Dance Of The Dragons
Chapter 155 : Consulting Zhou Guiying (3)

Chapter 155: Chapter 155 : Consulting Zhou Guiying (3)

Chen Yaoyao -- no, Zhou Yunmeng, had no one else left in her village. It took Zhang Fengxi and Zhou Guiying a lot of persuasion to make her agree to come and visit Qingyuan Palace.

"Yunmeng, you have to at least meet your other biological elder brother." Zhou Guiying insisted. "Unfortunately, our parents left the world years ago. Before our father passed away, he asked us to keep looking for you. Brother Guizheng is going to be very happy to see you."

Zhou Yunmeng pressed her lips together in doubt.

"You are not trying to kidnap me, are you?" She asked innocently.

"Little Miss, if we wanted to kidnap you... we would have done so an hour ago," Zhang Fengxi said.

"Just once."

Zhou Guiying clapped his hands together in front of his face. "Please, come to see the home you left behind. If you still prefer to stay in this village, we won’t force you."

"... Really?"

Zhou Yunmeng eyed her supposedly elder brother with suspicious eyes.

"Yes, really!"

The girl nodded firmly.

"Okay, then I will go with you just one time."

They were lucky that Qingyuan Palace was currently floating above the water surface. Otherwise, Zhou Yunmeng might freak out if she had to dive underwater. As a person from the tiger clan, Zhang Fengxi empathized with her.

"Yunmeng...?"

Like his younger brother, Zhou Guizheng the Qingyuan Palace Master was also skeptical about the foreign girl who Zhou Guiying brought back.

"Impossible."

The search for the long-lost sister went on for ten years and counting. In his heart, Zhou Guizheng gave up a long time ago.

He no longer wished to meet the little baby in this life. All he prayed for, day in and day out, was for the little baby to grow up safely and live a happy life, wherever she was.

Zhou Guiying took Zhou Yunmeng’s jade pendant and showed it to their eldest brother.

"Big Brother, look. Father personally carved Yunmeng’s name into this jade pendant. Take a look. Is this not Father’s handwriting?

Zhou Guizheng stared at the three characters for a long time. As he rubbed his fingers against the carved characters, he could almost see his parents a long time ago, just after Yunmeng was born.

The then Qingyuan Palace Mistress was so happy when she gave birth to a little princess.

"Let’s name her Yunmeng," she said to her husband with bright eyes that were glistening with happy tears.

The former Qingyuan Palace Master nodded in agreement. He held the little princess in his arms and recited the poem from which her name hailed from, "Vast clouds and mists entwine the deep forest trees; autumn bathes in the clear river."

"Yunmeng..."

Zhou Guizheng extended his arms to the girl and pulled her into a hug.

"I am your eldest brother," his voice was hoarse from overflowing emotions. "You are our little sister. You are finally back..."

Zhou Yunmeng did not know how to react. She gingerly put her hands on Zhou Guizheng’s back.

It was enough for the Qingyuan Palace Master. He raised his head and looked at his younger brother.

"Guiying, you disappoint me almost every day, but today I have never been prouder of you. Thank you for bringing Yunmeng back."

Zhou Guiying grinned from ear to ear.

"Well, now that I brought her to you, please take care of her, Big Brother."

"Wait."

Zhou Guizheng furrowed his brows.

"Where are you going? Yunmeng just got back."

Zhou Yunmeng blinked at Zhou Guiying cutely. Zhou Guiying pinched the adorable girl’s cheeks playfully.

"I would love to stay and get to know Yunmeng better, but I have to fulfill a promise to a friend first."

At Qingyuan Palace’s entrance hall, Zhang Fengxi sat on a blue coral chair and leaned his hand against his palm.

Beneath his feet was a thick and transparent crystal plate that seamlessly extended across the hall.

The alpha was lost in thought as he watched the various sea creatures that flourished under the surface, hidden away from curious eyes.

It must be great to be able to swim underwater like that...

"Sorry for the wait, Brother Fengxi."

Zhang Fengxi was startled out of his daydreams.

Zhou Guiying came back with a palm-sized pearl of exquisite and rich luster. The prince of Qingyuan Palace held the pearl between two fingers at Zhang Fengxi’s eye level.

"Do you know what this is?"

"A giant pearl?"

Zhou Guiying grinned.

"Correct."

An exquisite pearl it might be, but it still paled in comparison to Lady Song’s daily hair accessories, for example.

"It is an excellent ingredient to make all sorts of medicine, but how is it useful to me?"

Zhou Guiying grinned.

"You are mistaking this pearl with the ones that hail from Giant Oysters. This pearl, my good brother, is the essence of an omega mermaid’s tears."

Zhang Fengxi’s lips parted slightly in surprise. He knew that the merfolks were able to turn their shed tears into pearls. These pearls were extremely rare because the omega mermaids did not like to distribute them. Instead, they were given to their loved ones as tokens of affection.

"Which omega mermaid did you deceive to obtain this pearl?" Zhang Fengxi asked.

"Brother Fengxi, a gentleman’s kiss is not spoken of," Zhou Guiying answered with a wink.

"This pearl is a lot more than just a thoughtful gift from an omega to an alpha. It is quite literally a curse."

"..."

Excuse him?

He brought the youngest princess of Qingyuan Palace back to her family, and Zhou Guiying planned to repay him with a curse. If that was not the greatest joke in all three realms, Zhang Fengxi did not know what was.

When he saw the look on Zhang Fengxi’s face, Zhou Guiying laughed so hard that he almost dropped the pearl in his hand.

"Brother Fengxi, ah, I am not such a horrible person. Let me explain properly. Have you ever heard that a mermaid’s love is pure and unyielding? A mermaid only wishes for her lover’s happiness, although it means that the lover will spend the rest of his life by another woman’s side.

Well, omega mermaids are even more persistent in this trait."

Zhou Guiying patted the pearl in his hand fondly.

"This pearl will give birth to a specific creature. It will be your most loyal companion, your most trustable ally. It will treat your friends with kindness, and your foes with enmity."

Smiling, Zhou Guiying then added, "Most importantly, it can tell you when someone is lying to you."