A vicious female is trapped in a beastly hell.

Chapter 198 This fish has gone mad!

Jialin looked astonished. "Father, are you referring to that matter... But wasn't that just a rumor spread by someone with ulterior motives? It has already been proven false, and the Empress personally punished those who spread the rumors."

"If the rumors from back then were true, would His Majesty have needed to take action personally?"

Sivar slowly walked to the window, narrowed his long, bewitching eyes, and let out a series of cold laughs. "There's no such thing as a rumor in this world without a reason. I didn't believe it before, until someone gave me this thing."

Sivar slid his fingers across the wall, making a soft clicking sound, and took out a jade box from a hidden compartment.

The box is engraved with exquisite runes, as if it possesses some kind of mysterious power.

Jialin's pupils dilated upon seeing it clearly, and her voice was filled with shock, "This, this is something from the Temple of the Priests?"

The patterns engraved on the box are representative of the temple of priests.

That's the most mysterious place in the Sea Kingdom.

“That’s right, this is a treasure I obtained from the temple.”

"But that high priest isn't..."

“I received this from another priest.”

Sivar opened the box and took out a doll that was only the size of a palm.

The doll looks exactly like Jialan!
Jialin was completely shocked.

Immediately afterwards, he saw Sivar take out a thick, long silver needle from the bottom of the box and pierce the doll's head.

The lifeless puppet seemed to come alive in an instant, revealing an expression of painful weeping, with scarlet tears streaming down its eyes, a shocking sight!

……

Meanwhile, after dealing with the assassin, Shen Tang helped Jia Lan heal her wounds.

Unfortunately, the scales that were injured and detached from the fish's tail cannot recover in a short time; they can only be left to grow back slowly.

Shen Tang felt a pang of heartache seeing such a beautiful tail with several bald patches on it. Recalling how Jia Lan had stood in front of her without hesitation in the face of danger, even willing to risk her life to cover her retreat, a strange emotion welled up in her heart.

Jialan didn't care much. He secretly wondered who had sent those assassins.
Having lived for so many years, he had made many enemies in the Sea Kingdom, offending people both inside and outside the palace, and for a time he was at a loss.

Fearing further pursuers, he completely lost interest in sightseeing and returned to the palace with Shen Tang.

On the way back, Jialan suddenly went limp and fell heavily to the ground.

"what!"

He curled up, clutching his head, and let out low growls.

He seemed to be in extreme pain.

Shen Tang was startled and quickly swam over to try to pull him up.

Jialan suddenly pushed her away, her eyes red, and shouted sharply, "Don't come any closer!"

"What's wrong with you?" Shen Tang asked with a frown, confused by this sudden turn of events.

Jialan didn't know either. He only felt a terrible headache, as if a thick, long needle was churning wildly inside his brain. The pain made him tremble all over and he was almost going crazy.

A frenzied force raged within him, as if he had been thrown into a furnace, causing him excruciating pain.

"You... go back to the palace first, don't worry about me!" Jialan's voice sounded like it was being forced out through clenched teeth, her breath trembling and suppressed, unlike her former clear and melodious voice, which sounded like sandpaper being rubbed.

Seeing him like this, Shen Tang became even more worried. How could she possibly leave him here unattended?

"Let me use my healing ability to take a look at you first." She walked over and squatted down next to him.

Jialan suddenly reached out and grabbed her wrist with astonishing force!
Then, a dizzying sensation swept over her, and Shen Tang was pinned down by him. The cold, sharp stones grazed her back, causing her to wince in pain. Shen Tang looked up in astonishment, her eyes meeting the man's bloodshot gaze.

In an instant, a chill ran from the soles of her feet straight to the top of her head, and her body trembled uncontrollably.

The emotions contained in those eyes were unfamiliar to her, unlike anything she had ever seen before.

Indifference, madness, coldness, brutality...

“Jialan, you…” Shen Tang stared at him blankly, unable to speak.

The mermaid's cool, slender hand landed on her neck and gripped it tightly.

"Ugh!" Shen Tang's face flushed red, and she shouted angrily, "What...what's wrong with you? Let me go!"

Jialan, however, seemed not to recognize her anymore. Her clear blue eyes turned purplish-red, revealing a strange and alluring charm, and an extremely cold and dangerous aura.

He narrowed his eyes, lowered his head to her neck, and a hint of manic infatuation appeared in his eyes, "Female...you smell so good..."

"Female? What nonsense are you talking about? I am your female master?" Shen Tang suspected that he had also been possessed.

"Female master?" The mermaid murmured these two words, feeling a splitting headache, her face twitching slightly, revealing a trace of pain and ferocity.

He looked at the beautiful female face beneath him, a trace of confusion appearing in his scarlet eyes. His memories were fragmented, and he couldn't remember who she was.

"Yes, I am your mistress. You, you let me go first, and we can talk slowly." Shen Tang's face was slightly pale as she spoke gently, trying to break free from him.

The young man's eyes suddenly hardened, the last vestige of clarity in them shattering once more, his gaze growing increasingly manic. "Still trying to lie to me?"

His red eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty light as he sneered, "You mere foreign female, do you think you're worthy to be my mistress?"

Shen Tang couldn't help but curse her father in her heart.

Grass.

This fish is insane.

Could it be that those assassins did something?

Her eyes darted around, and she gathered earth-elemental power in her palm, but looking at Jialan's familiar face, she couldn't bring herself to do it.

The young man moved closer to her neck, his damp, cool breath sending shivers down her spine. His expression grew increasingly infatuated and frenzied as he rasped, "You smell so good...you must taste delicious..."

His other hand moved to her chest.

Immediately afterwards, his fingertips swelled up and reached for her heart!

Shen Tang turned pale with fright. This time, she could no longer bear it and kicked him in the abdomen. Immediately afterward, dozens of soil spikes rose from the ground.

The mermaid reacted extremely quickly, taking several steps back to dodge the attack.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Shen Tang scrambled to her feet and ran several meters away, frantically calling out to the system in her mind, "What on earth is going on? Has he gone mad?"

[Host, don't worry, I'm investigating the cause too... I've detected it! I've detected an extremely strange curse power within Jialan's body. This power will cause him to lose his mind, become insane and cold-blooded, and ultimately turn him into an uncontrollable mad beast!]

The power of a curse?

Shen Tang suddenly remembered the unknown power she detected in his body during the last treatment. Could it be this cursed power?

Jialan's current state is quite similar to that of the cruel mermaid tyrant described in the original work.

Will he degenerate into that kind of mad tyrant because of the power of the curse?

"You're so disobedient, and you're still a lifeless thing that doesn't move, which pleases this prince even more!" Seeing that Shen Tang still dared to resist, Jia Lan's eyes became even more crazed, and a cruel smile appeared on her lips. She raised her hand and condensed several ice blades, which went straight for her lifeline.

(End of this chapter)