The First Heir

Seeing that the distance between them was quite appropriate, Philip took out a notebook. With a pen, he drew waves and a few figures that seemed like merpeople on it.

The mermaid became excited, but the boy did not react much.

Was the boy not a merman?

Philip slid his pen and notebook across the floor.

The boy picked them up and started to draw as Philip did. His drawing was quite sloppy, but Philip could still see a few key things, such as the symbol for highly toxic chemicals and a few words that were vague but still legible, which spelled Sammy.

Philip called out tentatively, “Sammy?”

The boy looked up at Philip, his tears uncontrollable. The message contained in those eyes included pain, loneliness, indignity, and deep homesickness.

Philip had some idea now. This boy probably became like this after being exposed to toxic substances. As for knowing the merpeople’s language, he was probably taken in by the merfolk.

looked about 14 or 15 years old, and he could only write his name, so he had probably lived with the merfolk for

spread his arms open to the boy. He wanted to

The mermaid kept

cared so much for him. Philip patted him

workers came in to clean up and feed the fish. One of them saw Philip and the two creatures

while, a skinny man came over. He recognized the mermaid in the water tank and said with shining eyes,

did not look at him but felt the

us to buy your friend?” the man said, not

front of him coldly and said,

on duty today, and you don’t call the shots

Philip refused to budge, the man

those people had bad intentions, the boy crouched down

in front of the boy, and

his father who often carried him on