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The Mermaid I Met by Getting Fired
The Mermaid Is the Easy Part
The Mermaid I Met by Getting Fired is a completed 21-chapter Chinese GL manhua about a burned-out office worker who loses her job, joins a seaside tour and becomes convinced that a pink-haired stranger might be a mermaid.
It sounds like one very specific bad week: lose your job, get sent on a seaside group tour, then meet a pink-haired stranger offering you a can of Coke from the water.
The tail is the hook. Across the story, “mermaid” changes from a miracle into an image strangers try to claim, then into a private name shared by two women who have learned how to listen to each other.
Spoiler note: This is a spoiler-light guide, not a spoiler-free one. It discusses the premise and a few early-story details. If you want the mermaid question to unfold without any hints, read the comic first and come back later.
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01 / SIGHTING
The mermaid is a very good misunderstanding
The early joke works because every ordinary detail leaves the impossible answer alive.
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An impossible sighting, with ordinary details
Ari first appears with pink hair and a tail, but she is not singing on a rock. She is handing a miserable tourist a can of Coke. Then she disappears, leaving behind one very ordinary object and one impossible question.
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The joke is in the wanting
Every new clue should settle the question, yet she keeps finding room for the impossible answer. She is not simply gullible. After months of job applications and parental expectations, believing in a mermaid is also a way to imagine that life might contain something she did not plan for.
02 / RESET
Getting fired is only the beginning
The sea gives the protagonist a distraction, not an instant cure.
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Work had become the measure of everything
Work has become her proof of usefulness. Unemployment therefore feels less like a temporary setback than a loss of adult shape. Even on holiday, she scrolls job listings, rehearses how she has disappointed her parents and treats every idle hour as evidence that she is falling behind.
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Rest is a skill she has lost
She is afraid of the sea, bad at leisure and suspicious of any happiness that cannot be turned into an achievement. At the beach, no one is asking her to prove she is useful. She keeps reaching for her phone because familiar panic feels safer than sitting still. Ari turns that pause into curiosity, not another task to complete.
03 / VOICE
The fantasy starts speaking back
Ari’s first words force the protagonist to meet the person inside the image.
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The fantasy arrives with a script
Before Ari says anything, she has already been cast as beautiful, silent and almost unreal. The role is attractive because it asks nothing of the protagonist: a stranger can become an answer to a life that feels painfully ordinary.
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Ari refuses the part
Ari’s rough voice and hearing loss disrupt that picture immediately. The comic does not treat either as a flaw to be corrected before she can be funny, abrupt, difficult or desirable. She is not waiting to be made easier to love.
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Ari sees the reaction
The protagonist is startled, then embarrassed by being startled. Ari notices. The reaction stops being private once it lands on somebody else. Ari can see the role she has been assigned, and the scene does not let her disappear inside it.
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Listening takes practice
Ari returns to finish a conversation she could not fully hear; later, the protagonist tries sign language. Hearing aids, signing and lip-reading become ordinary tools rather than one dramatic solution. Communication develops through repeated adjustments, each tied to a moment when the old method did not work.
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Care without taking over
Their attempts are awkward, delayed and sometimes incomplete. Listening means changing how the conversation works—not speaking for Ari, guessing what she needs or treating concern as permission to take over. The effort belongs to both women; neither gets to become the flawless rescuer.
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Attraction has to adjust
Curiosity matters more than certainty. The protagonist can keep the silent mermaid she imagined, or keep talking to the woman who answers back. Attraction survives because she becomes interested not in an answer, but in someone capable of contradicting her expectations.
04 / GAZE
Being watched is not the same as being seen
Later chapters place the mermaid image in public view: aquarium light, tourist cameras and a crowd ready to look.
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Admiration has a boundary
Ari first enters the comic as a spectacular image: pink hair, tail, water, wonder. Later, performance imagery and workplace attention make that first impression harder to enjoy without question. The woman inside the image still decides where admiration ends and access begins.
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Visibility is not permission
As public attention grows, it turns into sexual rumours, AI-manipulated images and workplace coercion. The escalation follows one assumption: if Ari can be seen, she can be claimed. The comic rejects it. Looking does not create ownership, and visibility is not consent.
05 / SHARED LANGUAGE
“My mermaid” becomes a private language
“Mermaid” keeps its fairy-tale glow, but the word no longer belongs only to the first sighting.
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They remember what the other misses
The protagonist remembers missed words, tries another way to communicate and notices when Ari is uncomfortable. Ari is never only the person being protected: she remembers conversations that ended too soon and chooses to return to them. Their attention runs in both directions.
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Protection stays messy
Their intimacy grows through botched contact details, dead phones, half-heard sentences and protective impulses with no plan attached. The jokes matter: these two can want each other badly and still be terrible at arranging the next conversation.
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The word belongs to them
“My mermaid” begins as an embarrassed private nickname. Later it means Ari: the woman who interrupted a life organised around failure, and whom the protagonist now wants to meet on her own terms.
Ready to meet Ari? Start with Chapters 1–2 for free, then continue the complete 21-chapter official English edition on Baiheverse when you are ready to see what the impossible seaside encounter becomes.
Start readingCommon questions
01 /Is The Mermaid I Met by Getting Fired completed?
Yes. The official English edition is complete at 21 chapters, with Chapters 1–2 free to start.
02 /What kind of story is The Mermaid I Met by Getting Fired?
It starts with a funny seaside sighting and develops into an adult GL romance about burnout, communication, public attention and mutual care. This guide leaves the mermaid question unanswered.
03 /Is The Mermaid I Met by Getting Fired mostly a comedy?
The opening is funny—job-loss misery, an impossible encounter and two people who are bad at talking to each other. Later chapters include harassment, coercion and suicidal ideation, so the tone does not stay light.
04 /Is The Mermaid I Met by Getting Fired a GL romance?
Yes. It is a Chinese GL manhua about two adult women. The relationship develops through awkward conversations and practical acts of attention, not a conventional fantasy-rescue plot.