The Little Pearl Who Ran Off Pregnant with a Merman

[A recommendation: my completed novel, The Empire's Beloved Phoenix Chick!]

The sweet, soft, and well-behaved little toddler Qiao Yingxin depends on her daddy, and her daddy alone.

Daddy is so frail he can't even take care of himself, so Yingxin spends all day worrying about finding him a partner. No matter how she looks, none of the candidates measure up.

Then she witnesses with her own eyes as daddy transforms, revealing an enormous fish tail, and flips an entire squad of imperial soldiers into the air.

Yingxin: =mouth= ?!

Qiao Lingxian turns away from his defeated underlings and sees the dazed little toddler. He instantly tucks his tail away.

Closing his eyes, pressing a hand to his forehead, and acting weak, all in one smooth motion, he says, "Sweetheart, daddy feels so dizzy..."

Qiao Yingxin: I saw everything. Daddy, stop pretending.

Qiao Lingxian: Oh, dear.

Wait a minute. If daddy is a mermaid, what am I?

A pearl he cried out? QAQ

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The empire's crown prince, Alfie, is young, dazzling, and terminally ill.

While searching across the stars for a cure, he meets a little toddler humming a tune, hitting eight wrong notes out of every seven.

But Alfie discovers that his mental power, which was on the verge of collapse, is actually being soothed.

The toddler gets tired from walking and plops down on his shoe, then tilts up her round little face:

"Hello, handsome uncle. Would you be interested in marrying my daddy?"

Alfie, suddenly being set up on a date: "?"

Qiao Lingxian, who happens to run into the toddler arranging for him to remarry his ex-husband: "?"

Rumor has it that the crown prince had been engaged once, when he was twenty, but no one knew who the mysterious crown princess was.

Alfie looks at the toddler's father, who is hurriedly trying to escape.

That figure looks just like someone who has appeared countless times in his fragmented memories and dreams.

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The marshal's son, Sang Yao, has been rigorously trained since childhood. He is aloof, precise, and seemingly without emotion.

That is, until he meets that little pearl.

The toddler has a sweet smile and a soft baby voice. She calls him "Sang Yaoyao" and slips milk candy into his palm.

When she falls, she tears up and, with her nose all red, looks to him for a hug.

Everyone expects Sang Yao to grow up and open up new battlefronts among the stars for the empire.

But the young boy lowers his head, carefully unwrapping candy for the toddler.

"I'm not going into space. I'm going to catch butterflies with Yingbao later."

★Coming soon: The Half-Blood Angel Toddler Falls into a Troll Den

The three-year-old angel toddler Nene is unusual. One of his wings is black, the other white. His own people consider him an ill omen and cruelly throw him down from the heavens.

Nene falls into a troll clan's lair and curls into a tiny ball in front of the blue-faced, tusked monsters. Is he going to be eaten?

The toddler is so frightened that tears patter down onto a withered flower

The flower blooms again, and even begins to glow.

The Abyssal Flower has revived? The troll clan is in an uproar!

The First Elder gingerly lifts the toddler high, as carefully as if he were carrying a sack of explosives. "Y-you... could you cry once more?"

The Second Priest's six hands tremble. "This is a miracle!"

The Third General produces two hundred spirit fruits. "Sweetie, are you hungry?"

The toddler doesn't understand what an Abyssal Flower is. He only knows that after that, his eldest uncle painted the house pink, his second uncle takes turns feeding him with all six hands, and his third uncle carries him around every day to show him off.

Wow, so many people love Nene~!

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The troll clan has few children. After a long wait, they finally welcome their young lord, Su Yin, only to find he's a sickly child with a foul temper who can't transform.

That is, until the half-blood angel toddler knocks on the door.

Nene's little face is fair and soft, and his baby voice is gentle. "Excuse me, may I stay in the corner?"

The boy with ram's horns and a leopard's tail keeps a cold expression as he carries the toddler to a two-hundred-square-meter bed made entirely of gold. "Cat bed. Mine. You live here from now on."

Later, the toddler looks timidly at the three-meter-tall demon leopard. Your troll clan calls this a cat?

But, it's a leopard! Nene wants a hug!

The demons watch Nene use Su Yin's true form as a slide, certain the little tyrant is about to fly into a rage. Eight hands stand ready for action.

But Su Yin's expression remains indifferent, while the tail behind him wags so hard it could turn into a propeller.

...Wait, young lord, troll tails aren't supposed to be used like that!

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A beloved toddler appears among the northern trolls. Not only can he make withered Abyssal Flowers bloom again, he can even cure the young lord's terminal illness.

As the toddler grows more famous, the southern demons can't sit still. Their leader spreads his crow-black wings and comes in a threatening rush to snatch the child. Then he sees the familiar half of a snow-white dove's wing, and his pupils contract.

Bloody, magnificent memories surge into his mind.

Before the demon leader can approach, he sees the young heir of his family's sworn enemy suddenly appear and sweep the angel toddler away with his tail.

His own biological darling is actually hugging the little tyrant's tail and laughing happily.

The demon leader grits his teeth. "You little brat, you're five hundred years too early if you think you're taking my child!"

The demon leopard takes half a step back, tightening his tail around the little angel in his arms, and lets out a threatening growl.

That is his one and only treasure. No one is taking him away.

Theme: Pursuing freedom, equality, and independence