Chapter 232 - 200: An Old Acquaintance Comes (Finale)

Su Mo thought the person before her looked as if he was on the verge of tears.

She couldn’t help but frown. ’Did I hurt him when we bumped into each other?’

Before she could ask, he suddenly pulled her into a hug.

His choked, hoarse voice sounded in her ear. "Wife, I... I’ve been looking for you for so long!"

The sound of his quiet sobs made Su Mo’s breath catch in her throat.

"I missed you so much, I really missed you... You promised you wouldn’t leave me, so why... why did you vanish without a trace...?"

Su Mo couldn’t explain the strange, suffocating feeling that suddenly welled up in her chest, and she completely forgot to push the man away.

The crowd surged like a boiling tide, but amid the uproar, she could clearly hear his heart-wrenching sobs. It was as if all the pain he’d suppressed to its absolute limit was being released at once.

With each sob, she felt something deep within her soul tremble in response.

She instinctively reached out to pat his back, attempting to soothe his turbulent emotions.

Pearls scattered across the floor at her feet, ranging from white to blue, and then to pink...

Not far away, Long Yan stared at this scene in astonishment.

Not far to his left stood another person, whose eyes were also red-rimmed as he stared at the slender figure in the crowd.

’We found her.’

’We finally found her.’

This time, they would no longer have to wander aimlessly through unfamiliar cities like lost souls, searching everywhere for a glimpse of her.

Once the man before her had calmed down a bit, Su Mo gently pushed him away and asked, "Have you mistaken me for someone else?"

Ye Yuan looked at her, his eyes glistening, and said very seriously, "I haven’t. I know you’re Su Mo, and you’re my wife. I’m Ye Yuan, your Mermaid Night Abyss."

Su Mo froze for a moment. ’Wife?’

She had heard Yue Ying use that title once before, but she hadn’t given it much thought at the time.

A flicker of doubt crossed Su Mo’s eyes as she looked at his face. She started to ask something, but stopped when she saw tears welling in his eyes again.

She picked up the things on the floor, along with the few pink pearls by her feet.

Then she pulled him to his feet. "How about we find somewhere to talk?"

’With so many people coming and going, this really wasn’t a good place to talk.’

Ye Yuan took a deep breath to suppress his tears and nodded. "Okay. Whatever you say, wife."

’Wife doesn’t like it when I cry. I can’t cry anymore.’

’What if I scare her off again with my crying... I can’t think about it. The moment I do, I want to cry again.’

Ye Yuan sniffled and took the suitcase from Su Mo’s hand.

Before Su Mo could take a step, a staff member walked up to them. "Excuse me, these pearls you dropped... do you still want them?"

Before Su Mo could speak, Ye Yuan reached out and took them. "Thank you."

The staff member nodded, smiled, and walked away.

Su Mo glanced at the bag in his hand. ’Huh, this Mermaid is surprisingly thrifty,’ she thought. ’Maybe I should give him back the pearls I picked up?’

"Here!" Ye Yuan handed the bag over. "Wife, take these and sell them."

"...Huh?!"

Looking at the bag he offered, Su Mo thought guiltily, ’Is my love of money really that obvious? Has it reached the point where everyone knows???’

"You don’t have to..."

Before she could finish refusing, the Mermaid’s eyes welled up with tears again.

Ye Yuan took a deep breath to hold back his tears, then grabbed her hand and pressed the bag into it. "You used to say... that I was expensive to take care of. I kept wondering if I was really so expensive that my wife grew to resent me and didn’t want me anymore..."

Looking at the pitiful man before her, Su Mo frowned. "It’s... it’s not like that..."

’Even though she wasn’t sure if she was the "wife" he was talking about, who could really resent such an adorable Little Yu?’

’The key thing is, his pearls can be sold for money. Raising him can’t cost that much, can it? Whoever said those things was definitely just teasing him.’

"But you did leave me..."

PLIP. PLOP.

Seeing that he was about to cry more pearls, Su Mo quickly held out her hands to catch them. "Don’t cry, okay? We can talk this out once we get outside."

’Look at all these people staring,’ she thought. ’It makes me look like some kind of villainess bullying an innocent Enchanting Demon.’

Ye Yuan nodded with a sob and followed her toward the exit.

Long Yan hurried over. "What’s going on?" he asked Su Mo. "Do you know him?"

Su Mo shook her head, but before she could say a word, she saw another figure walking toward her.

"Wife."

The newcomer’s dark, deep eyes landed on her, also shimmering with a veil of moisture.

The joy of a long-awaited reunion deep within his gaze was identical to the expression Ye Yuan had worn just moments before.

Ye Yuan explained in a low voice, "Wife, this is Cang Lan."

"Cang Lan?"

Su Mo murmured the name.