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Little Shark Doesn’t Want To Work Hard Anymore
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Su Su was a young shark who had just reached adulthood and often didn’t have enough to eat because of his large food intake and poor hunting skills. Hearing that mermaids could be raised by humans, Su Su found the mermaid tribe in the sea and sought a way to become a mermaid.

The most beautiful little mermaid in the mermaid tribe escaped marriage and was originally promised to the imperial admiral, but he fell in love with a killer whale in the sea.

The little shark became a stand-in for the little mermaid and was packed into a huge fishing boat.

Imperial Admiral Qi Hanyi was forced by the empire to marry a mermaid, and when he returned from the battlefield, he heard that mermaid had been washed and sent to his home.

“No, I won’t raise it, send it away immediately.”

Qi Hanyi angrily hung up the phone and rushed back home: “Where is the mermaid?”

In the empty dark blue huge fish pond, a two-meter-long shark swung its tail and emerged from the surface of the pool.

He opened his mouth toward Qi Hanyi, showing a row of neatly pointed teeth, waving his fins to greet him cheerfully, and pointed to his mouth.

Then Qi Hanyi heard the shark in front of him stuttering to him in a not-so-skilled human language: “Honey, hungry, hungry, food.”

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小鲨鱼不想努力了
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I Was Raised After Being a Mermaid (2)
The Ancient Mermaid Transmigrated to the Interstellar (1)
After Marrying the Mermaid Boss (1)
The Villainous Marshal’s Little Mermaid is Reborn (1)
The Male Zerg Is Not an Omega (1)
Transmigrated Into the Violent Boss’ Little Mermaid (1)
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CodiChannnn
New CodiChannnn rated it
June 2, 2025
Status: Completed
Very interesting premise with a kinda animalistic MC that doesnt follow typical morals and isn't forced into them. Very refreshing for sure. The plot in itself starts strong ends off too easy bcs the problem they have presented is bigger than the solution they r offering. As there are also no extras it feels like there was no reward for fighting through the rather heavy plot.
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starryskies
New starryskies rated it
June 2, 2025
Status: c21
I'm not rating it lower only because I didn't finish it, or it'd have been a 1 or 2 stars at most. All my opinions are based on the first 21 chapters so maybe the story gets better later, or maybe it stays the same, but there's not much worse it can get for me.

The MC goes by his mother's surname, Su, and in an effort to turn from a shark into a merman (I refuse to call him a mermaid), ends up entangled in an interspecies marriage and becomes... more>> the partner of the ML, who's an imperial admiral.

So far, the MC is like any other animal-turned-to-human-boy MC: he's cheerful, cute, innocent, naïvely trusting, quirkily fixated on food, and of course, so intensely beautiful that he invokes everyone's interest at first sight. Considering he's just 18 and barely legal, it's an instant ick.

The ML is almost thirty, so his repetitive lust for someone more than ten years younger doesn't paint him in a good light. He's also a typical ML with SSS power both physically and spiritually, a face so cold that he intimidates everyone, and with only the clueless and incredibly beautiful MC able to melt his frozen heart. You know, the usual.

The ML despises merfolk because his mother, a mermaid forced to marry his father, killed his father and tried to drown him as well. While what she did to him was horrible, the ML so far has only shown that he hates all merfolk due to it, but hasn't shown any negative opinion about the crappy laws that allow humans to possess and treat merfolk like they're some pet + breeder combo, which must have caused his mother's resentment in the first place. I hope the story just hasn't had a chance to show the ML's views on it yet.

The story emphasizes that due to the ML having SSS level power, his intelligence is also supreme. But all I can see is incompetence when he brings the MC out to a banquet in the hopes of drawing out his enemies, then promptly abandons the naïve MC to get caught up in multiple people's schemes and only arrives after everything is almost over. Oh yeah, I can feel his brimming intelligence... not.

Another character stated to be intelligent is the ML's S level cousin, whose "intelligent" scheme to entrap the ML through MC is such a cliché that it made me drop this story. It's the classic shoujo/BL villain move of:

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drugging the MC with an aphrodisiac and shoving someone else in the room with him, then bringing a crowd of people to witness the shameful scene of the MC 'cheating'.

