A weak and evil woman was exiled? The beastly husbands risked their lives to protect her

Chapter 394 This mermaid heart scale is for you.
The atmosphere suddenly became ambiguous.

“A little.” Jiang Xinli didn’t deny it, but she gave an awkward smile. “Actually, I have something I need your help with.”

"Hmm." The boy seemed to have guessed what she was thinking, and said in a weak and hoarse voice, "Miss Xinli, I will rest for a while longer, and then I will take you away from here."

He glanced at her indifferently, "Don't worry, we won't leave through the Sacred Ravine."

"How did you know that was my request?" Jiang Xinli asked, both surprised and delighted. "Aren't you going to ask me why I'm here?"

Even his ancestral grave, which held top secrets, had been broken into by outsiders, and by the Lu clan, with whom he had a deep-seated blood feud. Yet he wasn't surprised or suspicious at all.
Or perhaps, he actually hates Yun Bo as well.

As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

If that's the case, then things will be much easier!
“Miss Xinli.” The young man’s eyes were clear and his tone was gentle. “Since you’ve come here, you must have your reasons for coming here.”

Jiang Xinli chuckled, "That's true..."

After thinking about it, she decided to put aside her question about whether this place led to the star gate for the time being.

So many royal "corpses" here can even transmit energy to the sacred tree.

It's possible that some residual consciousness may still be present.

There are some things that are better left unsaid here.

"By the way, why is your mental rage level suddenly so high?" Jiang Xinli looked at him, her voice softening. "Give me your palm."

"?" A hint of doubt flashed in Xueyin's eyes, but she still obediently extended her hand.

His fingers were long and white.

The knuckles are thin, but they don't look out of place.

Instead, it possesses an indescribable, ascetic beauty.

"I'll help you lower your mental rage level," Jiang Xinli said with a smile.

“Okay.” This time, Xueyin did not refuse, and a slight light appeared in her dim eyes.

Then the girl said again, "That way, we're even."

The boy's gaze faltered. "Even if we're even?"

"Yes." Jiang Xinli smiled and said, "You saved my life, gave me medicine, and will take me away from the Holy Tomb later."

Crucially, he also told her some secrets.

She planned to ask him some more secrets later.

[To take, you must first give. That's what we'll do!]
The girl's heartfelt words echoed in his ears, but the boy chose to ignore them.

A complex emotion flashed in his eyes.

Liangqing?

Why should we settle accounts evenly?

She's always owed him, isn't that good enough?
He lowered his gaze for a moment, then looked up at her, his champagne-gold eyes swirling with complex emotions. "Now that you mention it, I suddenly feel that I actually owe you more."

"Huh?" Jiang Xinli thought he was going to talk about how she saved him, so she quickly waved her hand. "You don't owe me anything. Saving you just now was just a small favor, it's nothing."

She almost died when she fell into the Sacred Abyss.

He saved her, simply to save her.

He was just seriously injured; he won't die at all.

She "saved" him with many ulterior motives.

The two are not equivalent.

“Yes. There are others.” Xueyin hesitated for a moment, then said, “Miss Xinli, some things cannot be measured by ordinary values.”

"Like sunlight, it is something free and common, but it is incredibly precious in the dark and sunless deep sea."

Jiang Xinli rested her cheek on her hand, seemingly lost in thought, "That's true."

But what does this metaphor have to do with her and him?

“Some sunlight shines on people. But some sunlight…” Xueyin glanced at her, her ears turning red, “shines into people’s hearts…”

"Shining into people's hearts?" The girl looked at him, completely bewildered.

The boy's ears turned even redder.

It was so red it looked like it could bleed.

His eyes flickered slightly as he changed the subject, "How about you help me lower the riot level first?"

"Oh. Right." Jiang Xinli quickly raised her hand and covered it with her palm.

Mermaids have very low body temperatures.

Xueyin was weak, as cold as ice, and had an even lower body temperature.

Jiang Xinli adjusted to the cool touch of his palm, closed her eyes, and began to release the dodder vines to slowly reduce his mental rage level.

Xueyin's mental agitation level was slowly reduced. He didn't close his eyes, but quietly watched her.

A faint purple light streamed down through the white mist.

The light fell on the girl's delicate and beautiful face, giving her a light, shimmering glow.

The girl closed her eyes peacefully.

Her thick, long eyelashes trembled occasionally, like a pure yet alluring little elf.

However, a strand of hair was ruffled by the water ripples and fell messily down her chest.

The young man raised his hand, his long, slender, pale fingers slowly reaching towards her swan-like neck.

Just as he was about to touch that strand of hair, his Adam's apple bobbed slightly, his fingertips twitched slightly, and he slowly withdrew them.

He closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing, and suppressed the tremor in his heart.

After a moment, the girl spoke gently, "It's done."

"Thank you." Xueyin opened her champagne-gold eyes and looked at Jiang Xinli. Seeing that she was about to leave, she suddenly said, "Miss Xinli, please wait for me for a moment."

Jiang Xinli paused, "Okay."

Xueyin raised her hand and carefully removed the teardrop-shaped sea crystal forehead ornament.

Jiang Xinli was a little puzzled, but then she saw him take the forehead chain in his hand and slowly raise his right palm.

On its pale white chest, champagne-gold fish scales were faintly visible.

Soon, his arms, neck, and cheeks were covered with champagne gold fish scales.

The scales became increasingly three-dimensional, and a shimmering light flashed across them.

Like a perfectly translucent piece of jade, it is so beautiful that you can't take your eyes off it.

Jiang Xinli's doe eyes widened in an instant:

Was Xueyin putting on a show for her, a magical transformation into a live fish?

Staring at a male orc's chest is actually quite impolite.

but--

Such a feast for the eyes, you'd be a fool not to look.

Besides, Xueyin was also looking down at her own chest.

Not only did they look at it, but two slender, pale fingers were also gently touching the area near the thin, bony chest muscles.

Jiang Xinli blushed a little and was about to look away when she saw the boy's slender fingertips suddenly stop at his chest and then dig hard.

"Hiss—" He frowned slightly as he pried off a small, oddly shaped champagne-gold scale from among countless perfectly shaped scales.

Jiang Xinli's pupils dilated instantly: "Xueyin, what are you doing?!"

Xueyin did not speak.

He took a deep breath, and the fish scales on his upper body gradually disappeared.

There was a fresh bloodstain on his chest.

The bloodstain healed quickly, leaving a deep, incomplete mark.

The mark was exactly the same as the scale on his fingertip.

He flicked his finger.

The strangely shaped scale slowly seeped into the teardrop-shaped sea crystal.

"Miss Xinli, this is for you." Xueyin handed her the forehead necklace.

Jiang Xinli: "???"

Seeing that she didn't accept it, a hint of disappointment flashed in the young man's eyes, and he said earnestly, "This is the best thank you gift I can give you."

Jiang Xinli was dumbfounded: "A thank-you gift?"

She quickly replied, "But we're even now."

"I've said it before, some things can't be measured by ordinary values." The boy looked at her with a bitter smile. "Miss Xinli, are we friends?"

Jiang Xinli nodded. "Mm."

"You might need this mermaid heart scale in the future, so please be sure to accept it."

"I hope you won't mind," the boy said hoarsely, a pale, self-conscious glint flashing in his clear eyes.
"Because it, like me, has a disability."

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