Chapter 89: The Center of the Fish Pond (24)
Suhui was terrified.
She was afraid that once the truth about her fake pregnancy was exposed, Su Mingxiu would not only withdraw all her affection but also pin her down in the bedroom and reenact the terrifying events in the coral maze.
So, when it was time for bed, Suhui lingered, hesitant to enter the room. The beautiful, translucent fins behind her ears fanned out like a cat on the verge of exploding.
But Su Mingxiu only looked at her with a knowing smile, sitting on the edge of the bed as she said: “What, are you looking forward to me settling the score with you now?”
“Uh…!” Suhui immediately hurried into the room and was about to fall onto the bed without even pulling back the covers. Su Mingxiu sighed inwardly, went over, and tucked the fish into bed properly.
But as soon as the lights were turned off, the fish started fidgeting again.
Perhaps because she had been scared by Su Mingxiu earlier in the living room, Suhui couldn’t fall asleep. Thinking about the impending doom hanging over her head, she tossed and turned, feeling a pain in her stomach.
Su Mingxiu, lying beside her, felt her movements. She initially thought Suhui was up to something, but when she reached out and felt a cold sweat, she opened her eyes instinctively: “What’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?”
“Stomach ache.”
Suhui rarely sounded so weak. After speaking, remembering how many times she had woken Su Mingxiu up in the middle of the night pretending to be sick, she added in an even weaker voice: “It’s real this time.”
Su Mingxiu chuckled, not holding Suhui’s past antics against her. She gently caressed Suhui’s nose with her finger. “Should I turn on the light?”
“Yes.”
Suhui nodded, and a warm orange light filled the room.
Seeing her covered in sweat, Su Mingxiu became worried. She wiped Suhui’s forehead and neck. “What’s going on?”
If it weren’t for Suhui’s special identity, she would have taken her to the hospital immediately.
Unfortunately, she couldn’t, and could only watch helplessly as her beloved suffered.
Suhui, based on her body’s reaction, had figured out the answer. She wasn’t feeling as much pain now. Holding Su Mingxiu’s wrist, her voice returning to its usual calmness, only the depths of her blue eyes seemed empty: “It seems like… it’s time.”
“Huh??” Su Mingxiu was stunned for a moment, but she quickly calmed down. “What do we need to prepare?”
“I want to go to the bathroom.”
“Okay.”
The day arrived earlier than expected. Su Mingxiu didn’t know if these eggs were considered premature.
Lost in thought, she carried Suhui to the bathroom, her steps steady. Earlier, to prevent Suhui from slipping, she had covered the floor with non-slip mats.
She placed Suhui in the bathtub, and warm water slowly filled it.
As the clear water touched Suhui’s smooth legs, a silver-blue glow appeared. As the water level rose, her long, slender legs transformed into the silver-blue tail Su Mingxiu had seen in the sea.
Her translucent, silver-blue scales shimmered like moonlight.
All the characteristics of a mermaid were revealed, only the small, metal candy earrings on her earlobes seemed out of place, a taboo, a mark left by a human.
Su Mingxiu half-squatted before the bathtub, unsure whether she should stay or leave.
Suhui felt the eggs in her abdomen moving downwards, but instead of relief, she felt a sharp pain, making her bite her lower lip with her sharp teeth.
Seeing her action, Su Mingxiu instinctively reached out to stop her, but the mermaid grabbed her wrist. “You… leave.”
She instinctively didn’t want Su Mingxiu to see her in this state.
As the kings of the sea, merfolk were a proud race. Perhaps instinctively, she felt that she wasn’t as beautiful during childbirth, so she wanted to avoid showing this side of herself to her beloved.
The fabric of Su Mingxiu’s pants, where her knees rested on the floor, was soaked from the overflowing water. But she didn’t care, her gaze fixed on the furrow in Suhui’s brow. She said gently: “Don’t bite yourself.”
“Bite me.”
Su Mingxiu had originally thought that this fish, so skilled at lying, wouldn’t need her help with laying eggs. But now, just a few hours later, she saw this foolish fish lying helplessly in the bathtub.
Before even laying the eggs, she had already injured herself.
