CH 74

Jiang Qingyue’s family was invited by Ren Shuhan to attend his graduation ceremony on the main star, and they planned to proceed to the B-612 planet for vacation and to attend the wedding after the ceremony. Unfortunately, Ren Shuhan missed his beloved’s graduation ceremony due to wedding preparations, but Jiang Qingyue didn’t mind, as he had plenty of studying to do for the future…

This led to a peculiar situation where Ren Shuhan and Jiang Qingyue were unfamiliar with each other’s comrades and classmates. Over the past two years, they had been busy with many other important matters when together and didn’t have the energy to discuss the people they knew. Jiang Qingyue had talked a bit more about his classmates, occasionally mentioning some interesting anecdotes, but without going into much detail. Thus, Ren Shuhan had no idea what his classmates were named until the day of the wedding, when something peculiar happened…

Initially, the wedding proceeded as follows:

Ren Shuhan first had to entertain Jiang Chen and Zheng Zhilai, as well as the relatives and friends from the mermaid planet who came to join in the festivities, leading them around to various attractions. His comrades, who were unfamiliar with this situation, were left dumbfounded.

“What’s going on? Are you familiar with all these merfolk?”

“I can’t believe it, you’re the leader of these beauties?”

“Brother, can you introduce me to one?”

Ren Shuhan couldn’t be bothered with them, but a bigger problem soon arose.

Nanxi had been following the merfolk around, livestreaming all the while. Initially, he had maintained a quiet and reserved demeanor, portraying himself as someone eager to make friends but too shy to start conversations, aiming to capture Jiang Chen’s and Zheng Zhilai’s awkward moments for his fans to see. Because Nanxi himself had faced many embarrassing situations when he first arrived in the interstellar alliance and had often appeared clueless, the fans jokingly called him a country bumpkin. So, he was confident that Jiang Qingyue’s parents would make the same mistakes.

But he had miscalculated…

Jiang Chen and Zheng Zhilai had led a rather modern life since adopting Ren Shuhan, so they had never embarrassed themselves. Moreover, even if they did make some embarrassing mistakes, the interstellar people who now loved merfolk would find them endearing.

“So the members of the same clan are all so strong,” Nanxi tried to sell his image as a delicate person, “and I’m the only useless one.”

Many fans praised and sympathized with him, but Nanxi was feeling extremely unbalanced at the moment, only seeing the people who were scolding him, further distorting his psyche.

During the wedding, following the mermaid tradition, one party would escort the other, and before that, the couple could not see each other. The departing member, whether male or female, would bid farewell to their family at home.

The interstellar people had never seen such an extreme minority ethnic group before and were eager to see the spectacle. However, only Nanxi was livestreaming, as the other guests had no broadcasting rights. Thus, Nanxi’s livestream attracted many viewers, but the proportion of his fans decreased, and the direction of the livestream gradually became uncontrollable, with Nanxi having to broadcast whatever the audience wanted to see. Therefore, he couldn’t skip any important steps of the wedding and ended up filming the entire ceremony, turning into a professional photographer.

When Jiang Qingyue was sent off, Zheng Zhilai sang a traditional mermaid song, which was highly pitched and inaudible to normal humans. To ensure Ren Shuhan could understand, he lowered the frequency to a normal level.

This song was completely recorded by Nanxi, causing a sensation among the onlookers.

“What heavenly sound is this?”

“Mom, I’ve seen an angel!”

“Wow, he’s Ren Shuhan’s fiancé?”

“Excuse me, isn’t he the fiancé’s dad?”

The comrades on Ren Shuhan’s side were dumbfounded again.

“Oh my, my ears are pregnant.”

“He can solo debut directly. Is this the legendary racial talent?”

“So Nanxi really is just average…”

Nanxi’s face turned pale and green, but he couldn’t turn off the livestream because he had signed a contract, and many fans who had sent valuable gifts made requests. He couldn’t simply turn off the camera at will anymore, especially now that he was so popular and had countless eyes on him.

Zheng Zhilai listened with a smile to their praise and modestly waved his hand. “Where does it sound good?” Zheng Zhilai explained sincerely, “My clan is a matriarchal society, and adult female merfolk are responsible for courtship. So, the songs they sing during courtship are much better than mine.”

The crowd sighed.

“It’s hard to imagine, how much better can it be?”

“Qingqing,” Jiang Chen smiled and nodded at Jiang Qingyue, saying, “Sing, just sing as I taught you.”

Jiang Qingyue smiled shyly and sang the song of courtship for female merfolk. However, the passionate level of the song made Ren Shuhan, who had regained his memories, blush a bit, but it was indeed beautiful, lingering and melodious, with endless echoes.

