memory. But it is no longer strange and evil, but looks dignified, noble, gentle and amiable.
It's like the cold-blooded monster in the deep sea has put a layer of delicate human skin on itself.
Chi Yan couldn't help looking at his lower body - yes, those were a pair of slender and straight human legs, not the cold and powerful fish tail in memory.
The man smiled gently and politely at him: "Your Majesty, what are you looking at?"
Chi Yan tried her best to keep her composure, but left early at the dinner.
That night he had another nightmare. He dreamed that he was locked in his arms by the Kraken, pressed on the dark and empty seabed, the monster plundered everything he wanted, and smiled in his ear: "Baby, I finally caught you."
It was the voice of the man named Ye Yingzhi.
Chi Yan woke up from her dream, sat on the bed with her head down, and forced herself to calm down. He thought silently for a long time in the dark alone, and sat quietly until dawn the next day.
Afterwards, Chi Yan began to summon men to the palace intentionally or unintentionally, sometimes playing chess with him, sometimes drinking tea with him, sometimes watching performances with him... Everyone knows that this stranger named Ye Yingzhi has become His Majesty's new favorite .
Chi Yan couldn't explain exactly what he wanted from the other party. Did he want to see through the disguise of the other party's human appearance? Or do you want to prove that the man is an ordinary stranger and has nothing to do with the Kraken
He couldn't tell, and he didn't know whether he wanted to prove that Ye Yingzhi was a human being, or whether he wanted to prove that Ye Yingzhi was not a human being.
But his heart was unconsciously captured by the other party in the process. He dreamed less and less of the cold and dark seabed, more and more of the stone road they walked together, and the scenery of the four seasons they had seen together.
Soon a year passed, and the contact between the two became more and more frequent. Chi Yan even prepared a room for the other party in the palace. He thinks less and less about whether a man is a human or a siren. He only knows that Ye Yingzhi can easily occupy all his attention. The time with him always makes people feel warm and fulfilling, as if there is something missing things are filled by the presence of the other.
Finally, in the late summer and early autumn of this year, the young king of the Van Empire Kingdom proposed to the unknown mysterious stranger.
He held each other's hand in the garden of the palace, and asked with a smile: "Yellow, are you willing to stay with me all the time? Until death takes one of us."
He is confident and sure that Ye Yingzhi will agree, after all, the man's love and focus on him is obvious.
And the result was as he expected.
Ye Yingzhi kissed his forehead lightly and replied in a low voice, "I don't think even death can separate us. We will always be together forever."
Chi Yan couldn't wait to set their wedding date and organized a grand wedding, and officially took her queen back to the palace before winter came.
He kissed his queen in the bedroom, and pushed Ye Yingzhi into the bedroom with the smile of the other party.
Sitting alone on the bed that will belong to two people from now on, he felt a little embarrassed and a little impatient, and finally he couldn't help but quietly opened the bathroom door and slipped in.
As the lord of a country, he has a bathroom that can be described as "luxury", and the bathtub inside is enough to accommodate ten adults.
After Chi Yan walked in, he quietly closed the door and looked around. The bathroom was filled with white mist and the water vapor was diffused. He looked carefully twice, but he didn't see his queen.
At this moment, a cold hand stretched out from the bathtub, and pulled him in violently—
Chi Yan was caught off guard and fell into a cold embrace.
He froze on the spot in astonishment, feeling the familiar, icy cold touch engraved into his bone marrow, and he had a faint premonition in his heart, but he didn't dare to look back.
Until the other party gently put his chin on his shoulder and said with a chuckle, "Baby, I finally caught you."
Chi Yan swallowed his saliva, lowered his eyes and looked down. The arms that hugged him were pale and strong, with slender fingers and long, deep-sea blue nails that were extremely sharp and shone with the light of a hunter.
The strong fish tail curled slightly, pressing against him, fiddling with his calves and ankles.
The Kraken firmly hugged the person in his arms and turned around. Chi Yan was forced to see the familiar appearance of the Kraken, with pointy ears, scarlet eyes, and a sinister smile.
He closed his mouth tightly and whimpered softly from his throat. He couldn't even realize what was going on in front of him.
The Kraken kissed irresistibly, as she did five years ago.
We will always be together, and death cannot separate us.
According to legend, after the Kraken's lover dies, the Kraken will hold the other party and sink to the bottom of the sea, sink into a place that no one can touch, and then accompany the other party to die.
And I will accompany you, as a "human", until that day comes.
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Legend has it that the young king of the Mortal kingdom had a very beloved queen from a foreign land, and the story of their love was widely spread through bards.
But no one knows that on the side of the throne, on the back seat is a human being or a demon.