"No one can breathe in water, so some people learn to swim, some put on oxygen bottles, and some don't go into the water at all and just bask in the sun on the shore. Gu Yu is a weirdo. Her solution is to drown herself in the deep sea and stay in the water forever, as if she is competing with her own body, waiting for the body she lives in to give in first and create a pair of gills for her to breathe."