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“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 hopelessly in love.
People called their love a fairy tale, a romance too perfect to be real.
Ariel never questioned it, not for a moment.
Not until now, when everything she believed in is shattering around her.
“The words Kylance said, ‘I love you,’ were all lies. You are the daughter of the man who murdered his parents—Kylance only wanted to destroy you, the woman he claimed to love more than his life.”
As the truth tore her world apart, Ariel collapsed in despair.
“I wish I had never met you. If I could, I would erase every memory of you from my mind.”
She left behind a single farewell note before throwing herself into the dark embrace of the sea, determined to sever the cruel bonds of fate.
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“I can’t believe you’re 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 cried, her name falling from his lips like a foreign prayer, tears streaming down his face.
When his shaky hand reached to touch her cheek, she instinctively recoiled, pulling away.
“Who are you?”
Her cold, distant voice cut through the air, unrecognizable as she pushed him away.
“What?”
Kylance’s handsome face was contorted with raw devastation, his expression shattered as if the world he had known had come crashing down around him.