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Of course, it doesn't go according to plan because of our good friend, the protagonist halo. But if this kind of cheap drama is what I can expect from this story, then sign me the heck out.

As for the translation, it's fine grammatically, but certain terms and pronouns keep being changed so it makes certain things difficult to understand at first glance. I still don't know if the merfolk High Priest is male or female.

So far, nothing has even remotely convinced me to keep reading, so I've decided to stop here. <<less
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Kakipii13
Kakipii13 rated it
November 20, 2023
Status: Completed
Very good, and much deeper and more serious than the synopsis suggests. Has the interstellar setting of mermaids being able to cure mental riots of soldiers who use psychic powers to fight off Zerg aliens who want to annihilate all other life in the universe. This time, mermaids have their own civilization and are just as intelligent as humans. There are two kinds of mermaids: there are the regular mermaids you think of, can switch between mermaid and human forms, and mer... persons? born between mermaids and sea creatures who... more>> can only be in fish form. The merpeople and current humans all share a common ancestor and originate form the same planet, but because merpeople can't beat humans' superior technology in a war and humans are the ones keeping the Zerg from wiping out all life on the planet, you get an unbalanced relationship between the two species where the merpeople are begrudgingly subservient to humans and many humans treat mermaids like sh*t and most definitely conduct illegal experiments on them.

Amidst all this, our MC is a shark merperson, living the life of a actual shark, who wants to be able to live on earth like a human. Because despite the mermaids trying to convince him that humans will treat him bad because they won't respect him as a person, it turns out that living as a wild animal, fighting for your life every day, and having no friends or loved ones is much worse than being treated like a pet. Also the MC likes spaceships. MC is the cute naive type... except that he isn't as innocent or as unknowledgeable as he acts, he just pretends otherwise because there are some legitimate gaps in his knowledge and experience and he just wants to go with the flow. He actually comes off as rather heartless sometimes, because he spent most of his life living as a shark fighting to survive every day while his brethren went out of their way to slowly starve him to death, so now he cares more about becoming a spaceship pilot than fighting for mermaid rights.

After the MC gets some magical pills that will hopefully permanently make him a regular mermaid that can take human form, he accidentally ends up switching places with the mermaid who is supposed to be betrothed to the ML, who also happens to be the military commander in charge of the MC's favorite spaceship. The ML doesn't want to marry a mermaid for various reasons, the most important being because of past trauma and stuff. But the MC got to the land like he wanted to and inadvertently helped the ML dodge a political scheme, so the two agree to cooperate until they can go their separate ways without causing an international incident. In the meantime, the threat of a mermaid rebellion and the self-centered actions of human noblemen mean that everyone's focus is on things like controlling mermaids or controlling political opponents or controlling the military power the ML commands, while the ML is the only person still worried about the Zerg and how infighting is going to make things worse if the Zerg get intel and decide to attack. That the ML and MC still keep bringing up the Zerg while the powers of the humans and mermaids alike blow off their possible threat serves as ominous foreshadowing.

The conspiracy is uncovered, MC and ML do some badass stuff and also fall in love, and a moral message that hits way too close to real life is actually shared in an effective way - "Instead of focusing on 'getting back' at the group who wronged you, maybe you should do things that would actually help those have been hurt? Is your goal to help your people or is your goal to hurt others?" (And also courtesy of our MC "Yeah a lot of humans treated mermaids terribly but living as a wild animal, fighting for your life every day with fellow members of your species actively trying to kill you of when they don't even have to, having no friends or loved ones, and being treated kinda as an outsider even by regular mermaids who spout this self-righteousness is much worse, ya'll are weaksause and need to git gud.") All the while the MC and ML's relationship grows in a natural way, and while ML's past trauma generates some resistance, the two's relationship lacks contrived or convoluted drama and their care and trust in each other is touching. Their growth together is an important part of the plot and not just tacked on fluff.

