WTYTIAAN Chapter 216

Chapter 216

A rocky beach far from the small fishing village.

Due to the many reefs here, few fishermen come in this direction, and the small fishing village is some distance away, so almost no one passes by.

On the edge of the rocky beach closest to the sea is a large rock, and under the rock is a small cave, eroded by the waves over the years. It can accommodate an adult male, with some space to spare. It seems quite spacious for two slender children.

The stone cave is a blind spot. Standing on the shore, it is almost impossible to see the situation inside the cave.

This is Cornelia and Bessie’s secret base.

Today, drying fish took a little longer, and Bessie hadn’t arrived yet, but Cornelia was already waiting in the stone cave.

She held a necklace made of carefully selected and polished coral stones. Her silver tail, draped over the edge of the rock, swayed gently with her mood, shimmering with beautiful iridescence in the sunset.

Cornelia looked forward to the arrival of her friend.

However, arriving faster than Bessie were the mermaids full of malice.

“Hey, you hybrid, what are you doing here?” The red-tailed mermaid beside the gold-tailed mermaid folded her arms and stopped by the sea, sizing up Cornelia sitting on the shore.

After seeing the simple coral necklace in her hand, she showed an incredulous expression, as if she had thought of something. “You wouldn’t be—ha, colluding with humans, would you?”

“What? Colluding with humans?” Other mermaids were surprised to hear this.

“Look at the necklace in her hand. It even has a mermaid’s blessing engraved on it. And she comes to the shore. She’s definitely going to give it to a human. Isn’t this colluding with humans?”

“Ha, as expected, mixed-blood hybrids are restless. She grew up in the mermaid clan, but she still leans towards humans. Is she going to help humans catch mermaids next?”

“I knew that hybrid was no good…”

The mermaids who came with the gold-tailed mermaid chattered, all looking at the mermaid clan’s anomaly with hostile eyes.

As a mixed-blood mermaid, Cornelia had heard such words countless times. Suddenly encountering this group of mermaids in the secret base also startled her, followed by the usual scolding and slander.

These mermaids would not hesitate to use the most vicious words to hurt Cornelia, who had the blood of humans in her veins, because from the teachings of the mermaid elders since childhood, humans were the worst.

Cornelia, who possessed human blood, was also a bad mermaid. This was the original sin brought by blood.

Even though Cornelia’s mother was just deceived by the mermaid king, and died not long after giving birth to Cornelia.

The mermaid king’s indifference to Cornelia was also the fuse for other mermaids’ malice towards Cornelia.

Cornelia lowered her head, and her sea-blue curly hair was a little drooping. Her expression was numb, as if she had heard these words countless times, except that this time she was being told that she was the same as humans, born sinful.

Not every human is a bad guy.

Cornelia lowered her eyes, thinking in her heart.

Bessie is very good.

Bessie is the best human in the world.

I wonder if these older sisters will leave after they finish scolding her.

Cornelia, who had just been wondering when Bessie would come, suddenly hoped that Bessie wouldn’t come today.

She didn’t want her good friend to see her like this.

Cornelia was a little lost. In Bessie’s heart, she had always been a little mermaid princess. Cornelia had only explained this once when they first met. Later, when Bessie continued to tease her as a mermaid princess, Cornelia did not continue to refute it.

She concealed the fact that she was an inferior mixed-blood mermaid.

It didn’t matter who scolded her, only Bessie—Cornelia hoped that in Bessie’s heart, she was really a pure and flawless mermaid princess, not an inferior mixed-blood mermaid.

This was her first good friend, and perhaps her only one.

“Splash—”

Someone, not knowing who, flicked their tail, and the splashing waves splashed on Cornelia’s face, extinguishing and washing away the anticipation and joy she had just felt while waiting for Bessie.

“Hey—I said, how can you…”

The arrogant mermaid suddenly yelped and covered her forehead before she could finish speaking.

A stone hit his forehead, with great force. The sharp stone cut a bloody mark on the corner of his forehead. Crimson blood beads rolled down from the gap between his fingers and disappeared into the blue sea.

“Who!” He looked around in horror.

The other mermaids didn’t know what had suddenly happened either, and subconsciously followed suit.

Cornelia was dumbfounded by this sudden development. She had been looking down just now, and had been splashed with a tail of water, so she didn’t see the scene of the mermaid being hit by the stone at all. She raised her head in confusion, her eyelashes still dripping with water.

“So—it’s you little bastards bullying Cornelia?”

A figure stood on the reef, holding a bamboo pole used for punting boats in one hand, and tossing stones picked up from the roadside up and down in the other, watching the mermaids with a fierce gaze.

It’s Bessie!

Cornelia heard the voice, first surprised and looking back, then panicked.

Her older brothers and sisters who usually scolded her were all here. If Bessie heard those words, would she be angry because she had concealed the fact that she was a mixed-blood mermaid?

That’s right, Bessie always called her Little Mermaid Princess. Bessie must like Mermaid Princess more, but she is not a real mermaid princess.

The mermaid princess is right here. If she said that she was a mixed-blood mermaid, and had been deceiving Bessie for so long, Bessie would definitely be angry, and then ignore her, right?

Cornelia’s eyes widened. She hadn’t cried even when she was splashed with seawater just now, but now that she thought that Bessie would no longer pay attention to her in the future, Cornelia wanted to shed small pearls again.

“It’s a human!”

“It’s really a human, and she even said Cornelia’s name. I knew Cornelia must be colluding with humans!”

