Who touch my tails?!! Chapter 88

7.1 - It did not an that he was making way for the protagonist shou

translator: xiin

editors: alarysl & BlueBug

After getting the results that she wanted, the mada 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 disagreent with his actions, "Young Master, how could you have agreed to Mada 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 engagent with you, she has always disliked you the most. You've finally gotten the engagent you insisted on, so why are you now changing your mind again?"

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 seed 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 ca across as particularly innocent. "This identity that the host has been given is extrely 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 n to have children outside of science were all similar to ABO.

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

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

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

That's right. Although there were won in this world, over the passage of ti, they had already lost the ability to reproduce. Only by transforming into rfolk 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 rfolk. Not everyone could get a rperson pregnant, and ordinary people may never co into contact with a rmaid or rman in their entire lives. Rather, the only ones who could get rfolk 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 rfolk combined was half the number of breeders.

Calculated this way, rfolk were definitely precious, and it was no wonder that the mada had been so careful when asking him to break off the engagent.

The original owner of this body was nad Yan Qiwen. He was the adopted son of the Duke's Palace, and was a little rman young master that grew up refined and trained in the classics. He had been brought up sheltered in a boudoir and had no knowledge of the world. He saw the protagonist gong Lou Cen for the first ti during the banquet held for his eighteenth birthday, which was the beginning of a mistake that lasted a lifeti.

He was a cannon fodder character who couldn't possibly be more like a cannon fodder. The reason why the system would say that this identity was especially well suited to interact with the protagonist gong and shou was very simple: it was because the original body owner was the key person who triggered the main plotline of the story.

The Duchess had laid a rmaid egg eighteen years ago, and she loved her youngest son more than her life. However, the rmaid egg was stolen during a trip to the sea. The Duke assigned a lot of manpower to search for it, but could not find even a trace of their family's little young master. Instead, they found and picked up another rmaid egg that was on the verge of death from the beach.

The Duchess who had just lost her youngest son took in this rmaid egg as her spiritual replacent and sentintally cared for it. Five months later, the egg hatched a little rchild with a black and gold tail. The little rchild was given the na Yan Qiwen, and beca the youngest son of the Duke's Palace.

Despite having a spiritual replacent, the Duchess was still hopeful about finding her own son. And the little rmaid egg that had disappeared at the seaside, naturally, this little rchild was precisely the protagonist shou.

Yan Qiwen had reached eighteen years of age, but he was still naïve, sheltered, and ignorant. During the dinner banquet that the Duke's Palace hosted for his eighteenth birthday, he fell in love with Lou Cen, the protagonist gong, at first sight, crying and making a fuss that he would never marry if it was anyone other than him.

Lou Cen was a soldier who had accomplished much in recent years. He had constantly been striving hard for his career, and was both upright and serious. He did not want to start a family now, nor did he want to marry a rman who had only just reached adulthood, as it would completely slow him down. Only, the Duke's Palace was powerful, and because the Duchess truly had no way to hold up against the crying and wailing of the little rchild that she had carefully looked after from birth, she could only entreat the Duke to find a way to ensure that the two would get married.

Unfortunately, Lou Cen fell into a coma because of an accident during his recent mission even before the engagent ceremony could be held. The hospital confird that it was possible that he might not wake up from his coma at all. Or, he might survive this crisis and beco a SSS level breeder. If he woke up, then the officers would be welcoming another into their ranks, becoming a general would not be a problem, and even becoming a marshal would not be nothing but a dream. Of course, the premise was that he needed to wake up.

The original host of this body was not worried that his sweetheart would not survive, so he had flatly refused when Mada Lou asked him to dissolve his engagent. However, Mada Lou was not satisfied with the original body's owner as he was too naïve and easy to cheat. In Mada Lou's heart, marrying such a person would not be helpful to her son at all, let alone that she privately had a close relationship with the protagonist shou, and had always wanted the protagonist shou to beco her daughter-in-law. So, she was very diligent in inviting the original to co out and talk.

The accident also occurred during such an invitation. The original body's owner had always pushed to see Lou Cen, wanting stay by his side to accompany him, but Mada Lou had always used all kinds of reasons and excuses to influence the original's crush on Lou Cen. The repeated refusals made the original realize that Mada Lou was unhappy with him, and during one such instance, he could no longer tolerate Mada Lou's coldness and neglect towards him. He left without his bodyguards, and was thus kidnapped.

The original owner had a very magical body. He could transform his tail into human legs at will, but because he was raised as a rperson from an early age, the original body's owner did not regard this as a talent. Rather, he felt that he was a terrible monster and not a good rperson at all, because a good rperson would never have a pair of legs. So, he had always kept silent on this point, and no one else, not even the Duchess who loved him so much knew about this. And he had been kidnapped exactly because of that little secret.

His kidnappers belonged to an underground rfolk research laboratory. They studied the history of rfolk, wanting to know the origin of rfolk and whether or not there was any way to create more rfolk and make human society more prosperous without having to spend so much effort and work so hard to reproduce.

Eighteen years ago, the rfolk research laboratory discovered deep-sea rfolk. They stole an egg from those deep-sea rfolk that did not ever co ashore. But due to unexpected circumstances, in order to escape the deep-sea rfolk's pursuit, they hid the egg on the beach. And then… the Duchess who had been looking for her son dug it up.

This egg was Yan Qiwen.

