"The sea calls me, San. It always will."
"Then I'll follow, even if it takes me to the depths."
Prince San finds solace by the sea, where he encounters Wooyoung, a cursed siren bound to the ocean's depths. But as their bond deepens, the ocean's wra...
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Long before the sun bathed the kingdom in its golden light, long before the walls of the royal palace stood tall and proud against the horizon, there was the sea.The ocean was eternal—its waves timeless, its depths unknowable. Beneath the surface lay secrets too old for human understanding, stories buried in the salt and silt, and creatures who had existed since the beginning of time.
The sirens, with their shimmering tails and enchanting voices, were among them. They were the children of the sea, bound to its waters by a curse older than memory, fated to sing the songs of the ocean's grief and power.Among these sirens was Wooyoung, who had known the sea his entire life. Born to its embrace, he had spent his years wandering its endless waters, exploring its mysteries, but he had never known freedom.
The curse held him fast, chaining him to the waves, forcing him to sing—luring sailors and kings alike to their doom with the beauty of his voice. It was a burden he bore silently, his heart hardened by the passage of time and the cruelty of the fate thrust upon him.The legends spoke of sirens as heartless creatures—beautiful but deadly, their songs irresistible to mortal men, their hearts as cold as the sea itself. But the legends never spoke of the pain, the loneliness that came with their existence.
They never spoke of the siren's own desires, their own longings, or the love they were forbidden to feel.
And so, Wooyoung sang.He sang to the winds and the tides, to the moon that hung low in the sky, to the men who sailed too close to the rocks. His voice was a haunting melody that echoed across the waters, luring them to the shore, where the waves would claim their lives. He hated it, this song, but it was not his choice to make. Until one day, a prince stood on the cliffs above the sea.San was not the first to hear Wooyoung's song, nor would he be the last. He stood there, as many men had before him, drawn to the melody that seemed to come from the very depths of the ocean. But there was something different about this prince—something in the way he listened, the way he didn't turn away in fear or awe.
He simply... stayed.For the first time in countless years, Wooyoung hesitated. His voice faltered, if only for a moment, and in that moment, something shifted in the air, something deep and unspoken.The ocean had always been Wooyoung's prison, but in the presence of this prince, it felt less like a cage and more like a choice. There was a connection between them, fragile but undeniable, as though their fates had been intertwined long before they had ever laid eyes on each other.
The curse, however, did not care for fate.
And neither did the sea.
As the waves whispered against the rocks and the wind carried Wooyoung's song to San's ears, the ocean stirred with something ancient and dark—a warning, perhaps, or a promise.For love between the land and the sea was forbidden.
And those who defied the sea's will would find themselves caught in its depths, never to surface again.But even as the waves crashed and the wind howled, the prince and the siren were bound by something stronger than fear, something more powerful than the sea itself.
A love that would bring them together.
And tear them apart.---In the distance, the ocean whispered.
