Lingxi, a spirit born from a thousand-year-old flowing-light grass, arrives in the modern city with the fresh, clean scent of plants about her.
She calls air conditioners “cold-wind spirits,” mistakes remote controls for snacks, and can touch a withered branch and make it sprout anew.
Her innocent, otherworldly nature unexpectedly brings her into Shen Zhiheng's world.
A tech CEO who prizes reason above all, he has seen more than his share of scheming, but for the first time, he finds himself curious about a girl “who can't even lie.”
She squats by the roadside to chat with the grass, calls expensive perfume “bad-smelling flower nectar,” and asks him with the most straightforward gaze: “Why have you looked at me three times more today than yesterday?”
At first, Shen Zhiheng thinks of her as a “little monster” who has wandered into the human world. Patiently, he teaches her to use a phone and get her driver's license, and takes her traveling everywhere.
His family loves her purity, and her arrival brings his life to life.
When habit turns into concern and curiosity blossoms into love, Shen Zhiheng finally understands: the best kind of love is when a man who has seen all the world's complexities falls for this naïve little “blade of grass.”
He never believed in love at first sight or a love that lasts ten thousand years at a glance, until he met her.
Only then did he realize that those words could never fully express how much he loved her.
And Lingxi slowly comes to understand that the feeling of wanting to smile whenever she sees him, and feeling lost whenever he's gone, is probably what humans call the sweetest kind of “liking.”
The female protagonist is simple and the male protagonist is very patient. He liked her at first sight and took the little girl with him on the first day. He is full of love and dotes on her.