Chapter 1

I am the purest-blooded elite mermaid. My tears turn into priceless pearls, and my heart's blood can bring the dead back to life.

When Ethan Hunt went bankrupt, drowned in debt, and was being hunted by his enemies, I pulled him from the edge of the cross-sea bridge where he stood drenched in blood, ready to end it all.

I thought he was useless, but my heart softened anyway. I forced myself to cry an entire bag of top-grade pearls to fill the hole of his debts.

When signing the master-servant agreement, I warned Ethan: "You're not worthy of me. You're just a dog I'm keeping, my accessory."

Ethan was the perfect loyal dog — putting on my shoes, feeding me, handling everything personally.

When I said one, he never dared say two.

Even though I was different from others, he spoiled me into the most envied woman in the entire city.

Everyone said Ethan loved me like his own life. I believed it too.

Until he drained half my heart's blood to save a low-grade koi mate with genetic defects.

She was his first love, the one he couldn't have in his youth.

That same day, I dragged my weakened body into Lyra's hospital room and smashed everything she had related to Ethan.

I thought Ethan would kneel on the ground like before, begging for my forgiveness, worried about my pale face.

But that night, during my scale-shedding period when I was at my weakest and most vulnerable, he brought in a group of men to violate me repeatedly.

Ethan wrapped his arm around Lyra's waist, looking down at my disheveled state like I was garbage:

"Didn't Lyra speak the truth? You're cold-blooded by nature. What kind of mermaid throws pearls at people to attach herself to them?"

"Didn't you mock Lyra for being a low-grade mate? Well, now that you've been passed around by men and lost all your scales, you're just a defective product that can't see the light of day either!"