The rflk laboratory spent more than ten years trying to find him. They planned and nurtured sches ceaselessly in order to kidnap him, and they had Mada Lou to thank for creating an opportunity for them and allowing them to acquire their desired research target so smoothly.

The plot could be considered to have completely unfolded after that. Yan Qiwen disappeared, Mada Lou was questioned by the duke, the protagonist gong woke up, the protagonist shou mixed into this ss, and the story really began, but Yan Qiwen already had no part to play.

Needless to say, after a long period of ti, the protagonist gong finally destroyed the rflk laboratory and discovered news of Yan Qiwen who had committed suicide because he had been unable to bear the suffering. He was rembered and mourned, which could be considered as a kind of drama.

He could be regarded as the starting point of the whole plot. His kidnapping helped the protagonist gong and shou et each other, and allowed the Duchess to find her own son. His death also agitated the entire ocean population, causing the deep-sea rmaids and humans to erupt into intense conflict and strife. The war gave the protagonist gong opportunities to rise up in the ranks and increase his inco, reaching the peak of his life, and allowed the 'Holy Mary' shou to shine even brighter as the shou turned on his golden finger abilities and finally resolved the contradictions between the two races.

Living in glory, and dying in greatness.

Xue Ling finished going through the plot and sighed.

"Did this little rchild have any unfulfilled wishes?" Xue Ling asked the system. After reading the information, he had to agree that there were benefits to this identity. First of all, he could turn this annoying fishtail into a pair of legs; second, this identity had the lineage of the deep-sea rfolk's royal family. Becoming successful was simply a matter of minutes as his own body was the biggest trump card. Coupled with the fact that deep-sea rfolk and the natural rfolk had completely different body structures, his body was not nearly as weak and frail as it looked. This would make it much easier for him to deal with matters.

"He died too painfully. He was tortured over and over again. He could not beg for life, nor was he allowed death; he only wanted to completely destroy the rmaid laboratory."

Xue Ling raised his eyebrows. This was slightly more interesting, and it even involved taking the plot away from the protagonist, which coincided with his task to change the protagonists' fate. "He didn't want to be with Lou Cen and grow old together?"

"He had a kind of idol worship towards Lou Cen. You can open your nano-computer to check - Lou Cen had a large number of fans on the rmaid network, and he could be counted as one of those brain-impaired fans. Before he died, he had always hoped that Lou Cen would co and save him, but after the people in the laboratory showed him news of Lou Cen's engagent to the protagonist shou, he completely lost hope, which was probably one of the reasons for his suicide."

"His own ex-fiance announced an engagent to another man less than two months after his disappearance, and that other man was the true son of the Duke's Palace. All the information he had received from childhood to adulthood was completely overturned. It is normal that he suddenly lost his ** to survive, leaving only his extre hatred for the research institute."

Xue Ling rubbed his chin and lowered his gaze as a slow smile erged on his lips.

He approximately knew how long it would be before Lou Cen woke up. After he woke up, he would be the Empire's only SSS-class powerhouse, an absolute bug.

But, that had nothing to do with Xue Ling. After all, when he woke up, he would discover that Xue Ling had already broken off their engagent, and he didn't even have to think to know that Mada Lou would purposely slander him in front of Lou Cen. At that ti, his relationship with Lou Cen would beco particularly awkward, and the protagonist shou would co on stage like the tide and build up goodwill with Lou Cen.

Xue Ling never looked back with regret on the things he had already done, so he had no intention of going back on his word and reversing the broken engagent. However, breaking off the engagent did not an that he was making way for the protagonist shou.

The protagonist shou grew up by the sea. He had been adopted by a peasant who fished for a living, and was accompanied by the sea every day. He t a deep-sea rmaid, which was what allowed him to act as a go-between for the deep-sea rmaids and human beings later on the story.

This year was the protagonist shou's eighteenth birthday and he was sent to the Empire's Capital to learn skills that all rmaids needed to have. Although he had co from a peasant family, he had the protagonist's halo, and the protagonist shou's treatnt was exactly the sa as that of aristocrats.

As a natural rmaid, he never had to worry about his life and future. His talent in design was outstanding, and he beca good friends with a teacher in the rmaid school. Through the teacher, he ca into contact with Mada Lou, and began to have dealings with her, designing dresses and fishtail skirts specially for her. Mada Lou was very fond of him and wanted to introduce this lovely child to her son.

But Yan Qiwen was wedged between them, and knowing that her son had no interest in him, Mada Lou dared to ask Yan Qiwen to terminate the marriage contract during her son's coma, taking advantage of the fact that Yan Qiwen was young and ignorant.

After approximately thinking through the plot's direction, Xue Ling intended to first penetrate the enemy's side first and develop a good relationship with the protagonist shou. It would be best if he could get him to be recognized and accepted into the Duke's Palace right away as it would make it more convenient for him to do things afterwards.

After all, Xue Ling believed that the Duchess would not allow her just-returned child to marry a comatose, vegetable man who had been rejected by her adopted son, even if he woke up as an SSS-class powerhouse.

'Breeders' are basically the 'alphas' of an ABO world, rmaids/rn are the 'ogas' and the normal people are the 'beta' equivalent. The author lied, this setting is even more complicated than the standard ABO setting.

Also, i'm having a lot of trouble with the word 'rperson' … it sounds so strange o.o but 'rmaid' also seems wrong since XL and the MC are both male… we'll see how it goes~