Ming Le was the real young master who had been found and brought back. From then on, he was renamed Song Mingle.
Mingle left the countryside where he had lived for twelve years and came to the big city.
The “wild” child of the countryside had suddenly become a young master in the city.
But there was already another young master here. Compared to him, Mingle looked more like the civet cat in the story of the civet cat switching places with the crown prince.
His biological parents repeatedly promised to treat the two boys fairly. Mingle looked down at his clothes, washed until they had faded white, and the layers of calluses on his hands. Then he looked at the boy in their arms, so cherished and pampered, crying until he could hardly breathe. He didn't understand. What did fairness mean?
The new home he had arrived at with such hope, the luxurious mansion that looked so bright and beautiful from the outside, had now become a quagmire trapping Mingle, one he couldn't escape.
But Mingle remembered someone once telling him he was like a blade of grass: as long as his roots remained, he could cling firmly to the soil and keep growing upward.
By high school, there was no trace of the boy Mingle used to be. He looked like a young man who had grown up in silks and fine food: handsome, reserved, and polite. Everyone who spent time with him felt as if a spring breeze were brushing past them.
Only the people who shared his roof could see through his disguise: vile, shameless, hypocritical, a tea-drinking schemer made flesh.
Mingle didn't care what irrelevant people thought of him, until the new transfer student stood before him.
He said, “Mingle, have these years been hard on you?”
Song Mingle only makes tea for two people. He takes care over the leaves, sorting them into freshly picked fine tea and old tea that has sat around so long it's gone moldy.
The old tea is for the half-brother he despises most, the one who shares neither parent with him.
Before he can even finish brewing the fresh tea, the transfer student snatches it up and drinks it.
But then, it was made for him all along.
Theme: Love someone for who they truly are.
