The Mermaid and Her Keeper

The first time Zhao Shuqing laid eyes on Lin Feng, trapped in that water tank, she was stunned by the mermaid’s exquisite beauty. As a marine biologist, Zhao Shuqing couldn’t resist reaching out to stroke the mermaid’s beautiful blue tail. The mermaid shuddered uncontrollably, a pair of beautiful, sea-blue eyes staring at her in disbelief. But when Zhao Shuqing’s hand ventured toward more intimate territory, Mermaid Miss delivered a resounding ‘smack’ across her face and swiftly swam to the deepest corner of the tank.

Thus, Zhao Shuqing stayed up all night cramming information about mermaids:

1. A mermaid’s tail can only be touched by their mate.

2. A mermaid’s mating season falls in March and April, and each mermaid has only one partner for life.

3. When courting, mermaids will offer their scales to a prospective mate, but no human has ever received a mermaid’s scale.

4. Mermaids also possess intelligence and the capacity for language; prolonged contact with humans allows them to learn human speech.

Despite being slapped soundly, the next day Mermaid Miss still chose Zhao Shuqing from among a crowd of marine biologists to be her researcher. It was just that whenever Zhao Shuqing stroked the mermaid’s tail, she would tremble all over with red-rimmed eyes, seemingly struggling to suppress some deep impulse.

On Zhao Shuqing’s birthday, she received a special gift from Mermaid Miss: a single sea-blue mermaid scale.

From that day on, Zhao Shuqing would always find some special little trinkets in the mermaid’s room—her own undergarments, a pen she had lost, and small stickers she had casually given away.

Zhao Shuqing grew increasingly uneasy about the situation and, on a whim, decided to take a business trip to the other side of the ocean. To her astonishment, Mermaid Miss had actually swum thousands of miles from the sea to find her. Wrapping her beautiful blue tail around Zhao Shuqing’s legs and burying her face in the crook of her neck, she proactively leaned in, inviting her to stroke her tail.

Lin Feng, with red-rimmed eyes, said to her, “You were the one who started this. Only you can touch my tail…”

Reading Guide & Content Notice

1. Mermaids live for 500 years; the mermaid is older than the protagonist. Including her tail fin, the mermaid is over 2 meters tall (the large tail is about 50 cm). After coming ashore, she will transform into a human with a normal physique.

2. This is a sweet story, 1v1.

3. This novel was written by a cat.