After Becoming a Merman, I Became a Heartthrob 42

Chapter 42: Mother Su’s Panic

The villas in the Hu’an community were all quite similar, each with a small open-air garden in the back.

But because he and Wen Nian were both fish, Pei Zhixuan had the foresight to convert the open-air garden into an indoor swimming pool when he was renovating.

“The water in this pool is a special light saltwater, with a similar concentration to seawater.”

After speaking, Pei Zhixuan turned his head and saw a small, bright light in both Chi Xiasheng’s and Wen Nian’s eyes. The corners of his mouth couldn’t help but lift.

“Do you want to try it? See how the water temperature is?”

The moment he finished speaking, Wen Nian let out a cry, took off his clothes, and jumped into the pool.

The water that splashed out from his jump splattered all over Chi Xiasheng’s face. He spat a few times and then wiped the water from his face with his sleeve.

But just as he finished wiping his face, his ankle by the pool was grabbed, and before he could react, he was pulled into the water.

The huge splash that erupted from Chi Xiasheng falling into the pool splashed all over the instigator, Wen Nian.

Wen Nian was not annoyed by being splashed. He swam over and poked the still-dazed Chi Xiasheng, who had just fallen into the water, with the tip of his tail.

“Come on, Xiaxia, come on! Let’s race to see who can swim faster!”

With that, Wen Nian eagerly plunged forward and swam away.

Chi Xiasheng was also carried away by his enthusiasm and quickly swam to catch this mischievous little carp.

Pei Zhixuan watched the two of them playing on the shore, holding his face and sitting in a chair with a smile. His good mood seemed to have materialized into several small flowers, floating brightly around him.

As expected, younger brothers are the cutest creatures in the world!

Especially when your younger brother is a merman, he’s just so well-behaved no matter how you look at him.

But Pei Zhixuan was called away by a phone call later. He reluctantly told Chi Xiasheng and Wen Nian that he was going out for a job and would be back a little later today.

“Take care of yourselves at home. If anything happens, be sure to call me right away,” he said, worriedly reminding the young Chi Xiasheng.

Chi Xiasheng nodded in agreement. After Pei Zhixuan left, he turned to see that the sun was already setting in the west and got out of the water to prepare dinner.

Wen Nian, the mischievous little carp, seeing that there was no one to play with, also boredly climbed out and wandered around the house.

After wandering around in circles, Wen Nian almost got himself dizzy and followed a small path outside.

The villas in this area were connected by small stone paths, which looked quaint and serene, very stylish.

After walking for a while and seeing several Chinese and Western-style houses, he compared them in his mind and still felt that his own house was a little more beautiful!

Just as he was about to turn back, he saw Su Chimian walking over with a dog through a row of bushes.

Su Chimian was followed by two or three people with cameras, filming him as he walked.

“This is where I usually walk my dog. It’s actually not that big. Wangzai can’t even stretch his legs.”

Su Chimian walked and interacted with the netizens in the live stream, introducing them to the area around his house.

The netizens in the live stream saw the exquisitely manicured path and the villas next to it and all expressed their envy.

[Sigh, the life of the rich is so simple and unadorned.]

Su Chimian looked at the netizens’ teasing, his almond-shaped eyes squinting slightly, revealing a sweet smile.

Just as he was about to continue walking, his dog suddenly stopped pulling and barked excitedly in one direction.

“What’s wrong, Wangzai?”

Su Chimian wanted to squat down to comfort him, but Wangzai shook his head, panted with his tongue out, and, taking advantage of the loose grip on the leash, he rushed forward.

“Ah!!”

Wen Nian, who was wandering around, had just thought that he had run into his enemy when he was scared out of his wits by the dog rushing towards him.

His heart pounded. It was only when the dog was about to pounce on him that he came back to his senses and ran forward.

Su Chimian and the cameraman following him were also taken aback and quickly chased after them.

The netizens in the live stream were also scared when they saw the dog chasing the person.

Wen Nian ran all the way forward. When he ran into the courtyard of his own villa, he cried and called Chi Xiasheng’s name.

