Chapter 1750: Mermaid Taming Guide 22

Suddenly, a dazzling blue streak tore through the night sky.

Everyone instinctively looked up, saw nothing, yet noticed the high‑intelligence animals fleeing as if they had received some new command, their escape growing ever swifter.

The forest's edge, the ocean's shore.

Towering waves swallowed the shore's reefs in an instant; under the moonlit night, dark clouds blanketed the sky, and the icy seawater seemed to howl, each wave higher than the last.

If the forest's high‑intelligence creatures merely yielded to Jin Chen's pressure, then the marine animals that lingered on the shore, refusing to leave and determined to wait for Jin Chen to appear, were submitting.

Only when that azure figure dove into the sea did they all follow suit.

The seawater was freezing and biting, yet for them it was a long‑lost freedom.

The white whale that had spoken with Jin Chen, freed from the restraints of its smart iron ring, roamed the waters at will, graceful and agile.

Jin Chen ignored the thanks coming from all directions, yet somehow he understood the languages of so many different species—it was utterly noisy.

Jin Chen curled his ear fins, holding the person in his arms tighter.

The sea surged tumultuously, icy enough to almost freeze one's blood.

Lin Juan ought to have been terribly unsuited, yet he could breathe underwater, and even the resistance of the freezing seawater seemed nonexistent within that fish's embrace.

After a long while, Lin Juan sensed the water flow slowing, then instantly passed through an inexplicable barrier.

He couldn't help but open his eyes, and quickly a layer of astonishment formed.

Lin Juan didn't know how deep they were below the surface, but he had never imagined such a place could exist on the ocean floor.

Like a palace.

Silvery-white buildings were intricately beautiful, their tips flashing with the lustrous glow of gems; in the human world the most precious jewels and pearls lay scattered everywhere, mingling with the gleam of shells.

Extravagantly prosperous, yet it exuded endless desolation, as if a lost civilization.

"Juan, this is my home."

Jin Chen held him as they landed, his swaying tail fin shining even more brilliantly in the sea.

Lin Juan responded with silence, unwilling to acknowledge him.

"Home." Jin Chen, undeterred, embraced him and continued inward, passing through the moon‑white intricate path, finally reaching the most splendid depths.

What happened next gradually slipped beyond control.

Lin Juan was taken back to the place where he slept.

Lin Juan was tossed onto a soft bed.

Lin Juan was pressed down and kissed by a fierce, vicious merperson.

Lin Juan…

"Wait a moment!"

Lin Juan could bear it no longer and finally spoke.

Jin Chen expected to sit up, his tail fin coiling around Lin Juan's waist as he leaned in and hugged him tightly. "You're paying attention to me."

Lin Juan: "……"

He gave the shameless merperson before him a cold stare, wondering where his earlier evaluation of him as "innocent and naïve" had come from.

Tripping and hurting so badly as to shed pearl‑like tears, fearing armed hunters—everything was a pretense.

"You lied to me." Lin Juan said.

Jin Chen shook his head. "I didn't."

"Fish never lie." Jin Chen said solemnly.

"Do you believe it yourself?"

Jin Chen pouted. "Recuperate well, the weak period will end, and all will be fine."

He kissed Lin Juan's lips. "Don't be angry."

Lin Juan turned his head away, his tone icy. "But I'm deceiving you—I don't like you. Why did you abduct me?"

【Villain Heartthrob Value +5, total 60!】

Jin Chen: "……pfft."

Jin Chen buried his face in Lin Juan's shoulder and chuckled muffled for a while.

"What are you laughing at!" Lin Juan, about to die of anger, flushed and shoved out, "Let me go, or Doctor Edmund will still find you!"

"No." Jin Chen kissed him again without a blush or racing heart, explaining, "Deep Sea City has a Sea God Barrier; without my permission, no one can enter."

"How long will you keep me?" Lin Juan asked, gazing into Jin Chen's brows and eyes.

"Honey, my shoulder hurts." Jin Chen gave no answer, then suddenly showed a faint hint of grievance, as if accusing Lin Juan of wrongdoing, and cooed in a low voice.

Lin Juan lowered his eyes. "You deserve it… Jin Chen!"

He was once again shoved onto the bed, forcibly pressed and kissed, with nowhere to escape.

"If you won't coax me, I'll do it myself." Jin Chen whispered in his ear, chin resting on Lin Juan's neck, his sharp claws sliding down to tear the clothing with ease.

The soft tail fin lightly stroked Lin Juan's waist, catching his suddenly limp body and slowly tightening.

All his struggles and the words he never managed to utter were swallowed by the kisses.

Lin Juan gripped Jin Chen's shoulders, leaving long scratches, yet they had lost any aggressiveness.

【Villain Heartthrob Value +5, total 65!】

Until the temperature rose, the depths of the sea seemed to ignite a sleepless flame, forcibly drawing even those humans who had no wish to approach into wanton intimacy.

Within the fire, a hazy watery mist flickered; looking closer, one saw human cheeks flushed crimson, vapor gathering in their eyes, the constriction making them appear especially fragile—yet they were still not released.

This time Jin Chen went too far; in the end Lin Juan nearly fainted outright.

"Honey?" Jin Chen embraced him and called softly; seeing Lin Juan unresponsive, he rested their foreheads together and once again employed the Pupil Spirit Lure.

Dream.

Under Jin Chen's deliberate retroactive manipulation, this dream became tangible.

Not only were there monster-like tentacles and blood-red color, but also a house within a hazy glow.

Inside the house, Lin Juan from ten years ago, separated by an iron cage, curiously gazed at the monster inside that had tentacles, murmuring something.

The scene shifted again; the seemingly gentle monster suddenly became enormously huge, as if it would devour everything in sight. Lin Juan stood dazed amidst a ruin, while the news on television reported the unrest of high-intelligence animals.

Everything in Lin Juan's memory is extremely distorted, even lacking any logic—only pain and blood-red color remain.

Finally, Lin Juan pushed open a door; behind it was brand-new technological intelligent equipment. Everyone wearing white lab coats contrasted starkly with him, covered in dirt, and the teenage Lin Juan seemed out of place.

The white-haired Edmond smiled and welcomed him in, saying: "Welcome, child."

Everyone was smiling; everyone had the same facial expression and movements, even the curvature of the mouth corners and the vacant stare were identical.

Jin Chen felt puzzled; for Lin Juan, this scene should be full of hope and brightness, yet it was so bizarre, like a virtual world shrouded in a layer of fog.

In his sleep, Lin Juan suddenly trembled slightly, feeling utterly unsafe.

Jin Chen opened his eyes, breaking the dream, embraced him, kissed the corner of his eye, and softly coaxed: "It's alright… sleep."

Although it was just a soft whisper by the ear, it also felt as if, across many years of time, he held that boy who had been terrified to the extreme in his arms, protecting him unreservedly.

【Detected Villain Blackening Value -10, total 77!】

Lin Juan's consciousness blurred; he instinctively grabbed Jin Chen's hand, pressed against the collarbone, held tightly, skin touching skin.