The Mermaid My Wife Lured into a Fish-Mouthed Pout

Originally titled Echoes of the Merman

One-line summary: Getting hooked by his wife and turned into a fish that bites the lure.

[Dom Top] [Secret Crush] [Nonhuman Love Interest]

In Hongjing, where backwardness and prosperity intertwine, merfolk are dangerous and cunning, but also beautiful and priceless.

Catch one and sell it to some rich person for a fortune, and you'll live a life of luxury.

At a lavish, dazzling mermaid show, Xilan leaves the VIP section halfway through, only to be pestered by a strange young man.

He is pale and gaunt, flirtatious, and as quick and nimble as a black cat prowling along the border between light and shadow. His amber eyes are full of mischief.

Smiling, he holds out a video:

The blurry footage shows

A man leaping into the sea during a torrential downpour. Amid the surging waves, a deep blue tail flashes into view.

The merman turns around, revealing a strikingly beautiful face, cold and captivating.

It is Xilan himself.

With his identity exposed, Xilan watches for only a few seconds before leaning in to whisper:

"Nice footage. Too bad..."

His voice is bewitching as he turns his head and kisses the other man. With a swift movement, he snatches the phone and deletes the video.

"You're going to forget all about it."

The young man, outmaneuvered by one step, is stunned.

At the very moment the memory spell takes effect, he sees Xilan's face. His expression turns even stranger, and he watches Xilan leave with a complicated look.

Later,

Xilan still doesn't escape his fate. The other man kidnaps him, and he lies on an operating table with his life hanging by a thread.

When he opens his eyes again, he finds himself face-to-face with the knife-wielding young man, whose expression is one of delight.

Xilan: "...???"

-

When Ye Xiaoxiao was a child, he secretly set a valuable merman free. His parents were trampled to death by greedy fishermen, who took their anger out on them because of it.

Later, when he was at school, he fell in love with someone unattainable. Their relationship turned intimate, but in the end, the other man turned cold and heartless. His gaze was strange and icy, and his words stabbed straight into Ye Xiaoxiao's heart.

He realized that the human heart was more frightening than a merfolk's.

Years passed.

At a time when humans and merfolk were locked in bitter conflict,

one was the son of a government official, a rising star in scientific research, and a media darling.

The other was, on the surface, an unscrupulous doctor who mingled in the black market, but secretly the adoptive son of the leader of a merman resistance group.

As it happened, Ye Xiaoxiao was assigned to kidnap the other man.

Well, well.

This was going to be fun.

-

Xilan never expected that even after temporarily preserving his secret identity, he would still be pinned in a cramped bathtub and wantonly toyed with by this poppy-beautiful young man.

With a dark expression, Xilan struggles to suppress his instincts and keep his tail from showing.

"..."

Humans really don't know when to quit!

Later on,

One day, the young man is lying on top of him. Carried away by passion, he kisses Xilan and confesses, "...Xilan, I love you... I really love you so much..."

At his words, Xilan's expression changes. It's too late to hold back: the deep blue tail beneath him has already burst out of control, impossible to hide.

"..."

[Reading Guide]

1: They dote on each other: the top dotes on the bottom, and the bottom dotes on the top. They are completely in love. Readers with extreme character preferences may want to give this one a miss, thanks.

2: A melodramatic romance focused on falling in love.

[Grudge-Bearer | Fishing Expert | Tsundere Catlike Beauty Bottom]

[Patient and Restrained, Oblivious Straight Man | Gets Jealous at the Drop of a Hat | Senile Fish (Sort Of) | Wife-Doting, Overpowered Merman Top]

Theme: Those who never forget will hear an answer in time.