The words on the electronic screen slowly disappeared, and then three 3D projectors rose up from the ground.

The heads of the three 3D projectors turned to the center at the same time, and the light was focused together, projecting the entire mermaid princess Aiya in front of them.

Meng Ruxue slowly opened her eyes and sat up with her head in her hands. She shook her heavy head, and was about to ask where she was, but she saw a woman with long pink hair, a round face of goose eggs, cherry lips, and eyes as bright as elves and full of sorrow hanging in the air.

"Who is she?"

"She's the projection of the mermaid princess Aiya, which is our goal this time."

Meng Ruxue looked puzzled, and just wanted to ask Yang Yichen for clarification, but Aiya suddenly started to speak, and Yang Yichen also made a shushing gesture to her, signaling her to listen carefully.

"I'm the mermaid princess Aia, and I've lived in a carefree ocean for as long as I can remember. My little sisters were enchanted by my singing, and my admirers were in tears at my joyful dance. I thought I'd spend my life in joy until the storm came that day.

I still remember that day I was a little playful and sneaked from the bottom of the sea to the surface.

At first I had a lot of fun, laughing and playing with seagulls, jumping and racing with dolphins, lying on the head of a whale and enjoying the thrill of being sprayed into the sky, but in an instant, dark clouds engulfed the earth, accompanied by bursts of lightning and thunder, enveloping the earth in darkness.

Aware of the fear that was coming, I turned around and swam back the way I came. But the hook that suddenly appeared caught my hair, and while I was still struggling, a huge net flew in my direction.

Helplessness and despair engulfed me, and as I kept being pulled backwards, I heard a bullet slam through the net that was pulling me. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I pulled hard and pulled a big hole in the net, and finally escaped from it.

I saw him in the wind and rain - curly brown hair, gentle eyes, a thin red cloak, and a white and plain robe.

He looked so weak, but he stood there stiffly with a shotgun. Before I knew it, I was so fascinated that I even forgot to leave.

Just as I was about to leave, I saw a huge wave suddenly crash against their boat. In desperation, I swam in his direction, picked him up with my hands, and dragged his body to fight the waves.

But my strength is too weak, and his body is too heavy. After a big wave suddenly hit us, I lost consciousness and went with him somewhere.

When I woke up, we were adrift on an island I didn't know. The island was barren and green as far as the eye could see, save for pitch-black trees and charred-like rocks.

If it were just me, I would have swam into the sea like this, and although I don't know where it is, I can still go back with some effort and inquiry.

But he's different, and without me, he'll have to wait here to die. And how can I do it, and let him die here alone? After all, it took me a lot of effort to save him.

Thinking of this, I patted his body, he didn't react, I squeezed his stomach twice with my hand, he spat out a mouthful of seawater, and slowly opened his eyes.

He looked at me in amazement, while I looked at him with a smile. I jumped into the sea with a pop, grabbed a few sea urchins for him, and put them in his hands.

He looked at the sea urchin in his hand, and then at my face. His eyes changed from initial astonishment to a gentle sea. He handed one of the urchins back into my hand and said to me, "Thank you, beautiful Miss Mermaid, you're hungry too, aren't you?" Eat it. ”

His stomach gurgled and he still shoved a sea urchin into my hand. At that moment, I felt an incomparably warm warmth, which was different from the praise and joy I had received before, and it was a heartfelt and fulfilling touch.

In this way, while he was on an uninhabited island making rafts and seeking rescue, I stayed by his side. We have seen the ebb and flow of the tide together, and we have waited for the sunrise on the water level together; There are times when they play in the water and talk to each other, and there are times when they talk to each other about their troubles.

He opened a door to the human world for me, it was he who told me all kinds of strange things about the human world, and it was he who told me that human nature has good, evil, beauty and ugliness, but what you see on the surface is not necessarily true.

At that time, I was just ignorant, as if I understood a little, but more often than not, I didn't know how to pretend to understand.

On the last day he had made his raft and was about to leave here, he lit up the starry night with a bonfire, touched my cheeks with both hands, and whispered in my ear with a fiery kiss and a whisper as gentle as a nocturne: "Aya, I like you." ”

For some reason, at that time, I couldn't stop crying. I trembled and grabbed the corner of his coat with my hand, and begged him, "Don't go, stay here, even if it's for me." ”

"Aiya, I also want to stay by your side and live like this with you. But my family, my homeland, my subjects, they are all waiting for me. I can't just keep them waiting, just like you don't want your sisters to worry about you like this, do you? ”

At that moment, I was silent. Although I was reluctant to give up, I knew that he was right. We cannot be so selfish as to base our happiness on the suffering of others, especially those closest to ourselves.

"In this way, you wait for me for half a year, and I will return to this island and live with you in half a year." He smiled and held out his little finger to me, and I smiled and hooked his hand.

For half a year after that, I was separated from him. I returned to the merfolk I loved, and he returned to the human world that he couldn't part with.

When the half-year period expired, I returned to this uninhabited island with great joy, fantasizing about a beautiful future with him, but reality gave me a slap in the face. A day, a month, a year passed like this, but I never saw him again.

I think he may have lost his course, so he couldn't find the place. So I went out of my way to the kingdom he had told me about in the story to find him. But I saw the people on the shore holding up his portrait and the scene of another woman marching.

At that moment, I seemed to suddenly understand the so-called good and evil in the world, and my tears could not stop falling into the sea, and together with my blood, they condensed into a crystal blue, and sank to the bottom of the sea.

And I finally returned to the uninhabited island, looking in the direction of his kingdom day after day, and was finally dried into a stone statue.

Maybe it's because of my true love, so I can't hate it, so I can only let myself go through the vicissitudes of life and brew grief in my heart. ”