Raising a Mermaid, Dark Version

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[Obsessive, devoted mermaid top x beautiful, strong, yet tragic researcher bottom]

After the world collapsed and species mutated, researcher Yan Yue took over the Rebirth Project and ventured into the deep sea, where he captured a rare mermaid.

The mermaid was still underage, violent, and bloodthirsty. Several times, it nearly drowned him.

For the sake of his experiments, he used his own blood as bait to lure the mermaid into lowering its guard, then put a muzzle and collar on it with his own hands.

Even when it reached maturity, he held its webbed claws as they unconsciously tore at its tail, though its claws pierced his palm.

The mermaid, which had consumed all his effort and care, finally became the most exceptional experimental subject.

Mermaids were mysterious, strong, and extraordinarily beautiful.

It was no longer ferocious. Instead, it gazed at him with damp eyes, as if pleading for his mercy. "It hurts."

But mermaids were also cunning, dangerous, and possessive.

It reverently lifted his wounded palm and gently licked away the blood inch by inch, then slyly ran its tongue over its canine teeth.

Yan Yue didn't care about its dependence on him. When the experiment ended, he left without hesitation and returned to the Empire to be crowned with honors.

He had already achieved his goal.

*

An adult rare-species mermaid was extremely dangerous, and losing the control of its keeper made it even more violent.

In the dead of night, it cut through the defenses and crawled out of its tank. Disguised as a human, it infiltrated the Empire and found him amid ruins and wreckage. In awkward human speech, it whispered a threat into his ear:

"You... owe me..."

It imprisoned him in a wasteland of bones, through sunrises and sunsets, rising and ebbing tides.

Its tail coiled around his legs like a sea serpent, while its azure slit pupils revealed the most primal wildness, making no effort to hide its desire.

It covered his eyes with its cold, webbed claws and murmured into his ear:

"Don't look, and don't listen. Just as you imprisoned me, I want you to look only into my eyes and hear only my voice."

[Content warning: contains some wall scroll-style descriptions]

1. The top is a mermaid, and this is a strong/strong pairing. The mermaid can grow legs but doesn't like to, so it rarely happens.

2. Even when the mermaid turns dark, it's still tsundere! A little sea-bottom jealousy bottle, my type.

3. My own take on a post-apocalyptic wasteland setting, entirely fictional.

4. A story about a hunter who accidentally becomes the prey :P

Synopsis saved as evidence on September 6, 2024.

New story coming soon: Becoming the Beta Butler of a Brooding Alpha

Cen Shuangjiang transmigrates into a melodramatic ABO novel as an unwanted illegitimate child, assigned to keep company with the sickly, gloomy young Alpha master.

The illegitimate child is a villainous Beta butler, foolish and mean-spirited. Before he can successfully replace the beloved protagonist, he dies miserably.

But Cen Shuangjiang is different.

A butler should know his place.

He doesn't look where he shouldn't or ask questions he shouldn't. He fulfills the young master's every request, and most importantly, never crosses the line.

Thanks to his exceptional professionalism, Cen Shuangjiang becomes a perfect human machine in a heartless family, never making a mistake.

Until one day, after the beloved protagonist returns, he unexpectedly finds the missing young master in an abandoned factory on a rainy night.

The young master's chronic illness has flared up, throwing his pheromones into disarray, and he is curled up against Cen Shuangjiang's knees.

His hair, which should be as lustrous as his siblings', is a mess, and his expensive suit is covered in mud.

Cen Shuangjiang remembers their first meeting. The young master had sat in his wheelchair, his golden hair neatly combed back, watching him coldly.

Like a pane of glass, ready to shatter at any moment, maintaining the last vestige of his dignity.

But Cen Shuangjiang is only a Beta. He has no pheromones and can't soothe the young master.

All he can do is cover those jade-green eyes with his fingertips and say over and over,

"It's okay. You'll stand again."

"The Sloane family will always be proud of you."

*

Langman Sloane doesn't like the illegitimate child who was sent to live with him.

But the man is meticulous in every detail, leaving nothing to criticize.

Even when he catches Langman having an episode, he neither threatens nor mocks him. Instead, he thoughtfully carries on with his duties as a butler.

Strangely, Langman can only calm down when this Beta is by his side.

So he decides to wait until the man shows his true colors before kicking him out.

But on the second day after he recovers, the man vanishes without a trace.

Later, everyone wonders who the Beta is that the miraculously recovered member of the Sloane family has traveled across the South Seas to find.

What could be so special about an ordinary Beta that Langman Sloane would go to such lengths for him?

*

During his heat, Langman is alone in a cold bedroom. His pheromones are out of control and no one can soothe him, so he can only curl up on a bed strewn with that man's old clothes and engage in pointless nesting.

On the television, the Beta is basking in glory onstage, cheered on by a crowd.

With bloodshot eyes, Langman searches the man's nape and the side of his neck. Even knowing he can't mark him, he stubbornly decides to leave his mark anyway.

Once a vicious wolf has its teeth in its prey, it will never let go, even in death.

A Beta can't be attracted by pheromones or marked. They are absolutely free souls. They will only fall in love with your thoughts, your soul, and your love.

Theme: No matter the circumstances, stay true to yourself and hold on to your original convictions