Even If I'm Not Human, They Still Make Me Study

You died, and now you're going to live again.

You're an egg now.

This egg is submerged in a deep pool, with no sunlight, in bitter cold water. Powerful cold currents sweep through from time to time, making you wonder if your constitution is too hardy for its own good. Why haven't you frozen to death yet?

Apart from the harsh natural environment, you can sense two enormous, unusually long aquatic creatures outside. One is gigantic, curling its tail around your whole egg. The other is somewhat smaller and spends most of its time sleeping, occasionally exchanging a few words with its companion, apparently asking whether you're dead yet.

You've accepted that you're no longer human, but it seems you'll have trouble even being born this time around.

Fortunately, you do hatch.

Now there's a dragon to your left and a snake to your right.

The dragon with two horns says he's your dad. The snake with one horn says he's your big brother.

You look into your dad's eyes, each as big as a millstone, then at your brother's, each as big as a fist. The longer you stare, the more you feel that what their golden, glittering eyes reflect isn't a reptile at all...

It's a human.

A fanfic revisiting my childhood favorite, The Nine Cauldrons. Old-school Mary Sue, and I haven't decided whether it'll be a Tomato novel crossover mash-up or a comprehensive wuxia crossover.

1. Second-person power-up story. The first half of the female lead's life is basically her dad pushing her to excel.jpg.

2. Her dad, mom, and brother are all beasts with little sense of morality. They live by the simple principles of repaying kindness and revenge, backing down when outmatched, and sometimes backing down for profit too. The female lead isn't a saint, and growing up among them makes her more like a person.

3. The male lead... The female lead is a dragon. She spends the early story in a lake, but eventually she'll have to rule the seas.

4. The author has no track record, no outline, and no backlog. Read with caution.

Theme: Blossom, and butterflies will come