Is a Male Merman Delicate?

Before merfolk come of age, it is impossible to tell males and females apart. Once they come of age and learn about love, they develop a gender based on that of the person they fall for.

Hai Mier had waited beneath the Ruomu tree in the South Sea for three hundred years, hoping each day that the female immortal who had caused him to become a male merman would appear.

At last, the immortal arrived. But she said, “I’m a male immortal, not a female one. You’ve got it wrong.”

Hai Mier’s heart shattered into pieces...

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Theme: Don’t be so quick to get angry. There’s always room to work things out.