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.”

Associated Names
One entry per line
小鲨鱼不想努力了
Related Series
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I Was Raised After Being a Mermaid (1)
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Recommendation Lists
  1. MC isn't human
  2. (BL SCI-FI/APOCALYPSE) TBR/Reading
  3. LIGHT READ. gs
  4. i love you regardless of what you are
  5. Mermaid - animals

Latest Release

Date Group Release
10/31/24 Chrysanthemum Garden c2
10/30/24 Chrysanthemum Garden c1
09/04/23 UntamedAlley c1
Review
2 Reviews


Kakipii13
Kakipii13
Nov 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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SunlitFlight
SunlitFlight
Feb 06, 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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