Tears of a Mermaid, Sold to His First Love

I'm a mermaid, and Jason paid thirty million dollars to own me.

He married me. We even had a daughter together.

Seven years later, he trapped us in a fish tank and handed us over to his first love, Sarah.

"As you requested," he told her, "I've kept them in water with the special formula for seven years. Now you can use them for your research."

"I can finally marry you," he whispered. "You've always been the one I love."

But he didn't know—I could feel his love for me.

He had fallen for me. He just didn't realize it yet.

"No, Jason! Let Lily and me go!" I slammed my fists against the glass, desperate.

Outside the tank, Jason gazed at Sarah with sickening tenderness.

"Sarah, what's next?"

She smirked. "Prepare the injection. It's time to turn them back into mermaids."

My blood ran cold.

We weren't in the ocean. If we transformed here, without seawater—Lily and I would die.

I could still sense Jason's heart beating for me. I clung to that fragile hope.

"Jason, you swore you loved me!" My voice cracked. "You promised we'd be together forever! How could you do this?"

He barely glanced at me.

"Ariel, I never loved you."

His words were ice.

"If it weren't for Sarah's research, I wouldn't have wasted a single second on you—or that brat."

I stopped breathing.

Every memory—every tender moment—was a lie.

The beach trips.

The seaweed hunts.

All of it.

Tears burned down my face. Each breath was agony.

Jason picked up a syringe. The man I loved was gone—replaced by a stranger.

"Daddy, no!" Lily sobbed, trembling behind me.

He used to adore her.

He once dove for hours to find her favorite rare seaweed.

"My daughter and Ariel are my entire world," he'd said. "I'd give you anything."

Now? It was all a twisted game.

"Jason, don't you dare touch her!" I threw myself in front of Lily, shielding her.

Just yesterday, he'd held me close, murmuring promises:

"I bought us a house by the ocean."

"I built you a home in the sea, too."