The scholar encountered a mermaid.
The scholar wanted to know what it meant to live in the sea.
The mermaid told the scholar how painful it was to live at the depths of the sea and how unfortunate it is to be born as a mermaid.
The mermaid asked the scholar what it meant to live on the surface.
The scholar told the mermaid how great it is to live on the surface to cheer her up.
For 7 days, they told each other stories by the shore.
One day, the mermaid was nowhere to be found.
The scholar circled around the shore waiting for a glimpse of the mermaid.
7 months have passed yet she's nowhere to be found.
How unfortunate must be her life in the depths of the sea.
Before she was gone, the scholar told her and wished he could give her a medicine that would turn her fins into legs.
But now, when the mermaid is gone, the scholar wants to grow fins and become a merman.
For 7 years, he looked all around the world to find the medicine to become a merman.
But sadly, there's no medicine to become unfortunate.