Chi Xiasheng, who was stewing soup in the house, was taken aback. Without even taking off his apron, he quickly went out to see what was wrong.

The moment he got outside, he was hugged by Wen Nian. Unable to support himself, he stumbled back a few steps and only steadied himself by leaning against the wall.

“Xiaxia, there’s a dog! A dog!”

Chi Xiasheng looked up and saw a large white dog running over. His eyes moved slightly, and he shouted in that direction, “Wangzai! Sit!”

The large white dog almost immediately obeyed the command, sat down with its tongue out and its head tilted, and even barked happily at Chi Xiasheng.

Su Chimian, who had followed him in, saw that Wangzai had quieted down and let out a sigh of relief, thinking to himself that it was a good thing no one was hurt.

But the next second, his eyes met with Chi Xiasheng’s.

A look of disgust appeared on both their faces at the same time.

What bad luck!

Since the truth about the real and fake young masters had been exposed, Su Chimian found that whenever he ran into Chi Xiasheng, nothing good would happen.

Not to mention, the last time he had signaled Cheng Yue to take up Chi Xiasheng’s sound check time, planning to make him look like a fool on stage, he had ended up with a mess on his hands and had even had to watch him become a hit with one song.

That night, he had been so angry watching Chi Xiasheng’s popularity online that he had almost broken his teeth.

And he himself had been accused by netizens of using his power to bully others, and his identity as a judge was not worthy of the name. This had forced him to do a few live streams, using the introduction of a wealthy family’s life to divert the netizens’ attention and cover up the matter.

But his fame was not as good as before. His fans were loyal, but his popularity with the public could not be saved by one or two live streams.

Today, he had planned to use Wangzai, the Samoyed, to attract a wave of fans, but then Wen Nian had appeared out of nowhere, and had even brought Chi Xiasheng!

Su Chimian really wanted to turn around and walk away with Wangzai, afraid that he would cause more trouble if he ran into Chi Xiasheng.

“Wangzai, let’s go home.”

Su Chimian went to pull Wangzai’s leash, but he shook his head, shook off the leash, and continued to squat there, looking at Chi Xiasheng with pleading eyes.

His eyelid twitched. Only then did Su Chimian remember that Wangzai had always been fed by Chi Xiasheng before.

To not have forgotten him after so long, this dog is really a traitor, Su Chimian cursed inwardly.

The netizens saw the scene of the dog squatting there obediently and looking at Chi Xiasheng, and their hearts almost melted.

[Wangzai seems to like Chi Xiasheng a lot.]
[Tsk, I’m getting more and more confused about the affairs of wealthy families. Isn’t Chi Xiasheng from the same family as Su Chimian? Why don’t they live together?]
[Are you stupid? Of course they can’t live together. With the extent to which Su Chimian and Chi Xiasheng have torn off their faces, who knows who would poison whom if they lived together!]
[Chi Xiasheng can’t be poisoned. His voice and looks are too much for me. If you have to poison someone, poison me!]
[I second that! And by the way, I’m asking for a studio version of “Deep Sea”!]

Although the viewers didn’t know what had happened between Su Chimian and Chi Xiasheng, the unfriendly atmosphere between the two of them could be seen just from their eyes.

Wen Nian had now recovered from his fear. He looked at the dog squatting in front of him and pulled on Chi Xiasheng’s sleeve. “Xiaxia, it’s this dog. Su Chimian wanted to let the dog bite me to death!”

Chi Xiasheng really wanted to pat Wen Nian’s head and tell him that wasn’t the case. Su Chimian wouldn’t be so stupid as to kill someone in broad daylight.

But Wen Nian insisted, pointing at the dog and shouting, “Killer dog! Su Chimian, you sent it to harm me. You’re so vicious!”

Su Chimian: “…”

Where did this idiot come from?

The netizens were also led astray by Wen Nian for a moment and laughed heartily.

[What did the little dog do wrong to become a killer dog?]
[Let’s put it in jail. I think the sentence is appropriate!]

Su Chimian took a deep breath and stepped forward to apologize with a relatively gentle tone. “I’m sorry, my dog bumped into you. I apologize.”

Wen Nian shook his head. “I don’t accept!”

