Rising Tides, Shimmering Scales

When ancient seals crack and darkness bleeds from the ocean depths, a young fisherman discovers he's heir to a thousand-year legacy. Lin Yan inherits cryptic notes and a jade pendant from his father—the last of the legendary Vein Guardians who once sealed catastrophic forces beneath the waves. Now the Dark Veins awaken, devouring life and threatening both human fishing villages and the hidden merfolk realm. Armed with forbidden knowledge and joined by a crew of unlikely allies—a merfolk maiden, a vein-sensing mystic, and guardians of forgotten arts—Lin Yan must unite two worlds before the ocea…