There's a mermaid in my bathtub

Humans and mermaids get along more and more harmoniously. In order to meet the appetite of the new family members, the amount of dishes on the dinner table is twice as large as usual, and they are all seafood-based.

After eating seafood for a week, Jin Sheng has no complaints about making time-consuming and laborious dishes, but the living expenses this month are obviously spent much faster.

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On Saturday afternoon, after a day's work, facing the upcoming holiday, the atmosphere of the whole company was good, except that Jin Sheng was a little absent-minded and often stared at the desktop files in a daze.

On the first day they met, he had promised the mermaid that he would rent a car to take him back to the sea during this weekend.

"Jin Sheng, I have a meeting tonight. I'll give you some materials first. Help me make a temporary PPT. The pictures are all ready, just typesetting." The corner of the table was tapped twice, and Jin Sheng was pulled back. With drifting thoughts, he raised his head and looked at Manager Wu with a Mediterranean hairstyle with a serious face: "I haven't got off work yet, what are you thinking about?"

"It's nothing, manager, I won't stay for a department dinner today, I want to..."

"Huh? The department won't have dinner this week, don't you know? There will be a temporary meeting in City B in the evening, and there will be entertainment after the end. The start time is early, and we will leave in a while."

"Us?" repeated in disbelief, holding the stack of documents with a dazed expression on his face.

"Didn't the secretary tell you, hey, we have a personnel transfer with the head office in the second half of the year. Jin Sheng, your performance is good, your work experience is also qualified, and your evaluation is good. The number of deputy managers has been fixed, so get ready soon."

"Get ready..." Blinking his eyes, his thoughts went blank for too long and he couldn't react, but even if he understood the meaning of these things, he couldn't react too much. "Well, the chance is good now. By the way, it's late tonight, so don't go back. I've assigned a few rooms over there."

"Sorry manager, I have an appointment with...a friend, and I made it last week, so..."

"What agreement is more important than your job promotion? Do you have an appointment with Lin Yi who used to come to you for dinner? Tell him, and you won't understand." With a long sigh, Hai Di glared at Jin Sheng : "Personnel transfers can't happen once in a few years. What can young people have more important than work?"

"No, the situation is a little special..."

"Okay, bring your notebook and make the presentation as you go. There's not enough time. If you have something to do tomorrow, you can do it after the vacation. As for your friend, just call him and talk to him." Waving his hand, it's just right at hand A phone call came, but Jin Sheng's argument was ignored, Manager Wu answered the phone, closed the door, and left the office.

The department manager is right. Large-scale personnel transfers are indeed rare. If you miss this opportunity, there may be no next time. Besides, Jin Sheng has been working under Manager Wu since the beginning of his internship, and he has taken care of him a lot. , he had to listen.

But, what should the mermaid do?

The mermaid wouldn't answer the phone, not to mention that the landline at home was just a decoration, and he couldn't remember how much he owed.But even if the work can't be delayed, Jin Sheng can make minor adjustments in terms of time and catch up.Once business and entertainment are involved, drinking is absolutely unavoidable, but people with high positions are also older, and most of them are people with families. No matter how late they drink, they can't drink until ten o'clock. At that time, it is completely in time to rush home from City B to meet the mermaid. .

Anyway, the original plan was to release the mermaid back into the sea while the night was dark and there were few people on the beach, which delayed the time to go home. It would be safer to 'release' late at night.

Thinking about it this way, I temporarily called and entrusted Lin Yi, who I trust the most, to ask him to help take me home, and I accepted a treat, and then made up the appointment on Wednesday as compensation.After confirming that everything would be carried out as planned and that he would not 'break the contract' to deceive the mermaid, he felt at ease. Jin Sheng left the office with his notebook and documents in his hands without any worries.

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In order to discuss business and cooperation, it is necessary to socialize and drink. After four years of work, I have gone from "drinking one glass" to "not getting drunk after a thousand glasses". It doesn't take a few years to practice drinking.No matter in terms of life or work, Jin Sheng has become more and more mature with age, but it is still jerky in dealing with emotions.

The problem of sexual orientation has been troubled for a long time. I have only been in love once since I graduated from college or in my whole life, and the result was an abnormal failure.

The restaurant dishes selected by the company are all good, but in the wine table culture, alcohol is the protagonist. Even though I know I still have things to do, I can't bear to "persuade" one cup after another. I actually drank a lot. In the end I just passed it to my mouth in a trance following the rhythm of everyone.

I don't know when it started, my mind became blank, the dinner was over, and after seeing Lin Yi who came to pick him up as promised, An Xin closed his eyes in a relaxed manner.

"Hey, Jin Sheng!" Lin Yi stretched out his hand to support Jin Sheng's limp body, he couldn't laugh or cry for a moment.When you look at it from a distance, the person is still fine, why do you lose consciousness as soon as you approach this person?

Taking him into his arms, witnessing Jin Sheng's powerless appearance felt distressed and somewhat satisfied.Although it has never been revealed, Lin Yi likes Jin Sheng, otherwise how could he have stayed by his side for so many years, and even maintained the 'tradition' of eating out together every Wednesday, rain or shine.

