The General Has a Mermaid [GB]

[Interstellar battle-hardened, cool female lead x scheming, bewitchingly beautiful mermaid with a sweet, manipulative streak]

During her first year at military academy, Shen Xingyu found an escaped mermaid.

The mermaid was at death's door, the scales on his tail glinting like shards of light. He was as fragile as an ice flower, and Shen Xingyu could crush him with a single finger.

Shen Xingyu knew he was trouble. She took out her communicator and contacted the rescue center to have them take him in.

But the dying mermaid reached out and grabbed the hem of her trousers.

His grip was tight, and his voice was hoarse.

"Don't..."

Shen Xingyu looked down and met a pair of eyes that could stir the soul.

She asked, "Don't what?"

The mermaid said, "I can..."

Shen Xingyu asked, "Kill me?"

Many years later, when Shen Xingyu saw this mermaid again, she finally understood.

Back then, he had been using his looks to tempt her...

As a boy, Fu Yu was captured by space pirates and sold. He fought with all his might to escape.

In the end, he lay on the ground covered in wounds, unable to defend himself at all.

Fu Yu thought he was done for. Then he met a human.

The human did not seem particularly kind either. She wanted to contact people to come capture him.

In his panic, Fu Yu remembered what his elders had taught him: mermaids were the most captivating species, and making someone fall in love with one of them was easy.

Fu Yu tried every trick he knew, hoping that his charms would persuade her to spare him.

But that woman was a block of stone!

He gritted his teeth and remembered the humiliation for years. At last, he met her again at the mermaids' coming-of-age banquet.

This time, he would make her pay for what she had done to him.

Fu Yu thought so, and acted on it. But he never expected that he would be the one to fall in the end.

Inspiration date: 2025.6.17

Please note: This is a gender-bender romance, with a female top and male bottom. Read with care.

Theme: Cherish the present.