The First Heir by Master Yu Who Smokes

Seeing that the distance between them was quite appropriate, Philip took out a notebook. With a pen, he drew waves and a few figures that seemed like merpeople on it.

The mermaid became excited, but the boy did not react much.

Was the boy not a merman?

Philip slid his pen and notebook across the floor.

The boy picked them up and started to draw as Philip did. His drawing was quite sloppy, but Philip could still see a few key things, such as the symbol for highly toxic chemicals and a few words that were vague but still legible, which spelled Sammy.

Philip called out tentatively, “Sammy?”

The boy looked up at Philip, his tears uncontrollable. The message contained in those eyes included pain, loneliness, indignity, and deep homesickness.

Philip had some idea now. This boy probably became like this after being exposed to toxic substances. As for knowing the merpeople’s language, he was probably taken in by the merfolk.

15 years old, and he could only write his name, so he had probably lived

the boy. He wanted to see if this most primitive

mermaid and hesitated for a moment. The mermaid kept

that another human being cared so much for him. Philip patted him on the back and comforted him.

aquarium was opened. Some workers came in to clean up and feed the fish. One of them saw

a skinny man came over. He recognized the mermaid in the water tank and said with shining eyes, “My

at him but felt

case, how much will it cost for us

in front of him coldly and said, “Call

duty today, and you don’t call the shots here. Trespassing on private premises makes you look like a terrorist

man said to the

that those people had bad intentions, the boy crouched down in an

took a step forward, stood in front of the boy, and said loudly, “Let’s see who dares

figure in front of him reminded the boy of his father who often carried him on his back when