[Tidepool foraging + oceanic supernatural powers + mystery and treasure hunting + running a fishing village + maritime rescue]
Ten years ago, a shipwreck drove Gu Chaosheng and his father apart and made him flee the fishing village where he had grown up.
Ten years later, his father vanishes mysteriously, leaving behind only a dilapidated fishing boat buried in debt and a tide log that no one can decipher.
On the night the old boat is about to be towed away, Gu Chaosheng suddenly hears a cry for help coming from the waves.
Crab legs scrape against reefs, chains clang against sunken ships, and whale pods change their songs before a storm... While others hear only the ebb and flow of the tides, he hears the memories the ocean has left behind.
From a cluster of butter crabs to a missing fishing boat, from an abandoned pier to a secret realm in the deep sea, Gu Chaosheng follows the sounds of the tide to forage and hunt for treasure, rescue people, and repay debts. He leads the declining fishing village back to prosperity while closing in on the truth behind his father's disappearance.
But he soon discovers that...
Every time he hears one of the ocean's secrets clearly, his world grows a little quieter.
And in the forbidden sea where no one dares to go, his father left him one final message:
“Chaosheng, if you hear someone knocking from beneath the sea, whatever you do, don't answer...”
