If There Is an Afterlife, I Want to Be a Tree

Lin Shen, 32 years old, is an investment bank manager and a resolute "professional elite". In order to win hundreds of millions of cultural tourism projects, she personally led a team deep into the mountains of Guizhou, targeting the Basha Miao Village, the last gunman tribe in China. There is a thousand-year-old banyan tree in the village, which is called the "Heart of the Mountain God" by the Miao people. Life is like a tree, death is like a tree - this is the simplest life philosophy of Basha people. When a child is born, his parents plant a tree for him; when a person dies, the tree is cut down, the body is buried, and a new tree is planted on top. There is no grave head or tombstone, just an evergreen tree, symbolizing the continuation of life. Lin Shen didn't believe this. She only believes in data, logic and business returns. Until she reached out and touched the ancient tree in order to collect samples—— Countless memories flooded into her mind: wars, migrations, ancient prayers, and the image of a woman who looked exactly like her, guarding this mountain forest with her life. The ancient tree "chosen" her. The village elder knelt in front of her: "Guardian, you are finally back." What's even more ironic is that her cell phone rang at the same time - an email came from the headquarters: the Basha development project was officially approved and she was the project leader. She, who had just been chosen as the guardian by God, was the biggest promoter of this project.