Like soft seaweed wrapped around the heart.

Niezhu Qin is a rat demon, but by chance he saved You Xiao Di, who was surrounded by assassins. When You Xiao Di saw his demonic power, he was shocked and thought he was a god, so Niezhu Qin took the opportunity to claim that he was a god, and came to assist You Xiao Di by the will of the gods.

Emperor You Xiao was deeply impressed, and as a token of his gratitude, he made him the Master of the State of You, and Niezhu Qin's appearance on the altar of calling out the winds and sending down the rain made the people of the land and the country support him with devotion, building temples for him and praying to him.

Soon Niezhu Qin found a demoness named Lingxuan Miao, who seduced Emperor You Xiao, and with Niezhu Qin's help, she became the Empress, and gave birth to a son who was crowned as the Crown Prince.

Now that the Crown Prince was only six years old and Emperor You Xiao was sick and collapsing, most of the government was entrusted to Niezhu Qin.

At that moment, he appeared in the Dungeon, looked at Si Yu, and said, "It's worthy of being the King of the Sea, you've recovered very quickly, if I hadn't put a forbidden spell on you, I'm afraid this small Dungeon wouldn't have been able to trap you."

Xu You subconsciously tried to block Si Yu's way, but he heard Si Yu say, "Don't care, stay away."

She froze, then looked at Niezhu Qin's lack of response, and realized that this was Si Yu's special transmission to her, and that no one else could hear it.

Calm down, she retreated to the corner, she now has no ability and strength to fight with Niezhu Qin, her life is still in his hands, if she attracts his attention, I am afraid of the consequences.

Niezhu Qin indeed did not put Xu You in his eyes, did not even look at him, for him, except for Si Yu, who has a shark's pearl, everyone else is like a straw in the Dungeon.

He sat on the soft collapse carried by the attendant and took a sip from his teacup, "I'll give you half a pillar of incense to consider it once more, if you give the shark beads, you'll also suffer less from flesh and blood."

Si Yu's eyelids didn't lift, and his eyes fell casually to Dungeon's corner, as if he hadn't heard him at all.

The attendant held the incense burner and knelt on one side, while the other lit half a pillar of incense, a wisp of green smoke drifted away, and Xu You's heart followed and lit a fire like anxious.

Niezhu Qin slowly sipping tea, leisurely as if in the back garden view, the only thing he regretted was not to see the sharks panic expression.

The incense ash fell off in sections, leaving the last bit of scarlet at the bottom to go out.

"Bang--"

Niezhu Qin threw a teacup to the ground, and the sound of ceramic cracking instantly froze the atmosphere in the Dungeon.

The attendants on his left and right took out long whips and walked toward Si Yu.

Si Yu had no expression on his face, but Xu You's palms were covered in cold sweat.

"Swish--pop--" the long whip broke the wind and landed on Si Yu's body, the whip seeing blood.

Xu You noticed that the long whip had barbs made of arcane iron, tearing away a layer of flesh every time it was drawn up.

Before long, Si Yu's entire body was bruised and battered, wounds crisscrossed his body, and his blood had not entered the gray-black ground, creating a dark color.

Xu You gritted his teeth and clenched his palms until they were raw and painful, and only then did he refrain from rushing up.

The time passed inordinately long, and she averted her eyes while the sound of flesh thrashing and tearing pierced through her eardrums, pumping pain right through her heart.

After a long time, Niezhu Qin got up from the cushion before the flogging was over, and the two attendants respectfully retired behind him.

"How about it, have you thought about it clearly?" Niezhu Qin dusted off his coat and looked down at Si Yu in a condescending manner.

Si Yu didn't make a sound from this torture, nor did his apathetic demeanor change one iota.

Niezhu Qin snorted coldly and turned her duster into a sword, pointing the tip of the sword at Si Yu's head, "Is the shark pearl here?"

"Or is it here?" The tip of the sword moved downward, pointing at Si Yu's heart.

"Or perhaps here?" Finally the tip of the sword landed on his abdomen.

Everyone knows that the shark beads melt in the shark's blood, if the shark does not condense out, then the shark beads are not shaped, Niezhu Qin said: "Earlier I took your blood to refine, but even a little shark beads are not refined out of the crumbs."

"My patience is very limited," Niezhu Qin said, squeezing his voice, "and you will not force me to use extraordinary measures."

Saying this, his sword was raised above Si Yu's head, and with a flash of cold light, his hand raised and his sword fell-

Xu You couldn't think of anything else and rushed forward, just using his points to turn on the pain shielding system, who knew that his wrist was violently brought back by Si Yu, and the two of them managed to dodge the sword, only for the tip of the sword to scrape a small cut on the left side of Xu You's face.

Unexpectedly, Niezhu Qin did not continue to stab with his sword, and his eyes surveyed the pair with ill-conceived calculation.

