The first thing you do is to be sure.

Rufu Palace is far away from Dungeon, and as a prisoner, Xu You could not ride in a sedan chair or a carriage. By the time she came out of Rufu Palace, it was already late at night under the starry sky.

She followed the guards and froze when she passed a large field of flowers, which did not attract her attention in the daytime, but was frightening at night.

Daytime, it is only a red flower, but at night it is red and surprising, no candlelight, in the dark petals red like a cluster of fire.

What's more, she sensed that the resentment underneath the land actually resonated with the resentment in her heart.

A lot of dead people are buried under this field of flowers.

"What are you waiting for? Why don't you go now!" When the guards saw that she didn't follow them, they dropped back in anger and pushed her with their scabbards.

Xu You could only withdraw his gaze and follow them as they continued to walk.

It was the middle of the night when she returned to Dungeon, and in the hazy outline of the moonlight, Si Yu leaned against the wall and did not lie down.

She knew that he was very tired to recover from his injury, and most of the time he would choose to close his eyes and rest, but he was not sleeping at this time, so he must be worrying about her.

Sure enough, at the sound of the cell door, Si Yu approached her, his chains rattling from the tugging, "Is something wrong?"

Xu You waved his hand, and sat down next to him, "It's okay, don't worry."

Not seeing any new injuries or sensing the smell of blood on her, and hearing her say so, Si Yu was slightly relieved.

"Are you tired?" Xu You said, "It's getting late, why don't you rest first."

The Sailor obeyed and lay down, Xu You spreading his arms and legs, trying to expand his footprint as a way of compressing the dryness in his heart.

"You look a lot like a starfish that way." He said.

You're so cold when you talk like that, Xu You thought.

I don't know how much time has passed, but Xu You feels physically tired, but her mind is so scrambled, her thoughts so mixed up, that she is so conscious that it is hard for her to sleep, so she tosses and turns like a pancake on a pan.

"Something on your mind?" Si Yu asked.

Xu You muffled a hmmm.

"Want to talk," Si Yu said, "I'll listen carefully."

A moment of silence.

"If you don't want to talk about it," he added, "I'll sing you a song."

Xu You let out a long breath, "Sing a song then."

A few moments later, a tune echoed through the empty Dungeon, as gentle as the warm waves coming up the beach.

The moonlight fell through the barred window onto his fishtail, the light blue scales faintly glowing with a fine light.

Xu You closed her eyes, automatically associating the image with the fact that she was no longer in the shadowy Dungeon, but lying in the sunlight, the sand beneath her baked slightly by the sun, as she listened to the sound of the waves, a slightly salty sea breeze on her face.

That one image calmed the restless resentment that had lingered in her heart.

After a long time, the afterglow dissipated and he whispered, "Feeling better?"

Xu You couldn't help but let his heart throb for a moment, because of this shark that was as gentle as moonlight and as clear as the sea.

"I've heard that a shark's tears turn into pearls," Xu You asked him, "Is that true?"

Si Yu: "It should be."

Xu You asked rhetorically, "Should?"

"I've never shed a tear, nor have I seen any other shark shed one, I've just heard that they turn into pearls." He said.

Xu You was so amused by his seriousness and rigor that the last bit of his anger was gone, and he let out a long, stuffy breath.

"I've heard that there are three kinds of extreme sadness in the world: a cuckoo cries for blood, apes and monkeys wail, and sharks cry for tears," Xu You said slowly and word by word, "I wish that nothing in the world would cause you to be sad."

"And may you be carefree and happy." Si Yu looked down at her, his eyes were tender in a way he himself had not noticed.

Relaxed, not long after, Xu You closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Si Yu looked at the moonlight outside the window and slowly closed his eyes as well.

--

Xu You had been nervous for days that Niezhu Qin and Lingxuan Miao would come back to haunt him, but fortunately they seemed to be too busy lately to worry about Si Yu in Dungeon.

They do have a lot of things to do, and when Emperor You Xiao has completely closed his eyes, he will bloodily wash the imperial court, leaving behind his own forces and beloved ones, and get rid of any other imperial princes, especially the second prince who has the signs of the true dragon's qi.

When Lingxuan Miao's son is put on the throne, the six-year-old child naturally relies on his mother, and Lingxuan Miao, who becomes the Empress Dowager, is in charge of the government, with Niezhu Qin at the helm of all the power behind the scenes.

The two demons playing with power is so decent, Xu You sigh, of course, the outside news can not come in, is she spend points from the seven eight that inquired.

