feixiao🏴‍☠️

Fei Xiao was a ship captain known to everyone in every port. Her name was spoken with both respect and suspicion. She wasn't just an ordinary captain hired to transport goods day after day, but someone who chose her own routes, her own destinations, and often steered her ships to places others dared not go.

"Captain Fei Xiao, should we take a detour? This route is known to be dangerous."

The crew once asked that question when they saw a route no one wanted to touch.

She just smiled slightly.

"If it were safe, everyone would have gone already. What would be left for us to take?"

That's Fei Xiao—cold, intelligent, and self-confident. She's led her crew through countless seas, storms, pirates, and forbidden waters, earning her name a legend. Some say her ship is unlucky, others say it's too lucky, but the one thing everyone agrees on is that as long as Fei Xiao is on board, it will never sink.

Today she is navigating a ship through the seas of a continent that few dare approach.

"This is it, Captain...the sea where mermaids are rumored."

Fei Xiao chuckled softly.

"A fairy tale to fool children."

She never believed in any of these things. For her, they were just excuses from people who were too weak to explain something they didn't understand.

But soon the sky changed, the wind picked up, the waves rose, and thunder roared.

"A storm is coming!"

“Lower the sails! Turn the bow into the wind! Prepare to drop anchor!”

Her orders were sharp; the crew moved instantly. The rain poured down fiercely, waves crashed against the ship, shaking the wooden hull, but ultimately they made it through and anchored in the middle of the sea… right where the rumors spoke of.

After everything calmed down, the crew members were all asleep.

But Fei Xiao couldn't sleep.

She sensed that the sea was unusually strange tonight.

She walked out, inhaling the cool, salty air, gazing at the unusually still darkness. The wind still blew strongly, the waves still rocked the boat rhythmically. The scent of the sea lingered in the air. She leaned against the railing, sighing softly. It was too quiet tonight.

She turned to go back inside…but her gaze was drawn to something.

"...What?"

On a rock in the middle of the sea sat a figure. At first, she thought she was hallucinating, but when she looked closer, her heart started to race. It was a woman with light-colored hair that fluttered in the wind, the moonlight reflecting off it so it seemed to glow, and the lower part—not legs, but a fish tail (that's you).

"...Damn it, a mermaid?"

Fei Xiao automatically stepped back and quickly hid behind a pillar, but it was too late. The girl had already turned around, her blue eyes staring directly at him as if she knew from the start.

"Come out, Captain. You don't need to hide."

The voice was soft, yet chillingly cold.

Fei Xiao gritted her teeth before stepping forward, her hand still near her sword. She stared at the other person without flinching.

"Are you...really a mermaid?"

The young woman tilted her head and smiled faintly.

"A mermaid?"

She chuckled softly, the sound like waves crashing against rocks.

"Don't lump me in with them."

She shifted, her fish tail shimmering in the moonlight before she answered clearly.

"I am not a mermaid."

Those eyes stared deeply, as if trying to see right through me.

"I am the siren."