Just an Ordinary Guard of the Merfolk Tribe

Blurb dated 2024.12.25

A proper, honest heroine x men full of schemes

On Lan Yin’s coming-of-age day, a fire broke out in the palace. To save themselves, the entire merfolk clan was forced into a seal. Given the urgent mission, she took the Crown Prince away.

The Crown Prince had a special bloodline and was the clan’s hope for salvation.

Lan Yin kept this in mind, even though the Crown Prince was useless, ill-tempered, and couldn’t even swim.

Then, an accident left her gravely wounded.

That near-death experience also awakened her species’ innate gift: precognition.

Soon afterward, she had a prophetic dream.

In the dream, the Crown Prince she had gone to such lengths to protect, the one the entire clan had pinned their hopes on, fell in love with several men. He willingly grovelled beneath them and gave himself over to pleasure, even planning to bear them children with merfolk blood.

What chilled Lan Yin to the bone was that the Crown Prince treated the entire merfolk clan as his dowry, casually cutting out their cores as he pleased.

The dream ended with a scarlet sea.

The clansmen’s blood dyed the azure waters, and their brilliant scales gleamed with a heavy aura of death beneath the setting sun. Corpses stretched farther than the eye could see.

In the end, her eyes were gouged out too, leaving her unable to see anything.

The Crown Prince forgot where he came from, forgot his purpose, forgot the clansmen frozen deep beneath the vast sea.

The royal they had raised with the strength of the entire clan had abandoned them.

At first, Lan Yin didn’t believe it. But as those men began appearing one after another, the Crown Prince started acting strangely.

Even an honest person can get angry.

To keep the dream from coming true, Lan Yin had no choice but to take action.

For example, kill them.

But these men were strange. They always looked at her with an almost feverish possessiveness. More than once, they even told her they wanted to have her children.

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Lan Yin was quiet and reserved, with an unlikable stubbornness deep in her bones. She was exactly the kind of merfolk the Crown Prince hated most.

He delighted in making trouble for her.

Then, in an accident caused by his selfishness, Lan Yin was badly injured and lost a lot of blood.

He cried terribly and secretly vowed that, as long as she didn’t die, he would treat her a little better from then on.

But Lan Yin already had someone she loved.

Content warning: Male pregnancy

Theme: Fear no hardship or danger