The Mermaid Dad Gossips on a Parenting Variety Show

Yuan Qing, long praised as a rare gem, fails to present as expected and is branded "impure of blood, an impostor who stole another's place." The true young master, who has been lying low for years, returns in triumph, watching as Yuan Qing's reputation is ruined, his engagement is called off, and everyone turns against him.

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Years later, merfolk dad Yuan Qing brings his biological kitten cub to a variety show with his "late husband," one billed as the most chaotic parenting show in history.

Later, they let loose, gossip and go wild, turn the parenting show into a dating show, and become an overnight sensation by Jinjiang standards.

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Some fish seem deeply devoted on the surface, but in truth can't even remember their partner's face. They can only put up a stick figure for his memorial portrait. Hence this story is also known as The Kitten Cub's Search for His Stick-Figure Dad.

Cub: First, let's rule out the most obvious wrong answer. No one who's too pretty or too human-looking. I'll just pick any dad from the remaining options!

The "human-looking wrong answer" seme: ...?

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Yuan Qing: I'm a mermaid, and your dad is a mighty, handsome tiger. How can you be a kitten?

Cub: I dunno. I'm just a kitten, after all.

Yuan Qing: Cub, your dad is tall and mighty, gentle and considerate, capable of anything under heaven. He smiles wickedly and spends a fortune in a flash. Even his underwear is woven with gold thread! He's the best Alpha in the world!

Cub [staring at the stick-figure memorial portrait, deep in thought]: Dad, wake up! Get up and work to feed your kitten cub!

A fake young master who is a real mermaid with peerless fighting prowess, shou x a lazy, cat-blooded seme, with an adorable black-bellied kitten cub in tow. The shou has a very rose-tinted view of the seme early on, and the seme really does become the man he wishes for later.

1. One-on-one, happy ending, sweet romance, raising a kitten cub, child first, love later. The characters are imperfect, and even the cats aren't perfect.

2. An alternate universe, empty as can be. Nontraditional Alpha/Omega, nontraditional merfolk, nontraditional beast forms. A little futuristic, a little feudal, a little open, a little hopeful. There is childbirth, but it uses very advanced technology and won't be described in detail. One quick whoosh and the baby is born.

3. The setting has gone through several revisions, so please refer to the final story. Thank you for bookmarking and reading along.

Theme: A happy family life with children.