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The silence didn’t last long.
The blond merman first moved closer to you, and then you took the initiative to close the remaining distance.
You wanted to confirm.

When the distance between the two of you was only one or two meters, the other party stopped moving, but you moved closer, trying to sense whether he had a mermaid pearl.

For your kin, the mermaid pearl is very important and practically omnipotent.
Each pearl has its own unique characteristics and is a crucial means to identify one another.

The other’s figure was also slightly taller than yours.
He didn’t seem disgusted by your approach.
He just lowered his head slightly and looked at you gently, watching you raise your hand and place it gently on his abdomen.

It didn’t touch his skin, but hovered a palm’s width away.

You urged the mermaid pearl in your abdomen to try and sense the other party, but unfortunately, you caught no response.

All this happened very briefly.
You were distracted for a few seconds and compared the differences between him and you.
He didn’t have ear fins like you, and Adonis didn’t either.
His green fishtail swayed gently in the shallow water.
He didn’t have anal fins, and his tail was thicker than yours.

He didn’t have a mermaid pearl either.
You suddenly realized that if there was no mermaid pearl, the other party was most likely a merman.

“So you are a merman.”

You took back your hand, and the other party muttered a few words in a fast but soft voice.

This time, the blond merman raised his hand, gently clenched his fist, and placed it in front of you.
He pointed to the reef not far behind you, smiled at you again, and looked at you gently.

You magically understood his kindness, stretching out your hand to catch this unknown little gift, and felt the warm touch.
Looking down, there was a very beautiful purple pearl in the palm of your hand, with a round shape and no flaws.

What happened now seemed to be that he saw you collecting pearls, so he gave one to you.

“Uh, thank you?”
You subconsciously thanked him, and then realized that you couldn’t communicate in the same language, and the tail end of your voice gradually lowered.

The other party also realized the difficulty of communication between you, and seemed to want to continue to say something to you.

Suddenly, a muffled humming sound came from the distance.
The distance did not seem too close, and the sound was a little quiet.

The blond merman suddenly turned his head and looked into the distance, as if he was alert to something.

“That…”
The merman was very friendly.
You tried to keep him and wanted to know more information.

He followed your voice and turned his head to stare at you for a few breaths.
There was some thought in his eyes.
He mumbled a few words you couldn’t understand.
Finally, he swung his tail and rushed into the sea, swimming away quickly.

You subconsciously wanted to catch up with him.
You swam a short distance and then stopped hesitantly.

He said a lot of words, but you didn’t understand a single one.
You even wanted to gesture and ask him to teach you a few words of conversation.
In the end, all you could catch was the purple pearl in your hand.

Ewan swam quickly to the place where the voice came from.
A voice in his heart urged him to go faster, faster, as if this way, he could conceal this brief meeting.

His figure moving forward in the water was as smooth as an arrow leaving a bowstring.
After a while, he poked his head out of the sea and swam to another merman sitting on a reef not far away.
The other merman seemed a little bored, throwing a conch to him and catching it, and so on.

“Tolan.”
He called.

The other merman raised his head.
It was a face very similar to Ewan’s, with the same golden hair and green tail, and the same eyes like spring buds.
The only difference was that his eyes were not as gentle as Ewan’s.

“Where did you go, Ewan?”
The young merman called Tolan asked with a complaining and questioning tone.
As Ewan’s twin brother, he rarely called him brother.

Ewan found that he couldn’t answer this question immediately.
After a pause, he said, “To find a pearl.”

Tolan said, “Oh,” and asked again, “What about the pearl?”

This time, Ewan answered without hesitation, “It wasn’t pretty enough, so I threw it away.”

But in fact, the pearl was very beautiful and was not thrown away.

Since he was conscious, Ewan and his brother had lived together.
They were often inseparable.
They shared everything and had no secrets from each other.

This was the first time that he had the idea of not wanting to share.
He concealed your existence from his brother.

Tolan believed in Ewan as always.
He just jumped off the reef and expressed his idea for the next meal: “I want to eat the bighead carp from the day before yesterday.”

The bighead carp in Tolan’s mouth had a special fat taste.
It couldn’t be caught in their current position.
They had to go to another sea.

Ewan answered yes as always and followed his brother.

You didn’t expect that you would see the merman again soon.
Less than a day later, you took a nap on the beach, with only your fishtail soaked in the water.
There was a shallow sound of water, and you opened your eyes and saw a touch of green.

It was the eyes of the merman.
He widened his eyes slightly and stepped back a little.
He seemed to be a little surprised that you woke up, and a little apology appeared on his face at the right time.

