Chapter 125

Chapter 125

Yun Youyou hesitated for a moment.

“But the pool out back hasn’t been cleaned yet. It hasn’t even been filled.”

Ji Lin said, “I’ll fill it in a bit.”

With Ji Lin’s help, the Clownfish finally had a place to call home.

Expecting Wang Yuanyou to be gentle was impossible.

As soon as the pool was cleaned up, Wang Yuanyou simply dumped the Clownfish into the water and considered the job done.

The fishman happily swam a circle through the water.

His scales shimmered as they soaked beneath the surface.

Watching how delighted he was, Wang Yuanyou couldn’t help but remind him from the side.

“Don’t celebrate too soon. In a few days, you’ll still be chopped up into fish head stew.”

The fishman didn’t take it seriously.

Once these sly humans went back to their rooms, he would secretly slip back into the sea.

Then the sky would be wide enough for birds to fly, and the ocean vast enough for him to leap as he pleased. Surely they couldn’t drain the entire sea.

Lu Keke watched from the side for a while, then suddenly said, “What if he sneaks away at night?”

Although Xiaomei’s fish face showed no expression, his entire body instantly went stiff in the water.

Damn brat, why did he have to bring up exactly the thing he shouldn’t!

Yun Youyou directly brought over two lounge chairs.

“It’s not like ghosts need to sleep anyway. Perfect. Later, the two of us can sit here and admire the mermaid under the moonlight. Then you can write a short essay about it, and when you’re old, you can take it out and reminisce.”

Lu Keke was once again reminded of the terror of being ruled by homework.

Whenever he went out to play, he had to write an essay afterward. Even if he didn’t know how to write the characters, he still had to write it in pinyin.

Lu Keke instantly wilted.

He clapped both hands over his head.

“My head hurts so much. I don’t think I can write.”

Yun Youyou was quite laid-back about it.

“If you can’t write, then forget it. After all, you’re already a ghost. Education doesn’t really matter anymore.”

Hearing that, Lu Keke lowered his hands and let out a deep sigh like an adult.

“You’re still too naive.”

Yun Youyou: ???

I just got called naive by a three- or four-year-old kid?

Lu Keke said, “Actually, ghosts have a hierarchy too. For example, ghosts who were murdered look down on ghosts who committed suicide. Ghosts who drowned and ghosts who burned to death argue with each other. Ghosts who died earlier look down on ghosts who died later. Basically, the stronger a ghost’s resentment, the more powerful they are.”

For the first time, Yun Youyou felt that she couldn’t even measure up to a three- or four-year-old little ghost.

She rubbed Lu Keke’s head meaningfully.

“I didn’t expect you to know so much.”

Lu Keke said, “Of course. I’ve been getting by in the Instance for more than half a year, after all.”

The sky gradually darkened.

Ji Lin and Wang Yuanyou were flesh-and-blood mortals, so they had to go fill their stomachs.

The moon rose high into the sky.

Yun Youyou and Lu Keke really did sit motionless beside the pool.

The fishman was so anxious he kept circling in the water.

Splashing sounds echoed through the pool.

The fishman clung to the edge and couldn’t help saying, “How about you just let me go? What happened this morning was my fault. I admit it! Please be magnanimous and spare me this once.”

Yun Youyou took a sip of the honey peach juice Ji Lin had squeezed for her and shook her head coldly.

“No. We’ve already agreed to make fish head stew tomorrow. If you leave, what are we supposed to eat?”

At the words “fish head stew,” the fishman anxiously swam several more circles around the pool.

On the shore.

Lu Keke lay beside Yun Youyou and stared at the magazine in her hands, unable to help swallowing.

“I really want to eat cake too.”

The strawberry cake in the magazine looked sweet and delicious at first glance.
Lu Keke couldn’t help smacking his lips. It was as if that silky, icy cream had already melted in his mouth.

Cake?

The fishman suddenly thought of something, and his dull, dead-fish eyes lit up.

Humans seemed to place a lot of importance on birthdays.

On your birthday, no matter what wish you made, it would come true.

Although the big one and the little one in front of him seemed to be ghosts, weren’t ghosts just humans after they died?

The fishman was a creature of action.

He swam over to the edge of the pool and ventured, “Actually, today is my birthday.”

Yun Youyou gave a flat “oh” and said casually, “Then I wish you a happy birthday.”

The fishman refused to give up so easily.

“Shouldn’t a birthday have a little sense of ceremony? I remember that when humans celebrate birthdays, they prepare a big cake, stick a bunch of candles in it, and then make a wish.”

Under the fishman’s eager, pleading gaze, Yun Youyou turned another page of her magazine.

“There isn’t any big cake here. As for candles, we only have big white ones. We can use those when we visit your grave later.”

The fishman: “…”

This woman really was impossible to move!

Undeterred, the fishman continued launching sparkling, expectant-eye attacks at Yun Youyou.

“Then what do you have here? You know, I left the sea at a young age to come to your side. Now I’m a lonely little fish all by myself. Even my birthday is just one miserable, pitiful fish. My heart is so cold.”

The fishman theatrically hugged himself.

Yun Youyou finally lifted her head and glanced at him.

“I can make you a bowl of noodles. Humans eat a bowl of noodles on their birthdays.”

The fishman’s eyes lit up instantly.

“Longevity noodles, right? I’ve heard people talk about those!”

The fishman thought happily, What a good meaning longevity noodles have. Maybe when the time comes, her heart will soften and she’ll let me go.

Yun Youyou said, “No longevity noodles. Only dried noodles.”

The fishman’s hot, pounding heart instantly dropped into the Mariana Trench.

His heart: I’m dead. And I froze to death!

Dried noodles-gua noodles. Just hearing the name, you could tell eating them would make you keel over and die.

Sorrow welled up in the fishman’s heart. He felt that fish life no longer held any joy.

Lu Keke watched as this strange fishman suddenly went rigid on the surface of the water.

Then, with his own eyes, he watched the fishman sink little by little to the bottom.

Curious, Lu Keke ran over and asked nervously, “Will he drown?”

Yun Youyou said, “If he drowns, perfect. Saves us the trouble of doing it ourselves tomorrow.”

The moment he heard that, the fishman did a carp-like flip at the bottom of the pool and slowly floated back up.

“I won’t drown!”

As a fishman with dignity and ideals, he absolutely would not be drowned by water.

And so, two ghosts and one fish waited quietly by the pool for daybreak.

With every bit the sky brightened, the fishman’s heart sank a little more.

He cheered himself on in his heart: It’s okay, Meimei. You are the son of the sea, the most beautiful little fish in the ocean. Even if you sacrifice yourself today, you’ll still be a brave, good little fish!

Yuyu, you can do it! Yuyu, charge forward!

The consequence of comforting himself like this was that when Yun Youyou fished him out of the pool, he clung to her calf, sobbing with tears and snot streaming down his face.

“Wuu, wuu, wuu… Yuyu doesn’t want to die yet! I’m just a pitiful little fish. Why does the world have to be so cruel to me?”

Yun Youyou gave a cold laugh.

“You didn’t show any mercy when you tried to drown me back then.”

The fishman: “Wuu, wuu, wuu…”

If anyone asked, he was extremely remorseful now!

He only hated that fate was so melodramatic!