An Ancient Mermaid Travels to the Interstellar Era

Be sure to read the warnings below before you start!

[Coming soon: Hand-Raised Bird. Blurb at the bottom. Check it out in my profile if you're interested O3O]

After dying unexpectedly, Ji Mingjiang woke up to find that he had become a deep-sea mermaid with astonishing combat strength. After half a month of hard work, the ever-competitive Ji Mingjiang finally became the deep-sea ruler who could rip apart giant squids with his hands and slap great white sharks with his tail.

He never expected that when he woke up again, he would have traveled from ancient times to the interstellar era.

He hadn't even had a chance to say goodbye to his subordinates, and he'd once again lost his territory. Ji Mingjiang, former former overlord and former overlord: Just destroy everything, you damn System :)

After meeting a few mermaids from this era, Ji Mingjiang discovered in despair that a species once hailed as rulers of the deep sea had now become pets more fragile than cats and dogs. Their caretakers gave them lavish praise just for swimming in the sea for a couple of laps each day.

Ji Mingjiang, unwilling to face reality: Stop looking at me like that!!!

Fortunately, just before he was driven mad by the excessive care all around him, a man who looked thoroughly unapproachable came to take him away.

*

Finally free from the caretakers' exaggerated praise all day long, Ji Mingjiang was convinced that this overprotective attitude was absolutely no way to help mermaids grow.

After thinking long and hard about how to change this deeply rooted attitude that had come from who knew where, Ji Mingjiang decided to start with himself.

So he started a livestream to prove that mermaids really weren't that fragile, and then...

Ji Mingjiang swam at high speed for over an hour, trying to prove that mermaids really had great stamina.

Comments: "Oh no, the poor baby is suffering. Is the baby's tail okay?"

Ji Mingjiang started a livestream during lunch, hoping to prove mermaids could eat plenty by showing himself eating five bowls of rice.

Comments: "It's bad enough that Layton won't give you fish, but how can he force you to eat so much rice? Does he think everyone can eat as much as he can?"

After realizing his first few livestreams had no effect, Ji Mingjiang decided to go big. He started a livestream during his regular sparring match with Layton, hoping to prove that mermaids really were strong fighters.

Comments: "We've called the police. Even if he's His Majesty, abusing a mermaid is against the law!"

*

Everyone in the empire knew that the ruler, renowned as a tyrant, livestreamed himself abusing his precious mermaid every day. They all prayed for the fragile mermaid, hoping he would survive.

It wasn't until the Federation and the Empire went to war again, and they watched that familiar figure tear apart a mecha with his bare hands and kick over a starship, that they belatedly realized: Had they been wrong about His Majesty all along?

On a reporter's livestream, the ruler who had been blamed for countless things was treating the mermaid's wounds with a cold expression. "Ha. I abused him?"

A shou who keeps trying to prove he really isn't weak x a gong who gets scolded every day for believing his wife really isn't weak

[Important]

1. The shou is the strongest being in the entire universe, strong enough to rip apart mechas with his hands. His golden finger is absurdly overpowered!

2. A System appears, but not often. It's just a tool used to move the protagonist between worlds, so I'm not adding a System tag.

3. No side couples.

4. The blurb includes livestream scenes, but they come later and won't make up all of Jiangjiang's career.

5. One-on-one, each other's first love. However, because of this idiotic author's choices, especially regarding the characters' ages, there won't be much obvious romantic progress in the main story. The romance will be in the bonus chapters. Don't read if that bothers you.

6. The blurb has been revised. The original version is on Weibo. Don't read if that bothers you.

7. Feel free to discuss the plot and characters normally. Aggressive comments aren't welcome. I don't delete comments. If yours disappears, contact customer service to report an error. But if you insult me, I'll cry in front of you.

--Click to read -> Hand-Raised Bird <- Please add it to your collection--

Everyone at the Special Affairs Bureau knew that Team Leader Le of the Operations Group raised a bird.

Back when the bird was still an egg, Le Chuan had built it a nest in his office. Once the egg's owner became a bird, the nest was tossed into storage, and Le's hand became the bird's permanent perch.

One day, everyone was shocked to discover that the bird who was always by Le Chuan's side had disappeared!

The next day, everyone was shocked again to discover that the bird still hadn't come back, and Le Chuan, who never liked people walking behind him, was allowing a seemingly unruly young man to follow close at his heels!

This was unbelievable.

*

Le Chuan found a bird's egg at a mission site. He was supposed to send it for identification, testing, and registration, but one mishap after another delayed it.

As time passed, he built a nest for the egg at home and in his office.

As more time passed, the little creature inside pecked through the shell, so he had no choice but to raise this unidentified bird.

As still more time passed... a bird disappeared from his side, replaced by a young man who looked unruly but was actually obedient and clingy. Er, his boyfriend.

*

After the human and the bird started dating, Team Leader Le suddenly remembered professional ethics at a rather inappropriate time, and immediately began grilling his boyfriend about what kind of bird he was.

He said:

"Try to understand. I still have to be responsible for my team members' safety."

Wu Zhuoyi: "..."

As expected, he got no reply.

Le Chuan sighed. "Even with imprinting, the feelings should be directed toward a complete person, right? Why do I get the feeling you're only this attached to my hand? Is that a trait of your species?"

He held out one hand, and the person opposite him quickly grabbed it and pressed it against his face.

"When you were still a little bird, you loved nesting in my hand all day. After you became human, you had to hold my wrist or tug on my sleeve in front of other people, and intertwine your fingers with mine, palm to palm, when we were alone. Even at a time like this, you have to hold my hand..."

He moved his fingers in dissatisfaction. The thumb of his other hand lightly pressed against Wu Zhuoyi's reddened, dewy eye. He didn't use any force, but the other man still let out a muffled groan.

"This is already a very gentle interrogation. Don't be so delicate." Le Chuan frowned, then quickly gave in under the other's glare. "Fine, one last question. Do you like me or my hand?"

"..."

Wu Zhuoyi: "...Bastard."

*

Everyone at the Special Affairs Bureau was shocked yet again. After several months, their Team Leader Le had shown up with his bird once more.

But the handsome, strong, and obedient new recruit who had arrived a while back, the team leader's exclusive edition, was nowhere to be seen.

Not only that, but there also seemed to be some trouble between Team Leader Le and the bird he'd raised.

So what exactly had happened to make Team Leader Le spend the whole way being attacked by the bird, who was desperately flapping its wings and tugging at his hair?

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