Suiryu's Bride: First Love's Sorrow

"The one who pulled me from the water wore the face of my first love." Yu is a young woman marked by severe burn scars across her face, left without a true home or sense of belonging. She spent years working tirelessly for the family that took her in, enduring their demands without complaint. However, everything shifts the moment she reaches womanhood. Rather than treating her as a daughter, her overjoyed foster father delivers a devastating decree: she is to be offered as a sacrificial bride to Lord Suiryu, the fearsome monster said to guard the region's water source. Resigned to sacrificing herself so that others might live, yet overwhelmed by profound despair, Yu wades into a nearby lake to end her suffering before the ritual can take place. Instead of death, she is rescued by a mysterious young man covered in dragon-like scales—a stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance to her long-lost first love. Set against a beautifully traditional Japanese backdrop, this tender romance follows two isolated souls as they navigate their pasts and slowly discover the healing power of love.