Xie Chaoshen sailed the seas for the Xie family for ten years.
On the day the new sea route was opened, she returned to port covered in wounds, only to find that the victory banquet had become a family reunion. The Xie family's biological child, lost for twenty years, had taken her place, and the nautical chart she had risked her life to create was now in his hands.
They wanted her to hand over her fleet and marry into a respectable family.
Chaoshen was done putting up with them.
Her ship was leaky, she had little money, and her old crew were still injured. Not a single person at the docks was willing to vouch for her. But ships could be repaired, cargo could be sold, and new routes could be forged.
She just hadn't expected that the hardest things to fight for would be neither a ship nor a nautical chart. The mother who had raised her couldn't bear to let her leave, while the man who understood her best was willing to brave the seas with her, and was also keeping an eye on the route she held in her hands.
