Where did the missing mermaid go?

  "Whale, you and Mermaid Island, don't you have any connection? I felt like I've seen you before since the first time I saw your blue eyes." The Whale King had indeed noticed this point long ago, from the moment he met her at the Whale Bridge, he found her to be different from others, yet somehow familiar.

  "Unfortunately, I am a foreigner and my hometown is in a distant place. Until last summer's end and early autumn when I graduated from junior high school, I had never left my hometown. Many people have said that I look like someone from the Mermaid Island, but I just happen to not be one."

  The Whale King fell silent for a moment, and then Lotus asked him about the Mermaid Island. "I heard that the people on Mermaid Island are mermaids who have transformed after coming ashore?"

  The Whale King laughed and said: "So, I've also become a merman?"

  Laurie hastily added, "That's what I heard! And they also said that a little girl one day dove back into the sea and turned back into a mermaid? Many fishermen saw her in the water, dragging a silver-white fish tail?"

  The Whale King listened and burst out laughing: "I thought that mermaid was you, since you say it's not you, then I think what they saw is probably the Silver Spirit Whale."

  Luo Lian also smiled.

  The Whale King continued, "However, there is a little girl who went missing, and it's true that something like that happened. She was the daughter of Blue Ocean Alliance, also known as Whale Whale, Blue Ocean Whale. When that thing happened, I was eight years old, and I vaguely remember hearing about it. Alliance's daughter mysteriously disappeared, and Alliance went crazy looking for his daughter but couldn't find her. He became hoarse overnight and couldn't say a word, only crying. He didn't eat or drink or sleep, searching the streets, beaches, wasteland, and forests for seven days and nights. Finally, people found his dehydrated corpse by the sea. He was an unlucky man who lost his parents as a child and grew up relying on the charity of neighbors and relatives. He married a beautiful and elegant woman, but she died soon after, leaving behind only a small daughter. If it weren't for that, he would have gone with her too. But in the end, this last bit of hope and happiness was also taken away, and it completely took his life."

  Before, Luo Lian had listened to the version by female painter Luo Fan Chen and was overcome with grief. Now, after listening to Lan Hai Meng's version, she felt even more sorrowful about this story. "Why does heaven have to torment such a pitiful person? Why does fate often numbly destroy the most beautiful things, and often mercilessly torment the most pitiful people? Can't everyone just live well...?"

  "Fate is something that can't be clearly explained, it's not the same as effort. And don't even think about arguing with heaven, it's useless." Whale King didn't read books, but he hit the nail on the head.

  Luoleng blinked her eyes that were about to overflow with tears and asked: "Where did Meng's daughter go?"

  "No one knows. Some fishermen said they saw her in the sea, dragging a silver-white fish tail and turning into a mermaid. Actually, I think it's just to comfort everyone's sorrowful heart! I think she might have encountered an accident at sea. Xiaojingjng is very good at swimming, she often swims alone to the deep sea outside the cliff of the seabed, and I even saw her once under my parents' whale-watching boat, we almost hurt her."

  The whale king was really annoying, saying the most cruel facts. But Lorelei liked to hear her version of turning into a mermaid and returning to the sea, the cruel reality seemed a bit far away for Lorelei, who had no idea at this moment that cruel fate could also suddenly befall her.