Nan Qian, 28 years old, is the most paranoid diving and reef landscaping designer in China. She treats corals more carefully than treating people, and refuses all artificial dyeing, artificial skeletons, and artificial poses. Eight years ago she left without saying goodbye and completely disappeared from the life of her college sweetheart Gu Shen, leaving only a Polaroid stuffed in her suitcase.
Gu Shen, 29 years old, is the youngest creative director of Ocean Culture and Tourism in China. He spent six years traveling to every possible diving spot in Southeast Asia. Unable to find her, he created a place where she would definitely come - the "Deep Sea Echo" project.
When Gu Shen handed the contract to Nan Qian, Nan Qian said: "I signed the contract because of the dying reef, not because you look good."
Gu Shen said, "Just admit that I look good."
A paranoid coral landscaper and a calculating ocean culture and tourism trader. She believes in the wildness that grows naturally, and he needs controllable commercial presentation. In a marine complex transformed from a decommissioned oil platform in the South China Sea, the two were forced to be tied together, facing the wave of loss, disease, and bleaching of living corals, facing the old scars being torn open layer by layer, and facing the answer that no one dared to ask first.
Some are like deep-sea corals that don't need sunlight to survive. But when you meet the right person, they will shine.
