I Heard My Brother Became a God?

"The land I must reach is called Cangwu."

My older brother is called Cangwu. It's not a good name.

Cangwu, Cangwu, the most desolate ancient land in the south, also called Cangwu. Its ground is strewn with bones, its people few and far between. The gods have abandoned it.

I fell in love at first sight with a merfolk.

It was a snowy night. I bumped into a girl who came around the corner of an alley.

It was the first time I'd ever seen a merfolk. Her pink hair was tucked beneath the hood of a tattered gray cloak, with a single strand peeking out, dusted with snow. As she helped me up, her ear showed. I caught sight of a pink fin, like the most precious coral beneath the sea.

"You're a merfolk," I blurted.

She jumped in surprise and hurriedly pulled her hand back.

She walked across the snow-covered streets of Lin'an, growing farther and farther away.

That was the closest I ever came to her, in all the countless times I searched for her over the years.

I found my life's purpose: to search for merfolk.

On the day before the winter solstice,

my brother, and the merfolk I was searching for, both disappeared without a trace.

They all said my brother had become a god.

And the little merfolk had died.

I had to go to Cangwu to find out what the so-called truth really was.

Theme: Pursue the one you love.