Deep-Sea Fish

*The original blurb wouldn't come together, so I changed the premise.

*Weibo: @AuthorJieda

*Hyperthymesia x mixed-race bodyguard with PTSD / romance across borders / road escape / suspension-bridge effect / size difference

When her country needed him, Lu Wuyai, scientist and father to Lu Manman, decided to take his daughter back home.

Lu Manman had just received her father's unilateral, almost dictatorial notice when he died in a car crash full of suspicious details. There were also signs that someone had searched their home.

Lu Manman grew up in a single-parent household. Her father was so busy with his research that he almost never paid attention to her. After graduating, she lived on her own, seeing him only a few times a year.

She had no idea how to face her father's death. For someone with hyperthymesia, the situation was an absolute mess. Worse still, one day Lu Manman suddenly realized...

She seemed to be the next person in someone's sights.

*

As long as the pay was good, Hayden Alston would work for certain mysterious big shots.

One day, he received an extremely lucrative but somewhat complicated job.

Take what he was supposed to get from a girl called Lu, then take her where she needed to go.

Before that, he had to find a way to earn the naive girl's trust.

Hayden thought it would be a piece of cake.

What could be so special about an ordinary girl like her?

*

Few people know that some deep-sea fish migrate, too.

They face countless hardships and obstacles to reach waters better suited to their eggs or their young, returning to the places where they were born and raised.

And along their migration routes, one thrilling and dangerous tale of cunning and betrayal follows another.

[Reader's Notes]

1. This is a single-couple romance. Both leads have issues. Lu Manman's name is not a play on the initials ABB, but comes from the phrase "The road ahead is long and far."

2. The story is set around 2010.

3. Please don't project real-world issues onto the story or use it to judge the author's values. Don't let it give you an unwarranted rosy impression of other countries.

4. Blurb captured on August 28, 2025. Start date undecided.

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