Upcoming novel: A Fierce Little Merman Can Be Healing Too, right? Please add it to your collection! The blurb is at the very end.
An Zhi was born into a family of metaphysics practitioners. The adults in the family were all busy, so they hired a nanny to look after her.
But the nanny knew nothing about metaphysics. After lunch, An Zhi's soul left her body, and the nanny thought she was asleep.
Her soul went down to the Underworld, where a ghost officer discovered it wasn't her time to die. After looking after her for a while, they sent her back.
Since everything seemed normal and no one else noticed, An Zhi began making frequent trips between the Underworld and the human world.
The Underworld's ghost officers were always arguing over who got to look after Ruan An Zhi.
"I caught thirty evil ghosts today and earned top credit. The little one should be mine to look after!"
"Last time, the little one promised to go see the flowers of the other shore with me. You promised, didn't you?"
An Zhi, who couldn't talk yet, blinked her big, dark, grape-like eyes, sucking on a lollipop as she looked up in confusion. "Huh?"
Their noisy squabbling attracted the attention of their superior, who said coldly, "Living souls are not allowed in the Underworld."
Before the ghost officers could plead, their superior took Ruan An Zhi away.
Afraid An Zhi might be hurt, the ghost officers crowded together and went to plead their case.
But the moment they entered the hall, they saw their superior coolly holding a divine fruit from the God Realm to the little one's mouth.
"The formula we ordered hasn't arrived yet. Make do with this for now."
* The love interest is a powerful figure in the Underworld.
* Sweet, doting child-rearing, adored by everyone, light novel.
* An Zhi becomes a celestial master when she grows up.
* Child-rearing in the early part; romance begins after she turns eighteen.
Upcoming novel: A Fierce Little Merman Can Be Healing Too, right?
Blurb: Yu Huaici always thought he could read every novel from the perspective of an outsider, until one book made him so angry his heart started aching.
In the book, the villain is the male protagonist's foil. Born into a high-ranking noble family in the Federation, he undergoes strict training from childhood. On the surface, he's a dazzling moon and a born genius, but behind closed doors his own father uses him as a test subject for drugs.
The drugs cause abnormalities in the villain's mental power, and the little merfolk with the ability to heal the spiritual sea across the stars all avoid him.
The villain constantly endures the agony of his spiritual sea crumbling. Even so, through his own efforts, he fights his way out of a battlefield alive. Rather than celebrating his victory, his family frames him when he returns triumphant, drags him into the mud, and ruthlessly smears his name. His death serves to set up the male protagonist's big moment.
They use every dirty trick on the villain.
Yu Huaici is so furious he wants to punch the male protagonist, who is useless and only knows how to steal the villain's credit. The villain's trash family deserves two punches.
The angrier he gets, the more he wants to hit them. After finishing the novel, Yu Huaici's vision goes black and he loses consciousness.
When he opens his eyes again, he discovers he's become a little silver-white merman in the book.
Fu Qingheng feels as though he's trapped in a loop. He repeatedly comes back to life with his memories intact, experiencing betrayal by his best friend and rejection by his family over and over again.
The laws of the world are invisible shackles. Bound by their rules, he's like a puppet, forced to carry out his predetermined role and meet a fate of being despised by everyone and dying without fail.
During yet another time when he's buried beneath ruins, Fu Qingheng gives up trying to save himself and lets himself sink underwater, welcoming death amid the quiet currents.
The next moment, bubbles and shifting light appear before his eyes.
A silver-white little merman breaks through the dense bubbles, his round eyes filled with delighted laughter. "Woo!"
I found you!
In that instant, the shackles around him vanish, and his heart, as still as a dead pool, begins to beat again.
The little merman has broken through space to reach him.
A will repeatedly scourged by death is reborn in this moment.
#I think the moon I once looked up to has cast a ray of light upon me.#
Theme: Hard work can make your dreams come true.