The Reborn Surfing Champion Trained by Merfolk

[The story will be complete on Tuesday, December 21, and will switch to paid chapters starting with Chapter 21. Please add my upcoming shou-centric stories, I Was Forced to Marry an Evil Spirit in an Infinite Game and A Guide-and-Sentinel Crematorium Story, to your favorites.] Shi Man is swept into the sea by a giant wave and discovers that he's a disposable character in a System-style sports novel, there to be face-slapped by the protagonist shou. Falsified scores, a failed drug test, a competition ban, and the departure of his ex-boyfriend: everything that happened to him was the protagonist shou's doing. When he opens his eyes again, Shi Man finds himself thirteen years in the past. Earlier that year, the International Olympic Committee announced that surfing would officially become an Olympic event, and Huaguo was about to establish its first national surfing team. This is the best of times, an era every surfer has dreamed of. But what the heck is that thing with a human body and a fish tail lying beside him? #What can he do? Just take care of it, of course# Shi Man passes the national team's qualifying trials, settles the merfolk, and heads to the training base to report for duty. But he discovers that the national surfing team's coach looks exactly like his own merfolk! #Coach, I'm not dating anyone! What do you mean, reproduce!# #You want to reproduce with me? You can get lost! Don't slow down my quest for a gold medal# Yu Ruo, lord of the Northern Sea, has it rough. He was knocked unconscious by the 'trash' dumped into the ocean, and when he woke up, his merfolk pearl had ended up inside the 'trash'. There are only two ways to retrieve a merfolk pearl: Method one, cut it out while the host is still alive. Method two, help the host fulfill a wish, and the pearl will return on its own. As a bloodthirsty merfolk, Yu Ruo naturally chooses the quick and easy first method! But because he's in his breeding season, he can't seem to control his behavior... One day, after harassing the other man, the merfolk thinks it over. If Shi Man is willing to treat him like his master, perhaps method two isn't out of the question. #Honey, I was wrong. You're the one in charge# At the Olympic venue. A golden figure bursts through the waves on the giant screen. One wave after another follows close behind him. The ocean roars, the sound echoing like a clamor of gongs and drums, while the young man rides the waves like a general leading the charge. 1. An instinct-driven merfolk gong who loves a secret identity X A thick-skinned, naturally gifted athlete shou. 2. The competition is inspired by reality, with some original elements. 3. Merfolk civilization's technology is more advanced than that of land-dwellers. They have contact with the upper echelons of land-dweller society, but the public doesn't know about it. Please add my upcoming shou-centric story, A Guide-and-Sentinel Crematorium Story, to your favorites. Synopsis: Ye Pei is the leading S-class sentinel of the Secondary World. His partnership with Jun Sheng, an S-class guide, is known as the best in the Secondary World. The guide grew up with him. They slacked off, got into fights, skipped class, and shared an absolute understanding. Still, everyone finds it strange that the two of them have never formed a bond. Ye Pei knows very well that Jun Sheng has never forgiven him. When Ye Pei first transformed into a dark sentinel, he lost control and accidentally killed Jun Sheng's unrequited love. For the past five years, Ye Pei has stayed by Jun Sheng's side as penance. He ignores his sentinel's superhuman senses and comes back from every mission covered in wounds. Eventually, he even follows Jun Sheng into bed and takes the submissive role without complaint. Ye Pei has a little secret: he's been in love with Jun Sheng ever since he first fell for someone, and still is... He thinks that after twenty years of friendship and five years in bed together, there might be the tiniest chance for him and Jun Sheng once his penance is over. Until Jun Sheng's unrequited love comes back from the dead. During a beast tide, Ye Pei watches Jun Sheng shield his unrequited love and finally understands: this so-called penance is nothing but self-deception. To save Jun Sheng's unrequited love, Ye Pei uses himself as bait and lets the beast tide swallow him whole. A sentinel's senses are keen, yet Ye Pei feels that being torn apart by alien beasts hurts less than having his heart ripped open. One life for another. He owes those two nothing anymore. When he opens his eyes again, Ye Pei is in the Upper World. In a body equipped with nano-mechanical armor, he has become a true dark sentinel. He is like the perfect machine, cold and utterly without flaw. #I've already repaid what I owed you. You don't have to repay what you owe me# War breaks out between the Secondary World and the Upper World. On the battlefield, the visor of the Upper World's mechanical war god is knocked away, revealing an extraordinarily handsome face. Everyone sees Jun Sheng, the leader of the Secondary World, looking deranged as he hoarsely calls for his sentinel. He reaches out with trembling fingers, but the mechanical war god grabs his wrist and pins him to the ground. "I am Ye Pei, mechanical war god of the Upper World." "Your sentinel, Ye Pei, is long dead." Please add my upcoming shou-centric story, I Was Forced to Marry an Evil Spirit in an Infinite Game, to your favorites. Synopsis: Chi Yan is a homeless street thug with no parents. He's also the next head of the Celestial Master Chi family, born with the rare Four Yin fate and a naturally gifted spiritual constitution. However, the next head of the illustrious Chi family can stand up to villains and swing a baton at them, but when faced with ghosts, he only... Elder: Thanks for asking. The next head is afraid of ghosts, not people. I'm honestly conflicted. The Chi family gathers all its strength. Even the elder uses a treasured artifact passed down by a close friend to carefully select a few horror movies that successfully scared Chi Yan into wetting himself as a child, then kicks him inside. Stroking his beard, the elder listens with satisfaction as Chi Yan's shrieks pierce the night sky, convinced the Chi family finally has hope! A moment later, his close friend rushes over: Wrong artifact! That's the Ghost King's marriage contract! * [Players, welcome aboard the Wheel of Dreams. This voyage will cross time and space. We hope you enjoy the beautiful landscapes of our motherland and experience the long history of our people.] [Next stop: Old Shanghai. Passengers, please prepare to disembark.] [The stop will last three days. Please return to the pier in time and show your tickets to board.] A gust of eerie wind blows across the deck, and Chi Yan freezes. A chilling voice whispers in his ear: "Wife." Chi Yan: ... #Honestly, I wanted to win by doing nothing, but not like this!# #I'm forced into a ghost marriage in every scenario. Elder, are you trying to tell me something?# Theme: The protagonist follows the Olympic spirit of fair play and justice, overcomes the difficulties he faced before being reborn, turns the tide, and achieves his dream.