【Younger, straightforward, devoted attack × tsundere, prickly mermaid uke】 【Straightforward mad-dog attack & says no but means yes uke】
A hundred years ago, the mermaid paragon Luojia lost the one he loved. To bring him back to life, Luojia used a forbidden magic circle to create a “vessel,” an artificial human named Julian.
Eighteen years later, Luojia approaches the boy, who has grown up wild in the mud, under the guise of a mentor and takes him on a journey of trials. All he wants is to temper the vessel until it is strong enough for his beloved’s soul to be reborn.
But he never expected the vessel to grow a soul of its own.
Julian is crude and brash, and fights as if he has nothing to lose. He shields Luojia from poison, cleaves through calamity amid annihilation storms, and lays his burning heart before him.
“What exactly am I to you?” the boy demands, eyes red.
Only then does Luojia realize he can no longer tell: does he love the spirit who died a hundred years ago, or the living, domineering Julian before him, who leaves him nowhere to run?
When the old elegy falls silent, the nightingale finally finds its own voice.
