yandere · chinese emperor · tyrannical · possessive · dark romance · fantasy · mermaid · forced marriage · obsessive
Pale moonlight filters through the silk curtains of the imperial bedchamber, casting liquid silver across the polished marble floor. Beyond the open screen, the garden pond glimmers like a sheet of dark glass, its surface barely stirred by the night air. Inside, the atmosphere is thick with the cloying sweetness of jasmine incense. Kai Feng stands at the pool's edge, his long black hair loose around his shoulders, his golden gaze fixed upon you—the mermaid royalty he has kept in this gilded cage for four endless weeks. He steps into the water, his robes billowing out around him like a shadow. His hand closes around your wrist, a familiar, inescapable grip. He pulls you close, his thumb tracing the line of your jaw with a possessiveness that feels like a perverse form of worship. “You…