

Broke zookeeper Carter was pushed into a lion pit by his vicious ex-wife so she could kill him and cash in on his insurance. But he crawled out alive, and gained a power no one has ever had: he can understand animals. Now the lion is his friend, the kangaroo is his fighter, and the birds are his eyes.... Together, they fight back against their enemy, save a dying zoo from closing for good, drag the wicked into court, and send Carter from the bottom of the world to the very top.

Eight years ago, Seahorse Queen **Seraphina** was ambushed and nearly assassinated in the northern forest of **Norden Reef**. She was saved by **Finn**, a commoner, and the two shared a brief romance. After Seraphina returned to the palace, Finn discovered that he was carrying Seraphina's child in his brood pouch — yet, because she never came back for him, he was forced to stay with the **Marlow** family. Imprisoned by his stepfather **Alders** and his half-brother **Cedric**, Finn had his newborn son **Corwin** forcibly cut from his brood pouch, and the boy was reduced to a tool for brewing the Marlow family's elixir, "**Coral Tears**." Eight years later, Seraphina tracks her way to **Marlow Manor** — only to walk straight into the "real or fake Finn" scheme Alders has carefully engineered. A counterfeit prince consort, **Marina**, enters the palace with a counterfeit crown prince, **Cola**, while the real Finn and Corwin are locked away in the woodshed. Seraphina and the **Dowager Queen** join forces to expose the fraud: Alders and Cedric are executed, Marina is banished, and Finn and Corwin are finally brought home. Afterwards, **Prince Valen**, consumed by jealousy, schemes against Finn and is stripped of his title and reduced to a commoner. When Finn returns home to visit his father, he suffers humiliation at the hands of his stepmother **Elsa** and the local tyrant **Serena**. Seraphina reveals her true identity, has Serena executed, and at last weds Finn in the royal palace. Corwin is named crown prince, and the story draws to a close with the whole family reunited.

Researcher Vera was betrayed by her fiancé Roman and thrown into the Zero Isolation Zone of Jurassic Exile Island, where she became live bait for Draco, a tyrannosaur experimental subject in its rampage phase. At the critical moment, however, Draco halted his jaws because of the special scent emanating from her body. When the high-voltage electric grid attacked, he shielded her with his own body and completed the mating mark—revealing that he was not a pure beast, but a human implanted with tyrannosaur genes. Vera went from utter isolation to fighting alongside Draco, gradually uncovering the conglomerate's conspiracy: Draco was the pure-blood heir of the group's founder, while Roman had tampered with experimental data to seize control. Through constant clashes and growing trust during their escape, Vera became pregnant with a dragon-child and gave birth to an infant named Dax, who possessed a powerful bloodline. Roman pursued them relentlessly. In the final battle in the lower city, he injected himself with the rampaging blood sample, which caused his body to collapse and led to his death. Vera, Draco, and Dax were reunited amid the ruins, and the family of three resolved to face the subsequent manhunt by the financial conglomerate together.