She couldn't understand humans sometimes. Couldn't fathom the mindset that prioritized control over contentment, that chose cruelty when kindness was equally available. Her mermaid nature perhaps made such calculations even more foreign, merfolk understood territorial disputes and resource conflicts, but the elaborate social warfare humans engaged in seemed unnecessarily complicated and self-defeating.
Lin Feng had everything a person could reasonably want. Wealth, status, a healthy daughter, a home, and business success. And yet he'd chosen to imprison her mother, steal her inheritance, and build his life on cruelty and theft. For what? Slightly more wealth than he already possessed? Control for the sake of control itself?
The logic escaped her. But the consequences didn't. Lin Feng was currently learning exactly what powerlessness felt like, and Shuyin felt no guilt about orchestrating that education.
