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

Chapter 185 Why Does My Wife Not Want Me Anymore?

Indoor security system.

Chen Yan hung up the phone, turned to look at the handsome man standing calmly in front of him waiting for a reply, and answered apologetically.

"Mr. Lu, I'm so sorry, the engagement ceremony inside has already officially begun, and the general is too busy to come out and see you."

Seeing no obvious change in the man's expression, Chen Yan continued to elaborate:

"However, the general also said that Mr. Lu can tell me directly if he has anything to say, and I will relay it to the general after the engagement ceremony."

Chen Yan believed that although the general had been in a ceasefire for the past six months, he was still very busy with official duties and often flew back and forth between different star sectors. It was impossible for him to casually receive or summon a stranger on a normal day.

Not to mention that today is such an important day as the engagement between the General and the son of Earl Gu.

It was already an exceptional favor from the general to have him relay the message.

However, after listening to Chen Yan's words, Lu Lianbai looked down at the communicator bracelet that Chen Yan had just hung up. After several seconds, he turned his body and stared at the direction of the banquet hall.

Finally, as if in response, she slowly parted her thin, cold lips and asked, "Why did Jing Weimian get engaged to him?"

Chen Yan frowned, finding it even stranger. "Mr. Lu asked that question, of course, because the General and Young Master Gu are in love."

Lu Lianbai repeated the last few words expressionlessly, “Feelings, mutual affection, and harmony.”

“Mr. Lu, didn’t you just say you had something to say to our general? You haven’t said what it is yet, so I can relay it to the general later—”

"Thank you, no need to trouble yourself."

Lu Lianbai slowly lowered his brows, walked back to the lounge, picked up Jing Xiaoyu who had been placed on the sofa, and left the venue.

"Dad...Dad?"

Jing Xiaoyu hugged her father's neck tightly, burying her head in his neck, feeling a little dizzy.

The little guy was just too excited when he rushed over the fence.

Completely forgetting that her transformed legs were still in the toddler stage, she tripped and fell down unexpectedly.

So much so that when the security personnel dragged him away, he didn't even notice that both of his knees were scraped.

When his father found the security system to pick him up, Jing Xiaoyu's tense and uneasy emotions were relieved, and he belatedly realized that he was in pain.

This is the first time the little guy has been injured since it hatched.

Jing Xiaoyu was pampered and raised by her father since childhood. She has never suffered any hardship and does not know what pain is.

This sudden injury caused my knee to become increasingly swollen and painful. In addition, the skin broke and blood was seeping out. Furthermore, I was unable to revert to my fishtail form in time, which amplified the pain.

The little fish curled up against its father's neck, sometimes saying "My tail hurts" and sometimes babbling incoherently "Mommy".

She seemed to still think she was at the banquet with her father, and her little hands unconsciously rubbed and wiped her fingers that had gotten dirty when she fell.

He was afraid that when his mother came to pick him up from school and saw how dirty he looked, she wouldn't like him anymore.

After a while, she seemed to remember something, and with a touch of small joy, she pouted her soft, pouty fish mouth and told her father.

"Daddy, baby smells Mommy's scent, it smells so good, so sweet... Baby likes it... Baby likes it so much..."

In her drowsy state, Jing Xiaoyu heard her father's gentle, reassuring voice, but she couldn't quite make it out.

She didn't know how much time had passed. When Jing Xiaoyu opened her delicate eyelids again, she found herself carried back to the resettlement housing area on First Street.

Lu Lianbai's palm was holding the cub on the surface of the fish tank.

Let the little guy's tail, which has unknowingly transformed back into a small fish, be half-submerged in the aquarium water.

At the same time, he used his healing spiritual energy to cover the little mermaid's several delicate and pitiful scales that had been broken.

In fact, mermaids have an extremely strong natural self-healing ability. If Lu Lianbai leaves it alone, the wounds of the cub that has returned to its mermaid form will heal automatically in no time.

