Summary
“I want to fall in love at first sight and give my heart to that person for the rest of my life.”
When someone once said this, Ariel smiled faintly at the innocence of the words.
But despite that smile, as if guided by fate, she met Kylance – and fell madly in love.
People called their love a fairy tale, a romance too perfect to be real.
And Ariel never doubted it, not for a moment.
Not until now, when everything she believed in is crumbling around her.
“The words Kylance said, ‘I love you’, were nothing but lies. You, the daughter of the man who killed his parents – Kylance wanted nothing more than to destroy you, the woman he claimed to love more than his own life.”
As the truth shattered her world, Ariel collapsed in despair.
“I wish I had never met you. If I could, I would erase every memory of you from my mind.”
With unwavering determination to break the cruel chains of fate, she left a farewell letter before throwing herself into the dark embrace of the sea.
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“I can’t believe I’m alive. This isn’t a dream, is it? If it is, I don’t want to wake up.”
Ariel. Ariel.
The man holding her trembled as he wept, her name slipping from his lips like an unfamiliar prayer, with tears streaming down his face.
When his trembling hand reached out to touch her cheek, she instinctively flinched, pulling away.
“Who are you?”
Her cold, distant voice cut through the air, unrecognisable as she pushed him away.
“What?”
Kylance’s handsome face twisted in raw devastation, his expression shattered as if his entire world had crumbled.