Chi Xiasheng really liked how Wen Nian didn’t give Su Chimian any face. He couldn’t help but smile and then coughed. “You can’t control your dog, yet you bring it out for a walk. This is a very dangerous thing. What if I wasn’t here today? Could you bear the consequences?”

Su Chimian had no feelings for dogs. Although it was his suggestion to get a dog, he had never walked it once after it was brought back. He didn’t know that a dog could be so scary when it ran wild.

Taking a breath, Su Chimian remained silent.

He could apologize to anyone else, but he could not bow his head and admit his mistake to Chi Xiasheng.

This was more unbearable than swallowing a fly.

Chi Xiasheng didn’t care about his attitude. He glanced at Wangzai and pulled Wen Nian into the house. “You can take Wangzai and go. You’re not welcome here.”

Wen Nian made a face at him and then followed Chi Xiasheng into the house with his little head held high.

Su Chimian looked at Wen Nian’s triumphant face and cursed inwardly, thinking, What’s there to be so arrogant about!

Then he pulled on Wangzai’s leash and, under Wangzai’s resentful gaze as he watched Chi Xiasheng disappear, he forcefully pulled the dog back.

He was angry and walked quickly, not even caring that the dog’s neck was being pulled out of shape by the leash. It was the staff member from the live stream who saw it and mentioned it to him.

Su Chimian had already reached his own house by then. Hearing this, he impatiently threw down the leash. “It’s just a dog. Why is it so precious?!”

At first, he didn’t realize anything was wrong. It wasn’t until the staff member looked at him with a strange expression, and the comments in the live stream next to him were quickly spammed with “hehe,” that his heart skipped a beat.

Su Chimian had only thought that other people’s dogs were cute, and since Samoyeds were good-looking and warm-hearted, he had gotten one.

But on the first day of having the dog, he couldn’t stand the flying dog hair and the dog’s occasional barking. He directly threw it to the nanny and didn’t care about it anymore.

On the other hand, Chi Xiasheng really liked fluffy animals, and since he had a high affinity with animals, Wangzai would always go up to him and rub against him, which made Chi Xiasheng’s heart soften even more, and he would proactively feed him and take him for walks.

The two of them got along very harmoniously. Unfortunately, after Chi Xiasheng had a falling out with the Su family, Wangzai was thrown back to the nanny.

Therefore, when Wangzai smelled Chi Xiasheng’s scent on Wen Nian from a distance this time, he was so excited that he rushed towards him.

Unfortunately, he only saw Chi Xiasheng for a moment before he was cruelly pulled away again.

Wangzai hung his head and whimpered softly on the ground.

The netizens also couldn’t bear to watch anymore, thinking that Su Chimian had been putting on a dog-loving persona before, but now he didn’t care about Wangzai’s life. It was a bit too fake.

[If you don’t like it, then don’t pretend, okay? I see that Wangzai is more enthusiastic towards Chi Xiasheng than towards Su Chimian. He ran all the way to find him. It’s obvious that Su Chimian hasn’t taken much care of him at home.]

Seeing the netizens’ righteous indignation, Su Chimian could only try to explain. “I was a little tired from walking the dog just now, and my mind was a little muddled. I’m really sorry. That’s all for today.”

With that, he signaled the cameraman to turn off the live stream.

Without the live stream, Su Chimian turned and glared at Wangzai, then walked into the house with a heavy heart.

Everything is going wrong. Even the dog is causing me trouble!

He returned to the living room and saw Mother Su, who was a little out of sorts. He found it strange and waved his fingers in front of her.

“Mom?”

Mother Su’s eyes were staring blankly ahead. It wasn’t until Su Chimian pushed her again that she let out a small “ah,” as if her soul had returned to her body.

“What’s wrong, Mianmian?”

Su Chimian pouted unhappily. “Mom, I’ve called you several times. Why didn’t you react at all?”

Mother Su looked a little haggard, and the smile on her face was a bit forced. Hearing this, she just explained, “I was a little tired from shopping this afternoon. I’m going up to sleep now. You don’t have to call me for dinner, Mianmian.”

