A long time ago, a scrawny and tiny boy came into the room next to the lab where Askan stayed.
Many children had come and gone in the span of a few days, so Askan never bothered to pay attention to who was in the next room.
However, this boy was different. As much as he wanted to ignore him, he couldn’t. Because the boy talked far too much.
“Brother, how long have you been here?”
Askan couldn’t remember.
All of Askan’s memories were in the lab.
He could only guess that he had been there since he was a newborn.
“Wow, then you’ve been living here for a long time?”
The boy was incessantly curious, constantly asking questions.
Askan barely responded, but the boy’s chatter was relentless.
“I’ll wait here until my mother comes to get me. She promised me she would come when things got better for her.”
Upon hearing that, he realized.
Ah, the boy was abandoned.
Askan had no memories of his parents, but if you were here, you could at least realize that much.
Most of the children in the lab were like that. They were either orphans without parents or children sold by parents in difficult circumstances.
The boy who was called No. 1890.
His story was not particularly special.
What set him apart from others was that every night he wept, not denying reality and sincerely waiting for his parents to come.
“Brother, can you write?”
Askan, being a case that had survived in the lab for a long time, had been subjected to intelligence tests. Thanks to that, he had some professional knowledge, as well as the ability to read and write.
“Can you teach me how to write? I want to show off to my mom when I meet her.”
To put it in one word, the boy was really bothersome.
Whenever the boy was being annoying, Askan plugged his ears and lay down on the bed.
After all, the boy’s parents would not come.
He didn’t want to awaken the reality to the boy who was living in a foolish dream, nor did he want to indulge in the boy’s ridiculous fantasy.
But no matter how much he ignored him, the boy seemed to enjoy following him around.
Perhaps that’s why?
From some point on, Askan started to pay attention to him.
He was unsure if what people often call affection had formed.
The boy held out in the room next door for quite a while.
Around the time when Askan was becoming accustomed to the boy’s chatter.
Suddenly, in the middle of the night, he found out that the boy had been secretly vomiting blood.
He instantly knew it was a side effect of the experiments. Because he knew that a child who vomits blood like that disappears not long after.
“Brother, keep it a secret from the adults. If they find out I vomited blood, they might kick me out of here. I have to wait here somehow until my mother comes.”
The boy was as innocent as he was foolish.
No matter how long he waited, the boy’s parents would not come to pick him up. And it wasn’t something he could hide just because he was hiding it.
As time went on, the boy, who had already been small and thin, started to show clear signs of illness on his face.
Looking at the boy like that, Askan felt inexplicably angry.
He needed medicine.
Even if the boy wasn’t going to live long….
He wanted to get some medicine to at least alleviate the pain.
But no matter how much Askan shouted and made a fuss, no one listened.
No one gave the boy a single painkiller.
He thought he had gotten used to it, but a sense of rebellion rose from deep within his chest.
While they use hundreds and thousands of drugs related to the experiments, they wouldn’t hand out a common painkiller because a child’s life was not worth even a single pill.
Everyone was interested in the results of human weapon experiments. There was no concern for those dying like experimental rats in there.
On a day when the boy vomited an unusual amount of blood, he was once again dragged into the lab.
Instinctively, Askan knew that if the boy was taken now, he would never come back.
The boy probably knew his own condition well.
“Brother! Brother! I don’t want to go! Save me!”
Bang, bang, bang!
Askan pounded on the door with all his strength and shouted.
Don’t take him away.
He doesn’t want to go!
It was the first time he had ever screamed so loudly in his life.
Soon, sturdy men would come with sedatives and beat him, but Askan could no longer just sit and watch.
Was it because he caused such a commotion?
Annoyance was clear on the face of the researcher who was taking the boy away.
“Are you playing at friendship? Do you not know your own status? Should I make sure you do?”
What the researcher thought at that time cannot be known for sure, but one thing was certain.
He knew how to keep Askan from causing trouble again.
“Listen carefully, No. 1890. There is only one way for you to avoid the experiment.”
The researcher pointed at Askan with his finger, looking directly at the child.
“All you have to do is have No. 13 take the experiment in your place.”
The child’s expression changed at that moment.
Color returned to his face, which was filled with a despair that seemed like a lie.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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