From the Start, I Picked Up a Mermaid

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Pei Yuzhou has a knot in his heart that he can't undo: when he was a street punk, a bright moon came down to him, a speck of mud at the bottom of a pit, only to turn around and ruthlessly push him into the abyss.

Later, the apocalypse arrives and the city falls. Pei Yuzhou becomes the empire's youngest general. During a mission, he happens to find a mermaid in the ruins of a laboratory.

It seems this beautiful mermaid might be his girlfriend, who broke up with him five years ago?

And now, it seems she's already forgotten him.

Pei Yuzhou: ...

Grass is a plant.

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As a dangerous experimental subject who needs to be monitored, the mermaid is temporarily placed in Pei Yuzhou's care.

Curled up in the tank, the mermaid has pale red lips and an alluring, bewitching air. She raises a thin webbed hand and touches Pei Yuzhou's cheek. "Ou..."

Pei Yuzhou acts as if he hasn't heard her call. His gaze calm, he brushes her webbed hand away.

But the mermaid is stubborn. She pulls off the most beautiful scale on her tail and places it in his hand, then tentatively reaches out to touch his cheek again.

Looking at the bloodied scale in his palm, Pei Yuzhou is overcome by conflicting emotions. "You really don't remember anything?"

His icy fingertips slowly circle the mermaid's waist, his fingers tightening.

"Shi Chu, you're so cruel to me."

Pei Yuzhou's subordinates have always known that the mermaid their general is monitoring is just a pretty, harmless ornament who can't attack anyone and spends all day cuddling up to the general, acting pitiful.

That is, until Pei Yuzhou is injured fighting an alien species.

Everyone watches as the mermaid, who had seemed too frail to fend for herself, lets out a piercing shriek. Her tail swishes, and the low-level alien species around her are wiped out in an instant.

Everyone: What the hell, an ornament??? That's clearly the power of a monarch-class beast!

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The world has become a living hell. Humanity seems so small and powerless before the alien species, but people still defy fate and fight back.

The survivors have no astonishing supernatural abilities. All they can rely on is their boiling blood and their faith as they fight for their future on this familiar yet strange land!

"A wall built from mountains of corpses and bones. We face death and live on. At last, dawn will come."

Pei Yuzhou

Reader's Guide

- Overpowered, tsundere general x brutally vicious, occasionally adorable mermaid with a possessive streak

- The male lead will never mutate. He will always be human.

- Too many original settings, so I had to make my own content since there wasn't any to read.

- Primarily told from the male lead's perspective. The female lead's perspective begins after her growth period.

- Plot and romance in equal measure, a sweet story where the leads only have eyes for each other.

"The Monsters' Brides"

1. [Deep Sea Love Song]

"My love, I would willingly forget the ocean, abandon my faith, and give up everything I have in exchange for your undying love."

In a dark, damp fish trap, Yu Nong, blinded by greed, saves an injured mermaid.

Pure white pearls and bloodied, deep-blue scales bring her untold wealth, power, and prestige.

She has everything, except a heart that loves him.

Blue blood seeps into the tank, its stench filling her throat.

Yu Nong watches indifferently as the naive mermaid tells her of his love.

To squeeze the last bit of value from him, she sells him to the nobles for a high price as a plaything.

By the time her conscience catches up with her and she regrets what she has done, the mermaid has already escaped and returned to her, covered in wounds, before she can go rescue him.

They confess their feelings to each other and spend day and night making love in the bathtub and on the waterbed.

Gradually, Yu Nong discovers pale blue scales growing on her body...

The mermaid's languid whisper sounds beside her ear. "Darling, you have no choice now. You can only return with me to the deep-sea clan and become my bride."

He has nothing, but after winning her heart, light reaches the ten-thousand-meter-deep sea, and warm sunshine follows in this lonely, desolate place.

The best hunters often appear in the guise of prey.

[Self-serving businesswoman x master of disguise, black-hearted mermaid]

2. [Red Moon Blood Banquet]

"The rose among the thorns will never wither or rot. The forbidden flower will one day stand above a sea of blood, making all vampires bow in submission."

3. [Devil's Offering]

"Offer me your soul, and I will grant any wish you make."

Theme: The future must be created with our own hands