There are a lot of stories that try the whole allegory to real-world discrimination problems thing and they aren't carried out very well. This story is different in that A) While there are some valuable takeaways like the one above, the discrimination issue here isn't comparable to real life, so there's not really any issue of sensitivity or mishandling of the issues of real-world groups and B) There is nuance; both sides have a**holes and radicals who are self-centered and don't actually care about the people at the bottom, and both sides have people with good intentions fighting against impossible odds. There are also real actions, changes, and hope for the future by the time the story ends, rather than just flowery promises.

TL, DR - This story is an interstellar mermaid-raising story like many others where mermaids heal damaged psychics, but there is a lot of other stuff going on besides. Unlike what the cover image and synopsis would suggest there are a lot of politics and heavy themes, and it's not just about fighting for the throne or something but over hard-hitting social issues. While the MC has a stake in the conflict he takes on a third perspective in the humans vs. mermaids issues, and starts an observer of of the world in place of the audience but grows as a character. Both the MC and the ML are interesting characters and have character development, and side characters are also nuanced and experience growth. MC and ML's relationship lacks forced drama and is important to the story, though it's not exactly the focus of the story. A lot of stuff happens, like VR online battles and other stuff, but you can see from the above review/summary where the main force of the narrative lies. 4/5, because I do think there were some areas where the story was lacking, but what it had was all good and solid. <<less
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Plinky25
Plinky25 rated it
November 27, 2024
Status: c89
I was reading the better translation and was so interested in the story that I couldn't wait so I used machine translation to read the rest of the story lol. I finished it and it kept me interested throughout the whole story.

About MC (Su Su) :

I loved the mc's personality. Su Su is a very strong, honest, and smart character. He does not hesitate to ask for things or reach his goals. In the beginning, he only wanted the bare minimum of being fed and taken care of like a... more>> pet. But as his world expanded and he received more info and new things, he gradually became more selfish like a regular human. Which was not a bad thing at all, but very realistic. It's like being alone all your life but finally finding family, you previously wouldn't care if you were on your own, but not that you tasted affection, you will naturally be scared to let it go and wish for more than you initially thought of. I also love the fact that Su Su still thinks like a shark, independent and for his own survival and wanting to conquer.

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There's a bunch of organizations within the story where many groups just collude for their own wishes, and Su Su of course ends up mixed in it. There's those that hate humans and seek revenge for mermaids. There's the mermaids who live in their own palace under the sea and just mind their own business, trading resources and have agreements with the humans. Nice humans who seek equality between the mermaids and humans. Aristocrats that use mermaids and see them as beneath humans. A small faction of joined forces of a prince and member of the ML's family that opposes the ML. Zergs, which are aliens that seek to destroy everyone on the planet and take over.

In a way from a usual standpoint, people would think the humans are the worst since they tortured so many mermaids. But technically both the mermaid haters and human haters are selfish. They both generalized entire races and assumed both side are entirely evil. They both have harmed innocents to achieve their goals. The story of ML's parents is truly tragic. Basically the mermaids that hate humans, have been carrying a belief for generations that humans are all evil and that they must take revenge by annihilating all humans. The parents would instill this belief on their children from the very beginning and basically raise them with only hatred in their hearts. Yan Bai, MC's cousin was given birth to and his parents belonged to this group so they willingly handed their baby over to the leader of the group, to raise him like a pawn.

I love Su Su's character because he really just tears down people with his words alone. Even after Yan Bai was raised by such a person and had instilled the belief, it was Su Su that pointed out the things that did not add up and how they were sacrificing more mermaids safety in order to just get revenge. How they did have a chance to get equality, wish ML's father advocating for that, but their selfishness ruined their chances and mu*dered him just for not cooperating with their plan to get rid of all humans. It was so cruel that the ML's mom, a mermaid, was a spy who deceived them, tortured and killed ML's father in front of the ML and then tried to drown the ML afterwards. The father suffered by having all of his fingers removed, his eyes taken out, his nose, and stabbed multiple times. All the while the father did not blame the mother, as he loved her so much and only pleaded with her to spare their child. The mother had so much hate ingrained into her due to her upbringing that she could no longer see reason.