Si Yu protected Xu You and stared back with a sharp gaze.

"Sailor, you are advised to hand over the shark beads early," Niezhu Qin said as he turned around, "There will be much suffering behind you."

Nine guards followed him out, the cell door was locked, and peace was once again restored to the Dungeon, with only the smell of blood still lingering.

Xu You crouched down to check Si Yu's injuries, and found that some of the wounds were so deep that they could be seen to the bone. For the first time, she had such an impulse to kill someone, and even wanted to die with Niezhu Qin at any cost.

"Seven-eight," Xu You said in his head, "I'm done with the mission, I'm going to cut that thing up."

"......" Chichiba didn't dare to squeak.

Just as Xu You was looking at Si Yu's wound with both heartache and hatred, Si Yu cupped her chin and gently lifted her face to look at her widely cut cheek.

There was a sharp stinging pain on her cheek, blood staining her sash as it traveled down her neck, Xu You didn't care much, this wound was nothing compared to what Si Yu had on her.

Seeing the pity in Si Yu's light blue eyes, Xu You, who was in the midst of a violent moment, let out a tsk, raised his hand to cover his eyes, and said rudely, "Don't look at it, this injury is nothing, I'll definitely put him on the chopping block and chop him up into pieces as chopped scallions in the future."

It's a terrible feeling to be imprisoned in a cage, to be in control, to be at the mercy of others.

But the next moment, Xu You's irritation was interrupted when she felt a tickle on her palm, Si Yu blinking, her eyelashes gently sweeping across her palm.

One after another, like a little brush.

Somehow the dreary, cloud-like mood seemed to be swept away quite a bit.

"What are you doing." Xu You withdrew her hand, too tired from squatting, and simply sat down.

Si Yu looked at her cheek and raised his hand to dip his arm in the blood and wipe it on her wound.

Xu You understood his intentions and said to him in a lowered voice, "This matter must not be made known to others."

The sharks live deep in the ocean, far away from the human race, the two races have less contact, no one knows that the shark blood has a miraculous effect on healing wounds, if people know about it, I am afraid it will be very troublesome.

Si Yu nodded and simply said, "Not next time."

Luckily he was quick this time, otherwise she would have been seriously injured if not dead, and he knew Niezhu Qin wanted to give him a heavy blow so that he wouldn't be able to fight back for some time.

He just didn't expect her to shield him, it was the first time he'd ever been shielded from his back.

It's a strange feeling, like soft seaweed wrapped around the heart.

And the moment the sword swung down, he didn't notice his heart stopping suddenly for a split second.

--

Inside the gilded bedchamber, incense curled up and the sound of coughing with weak breath came from behind the beaded curtain.

After a long time, Emperor You Xiao said, "Did the Master of the Kingdom get the shark pearl?"

Like many emperors, he had an unquenchable desire to live forever and rule for generations, so he argued with the crowd and asked Niezhu Qin to lead a fishing expedition to catch the sharks.

"Back to Your Majesty," Niezhu Qin did not need to salute, it was the Emperor's permission, "Not yet, but I will do my best to fetch it for Your Majesty."

His slightly drooped brow was dark with sarcasm, his tone flat.

"Tough on the State Master, make sure you get it soon."

"I obey."

Niezhu Qin left her bedchamber and went to Empress Lingxuan Miao's Rufu Palace.

Lingxuan Miao, who was being waited on by a palace maid, dismissed the crowd and spoke directly, "When will you do it?"

"Soon, this time," Niezhu Qin said, "the Emperor's true dragon's qi will soon be gone."

The Son of Heaven has always been blessed with the true dragon's qi, which is free from evils and demons. Therefore, Niezhu Qin has not taken action against Emperor You Xiao for 15 years, but has tried to find ways to wear down his true dragon's qi, such as letting his hands be stained with the blood of innocents, which is against heaven's order, and makes him an unkind ruler.

Niezhu Qin chose Lingxuan Miao, also because of her extreme love of beauty and her cruel methods, drawing fresh blood from the courtesans to bathe in, and those young corpses were buried in the gardens, accumulating as resentful ghosts, weakening a lot of the true dragon's qi with her resentment.

When Emperor You Xiao dies and supports Lingxuan Miao's son to take the throne, the Kingdom of You, without the blessing of the True Dragon's Qi, will be completely reduced to their plaything.

"There aren't many good looking courtesans, my skin is wrinkled," Lingxuan Miao winks, her bright red nails resting on her cheeks, "I'll have to send more women to the palace."

"And don't kill the shark when you've taken the pearl," Lingxuan Miao went on, "I have to try to see if his blood is any good."

"Yes." No sharing of the shark beads with him, everything else was fine.

--

"This is steamed bread, and this is congee," Xu You pointed and asked him, "Do you want to eat?"