Having points is a big brother, not having points is a piece of mud, she knows it well, but she can never become a big brother with points, every time she leaves the world to go back, she is poor, and when she starts a new world, she accumulates points by the increase in the trust value of the mission's object.

Seeing that the two demons would not be able to care about them for quite some time, Xu You relaxed a bit, and the most important thing was to let Si Yu recuperate and find a chance to break out of the cage.

In order to limit Si Yu's power to the maximum extent, Niezhu Qin set up a kind of spell formation inside Dungeon. Xu You didn't know what this spell formation was, but it could make the air inside Dungeon become extremely dry, so that the Dungeon, which is supposed to be cold and gloomy, is extremely hot and stuffy in the summer.

Xu You is even more heat intolerant than cold, feeling like you're in a vaporless steamer all the time.

And the cold-blooded species Si Yu became a natural ice pack inside the Dungeon, so--

"Big fish, let me touch you, okay." Xu You smiled amiably.

What she never expected was for Si Yu to blush.

He coughed softly, the red at the base of his ears had a blush spreading to his cheeks, "No."

What Xu You didn't expect was that Si Yu, who had always been a good talker, turned her down, and she wondered, "Why?"

"Can't we touch the tail?" It looked so cool, more inviting than a cooler.

Si Yu shook his head and said, "The sharks only recognize one partner in their lives." If the partner chooses to betray or leave, the sharks can choose to die or be alone, but they can't have another partner.

Xu You got it, so he's distancing himself from the rest of the opposite sex for the sake of a partner who hasn't shown up yet and doesn't know if or when he will.

She envied the Sharks for being so devoted, determined to be forever.

Forever.

Xu You asked tentatively, "Where's the hair?"

That nice silver hair, she had long desired to braid his hair in a twisted braid.

Si Yu decisively refused, "Neither can I."

Xu You was paralyzed on the ground, not moving.

She raised her eyes, her sight swept casually, and then fixed on the iron window, the window corner gap grew a Gongying Pu, life force is extremely tenacious, hard from the iron bars, squeezed into a head.

Xu You has been staring at it, counting how many seeds it has, not counting twice, then see an ice needle flying away, the ball-shaped Gongying Pu group fell down.

Si Yu reaches out and takes it, condensing it into a small ball of ice and handing it to Xu You , saying gently, "This way it will stay for a long time."

Like making a trinket to coax a tantruming child.

Xu You reached out and took it, measured it, slightly bright ice ball, Gongying Pu seeds umbrella-like filaments can be seen clearly, storybook magic ball is also good-looking.

Si Yu saw her brows stretch and felt that she liked it quite a bit, he couldn't help but bend his lips, who knew that the next second he saw her take a small ice ball and roll it around her face, then stuff it into her clothes, her stomach bulging, then he saw her trying to stuff it inside her pants.

"......"

Si Yu pulls over the barrel and freezes the water inside to crushed ice and gives it to her.

"It's okay for you to use spells now?" Xu You put down the puck and picked up the barrel.

"Minor spells don't affect it."

Xu You nods, picking up an ice cube and clicking and chewing it, and Si Yu watches silently from the sidelines, curling his lips.

After cooling off a bit, Xu You clapped his hands and said, "I have nothing to do, why don't we play chess?"

"What kind of chess?"

"Pentominoes."

Xu You let Si Yu congeal pinky-thick popsicles, one for each of us, and she drew crooked chessboards on the ground, gesturing, "I'll use a fork, you use a circle, whether it's a straight line or a diagonal, and if it connects to five, you win."

The popsicle melts slightly and draws water marks on the ground, which automatically condenses into white frost because of Si Yu's spell, with a clarity comparable to chalk.

After a few sets, the two were tied at half the winning percentage.

Xu You, a chess player who beat his sister and lost to his dad in futsal, attempts to distract Si Yu by casually telling him short stories.

"Once upon a time there was a princess as white as you called Snow White who had a stepmother like Lingxuan Miao ......"

"...... Little Red Riding Hood her mom went out and her mom told her not to open the door but a dog thief big bad wolf like Niezhu Qin came knocking ......"

Adding the ingredients of reality to a fairy tale is easy to understand, and Si Yu listens to it with interest, but remains focused on his game, making no mistake.

Xu You spoke of dry mouth, shut up and rested for a while, raised his eyes to see his clear light blue eyes in anticipation, looks quite want to continue to listen.

Xu You knew something flashed through her mind as she remembered the story of the mermaid.

