The Tea Codex: Seeds of Parasitism

Ye Xun is a top tea taster who can discern the brewer's state of mind from the taste of the tea.

At a tasting, she detects an intense, overwhelming fear and the sweet, fishy taste of an unknown plant.

She traces the tea to the mountains of Yunnan, where she discovers a terrifying plant that parasitizes human brains and spreads its spores through tea leaves.

Those infected lose themselves and become puppets of the plant's consciousness.

Ye Xun discovers that the secret behind her tasting ability is inextricably linked to the plant.