Su Chimian found it strange and wanted to complain a few more times about running into Chi Xiasheng in the community, but he saw his mother go upstairs without looking back.

What’s wrong? No one is listening to me! Su Chimian unhappily punched a pillow.

Upstairs.

Mother Su clutched her pounding chest. Thinking of the scene she had seen today, she could hardly breathe.

Wen Shu is not dead! She’s actually back!

Mother Su had watched Wen Shu walk into the sea with her own eyes that year. She was wearing a warm yellow long dress, looking as if she were about to ascend to immortality, and she had walked into the sea step by step…

How could she still be alive?

But then she thought of how Chi Xiasheng had also survived falling into the sea, and her heart skipped a beat.

Why are these two people so hard to kill?!

The weather had been turning cooler these past few days, and Mother Su was in a rare mood to go to the mall to buy autumn clothes for her family. She had even planned to have afternoon tea with her sisters.

The sisters walked and stopped, carrying large and small bags, constantly flattering her.

In their wealthy circle, Mother Su was the one who had married the best. Her married life was harmonious and beautiful.

Su Chengjian was mature and reliable, her eldest son Su Jinfeng’s career was also thriving, and her younger son Su Chimian was playful and warm-hearted. There were no illegitimate children to bother her, which really made many people envious.

Perhaps the most heartbreaking thing for her was that her second son had fallen into the sea and had a falling out with the Su family.

After all, he was her biological son. Even if Su Chengjian had given up on Chi Xiasheng for the sake of the company’s interests and future, it was still a thorn in her heart.

But at least he was her own son, which was better than having an illegitimate child in the family.

Mother Su didn’t know what the others were thinking. If she did, she would have definitely sneered in her heart.

The Su family only looked glamorous and harmonious on the surface. In fact, some things couldn’t be dug into deeply. They were all stinky and rotten.

Mother Su had been carefully covering it up for more than twenty years, trying to maintain her dignity, living cautiously. She was like a cocoon, binding herself in a shell. But even so, she couldn’t relax, afraid of making a mistake at any step.

Just as she had finished shopping and was enjoying a rare afternoon tea, she glanced over and saw someone who shouldn’t have been there at all.

Wen Shu!!

Mother Su’s eyes widened. The teacup in her hand trembled, and the water inside splashed out, scalding her. She dropped the teacup on the table.

The hot tea spilled on the table and onto her sleeve and dress, but she didn’t even look at it, staring intently at the woman who was choosing tea snacks over there.

“Oh, Little Qian, your clothes are wet!”

The cry of her sister next to her woke her up. She turned her head and said “hmm” with a trembling voice.

The commotion here seemed to have alerted the waiter, who quickly ran over to ask what they needed.

The woman who had come with her wanted to speak, but she was stopped by Mother Su. She stood up with a stiff expression. “It’s nothing, I wasn’t paying attention. I’ll go back and change first. You guys can sit.”

The woman who was paying over there also seemed to turn her head curiously to look in this direction. Mother Su’s heart pounded, and she almost forgot to take her handbag, leaving the tea room in a panic.

The few people who had come with her were puzzled. They looked at each other and had to go home.

After returning home, Mother Su had been thinking about whether that woman was really Wen Shu.

She was too young, exactly the same as the beautiful and charming Wen Shu of the past. Her own eyes had inevitably developed some wrinkles, but the other’s smiling appearance had not changed at all.

So young and beautiful, it once made her think that the other was a demon in disguise!

Mother Su dug her nails into the bedsheet. She already had the answer in her heart, but she was still unwilling to believe it.

What should I do? What should I do now?

Mother Su thought and thought, thinking to herself that she absolutely could not let Wen Shu and Su Chengjian meet!

Fortunately, Su Chengjian was busy with the company’s expansion and had been traveling, with no intention of coming back recently.

But what about the future? What should I do in the future?

Mother Su’s mind was in a mess all night. She couldn’t sleep at all, her mind filled with scenes from more than twenty years ago.

In the end, she dreamed that Wen Shu had reappeared and had easily snatched away her family. Despair, like the sea, completely submerged her…

Sweat beaded on her forehead, and she finally woke up screaming in terror.