My Mr. Mermaid

Untitled Part 34

Chapter 34 by ryuxenji

After paying off the bill, Liang Ling-Chen was very subdued. When Yun Duo thanked him, he merely responded with a soft 'hmm'. He looked at her, lips moving slightly, but said nothing in the end.

Now wasn't the right time and place. His younger cousin was still staring watchfully from the side ...

When he went to retrieve the car, Tang Yi-Bai said, "Cousin, let me send Yun Duo back. You still have work tomorrow. Have an early rest."

"It's fine." Liang Ling-Chen shook his head and looked towards Yun Duo, a glimmer of anticipation in his gaze.

However, Yun Duo also shook her head. "You don't have to trouble yourself, big brother Ling-Chen. We'll take a taxi back."

We.

Liang Ling-Chen wanted to say something more, but Tang Yi-Bai had already begun shepherding Yun Duo away by her shoulders. As they walked away, he said, "Okay, that's all. Bye, Cousin!"

In a comparison of strength, Yun Duo was just like a little wooden puppet before Tang Yi-Bai. She could only go where he wanted her to go, and so she had no choice but to move towards the road. As she walked away, she waved back at Liang Ling-Chen in farewell.

Liang Ling-Chen was left standing where he stood. Looking at their overlapping silhouettes, he could only sigh helplessly.

If a girl did not want to trouble a man, it was not always a good thing.

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As the saying goes, . If one hails many taxies, it was inevitable to meet one or two unreliable drivers. The driver Yun Duo encountered today was one such unreliable driver. Most frighteningly, he had a facade of being reliable; it was only at the end, after he had twisted and turned to god-knows-where, that he smacked his palm onto his steering wheel helplessly and admitted, "Sorry, I'm lost."

Tang Yi-Bai had been talking with Yun Duo and had not been paying attention to the driver's route. Now, hearing the driver's words, he asked, "Why didn't you say anything earlier?"

Yun Duo was equally taken aback. "Don't you have a GPS?"

"No."

He did not know the way, and he had no GPS, yet he remained so calm. This gentleman's confidence was truly indestructible ... Yun Duo cast a helpless glance at Tang Yi-Bai.

Tang Yi-Bai looked out the window and said, "Forget it. We're not too far off. Let's just get off here."

Just like that, they randomly got out of the taxi about 1 kilometre away from home. Tang Yi-Bai was very familiar with the nearby surroundings. He led Yun Duo into an alley.

After walking for a while, Yun Duo felt that something wasn't right. There was no one in the alley, and there were no lights in the houses around. The entire alleyway was empty, dark and gloomy, and eerily silent. Walking through the alley, any sound whatsoever was amplified — it was as if they would soon startle awake the spirits lying dormant in the area.

The street lamps were completely busted; the only illumination was the natural moonlight. The moon was very round tonight, with fuzzy edges, and it stared at them like a giant eye.

Yun Duo's mind was gradually winding up, becoming tenser and tenser, even her breathing had become fainter and shallower. She tugged gently on the corner of Tang Yi-Bai's sleeve. "You aren't doing this on purpose, right?"

"Doing what?"

Yun Duo looked around and grumbled, "It's so dark here."

Tang Yi-Bai was amused. "You're afraid of the dark?"