Fallen Muse [Mermaid]

[Modern setting in an alternate world] Airheaded, scheming researcher x mermaid goddess

[Blurb]

In most people's eyes, Fei Boqing was just an ordinary office drone researcher. He always wore unfashionable black-rimmed glasses and had his face hidden behind a thick white mask.

Only when the research institute occasionally received a new unusual creature would he take off his extremely thick glasses, revealing a pair of bright, dark eyes.

Fei Boqing had long eyelashes. They weren't curled, just soft and obedient as they hung before his eyes.

Once he finished observing, he would put his glasses back on and return to his usual listless self.

But even his colleagues didn't realize that Fei Boqing had more than one side to him.

To maintain his ordinary facade, Fei Boqing had specifically bought a house in the suburbs.

It looked no different from the houses of the nearby residents.

But he'd ingeniously built a basement beneath the first floor.

It had every piece of experimental equipment one could need.

Most importantly, a tank had been placed in its deepest, darkest corner.

Those locked away in cages weren't necessarily criminals or prisoners. They might also be gods.

Sometimes she would drag her heavy chains and gently place her webbed palm against the glass.

Her eyes, like crystal, always held boundless compassion.

Unlike everyone else, she never looked at Fei Boqing with indifference.

But Fei Boqing wasn't happy.

Because she was the mermaid Muse, who loved all things in the world.

Everyone was born with the right to receive her love. It wasn't a privilege reserved for Fei Boqing alone.

"Qifu, qifu."

She couldn't speak Fei Boqing's language and could only make meaningless sounds.

Yes, the only human language she'd ever heard was Fei Boqing's.

Fei Boqing's long eyelashes gradually grew damp. He gave her a name that belonged to her alone.

*

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

Unfortunately, Fei Boqing understood only the first four words.

For his own selfish desires, he erased the existence of the gods and even secretly kept a god who had fallen into the mortal world.

But he didn't know that when he deceived a god, the god would simply watch his actions in silence from a place forever above him.

The little mermaid gazed at Fei Boqing on the shore, blowing one bubble after another. She knew how devout he was.

So she gazed at him with the same infatuation...

[Reading Guide]

1. Happy ending, one-on-one romance.

2. Corrections are welcome if anything doesn't make sense, and feel free to point out typos!

3. Muse is powerful. She's not a silly, soft little mermaid!

Theme: God loves the world