In the first eighteen years of Mingyu's life, more than half of it was spent in the royal nursing home, and a small half of it was left in a boarding school by her stepfather. Only a very small part of her time was cherished as her sweetest memory - a memory where no family was broken up, no one was displaced, and no family was displaced.
After Mingyu turned eighteen, life became equated with research. The laboratory was her home, and research was her life. Occasionally, she would look up at the sky, but the sky in the Federation was always gray and not pretty.
At the age of twenty-four, she met the breakthrough point of everything - a mermaid, to be precise, a captured mermaid. She was attending a meeting as a student of an old professor, and saw the sad creature with her own eyes through the glass window in the laboratory. Mingyu was laughing until he got home that day, and tears rolled down his face when he was lying on the bed.
No one knew what she was thinking that day. They only knew that in the third month of the experiment on the mermaid, the students of Professor Zhao, the main person in charge, stole the mermaid and disappeared into the depths of the nebula in a starship.
"You... Why..."
The mermaid spoke a stilted human language.
Mingyu sat on the beach, letting the wind ruffle her half-length hair, and laughed heartily, with a bright and free smile that she had not seen in the past ten years, as if a trapped animal had broken free from its cage and finally ran towards the land where it was born.
"It's not to save you, it's to save myself."
Purpose: Mutual redemption