The Greatest Navigator of the Song Dynasty

Gu Ji, an underwater archaeologist, transmigrates to the Northern Song dynasty and becomes a pitiful hostage aboard a pirate ship, about to be thrown overboard as shark bait.

Gu Ji: ...Heaven wants me dead.

Fortunately, he has a Great Voyage System. Gu Ji sweeps away the pirates, reclaims his freedom, and boards the Albert, a sailing ship from the Age of Sail, beginning a long voyage across the seas.

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From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, from the South China Sea to the Bohai Sea. The Gu family fleet sails the seas, unsinkable

Trade across the four seas, where silk and spices are worth their weight in gold;

Build a fleet, and find out which is more frightening, sea monsters or pirates.

Explore the world, bringing sweet potatoes and corn back in the dawn of the New World;

Advance technology, from watertight compartments to galleons, and watch the shipping industry flourish...

When ships from Bianliang sail down the rivers to Jiaozhou; when the bustling port of Quanzhou brings the prosperity of Malacca; when the lighthouse of Constantinople guides ships to Sicily; when Damascus and Jerusalem shine together...

He slowly ushers in the medieval Age of Sail.

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The great navigator and the sea-monster chieftain first meet on a dark, windy night of murder. A mermaid climbs aboard a human ship to steal grilled fish, but the spicy food makes him cry so hard that pearls scatter everywhere...

Gu Ji takes him for a delicate little mermaid, wipes away his tears, and even seizes the chance to stroke his beautiful tail.

Gu Ji: What a beautiful fish. I want to keep him.

Mermaid: ? How dare you.

Later, Gu Ji finally gets his wish and enjoys a pleasant life of fishing. When he’s in a bad mood, he can even ask the mermaid to sing him a little tune.

Gu Ji decides he’ll take care of this lovely fish for the rest of his life, never noticing the sea monsters he’s secretly driven away, the trident he’s hidden, the fangs carefully tucked out of sight, or the way the mermaid’s gaze in the corner is slowly changing.

And later still...

It’s night again. Gu Ji’s eyes are red from crying as he shakes his head and says he never wants to touch the mermaid’s tail again.

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One-on-one romance, daily updates, both leads are each other’s first, happy ending

A clever, sweet-faced but secretly calculating navigator as the pursued lead X a beautiful, tsundere, sensitive, jealous mermaid as the pursuing lead

1. The story will cover the medieval world from the Mediterranean to the East Indies, but the main plot remains in the Song dynasty.

2. I promise this will be an easy, no-stress read, and welcome discussion of the story and history!

3. The merfolk, mermaids, and sea monsters are all my own inventions, so please bear with me~

4. The pursuing lead can weave cloth, shed pearls, and sing, but he’s extremely fierce.

Here’s another absolutely delicious upcoming story (spinning and leaping)

“July 1830. My reputation in tatters, I crossed the sea from Paris to Algiers. On North African soil, I met the last of the Bonapartists.”

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Rouvier clawed his way up from a slum in the mud, burying years of hard work and sweat, and by sixteen had become a celebrated dancer in Paris. But one day, vice police caught him in bed with someone, turning him into the laughingstock of all Paris.

With his reputation in ruins, he crossed the sea to Algiers, where he met a mysterious baron of Eastern blood, silent, stiff, and impossible to read. His lover forced him to repay an enormous debt, so Rouvier had no choice but to pretend to give himself to the baron.

He never expected the baron to believe his sweet talk, giving in completely after just a few smooth words. He was a liar, but somewhere along the way, he handed over his battered, broken heart.

What he got in return was betrayal by his lover.

And all his tragedies were nothing more than a game the baron had played with him.

If that was the case, he might as well fall all the way into ruin.

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Rouvier was his angel. From his first performance to his rise to fame in Paris, Joey had never missed a single thing he did. But Joey kept making one mistake after another, until his angel broke his wings and fell into a life of debauchery.

From Algiers to Paris, from Milan to Rome, Joey traveled tirelessly across the sea. When they met again, Rouvier’s clothes were half off, and he was drifting in and out of consciousness, surrounded by countless men trying to use money to lure the enticing angel into bed.

Then Joey could do it too.

Joey spent lavishly, weaving Rouvier the most decadent of dreams. But he could never buy a sincere heart again... Only an all-night private box at the theater, countless glasses of gin, cold looks and mockery in bed, and a body sinking further into ruin.

He wouldn’t accept it. He would kidnap Rouvier and hide him away, somewhere only he knew.

Until Rouvier loved only him.

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One-on-one romance, both leads are each other’s first, happy ending

A domineering, stiff baron, the last remnant of the Empire X a fragile, sensitive Parisian socialite at the height of his fame

Theme: Explore the world and advance technology