Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 351 The Bride of the Sea God (10)

Wei Shucheng was taken aback: "No."

Are you pursuing my sister?

"No," Wei Shucheng said, both amused and exasperated. "Why do you ask that?"

“My sister said you’re her classmate,” Yan Zhen said thoughtfully. “She has a doctorate, and as her classmate, your academic qualifications can’t be low either. With such a high level of education, why would you want to be a junior assistant to her?”

Wei Shucheng explained, "I am interested in mermaid research. The New Territories Research Institute under the Si family is managed by your sister. When I said I was her assistant, I was actually acting as her intermediary for the institute's business."

Don't underestimate the position of 'special assistant.' There are countless things you can handle for your sister, from major research institute matters to minor daily chores. For example, your sister's mermaid—I'm the one who feeds her regularly. Otherwise, given your sister's forgetful nature, Asaya would go hungry nine times in three days with her."

Yan Zhen's heart skipped a beat: "Asaya?"

"It's the name of the mermaid in her house."

"You can raise mermaids?" Yan Zhen pretended to be interested: "My sister gave me a mermaid as a birthday present a while ago. I keep it at home now. Its name is Nolan. It is very beautiful, but a bit stupid. It can't understand me when I talk to it. It even bit me yesterday."

As she spoke, she showed Wei Shucheng the wound on her hand: "Have you communicated with Asaya? It seems very intelligent. Could you teach me how to communicate with Nolan?"

"Asaya is an A-level mermaid after all, with an intelligence equivalent to a human child in their teens. Your mermaid is of a lower level, so it's normal that it can't understand human language."

Yan Zhen paused, then asked, "How do you know what level Nolan is?"

Wei Shucheng's eye twitched almost imperceptibly, and then he said, "Si Lan told me about it."

Yan Zhen suddenly realized and invited him, "Would you like to come to my house to meet Nolan? And teach me how to feed it while you're at it."

Wei Shucheng did not refuse: "Okay."

Upon arriving at the villa on Changming Street, Yan Zhen led Wei Shucheng inside.

Nolan seemed to sense something; it immediately opened its eyes, which had been resting at the bottom of the fish tank, and stared straight at the person who came in.

Yan Zhen led Wei Shucheng to the fish tank: "Look, this is it."

Wei Shucheng approached the fish tank and gazed at Nolan.

Nolan flicked his tail as he approached, and his body floated up.

The two stared at each other across the fish tank for a few seconds before Wei Shucheng looked away first and exclaimed, "It's so beautiful, more beautiful than any mermaid I've ever seen."

Yan Zhen, like a mother whose child has been praised, was both happy and proud: "My sister gave it to me because it's beautiful."

Over the next ten minutes, Yan Zhen and Wei Shucheng exchanged tips on feeding mermaids.

She recounted Nolan's likes and habits one by one. After listening, Wei Shucheng smiled and said, "You care about Nolan much more than your sister cares about Asaya. Asaya doesn't get such good treatment from your sister."

“It’s normal that my sister is too busy with work to take care of Asaya.” Yan Zhen spoke up for Si Lan. Seeing that Wei Shucheng had been standing in front of the fish tank since he came in, with Nolan’s eyes fixed on him, she seemed to just remember something and quickly asked, “What would you like to drink? I’ll go get it for you.”

"Just boiled water."

"Okay." Yan Zhen walked towards the kitchen.

When she came out of the kitchen with a glass of water, Nolan went back to the bottom of the tank and closed his eyes to sleep.

Wei Shucheng then looked through the shelf next to the fish tank—it was full of snacks that Yan Zhen had bought for Nolan.

"It's clear you've done a lot of research on raising it," Wei Shucheng said with a smile.

Yan Zhen handed him the water glass and sighed softly, "But it seems very wary of me. Last night, I touched its tail and it bit me."

Upon hearing this, Wei Shucheng's expression became somewhat subtle: "Touch its tail?"

"Correct."

“You didn’t know that the tail is a mermaid’s sensitive spot?” Wei Shucheng said. “Moreover, it looks like it’s over a year and a half old. Mermaids reach sexual maturity around two years old, and touching its tail will cause it to go into heat.”

Yan Zhen's brows furrowed immediately—this time it wasn't an act.

The fish tail is a mermaid's sensitive spot and weakness. Yan Zhen had read about this before. She touched Nolan's tail to train it to desensitize itself.

But when it came to "heat," she immediately thought of Asaya, whom she had seen at Si Lan's house. What if Nolan became like that...?

Yan Zhen felt a pang of unease.

She had no interest in toying with mermaids, or even in having relationships with mermaids who had differentiated into humans.

"So that's how it is. Looks like I wasn't wronged when I got bitten." Yan Zhen chuckled awkwardly. "I won't touch its tail anymore."

Her question only made Wei Shucheng more curious: "Why don't you touch it?"

"Didn't you say that touching its tail would make it go into heat?" Yan Zhen asked back.

"But, isn't the reason you kept it for..."

Wei Shucheng didn't continue, but the meaning was self-evident.

He obviously knew about Si Lan and Asaiya's affair, so he naturally assumed that Si Lan gave her a male mermaid to treat as a "toy".

“No, I don’t have that hobby.” Yan Zhen’s expression turned serious. “In my eyes, it’s no different from a pet cat.”

Wei Shucheng twitched the corners of his mouth, revealing an ambiguous smile, then raised his wrist to glance at his watch: "It's getting late, I still have to go to the research institute."

Yan Zhen nodded: "Okay, if I have any questions about raising mermaids in the future, may I ask you for advice?"

“Of course.” Wei Shucheng took out his phone and added Yan Zhen as a WeChat friend.

After seeing Wei Shucheng off, Yan Zhen returned to the living room.

Nolan remains lurking at the bottom of the tank, looking rather lazy.

Yan Zhen picked up the snacks from the shelf. As soon as she opened the bag, Nolan, who had heard the noise, immediately swung his tail and rushed to the top of the fish tank, staring longingly at the snacks in her hand.

Yan Zhen was feeding Nolan snacks, but his attention wasn't on it.

She was recalling her conversation with Wei Shucheng.

Without a doubt, Wei Shucheng is a very intelligent person. He raises Asaiya for Si Lan and is also suspected of knowing Nolan.

Could she then assume that Wei Shucheng was involved in Nolan's decision to go ashore and become a pet?

Thinking deeper, Wei Shucheng was behind the super disaster in the previous life that caused the deaths of tens of millions of people around the world.

Realizing this, Yan Zhen's expression became even more serious.

She initially thought it was a case of merfolk taking revenge on humans.

I never expected that humans would get involved.

She was deep in thought when suddenly her wrist was grabbed. The icy touch startled her, and she quickly looked down.

She realized she had been daydreaming, holding snacks in her hand but not touching them. Nolan waited with his mouth open for a long time before grabbing her arm in frustration.

"Here, here, here, you big glutton." Yan Zhen stuffed the rest of the snacks into its mouth.