Evernight Lighthouse: The Deep-Sea Mermaid's Obsession

[A hard-edged detective afraid of the sea x an obsessive, broken half-scaled mermaid]

In the Sea of Eternal Night, darkness lasts for months, and daylight never comes.

Shen Qingzhou takes on missing-person cases at sea, especially the unsolved ones.

As a child, she watched her family perish beneath the waves. The deep sea is a trauma etched into her bones, and she suffers from severe thalassophobia. Yet the work that puts food on her table is rooted in the very sea that leaves her breathless.

Noah is a half-blood mermaid descendant, imprisoned at an altar beneath a lighthouse.

One half of him is a handsome human form; the other is covered in sharp black scales. He can shape shadows into blades, and his song can bewitch the heart. Hunted and despised by villagers for years, he has a deeply rooted fear of abandonment. He doesn't know how to love someone; he only knows how to keep them captive.

A tycoon's bizarre death draws her to an abandoned lighthouse, where she accidentally breaks his seal.

An ancient curse takes effect: he must rely on her blood to stay alive, while she needs his power to fight a secretive cult that sacrifices people to an evil god of the deep.

Then fate's cruelest twist is revealed: her ancestor was the traitor who betrayed the mermaid clan.

For the first time, he has found a light of his own, but he lives in constant fear of losing it. The stronger his love grows, the more he loses control. He weaves illusions in which she reunites with her dead family, using false dreams to imprison the only person willing to come near him.

The sacrificial ceremony is imminent, and Noah is about to become an offering to awaken an ancient god.