Seventeenth-century England. Chris, a young and wealthy cotton merchant, buys an injured, ferocious adolescent wild mermaid.
Mermaid (howling savagely in a luxurious pool): [Weak prey, hurry up and bring noble me some fish to eat! Bucket after bucket! Otherwise, I'll eat you, my future rations, until nothing but bones are left!]
The person serving as her future fish rations (trying hard to look frightened, gently petting her over and over): All right, all right, all right... Be good, be good.
Mermaid (actually so pleased by the petting that her dorsal spines curl with satisfaction; she swishes her three-meter-long tail, still full of menace): [Roar! Hmph!]
Time soon proves that even though the little fish is adorable and loves eating fish, she isn't a cat. Humans are on her menu too!
Chris, the fish's feeder: ...!!! (?Д` )╭ Suddenly my hand gets bitten!
The fish: _(??`" ∠)_ I'm not letting go!
He was only feeding her strawberries! How did things end up like this? Chris can't make heads or tails of it! And after that, every new development is stranger than the last!
The fish, nearly an adult, gives him a look that says: (`_?)ゞ [Am I handsome?]
Being eyed strangely by his pet, he suddenly feels a chill: >_< I must be imagining things!
Time soon proves once again that he isn't imagining things... The mermaid has come of age!
The adult wild mermaid actually thinks of him as her mate!
What should he do? Clever and resourceful Chris immediately decides to release the tiger back into the mountains, return the fish to the sea, and say a tearful goodbye!
Four years later, he returns to the surface...
They meet again amid the mist at sea.
[I give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart. -- Borges]
The merchandise becomes a lover, the prey becomes a mate;
Will a mermaid's innate yearning for humans ultimately lead to a dark abyss... or to an eternal shore, longed for but forever out of reach?
[He's mine!]
[He... belongs to me.]
Mermaid top! Nonhuman mermaid top! Scales + fangs + gigantic serpentine tail + possessiveness + fierce, fierce, fierce + can eat you
The bottom is a gentle English gentleman, handsome and rich, charming and considerate, the perfect boyfriend.
But in truth, the bottom is a sweet-talking control freak with a dark side, sensitive and neurotic, and grows darker later on. Please take note!
The novel is set in a loosely fictionalized, jumbled period from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, so there will be plenty of things that don't fit the historical record. Thanks for understanding!
Theme: The fear that comes from deep love, and a love that transcends fear.
Damn, please let the one who is locked up please be released??, The child is going to cry.
It's so beautiful, I deleted the meat, I want to cry
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