"Prince, the princess is already waiting for you in the kingdom's castle, and everything for the wedding is ready, just waiting for your return." The knights and wizards saluted the prince in the hall, and this time the prince was the only one to receive them.

In the past five years, the prince has changed from a once high-spirited teenager to a calm youth.

"My princess is not ready, and I will not let anyone else be my wife." The prince's gaze looked at the seat beside him.

"Your Royal Highness, you can take a look at the image of the princess first." The wizard stood up, and he pulled out a crystal ball the size of a fist, crystal clear.

The wizard silently chanted a few incantations, and a puff of smoke rose from the empty crystal ball, and the smoke cleared, and in the castle in the kingdom's territory, a figure wearing a fiery red princess dress with curled black hair draped behind her appeared.

The prince quickly walked up to the wizard and excitedly picked up the crystal ball.

The girl lifts her skirt to reveal her red leather shoes, and she ascends the long looping staircase with light steps.

The girl in the picture walked up two steps, as if she was being watched, she suddenly turned around, her curly black hair swept across her white cheeks with the movement, and a picturesque face appeared in the prince's eyes.

"It's a mermaid! She's really back! ”

The prince picked up the crystal ball in surprise and put it in his arms: "Five years, is this how she came back?" It turned out that she was ready to marry me, and she really wouldn't break her word. ”

……

The ugly girl came to the castle of shells on the last day of the fifth year, and today the prince did not wait for the mermaid on a high platform in the middle of the sea.

From sunrise to sunset, there was always only the ugly girl alone on the high platform in the sea, and she put her legs into the sea and paddled gently, and when the sun rose tomorrow, she would return to the sea and forget the prince.

She wanted to try to tell who she was today, she wanted to try again, she didn't want to forget this memory yet, although this love she had fallen into a long agony after a short happy day, she still wanted to remember it all.

If one day she also has a granddaughter, she may be like her grandmother to warn her to avoid seeing humans.

Once you get closer, you will fall into a trap called love, which is sweet and bitter and makes you unable to extricate yourself.

The more handsome the human man, the more he has to dodge.

Soon at night, in the starry night, the silver starry sky was reflected on the sea, the sea became brilliant, and the castle of shells was lit up with lights and laughter, as if it had not been so happy for many years.

When the door of the castle opened, and the prince came out of it with a red face, he drank some wine, and the joy in his eyes could not be hidden.

He came to the high platform and saw the ugly girl: "You're still there, great, to tell you good news, I finally got my wife." ”

"Prince, are you really waiting for your wife?"

"Yes, it must be her."

It must be her......

You'll definitely recognize her......

Her prince was very confident, she had once thought such a prince was so charming, and now, every word of his confidence was like a sharp knife, constantly cutting her heart.

"If you were told that I was the mermaid and your feelings were wrong, would you believe it?"

The prince looked at the ugly girl, she was very gentle and kind, she also looked like a mermaid, but he told her many stories about mermaids, he couldn't tell whether she was deliberately imitating, or was it possible?

He wanted to feel and remember carefully, and then he thought of the figure in the crystal ball, that was a mermaid, wasn't it? Why would he be suspicious, he said to the ugly girl, "Thank you for your company, but this joke is not funny, my instincts have never been wrong." If you can, I hope you can attend my wedding, you will definitely like her when you meet the mermaid. ”

The ugly girl's ugly and scarred legs kicked lightly in the sea, shattering the starlight on the sea: "Then I wish you happiness." ”

"Thank you." The prince bent slightly.

"But I can't go." The ugly girl looked at the sky: "When the sun rises tomorrow, I will leave." ”

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going home, and for all these years, thank you for taking care of me, giving me a wonderful memory that I may never remember again."

"Where's your home? After the wedding, I can send someone to take you back. ”

"My home is in the depths of the ocean, and you can't find it."

"An island in the depths of the ocean?" The prince nodded, the ugly girl was surprisingly good in water, she must have grown up in the ocean since she was a child: "Then, is today our farewell?" ”

The flame of love gradually extinguished, and a wisp of green smoke wafted from the ashes.

Her legs could not be exchanged for love, her sacrifice was insignificant, and she looked at her legs, each piece of red was a mark of a scale plucked out of flesh, and they left nothing but ugly scars.

The ugly girl finally let go of her illusions and hopes for love, and the five years of waiting for companionship did not evoke the prince's memory, and the confidence and anticipation before drinking the potion were all turned into fragments like stars on the sea.

"Prince, do you want pearls for your wedding gift? I'll go to the bottom of the sea to help you catch the biggest and brightest pearl, and if you give it to the princess, she will be happy. ”

"Pearls, my princess will also leave me pearls, pearls like rubies, to commemorate our love."

"Color...... I can't guarantee that. The ugly girl jumped into the sea, and the prince waited for her on the high platform, and when the drunkenness rose, he closed his eyes tiredly, and lay down slowly.

At the intersection of the sky and the sea, a red glow slowly lit up.

In the sea, the mermaid's skin gradually lost its wrinkles and patches, and her radiant jewel-like skin gradually recovered.

Everything in the past is like an illusory dream, shattering one by one, and her memories are coming to the front one by one and slowly moving away.

The handsome prince on the beach gently took her hand and started this dream with an imperfect ending.

There is also this handsome man covering her eyes in front of the shell castle and whispering in her ear, dear, open your eyes

And he said with certainty that no matter what she became, he would recognize her.

Until the prince affirmed that he had found his wife.

……

Farewell, Prince.

Whether it's sweet or bitter, I'll never miss you.

A tear dripped from the corner of the mermaid's eye, and they clumped up in the middle of the sea, slowly turning into a pearl, shaped like a teardrop, shining blue, like a sapphire.

The memory that I am about to forget, I would like to make this the most important memorial of my life.

The mermaid's legs gradually pressed together, they could no longer be separated, the mermaid's hair was soft again, and she came out of the water, to the Prince, and placed the pearl beside the sleeping Prince.

She greedily touched the prince's face, and the moist touch gave the prince signs of awakening, and the sun was already peeking out of the sea.

The mermaid grew scales in the sea dyed red, her mysterious black eyes regained her mysterious black eyes, her nose and mouth returned to its original place, and her throat was so cool that she couldn't help but let out the song she hadn't sung for five years.

Her memories of the prince disappeared with the first song.