They also went into the sea to become mermaids

  There is a whale king, and Lu Lian will naturally go back to the mermaid island that she often thinks about.

  The Whale King took her to the Whale Bridge where they first met, and behind the bridge was the foot of the mountain where the Whale King's home was. This was the northernmost part of Mermaid Island, Rain Flower Crown, which was the top of the mermaid's head on the map, with a panoramic view of the surrounding waters on three sides.

  The Whale King's house was a solitary one, with no neighbors around. The shape of the house was long and narrow, with seven rooms lined up in a row, backed by a cliff wall, and all the windows faced the sea. Entering from the large central door was the hall, with a high ceiling, simple and ancient decorations, and the rooms on either side had bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, and storage rooms, all in a straight line, visible at a glance. The outermost storage room was partitioned off into a small space, which was the bathroom.

  Luo Lian looked at this home that was simple to the point of almost having nothing and asked: "Does Whale King live alone? Where are his parents?"

  "They also went into the sea to become mermaids." The Whale King said nonchalantly.

  Lotus shook once, and she understood what it meant to "go to sea to be a mermaid".

  The Whale King looked at the shocked eyes of Luo Lian, took her outside the house, and on the left side of the house there was a bay of seawater, with rocks piled up to form a large natural pool. The Whale King said: "This pool used to raise whales, but after my parents died in an accident, there are rarely any whales inside."

  Lian Wang looked at Whale King, and his eyes didn't have the sadness that Lian Wang had imagined, so he asked: "What accident did they encounter?"

  He also said: "My parents were both whale trainers, and the National Oceanic Research Institute invited them to join many times, but they all refused. However, when a foreign research team came to Ming Bay, their experimental methods were extremely cruel, my parents couldn't bear it, in order to protect the silver spirit whales, they agreed to join the research team. We decided to move our whole family to the National Oceanic Research Institute near Central Island, but just one week before we left, they sailed out for a last observation and never came back, we went to look for them, but found nothing. Everyone comforted me, saying that they had become mermaid couples in the sea, and the ocean didn't want to let them go. But I think, they should have encountered a black spirit whale group." The Whale King always managed to uncover the warm comfort and reveal the most cruel reality, yet he faced this cruel reality with such calmness.

  Luo Lian felt worse hearing about this incident than she did when she heard the story of Nü Hua and Meng. She hastily apologized, stopping him from continuing his reminiscence.

  But Whale King seemed to be in no pain, and continued: "That was something that happened when I was fifteen years old, it's been many years ago, I've long accepted it, maybe I'll die like this someday too." Whale King could still tell jokes, and Luo Lian hurriedly covered his mouth.

  The Whale King grasped Lu Lian's hand, still as calm as a bay of water: "Disaster is something that can't be avoided or escaped, no one can save anyone else, and no one knows when it will land on their own shoulders. Maybe one day it'll come to us too. It's unthinkable and can't be prevented. Since that's the case, if it comes, then so be it. If not, don't get complacent either. In short, just forget about it and don't treat it as a big deal. Just go on like this."

  Luo Lian didn't expect that the Whale King, who she had thought was as simple and pure as an angel, without a care in the world, would have such deep insights into life and death.

  Luo Lian didn't want to continue with the sad topic, so she ran to Xi Jing Bridge again to tease Yin Ling Jing.

  "The silver spirit whales like to gather under a fixed cliff bay, the few under the whale bridge, when my parents were domesticating whales, they settled down here and have been thriving here for three generations."