Mermaid Effect 《人鱼效应》 Chinese BL Translation by: 黑猫白袜子

Chapter 1

It was a hot and humid summer.

After so many years, Rand had already become incapable of telling what specific day it was, but he could be certain that it was an abnormally hot and humid summer day.

The air was exceptionally humid and stuffy and even the fierce sea winds did not make Rand feel even a little better. A lot of salt was mixed in the wind and it blew against his skin. When he came out of the car, he was barely able to speak before his dry and clean clothes very soon became heavy and sticky, as was his hair and clothes.

"Damn it."

Rand took off his glasses and laboriously wiped his lens clean with a handkerchief.

A tiny droplet from a sea wave splashed up onto his lense, covering his lense with a smudged stain, making his lenses just as blurred as they were before even after he wiped them clean.

"Hey, you better be careful."

He remembered that crude voice. Rand narrowed his eyes and looked down below, and Luis Noah was right in the middle of advancing towards him and calling out for him. Of course, with Rand's eyesight, he can currently only see the vague shadow of Luis.

"Put on your glasses, moron!" Rand's action of squinting was really too obvious. Similarly, his overly awkward behavior also made Luis's manner of speaking become slightly cruder. "It wouldn't be nice to fall off the reef and onto your honorable head."

The coastline of the Blue Moon Coast is covered with reefs of various types. At the same time, it has been unceasingly eroded by the huge continuous sea waves. Almost all of the reefs are exceptionally slippery. If he really lost his footing and fell down, it would lead to a very troublesome situation.

And Rand... Luis's eyes fell on the little pretty boy's body: high-end custom and handmade shirt, Italian leather shoes.

For God's sake, does he actually know that he is here for gathering news?

Considering Rand's identity, Luis coldly as well as hatefully put forward a reminder.

Rand knitted his brows and clumsily put his glasses back on.

Now, the impatience filling out on Luis's face became a bit clearer. He was carefully and cautiously climbing up from the other side of the reef. The camera hung around his neck occasionally knocked against the rocks.

Rand wanted to call attention to this a bit, but in the end, he remained silent.

Interacting with the other party these days has made him thoroughly aware of the other person's impatience and disdain in regards to him.

Okay then, this is understandable.

Rand was forcibly squeezed into the newspaper by Vincent Sievers, his older brother, that "big shot" of the legends. Up until that point, there had never been a journalist with experience of fewer than ten years in the entirety of the Denny's Investigative News Office. They are very proud of this— even though the circulation of this newspaper is only one-tenth what it previously had— Moreover even after it has been bought by Vincent, this kind of haughtiness still exists.

Perhaps this is why the circulation of Denny's Investigative News Office is only one-tenth of what it was before.

Of course, it is impossible for Rand to disclose an assessment of his brother in front of people. In fact, he must admit that his entering into the newspaper did indeed cause a lot of trouble for others... Just like before.

Rand's awkwardness and sluggishness have always caused him a lot of trouble in the past. In spite of him having a pretty good appearance, his black curly hair, beautiful green eyes, and pale skin makes him look more like a recently graduated college student and not a former librarian who spent five years idling away in a small town and was now a rookie journalist.