Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 370 The Bride of the Sea God (29)

“Okay.” Nolan replied, then activated his sound waves, issuing commands to Asya at a high frequency inaudible to humans.

Then Yan Zhen witnessed a horrifying scene—Asya, like a controlled walking corpse, easily emerged from the fish tank, split into two legs, landed, transformed into a male, and stood naked in front of her.

Yan Zhen: "..."

The aquarium is designed specifically for large and ferocious marine creatures like mermaids and can only be opened from the outside.

When Yan Zhen last came here, Si Lan boasted to her that the fish tank was made of incredibly hard aerospace material, so there was no need to worry about Asaya escaping and hurting her.

It now seems that Asaya didn't want to hurt her, but it wasn't time to kill her yet.

Killing Si Lan would be as easy as turning his hand.

Taking advantage of Asya being controlled by Nolan, Yan Zhen seized the opportunity to ask what he wanted to know.

When did you and Wei Shucheng reach a consensus on cooperation?

Asaya's eyes were vacant, his hands hanging limply at his sides: "Eight years ago."

It's been so long!

Yan Zhen was secretly alarmed and asked again, "All these years, has Wei Shucheng been providing the merfolk with information about humans?"

"Correct."

"What is his purpose in doing this?"

"Kill the Si family."

Yan Zhen paused, another conjecture had been confirmed.

"Does the Si family have a grudge against him? Why would he do this?"

The controlled Asaya's voice was so calm it had no inflection: "Si Lan killed his lover."

Yan Zhen frowned.

Based on the original owner's memories of Si Lan, although this older sister was cold-blooded and profit-driven, putting profit first in everything, she was not someone who would cross the legal line.

She wouldn't commit murder, so the only person she could have killed was... Wei Shucheng's lover.

"Is Wei Shucheng's lover a mermaid?"

"Correct."

Yan Zhen had a basic understanding of the situation.

Having obtained the answer he wanted, Yan Zhen took out a sedative from the locker and injected it into Asaya, then had Nolan put the unconscious Asaya back into the fish tank.

She quickly restored the network and security cameras in the penthouse, then left with Nolan.

As they reached the door, Nolan stopped her, hesitatingly asking, "Are we just going to leave like this?"

"what."

“But…” Nolan said in a low voice, “After Asya wakes up, he will definitely contact Wei Shucheng as soon as possible and tell him that the secret has been leaked.”

Yan Zhen patted the arm that was holding her: "It's okay, Wei Shucheng will come to me when he finds out about this, I'll wait for him."

Nolan, seeing that she seemed to know what was going on, felt relieved and followed her away.

Yan Zhen went downstairs and had just gotten on the side tricycle when Si Lan called.

She must have seen Asaya in the recovered surveillance footage; as soon as the call connected, she bombarded him with questions: "What did you do to Asaya? Did you kill him?"

Yan Zhen immediately replied, "No."

"Then why is he lying on his back at the bottom of the vat, not moving at all?"

Yan Zhen said confidently, "He resisted fiercely, wouldn't let us get close, and almost hit Nolan. I was so angry that I injected him with a sedative."

Si Lan: "...Good heavens, you only care about your own fish, so you can ignore whether my fish lives or dies, huh?"

Yan Zhen frowned slightly as he listened to her scolding, recalling how easily Asaya had opened the fish tank and climbed out.

We can't let Asaya stay by Si Lan's side any longer; no one knows when he might kill Si Lan.

Thinking of this, Yan Zhen said, "Sister, since you don't like Asaya anyway, why don't you give him to me?"

Si Lan seemed taken aback for a moment: "What do you want him to do?"

“To be Nolan’s playmate,” Yan Zhen said. “I’m going to school recently and I’m not home five days a week. Nolan gets bored at home alone, so it would be good to have a companion to keep him company.”

“No way.” Si Lan refused decisively. “Asya is wild and unruly. You can’t control him. Besides, it took me more than half a year to tame him into the human-like state he is now.”

I recently took him to business meetings, which resulted in several contracts. He has significant commercial value that can be extracted; giving him your fish as a playmate would be a waste.

Yan Zhen persisted, "But Asaya isn't happy at all with you, and you always hit him..."

"Stop!" Si Lan interrupted her. "Our innocent and kind-hearted Princess Xiaxia is acting like a saint and is doing this to me?"

Don't give me that crap. If everyone were like you, so hesitant and unwilling to give up anything, our whole family would be starving on the streets by now. Where do you get the money to spend millions every year keeping mermaids as pets?

Yan Zhen: "..."

"Don't act innocent after getting the benefit." Si Lan scolded her gently. "I have a meeting to attend, I'll hang up now. Be careful on your way home."

After hanging up the phone, Yan Zhen looked at the darkened phone screen and rubbed his temples with a headache.

After riding back to the villa on Changming Road, Yan Zhen parked the tricycle in the yard after entering the house.

Just as she was about to enter the living room, she noticed a gaze coming from behind her. She quickly turned around and met the eyes of a pair of eyes that were peeking into the yard from behind the carved iron gate.

The owner of those eyes quickly hid.

At a glance, Yan Zhen recognized who it was—Qiao Yun.

She took off her cycling gloves and walked towards the front door. Nolan saw her and asked, "Where are you going?"

Yan Zhen gave an irrelevant answer: "It's sunny outside, you go in first."

After sending Nolan inside, Yan Zhen opened the door. Qiao Yun was still there, wearing a mask and hat, hiding furtively under the wall.

Yan Zhen went out, casually closing the iron gate behind him, and asked Qiao Yun, "Is there something you need?"

After the Rottweiler incident, Qiao Yun sent her several apology messages.

Yan Zhen replied politely and declined Qiao Yun's offer of compensation and to visit her in the hospital.

Qiao Yun wasn't tactless; he sensed from Yan Zhen's attitude that she was intentionally keeping her distance, so he didn't want to make things awkward for himself.

But today he came to my door on his own initiative, and it seemed like he had been waiting here for quite a while, and he was dressed like he was going to break into my house—my intuition told me that he wasn't here to apologize.

Qiao Yun took off his mask, looking embarrassed. He glanced at the door with considerable apprehension and gestured for Yan Zhen to move further away to talk.

Following his suggestion, Yan Zhen and Qiao Yun walked to a spot about thirty meters from the door before Qiao Yun tentatively asked, "Si Xia, the one you're with... isn't human, is it?"

Yan Zhen paused slightly, then recalled the day she was injured. Nolan had ripped open the belly of a Rottweiler that was nearly 70 centimeters tall and weighed about 100 kilograms with his bare hands, killing the vicious dog in one move. This behavior itself was highly suspicious.

Moreover, it's normal that Qiao Yun noticed Nolan's scales that day because he couldn't control them.

What's unusual is that Qiao Yun came to ask me about Nolan's actions—was he out of curiosity, or did he have some other purpose?

Instead of answering, Yan Zhen asked, "Why are you asking this?"