Meng Li has a secret: he’s a mermaid.
On his eighteenth birthday, he can finally transform his tail into legs and walk and work on land, just like his older brothers. But that night, his father tells him some devastating news!
They weren’t cursed by a witch and stripped of their beautiful singing voices like in the fairy tales, but transforming their tails into legs did bind them to an irreversible contract with a witch:
They have to reproduce before turning twenty-five. Otherwise, their bodily functions will keep declining, and some mermaids don’t even live to see their thirty-fifth birthday before they disappear.
Meng Li is devastated. After entering the human world, he has met Alphas, but the moment they see his tail, they turn malicious.
Just when he’s given up hope and is getting ready to pack up and return to the sea, an unexpected heat completely changes the course of his life. All he remembers is that he seemed to climb on top of an Alpha of his own accord. And... wait, was it his crush, his big boss?
The next day, he wakes up in a hotel bed, held tightly in Li Yan’s arms. The pain in his lower body and the suggestive red marks on his skin leave no doubt about what happened last night...
Looking at the handsome Alpha, Meng Li feels no fear, only a faint trace of anticipation. He didn’t black out during his heat. He rubs his belly, wondering if they went at it so hard last night that a tiny fish might be living in there now.
A month later, Meng Li gets his wish!
He can’t wait to tell Li Yan the good news, but then he accidentally hears some gossip: Li Yan is going to get engaged to his white moonlight, who has been living abroad!
Meng Li is so heartbroken he cries a whole puddle of little pearls. He decides to pack up and return to the sea with his baby! But before he can even pick up his bag, someone blocks the door.
Li Yan: “Marry me. We’ll raise the baby together.”
Meng Li: ?
After they marry, Meng Li finally decides to confess that he’s a mermaid. He finds his very favorite shell and pearls to decorate himself, then lies on the bed and swishes his pink-and-blue tail back and forth.
Meng Li: No one could possibly reject a cute little mermaid, right~
Li Yan: I can hold back, I can hold back! I can’t hold back!
Theme: Protect the mermaids.
