When Shen Luoyan woke up, she became an orphan from a farmer's family on the outskirts of Chang'an City, with only half an acre of thin fields and a few half-dead peonies around her.
During the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty, peonies had not yet become the national flower, but people loved peaches and plums. Holding the flower tree handed down from her ancestors, she reclaimed the wasteland into a flower garden amidst the ridicule of others, and used the methods of later generations to graft and encourage flowers. In the cold spring, the cold-resistant "Snow Yinghong" was bred, and in the midsummer, the rare "Green Jade Tray" was bred. Even the court painters stopped by her peonies.
From the village girl setting up a stall in the market to the gardener who alarmed the imperial concubine, she used the power of a flower to make peonies bloom in the streets of Chang'an. But why did that cool young man who often came to buy flowers always silently hand her a clean handkerchief when she was pruning her branches?
Half an acre of flower fields, a lifetime of youthfulness, she planted more than just peonies in the Tang Dynasty.
