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.

old, and he could only write his name, so he had probably lived with the merfolk for more than ten years. He was a

his arms open to the boy. He

mermaid kept encouraging him. Finally, the boy could not hold back anymore and hugged

first time in more than ten years that another human being cared so much for him. Philip patted him

opened. Some workers came in to clean up and feed the fish. One of them saw Philip and the two creatures and quickly

skinny man came over. He recognized the mermaid in the water tank and said with

did not look at him but felt the emotion the mermaid transmitted to

us to buy your friend?” the

of him

and said, “The manager isn’t on duty today, and you don’t

to budge, the man

had bad intentions, the boy crouched down in an attacking pose,

boy, and said

in front of him reminded the boy of his father who often carried him on his back when he was a child, and