- Chapter 1
- I’m a mermaid, and Jason bought me for
- thirty million dollars.
- He married me, and we even had a daughter.
- Seven years later, he trapped me and our
- daughter in a fish tank and gave us to his first
- love, Sarah.
- He told Sarah, “As you requested, I’ve kept
- them in water with the special formula for
- seven years. Now you can use them for your
- research.”
- “I can finally marry you. You’ve always been
- the only one I love.”
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- But he didn’t know I could feel his love for
- me.
- He had fallen for me, he just didn’t realize it.
- “No, Jason! Let Lily and me go!”
- I pounded on the glass of the fish tank.
- Jason stood outside, gazing tenderly at
- Sarah.
- “Sarah, what’s the next step?”
- Sarah laughed. “Prepare the injection. It’s
- Г
- time to revert them back to their mermaid
- forms.”
- Panic seized me.
- We weren’t in the ocean. If we transformed
- into mermaids without seawater, Lily and I
- would die.
- Sensing Jason’s heart beating for me, I
- pleaded desperately, “Jason, you said you
- loved me! You promised we’d be together
- forever!”
- “How could you betray me?”
- He glanced at me coldly.
- “Ariel, I never loved you.”
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- “If it weren’t for Sarah’s research, I wouldn’t
- have wasted all these years with you and this
- little brat.”
- I froze. All his kindness had been a lie.
- All those trips to the beach.
- Searching for our favorite seaweed.
- All an act.
- Tears streamed down my face. Each breath
- was a stab of pain.
- Jason picked up a syringe and approached.
- His familiar face now seemed so alien.‘
- “Daddy, no!”
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- Lily cried, shrinking back in fear.
- Jason used to adore Lily.
- He once spent hours diving to find a rare type
- of seaweed she loved.
- He’d said, “My daughter and Ariel are the
- most important people in my life. I’ll give you
- anything you want.”
- Now I realized his affection was a cruel
- deception.
- “Jason, don’t you dare touch Lily!”
- I shielded Lily with my body, facing Jason.
- Just yesterday, he’d held me close and
- whispered, “I bought a house by the ocean.
- and I built you a home in the sea, too.”
- “You’ll be able to swim freely every day.”
- “And I’ll always be there with you, on the shore.”
- Now, he held a syringe, ready to inject us.
- Why? Why were humans so deceitful?
- “Jason, do it to me. Just leave Lily alone.”
- “Please.”
- I knelt, begging.
- “Ariel, it’s no use.”
- Jason’s voice was cold.
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- “No matter how much you beg, I won’t spare
- you. I never loved you.”
- “I was only pretending.”
- “I was nice to you only so I could give you to
- Sarah for her research after seven years.”
- His words chilled me to the bone.
