In the end, Feng Yu went out to buy food while Wanwan stayed behind to take care of the baby. Although Father Leng hadn't set foot in this room these days, Mother... often came here.
After all, mothers are softer - hearted towards children.
When Feng Yu returned, his mother had just left the room. Seeing the strange look on his face, Wanwan resisted the urge to go forward and take the food.
"Brother Feng Yu, why do you look so strange?"
Feng Yu, holding the pastries, looked up at him blankly. After a long silence, he suddenly said, "Sheng Jiu... is dead."
Wanwan's heart skipped a beat. He forced a smile and said, "That can't be true, Brother Feng Yu. Maybe you heard it wrong..."
Feng Yu took two steps forward. "I thought it was a lie at first. When I went back to the yard where we used to live, I saw the letter sent by Cheng Mo... It seems that he is really dead."
"He said that after you left, Sheng Jiu went crazy on the spot when he found out. Since then, he stopped going to court and spent all day drinking on the small boat in the lake. One night, he drank too much and fell into the lake. By the time they fished him out, his body was already cold."
Wanwan stood there stunned, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.
Hearing this, Leng Yao cast a glance at Wanwan, snorted and said, "He drowned in the lake. It's his own fault. Such a villain deserves to be punished by God. Don't even think about going back to that den of wolves."
Wanwan said blankly, "Can't I even go and take a look?"
Leng Yao angrily sat up from the bed and glared at him with a scowl. "I knew it! You really have feelings for that man! If he really liked you, he should have protected you in the palm of his hand. How could he have left you so scarred!! If you leave this door today, don't come back!"
Wanwan frowned. "Although we didn't have the name of husband and wife, we had the reality of it. Now that he has drowned in the lake, can't I even go and see him?"
Leng Yao stared at him blankly. "What do you mean by 'the reality of husband and wife'?!"
Then he turned to Feng Yu. "You never told me about this! Why didn't you tell me earlier?!"
Feng Yu lowered his head. "I thought this was my brother - in - law's private matter. Should I have made a big fuss and told your family about it?!"
Leng Yao took a couple of deep breaths and said nothing, frowning and glaring at Feng Yu. Feng Yu slowly moved towards him and comforted him softly, "My dear wife, since this has already happened, are you going to beat him to death?"
Leng Yao gritted her teeth. "If I had known this earlier, I shouldn't have let you save him. If you like being a couple with that tyrant so much, go ahead! Go and be buried with him!"
"My dear wife!"
Wanwan bit his lower lip and swam away.
Leng Yao stared at his disappearing back. "Hey! Wanwan! Wanwan!! Your brother was just saying angry words. Where are you going? Come back!"
"It's all my fault for telling him this. I've been telling him every day to cut off his past, but now it seems that just when he seemed to have done so, I brought up his old memories again."
Leng Yao glared at him. "You know you talked too much and said the wrong thing! Hurry up and chase after him. Don't let him go back to that filthy place."
Feng Yu sighed. "I think you should know your brother's temper. If he has made up his mind, I can't stop him."
Leng Yao pushed him. "Even if you can't stop him, you should protect him!"
Feng Yu showed a bit of reluctance on his face. "I just got back not long ago. I still want to take care of you until you've recovered from childbirth... I don't want to go back to that dangerous place again."
Leng Yao frowned. "If you don't want to go, I'll go myself!"
Seeing that she was about to get out of bed, Feng Yu quickly grabbed her wrist. "Hey hey hey, your body is not fully recovered yet. What if you get some chronic illness? Just stay at home. Since that tyrant is already dead, he probably won't stay there for long. Just tell your parents that he went out with me to buy things and will be back soon."
Leng Yao nodded. "If he tries to do something stupid again this time, remember to stop him."
Feng Yu nodded. "Don't worry. You must take good care of your own body at home."
Leng Yao pushed him away. "Hurry up and go. Don't dawdle. Otherwise, you won't even be able to catch up with his shadow."
Only after repeated urging from Leng Yao did Feng Yu get up.
After recuperating, Wanwan was now able to grow his legs freely like an ordinary merman of his age, without having to worry about whether it was day or night.
When Wanwan returned, he even found a few familiar faces. He thought that after everything was over, Cheng Mo would surely find a way to leave, and so would Ming Lang... But neither of them left. He wasn't quite sure why.
When Feng Yu arrived, he quickly went to see Cheng Mo.
Cheng Mo first apologized to them. "I had no choice but to deceive you..."
Wanwan was stunned.
"Originally, I thought that the Love - Transforming Pearl of Feng Yu was insoluble and unbreakable by anyone in the world. But the day you left, he went crazy in the palace hall and kept telling me that he had lost the most important thing. That's when I realized that his feelings for you could never be erased."
"Since then, even if I was with him every day, it was no use. He became more and more sober and remembered more and more things. He replaced all the curtains and drapes in the palace, all the colored things, with blue ones."
"Slowly, he stopped going to court and drank on the boat day and night. After drinking this time, he suddenly dived into the water, saying that he saw your shadow in the water."
"But when they fished him out, he didn't remember anything and had gone crazy... But he has no heirs yet, and the affairs of the world still need him to take care of. If this continues, I'm afraid the world... will be in trouble."
Wanwan tightly pinched the nail of his index finger. Only when he felt the pain did he know... this was not a dream.
Suddenly, the door of the palace hall was pushed open.
"Sister, I heard that there is a noble guest in the palace."
Cheng Mo frowned. "He has always called me like this since he went crazy."
Wanwan turned his head and saw Sheng Jiu walking in with a smile against the light.
Both of them were stunned when they saw each other. Wanwan was shocked by how thin he was... and that he still had the hairstyle of a young man.
And Sheng Jiu was stunned because...
Sheng Jiu tilted his head and looked at Wanwan for a long time. Then he suddenly pointed at him and turned to Cheng Mo.
"Sister, I want to marry him!"