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I've always felt that I've forgotten a very important memory.

I only remembered it later.

It turns out my sister and I met so long ago...so long ago.

After my wings were cut off, I tried to escape the sea, but I was captured by humans and put into a mermaid market.

I was locked in a cage, living in utter darkness.

At that time, I came to realize that there was no place for me to live, neither on the seabed nor on land.

But I am not willing to live like this.

The seller puts me out in the market every day for people to choose from.

I tried desperately to grab onto the trouser legs of every passerby, hoping they would buy me and rescue me.

But no one did it.

Just when I was about to give up hope, a woman squatted down and looked at me in the cage.

She was very beautiful, with black eyes like black diamonds, but for some reason, there was no expression in her eyes.

It's like a body without a soul.

I asked her, "Can you take me with you?"

She paused for a long time, as if muttering to herself, "Analysis of Mu Tiantian's behavior..."

After a while, she said, "I'll take you away."

"Based on the analysis of the surrounding environment, task leader Mu Tiantian believes that the most suitable solution at present is to smash the cage." Her tone of voice, like her eyes, was devoid of emotion.

She smashed my cage.

She pulled me away and we ran away.

However, in the end, I still couldn't escape. I was knocked unconscious, and she disappeared without a trace.

When I regained consciousness, the experience felt like a dream.

I think I've... forgotten something very important.

I can't remember anymore.

Until that day, when I looked into her eyes, it was as if I was drawn in, and some memories flooded my mind.

Although it was a bit confusing, I still managed to remember.

It turns out we met so long ago.

It turns out, she had been protecting me all along.

Until the very last moment of life...

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Ryan (Part 1)

I don't know who my parents are; all I know is that I am an ordinary mermaid from the underwater kingdom of Nannu.

I was starving and couldn't find any food.

At that moment, a body was thrown off a ship at sea.

She is a mermaid.

Moreover, she's a special kind of mermaid.

His chest was slashed open, but he seemed to still have a breath left and could survive with treatment.

But I was so hungry I couldn't stand it, so I ate him.

My body started to change after that.

I can use mermaid powers, and my blood can also condense into blood pearls.

The only difference is that when I use my powers, my eyes turn green, and my energy is greatly depleted.

But these things don't mean much to me.

Special mermaids will receive preferential treatment in any underwater kingdom.

I think I will never live this kind of irregular life again.

However, just as I approached the sea, I was caught in a large net.

I was captured by humans, and they stabbed me in the chest with sharp knives.

I fainted from the pain.

When I regained consciousness, I was in a cage.

No matter how much force I use, I can't open it.

Not long after, a lady walked up to me. She was very beautiful, but you could also see wrinkles at the corners of her eyes.

She took the sharp knife that had stabbed me and slashed it viciously towards my heart.

A sharp pain shot through my entire body, and I begged her not to do it.

But she laughed happily. The more pitiful my screams were, the bigger her smile became. I felt a sense of terror rising from the bottom of my heart towards her.

I thought I would just keep having my blood extracted like this.

But then one day, she suddenly brought over a whip, a rope, candles...

She has extremely unusual hobbies.

Every time she tortures me, she tells me she loves me very much and kisses me, which makes me feel disgusted.

But when I vomit uncontrollably because of her kiss, she tortures me even more.

And then there's her husband, Duke Alec, who is also a pervert. He has an incredibly ugly birthmark on his face and always wears a mask when he meets people.

He may be a gentleman in public, but he can be a pervert to me in private.

He would use a branding iron to burn words onto my body to satisfy his perverted desires.

I was tortured by the couple while they satisfied their perverse desires.

When the servants at the Duke's mansion brought me my meals, they would throw the bowls in front of me and then run away in fear.

I'm like a dog, maybe even worse than a dog.

But one maid was different.

She was the only one who would squat down and hand the food bowl to the cage each time.

She didn't share the fears of others, but she also didn't experience any emotions.

She was like... a walking corpse?

That was the first thought that popped into my head when I saw her, and her appearance was also very different from the people here.

She is beautiful, so beautiful that you can't help but want to get closer.

I just don't know why, but even though he's such a special person, I can never remember him.

I tried hard to remember her, until one day, after she put the food bowl in the cage, I grabbed her wrist.

Her skin was very white and soft, and she had a faint milky scent that made me feel at ease.

I looked at her with pleading eyes, "Save me..."

She stopped what she was doing and stared straight at me, her eyes devoid of any expression.

She softly uttered a sentence, "Mu Tiantian's behavior analysis is underway..."

Is Mu Tiantian her name?

After she finished speaking, I couldn't remember it anymore.

"Analyzing the surrounding environment, tasker Mu Tiantian believes that the most suitable solution at present is to steal the key."

Finally, I heard her say, "I'll save you."

She actually stole the Duchess's key, opened the cage, and took me away.

She kept running with me, and I felt as if I could see hope; a ray of light shone into my darkness.

However, the Duke's men caught up with us and beat me and her half to death.

I screamed in agony, but she remained silent, her eyes still lifeless, like a soulless rag doll.

At that moment, I swore that I would kill them.

I was back in that cage, subjected to the Duke and Duchess's perverse humiliation.

As the days went by, the person I should have kept in my heart was forgotten.

My world turned dark again, as if no light had ever come in.

I could no longer endure this life, so I used all my strength to kill Duke Alec and his wife.

However, right after I killed them, I felt a strange sense of pleasure.

I killed all the people in the Duke's mansion who had beaten me. Although killing gave me mental pleasure, my body abhorred contact with those people, especially women.

I began to impersonate Duke Alec and replaced everyone in the ducal mansion.

Few people knew Alec, and since he often appeared in a mask, even the king had never seen his true face.

And I can take advantage of this to become Duke Alec.

When I attended a court banquet, no one could tell that I was a mermaid, because many humans also have blue eyes.

At the banquet, I met a woman who looked very much like the Duchess, which stirred up my deepest disgust and hatred.