After I Found a Mermaid Wife

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◎ A sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside younger gong who dotes on his wife VS a tsundere, irresistible mermaid shou

◎ Mutual healing / past and present lives / ancient-to-modern transmigration / sworn enemies marry first, fall in love later

Blurb

Qin Zhiqie can see the mountain and sea deities who disguise themselves as mortals. People covet the deities' inner cores, believing them to be divine medicines capable of granting wishes. Qin Zhiqie's purpose is to protect the deities.

The spirit medium declared that Qin Zhiqie was cursed to be alone. People exiled her to a reef, leaving her to fend for herself.

Beneath the bright, clear moon, a lilting, alluring song drifted across the island.

Qin Zhiqie, starving for three days and nights, looked up and met the mermaid's startled, light-colored eyes. She held out a hand and asked gently,

"My name is Chi Luoyi. Are you a deity abandoned by mortals, too?"

Qin Zhiqie took her hand awkwardly, her heart utterly captivated.

That day, Qin Zhiqie thought she had met a fallen deity.

Chi Luoyi thought so, too.

A thousand years later, just as Qin Zhiqie is about to begin researching the mountain and sea deities, she sees the number-one trending topic on Weibo:

[Breaking] Shocking! A certain singer surnamed Chi scaled a five-story building with her bare hands, smashed through a window, and broke into someone's home just to steal lotus root sandwiches!

Attached: a photo of Chi Luoyi climbing five stories with her bare hands.

Qin Zhiqie: Was that my house...?

Fuming, Qin Zhiqie rushes home. Before she can open the door, she gets an anonymous text.

'Hello, Ms. Qin~ I'm the last deity in the human world. I'm a little short on cash right now. Could you lend me 6 yuan so I can get a lotus root sandwich? I'll repay your kindness a hundredfold someday :)'

She looks up and sees the room in complete disarray.

The mermaid who had just texted her is lounging leisurely in a tub. Droplets on her full lips only make her look more alluring, and in her hand is... a half-cooked lotus root sandwich.

Chi Luoyi: "I'll repay you for the lotus root sandwich someday, and I mean it. How about I offer myself to you?"

Could this woman, who seems almost disabled and incapable of looking after herself, really be the top-tier star Chi Luoyi? Qin Zhiqie falls into a long silence.

What do you do when you're an entertainment reporter who stumbles upon a scandal about the top-tier star, only for her to want to marry you...?

Asking online. It's kind of urgent.

"Hold a seashell to your ear, and you'll hear the sea. Call my name into it, and I'll come to your side."

"I've seen a deity fall, and I've seen her become a deity again."

[They say she was willing to be stranded for love]

[And I would dive into the deepest abyss of the sea for you]

◎ A lighthearted, silly comedy, and, as is customary, a sweet HE story. The leads marry first, fall in love later; the younger gong and older shou dote on each other, and they save each other in a mutual healing romance.

◎ Modern fantasy, not ABO. Mostly everyday life, with the entertainment industry as a secondary focus.

◎ Both of them have wonderfully unusual ways of thinking. Silly and adorable.

Theme: Healing each other and relying on each other