The Beloved Mermaid of the Bizarre Noble Academy

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Synopsis:

Lan Xi is a mermaid, but he transmigrates into a melodramatic story set at an elite academy, where he becomes a swimming instructor and is forced to play the role of an onlooker, witnessing the young heirs' outrageous scenes 24 hours a day.

What he doesn't know is that every student at the academy is nonhuman.

At swimming class, a pair of arrogant, handsome twins show up together, accusing each other of pinning down their tentacles last night and ripping their underwear.

Lan Xi: "Tentacles? You mean hair, right? Ripping your underwear? You tore it while tugging hard to rescue your hair, right? Hahaha."

The overbearing heir to the richest family is so furious at a scholarship student for beating his butterfly stroke time by 0.1 seconds that his teeth chatter. He vows to kick the other student out of the elite academy, while the latter stays silent, wet hair hanging over his eyes.

Lan Xi: Got it. Forbidden love between wealthy families, scum top realizes he loves him, and a long road to winning his wife back.

The third pair seems the quietest and most harmonious. The elegant student council president always wears black leather gloves, keeps himself completely covered, and never gets in the water, yet shows up to every class. His assistant seems normal, but never takes his eyes off the president, even in the water.

Lan Xi: Such devoted companionship, healing and saving each other. I'm so moved.

Lan Xi diligently plays the role of an onlooker, while carefully keeping his identity as a mermaid hidden.

No matter how strange the students are, they're still human. If they saw his tail, they'd be frightened.

Meanwhile, where he can't see them...

The twins quietly threaten each other: "Don't even think about making your ugly tentacles take root in him."

The heir bares a mouthful of jagged teeth. The scholarship student's nictitating membrane slides across his eye, revealing a yellow-green slit pupil, and he glares back.

The gloomy student council president sighs: "I'm so thirsty, so thirsty..." His assistant responds with a contemptuous threat: "Try anything, and I'll pierce your throat."

Together, they turn to watch the beautiful young man splashing in the pool. One by one, their gazes grow dark and intense.

Lan Xi, who's just finished another class: Staying in the water all day and still having to keep a human form is so exhausting QAQ.

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The entire elite academy has a tacit understanding: Lan Xi is their favorite teacher. They like him so much they want to pull him roughly into their arms, crawl inch by inch over his skin, make him cry, then carefully lick his pearl-like tears away.

The main characters attend his class more and more often, and their words and behavior grow increasingly strange and perverse. Lan Xi is a little confused, but still responds enthusiastically.

Until one day...

One of the aloof twins corners him in the locker room;

The overbearing heir grabs his slender, pale wrist and wedges a knee between his legs;

The gloomy student council president repeatedly rubs his fingertip over Lan Xi's lips until they're red;

They hold themselves back with all their might, yet speak of their love with unbearable hunger.

Lan Xi, eyes wide: "Hey, look carefully. I'm not him. Don't just..."

But everyone answers:

"You're the one I've always wanted."

Lan Xi is so frightened that he loses control of his human form. With a loud bang, his beautiful, alluring tail is exposed to everyone.

Lan Xi: Help...

Just as he thinks they'll drag him to the school infirmary for vivisection experiments, the room falls into an eerie silence.

Then everyone goes mad.

They reveal their own nonhuman traits...

Bat wings

Giant tentacles

Slimy skin

"Teacher, then I'll come clean too."

"This is mine. Do you like it?"

"...I want to mate..."

The entire elite academy descends into chaos...

#What's it like to be a popular mermaid in a creepy elite academy?#

#Everyone is in love with the bottom, and the tops are nonhuman fragments#

#The tops include twin hydras, devouring star eels, ancient giant sea dragons, deep-sea blood bats, black-flame ghost sharks, and more (may change)#

#One-on-one romance, happy ending#

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Pitiful bottom x all kinds of gloomy monster tops

My name is Seville Stock. I used to board at St. Bridget's Academy, but after reading an ancient book of forbidden poetry, strange black spots suddenly appeared on my chest and I couldn't stop coughing up blood. I was forced to take a leave of absence and recuperate in a remote village.

I hoped the healthy country food and fresh air would help my mysterious lung disease, but the place where I was staying was a gloomy, dilapidated mansion that looked ready to collapse at any moment. Its male owner was arrogant and cold. He refused to shake my hand when we first met, never ate with me afterward, and never once wished me good night.

In fact, I had never seen him before going to sleep late at night.

Soon, I discovered that the old mansion, inhabited by just the two of us, hid even more secrets.

A pale boy hidden away who was far too clingy, faint tapping from the other side of my bedroom wall in the dead of night, a coffin nailed shut in the lightless basement...

The master of the house, who had once paid me no attention, gradually revealed an anxious, bloodthirsty desire. When I tried to escape the suffocating place for a day and visit a nearby town, he angrily tackled me to the ground and bared his sharp, gleaming fangs...

Then he greedily kissed me on the lips.

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I thought having a bizarre terminal illness was bad enough, and that a reckless affair with another man was the most outrageous thing I'd ever done. But even more absurd and sinister events awaited me down the road of fate. Besides the master of the mansion, whose hypocritical mask of abstinence I had mercilessly torn away, even more shameless scoundrels appeared, dressed in the respectable skin of gentlemen.

Some hid their animal nature and used the gentle, devoted-husband act to draw me step by step into the swamp of love;

Some let me learn about their tragic past by chance, stirring up my boundless sympathy so they could try to keep me all to themselves;

Others simply used a false, dreamlike sugar coating, building a delicious tomb out of dreams in the hope of imprisoning me...

I became a lamb led to slaughter, a puppet on strings, a delicious meal served up on a plate. They devoured me inside and out, used me again and again, and licked every inch of skin they'd already caressed until it was sore and aching...

And I actually began to enjoy it...

You damn gloomy monsters, you shameless fiends who lured me into the abyss!

I curse you all to go to hell with me!

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A pitiful bottom who thinks he's very inexperienced

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An abstinent, noble vampire count

A taciturn werewolf hunter

A tragic, fallen headless knight

An utterly evil, beautiful elf

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More content warnings:

1. Third-person narration.

2. One-on-one pairings in stages, happy ending.

3. None of the tops, including the main love interest, are good people. They only want to possess the bottom completely and lack the basic moral principles expected of humans.

[More upcoming novels]

"The Little Mermaid Is a Galactic Treasure": beloved by all, popular protagonist

"The Only Human in the Beastfolk World": beloved by all, popular protagonist

"My Arranged-Marriage Wife Is the Strongest in the Galaxy": marriage first, love later, plus a secret crush

"Don't Covet the Beautiful War God": shapeshifting, alien tops

Theme: The best hunters often appear as prey.