Vera Lan, the only daughter of the Principality of Lanhai, has been suffering from a chronic disease called "Mermaid Syndrome" since she was seven years old - she is afraid of colds, develops scales, and will eventually turn into light and sink back to the sea that she has never really left on a full moon night.
Lucien, a traveling doctor invited by his father, August, traveled across the seas. He was a "Seakeeper" who was born in the Saint-Naught Medical Society and spent half his life sending people back to the sea. He was supposed to just accompany her on her last journey, but he fell first in the fog and tide of Tingchao Pavilion.
A port, a lamp, a handkerchief and an old silver bell turned the word "send" into "accompany".
But the promise of the sea is unbreakable, and the time to return to the sea has finally come - she has not died, but has gone back; he has not been left behind, but has been entrusted to remember the whole sea.
Many years later, the seakeeper still opens the window every year, waiting for a light that will never light up again.
Extreme Western Fantasy · Terminal Illness BE Redemption · Slow and Affectionate
Intention: Love and destiny, the deep sea is her final return