How Was I Supposed to Know the Villainous Merman Was Reborn?

Ling Zhi wakes up to discover that the world he lives in is a novel. The protagonist, Su Mo, is half-merman. After disguising himself as a woman, he suddenly awakens the power to bewitch people. From then on, he devotes himself to becoming everyone’s darling, winning over a host of powerful men in a short time, including Ling Zhi, Ling Zhi’s crown prince cousin, and his emperor uncle. Ling Zhi is the novel’s very first male lead. No one is better at getting jealous over love rivals, and he hands over his wealth and power without a second thought. To save the protagonist, he even kills the silver-haired merman, the story’s great villain, with his own hands. He is the protagonist’s favorite walking blood bank. Once he learns the plot, Ling Zhi rushes to change it, but fails at every turn. Luckily, there is still hope: only one thing can counter a merman’s bewitching power, and that is the tears of the silver-haired merman, the great villain. Ling Zhi works up the nerve to buy him at the slave market. Getting this fierce fellow to cry won’t be easy. Ling Zhi takes meticulous care of him, and often can’t help reflecting on things. This silver-haired beauty is handsome and has a great personality. Thank goodness I didn’t kill him like in the original story. Blurb Two: Jin Yan is reborn. After dying once, the memories of betrayal in his past life have become even more searing. As a child, he saved a human who had fallen into the water, only to be captured in return. Those people subjected him to endless abuse in an effort to make him cry. All the kindness in him was ground away. As an adult, he sought revenge with a vengeance, but just as he was about to succeed, he crossed paths with Ling Zhi, who only pretended to work with him. It was the first time he had ever seen Ling Zhi, and he was captivated for a long time. He knew humans couldn’t be trusted, but he still let his guard down. Then, in the blink of an eye, Ling Zhi stabbed him through the heart. After being reborn, Jin Yan is consumed by hatred. He deliberately falls into Ling Zhi’s hands, planning to destroy him from the shadows. There are plenty of ways to make a merman cry. He waits coldly for Ling Zhi to torment him, but instead Ling Zhi clumsily chops onions beside him, takes him to eat barbecue fish amid clouds of smoke, and brings him to watch the most tragic plays... He doesn’t cry. But when he turns around, he sees Ling Zhi secretly wiping away tears, his reddened eyes so breathtakingly beautiful. Brooding, obsessive merman seme X bewitching beauty uke Content warnings: 1. In his past life, the seme died because of the uke’s beauty trap. After being reborn, he initially wants to kill the uke, but eventually falls hard. Don’t read if this bothers you. 2. This is a completely fictional world. No research into mermen lore is needed. 3. Both are virgins. Recommended ongoing novel: Married to the Marshal by Contract The day Shi Xi transmigrates to an interstellar world, he receives a mandatory marriage notice. The Central AI determines that his genes are a 100% match for the Alliance Marshal’s, and the law requires them to be married for at least a year. Shi Xi isn’t attracted to men and has never planned to get married, so at first he’s very reluctant. That afternoon, however, the Marshal sends him a marriage contract. It coldly states that neither party needs to fulfill any marital duties, they’ll divorce after a year, and the Marshal will pay him three billion in alimony. Shi Xi, who had just gone bankrupt before transmigrating, lowers his eyelashes. He imagines himself living alone in a huge house, barely seeing his busy husband all year, then walking away with three billion at the end of it. He can’t help laughing. How can a deal this good even exist? Married life is just as perfect as he imagined, aside from one harmless little complication. The Marshal has a split personality. During the day, the Marshal leaves the room with icy indifference, never even touching him. At night, the other personality sneaks into his bed and holds him obsessively, inhaling his scent again and again. During the day, the Marshal calmly and sternly says they’re only married in name. But at night, the other personality insists on turning their pretend marriage into the real thing. So Shi Xi diligently goes back and forth between the two personalities, playing the ideal partner each of them thinks he is, while happily pocketing both of their allowances. * Lu Zhi grew up on a remote, abandoned planet, fighting his way to the capital planet with ruthless violence. Everyone fears this mad dog. Marriage means nothing to him. An old human is a decent experimental subject, nothing more. Until the two of them meet for the first time beneath the setting sun. Amid the ruins, the young man is like a sprite sketched with perfect brows and features, captivating at a glance. Lu Zhi, who has face blindness, recognizes someone by sight for the first time in his life. * Lu Zhi has a secret, too. To pluck that fresh rose with thorns, he pretends to have a split personality and lures him into the abyss. Fake split-personality, ruthless mad-dog heartthrob seme X beautiful, money-loving uke who thinks he’s straight Please note: 1. The seme is unhinged and deeply devoted, and will stop at nothing to bully the uke. The uke is emotionally dense and doesn’t realize he’s gay. 2. The uke is a swoon-worthy heartthrob, universally recognized as the most beautiful person in the galaxy. 3. The seme isn’t really face-blind. All the other perfect new humans just look too much alike. 4. They save each other. Theme: Face hardships and overcome difficulties so that, through hard work, everyone can find their own happiness.