When the Tides Learned the Stars

Peace demands a price.

To protect a reborn Khaenri'ah from isolation and suspicion, Princess Lumine agrees to a political marriage with Fontaine's Chief Justice, Neuvillette-the Hydro Dragon Sovereign who rules with law, not love. Their union is meant to be strategic, distant, and controlled.

But Lumine was never meant to be a silent bride.

Gentle yet unyielding, she enters Fontaine determined to stand as an equal, not an ornament. In the grand halls of the Palais Mermonia and beneath the steady silver rain, she begins to see what others overlook: the solitude behind Neuvillette's composure, the weight of centuries carried in silence.

As court trials expose Fontaine's darkest secrets and whispers of unrest stir beneath the sea, their alliance is tested by more than politics. What begins as duty slowly becomes understanding. What begins as distance threatens to become devotion.

And when a dragon who has never allowed himself to feel begins to falter-

the tides of Teyvat may change forever.