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    For hundreds of years, the Cloud Recesses Marine Rehabilitation Center has protected the deepest, darkest secrets of the oceans and its inhabitants. It aids them when they are sick, injured, or in need of a re-homing.

    The CRMRC isn't a stranger to dangerous marine predators. It has housed everything from the nearly extinct Great Shark Jiaoren to a simple jellyfish.

    It hasn't prepared them for the arrival of an elusive Deep-Sea Jiaoren--a creature of legends.

    Once the Jiaoren’s black tail touches the sunlight, it burns with an under-layer of red. It gleams like a warning, like hidden rubies buried in the blackened scales. With each movement, the colors ripple like ombre. The tail is long and slim, sharpened black-ombre scales and spindly fins. It’s the longest tail Lan Wangji has ever seen. The caudal fin is long and with low drag, the epitome of a predator designed to hunt.

    Blood smears across its pale skin, irritated gills cutting along the sides of its ribcage. Those silvery-blue eyes are slitted pinpricks, teeth sharp and webbed hands bloody as it pulls itself across the dock with a powerful slap of its tail.

    A Deep-Sea Jiaoren.

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    12 Jul 2026

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    The village Hua Cheng lives in has a peculiar legend associated with it; even though the sea was forever tepid and calm, you were never to swim in its waters, lest you be pulled down and drowned by one of the mermaids who patrol its depths. When he was a child, Hua Cheng almost met that same end.

    Intending to slay one of the beasts and claim the bounty set on its head, Hua Cheng soon finds himself hopelessly drawn to the wanted merman and, in time, begins to uncover the true history behind his village and the curse which plagues it.

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    12 Jul 2026

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    Xie Lian, newly banished mermaid, needs a spouse.
    Hua Cheng, long suffering fisherman who’s been hopelessly in love with the mermaid who saved him as a child, can be that spouse.
    If only he could stop feeling like his marriage to Xie Lian is a third shackle for the beautiful man.

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    12 Jul 2026

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    It seems that, when it came to saving one another, Hua Cheng and Xie Lian were growing to be experts.

    Or the one where Xie Lian is a mermaid, and Hua Cheng grows up to be the most notorious ghost pirate who happens to reside in Xie Lian's cove. Purely by coincidence.

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    12 Jul 2026

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    Xie Lian may only be a mermaid the size of a pencil, but that won't stop him from giving Space Marshal Hua Cheng a reason to live. This is a retelling of the novel ‘Transmigrated Into the Violent Boss’s Little Mermaid’ by 弦三千 but with TGCF.

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    12 Jul 2026