Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 352 The Bride of the Sea God (11)

After feeding Nolan, Yan Zhen's phone rang in his pocket.

She brushed the crumbs off her hands, took out her phone, and saw a message from Si Lan.

Are you interested in Wei Shucheng?

Yan Zhen: "..."

She initially wanted to reply "no," but then she thought of Wei Shucheng, who was suspected of being a spy infiltrating the New Territories Research Institute. She wanted to uncover the secrets behind him, and she knew she would inevitably have to come into contact with him in the future.

If the identity of being "interested in him" can serve as a cover, it can avoid Si Lan's suspicion.

Otherwise, given Si Lan's perceptive nature, once she discovers my scheme and finds out the mermaids' plans based on the slightest clues, she would definitely strike first and slaughter the mermaids to extinction.

Thinking of this, Yan Zhen sent a "shy" emoji, which was tantamount to admitting it.

Si Lan immediately called: "You really have your eye on Wei Shucheng?"

"...His temperament is quite unique." Yan Zhen walked out of the yard to answer the phone and said tactfully, "He just brought me back and taught me how to raise Nolan."

Si Lan laughed: "I didn't expect you to like Wei Shucheng... He is indeed a good person. If you like him, get along well with him. If you don't get along, don't ruin the relationship. He is very capable in his work, and I don't want to lose this capable assistant because of you."

"understood."

After hanging up the phone, Yan Zhen turned to look at the living room.

From her position, she could see Nolan floating on his back in the fish tank, happily swimming back and forth with his tail fin swishing – perhaps because of his young age, Nolan is very animalistic, and when he is satisfied with his food, he expresses his excitement through his body movements.

But recalling the scene in the original owner's memory where Nolan's sharp tail fin pierced her heart, Yan Zhen immediately dismissed the thought that "this little thing is kind of cute".

She hadn't forgotten that S-class mermaids were the overlords of the sea.

Yan Zhen didn't go out for the next week.

School starts in two weeks. She spends her days reviewing her major courses in the study and her evenings taking Nolan to the swimming pool for some fresh air.

Every time she was allowed to go out for fresh air, she would tentatively touch Nolan's body.

At first, Nolan resisted her touch, but when she got annoyed, he bared his teeth and growled at her.

But every time Yan Zhen finished petting it, he would give it its favorite sea urchin to eat.

Gradually, Nolan associated "touching" with "eating sea urchins" and became less resistant to her touch.

Yan Zhen also concluded from several experiences that mermaids like to have their heads touched and chins scratched, they will get nervous when their backs are touched, they will be unhappy when their bellies are touched, and they will resist and get angry when their tail fins are touched.

Despite her resistance, apart from the first time she bit Yan Zhen, Nolan only symbolically roared at her when her tail fin was touched again. Otherwise, she restrained her instincts and did not cause her any real harm.

That evening, after Yan Zhen routinely petted Nolan to "desensitize" it, and seeing that it no longer bared its teeth and growled at her, she rewarded it with two bags of sea urchins.

She sat by the pool, shucking a sea urchin, her calves soaking in the water, while Nolan moved closer to her, his webbed front paws resting on her knees.

She opens one, and it eats one.

Yan Zhen dug out the last sea urchin meat, held it between his fingertips, and raised it half a meter above the water to fish for Nolan: "Nolan, come on, jump high."

Nolan tilted its head back and burst out of the water, but Yan Zhen quickly raised his hand, causing it to miss its target.

Realizing he had been tricked, Nolan's face darkened, and he turned away, swishing his tail and ignoring Yan Zhen.

When Yan Zhen saw that it was upset, he immediately sat down and coaxed it: "I won't tease you anymore, here, have some."

Nolan still ignored her.

Yan Zhen tried everything to please Nolan, but he ignored her completely. She sighed and said, "If you don't eat it, I'll throw it in the trash."

After she finished speaking, she turned around and made as if to leave.

Nolan quickly turned around, grabbed her wrists with both hands and pulled them down, then opened his mouth and took the piece of sea urchin meat from her fingertips.

It swallowed the sea urchin with a "slurp," squinted its eyes in satisfaction, and saw that there was still a little bit of sea urchin meat left on Yan Zhen's fingertip. Without thinking, it leaned over, took her finger in its mouth, and sucked on it.

Yan Zhen: "..."

As Yan Zhen's fingertips lightly brushed against Nolan's teeth, his scalp tingled for a moment.

Fortunately, her fears were unfounded; Nolan didn't mistake her finger for sea urchin meat and gnaw on it.

But after it finished sucking, it realized what it had done, its face darkened, it shook off Yan Zhen's hand, plunged into the swimming pool, and refused to come out.

Yan Zhen: "..."

She finally saw through him; Nolan was, in essence, a mermaid with a very strong sense of self-respect.

They wanted to maintain their dignity as the dominant seafarers who refused to submit to humans, yet they couldn't resist the temptation of food.

Commonly known as, arrogant and haughty.

That evening, Yan Zhen spoke softly and sweetly, coaxing Nolan out of the swimming pool for almost two hours before successfully returning her to the fish tank.

Because he had spent too much energy with Nolan that night, Yan Zhen didn't wake up until nine o'clock the next morning.

As she walked out of the room and through the living room, she noticed a layer of yellow, unidentified substance at the bottom of the fish tank, which had made the water in the tank cloudy.

Nolan seemed to dislike those things. Usually, it would lazily lie at the bottom of the tank and sleep, but now it was floating on the surface, its paws gripping the edge of the tank, its expression full of unhappiness.

"What is this?" Yan Zhen walked over and asked.

Before Nolan could react, Wang Ma came out of the kitchen: "It's its poop, it stinks."

Yan Zhen: "..."

Mermaids are very clean creatures. Unlike humans, they don't need to excrete every day; they only excrete once every two weeks or even once a month.

Intelligent mermaids are like kittens and puppies; they will tell their owners in advance when they need to excrete, and they will only excrete in a specific location so as not to pollute the water they live in.

"This thing is so unhygienic, pooping in the fish tank is no different from pooping on the bed you're sleeping on." Wang Ma's tone was full of disgust.

Nolan understood what she meant and angrily slapped the fish tank hard with his tail, splashing water everywhere.

Upon seeing this, Wang Ma, who had just finished mopping the floor, exclaimed "Oh dear, oh dear!" twice and tapped the fish tank twice with the mop. She seemed to want to scold Nolan, but she held back.

"Alright, alright, it didn't do it on purpose." Yan Zhen stopped Wang Ma, took out his phone and called the people at the research institute to ask them to send clean seawater over to change the water in the fish tank.

The aquarium is large, so changing the water is a huge undertaking. After changing the water, the pH and temperature need to be tested before Nolan can be put back in. The whole process takes four hours.

The researchers were changing the water in the living room, while Yan Zhen took Nolan to the bathroom and filled the bathtub with water to give it a bath.

Halfway through his bath, Nolan became interested in the bath bombs on the shelf and picked them up to play with.

Yan Zhen did not stop him.

But when she went out to answer a delivery call, she returned to the bathroom and poured a bag of more than thirty bath bombs into the bathtub.

The bath bomb dissolved in water, turning the bathtub into a kaleidoscope of colors, with bubbles overflowing and making a mess of the entire bathroom.