Because I like it, I especially look down on Chang Hao. Even if they broke up later, because of the friendship for many years, they hesitated to take that step, and never even thought about confessing. They just simply waited, and waiting was more appropriate Opportunity awaits yourself ready for it all.It's just that Jin Sheng never noticed Lin Yi's thoughts, and only regarded him as a good friend for many years, or a best friend.

Lin Yi is Jin Sheng's high school classmate. After graduating from university, they stayed in City S to develop together. They knew each other deeply. Even if a mermaid was born in the bathtub, Lin Yi would be the first person Jin Sheng asked for help.If Lin Yi had successfully answered the first call made at that time, Jin Sheng might not have opened that door, and now it might be another development.

"Please... take me home..." Frowning against the alcohol, Jin Sheng put his head on Lin Yi, smelling a bit choking.

"Go home? Go home after all this?" Supporting Jin Sheng to stagger the crowd, he did not forget to nod for him and signal to the other people in the bar. After the crowd left, he whispered in his ear: "Why do you Drinking so much? Hey, Jin Sheng, isn't it because you were dumped by Chang Hao, and you used alcohol to relieve your worries?"

"Lin Yi, I...fuck you..." Alcohol paralyzed his nerves, and he couldn't control his movements, but when he heard such a joke, Jin Sheng did not miss it, and patted Lin Yi's arm gently , in exchange for him to exaggerate and sigh: "Jin Sheng, why are you still biting?"

Too lazy to care about the difference between biting and patting, my brain was in a trance, nauseated, nauseated, and a little nauseous, I just repeated: "Send me home Lin Yi, I... have something else to do, I have an appointment with a friend..."

"Well, hello, Manager Wu." Stretching out his hand to pat Jin Sheng's back, someone approached, but he couldn't ignore the person's softer pleading voice after straightening his face.Before that, they deliberately found a company that was close to work. The two always ate together, and there were so many opportunities to meet each other. Naturally, Lin Yi met Jin Sheng's immediate boss, and even exchanged contact information.

"Jin Sheng just has an appointment with you today. I'm sorry, because work disturbed you young people to go out to play. I booked a standard room. You two can stay here tonight and leave tomorrow. It's like a trip to Linshi. , There is a hot spring in the hotel, and when Jin Sheng sobers up tomorrow, it would be nice for the two of us to go and play." Nodding in response, Manager Wu looked at Lin Yi's limp Jin Sheng and sighed, and handed out the room card.

"No...I have to go home..."

Hearing the word 'stay' vaguely, even though his consciousness was completely lost, he opened his misty eyes and emphasized.

"Okay, okay, I'll take you back." Putting Jin Sheng's raised head back on his shoulders, very satisfied with the rather intimate posture, Lin Yi took the room card and winked at Manager Wu .

The best way to "comfort" someone who is drunk and crazy is to obey his wishes.Manager Wu, who was used to socializing and seeing all kinds of behaviors after drinking, instantly understood, and immediately echoed: "Then you two, go back first, slow down on the road, pay attention to safety, go quickly, go quickly."

"Then... sorry to trouble you, manager goodbye..."

How deceitful.

With a chuckle, he gestured to Manager Wu. After Lin Yi put the room card in his pocket, he simply picked him up, walked to the elevator, and pressed it to the hotel floor, completely abandoning the agreement to bring Jin Sheng home. .

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In the early hours of the morning, the bathroom of the eighth-floor apartment kept running.

This week, under the guidance of Jin Sheng, the mermaid has already learned how to use the bathing equipment.The simple operation was intentionally wrong twice, and the deceived human being taught it several times to observe the prey at a close distance.

But tonight, Jin Sheng didn't come home.

The mermaid tapped the bathtub wall lightly with his fingers. He had waited too long, since the man left early in the morning until now, it has been a whole day.

The rhythm of the knocking is getting faster and faster, and he stays in the bathtub all day, just because human beings said that 'the water stains left on the floor are difficult to clean', but to his disappointment, until the sky brightened again, human beings also Did not come back to fulfill the original agreement.

A strange sense of loss spread from the bottom of his heart. This was not the first time that the mermaid realized that Jin Sheng was 'special' to him, probably because it was the first and only 'human' he saw.

It must be like this.

The mermaid came to the world dominated by humans with his purpose from beginning to end, but he hesitated in the process of getting along with Jin Sheng, otherwise, it would be easy to complete his "task".

It was completely bright.

After releasing the water in the bathtub, the mermaid didn't wait any longer, opened the door and left the bathroom, her eyes stopped at the door of the living room.In fact, for him, as long as there is water, he can leave whenever he wants, but... even if the human beings did not keep the appointment, he would like to wait a little longer.

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The sky is getting brighter and brighter, even if the water on the body surface dries up and loses, but also insists on guarding the door. The over-acute hearing can distinguish the sound of vehicles leaving the courtyard gate and running over the bumper in the community, as well as getting closer and closer. The two talk the sound of.

Among them, there is his human 'collaborator'.

But the other male voice was strange and harsh. Because of this, the mermaid's face became more and more ugly. Finally, the key was inserted into the door, and there was a crackling sound.