A Real Merman Has Snuck In

My upcoming novel, Danger! The Movie Star Can Read Minds, is looking for readers to add it to their lists! (There’s a crime-solving plot, and the bottom gets hurt. It’s not a pure fluff story, so please stop reading if that doesn’t suit you. Thanks for understanding.) Yu Juan is a real mermaid, hiding among the mermaid performers at an aquarium. Every day he works nervously, soaking his tail whenever he gets the chance, afraid someone will discover his real tail and take him to a research institute to dissect and study him. Then one day, during an ordinary performance, he witnessed a death with his own eyes. A female mermaid fell from the surface of the water, and a cloud of blood spread out. It was as if blood had covered Yu Juan’s retinas, blotting out every other color. The crowd screamed. Terrified, he thrashed his tail so hard he nearly suffocated himself. A timid mermaid should have run as far away as possible, but this aquarium was the only place where he could openly soak his tail while at work. He had nowhere else to go, so he had to keep working there, whimpering all the while. On the third day after the murder, a tall man showed up. His exposed arms were well-muscled. He slowly unwrapped a piece of candy in front of the glass and ate it. Yu Juan swished his tail and swam along. Suddenly, he heard the man outside point at them and say: “These things are bound to have a real one mixed in someday.” Yu Juan: “!!” He was so scared he nearly grabbed his own tail. He hadn’t given himself away. He hadn’t given himself away... Duan Rong was a detective. He’d never really treated his own life as precious. He’d stood there waiting for the person who would take his head, but on the way, he’d found a mermaid and brought him home. Now he had to stay alive so he could spend his life with his little fish. While working a case, he’d answer a call from his little fish. A second earlier, he’d been scowling and swearing. The moment the call connected, his smoky voice turned smooth and warm as he called him “baby” and “sweetheart.” “I’m working a case. When I get back, I’ll cook fish for you.” A sweet, soft, easily tearful mermaid who works hard to perform just for a bite to eat and the chance to openly soak his tail, but isn’t a burden * an unconventional, powerful, righteous detective top Big size difference Check out my profile: I write a thousand characters a day. Please add my novels to your lists! - A soft, crybaby bottom, but not a burden. If you don’t like soft bottoms, this one’s not for you. - I’m not a great writer, and there’s a lot I don’t know how to do. This is my first time writing this kind of story, so it’s an experiment. I can already see lots of things I need to improve. I’m learning how to write plot and pacing. - I’m making all of this up, I’m making all of this up, I’m making all of this up. It’s important, so I’ll say it three times. Thanks, everyone. I hope you won’t dislike it or scold me. If you do, your words will bounce right back at you. - There are mermaids, so it’s an alternate fantasy world. Don’t take the rest too seriously. Please add my upcoming novel to your reading list: Title: My Wife Made Me a Legend in the Escape Game The game began when Yan Mushen woke up and saw a rotting pumpkin head pressed against his window. “Fuck.” Yan Mushen swore, then closed his eyes and lay back down, expressionless. “I’m still in the middle of an escape-room game.” Two minutes later, Yan Mushen opened his eyes. This time the pumpkin head was licking the glass with its tongue. “...” Guess Who is a horror survival game. Based on the real world, it draws players into the game. Each of its ten stages takes place on a different map. Complete every game and you can escape at once. But no one had beaten the game in the last ten years. They had all been trapped inside it in different ways. “Guess who the monster is. Kill it, and you can stay alive.” But how can you be sure the one you kill is a monster and not a human? This is a game that probes fear without limit and tests the boundaries of human nature. “We don’t twist human nature. We just spread fear,” said a smiling NPC in a smiley-face mask. The game was always full of red, stench, and human remains, until a man walked in. Yan Mushen kicked a monster’s head away and clicked his tongue. “This place clearly doesn’t have a business license. As a good citizen, I have to report it.” “Hey, beautiful over there, do you have a phone?” Bai Hanlu turned his face toward him. It was extremely handsome, but clearly a man’s face. He stared coldly at Yan Mushen as if looking at a dead man. “Who are you calling?” Yan Mushen whistled, smoothed his hair, ignored the knife-sharp look in Bai Hanlu’s eyes, and confidently introduced himself. “Hey, beautiful. Want to get acquainted? I’m Yan Mushen, 189.5 centimeters tall, with excellent genes. Interested in having a baby together?” That extraordinary first meeting led Bai Hanlu to spend almost every day afterward deeply regretting himself: Why didn’t I kill him back then? ** If this game has no end, then I’ll beat my way through it and make an ending of my own. A shamelessly flirtatious, large-framed, strongly justice-minded but deeply unlucky top * a gorgeous beauty, human weapon, lucky darling, and embodiment of the game’s rules for a bottom * No babies, okay? The top just has a filthy mouth. * I can’t think of anything else right now, so I’ll leave this here for now. + Theme: Justice is never absent