Pretty Little Merfolk Aren't Mascots

In Star Calendar Year 166, the Third World War broke out.

In Year 168, temperatures rose sharply, the living dead appeared, and plants and animals mutated.

In Year 170, the living dead disappeared, humanity awakened, and mutated creatures ran rampant.

"Some people call this phenomenon atavism, but we prefer to call it evolution."

No living thing can calmly accept extinction.

In dire circumstances, a section of the human genetic sequence became dominant, granting people the ability to survive.

They could fly through the skies and burrow underground. Nothing was beyond them.

*

When Zhong Xueyi was fifteen, he realized something was wrong with him.

He refused his parents' offer to take him to Xingye City, shut the door, and went to sleep.

When he woke up, he was deep beneath the sea.

He had become a fish.

His parents had disappeared, a childhood friend who had left without a word suddenly reappeared, and he was bundled off to school. For some inexplicable reason, his evolutionary type was listed as "koi."

Before Zhong Xueyi could figure out what was going on, one thing after another left him scrambling.

He didn't know what had happened to the world, but surely there couldn't be a koi that lived in the deep sea and tore sharks apart with its bare hands, right?

#Trust me, I really can fight#

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one, happy ending, slow burn

2. Post-apocalyptic setting, entirely fictional world

3. The pairing is Gu Yunshu. No switching or breaking them up

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Yun Chi brought his pocket dimension with him when he transmigrated to another world. He happily became an office worker and even got himself an online boyfriend to keep up with the times.

Before he could plan too far into the future, a meteorite suddenly fell from the sky, and the world changed overnight.

One natural disaster after another struck. The human genetic sequence fully activated, and people began reverting to their ancestral forms.

Other people turned into tigers, lions, bunnies, or ordinary animals, but Yun Chi's ancestral form was a nine-tailed fox.

To avoid being taken away for experiments, Yun Chi obediently stayed home, pretending to be an ordinary person with inferior genes.

But meeting his online boyfriend in person should be fine, right?

*

Their meeting went well, and the two naturally moved in together.

Lu Fengyao had heard that online relationships could easily fall apart, so he was extra careful with his boyfriend. He didn't look down on Yun Chi for being ordinary.

To that end, he even hid his own identity, pretending to be an ordinary evolved person every day.

The two worked hard to survive and built a home together.

Until one day:

Thinking things had gotten a little better, Yun Chi went out to hunt for extra food. There, he ran into Lu Fengyao, who was out on a mission.

One of them was dragging a gigantic prey animal. The other had just transformed from a divine beast into a human.

"Weak and helpless?"

"An ordinary evolved person?"

They questioned each other at the same time, then fell silent together.

#What do I do when the person I deceived finds out#

#Why is my boyfriend pretending to be me#

Thesis: The spirit of youth lives forever.