Suhui’s grip on her wrist tightened, her gaze fixed on the bathroom ceiling. Her usually pale face was now flushed, and Su Mingxiu didn’t know what was going on.
Seeing her motionless, only biting her lip harder, Su Mingxiu had no choice but to pry her lips open with her finger, intending to make her let go. But Suhui, searching her inherited memories for guidance, bit down on whatever was near her lips.
Until the familiar taste of blood filled her mouth—
Suhui came back to her senses, realizing that she was biting Su Mingxiu’s fingertip. A slight pang of guilt surged through her. After a moment, under Su Mingxiu’s worried gaze, she released her grip and whispered: “I… I can’t do it.”
“What?”
Su Mingxiu rarely felt so helpless. “Then what should we do? Can I help you?”
She had only been worried about Suhui, afraid that something bad would happen to this foolish fish. But as soon as she finished speaking, she saw the blush on Suhui’s delicate face spread down her neck.
Even though her clothes were soaked, it was easy to imagine that the blush had spread throughout her entire body.
The mermaid didn’t speak, but her grip on Su Mingxiu’s wrist tightened, even causing pain. Suhui’s nails had unconsciously dug into her skin.
Then, as Su Mingxiu was about to ask again, Suhui silently pulled her wrist into the clear water, her hand reaching down towards her tail—
Water splashed from the bathtub.
Suhui’s tail thrashed involuntarily. Her eyes were red-rimmed, tears welling up in her usually beautiful blue eyes. Even though she tried to raise her head, clinging to the edge of the tub, she couldn’t stop the tears from falling.
And each teardrop, upon landing in the water, transformed into a white, teardrop-shaped pearl.
Su Mingxiu, seeing her tail curled up, her knuckles white from gripping the edge of the tub, her silent tears, swallowed hard, trying to bring her thoughts back to the task at hand.
The reason Suhui was having difficulty laying eggs was because… that area was too narrow and needed to be… widened.
She told herself that this was for Suhui’s safety, so she ignored the soft, yielding touch against her fingers and closed her eyes.
But the fish, perhaps having reached her limit, let out soft, broken moans.
Like a fragmented song.
Even these faint sounds were incredibly alluring.
Su Mingxiu’s brow twitched. She leaned in and bit the skin on Suhui’s nape, whispering a calm command in the faint fragrance, her voice slightly hoarse:
“Don’t cry.”
Suhui, already struggling to endure the pain, felt a surge of grievance as Su Mingxiu bit her neck like prey. She raised her head even higher.
… Why couldn’t she cry?
“Plop.”
A teardrop, clinging to the corner of her eye, fell onto the tiled floor outside the bathtub.
Suhui’s whimpers intensified. As a result, she felt the woman’s “help” become more forceful, making her back arch.
After a while…
A white egg, smaller than her palm, fell to the bottom of the bathtub.
But perhaps because of the water, the hard shell of the white egg gradually softened after half a minute in the fresh water, then melted, flowing down the drain.
The clear water in the bathtub gradually turned cloudy.
Half an hour later—
Suhui lay limply in the bathtub, feeling like she had lost all her dignity in the process of being helped by Su Mingxiu.
Wuwuwu, she should have transformed into a male the moment she saw Su Mingxiu. Then she wouldn’t have been bullied by this woman, wouldn’t have faked a pregnancy, wouldn’t have needed help laying eggs…
Su Mingxiu had gone out to get her a glass of water. Now, seeing her motionless in the bathtub, thinking she was upset about the egg, she said instinctively: “It’s my fault, I didn’t know mermaid eggs couldn’t be preserved in fresh water. I’ll be careful next time.”
“Next time?”
She still wanted a next time?!
Suhui glared at her, but with the redness still lingering in her eyes, her glare looked more like a coquettish complaint.
She was still holding a grudge against Su Mingxiu for not letting her cry.
“There won’t be a next time,” Suhui replied with a stuffy nose. “The false pregnancy was because my body wasn’t used to it, it thought I was pregnant.”
After a few more times, her body would get used to it and wouldn’t react this way again.
