Su Nianting never thought that the pale blue shark scales that grew on her eighteenth birthday would be the key to finding her mother. When her mother went missing, only the words "searching for broken soul" were left behind. She ran to the West Lake for clues, but was swept into the barrier by thick fog - the thousand-year-old snake demon Bai Suzhen mistakenly thought she was Xu Xian, and her soft words concealed an inescapable obsession.
From then on, she traveled around the corners of the city and ran into collisions between myth and modernity: the convenience store on Yinhe Road, the cowherd in sportswear weaving a gentle cage with star rope, the Wangchuan tea shop, the Wangyou tea brewed by Meng Po wrapped in the plot of leaving people, the East China Sea fishing village, the shark brothers and sisters used sea chains to build protective barriers... Every "mythologist" with a deep obsession is secretly entangled with the "Jiu Chen Broken Soul" and the trace of his mother.
The shadow of chaos is watching the broken soul in the dark, and the concern of his best friend Lin Xiao is his only weakness. Su Nianting struggled with the awakening of the shark's power and the resonance of the broken soul. On the one hand, she wanted to dismantle the gentle trap, and on the other hand, she wanted to find her mother's whereabouts.
Note: The mythical characters in this book are all secondary adaptations in an urban setting. The character setting and story direction have nothing to do with the traditional original work. It focuses on urban legends and obsessional redemption.
Purpose: To explore the duality of "obsession" through the use of the mythologist who is trapped by obsession in an urban setting - it is both a shackle that imprisons oneself, and also a clumsy guardian. In the process of pursuing a broken soul and fighting against a crisis, the protagonist achieves self-awakening and finally understands that "letting go is not a compromise, and protection is the antidote to obsession."