Lu Jiyue is a mountain girl who knits little nests for stray wildcats and sews stuffed toys for injured foxes.
But after a painful experience, she developed a fear of crowds and spent five years in seclusion in the old wooden house her grandmother left her.
One day, this reclusive woman, afraid of socializing and with her phone permanently in airplane mode, suddenly finds herself with a husband.
Without fail, he sends her dozens of messages every day, about everything from the shape of the clouds to the fact that Mint has grown half a centimeter taller.
He even secretly installs round-the-clock surveillance cameras at her guesthouse, just to see whether she talks to anyone else.
On a cloudy day, Lu Jiyue takes Lin Yanzhou into the mountains to forage for mushrooms, and he chatters the whole way.
"Can you eat this red mushroom?"
"That squirrel just glared at me!"
She suddenly stops and presses her index finger to his lips. "Shh... listen. The wind is talking to the trees."
He falls silent at once, watching sunlight filter through the leaves and fall across her face.
Later, Lin Yanzhou moves his work to the mountains. During his remote meetings, the background sounds are always birdsong and Lu Jiyue humming a tune.
He's still clingy.
He follows her when she goes to water the flowers in the backyard, wraps his arms around her waist when she bakes cookies in the kitchen, and even leans in to listen when she whispers to the kitten.
The best kind of seclusion isn't hiding deep in the mountains.
It's having someone willing to turn the whole world into a safe place that belongs only to you.
Theme: Living in harmony with nature
