As soon as Jiangmen Jiaojiao opened her eyes, she was paranoid that the prince had come to steal her

Xie Changqing still held Shalan and looked at her sweaty forehead, where a few strands of brown hair were still stuck.

Shalan leaned into Xie Changqing's arms with half-closed eyes, the flush on her cheeks still not fading away.

The candle was still burning when we got close.

Xie Chang cleared away the delicacies he remembered and wanted to eat, and also saw clearly the scars on Shalan's body.

It was indeed much better than what he had seen at Baojing Villa. The traces had faded, there were only a few streaks, and they were still pink and purple.

It must have been that the injury was too serious and the scars were too deep, but now even after using many high-quality scar-removing ointments, there are still marks.

There is one in front of me that is particularly obvious.

Xie Changqing's hand couldn't help but reach over and gently touch the injury.

Sha Lan snorted softly and opened her eyes. Water mist floated in her glazed eyes, and she said softly: "Xie Changqing... your wounds have collapsed. Stop messing around!"

"Ah."

Xie Changqing lowered his head and kissed Shalan's scar, "Does it hurt?"

Shalan was startled.

At first, she thought that Xie Changqing couldn't control his lower body and wanted to do whatever he wanted to do, and she refused to lean his head against him.

Only then did Xie Changqing ask, and she came to her senses.

He was probably asking about the injury in front of her body.

"Does it hurt?"

Xie Changqing asked again, looking up at Sha Lan, "That whip...it must be very painful when it hits your body."

His eyes were dark and his emotions were somewhat depressed.

Deep pity, accompanied by heavy self-blame, and a bit of powerless anger.

Pity her injuries and the pain she had suffered.

He blames himself for not handling everything well and making her suffer.

Although he was angry, he had become what he was now, and naturally he was powerless.

Xie Changqing kissed Shalan's forehead, pressed his palms on her lower back and hugged her tightly. He thought he wanted to say something to ease his mood: "I checked."

"..." Shalan was silent for a while, then gently rubbed her forehead against Xie Changqing's chin, "Have you checked?"

"Actually, they didn't get any favors from me either."

"There were more than [-] of them, and I killed five of them... Later, those people didn't dare to get close."

"Over the years...there have been many people targeting me, but none of them have had a good ending. I have experienced skin and flesh pain many times. The pain is painful, but it is not unbearable."

"I'm not a person who will accept the flesh of a mermaid...Xie Changqing, have you heard some legends about Molan?"

"You must have heard that there were many dirty pasts between my uncle Wang and my mother."

Xie Changqing's hand on Shalan's waist suddenly tightened and he made no sound.

Shallan continued: "When I was seven or eight years old, I noticed that he was always staring at me, the same way he looked at my mother. That look made my skin stand on end. I kept avoiding him."

"Later, my father died of illness."

"Uncle Wang was already very powerful in Molan, but he became even more arrogant after his father died of illness."

"My mother was intimidated by him and had no choice but to surrender to him and beg him to give me and Gene a way to live. Uncle Wang promised, but the way he looked at me not only did not calm down, but became more and more terrifying."

"My mother tried her best to protect me, but in the end she couldn't match Uncle Wang's power."

"Uncle Wang drank that day and forced me to go to his palace. I will never forget the malicious fire in his eyes..."

"I ran away from him like crazy and ran to the bay." "He came after me and coaxed me to come to him."

"I know I can't go over. As long as I go over, that's it."

"I don't know where I got the courage at that time. I jumped in and sank to the bottom of the water. I reached the bottom of the dense forest valley... where you have been."

"There are some ancient books there, recording some strange arts."

"I learned those things and then returned to the shore through the very narrow passage...Uncle Wang was on the shore, watching my mother and the palace guards take me away."

"I know that as long as he is here, there will be no way for us, mother and daughter, to survive."

"So, I used the magic I learned to kill him."

"He was the first person I killed. I didn't feel scared, I just felt relieved and happy. There was one less person in the world who hurt my mother, me and my brother."

"..." Xie Changqing said in a stiff voice, "But there are rumors outside that Uncle Wang is your mother..."

"Rumors are just rumors." Shalan said calmly: "I killed someone, and my mother saw it. She was frightened by me. She was afraid that others would know about it and think I was a monster, so she told the outside world that it was her."

"Later, I used my magic to help my mother get rid of the evildoers left behind by Uncle Wang."

"I thought we could live a good life, but my mother got sick."

Shalan sighed softly, with a very mocking tone: "God is so cruel, he doesn't like to see others happy."

Xie Changqing asked: "What happened next?"

"Later..." Shalan recalled for a while and said calmly: "Later, I took care of my brother by myself and tried to find a way to maintain peace on the island."

"Before my mother died, she actually helped us siblings deal with a lot of troubles."

"It's just that the island is not a peaceful place after all. We have bumped into each other all these years, thinking that the immortal old man who came to save us is actually just unkind."

"I was injured when I lured Uncle Wang to death. He stabbed me in the abdomen with a dagger he carried."

"Then the doctor's wife said that I wouldn't be able to have a baby."

"But I'm pregnant with your child..."

Shalan propped her elbows on the bed, stood up and lay down in front of Xie Changqing, "Xie Changqing, I need to use mental power to use those magics, and I have to concentrate all my thoughts."

"And different magics consume different mental energy. If it's just a hallucination that makes people temporarily lose consciousness, answer my question..."

"Just like the one I used on you at Baojing Villa, it only requires a little bit of mental energy."

"But if you want to control them to do things, it takes a lot of effort."

"And you have to rest for a few days before using it a second time."

"At that time... those people threw me by the stream and came towards me. I used the medicine in the necklace you returned to me and shot three of them unconscious."

"I used magic to control two more and made them kill each other."

"When the sixth person came over, I looked at him fiercely and pretended not to be afraid, but I no longer had any poison, and I couldn't use magic."

"I didn't dare to speak out because I was afraid my voice would reveal my fear."

"I know... what will happen when they get closer, but probably, the few people I controlled before scared them, and they stopped approaching me."

"They couldn't get close to me, so they got angry and whipped me..."

Shallan spoke quietly, as if she was telling someone else's story, and she was just a cold and heartless bystander.

"I have encountered many dangers before. I thought it was no big deal and I could get through it."

"But that day, I was so scared... I actually expected you to come and save me..." (End of Chapter)