The day I ascended to godhood was the day he fell into demonic darkness for me.
Who could have imagined that the War God's glorious divine name was won through two hundred years of darkness endured by a merfolk?
Thunder cracks during the Turning Wheel Ceremony, and Tao Fei awakens after a century of slumber.
At a merfolk rite in the Eastern Sea, one accidental touch leaves him overwhelmed by emptiness. He realizes he's lost a past that once mattered to him more than anything.
Two hundred years ago, the mortal Ye San rescued Shui Ming, a merfolk poisoned and branded a calamity by the Four Seas.
They fell in love as they clung to each other in dire straits. But Ye San was fated to save his country, and Shui Ming left in agony so he wouldn't hold him back.
As Ye San lay dying after giving his life in battle, Shui Ming sacrificed his own essence to help him ascend to godhood, erased their memories, and descended into the demonic path to endure the calamity alone.
As his memories slowly return, Tao Fei resolves to defy fate.
So what if immortals and demons walk different paths? This time, I'll descend into the abyss and find you.
[Bonus Scene: Shui Ming's Self-Deception]
With a mouthful of heart's blood spilling into the turquoise water, Shui Ming raised a hand and conjured a water prison, locking Tao Fei tight as he entered the deep sea.
“Don't get the wrong idea... Let go!”
Fine threads of water coiled around him like soul-binding chains, tightening layer by layer. Bubbles popped with a hiss, setting the official formation humming as if a century of old hatred were churning beneath the surface.
The once-revered lord who ruled the seas now had no roots and nowhere to return to. Even his ancestral sea city could no longer shelter him.
He turned his face away, forcing down the tremor of his shattered soul as he coldly ordered Tao Fei's execution on the spot.
Every word was heartless, every syllable a knife to the heart.
Everyone said he hated the War God to the core.
Only he knew the truth: this slaughter, masked by a show of merciless cruelty, was a lie he'd told himself for two hundred years.
Only when he was on the brink of death a second time, his soul about to shatter, did his obsession collapse in an instant:
I still want to love you one more time.
The aloof, desireless, amnesiac War God as the beloved x the merfolk pursuer, outwardly obedient and gentle but inwardly fragile and unhinged, who bore a century of calamities alone
[Reader's Guide] This is a story about fate and redemption. The opening features intense conflict between the protagonists, and the plot has both angst and sweetness. Their life together is full of adorable little moments. At its heart, this is a story of two people finding warmth and healing in each other as they journey toward one another.
Theme: Loving him, I could not set myself free.
