Abstinence Admiral Don't Bite, the Softer Mermaid Top Thug

Chapter 177 I thought my father didn't want me anymore

"You still say you didn't? I've heard that you've been asking Professor Xiya a lot of strange and unusual questions lately. Mianmian, what's the point of you always looking into these things?"

"That boy, Gu Lixi, is quite good; after all, he saved your life. Last time, Count Gu and his wife came to visit me. From what the Countess said, she really hoped you two could meet formally to discuss things and see if there was any possibility of taking things further..."

That day, Jing Weimian took a rare break to return to the Marshal's Mansion. She had only been sitting in the restaurant for a few minutes when her parents brought up the matter again.

"There's no time to talk about these things."

Jing Weimian said calmly, glancing at her younger brother who was sitting opposite her, munching on a fork and watching the show.

Jing Weichen had always been afraid of his sister, a general, and immediately suppressed his smile after just one glance.

He hurriedly got up to take control of the housekeeper system and proactively served his sister a bowl of nutritious soup.

While things were relatively harmonious between the siblings, the marshal couldn't help but frown and say:
"No time, no time? Well, they saved your life, surely they can't even afford to have a meal with you?"

Jing Weimian took the nutritious soup her younger brother brought her, drank two sips, and said unhurriedly:
“I never said I wouldn’t repay the Gu family’s kindness. Whatever they want, haven’t I always tried my best to satisfy them? Of course, there’s time for meals, but if it’s mixed with romance, then of course there isn’t. Father also knows how much work has piled up at the military base since I came back. Is it wrong for me not to delay Gu Lixi?”

The marshal's somber and displeased expression did not lessen at all after hearing her words. Just as he was about to say something more, his wife, sitting beside him, cut him off:

"Alright, stop arguing. If Mianmian doesn't want to, then so be it. Besides, Mianmian and that Earl's child have only officially known each other for a few months. Let's take it slow. Who knows what will happen in the future? Mianmian rarely comes home today, so say something else. Don't start arguing with Mianmian as soon as you get back."

After being scolded by his wife, the marshal reluctantly agreed and then changed the subject, asking, "Has things calmed down in the Northern Theater Command?"

Jing Weimian: "Yes, we just moved the main command post back, and there's nothing dangerous for the time being."

Jing Weimian put down her soup bowl, stretched out her long leg under the table, and kicked her younger brother across the table.

Jing Weichen, who was shoveling rice into his mouth with his ears perked up, almost cried out in surprise. He looked up and met his sister's expressionless eyes. Receiving her signal, he wiped his mouth and forced himself to turn towards his father, who was sitting in the head seat—

"Dad, stop interrogating my sister! Why don't you also ask me about my life at military academy?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he absorbed the firepower.

The marshal glanced at him and sneered coldly, "You're always so unruly at the military academy, it's pointless for me to ask you anything."

Jing Weichen held the bowl and looked at his sister with a pitiful expression.

His sister refused to help him when he was dying.

Jing Weichen looked towards Ms. Xu again.

The Marshal's wife sided with her youngest son, saying, "Weichen worked hard to get into the Allied Military Academy. He's not as useless as you say."

Jing Weichen nodded emphatically, "That's right, that's right."

Marshal: "Mianmian is already carrying out important missions at the base at his age!"

"Well...that's true." The Marshal's wife couldn't coax her anymore. After thinking deeply for a while, she turned to Jing Weichen and said, "Weichen, you still need to try to be like your sister."

After finishing his meal, Jing Weichen went upstairs with a sullen face.

About half an hour later.

There was a knock on the door.

Jing Weichen continued to open the door with a long face. As soon as the door opened, he saw his sister leaning against the door with her arms crossed, throwing something at him, and then walking into his room.

Jing Weichen looked at the gift box in his hand, his face full of surprise:
"Oh my god! Sis, when did you buy me this rare energy meter from planet G107?! It must be very expensive. I begged my parents for ages, but they wouldn't buy it for me!"

“I happened to be passing by there last time, and I remembered you like this, so I bought it.”

Jing Weimian leaned down against his desk and watched him happily put on the energy star watch and say "I like it," before asking, "Are you adjusting well at military school?"

"fine."

Jing Weimian keenly sensed a subtle, unusual emotion in his reply and looked up at him: "What's wrong?" Jing Weichen waved his hand dismissively, "Nothing, I just ran into some annoying people at the school's training ground."

"Hmm, is it interfering with your training?"

Jing Weichen snorted, "No, my sister is a highly sought-after general in the empire. Who would dare to mess with me?"

"okay."

Just then, a new message popped up on the invisible screen of her bracelet. It was that Chen Yan had arrived outside the Marshal's Mansion to pick her up. Jing Weimian raised her hand and patted her younger brother's shoulder. "Remember to tell me if anything happens. I'm leaving now."

Knowing that she was leaving so soon, and that her parents would definitely nag her again, Jing Weimian left her younger brother behind to deal with her parents and took the opportunity to slip away.

While en route to a meeting in the new district aboard a starship, Chen Yan submitted the findings of his investigation into several suspicious star-marked sea areas, which the admiral had previously tasked him with personally investigating.

"General, I have gone to investigate as you instructed, and I have not found anything unusual in these sea areas, nor have I encountered any so-called mermaids."

Jing Weimian finished reviewing the investigation report with a stern face and said, "Understood."

Could it really be as her mother said, that she had never actually seen that beautiful, deep blue mermaid, nor had she ever reached that island forest...?

Was everything really just a hallucination caused by stress after the devastating accident?

Jing Weimian had almost let go of her obsession several times.

But that evening, after finishing her meeting and returning to her residence, she swam a few laps in the pool as usual, took a shower, and then pulled off her robe hanging on the hanger and put it on.

Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed a faint, scale-shaped mark above his heart.

Under the light, the lifelike scales reflected shimmering light onto the skin of my heart.

Jing Weimian was stunned for a moment, and was about to reach out to touch it when the scales disappeared from her heart again.

Jing Weimian gently covered her regularly beating heart with her palm.

While feeling confused, she became even more certain that the beautiful dreams that frequently appeared in her sleep were not her hallucinations.

She most likely... no, during the time she was in trouble and disappeared, she must have forgotten a memory that was extremely important to her.

Having firmly believed this, from that day onward, Jing Weimian intensified her search for the island forest in her dream.

Furthermore, he began to interact more and more frequently with Professor Xiya of the research institute.

Whenever the research institute makes any major discoveries about marine life, Jing Weimian is always the first to go and find out.

……

at the same time.

Whale Island, forest cabin.

The little fish woke up to find that its father seemed to be gone.

As usual, the little fish slept soundly and then crawled out of its shell-shaped bed to find its father for milk.

"Bang, bang bang?"

"Ba ba, I'm hungry, I'll drink milk."

The little fish wiggled its tiny tail fin and searched around the wooden house, then climbed up to the next floor and searched again, but still couldn't find its father.

The little fish was confused.

A fish sat perched on its backside at the gate of the wooden cabin's courtyard, staring blankly into the depths of the forest.

The little guy thought his dad didn't want him anymore, so he pouted and his face quickly turned red.