She squeezed the popsicle tighter, lowered her eyelashes, finished the mermaid story in an unusual tone, and then said, "Mermaids are the equivalent of sharks, I don't know if you've heard of that story."

Si Yu: "Never heard of it."

"Sharks ...... Will it also turn into foam?" Xu You's other hand, wordlessly clutched the sleeve of his coat.

"Will." Si Yu said.

Xu You knew that the sharks never lied, and his heart tightened, "Really?"

"Indeed it would," Si Yu dipped her eyes and drew a circle in the grid, "but there would be no sharks who would choose to do that."

Because it's not worth it.

Xu You froze and drew the next fork without paying attention to the four circles in the upper right diagonal.

Si Yu draws another circle, five tiles connect, he squeezes the popsicle stick and taps it twice, smiling slightly, "I win."

Next to Gongying Pu, the small ice hockey puck is white and shiny, especially clean and pure in the dark Dungeon.

--

Since we have been together for two months, Xu You would check the trust value from time to time, and found that the trust value has been growing steadily and consistently every day, and it feels like a gentle stream, slowly sinking into the lake, accumulating little by little.

It was also the same as he, a gentle shark, springing into a fine rain.

That's how the trust value steadily grew to 70.0.

Si Yu's wounds have long since healed, it just takes time to remove the forbidden spells from his body. He can break the Dungeon spell, but how to get Xu You to leave unharmed is still a problem.

He couldn't travel on land, and his demonic power was greatly weakened, which made it a bit tricky.

What if we divert the water? If we divert the water, we need to ......

Lingxuan Miao, who was busy here, naturally didn't forget them, and sent her men to catch Xu You again.

Xu You reassured Si Yu that it was fine and that she was just going to take a look, but she knew in her heart that this time she would not be able to hide it from the public.

"Where are the shark's tears?" Lingxuan Miao said to Xu You, who was kneeling not far away, as she smeared a kind of reddish cream onto her hands.

Xu You didn't say anything.

Lingxuan Miao smiled softly, "Looks like you've been living too comfortably these days?"

As soon as she hooked her lips, the four palace maids beside her who were fanning her bushels immediately shivered, some of their faces were wooden, while others were pale.

"Since you can't get the Sailor's Tears," Lingxuan Miao's eyes chilled, "I'm sure your eyes aren't much use either."

A courtesan put down her fan and picked up a knife and walked towards Xu You, who was being held down by two eunuchs.

Hair grabbed, Xu You was forced to raise her head, her eyes closed tight as she saw the knife zoom infinitely larger.

"Ah..."

Xu You froze and opened his eyes, seeing the small knife that fell on the intricately patterned carpet, then looking up, he saw the palace maid's face pale, her right hand snapped off raw and bent at a bizarre angle.

"State Master," Lingxuan Miao didn't get annoyed either, and winks her eyes, "what do you mean by that?"

Niezhu Qin walked in slowly, retrieved his duster, and looked at Xu You with downcast eyes, his eyes flashed with a fine light, "Let her go back first."

--

Xu You returned to Dungeon, it was already evening, she hurriedly approached Si Yu and said seriously, "I think Dungeon can't trap you anymore, you will leave tonight."

If we don't leave, I'm afraid it's too late.

Si Yu just said, "What about you?"

Xu You know he wants to take her away, but how can he get everything he wants? Taking her with him might get him into trouble.

"If you escape Dungeon and head southeast of the palace, there's a lake called Akazawa, the bottom of which is connected to the East China Sea, so if you try your best to get into the water, no one will be able to catch you again."

Si Yu looked at her steadily and didn't say anything.

"I was born a man of the palace, and I will die a ghost of the palace," Xu You said in a hard voice, "Even if I am imprisoned in Dungeon, I will not leave here in this lifetime."

Si Yu was stunned, "But you said you wanted to go see the sea with me."

Didn't they make a deal?

"You're so stupid to believe anything," Xu You squeezed her hand tightly silently and averted her eyes, "Of course I lied to you, and how could I have left with you."

Not allowing him to refuse, Xu You turned his back to him and with difficulty drank two mouthfuls of congee, then stopped eating.

Si Yu hung her head slightly, her eyes falling on her dry fishtail, half of her face hidden in the darkness as she wondered what she was thinking.

The atmosphere froze a bit, and for the first time, the relationship between the two dropped to freezing point.

Who knows, the night has just fallen, Xu You will feel the abdominal cramps, burning pain stretched to the lungs, the throat is the taste of blood.

She scrunched up in a ball over her stomach, her eyes fixed on the half bowl of porridge-

It's highly toxic.