Hearing this, Su Mingxiu also relaxed. After all, even though it was just an ordinary egg, Suhui had still suffered. So she brought the warm glass of water to Suhui’s lips, supporting her neck as she tried to feed her.
Suhui only took a small sip, then, putting aside the matter of the dissolved egg, she extended her hands towards Su Mingxiu. “I’m too weak, carry me back.”
Su Mingxiu could only put the glass aside, grab a towel, and bend down to carry the dripping wet fish back to the bedroom.
Suhui’s tail naturally transformed back into legs as she was lifted out of the water. Back on the bed, she rolled around in the towel a few times, then lay there lazily, complaining to Su Mingxiu: “You bit me too hard earlier.”
“You have to massage it for me.”
But the fish had completely forgotten that she had taken off all her clothes in the bathtub. Now, after rolling around, her naked back was completely exposed, her smooth legs, the curve of her waist and hips, her delicate spine and shoulder blades, and the faint bite marks on her nape, all visible beneath her scattered silver hair.
Su Mingxiu stood at the foot of the bed, her dark eyes deepening.
Suhui, not seeing her move, turned her head and looked at her in confusion. But meeting Su Mingxiu’s gaze, she suddenly felt a chill down her spine and instinctively pulled the nearby blanket over herself.
“I… I just laid an egg, I’m very weak, you can’t bully me…”
Su Mingxiu, hearing her confident command, didn’t sense any weakness from this fish. She guessed that Suhui was using her knowledge of human pregnancies to deceive her again.
But she didn’t expose her. Just in case, she decided to let the fish play her game for a few more days.
Under Suhui’s wary gaze, she slowly approached the bed, sat down, and reached out to touch Suhui’s nape. Just as the mermaid on the bed was about to stop her, she asked in a cool tone: “Didn’t you want me to massage it for you?”
As she spoke, she increased the pressure of her fingertips, making Suhui moan softly.
At first, Suhui was apprehensive, afraid that Su Mingxiu wouldn’t keep her word and would take advantage of her in this vulnerable state.
But after preparing herself mentally, Su Mingxiu’s massage made her gradually relax, her eyelids growing heavy.
When Su Mingxiu finally stopped, the fish, oblivious to the cold, turned over, her soft belly exposed, and sleepily pulled Su Mingxiu’s hand towards her stomach, her voice unconsciously becoming more coquettish: “Here too…”
Even though she was so sleepy that she could barely keep her eyes open, she didn’t forget to give orders.
Su Mingxiu almost laughed in exasperation, but she couldn’t refuse. She placed her warm palm on Suhui’s belly and gently massaged it.
After an unknown amount of time, Suhui asked her for a hug, making Su Mingxiu stay and sleep with her.
Sunlight streamed into the room.
When Suhui opened her eyes, she instinctively touched her belly, but her hand met another. She turned her head and saw the peaceful sleeping face beside her, only then did she remember what she had done last night.
Remembering Su Mingxiu’s warning, while Su Mingxiu was still asleep, she secretly took her phone from the nightstand.
During her time recuperating at home, Suhui had learned how to use the internet. She spent her days watching her former rivals from Produce 101 suffer on stage and browsing various social media platforms.
She secretly posted on a forum, asking how to coax someone after lying to them.
She quickly received replies.
Apologies, gifts, confessing the truth, and so on. Suhui replied: “I’ve already apologized, told her the truth, and even given her a gift.”
The commenters fell silent.
They clearly thought she was doomed.
Only one reply offered a new suggestion:
“If all else fails, try seduction. It’s a last resort.”
Suhui: “?”
She started searching for the meaning of “seduction,” diligently learning online. She found two popular videos titled “Nude Challenge” and “Wearing Your Partner’s Shirt Challenge”—
Eh?
Could this really appease Su Mingxiu?
As long as Su Mingxiu saw her naked, or wearing her clothes, she wouldn’t be angry anymore?
Suhui instinctively felt that something was wrong. She didn’t know that these challenge videos usually ended with… intimate content. But trusting in human nature, she decided to give it a try.
After all, she was so beautiful, perhaps as long as she put on a good show, Su Mingxiu would forgive her lie?
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