“As expected, mixed-blood hybrids are…”

The mermaids were also startled by the sudden appearance of Bessie. Their first reaction to seeing the human was that Cornelia was indeed a traitor, and they cursed Cornelia once again.

However, this time they hadn’t said a few words when Bessie had already rushed up, wielding the bamboo pole in her hand and whipping it towards the group of mermaids.

Bessie was born into a fisherman’s family and had started helping her parents fish since she was a child. She had great strength in her hands. The bamboo pole in her hand was also a bamboo pole used by fishermen for punting boats in shallow seas, thick and sturdy. It hurt when it hit fleshy places, let alone that Bessie’s target had always been the mermaids’ faces and arms.

She hit wherever it hurt the most. For a time, the scene was chaotic.

Bessie relied on the length of the bamboo pole and could hit the mermaids in the sea while standing on the shore. Her movements were fast and agile. The bamboo pole was swung by her with a cracking sound, hitting the mermaids and making a popping sound. Louder than this sound were the mermaids’ painful shouts.

The mermaids, who were usually extremely elegant and beautiful, mythical creatures who always used their beautiful voices to seduce sailors to jump off ships and perish in the sea, were now shouting and yelling in their charming voices—from being whipped.

The mermaids were also stunned. No mermaid had ever beaten them like this before. In the sea, mermaids had no natural enemies.

For a moment, the mermaids forgot that if they just dived into the seabed, Bessie wouldn’t be able to hit them.

Cornelia also watched in stunned silence.

Suddenly, Bessie wielding the bamboo pole was more majestic in her heart than her father—at least her father had never beaten these mermaids like this.

Bessie, who was beating these mermaids, was still not satisfied, and cursed, “Let you bully Cornelia. You have the nerve to bully such a beautiful baby, you shameless ones, I’ll beat you to death.”

Cornelia: Wow—

The mermaids who had been beaten up finally remembered that they could dive into the seabed to avoid attacks, and immediately dived into the sea one by one.

They didn’t forget to leave harsh words: “Cornelia, you actually let humans ambush us? Just you wait, I will definitely tell the elders about this, you’re finished! Aww!”

The last one to leave the harsh words was hit by Bessie again with a bamboo pole, let out a miserable cry of pain, and quickly drilled back into the sea, not daring to stay any longer, for fear of being hit again.

Cornelia: Huh?

Seeing the little bastard mermaids being beaten away, Bessie threw away the bamboo pole in her hand, jumped down from the reef, landed in front of Cornelia, and held Cornelia’s small face in her hands, wiping the seawater off her face with her sleeves with heartache.

“Cornelia, are you okay? Damn, these little bastards, they even dare to splash water on our Cornelia baby’s beautiful face!” Bessie was very dissatisfied.

Cornelia: Eh?

Cornelia hesitated and glanced in the direction where the mermaids had left, but Bessie had just whipped those mermaids’ faces with a bamboo pole… Are there any mermaids who don’t look good?

Bessie didn’t know Cornelia’s inner thoughts, and wiped the seawater off her face, “Our Cornelia baby, such a beautiful baby, how can there be such bastard guys in the world who hate the baby!”

Cornelia: …Well, it’s a bit strange, but what Bessie said must be right.

Cornelia clumsily hugged Bessie’s waist, put her face in Bessie’s palm, and her curly eyelashes blinked, sweeping Bessie’s calloused fingertips like tickling, “It’s okay, I don’t care about them, Bessie, don’t be angry.”

Bessie paused.

Cornelia blinked again, not knowing why Bessie was stunned in place, and thinking that she had said something wrong, she hesitated for a moment, and changed her words, “Then, should I care a little?”

“Aiya!” Bessie suddenly hugged Cornelia into her arms, and kissed her on the face with a smack, “Baby, how can you be so cute, baby~”

Cornelia dazedly made a question mark:?

After kneading Cornelia for a while, Bessie finally sucked enough of the mermaid baby, calmed down, and asked Cornelia: “Those little bastards are the mermaids who bullied you before, right?”

Cornelia froze: “How would Bessie know?”

Because Cornelia didn’t want Bessie to know that she was a mixed-blood mermaid, she had never mentioned that she was being excluded and bullied by other mermaids. She was frightened by Bessie’s sudden question.

Bessie ruffled Cornelia’s hair, “Silly Cornelia, I’m not an idiot, how could I not see it?”

After all, she was hiding by the shore and crying secretly when they first met, and she was terribly afraid when she caught her. She knew that going ashore was dangerous, that humans were dangerous, but she still ran to a place far from the deep sea to cry, obviously she was being bullied.

In addition, she often comes to her—

Bessie thought deeply: She has turned down too many invitations from her little friends for Cornelia’s sake. Now the little friends in the fishing village are starting to suspect that she is secretly doing something big, and they have tried to find out her secret several times.

After all, Bessie is the most popular child king in the small fishing village. Now she goes out early and returns late every day, mysteriously not knowing what she is doing, which will naturally arouse the curiosity of other little followers.

Putting herself in her shoes, Cornelia must have no friends, so she takes the risk of being discovered by humans every day and swims ashore to play with her human friend.

Bessie had discovered this from the beginning, but she had never mentioned it in front of Cornelia, and she also tried not to mention other friends when she was with Cornelia.

It’s just that Bessie could pretend not to know about this before, but today she found out that Cornelia was being bullied like this, and Bessie finally couldn’t help but ask about it.

How could anyone have the heart to hurt such a beautiful mermaid baby! (Resounding voice)