“@#%.”
He spoke.

You wanted to communicate, and you immediately imitated his pronunciation: “@…#…%?”

The blond merman named Ewan had a sharper observation than his brother.
His intuition told him that he must not let you feel threatened and that he must look very harmless in front of you.

He was able to find you yesterday only because he saw a small piece of purple belonging to your fishtail in his peripheral vision when observing the environment.

He heard you imitate his pronunciation and say a broken ‘sorry’.
He smiled, his eyes became more gentle, and his voice guided you softly.

Another half a month had passed.
You were extremely fortunate to have met Ewan, the blond merman.
He had a very tolerant personality.
He had gradually helped you get rid of the dilemma of language barriers.

Of course, you weren’t a genius who could communicate fluently immediately, but simple words plus body gestures had made a qualitative leap in communication.

“Jiao.”

It was Ewan who came.
Since you met your new friend, you had met almost every day, sometimes for half an hour, and sometimes for half a day.

There was just a small problem when introducing your name.
You couldn’t remember your name.
Maybe you had been sleeping for too long or you had lost some of your memory.
You could only reluctantly tell the other party that you belonged to the ‘jiaoren’ kin of the Mermaids.

Ewan seemed to understand, but after several rounds of back and forth, he finally chose to call you “Jiao”.

This name wasn’t bad.
It was better than you racking your brains to come up with a name.
You were a jiaoren, after all.

Ewan was a very polite merman.
He rarely touched you actively, and the occasional contact wouldn’t make you feel disgusted.

You turned around to greet your new friend.

As expected, seeing Ewan’s amazed eyes, you were a little proud.
Your jiaoren silk was woven and worn on your body today.
This time, you added extra pearl powder, and the luster was very delicate and lustrous.

The slanted neckline revealed your delicate clavicle.
Although jiaoren silk didn’t get wet when it came into contact with water, it was cut very close to the body, and you wore it in an effect that made water soak through and stick to your body.

Of course, there were other reasons.
It took some patience to handle jiaoren silk.
You started to feel troublesome halfway through, so you were lazy and used only half the normal amount of silk to make the garment, resulting in a small section of your waist and abdomen not being covered.

In this case, you could still save two jiaoren silks from the neckline to make a headband.

You deliberately used your sharpened nails to grind holes in the purple pearls that Ewan gave you, and then put the jiaoren silk through them to make a pearl headband, tying your waist-length hair behind your head.

You chose to give the other one to Ewan.

Ewan was very surprised to receive the headband, and he didn’t dislike it at all because it was the leftover scraps from your clothes making.

Of course, for you who always gave up halfway through handicrafts, the rarity of the quantity was considered impressive.

Ewan’s blond hair was very eye-catching, with a slight curl, and the length reached his shoulder blades.
He turned around and motioned for you to help him tie it.

The smooth hair felt itchy when it slid into your palm.
You first quietly braided a small braid for Ewan, and then tied up the rest of his hair.

“Ewan, do you like it?”

Jiaoren silk felt great and emitted a soft light in a dark environment.
You were asking knowingly.
You were a vain jiaoren and you liked to be praised.

“Very beautiful, I like it very much.”
Ewan raised his hand and lingered on the end of the headband, rubbing it with his fingertips, smiling with his eyes curved.
Ewan always made you feel sincere.

However, the meeting time today was particularly short.
Ewan expressed his intention to leave.
You expressed your understanding.
After all, fish have their own lives.

It was rare for the other party to help you study for so many days.

But for Ewan, such a decision was a last resort.

His brother expressed dissatisfaction and suspicion about his recent disappearances.

Even though he had been very restrained and tried to control the time he met with you, he was still discovered.

Before returning to the cave where he lived with his brother, Ewan stopped.
He touched the hair that you had tied up with your own hands reluctantly, and finally untied the hairband.

There was no place to hide things on his body.
He thought about it, shortened the hairband, tied it to the hair closest to his neck, and covered his hair with loose hair.

Similar to the living habits of jiaoren, most adult mermen liked to live alone.
The situation like Ewan and Tolan was a special case.
However, even if the relationship between brothers was close, they only lived in two adjacent caves.

Tolan was not in the cave.
He was the first one to come back today.
Ewan felt a subtle relief in his heart.

He returned to his cave.
The next second after he felt relieved, he felt as if he was looking in the mirror in a sunken ship.

The blond and blue-eyed merman stared at him closely.

Tolan obviously didn’t want to be perfunctory by his brother anymore.
He was in Ewan’s cave.