Zhaoyu

[Serializing: Song of the Sea Siren [Western Fantasy], synopsis at the very bottom. Please add it to your collection]

When Zhi Yu was young, she entered the Wen household in exchange for a full meal and became a hidden guard.

She trained hard in martial arts and carried out her missions diligently. But because her face resembled someone else's, Madam Wen decided to send her to the Third Prince as a concubine. The young master of the Wen family unexpectedly took a liking to her, bringing her a deadly calamity.

To win her freedom, she accepted an impossible mission: assassinate the Jin Prince's heir of Qi, a man rumored to be suspicious by nature, ruthless, and cunning.

Qin Yun, heir to the Jin Prince of Qi, was once a hostage in the capital of Qi, forced to tread carefully at every turn. Now he holds great power, second only to the emperor and above all others. He is The Outcast.

While trying to get close to Qin Yun, Zhi Yu unexpectedly meets Xie Yan, son of the richest man in Qi and Qin Yun's former classmate.

Rumor has it that Xie Yan and Qin Yun were at odds when they were young, and that Qin Yun suppressed him after taking power.

Zhi Yu wants to persuade Xie Yan to join her in bringing down Qin Yun, but she discovers that things seem very different from what everyone believes.

She can barely handle Xie Yan's deliberate flirtations, and the secrets between him and Qin Yun are an even bigger headache.

Just as she finally decides to abandon her mission, Xie Yan grabs her and pins her in place. "Now that you know so many secrets, shouldn't I silence you?"

Her beautiful eyes widen in disbelief. Many of those secrets have nothing to do with her mission, and she never wanted to know them. He was the one who deliberately let them slip.

Xie Yan smiles softly. "Marry me, and won't all your problems be solved?"

So this is what he was leading up to. Zhi Yu gives a dry laugh. "Dream on."

She is a caged bird yearning for freedom, while he is a mysterious young noble who commands every move from behind the scenes. Their chance encounter stirs up turmoil across three kingdoms.

Betrayed by old friends and estranged from family in the present, the one moving the pieces on the board eventually finds their own heart thrown into disarray by a pawn, as sincerity and deception intertwine.

---------------- Synopsis of the serial novel Song of the Sea Siren [Western Fantasy] --------------

[Female Lead's Synopsis]

In the year 199 of the Oveyi Isles calendar, Mia the sea siren finds a badly wounded human.

He is handsome, gentle, and considerate, and Mia falls in love with him.

But he has something he must do. He leaves the island where the sea sirens live and promises to meet Mia again in five years.

In the first five years, Mia grows from an innocent girl into the priestess of the sea sirens, while the conflict between sea sirens and humans grows ever fiercer.

In the second five years, the emperor of the human empire orders a widespread hunt for sea sirens, and Mia leads her people back beneath the sea.

He never returns.

In the third five years, Mia has forgotten his name, his face, and his voice. To avenge herself on humanity, she disguises herself as a human and makes her way to the nearest human territory, Helsey Island.

Elijah, lord of Helsey Island, is the man who urged the human emperor to hunt the sea sirens. He is Mia's ultimate target.

Mia becomes his lover. While he sleeps, she extends her sharp claws and tears out his heart. Through the veil of blood, she suddenly finds his handsome face strangely familiar...

[Male Lead's Synopsis]

Elijah is the most powerful human in history.

Rumor has it that he is cold and ruthless, cruel and bloodthirsty. He once caused a massacre in the imperial capital, forcing the previous emperor to abdicate.

Men fear his power, and women are put off by his coldness.

But one day, people are astonished to discover that the man whose name can silence a crying child has shown tenderness toward a woman.

Elijah has always known that everyone fears him.

Only that woman, despite being rejected time and again, keeps drawing closer to him with unyielding determination.

So he allows her to approach and lets his heart beat for her.

But the woman who constantly tells him she loves him seduces his nephew, grows entangled with his political enemy, and even tries to kill him in the midst of their passion.

He should have killed her, but discovers he cannot bring himself to do it.

If that's the case, then he will "imprison" her by his side and keep her there for the rest of their lives.

*Cold, proud human lord x alluring, mysterious sea-siren priestess

*Both have lost their memories, with plenty of melodrama

*Includes a past-life-and-present-life trope, with the same-person theory for both lives

*One-on-one romance, happy ending

*An alternate Western Fantasy world, with extensive original worldbuilding

Theme: Follow your heart