Xiao Xiao has long been accustomed to being alone.
She doesn't expect surprises, and she no longer needs company.
Until that year in Qingdai Mountain, she picked up a stunning man in the bamboo forest on a snowy night. To be precise, a "tree demon"
His name is Cornel. He has a good-looking appearance that is like an immortal, but he is like a dog that has been abandoned too many times, so docile that it makes people feel soft. When she left, he followed her; when she said "wait," he stood in front of the window all day, motionless, like a tree planted there. He took every word she said as an imperial edict and gave her every bit of money he earned from working without reservation. Follow her day and night with those bottomless eyes - cautiously, walking on thin ice.
Xiao Xiao told herself that she kept him only because of loneliness. He also needs a place to stay, that's all.
What she didn't know was that this man as quiet as a tree had been waiting for her for a thousand years. From the little dogwood that was uprooted in the wildfire to the immortal demon body that spanned hundreds of reincarnations and traveled across thousands of mountains and rivers - he had traveled longer than anyone else's life, and the only thing he wanted to do in this life was not to be left behind again before she remembered him.
