QT: Second Female Lead's Counter Attack (220+)

Arch 10: There's a Mermaid at Home (10.12-end)

Ch 252 Theres a Mermaid at Home (10.13)

The chaos at the scene benefitted some. August led XunMi towards the cage at the center of the stage. With a flick of his hand, his mental strength cut off the chains. The door of the cage swayed open. Betti immediately transformed her tail into legs and ran out.

Your highness. Before Betti could through herself at XunMi, she was held back. It was the man that had just saved her. So handsome!

August frowned. This deep sea mermaids love struck expression was really ugly, it was an eyesore.

Mier. Lets go. Weve already found her. August led her through the chaotic crowd. As for that other mermaidShe has feet too, she can find her own way out.

Betti pouted. What was up with that man and her highness?

Anson stood to the side deep in thought. Although all natural mermaids were treated with respect in the empire, but there was never a tradition of a mermaid calling another mermaid your highness. Especially since Thetis had said she came out to find her friend. Then, this mermaid shouldnt be referring to Thetis as her highness then.

Unless Thetis identity was so honorable that even pure mermaids had to show respect. But how likely was that? Perhaps he really did need to go back and investigate the royal family annals.

I heard Thetis calling you Betti. Then Betti, you can leave with me first. Its messy here. Anson Eyre warmly smiled. He protected her behind him and followed in XunMi and Augusts direction.

XunMi and August hadnt gone far from the auction house. They had both felt the slight vibrations from the ground. XunMi guessed that it had something to do with that large bug.

The reality was, because of the battle between auction goers and military men, the smell of blood had splattered. With only one floor separating them, the bug had probably smelled it too.

When Betti saw XunMi waiting for her outside, her good mood returned. She stepped forward and lightly called, Your Highness. She had complicated feelings about this queen of the sea. As a twenty-first century person believing in equality, she was shocked to wake up in this world with social hierarchies and where power defined social class. In the beginning she was panicked. After she realized her new identity, she was then thankful. At least her identity as a deep sea mermaid was noble and received everyones love.

As a normal person, Betti definitely felt a bit of vanity after going from ugly duckling to white swan. But reality was also cruel. When this sea queen told her of the history between deep water mermaids and humans, she didnt know what to think. She obediently learned how to control her powers from the sea queen. She also understood that this was no longer the world she was familiar with.

Here, you could lose your life at any moment if not alert, even if you were a deep sea mermaid. But the extended time living the underwater life bored her. She wanted to walk on land again. So, she ran away.

But as soon as she got to land, she was taken here. At first she panicked. When she discovered that her powers hadnt been obstructed and that those people only thought of her as a natural mermaid, and not a deep sea mermaid, she relaxed.

She thought that she could just use this as an opportunity to get familiar with life on land. After whoever buys her, shell just run away. And then shell find someone to back her up.

Isnt that what happens in the movies? As long as she had a backer, there was nothing to be afraid of. But before she could find a backer, the queen of the sea found her.

Betti didnt want to go back into the sea. Not only was it lonely there, but she was always envious there.

She had thought that she was definitely the most beautiful. Yet she saw a female that even shocked her with her beauty.