Ye Luoli: The Water Prince Returns to His Yandere Ways

The final battle is over. Wang Mo leaves her three-year unrequited love behind and disappears into the ordinary world, unaware that the icy blue figure beneath the Pure Water Lake has held her in his arms through countless late nights, obsessively tracing her every feature.

“Mo Mo, you can’t escape me.”

Shui Qingli’s love is so possessive it cuts to the bone. For her, he breaks the boundary between immortals and mortals, weaving water into a cage and imprisoning her in the Water Exquisite Palace. He is a god who commands all waters, yet before her he sheds his cold reserve: with icy fingertips, he winds her hair around them; with lingering kisses, he steals her breath. In his madness, he declares, “Water has no shape, so I’ll shape a cage for you,” giving voice to the sole obsession that has endured through a thousand years of loneliness.

“Your tears are mine, your breath is mine, and even the love you’ve hidden in your heart for three years can belong only to me.”

The divide between immortals and mortals, freedom and confinement, hatred and surrender collide in a tormenting push and pull. He uses obsession as a blade and adoration as a shield, trapping her in a tender cage meant for her alone. She struggles against his suffocating possession, yet in the madness and vulnerability in his eyes, she glimpses a love that has spanned a thousand years.

When her thoughts of escape are shackled by chains of water, and his kisses soothe her resisting heartbeat, this forbidden love between immortal and mortal, born of unrequited love, bound by captivity, and ending in surrender, is destined to drown in their all-consuming passion beneath the Pure Water Lake.

A short story, likely to be finished before the semester starts. There aren’t many characters, and no couples will be broken up. Apologies for any out-of-character portrayals.