Si Yu shook his head, "I eat fish."

Xu You ：Friends, now what conditions, still want to eat meat, mainly because you say, make me also want to eat.

"Are you sure you don't want to eat?" Seeing how sure he was, Xu You finished eating it himself, then pulled over the barrel and sprinkled him with water.

"You only eat fish in the ocean?" Xu You thought for a moment and asked him, "No seaweed vegetation moss or anything?"

Si Yu is less like a conversation and more like an elementary school student answering a teacher's question with a serious, "Eat shrimp, crab, mussels, etc., not seaweed or moss."

Xu You ：It seems that the sharks don't have the concept of combining meat and vegetables.

She drenched the top half of his body, followed by the large tail, "Then why were you caught when you were staying well out to sea."

Si Yu : "One night, the baby girl fell into the water, I rescued her and put her on a rock on the shore and was seen."

Abandoned babies in such times were basically girls, and it was common for any family that had a baby girl and didn't want her to throw her into the sea during the night.

The sharks were ordered to stay away from the coast, away from the human race, not to meddle in the affairs of the people, but at that time Si Yu happened to pass by, and saw that tiny ball of baby girl sinking towards the bottom of the water, inexplicably, his heart was twitching, and some fragments of memories instantly surfaced in his brain, as if he saw that he had had a child, and that it was a baby girl as well.

He didn't think much of it at the time, so he went along with the rescue, who knew that a month or so later at night, more than a dozen baby girls were thrown into the sea.

Si Yu saved a few on the shore and fell into the forbidden spell formation that had been set up long ago, and when he looked up again, he saw thousands of basalt bows and arrows aimed at him behind the rocks ......

Later, he learns that Niezhu Qin has gotten the message and specially demanded a hundred baby girls as bait, and if Si Yu does not show up, all these baby girls will die.

Xu You listened and sighed softly, " Si Yu , do you regret it?"

If he doesn't go soft and save the man on shore, the ocean is his domain and who can catch him and make him suffer?

"Why do you regret," Si Yu's clear eyes were slightly puzzled, "when you do it, you don't regret it."

He always has a kind of crystal-clear sincerity that comes from the heart, very different from the complicated human heart, like a peach blossom isolated from the world.

Xu You's heart fluttered and he said slowly, " Si Yu, you don't belong here, I'll find a way to send you back to the sea."

"Are you going?" He said abruptly.

Si Yu looked at her and said gently, "It's pretty, you might like it."

Xu You met his translucent and good-looking eyes, she curved her lips and said, "Yes, we'll go together."

--

Ru Fu Palace, incense burner burning pungent fragrance, a jailer bowed his head and knelt in front of Lingxuan Miao.

Lingxuan Miao raised his eyebrows, "Oh? You said that the shark spoke?"

Unexpectedly, the shark that Niezhu Qin had tortured for more than a month without uttering a single word had now spoken to someone.

"Back to Empress Dowager," the jailer smiled eagerly, "It's true, they've been together for a few days and are much closer."

"In that case," Lingxuan Miao smiled as she took a sip of the blood-red, thick juice, "then bring that man here for the Palace to see."

When Xu You was taken away by the guards, Si Yu's eyes were cold and clearly wanted to make a move, she shook her head and her eyes soothed him.

Leave Dungeon this small confinement, and the palace this big cage, this palace yellow tile red wall magnificent, inside the people are silent, cold silence like a dead city.

She could vaguely sense that this ancient place was going down the drain.

Xu You was brought before Lingxuan Miao, and she bowed with downcast eyes and made a bow.

"I didn't expect you to remember the rules of the palace after being locked up for a few years," Lingxuan Miao said with a smile on her face, "How is it, have you suffered enough in Dungeon, do you want to come out?"

Her voice wasn't sharp, but it had an overly sultry, pretentious feel to it, making it uncomfortable to listen to.

Xu You's expression remained unchanged: "I don't know what the Empress Mother wants?"

"Oops, I've been in a manic mood lately," Lingxuan Miao looked at her face in the bronze mirror, "and my complexion has dulled quite a bit."

"I've heard that shark's tears ground into powder and mixed into tallow are very effective when applied to the face."

Lingxuan Miao bare feet to get down from the phoenix collapse, immediately a courtesan came forward to lie down on the ground, a dozen courtesans lined up, face to the ground on the ground, she stepped on the foot of the courtesans on the waist of the thin and soft, approached Xu You.

"You are the one who will be sacrificed to heaven by a thousand cuts."

A charming, chilling voice rang out over Xu You's head--

"If you fetch ten Sailor's Tears, I will spare your life."

Smoke and incense wafting, such as the Palace of Blessings quiet for a moment.

"How?"

Xu You looked at the jade feet with bright red nails, lowered his eyes, and slowly bowed--

"As you wish."