The villains are redeemed, and the heroines cry and beg for forgiveness.

"Hmph, why would I lie? Dead is dead. It seems you were indeed in cahoots. Executing her was not unjust at all. Do you want revenge?"

Gu Ran's mental power instantly extended to its maximum, expanding the range of his perception to the greatest extent.

He couldn't sense the golden-haired mermaid anywhere, including where the mermaids originally lived and even further away.

Then, he sensed a conversation between two mermaids in the mermaid territory.

"With Yudo... oh no, Ariel, I almost didn't change it again. Our mermaid race really has hope for revival! Now I'm more and more convinced that our mermaid race really did rule the sea once. Sigh, it's just a pity that Alice won't be here. I really don't understand why she would help a human."

"Shh, stop talking! We can't talk about Alice anymore. Since Ariel thinks that Alice helping that human is a serious crime that cannot be forgiven, then it must be an unforgivable crime! Alice is too stubborn. Who told her to refuse to admit that she was wrong even if it meant death? In the end, she made Ariel angry."

Gu Ran could no longer hear what was said after that, because he had already withdrawn his mental power.

Gu Ran felt completely lost for a moment.

Dead...

Alice is dead...

The mermaid with beautiful long golden hair and a lively, cheerful personality is dead...

"You care about her so much, and she defends you so much, what exactly is your relationship?"

Although the voice was so close, Gu Ran felt as if it were drifting from a very, very distant horizon, full of etherealness and illusion.

He felt no sense of reality, as if his soul had left his body, and he was merely stiffly manipulating it, like playing an RPG game.

He never knew before that she had entered his heart.

Scenes from the past unconsciously surfaced in his mind.

"What did you do to the chieftain and the others? You damned human!"

"Which side are you on, making it easier for them to eat us?"

"We would have run away immediately without you saying anything. We would never go to our deaths with a human who talks big like you."

......

At first glance, he thought she was a capricious and difficult-to-get-along-with mermaid.

But in reality, she possesses her own kindness and perseverance.

"Let's escape together. It's not too late to escape now. As long as we dive into the deep sea fast enough, they won't be able to catch us."

"Next, we're going to swim into the deep sea. The deeper we go, the stronger the enemies we'll encounter. Are you... ready? We might just die there."

"It has nothing to do with me? It shouldn't have much to do with you, right? Are you a merman or am I? Since you've gone down there with the determination to die, how could I possibly back down?"

"Do you think I don't want to escape? But it won't let me leave. When it finds me, I will become its target. To it, I am much more important than you, so the best choice is for me to lure it away."

......

As they spent more time together, he came to understand her personality and came to accept her.

When she misunderstood him, although he didn't show it on the surface, he was actually saddened by it.

"Gu Ran, what are you doing?! Why did you kill Elder Granny?!"

......

Although she misunderstood him, he was still quite shocked by how much she changed and how persistently she persisted after realizing she was wrong.

"is that you!"

"Speak up! Did you have some difficulties back then?!"

"If I've misunderstood you, explain it to me!"

......

"Are you still angry with me? I know you must have your reasons and hidden stories, right? You blame me for not understanding you and for misunderstanding you, which led to the entire merfolk misunderstanding you as well."

......

"Gu Ran, where are you?"

"I don't know exactly how the chieftain plans to deal with you. I just overheard her talking to the other mermaids about using some kind of sea eye, something about flooding the land... and that he will definitely come."

......

Scenes kept flashing through his mind, from their first meeting to the misunderstandings and their resolution, and finally to her tipping him off.

Every moment I spent with Alice flashed through my mind, unforgettable and impossible to let go of.

"You care about her so much, and she defends you so much, what exactly is your relationship?"

Finally, these images merged with that voice that seemed to drift from the sky, causing him a heart-wrenching pain, as if his heart had been crushed.

What exactly is your relationship?

Yes, what exactly is our relationship?

Gu Ran opened his mouth, wanting to answer, but in the end he found that he couldn't answer at all.

He was a passerby accompanying his lover back to their tribe; she was his lover's best friend, tasked with guiding him...

She wasn't unaware that he already had a girlfriend, who was her best friend whom she had grown up with.

He wasn't unaware that the way she looked at him and the way she acted with him were somewhat intimate.

So in the end, they both restrained themselves and did not take any further action.

Her tipping him off was probably more out of guilt.

After that, Gu Ran did not interact with her at all, and he even deliberately avoided meeting her.

Because she is ultimately a member of the mermaid race, she will have to stay and live among the mermaids in the future.

He didn't want her to be a burden to him, so the best distance between them was to be strangers, strangers who would never see each other again.

After leaving the merfolk, he thought that Alice's matter was completely over, since not many people knew that Alice had tipped him off.

The only one who knew was that Little Conch's mother was being suppressed by him in the ruins.

Alice can continue to be a member of the mermaid race and can continue to live among them.

But to his surprise, the news he heard about her was that she had passed away!

......

Outside the light screen.

When Yudora saw this scene, she almost lost control of her emotions again and wanted to shout at Gu Ran.

No, that's not what she said.

It wasn't what he thought.

“No… I didn’t kill Alice… I said that just to make you angry back then,” Eudora murmured.

She wanted to explain to Gu Ran back then, but as soon as she took a step, she realized that everything was in the past.

She could no longer explain to Gu Ran from back then; all the misunderstandings had already been made, all the harm had already been done, and everything was in the past.

There will be no second chance.

Eudora felt extremely bitter.

It's not true to say that Alice's death had nothing to do with her.

Her mother told her that Alice was a traitor to the mermaids and ordered her to kill Alice immediately, but she did not completely obey.

Because when the thought of killing Alice arose in her mind, she felt a slight resistance.

This resistance was amplified, especially when Alice looked at her with a calm, puzzled, and pitiful expression.

In the end, she did not execute Alice, but instead imprisoned her.

What she didn't expect was that although she didn't kill Alice, Alice herself became weaker and weaker.

Because she neither ate nor had any thoughts on her mind.

The combined physical and psychological pain caused her to gradually wither away.

Ultimately, she died in captivity.

“Ariel, or should I call you Your Majesty the future Empress? Actually, I should call you by another name, but the revival of the Merfolk is also my wish, so I will still call you by this title.”

"I admire you, I envy you, but I also pity you. In the end, I realize that perhaps I am the most pitiful one? Or perhaps the merfolk themselves? I can't understand it, I have no idea why things have turned out this way."

"No matter what I do, no matter how hard I try, I can't get a perfect solution. And, in the end, what right do I have? He likes... Never mind, Ariel, I just hope you can really lead the Merfolk to revive."

"That way, at least the final result won't be that nothing was accomplished. As for him... he should be able to find someone more suitable for him on land, after all, humans ultimately belong to the land..."

Eudora recalled Alice's words, which she hadn't understood at the time.

But now she finally understood what Alice meant.

Alice's extremely pale and haggard face was clearly imprinted in her mind; only her eyes still held a trace of liveliness.

But in the end, those bright eyes faded into silence.

Yes, she did not execute Alice, but she ordered Alice to be imprisoned.

Alice's death was ultimately inextricably linked to her.

Eudora closed her eyes in pain.