But Lu Lianbai didn't want his baby to suffer any pain.

Therefore, the first thing she did upon returning home was to heal her baby's wounds. Jing Xiaoyu wiggled her soft little fish tail in the fish tank; it no longer hurt at all.

Having also been given enough water, its wide eyes were bright and sparkling as it gazed out of the fish tank, looking extremely puzzled. "Dad, how did we get back? Where's Mom?"

Lu Lianbai took the now-energized cub out of the water tank, gently wiped Jing Xiaoyu's wet tail clean with a soft blanket, and soothed it softly:
"Mom might not be able to meet the baby today, so Dad brought the baby back first."

Jing Xiaoyu was carried back to her crib by her father. She stared blankly for a moment, then tugged at her father's clothes, looking up at him and asking:

"How could that be? When I called for Mom, I saw her turn around and face me!..."

Seeing her father silently watching her without saying a word, Jing Xiaoyu pursed her lips tightly, and suddenly felt particularly aggrieved.

The little fish was filled with an indescribable sadness that occupied its tender heart.

He rubbed his eyes with the back of his little hand, his baby voice broken and intermittent, "It's all the fault of those two uncles, they took me away, and I haven't even... seen what my mother looks like yet..."

Lu Lianbai wiped away the little guy's tears without saying a word. He didn't think about how to explain it to the baby, nor did he want to tell the baby the truth and make the baby feel sad with him.

In the end, I had no choice but to pick up the baby mermaid again, and while holding the baby, I made some formula, coaxed the baby to drink the milk, and, as always, coaxed the baby to sleep.

He stood by the window, looking down at the little fish that had unknowingly fallen asleep in his arms.

His slender fingers gently stroked the soft fur on the little guy's forehead, but something was surging within his calm, deep eyes.

After a long time, Lu Lianbai finally put the cub he was holding back into the crib.

He closed the door to the room very quietly.

Lu Lianbai turned on the old television in the living room without turning on the lights.

In the darkness, his tall figure sank into the sofa, silent, almost numbly torturing himself as he watched the grand and solemn engagement ceremony playing on the screen over and over again.

Until the communicator beeped.

Lu Lianbai's eyes were bloodshot, as if he had just woken up from a nightmare. He blinked his thick eyelashes slowly and answered the phone.

His thin lips parted slightly, and the voice that came out was incredibly hoarse.

"Hey."

On the other end of the phone, Bo Lin swallowed the curse that was about to burst out, and asked rather strangely, "Are you alright?"

"fine."

"...You were at the engagement party?"

"Ah."

"Now you should believe me, right? She only wanted to use you to leave Whale Island, that's why she said those things to bewitch you. Only you would take such a flimsy promise to heart..."

As they were talking, realizing Lu Lianbai was still silent, Bo Lin quickly cut them off, coughed, and awkwardly offered some words of comfort to his younger brother on the other end of the phone:

"It's not too late for you to see through this hypocritical human officer now. After my official duties are finished in a few days, you might as well take Xiaoyu and come back to Planet Gro with me to live, so you won't have to think about—"

Lu Lianbai interrupted her softly: "Sister, I have to report to the medical department at the base tomorrow."

"?"

Bo Lin gasped, "So you didn't hear a single word I said? She's already engaged to another man, and she doesn't even want to see you and the child. What are you still doing going to her base? Haven't you been heartbroken yet? Lu Lianbai, can you please get rid of your love-struck brain?"

"Did I do something wrong?"

"what?"

Bo Lin thought Lu Lianbai had been scolded by her and asked her about it, so her expression changed slightly, making her feel a little uncomfortable.

She tried to say something to comfort her increasingly silent brother, who was hurt even more, and said stiffly, "It's alright, you didn't really do anything wrong—"

Before Bo Lin could finish speaking, he heard Lu Lianbai on the other end of the phone calmly asking himself a question, as if he were answering his own question.

"Why doesn't my wife want me anymore?"