Next, according to human tradition, the newlyweds should be sent to the bridal chamber. However, in contrast, merfolk do the opposite. They separate the two individuals and send them to each other’s relatives and friends, isolating them until midnight, for a total of 12 hours, before they can be reunited.

This was to allow them to experience the pheromones of others, get to know each other’s friends, and calmly consider whether the other person was the one they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with before becoming partners.

This was the moment Nanxi had been waiting for.

Nanxi didn’t know the traditions of the Jiang tribe, but he had seen the schedule.

And somehow, he had actually found an opportunity to be alone with Ren Shuhan –

Jiang Qingyue’s friends were divided into merfolk and classmates. Ren Shuhan was the leader of these merfolk, notorious, so no merfolk dared to approach him, and there were also some like He Ze who had previously had designs on them and needed to avoid suspicion. Moreover, Jiang Qingyue’s classmates were nowhere to be found, as if they had all gone to the wedding banquet. Originally, there weren’t many close friends invited, and now he couldn’t even see one.

So, Nanxi took the initiative to approach Ren Shuhan.

“I know where Jiang Qingyue is,” he pretended kindly and gestured to Ren Shuhan, “I’ll take you to see him.”

“No need,” Ren Shuhan stood by the seaside and said coldly, “I’ll wait here until the time is up.”

“Alright,” Nanxi turned around and took a step forward, then suddenly exclaimed and fell backward, “Ah!”

He pretended to accidentally twist his ankle, wanting to fall directly into Ren Shuhan’s arms. Falling backward was also a last resort, as it completely entrusted his back to Ren Shuhan, because he believed that the marshal would at least understand basic courtesy, if not carry some burdens. Moreover, he was still livestreaming.

As long as he could get close to Ren Shuhan, he could release his pheromones.

Ren Shuhan was his first choice, and he was not willing to watch his potential backup get married to someone else without trying, even if it was just a try and he wouldn’t get pregnant anyway.

But Ren Shuhan didn’t even catch him, allowing him to fall directly into the sea.

Fans: “?”

“Sorry,” Nanxi said with a green face, “I’m not used to walking yet.”

Ren Shuhan didn’t say a word in response, just walked past him even faster.

Nanxi was in a mess behind him, completely soaked, and could only apologize to the fans, find a place to change clothes, and curse Ren Shuhan for being ungrateful.

Meanwhile, Ren Shuhan turned into the house and ran into a group of familiar faces!

There were three handsome men, each hiding behind the wall and peeping towards the sea, obviously spying on Ren Shuhan and Nanxi.

Leading the pack was Chu Lu, dressed in a groomsmen’s attire, who smiled awkwardly at Ren Shuhan and waved his hand. “Hi…”

Behind Chu Lu was the tall and thin figure of Qu Chong, wearing a white coat, who calmly smiled and pushed his gold-rimmed glasses. “Hello, sir, nice to meet you for the first time.”

Behind Qu Chong was a man with peach blossom eyes, dressed in sportswear, he was Yan Huan.

“Hello, hello.” Yan Huan introduced himself, “I’m Jiang Qingyue’s’s senior brother.”

“I’m Qingqing’s best friend. We had a very close relationship in college, he should have mentioned me, right?” Chu Lu scratched his head, “We were both admitted to the mainframe research institute in the same year and will be classmates in the future.”

Ren Shuhan stepped back a step: “…”

No, Qingqing hadn’t mentioned it.

“I’m Qu Chong, nice to meet you,” Qu Chong shook hands with him, “I’m a tutor in artificial intelligence psychology, and I will be responsible for the psychology courses of Jiang Qingyue and Chu Lu in the future.”

Ren Shuhan was genuinely shocked: “You… you’re so young,”

“This doesn’t fit with his previous character in the world?!” Ren Shuhan thought.

“Many people say that,” Qu Chong smiled, “That’s because I’m half artificial intelligence myself.”

“He has a chip implanted in his brain, and his body has undergone significant modifications, so he always looks like he’s under twenty,” Yan Huan explained for him, “But he’s really talented. I’m currently interning under Professor Qu, and I hope to be admitted by Professor Qu like Jiang Qingyue and Chu Lu next year.”

…You’re breaking character too! Aren’t you always the scheming antagonist? Why do you look so weak now?

Ren Shuhan scrutinized the three of them.

“So, what were you doing just now?”

“Peeking!” Chu Lu said boldly.

“We were observing the way you interact with Nanxi,” Qu Chong explained calmly, seeming to lack any emotions, “Based on our preliminary observations, we’ve already been able to determine one thing–”

“Nanxi is not from the interstellar civilization, but from another civilization where technology or other techniques are even more advanced than our world.”

Yaay, they’re back, I’m especially happy about Qu Chong, he’s always so funny xD but each of them has a very different role this time~

Thank you for reading