I Hate Those Who Never Enter the Cycle of Rebirth

A depraved tale of a dead merman...

Abduction and coercion / past and present lives / melodrama / the relentless pursuit of a wife / tragedy

1.

I am Su Limie, a wage worker barely scraping by on the fringes of a big city.

A batch of ancient relics from the sea arrived at the museum. One strange scale stared at me like an eye.

One bizarre thing after another began to happen: water flowing when it had been shut off long ago, a bathtub that wasn't there, water bills soaring, bite marks on my neck... My life started to fall apart.

Then I was haunted by a dead soul.

He said I was his queen. He hated me, but what did that have to do with me?

He clung to me every day, feeding on my yang energy, neither alive nor dead.

Until... I was getting married.

He came to me raving again. What could a dead soul possibly give me? Did he think he was still a king? He couldn't give me anything, not even the basic necessities of life.

I looked at his cold, handsome face and wished he would disappear at once...

He said I owed him a debt I could never repay, not in this life or any other.

He ruined my wedding, killed my unfaithful fiance, and trapped me in a dark rental apartment... Yet he acted as though he were the one who'd suffered some great injustice, kneeling before me as black pearls scattered across the floor.

I dreamed he tied me up and used the sharpest scales on his body to carve into my flesh, stroke by stroke.

How could he not go to hell...? Why couldn't he just die for good?

Truthfully, I don't hate him anymore in this life. His whole body reeks of the sea and death, a stench that will never wash away. But I'm a normal person. I'm not like him.

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2.

Amid war and death, he fell in love at first sight with his enemy's wife.

In this life, she no longer hates him. Unfortunately, she's engaged to someone else.

"Your so-called love is filthy and disgusting, life after life. I can't escape it or forget it. All I can do is curse you to hell, strip off your skin, and make my wedding dress from your flesh and blood. Then we'll become one, never to part again."

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3.

A thousand years ago, humans and merfolk went to war, leaving corpses strewn everywhere.

The Merman King and the Emperor shared a blood feud. Fate played its tricks, and amid the flames of war, Kong Sang Yunyun fell in love at first sight with his enemy's wife.

The Empress was trapped in the rotting cage of her throne, while the Emperor was utterly incompetent. She planned to use the Merman King to break the deadlock and flee the imperial palace amid the chaos of war.

She thought she was using the merfolk to escape, but Kong Sang Yunyun saw through her intentions and played along, turning her plan to his advantage.

He simply stormed the palace and abducted the Empress.

"I hate your husband and his dynasty, but you are different..."

At the bottom of the sea, where no sunlight reached, each day felt like a year. The merfolk had a rule: once a mark was placed, neither party could betray the other for all eternity.

Kong Sang Yunyun wanted her hatred, her love, and for her to be unable to leave him.

In her previous life, she died with hatred in her heart. "You'll go to hell..."

The immortal Merman King, who had stood alone and proud for a lifetime, willingly became a dead soul. Heaven and earth rejected him, and the six paths would not accept him.

In the end, Kong Sang Yunyun became a thousand-year exception, wandering between the human world and the mountains and seas.

His obsession made him selfishly seize control of her life and death. When she came back to life, she could only recoil from the filth...

Some hatred and wickedness are rotten from the start. So let the foul mud bloom with scarlet flowers of the other shore.

* A long-suffering, two-faced wage worker vs. a sharp-tongued, gloomy merman ghost

* Love and hate / abduction and coercion / past and present lives / melodrama / tragedy

* Happy ending in the main story. They stay together in the present, but with worldly regrets. This is not a mindless, perfectly happy, sugary romance. There are hidden truths.

Theme: Love and hate that span time, waiting for you