WTYTIAAN Chapter 217

Chapter 217

Upon hearing Cornelia’s description, Yan Yunqing fell silent.

So this Bessie seemed to be a simp for beauty?

And a hardcore one at that.

Alice was also shocked by her mother’s ferocity when she was young, but she didn’t have any extra thoughts, only thinking that a mother who could protect her friend was really cool.

Alice slowly outlined her mother’s appearance in her heart, feeling a surge of satisfaction.

“What happened after that?” Yan Yunqing asked, “After Bessie asked you that, what did she do? Those mermaids who were beaten up shouldn’t have let you off, right?”

Cornelia snorted, “Those guys were just bullying the weak and fearing the strong.”

Cornelia didn’t say that she was immediately confined by the elders as soon as she returned, staying in the dark seabed prison for who knows how long. Even the mermaids who delivered food didn’t come, so Cornelia could only catch some small fish swimming in the seabed prison to fill her stomach.

*

After being released, Cornelia swam ashore as soon as possible. She didn’t listen to a single word of the mermaids elders’ repeated warnings not to provoke humans. In her heart, she only thought that Bessie must be waiting anxiously.

They had clearly agreed to meet again later.

When Cornelia emerged from the sea, she met Bessie’s surprised gaze.

“Cornelia!” Bessie suddenly stood up, her voice surprised and with a hint of lingering fear, “Is that you? Cornelia!”

When Cornelia saw Bessie, the fear of being locked in the prison for so many days was swept away. She unconsciously swayed her tail, swam to Bessie’s side, raised her small face, “Bessie, I missed you so much.”

Bessie hugged Cornelia in the water, holding her tightly in her arms, “I was so scared, I thought… something had happened to you.”

“Was it because of me?” Bessie asked in a muffled voice.

Cornelia clumsily patted Bessie’s back, accidentally getting Bessie’s clothes wet. She withdrew her hand a little embarrassed, her tail straight, and muttered: “No… I’m fine, I was just lectured by the elders for a few words and confined for a few days. They don’t allow mermaid cubs to have contact with humans, I’m fine.”

Cornelia was the bravest little mermaid, and she wouldn’t be afraid of the dark seabed prison.

However, Bessie didn’t believe a word of Cornelia’s pale explanation. Her voice was still very low, “But, you haven’t come out for a month and six days.”

Huh?

Cornelia was stunned. The seabed prison was too dark, and she had lost her sense of time while being locked inside. She would just catch some small fish to eat when she was hungry, and she didn’t know how long had passed at all.

But she had previously agreed with Bessie to go to the Coral Sea together. She had broken her promise.

Cornelia’s mood also dropped, “Sorry, Bessie, I didn’t know it had been so long, you must have been waiting anxiously…”

But Bessie covered her mouth, suddenly raised her head, and her brown-red eyes were faintly moist.

Oh my god, this was so amazing. Cornelia had never seen Bessie cry.

She had always thought that Bessie would never cry, because she was the bravest human.

Cornelia looked at Bessie curiously, reached out and touched the corner of her eye. Her fingertips, soaked in seawater, brushed past the corner of Bessie’s eye, making her face stained with water droplets – in the corner of her eye, it looked more like she was crying.

But Bessie said: “Silly Cornelia!”

Cornelia blinked her eyes in confusion, because her mouth was covered by Bessie, she couldn’t speak, so she could only ask with her eyes: Did I make you unhappy?

Bessie couldn’t help but shed tears.

Large tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes, mixed with the seawater stained on her cheeks, and fell, disappearing into the sea.

Cornelia subconsciously tried to catch Bessie’s tears, but human tears would not turn into pearls. They just hit her palm with a scalding temperature, splashing a series of water droplets before disappearing without a trace.

Why do only mermaid tears turn into pearls?

Cornelia thought.

She felt that compared to the dim pearls transformed from her tears, Bessie’s tears would be more beautiful, maybe even more beautiful and dazzling than her mermaid princess sister’s.

“Don’t cry.” Cornelia’s mouth was covered, and she could only say vaguely: “Okay?”

“I don’t want to see you cry, if you cry, I will be a little sad.”

Who knew that hearing Cornelia’s vague words, Bessie cried even harder.

“Silly Cornelia.”

“Huh?”

Bessie, who had finally stopped crying, seemed to have made a major decision, pressing her hands on Cornelia’s shoulders: “The one with the golden tail before… is your sister, right?”

Cornelia blinked her eyes and nodded obediently, “She is the third child of my father, my third sister.”

Bessie shook her head heavily: “That’s not your sister.”

Cornelia was puzzled, “But she is indeed…”

Bessie pinched Cornelia’s small mouth, “No, she is not, how can that kind of bastard be Cornelia’s sister!”

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Bessie released Cornelia’s mouth, and twisted her body a little embarrassedly, “I mean… cough cough, well, otherwise…”

“Will you be my sister?” Bessie hesitated for a long time, but still said this sentence.

In an instant, Cornelia’s eyes widened.

“You’ve met my parents a few times before, they are all very good people. Usually when they catch small fish, they will throw them back into the sea. They will definitely not do anything because you are a mermaid…” Bessie said vaguely, “If you recognize me as your sister, my parents will be your parents in the future. Then you will call my parents Mom and Dad, and my home will be your home.”

Speaking of this, Bessie became even more excited, “Anyway, your father is also a bad guy, don’t recognize him, just come to my house, my parents will definitely like you very much.”

