Living Off Others, But Standing Tall

Miao Yin was born with extraordinary strength and a healthy appetite. She was just slower on the uptake than other people. Her family thought she was stupid and ate too much, so they decided to marry her off to an older, sickly man. A fortune-teller had said her body could cure his illness. The woman was called Zhou Ciyi. Rumor had it she was richer than a nation and ruthless, yet frail to the point of collapse. She seemed to keep to herself, but in truth had peculiar tastes and was very demanding. Miao Yin didn't think that far ahead. She was only worried about whether she'd get enough to eat in her new home. On the first night after she was packed off to the Zhou family, Miao Yin met the woman for the first time. She was indeed older, and indeed sickly, but she was as beautiful as a fairy. After holding back for so long, Miao Yin nearly drooled onto the table. She asked in her usual silly way, “F-Fairy Sister, that food on the table smells so good. Can I eat it?” The woman frowned slightly, her voice cool and distant. “You can eat as much as you like, but first you have to agree to a deal with me.” When her former classmates saw that the Miao Yin they had always looked down on was living the high life, they couldn't help sneering that she was sponging off a wealthy family and groveling to the rich. Miao Yin puffed out her chest and shot back, “I earned this easy life with my own labor, so I can enjoy it standing up.” Later, the number of times Fairy Sister summoned her to the bedroom went from once a month to once a week, then several times a day. Miao Yin started to feel she couldn't keep up. Meanwhile, Zhou Ciyi's health improved steadily under her care. Miao Yin figured she'd earned enough and planned to make a quick getaway. On a dark and windy night, she got Zhou Ciyi drunk, then prepared to run off in the car the woman had bought her, carrying the bag she'd bought her, too. The car had barely made it through the Zhou family's gate when someone stopped it. The woman's figure was graceful as she approached, her long hair swaying loose. The evening breeze lifted her skirt, revealing a pair of long, straight legs as white as snow. Zhou Ciyi leaned down to the car window, bringing her impossibly exquisite face close. At that moment, she looked less like a fairy and more like a bewitching demon. The next second, she lifted Miao Yin's frightened face and kissed her. Beneath a sky full of stars, the kiss was lingering and tender. Then warm breath brushed the young woman's neck, and the demon's voice, low and alluring, whispered, “Yinyin, you can never leave me.” # The older sister is cold and aloof at first, flirtatious in the middle, and yandere in the end # The younger one is just slow to react, and slow to catch on to her feelings. She's not stupid # The younger one never amounts to much except in bed, as far as career achievements go. The whole point of this story is her living off her rich lover, so don't read if that bothers you # Fourteen-year age gap (18 x 32) Blurb dated 2025.9.26 ---Please add my upcoming novels to your favorites Orz--- 《After a Yandere Mermaid Sets Her Sights on Me》 Synopsis: Poor college girl x calculating, flirtatious, yandere mermaid big sister with an intense possessive streak Coercion | Sweet talk | She chases, she runs | An extreme, possessive and twisted love between a human and a nonhuman -Desperate for money, Jiang Yu spots a summer job ad by chance. The job is on a remote island, and since she's more afraid of being broke than of dying, she sets off without hesitation. When she arrives, she discovers it's an uninhabited island, and her daily job is to look after a little fish in a tank. Though full of questions, Jiang Yu does as she's told. Then, one sleepless night, she goes out for some air. As she passes the uninhabited villa, the sea breeze lifts a white curtain on the first floor. The dry swimming pool inside suddenly fills with water. A woman sits at its edge with her back bare, her skin as pale as snow in the moonlight and her seaweed-like hair falling to her waist, still dripping wet. As if catching the scent of prey, the woman by the pool turns around in an instant. Her face is so beautiful it's uncanny, too beautiful to seem human. Standing outside the window, Jiang Yu feels as if some mysterious force has taken control of her. She can't move a muscle. From that night on, she starts having strange dreams again and again. In them, she and the uncanny beauty share heated, intimate encounters, her fish tail winding around Jiang Yu in the water, night after night, without restraint. As the days pass, Jiang Yu can barely tell reality from dreams. Fortunately, her job is nearly over. Suspecting she's stumbled into something supernatural, she decides to go home and forget the whole experience, without telling anyone. Strangely, as time goes by, those memories grow hazier, too. Soon it's her senior year internship period. Jiang Yu grits her teeth and rents a small place outside campus. The night she moves in, rain pours down and lightning splits the sky. Late at night, someone knocks. Jiang Yu opens the door to find a woman with a face as pale as snow and features of uncanny beauty. Dressed in thin clothes, she stands trembling in the rain, looking helpless and pitiful as she pleads, “I have nowhere to go. Can you take me in?” In a daze, Jiang Yu lets her inside. At first, she thinks having a roommate will help split the rent. Later, she realizes she's invited a whole lot of trouble into her home. It's bad enough that she often feels a sticky gaze on her. Even when she goes out to eat with friends, attends work events or parties, or chats with a coworker downstairs, this “roommate” interrogates her when she gets back. One night, Jiang Yu comes home late and accidentally walks into the bathroom. The woman is lying in the bathtub, her enormous fish tail draped over the edge, its pale blue scales shining with a dazzling, alluring glow. Terrified, Jiang Yu rushes back to her room, locks the door, and curls up on the bed, trembling. But the woman appears behind her anyway, drapes herself over Jiang Yu's shoulder, and breathes seductively against her ear. “Your name is Jiang Yu, and I'm a mermaid. Don't you think we're a perfect match?” As she speaks, Jiang Yu looks down in horror and sees her nightdress being slowly pushed up by a certain fish tail. “Don't you really remember me?” the mermaid asks, her tone faintly aggrieved. Her cool fingertips tease open the buttons on Jiang Yu's chest. “Tell me, how should I punish you?” Theme: Life is about choosing the right path