
Shattered Scales, Shattered Love
AuthorNuomituantuan
On GoingI was once the luckiest mermaid in the world. My husband adored me, brushing and tending to my scales with his own hands every single day. My childhood sweetheart cherished me just as deeply, personally feeding me my medicine, drop by drop. They said I was their one and only treasure. Until the moment I loved them the most. Julian Morgan clamped his teeth onto the scale over my heart and tore it off—blood instantly soaking the bed in crimson. "A mermaid's scales are most potent," he said calmly, "when her desire peaks and her blood runs hottest." The two of them crushed my scale into powder and fed it to the girl who looked uncannily like me. "Lily… you're finally going to live." Only then did I realize—every ounce of tenderness had been meant to kill me. Every dose they fed me was a death sentence in disguise. This time, I'll make you watch helplessly as hope slips away.







