Wan Tong couldn’t breathe. There was a sharp pain in her lungs, but all she could see was darkness.
She was in water, but her body seemed to be restrained by something. Her hands and feet were struggling, but she only hit heavy objects around her.
It seemed like she was trapped in a car, and the car was sinking deeper underwater.
[Shishi!] Whenever she entered the new world, Shishi had never let put her in such a crisis before.
Strangely, this time Shishi didn’t respond, as if it didn’t exist at all.
As Wantong felt despair creeping in, she sensed heavy impacts, shaking her body. But the searing pain in her eyes prevented her from opening them.
As she was about to suffocate, she felt herself being pulled away by a force, tightly embraced by someone, and they were swimming at an incredibly fast speed.
She even felt the heavy sensation of water flowing over her body.
“Don’t be afraid, I won’t let anything happen to you.” A voice, indistinguishable in gender, sounded in her ear.
Strangely, even though she was underwater, the voice was exceptionally clear and crisp.
Wan Tong couldn’t hold on; her consciousness gradually grew hazy.
She didn’t see the figure, that was emitting a faint glow, holding her in the deep blue water. The slender body was wrapped in a white shirt, but below it, blue and purple scales shimmered, and a beautiful tail swayed rapidly.
When Wan Tong woke up, it felt like her eyes were covered by a cloth. Her mind was filled with many memories about her current body.
Her name was Yue Wantong, age 23. Three years ago, after her parents died in an accident, she inherited the family company and began to take on a management role with the help of her uncle, achieving some success.
Today, she didn’t go to the company but went out to have fun with friends. When her car reached the seaside, the brakes suddenly failed, and she accidentally drove into the sea while turning.
Then… she was rescued.
[Shishi!] Wan Tong called out.
But there was no response from Shishi.
She wasn’t panicking, just a bit confused. Without Shishi, she wouldn’t know the world’s plot or what to do next.
She guessed that in the world’s plot, she probably drowned, so she should be resurrected at the bottom of the sea. However, somehow, she was rescued in time.
She moved her fingers and reached up to tear off the cloth covering her eyes, but a hand suddenly pressed down on hers.
The pleasant voice she heard underwater spoke again, “Don’t remove it, your eyes are injured.”
His hand was slightly larger than hers and a bit cool. Considering his swimming speed underwater, she guessed he was a man.
She withdrew her hand, propped herself up on the bed, and turned her face in a certain direction, saying, “Thank you for saving me.”
“You’re welcome.” The voice was calm. “My name is Yu Sheng.”
“I’m… Wantong.” Wan Tong withheld her surname. She remembered she had been kidnapped twice before, narrowly escaping death each time.
She reached out to touch her clothes, feeling a bit embarrassed, and asked, “My clothes…”
“I changed them,” Yu Sheng said without any hesitation. “They are my new clothes, never worn before.”
Wan Tong was taken aback for a moment but quickly realized she seemed to be wearing a nightgown.
So, Yu Sheng is a girl?
“Thank you,” Wan Tong said again quickly.
“Mm.” Yu Sheng responded briefly and then fell silent.
Wan Tong, unable to see anything, felt the atmosphere growing awkward. She asked, “Where am I?”
“At my house,” Yu Sheng replied honestly.
Wan Tong paused, “And my eyes…”
“My friend is a doctor. Don’t worry; he said your eyes will recover in a few days.”
Where Wan Tong couldn’t see, Yu Sheng nervously watched Wan Tong’s beautiful face, afraid that her1 lie would be exposed.
Wan Tong nodded and said, “Could you please make a phone call for me?”
Yu Sheng actually brought over a phone, but Wan Tong didn’t remember a single number…
So, the call couldn’t be made.
Seeing that Yu Sheng didn’t seem like a bad person, Wan Tong asked her to go to the Yue family to find the family butler, Zhong.
Yu Sheng agreed and then left the room.
Yu Sheng’s figure was thin, and her hair displayed a strange color under the light, black with flashes of blue. On closer inspection, even her pupils had this color. Her features were deep and exquisite, and her skin was very pale, making it impossible to determine her gender from appearance alone.
After Yu Sheng closed the door, a tall figure approached.
The man stopped in front of Yu Sheng and frowned, “A’Sheng, why did you save a human? If someone sees…”
Yu Sheng pursed her lips, “I’m going to contact her family now.”
Yu Jian still disapproved, his brows furrowed tightly, “Can’t we just send her away directly?”
He only knew that the woman was badly injured when she was rescued, but Yu Sheng had fed her mermaid blood, so she should recover quickly.
“I’ll just do what she asked me to.” Yu Sheng didn’t want to say more and walked away. After a few steps, she turned back, “Yu Jian, don’t bother her. She’ll be scared.”
Yu Jian said nothing, watching Yu Sheng’s departing figure. He glanced at the tightly closed door but didn’t go in.
He had finally gotten close to Yu Sheng and didn’t want to ruin this trust.
In this world, his identity was a mermaid.
With the advancement of modern technology, the ocean was no longer a place where mermaids could survive. They had all come to land. Yu Sheng had lived in the ocean with her parents for over twenty years. A few years ago, her parents disappeared, and she came ashore alone, hiding her identity to live. Because she wasn’t used to life on land, it seemed she went through a hard time.
Recently, he came to this world, found Yu Sheng, and lived with her as a fellow mermaid.
To be precise, Yu Sheng couldn’t be referred to as ‘she’ yet because mermaids would develop their specific gender when they reached adulthood, and they don’t reach adulthood until they are thirty.
Yu Sheng still had two months until adulthood, and so, was currently genderless.
In the story, Yu Sheng didn’t immediately show a clear gender upon reaching adulthood. It wasn’t until she was fifty that she established her business empire and became male.
However, Yu Jian always treated Yu Sheng as a girl, intending to cultivate her as his wife since he came as a Raider to pursue her.
But Yu Sheng was sometimes very stubborn and disobedient. For instance, this time, she showed great compassion by saving a human in her mermaid form.
One of his tasks was to kill Yu Sheng’s white moonlight.
In the world’s plot, Yu Sheng didn’t have a partner or a favored person, so Yu Jian was at a loss.
- I will be using she/her for Yu Sheng for now ↩︎