Shocking! I Didn't Discover I Was a Mermaid Until Twenty Years Later

[The tags are wrong. This is modern-day, not a beast-world story. Read with caution.]

Female lead's perspective: Yun Yao had lived for twenty years, certain she was an utterly ordinary human. Then one day in the bath, cold scales suddenly spread between her legs. Her tail fin flicked and nearly overturned the tub. She had become a mermaid.

The realization hit her like an icicle to the brain. Her first thought was: Had her parents picked her up somewhere?

One day, she clutched her chopsticks and trembled, finally unable to hold back her question. "Am I... really your biological daughter?"

As if things weren't bad enough, her father overheard. Yun Yao didn't dare stay another moment. She grabbed her coat and bolted.

As she ran, she heard the faintest footsteps behind her. No matter which alley she turned into, the sound followed like a shadow.

She whirled around and met a pair of unfathomably deep eyes. A man leaned beneath a streetlamp, his black trench coat snapping in the wind. He was the "Living King of Hell," the man whose name could silence children across the business world.

Yun Yao's mind went blank, and the words flew out of her mouth. "Mr. Xiao, please stop following me. Biologically speaking, humans and fish are reproductively incompatible. We're not right for each other."

Xiao Moran's lips curved, but there wasn't a trace of a smile in his eyes. "Is that so?"

Male lead's perspective: She saved me the first time we met, and now she wants to run the second time? My little fish, you've already swum into my net. Where do you think you're going?

[Beloved heiress of a wealthy family x ruthless heir to the throne of Jing City]