I also enjoy how even when Yan Bai tried to make MC's come to their side, MC didn't care about the mermaid's suffering. The topic was irrelevant to his beliefs and life. He had lived independently as a shark and had no attachment to mermaids as he never grew up with mermaids. He only chose what he wanted to do for himself. He also has no feelings of needing to be unnecessarily kind and is just blunt about his thoughts. When he rejected someone's request to team up, he said it was because they were weaker than him and it would be no advantage to him. Which was true, and they couldn't deny the fact that they also wanted to use MC since they knew he would definitely advance their team. He's super confident that he's stronger than everyone else.

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In the beginning I thought the story would be light, along with the cover looking cute like that lol. But it seemed to be darker. It focused on starship flying a lot and MC's playing a game piloting and winning many achievements. It was super entertaining seeing MC play the games. The only con I'd have to say is:

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towards the ending, we don't really get see a final battle in detail including the starship piloting MC learned. It was more-so a summary of him being successful rather than going into detail about how he defeated real Zergs. And there also was no final fight in the last round of the competition. But I'm not mad at it since it focused on MC's main priority which was saving the ML. I guess it is true that MC didn't need to show a full detailed fight since he already showed to everyone how much of a genius he was with his skills and capabilities. In the beginning of the story Su Su only wanted food. By the end of the story, Su Su only wanted his love.

I wish we got a little bit more of the sweet relationship of MC and ML. Of course their moments were sprinkled within the story, but they only really got to enjoy their relationship together at the very end due to all the dangers around them.

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SunlitFlight
SunlitFlight rated it
February 6, 2024
Status: Completed
I adored it. You can't help but delight in seeing Su Su in his many forms. Cutely playful and innocent, gorgeously arrogant, and sharp-witted hunter. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing his story and how he and Qi Hanyi's relationship developed. Don't worry, there's plenty of adventure and excitement around conspiracies, starships, and Zerg; it's not pure relationship fluff. I might have to re-read this again in awhile. And that's not something I do with many novels. It's pretty easy to mtl. Just search the japanese name and use google chrome's built-in... more>> translator (3 lines button, then translate button if it doesn't automatically). <<less
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Yoya
Yoya rated it
April 29, 2025
Status: Completed
Initially I thought MC would be weak cutesy and dumb but he actually had character. I was surprised that the plot was actually interesting but I wish the ending wasn’t so abrupt. It felt like author ended up just wrapping everything up.

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even the virtual game fights had more detail than the actual end game boss fight

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AdalSaira
AdalSaira rated it
November 18, 2024
Status: --
i must say first. Like I just read a few chapter, 4 or 5 or some. But really I am like wowwwwww by Su Su's intelligence. I mean, he may be an OP characters but the whole personalities also great like, I really agree with the other commentor.

its been a while, long long while, since I finally see "intelligent life form" of MC. Like in other novel, the MC usually often "confused" about the things happen to him and using words such as "confused" "confusing" "doesnt understand" "why can it... more>> happen" etc etc as their acts or scenes description is indeed give a meng feeling. Like a child.

but when you see a truly smart MC that has normal human brain capacity. Altho, yes he is not human technically. Still give you this new feeling of satisfying.

cause not only do we as reader have understanding of the whole picture give by our third/god's perspective, but having MC with relatable logic and profound understanding is soooooo wow.

or maybe this author particularly has a good writing skill.

anyway, I love this and it fits my expectation considering I have read the whole comments.

i may recommend for you to TRY THIS.

edit: im dying and I invite you to die too

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Su Su remembered that they had indeed made such an agreement, but things were different now, and Su Su wanted to renege on it. He held up the shark doll: "But we both already have cubs. Aren't you going to take responsibility?"

　　Qi Hanyi's cold expression that he had managed to hold together broke instantly, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise, and his eyes softened a bit. He rubbed Su Su's head hard, his tone seemed helpless, but also with an indescribable indulgence: "Stop making trouble."

