Hai Lita opens her eyes one morning to find herself standing on a golden beach.
Her fluffy teddy-bear pajamas have also transformed at the touch of a button into a gorgeous medieval ball gown with a long train.
Dragging her heavy skirt, she trudges along the coast.
Just as she's about to collapse from exhaustion, she catches a glimpse of a shimmering blue tail disappearing among the rocks ahead.
A mermaid!
Hai Lita runs over excitedly, only to find a prince with no pants on.
After accidentally finding the naked prince, Hai Lita, princess of a neighboring kingdom, is "delighted" to be named his fiancée.
To console the heartbroken Hai Lita, who's trying every possible way to call off the engagement, the prince finds her a playmate.
Her beautiful new friend has long hair like seaweed, can't walk for long, and can't speak.
The clues are all too obvious. Hai Lita realizes with a start: I'm the princess who got the bargain after all!
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Hai Lita fondly tries to set them up.
But when she looks at her playmate, who clings to her and braids her hair, then at the prince, who's gleefully tearing up the place and insisting they join him...
She's exhausted. She can't manage this.
Then one day, someone suddenly pushes her into the sea, and her playmate descends from above, her tail shining with auspicious light.
Hai Lita, pinned against the other's chest: Damn it! This lying merman is even bigger than me!
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Aili'er thinks she's transmigrated into "The Little Mermaid".
She even has the same name as Disney's mermaid princess, yet she turns out to be a lowly maid in the prince's castle.
She goes from being certain she's the princess who came ashore to watching the neighboring princess, who also came from another world, dance her way to success in the castle and win everyone's affection.
She's nothing but a lucky scavenger.
Aili'er sneers. With the System's help, she'll be the final winner!
Theme: Don't believe in fairy tales too easily
