Ch88 - It did not mean that he was making way for the protagonist shou (2/2)

The accident also occurred during such an invitation. The original body’s owner had always pushed to see Lou Cen, wanting stay by his side to accompany him, but Madame Lou had always used all kinds of reasons and excuses to influence the original’s crush on Lou Cen. The repeated refusals made the original realize that Madame Lou was unhappy with him, and during one such instance, he could no longer tolerate Madame Lou’s coldness and neglect towards him. He left without his bodyguards, and was thus kidnapped.

The original owner had a very magical body. He could transform his tail into human legs at will, but because he was raised as a merperson from an early age, the original body’s owner did not regard this as a talent. Rather, he felt that he was a terrible monster and not a good merperson at all, because a good merperson would never have a pair of legs. So, he had always kept silent on this point, and no one else, not even the Duchess who loved him so much knew about this. And he had been kidnapped exactly because of that little secret.

His kidnappers belonged to an underground merfolk research laboratory. They studied the history of merfolk, wanting to know the origin of merfolk and whether or not there was any way to create more merfolk and make human society more prosperous without having to spend so much effort and work so hard to reproduce.

Eighteen years ago, the merfolk research laboratory discovered deep-sea merfolk. They stole an egg from those deep-sea merfolk that did not ever come ashore. But due to unexpected circumstances, in order to escape the deep-sea merfolk’s pursuit, they hid the egg on the beach. And then… the Duchess who had been looking for her son dug it up.

This egg was Yan Qiwen.

The merflk laboratory spent more than ten years trying to find him. They planned and nurtured schemes ceaselessly in order to kidnap him, and they had Madame Lou to thank for creating an opportunity for them and allowing them to acquire their desired research target so smoothly.

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The plot could be considered to have completely unfolded after that. Yan Qiwen disappeared, Madame Lou was questioned by the duke, the protagonist gong woke up, the protagonist shou mixed into this mess, and the story really began, but Yan Qiwen already had no part to play.

Needless to say, after a long period of time, the protagonist gong finally destroyed the merflk laboratory and discovered news of Yan Qiwen who had committed suicide because he had been unable to bear the suffering. He was remembered and mourned, which could be considered as a kind of drama.

He could be regarded as the starting point of the whole plot. His kidnapping helped the protagonist gong and shou meet each other, and allowed the Duchess to find her own son. His death also agitated the entire ocean population, causing the deep-sea mermaids and humans to erupt into intense conflict and strife. The war gave the protagonist gong opportunities to rise up in the ranks and increase his income, reaching the peak of his life, and allowed the ‘Holy Mary’ shou to shine even brighter as the shou turned on his golden finger abilities and finally resolved the contradictions between the two races.

Living in glory, and dying in greatness.

Xue Ling finished going through the plot and sighed.

“Did this little merchild have any unfulfilled wishes?” Xue Ling asked the system. After reading the information, he had to agree that there were benefits to this identity. First of all, he could turn this annoying fishtail into a pair of legs; second, this identity had the lineage of the deep-sea merfolk’s royal family. Becoming successful was simply a matter of minutes as his own body was the biggest trump card. Coupled with the fact that deep-sea merfolk and the natural merfolk had completely different body structures, his body was not nearly as weak and frail as it looked. This would make it much easier for him to deal with matters.

“He died too painfully. He was tortured over and over again. He could not beg for life, nor was he allowed death; he only wanted to completely destroy the mermaid laboratory.”

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Xue Ling raised his eyebrows. This was slightly more interesting, and it even involved taking the plot away from the protagonist, which coincided with his task to change the protagonists’ fate. “He didn’t want to be with Lou Cen and grow old together?”

“He had a kind of idol worship towards Lou Cen. You can open your nano-computer to check – Lou Cen had a large number of fans on the merfolk network, and he could be counted as one of those brain-impaired fans. Before he died, he had always hoped that Lou Cen would come and save him, but after the people in the laboratory showed him news of Lou Cen’s engagement to the protagonist shou, he completely lost hope, which was probably one of the reasons for his suicide.”

“His own ex-fiance announced an engagement to another man less than two months after his disappearance, and that other man was the true son of the Duke’s Palace. All the information he had received from childhood to adulthood was completely overturned. It is normal that he suddenly lost his ** to survive, leaving only his extreme hatred for the research institute.”

Xue Ling rubbed his chin and lowered his gaze as a slow smile emerged on his lips.

He approximately knew how long it would be before Lou Cen woke up. After he woke up, he would be the Empire’s only SSS-class powerhouse, an absolute bug.

But, that had nothing to do with Xue Ling. After all, when he woke up, he would discover that Xue Ling had already broken off their engagement, and he didn’t even have to think to know that Madame Lou would purposely slander him in front of Lou Cen. At that time, his relationship with Lou Cen would become particularly awkward, and the protagonist shou would come on stage like the tide and build up goodwill with Lou Cen.

Xue Ling never looked back with regret on the things he had already done, so he had no intention of going back on his word and reversing the broken engagement. However, breaking off the engagement did not mean that he was making way for the protagonist shou.

The protagonist shou grew up by the sea. He had been adopted by a peasant who fished for a living, and was accompanied by the sea every day. He met a deep-sea mermaid, which was what allowed him to act as a go-between for the deep-sea mermaids and human beings later on the story.

This year was the protagonist shou’s eighteenth birthday and he was sent to the Empire’s Capital to learn skills that all mermaids needed to have. Although he had come from a peasant family, he had the protagonist’s halo, and the protagonist shou’s treatment was exactly the same as that of aristocrats.

As a natural mermaid, he never had to worry about his life and future. His talent in design was outstanding, and he became good friends with a teacher in the mermaid school. Through the teacher, he came into contact with Madame Lou, and began to have dealings with her, designing dresses and fishtail skirts specially for her. Madame Lou was very fond of him and wanted to introduce this lovely child to her son.

But Yan Qiwen was wedged between them, and knowing that her son had no interest in him, Madame Lou dared to ask Yan Qiwen to terminate the marriage contract during her son’s coma, taking advantage of the fact that Yan Qiwen was young and ignorant.

After approximately thinking through the plot’s direction, Xue Ling intended to first penetrate the enemy’s side first and develop a good relationship with the protagonist shou. It would be best if he could get him to be recognized and accepted into the Duke’s Palace right away as it would make it more convenient for him to do things afterwards.

After all, Xue Ling believed that the Duchess would not allow her just-returned child to marry a comatose, vegetable man who had been rejected by her adopted son, even if he woke up as an SSS-class powerhouse.

‘Breeders’ are basically the ‘alphas’ of an ABO world, mermaids/mermen are the ‘omegas’ and the normal people are the ‘beta’ equivalent. The author lied, this setting is even more complicated than the standard ABO setting.

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Also, i’m having a lot of trouble with the word ‘merperson’ … it sounds so strange o.o but ‘mermaid’ also seems wrong since XL and the MC are both male… we’ll see how it goes~