The first contact with a human.

After sixteen years old, Zhenzhu starts swimming at the surface when no one is around her. Here she finds small and wide beaches, trees, she sees mountains and birds on the blue sky.

Every detail is different from what she usually sees under the water. She often asks herself what is beyond the green trees, huge hills, tall rocks or imense mountains. The girl is well aware of the fact that the world doesn't end in front of these big walls that obstructs her view.

She sees many new landscapes that she wouldn't have been able to see under water and in a stormy day Zhenzhu finds an almost drowned teenager whose fishing ship is destroyed by the strong currents. At first sight, the boy looks dead but when she gets close to his body and listens to the slow beats of his heart with her tiny ears, she realizes that there is still live inside him.

Our heroine drags the unresponsive body to the shore and gives him air with her mouth (artificial respiration). In a few moments the body starts to respond and he wakes up puking a lot of water.

Zhenzhu gets scared by his violent movements in the attempts of coming back to reality and runs away. He shouts at her to stop but the only thing that remains in his possession is her medallion with a white pearl inside. The boy doesn't even have the chance to properly thank her for saving his life. He picks up the medallion and looks at it. For his surprise, he discovers the beautiful pearl inside and starts having strange ideas like: "what if I was saved by a mermaid?"

This though changes his life forever and his opinion about the people from the other realms.

The pearl was Zhenzhu's own tear that she shed at birth, a very important item for a person from the waters. These kind of pearls are the most beautiful and pure pearls that a underwater creature can shed (also the most expensive in the human world).

He was asking himself from where could that girl have taken that rarity but he will only find the truth later in the future.

The boy goes back to his world and when the shore is quiet Zhenzhu returns to search for her lost medallion but she can not find it, even though she is sure that it was lost there when he tried to stop her from running by pulling her hands.

She believes that he must have taken it but where can she find him now? Zhenzhu wants to recover her most precious possession at any cost, so soon after this incident she packs some things and runs from home leaving only a short message: "Father, mother, brothers, I must really go to the world from the surface, there's something I have to go there.I'll be back as soon as possible! Please forgive me, Father. (Your loved daughter and sister, Zhenzhu. )"

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