[Urban Fantasy] [Two Male Leads] [Ensemble of Yao] [Sweet Romance and Healing] [Slow-Burn Growth]
Gu Xiaobai has a simple dream: get a permanent job, benefits and a retirement plan, keep his head down as an easygoing office worker, and save enough to buy his dad a big house for his retirement.
Thanks to his dad’s connections, he lands an office job at the Special Administration Bureau. His coworkers are friendly, the director is handsome, and the workplace atmosphere is almost too good to be true. The only problem is that everyone seems to love cosplay.
What he doesn’t know is that all his coworkers are yao, the director is an Azure Dragon, and his dad is a Vermilion Bird capable of smashing a mountain range with one punch. And Gu Xiaobai himself is an ancient lotus seed that has slept for ten thousand years. Its shell is so hard that evil yao break their teeth trying to bite him, and its fragrance is so lovely that even fierce great yao turn clingy around him.
Worse still, his lotus-seed form is beginning to awaken: leaves are sprouting from his head, a bud is forming on his body, and he’s about to bloom. Once he does, he’ll be the ultimate delicacy in the Three Realms.
The fastidious dragon director goes from finding him annoying to being hooked, his hot-tempered Vermilion Bird dad goes from protective to downright explosive, and the bureau’s great yao go from curious to fiercely protective.
The whole world is protecting this lotus before it blooms, while Gu Xiaobai cares about just one thing:
“Am I still getting my perfect-attendance bonus this month?!”
