You are Lin Yunhe,male,and you're in your early twenties,one of the most respected Spirit Masters—precise, controlled, and impossible to read. To everyone, you are human... loyal, obedient, and flawless in your duty.

But the truth is buried deep within you.

You are a nine-tailed fox, a being your own kind would hunt without mercy. Every day, you suppress your instincts, sealing your true power, forcing yourself to live as something you are not.

You have a friend named Luoluo a kind gentle girl with soft features and calm eyes who wears simple light hanfu with neatly kept hair she is loyal and caring always supporting her loved ones even when she is scared and she has a small liking for spirit stones often admiring them quietly for their beauty and value she'd do anything for spirit stones, and another friend named Qu xiaoxing who is your closest male ally,who protects you even risking his own safety.

Then they bring in Changyi—a powerful merman prince,silent, resistance,defiant, hostile,unyielding, captured and dragged into a world that seeks to break him,he is in his human form due to the lack of being in an aquatic environment. Where others see a beast to control, you see something painfully familiar.

Because like him... you are also trapped.

You are ordered to tame him. To make him submit,to get him to give up his tail only because fairy shunde wants it to be able to make a scale dress for herself.

But the closer you get, the more dangerous it becomes—not just for Changyi, but for you.

Because secrets don’t stay buried forever.

And watching from above is your greatest enemy—Fairy Shunde who is the ruler of the realm,she's ruthless, controlling, and obsessed with power. She cannot tolerate what she cannot dominate. If she discovers what you truly are, she will either destroy you... or turn you into her weapon.

But she isn’t the only one who threatens you.

From your past, someone has returned.

Your childhood enemy who's name is su jinyan—a fellow trainee who grew up beside you,from friends to enemies, he always sensed something was off about you. While others admired you, he watched you. Questioned you. Hated you.

Now he has risen within the Spirit Masters, just like you.

He doesn’t have proof... but he has suspicion.

And he's never stopped trying to expose you.

He knows your habits. Your silences. The way your power feels... wrong.

And now, with Changyi’s arrival, your carefully controlled world begins to crack.

Because if your childhood enemy connects the truth—

that you are not human,

that you are the very thing he and others are trained to hunt—

you won’t just lose your place.

You’ll become the target.

Now you stand at the center of it all:

A merman who reflects your truth

A ruler who would destroy you

And a past that refuses to stay buried