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.

and he could only write his name, so he had probably lived with the merfolk for more

boy. He wanted to see if this

at the mermaid and hesitated for a moment. The mermaid kept encouraging him. Finally, the boy could not hold

being cared so much for him. Philip patted him on the back and comforted him. The teenager hugged Philip tightly and refused to

workers came in to clean up and feed the fish. One of them

recognized the mermaid in the water tank and said with shining eyes, “My friend, thank you for giving the aquarium a rare

him but felt the emotion the

for us to buy your friend?” the man said, not giving

looked at the well-dressed monster in human skin in front of him coldly

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

the man said

down in an attacking pose, intimidating the people approaching him

the boy, and said loudly, “Let’s see who dares to touch

the boy of his father who often carried him