Twenty-two-year-old Song Nuonuo is a sweet, shy, socially anxious florist. With dreams of working in horticulture, he rents an old Western-style house with a courtyard, only to discover that the landlord has rented it to someone else too. He ends up sharing the place by chance with Gu Shiyan, a twenty-eight-year-old, icy architectural designer. One longs to create a healing little flower garden; the other has come to escape pressure to marry and find inspiration. Though worlds apart, the two become bound together by the old house.
Their early attempts to get along are full of laughs. Gu Shiyan, who’s squeamish about bugs and a neat freak, is forced to help Song Nuonuo catch snails and pick up packages. Socially anxious Song Nuonuo quietly warms Gu Shiyan’s heart with hot porridge and flower-shaped cookies when he works late into the night. Song Nuonuo transforms the desolate courtyard with his astonishing talent, turning it into a popular photo spot, and even cures Gu Shiyan’s long-term insomnia with lavender. Gu Shiyan becomes his unseen protector, helping him put unreasonable clients in their place and secure high-end orders, and standing firmly by him whenever others question his abilities.
From cautiously testing the waters to openly standing up for each other, the two join forces to turn their lives around. Song Nuonuo cultivates a new rose variety, “Nuonuo Pink,” and proves his doubters wrong, winning municipal contracts and the gold medal at the National Horticulture Competition. Gu Shiyan invites him to consult on a botanical garden project and publicly reveals their bond at a family banquet, prompting the whole internet to ship the unlikely couple.
In the end, Song Nuonuo’s “Healing Garden” grows into a chain of businesses, and Gu Shiyan builds him a private secret garden. From their unexpected house-share in the old Western-style home to standing side by side at the botanical garden, the sweet florist and the icy designer heal each other, turn their passions into careers, and keep the people they love close. Together, they make a promise for the rest of their lives in a romance full of sweetness, without heartbreak or misunderstandings.
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