The Tide Has Turned

A young man drowns his sorrow in fiery liquor, his face pale yet his voice eerily calm: "Life may be bitter, but it's fine as long as my beloved returns." Across the table, a graceful figure meets his words with silence—and a shared drink. In a world where fate shifts like the tide and love defies destiny, two souls bound by an unspoken past must face the currents of a fantastical realm where nothing is as it seems.