Reading Guide to the North (The Daughter of the Sea's Sex Change)
"The Mute Bridegroom Who Stole the Sunlight and His Sea"
In the deep blue sea, daylight is a distant and broken dream. The mermaid prince has been listening to a taboo legend about the land since he was a child - there are burning stars and a beautiful and kind princess with purple eyes.
When he was eight years old, curiosity drove him to be imprisoned in the darkness by a fishing net. Before he was about to turn into foam, a pair of small silver scissors cut off the restraints. In the backlit outline, he saw a pair of eyes that were brighter than the warmest sea. Princess Nereid Antisia saved him but didn't understand the mermaid's language. She only left a look back on the beach, and it became the secret moonlight that was engraved in his heart for ten years.
Ten years later, in the same sea area, he hid behind a rock and watched helplessly as she, whom he rescued, mistook a strange man, Prince Eric, for her savior. Jealousy and longing tore at the heart of Perses as he watched her look anxious and worried about the impostor.
So, he walked to the dark cave of Ursula the sea witch, and exchanged his heavenly singing voice and the endless years of the deep sea for a pair of legs that could walk towards her. Every step was like walking on broken glass, and the severe pain was his silent confession.
He became the most special mystery in her court: a stranger who could not speak but had eyes as deep as the ocean. Nereid Antisia was attracted by this mysterious tranquility, but she didn't know that this silent guest was her first and last lover who was accidentally released into the deep sea when she was a child, and who is now exiled to the ocean for her.
And every step he took was not only to get to her side, but also to... Steal the sunrise that belonged to the true redeemer.
Concept: Between the land and the deep sea is the love that you and I have never spoken.