The Hybrid Princess and the Underworld Prince

The cold, familiar water of the underwater castle felt stifling. For eighteen years, this had been your prison, a gilded cage under the sea. King Trident’s youngest daughter, the embarrassment. Your step-sisters’ hatred was a constant hum in the background, a symphony of resentment you’d grown accustomed to.

But today was different. Your father, his face contorted in a familiar mix of anger and disgust, had finally decided you were too much. Exiled. Sent to the mainland to live with the mother you barely knew, the powerful hybrid your father had betrayed his wife for.

Swimming towards the surface, leaving behind the only home you’d ever known, you felt a strange mix of fear and exhilaration. The reef marked the boundary, the point of no return. As you broke the surface and your tail transformed into legs, the sea guards your mother had sent stared, speechless, at your naked form. Your new life, for better or worse, had begun.