The Mermaid’s Tale

Cordelia, the sole heir of the Marguerite family, descendants of mermaids.After the passing of her grandfather, the head ofthe household, and her mother, she was mistreated by her father and relatives as the family rapidly declined. She thencontracts a genetic disease akin to a family curse and is abandoned even by her fiancé’s family.She has at most one year left to live.On a journey she embarks on to change her miserable ending, she encounters Noah Tudor, a beautiful yet arrogant creditor.When he suddenly threatens her to repay her father’s debt,she proposes a deal to secure a one-year grace period.“Are you trying to seduce me because you have no money?”“Ah, no?!”“Then I’ll have to buy you. A lady isso desperate to sell herself; how could I, as a gentleman, refuse?”Just act exactly like this.Because you’re so cute that it makes me want to let you off the hook.