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THEY ARE SO f*ckING CUTE

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i hate yan san so much. Save yan bai from him! Zong Hei! DONT JUST STAND AND DO AS YOU ARE TOLD. Use your smart brain when you command someone and realize that yan san is not good for Yan Bai. PLEASE.

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i just realized Su Su has Talk-No-Jutsu skill. Damn. Every sentence he spout off make people speechless and turning their world-view

the last action scene with Queen Zerg was epic. Tho not detailed much. The whole concept about the existence of mermaid also great! Idk what other vocab I can use damn eventho I am a nerd. Anyway, this is absolutely banger!

i am waiting for extra like whats happen to Yan Bai dan Zhong Hei [cry. Jpg] <<less
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clownprince
clownprince rated it
February 27, 2025
Status: Completed
This little shark is low-maintenance and only demands hugs and kisses (and a lot of fish) !!!!

Our couple is so cute and smart; they piece information together easily, allowing the novel to be relatively fast-paced and avoiding boredom. However I wish it was longer because I thought the setting was really interesting.
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Staringatastar
Staringatastar rated it
May 14, 2025
Status: c91
The high rating is well deserved. There's slight name and gender mixups in the translation, but nothing serious. And the topics it tackles is tremendous. But even though it's weighing in on a lot of heavy topics, the story doesn't become a lecture, and the plot/relationship stays in central position.

I loved the personality of the main couple. They were very good for each other, there was only minor misunderstandings, and they put their all into pursuing what they wanted.

The author touches on some great ideas around needing an equal relationship... more>> in marriage, and the harm of forced marriages that only one person controls, and the need for people to see examples of what a rewarding and healthy relationship is.

The mermaid and human conflict in this story also perfectly illustrate the danger of focusing on revenge over working towards a better future. It also emphasizes the importance of taking help when it is given (is the pleasure of maintaining some imaginary dignity worth rejecting support from people who are supporting because of pity, condescension, etc?), and not generalizing what a couple loud/powerful members of a group promote as the feelings of every member of that group.

If humans could just internalize those couple of points, there'd be so much more willingness to understand and accommodate everyone.

I'm not sure I agree with the author's opinion on how people should go high risk/high reward. I think everyone has their own threshold for risk, and none of it is wrong. Many times, balancing the risk and rewards is the right move to make. In reality, stability is often better than flashy ups and downs. However, I admit that sometimes, people can trigger miracles by taking a calculated risk. That said, don't forget about the many who try and fail. <<less
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Treesa
Treesa rated it
March 1, 2025
Status: c30
Super cute fun read. Liking the growing relationship between the leads, with the obligatory emotionally stifled top with a sad past and a sunshine bottom. Looks into racism against mermaids and racial inequality but MC shark isn’t bothered too much by the intrigue going on and just does what they want and it turns out well. A no stress read other than the fact that the next chapter button doesn’t work so you’ll need the contenders page open to go and get the next chapter.
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reader272
reader272 rated it
February 24, 2025
Status: Completed
The cute novel art did not prepare me for the action and conspiracies within this novel.

It's been a while since I've read a novel where the MC's convictions stays the same throughout and the plot did not require him to change-for good reasons.

At first, I thought MC was really ruthless and his motives were self-indulgent. However my initial assessment of him overturned after finishing the whole novel. It was really cool seeing how the MC's life philosophy helped out so many people and I found his actions making so much... more>> sense. He fought logic with logic and I can't help but admire this kind of character.

There were some scenes I felt really uncomfortable reading
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The mermaid torture scenes

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but I appreciate the author for writing them in such a way it shone true light on the conspiracies and evil happening within.

The scenes later on were very satisfying, I especially love how doting ML is towards MC. There were some pretty illogical bio-terms that confused me while reading, but I'm closing an eye since it's a fantasy world. All in all it was relatively short so I finished it in 2 days, and the length was alright for a plot like this. Very satisfying read.

P.s It was a lil funny to see the chrysanthemum translator having a gura profile picture after the novel described how MC is a silver-blue toned shark <<less
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