Born under water.

We are in a fantastic world where every living soul knows that seeing a fish turning into a human and starting to walk next to humans isn't something out of ordinary. In this world there are magical creatures living everywhere: on the ground, in the sky and waters. Our story begins in the Empire of Waters where the mermaid people are living and waiting for the big day to come. That big day is the day when a next royal member will come into their world and share the burdens of their world with them.

In the sixth day of June, the queen laid a shining egg that was going to hatch in seven days. Everyone was saying that it will be a prince because the colours of the egg were frequently changing but they were wrong. In the seventh day when the egg cracks a beautiful little girl comes out of it. It is a princess and they name her "Zhenzhu" or "Pearl". The mermaid people aren't disappointed by the gender of the child because in the royal family are only princes and she becomes the first princess.

Starting that day, Zhenzhu's days are a bliss because she's being pampered by everyone and grows up surrounded by a lot of affection and stories about the human realm. At scholar she learns for the first time that the humans have legs to walk on the ground and also that is possible for every inferior creature to gain a human shape after years of cultivation and hard training. That day she decides to have a dream, to reach the level that allows her to transform her body into a human shape. Zhenzhu is fascinated by her teacher's tales that is why she wishes to visit the human realm when she grows up. At the age of fifteen, she is already able to completely maintain a human body transformation for a whole month without changing back into a fish. She requests the permission to go to the human world from her parents but her request is not approved because she is still under the age of twenty, the maturity age for a mermaid child.The under water realm was in good trading relations with the humans but in the last years the people from the surface became greedy seeing the ability of the underwater people of producing high quality pearls, so they started to capture them and turn them into slaves.

The two worlds lost their trust in each other and the mermaid people started to see the humans as their number one enemy. Maybe Zhenzhu's dream isn't that easy to accomplish anymore but the burning flame inside her isn't extinguished by the conflicts between their nations.

(Will she be able to follow her dreams?)

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