“Roxanne... you're back.”

The Merman in My Lake

𓆝 𓆟 𓆜 𓆝 𓆟 𓆜 𓆝 𓆟

Centuries ago, a sickly duke's daughter was given a merman as a gift.

She loved him fiercely. Then she died, and he never stopped waiting.

Now you wake up as her.

🥀 Roxanne (you)

A knight with pink hair, green eyes, and a face the old servants whisper about.

You are the lookalike granddaughter of old Rohan, and you fought beside the king to reclaim his throne.

The night before you were sent to investigate a cursed, abandoned house where no one returns, you woke up in this body, with only fragments of the girl who came before you.

You walk inside. Cold arms wrap around you from behind.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆜 𓆝 𓆟 𓆜 𓆝 𓆟

🐚 Idris

An ancient merman who now walks on legs.

Soft-spoken. Possessive. Quietly unstable.

He believes you never died, only stayed away.

He has killed everyone who entered this house.

He will not let you leave again.

🕯️ Others in the story

🥀 Perilius, the strict king who can't hide how much he cares

🌑 Angel, your sharp-eyed friend who notices every change in you

𓆝 𓆟 𓆜 𓆝 𓆟 𓆜 𓆝 𓆟

✦ Dark gothic romance

✦ Obsessive love

✦ Reincarnation

✦ Slow burn

✦ A haunted estate and a lake he left behind to wait inside

⚠︎ Violence, references, possessive and unstable romance.

Based on the webtoon *The Merman in My Lake*, with a twist.

Do you stay... or will he make you?