Who Touched My Tail!

7 - Criss-crossed fish life

7.1 – It did not mean that he was making way for the protagonist shou

translator: xiin
editors: alamerysl & BlueBug

After getting the results that she wanted, the madame spoke for a while with Xue Ling and left. Xue Ling sat in his seat, stared at the dessert in front of him, and spaced out.

He had been accompanied by a little girl, who was now clinging to his hand as she expressed her disagreement with his actions, "Young Master, how could you have agreed to Madame Lou's request? She has never liked the Young Master, and ever since Young Master had desperately insisted on having the Lou family agree to an engagement with you, she has always disliked you the most. You've finally gotten the engagement you insisted on, so why are you now changing your mind again?"

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Xue Ling's head hurt from all her noise. He pushed the dessert on the table forward and said, "Sit there and eat. Let the food occupy your mouth!"

The little girl pouted aggrievedly, her large eyes rolling a little. Seeing that Xue Ling had closed his eyes with an ugly expression on his face, she finally obediently sat down to eat.

The young master seemed truly angry. At the end of the day, he had just been disdained by his future mother-in-law, and even agreed to dissolve the hard-won marriage contract – he must be really sad.

In fact, Xue Ling was currently discussing the problem of his characters' genders in every world with the system, but the system came across as particularly innocent. "This identity that the host has been given is extremely well-suited to interfering with the two protagonists as it is closely related to their identities. I only chose it because I felt like it's really not bad at all. I even opened a big golden finger for my host~"

Xue Ling rolled his eyes, too lazy to pay attention to his own system. "Send the story over." He would beat the system to death after he finished reading up on the plot.

He also had no idea if the marriage contract that he had just eagerly agreed to dissolve would affect his ability to complete his tasks in this world.

This world's settings was not very different from the standard ABO settings. Well, in Xue Ling's opinion, any settings where there was a third gender or factors that allowed men to have children outside of science were all similar to ABO.

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But, since he was incapable of giving birth, he was indifferent to the fundamental settings of this world.

The genders in this world were not as vague as those in ABO worlds. There were basically just men and women, only a certain proportion of them would become merfolk. And yes, merfolk were able to give birth the next generation of merfolk for humans.

There was a distinction between natural merfolk and artificial ones in this world. Natural mermaids or mermen were people like Xue Ling's current body – they were bred by merfolk and hatched from eggs, and when they were 'born', they came out as small eggs. Artificial merfolk were ones who had relied on 'science and technology' to transform human legs into a fishtail. The two different methods for creating a mermaid affected the resulting mermaid's breeding value.

That's right. Although there were women in this world, over the passage of time, they had already lost the ability to reproduce. Only by transforming into merfolk could human beings reproduce 'naturally'.

It was because of this addition gender that the world was also divided into three types: ordinary people, breeders and merfolk. Not everyone could get a merperson pregnant, and ordinary people may never come into contact with a mermaid or merman in their entire lives. Rather, the only ones who could get merfolk pregnant were the 'breeders' who had extraordinary talents. The numbers of these three types of people could be explained with this ratio: the population of breeders was half the size of the ordinary population, while the number of artificial and natural merfolk combined was half the number of breeders.