A queen of scientific research vs. a tyrant of the deep sea: an epic struggle of conquest and taming.
On her 29th birthday, Bao Jingjing was dragged into the depths of the sea by a golden-tailed mermaid.
He was violent and obsessive, a god ruling over a kingdom of darkness. He claimed her as his own and imprisoned her in a pearl cage.
He crushed her diving suit, yet built her a hospital out of seaweed.
He snuffed out her distress signal, yet unleashed an apocalyptic tsunami when she was in danger.
Every mermaid warned her: On the night of the full moon, the king would become a mindless beast.
But when that night came, he tore the entire palace apart, then froze when she opened her arms to embrace him.
Later, she gathered life-saving phosphorescent algae for him and negotiated for her return to the human world.
The mermaid king listened silently to all her conditions, then bent down and branded three of his most precious life scales onto her collarbone.
“Bao Jingjing, you may leave.”
“But if you’re gone for even one second, I’ll overturn a whole city.”
“...Do you dare take that bet?”
