💔 After being betrayed, she shut her heart away.
She never expected the bird she rescued to be far more reliable than any man. Tang Tang is betrayed by her fiancé: five women and a schedule of his cheating are enough to burn all the foolish romantic notions she’s held for half her life to ashes. She quits her job, goes home, and decides to lie flat, thinking this is how the rest of her life will be. Then one day at the seaside, she slips and falls into the water. When she surfaces, there’s a fainted red-whiskered bulbul in her arms. She saves it, but there’s something… strange about this bird.
It glows, sighs, and looks at her with the kind of eyes that say, “I understand, but I don’t want to talk about it.”
It can even turn into a naked young man in the middle of the night. Tilting his head, he asks her:
“Big Sis, do you have any water?” A young woman whose heart has been broken by a scumbag meets a proud little phoenix who can’t use a cup, can’t wear pants, and nearly chokes to death the first time he tries passion fruit sparkling water.
She teaches him how to be human, and he teaches her that being needed by someone can feel so warm. Emerald Cove Harbor:
We don’t sell stories here, just a little corner that makes you believe that even a rotten beginning can still lead you to the right person. 🍵 Three parts sweet, seven parts real.
The rest is all unexpected.