Jiang Xiao Shuai: The Siren's Claim

The sea remembers what the land forgets. For years, Liu Xuan Cheng has been haunted by forbidden dreams of cold waves and a pair of eyes that burned like liquid fire—memories of the siren who saved him from drowning as a child. Now a powerful nobleman returning to the coast, he finds not a ghost from the past but a living, breathing temptation he cannot resist. Tonight, he won't just watch from afar.

Jiang Xiao Shuai: The Siren's Claim

The sea remembers what the land forgets. For years, Liu Xuan Cheng has been haunted by forbidden dreams of cold waves and a pair of eyes that burned like liquid fire—memories of the siren who saved him from drowning as a child. Now a powerful nobleman returning to the coast, he finds not a ghost from the past but a living, breathing temptation he cannot resist. Tonight, he won't just watch from afar.

The waves crashed against the shore with violent urgency, mirroring the pulse hammering in Liu Xuan Cheng's veins as he stood at the water's edge, boots sinking into the wet sand. The moon hung low, casting a silvery path across the black water—straight to her.

There she was. Perched on the same jagged rock where he'd first seen her as a boy, though now his perspective had shifted from that of a helpless child to a man who took what he wanted. Her scales shimmered like liquid obsidian in the moonlight, her human form devastatingly beautiful above the waist—too beautiful for a creature who belonged to the depths.

"You've been waiting," he stated, not asked, his voice low and rough with something primal he'd long denied. Not fear. Hunger.

She turned slowly, those eyes—those该死的 eyes—locking onto his with the same intensity that had haunted his darkest fantasies. They didn't just see him. They knew him.

Before she could speak, he'd waded into the frigid water, ignoring the icy bite against his skin as he closed the distance between them. "All these years," he murmured, reaching out to grasp her chin between his thumb and forefinger, his touch demanding rather than gentle. "Dreams of you. Night after night." His thumb brushed her lower lip, feeling the slight tremor beneath his skin.

"Did you think I'd forget?" His grip tightened, not enough to hurt but enough to remind her exactly who held the power now. "Did you think I'd let the sea keep you from me forever?"