“How is it? If you agree, I will go back and tell my parents now, and let you become my sister.”

Cornelia listened to Bessie’s words blankly, repeating in disbelief: “Sister?”

Bessie corrected, “You should call me sister, look how much older I am than you.”

“Sister?” Cornelia was even more confused.

“Eh~” Bessie responded, very happily rubbing Cornelia’s face, “Good sister, then I’ll go back and tell my parents tonight!”

Cornelia: Huh?

Cornelia became Bessie’s recognized sister in a daze. Bessie even wanted to find a trolley to take Cornelia ashore and bring her home to show her parents her new sister, their new daughter.

However, Cornelia rejected Bessie’s suggestion and directly transformed her silver fishtail into short legs.

Bessie:?

Bessie was shocked, “You, you, you… how can your tail turn into legs? Doesn’t it need to be exchanged for magic potions from the witch with hair and singing to transform legs?”

Cornelia was puzzled: “Witch? We mermaids don’t have witches?”

She slowly and clumsily used her legs to stand up. As soon as she tried to take her first step, she fell backward because her legs moved forward at the same time. Bessie caught her with quick eyes and hands.

Cornelia was held in Bessie’s arms, shaking her two bare little short legs, “Mermaids can transform into legs after they are adults.”

Bessie was even more shocked, she was a little out of tune: “You’re an adult?!”

“Huh?” Cornelia shook her head, “No, I’m different from other mermaids.”

She hesitated for a moment, but still honestly said: “I am a mixed-race mermaid, my mother is human. I can transform my fishtail into legs from birth, and I can also turn my legs into a fishtail.”

Bessie calmed down when she heard this, without being surprised, but suddenly realized, “So those little bastards bullied you?”

Cornelia hesitated for a moment, and nodded.

Bessie was even more angry than Cornelia, and finally just took out her hand and touched Cornelia’s face with distress, “It’s okay, after you become my sister, the children in the small fishing village will not bully you, they will also become your good friends.”

Cornelia:?

Huh? But…

She doesn’t seem to have agreed to be Bessie’s sister, right?

Cornelia was a little confused. Before she could say it, Bessie had already taken her back to the small fishing village, and met some villagers of the small fishing village on the way.

“Yo, Bessie is back? Eh? Whose child is that in your arms?”

“Auntie, this is my sister Cornelia. Auntie will take care of my sister in the future!”

“Ah? Your sister, wait, when did Laura’s family have another child?”

Bessie hugged Cornelia and jumped away, leaving the confused villagers standing in place, racking their brains.

“Mom and Dad! I brought a sister back!”

Bessie’s parents were all very open-minded and kind people. Suddenly learning that their daughter had brought back a six-year-old child and said that she wanted to recognize her as her sister and be the little daughter of the family in the future, they were only stunned for a moment. Instead of beating or scolding Bessie, they took Cornelia from Bessie’s arms and kindly asked her whose child she was, and whether she was snatched back by Bessie, etc.

Confused Cornelia.

It was not until Bessie explained the reason for recognizing Cornelia as her sister that the kind Laura Mom wiped her tears and made a decision: “Then stay, our family doesn’t lack a child’s food, poor Cornelia, this will be your home from now on.”

Cornelia:?

Cornelia unknowingly had a home of her own.

With a father, a mother, and a sister.

*

“Can the mermaid clan let you stay ashore?” Yan Yunqing asked.

Cornelia said calmly: “Actually, the mermaid clan doesn’t pay attention to me. As long as I go back to the mermaid clan occasionally, they will determine that I am not dead and they will not care where I have gone – provided that I can no longer be discovered by the mermaids that I am mixing with humans.”

Of course, it doesn’t matter if they find out. It’s just that in this way, the mermaid clan will worry that she is really colluding with humans, leading humans to find the mermaid clan’s group at the bottom of the sea, and wiping out the mermaids in one fell swoop.

But this is impossible. Except for the sea clan, no one can dive into the deep sea to reach the place where the mermaid clan is.

So Cornelia’s stay is not important, and her life and death are actually not important. The reason why the mermaid elder confined her to the bottom of the sea prison was only because the mermaid princess complained.

Bessie beat the mermaid princess for Cornelia, so Cornelia had to pay the price.

So everyone in the small fishing village knew that there was a new little daughter in Bella’s family, named Cornelia, who was a little girl adopted by the kind Laura couple.

With legs, and no different from humans, Cornelia quickly integrated into the life of the small fishing village. With Bessie’s help, she was accepted by the children of the small fishing village and became the recognized beautiful sister of the small fishing village.

For a time, Cornelia had more older brothers and sisters than in the sea. They may not be strong, nor have beautiful fishtails, but they were all very friendly to Cornelia.

Cornelia spent two very free and warm years in the small fishing village. During this period, of course, some mermaids came to make trouble, but the first time they met, Bessie beat them so hard that the mermaids remembered the pain and did not dare to be too cheap.

Even if they complained to the mermaid elder, Cornelia would not return to the bottom of the sea, so naturally they could not confine her. Cornelia really got short-term freedom.

Until Cornelia was eight years old and Bessie was sixteen.

A big figure came to the small fishing village. It was said to be a great nobleman from the royal city. He didn’t know what he was doing, but he heard the legend of the mermaid and insisted on going to sea to find a beautiful mermaid. That’s why he came to the seaside where the mermaid was said to be and stayed in the town next to the small fishing village.