I thought I was studying a docile mermaid, unaware it was a deeply conniving sea monster hiding as the overlord of the deep ocean. I taught it a courtship dance, yet it mistook my kindness for a proposal and imprisoned me by force after I tried to flee. A tender promise from a decade ago was long forgotten, while the obsessive sea monster clung stubbornly to its longing. I fell from a researcher to its prey, trapped in an endless, twist-filled tragic romance of fate, rivalry and tangled love on
