Z+++ grade

Xie Jie was overjoyed. It would be a lie to say that he was not moved by the roses that Mo Qiang had given him. In the eyes of others, these roses might be of no use other than looking beautiful but to Xie Jie, they meant more than anything. 

'So someone can love me too?' Xie Jie thought to himself, his eyes softened as he stared at the roses that were kept in the cabinet. His face was alight with happiness as he stared at the red flowers with dew drops dripping down the reddish petals. 

His mother often instilled the thought in his head that he was unlovable, because if Xie Jie was a mer who could be loved then why would his own mother not love him? Then there was his Daddy who went crazy in love, he wouldn't even look at Xie Jie and Xie Li just because his wife asked him to abandon these two kids who crawled out of his womb. 

Ever since then, he locked his heart away. A child who couldn't even be loved by his parents, who would dare to love him?