Nine Eggs Descend, Mermaid Queen Returns

In Ophelia’s past life, her sister swapped their newborns and conspired with her mate. Together, they stripped Ophelia of everything, cast her into the Abyss, and left her to bleed to death. Reborn on the day she must choose a mate, she coldly hands her former lover to her sister and chooses the black-tailed merman her entire clan despises. Three days later, she lays nine mysterious black eggs. As the clan demands their destruction, a voice rises from the Abyss: “Who dares touch my children?”