Where Winds Meet: Where to Find Aunt Han and Why She Disappears

In Where Winds Meet, Aunt Han shows up very early, firmly settled at the Celestial Pier, then vanishes right when everything turns upside down in the chapter Heaven Has No Dock. And no, it’s not a bug or a missing NPC. Her disappearance is directly tied to her past in the Jianghu and to a much heavier affair surrounding Qinghe.

At the start of the adventure, you mostly run into her at the Blissful Retreat, the village’s central inn. She’s always there, between short sermons and everyday moments with the locals. Several main quests naturally bring you back there, like A Horse Neighs in the Forest, followed by the beginning of Heaven Has No Dock. At that point, Aunt Han clearly embodies the area’s maternal figure, the one who soothes tensions, protects the children, and keeps a fragile balance at the Celestial Pier.

Then comes the night when everything falls apart. The attack by the masked forces throws the hamlet into chaos and, suddenly, Aunt Han is gone. You search the Blissful Retreat, but only Doudou remains, calmly telling you that she has a habit of disappearing “like magic.” The game then pushes you elsewhere, toward the inn and the Evercare Clinic via the quest An Urgent Word. By piecing together the clues, you uncover a secret passage leading to the Still Shore dungeon, hidden beneath the clinic and directly connected to Aunt Han’s past. Basically, if you lose her at the Celestial Pier, the logical next step is to investigate Qinghe, the inn, and the clinic to understand what she’s really hiding.

And that’s where the truth comes out. Aunt Han isn’t just a simple tavern keeper. She’s a master of changing faces, known as the Lady of the Water, involved in a large-scale political infiltration. Her research and sensitive files drew the masked enemies all the way to the Celestial Pier. If she disappears, it’s to protect the villagers and move the danger away, keeping those compromising documents out of reach.