On a moonless night, the sea was pitch black, and the waves crashed against the rocks, making a roaring sound from time to time.
This is a rocky beach, and the only nearby fishing village is called Haishi Village.
The number of fish in the sea is decreasing year by year, making life difficult. People in the village have gradually moved away, leaving only some elderly people. The elderly have regular routines, do not like to play on their mobile phones, and turn off the lights early at night, so there is no light near the coast.
The abandoned lighthouse stands on the shore like a silent giant, gazing at a faint blue glow beneath the distant sea.
That dark blue hue was incredibly agile, like a swimming fish, and was approaching the rocky beach at an astonishing speed.
At a distance where it was highly likely to run aground or be scratched by reefs, the blue aquarium stopped its sprint, and a silvery-white, seaweed-like substance slowly floated up and spread across the water's surface.
As the silvery white light receded, it revealed a strange face, breathtakingly beautiful. Anyone who saw it couldn't help but be captivated; it was truly mesmerizing.
He was so beautiful he was inhuman, and indeed he wasn't human.
More striking than his face were the fins on the sides of his face, followed by the scales at the corners of his eyes and on his cheeks, all a deep blue, dull yet luminous.
His skin was pale yet lustrous, like the finest white jade. When his eyes were lowered, teardrops rolled down his brow bone, lingered on his silvery-white eyelashes, and fell along his cheeks as if shedding tears. When he frowned slightly, it made one's heart ache.
As he approached the shore, his body gradually emerged from the water. A thin layer of muscle clung evenly to his bones, its lines both beautiful and sharp. But as he reached his waist and abdomen, his snow-white skin turned into blue scales.
He threw the handful of things he was holding onto the rocky beach; it was trash he had picked up along the way.
He braced himself against a large rock beside him, sat down, revealing a fish tail that was at least two meters long. The large tail fin was inexplicably curled up and submerged in the water.
A little boy appeared out of nowhere, and without saying a word, immediately ran to the rocky beach, picked up a bucket, washed it briefly in the water, filled it with seawater, and carried it to the mermaid.
The mermaid shook out her tail fin, revealing nine small fish. The fish trembled weakly with their fins and fell into the bucket in a daze.
The little boy is naturally 001, and the mermaid shell now contains Di Xiu. As for the little fish, they are the original owner's kin.
The small fish were colorful, but even their intact scales were dull and covered with black spots.
Where the black spots spread, all the scales fell off, revealing a fish body that looked as if it had been corroded. The fins were also pitted and uneven, a tragic sight that made one wonder if they would die at any moment.
The same situation exists on Di Xiu's tail. Near the tail fin, there is a charred black spot about the size of a face. The tail fin even has an irregular defect that extends to the lower tailbone, which has forcibly turned the complete tail fin into two pieces of different sizes.
001 looked into the bucket, then at Di Xiu, unsure who to feel sorry for first. In the end, he leaned over and blew on the big tail with a pang of sympathy, almost getting knocked away by Di Xiu's reflexive action.
Di Xiu washed his hands in the seawater, curled up his tail, carefully examined the charred area of his tail, and gently fiddled with the scales that were about to fall off. His expression was not good: "It's gotten worse."
“You’ve only been here for a month and you’ve already lost seven scales. Sigh, why do they have to stay in the ocean? As long as the fish are there, anywhere is home.” 001 said this while looking at the small fish in the bucket.
Di Xiu shook off the pebbles on the fish's tail, and the scales emitted a faint light, which was very noticeable in the night.
The long fish tail gradually turned into legs, and the scales and fins on his face disappeared, leaving only hair and eyes. He could tell without looking that nothing had changed.
He stood up barefoot, used his arms to lift the large rock he had been sitting on a little, took out the sealed bag that was underneath, and began to put on his clothes.
—Who keeps clothes on their fish?
Moreover, his original home was in the East Sea, but he was given the identity of a mermaid, not a merman. As everyone knows, mermen are from the East and wear merman gauze, while mermaids are from the West and wear seashells.
As a male merman, Di Xiu only had a string of shells as a necklace. As a weak merman with low cultivation, Di Xiu did not have the ability to change his clothes.
Wearing a vest, trousers, and straw sandals, and carrying a plastic bucket, Di Xiu somehow managed to look like he could step onto a runway at any moment.
But with that face, even if she wore a burlap sack, people would probably still think she's fashionable.
001 blurred again and followed him to the fishing village. He pushed open a courtyard gate, pried the key out of the bricks, and went inside.
He had no money, so he went to sea and robbed a few clam spirits, paying them pearls as rent.
There was a large vat in the room, with a ring of talismans pasted around it. It was filled to the brim with water and had thirty or forty fish.
Emperor Xiu's fishkeeping was very rough; he only put some stones and some algae he had gathered from the water in the tank. However, these fish were in much better condition than the nine he had just caught.
Hearing the door open, all the fish floated to the surface, their mouths opening and closing. Di Xiu paused, then snapped, "Shut up!" 001 strangely read a hint of grievance in the fish's eyes.
The fish were scooped out of the bucket and thrown into the tank. Just as they were about to sink to the bottom, a group of fish immediately swarmed around them.
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This world is a mix of humans, demons, and monsters, as evidenced by the fact that Di Xiu is a mermaid.
The timeline spans ancient and modern times, and the characters in the emotional drama are no longer divided into male and female leads, but into a dominant and a submissive character, named Xiao Xuan and Wen Shi respectively.
A thousand years ago, Wen Shi was the sword spirit of Xiao Xuan's mother. After the Xiao family was destroyed, she accompanied him through his downfall and his ascension to the throne. However, due to various reasons, she was eventually tortured until her sword shattered and her spirit scattered.
When Xiao Xuan realized his own feelings, it was too late for regrets. His obsession had run too deep, and he had become possessed.
In modern society a thousand years later, Wen Shi is resurrected for various reasons and comes to human society to study and live. He is invited to join a special department, meets Xiao Xuan, and makes many friends.
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