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Serena Vale, the rightful heir of the deep-sea Vale clan, reawakens on her contract day with memories of her brutal past life flooding back. Once, she risked her life to pull Adrian out of deadly black tides and recovered the lost Ocean Heart, an ancient sacred relic. Yet her fake friend Vanessa stole the Ocean Heart fragment, tricked the rare glowing blue seahorse into forming a bond with the relic’s power, and seized the position of Tide Guardian candidate. Vanessa framed Serena for theft, manipulated Adrian and the biased Council of Judges, stripped Serena of her heir badge, and had her dragged into the abyss to die sealed away in darkness. Reborn before the betrayal unfolds, Serena resolves to expose all lies instead of fighting for the coveted blue seahorse. At the beast-contracting ceremony, Vanessa cheats again by hiding the Ocean Heart shard in her sleeve to force the seahorse’s allegiance, winning thunderous applause from the nobles. While everyone mocks Serena for picking a scarred, unranked ugly fish named Kai from the pool’s shadowy corner, a fragment of the Ocean Heart slips out of Vanessa’s skirt mid-confrontation, hinting at her crime. The council frames Serena for tampering with sacred artifacts and forces her into the Abyss Trial, sabotaging her safety chain to ensure she perishes in black tides. Trapped alone amid crushing dark currents, Kai reveals hidden golden ancient kun runes beneath its ragged scales and swallows the raging black tide whole.