She gave him a leaf. It has no scientific name and is not included in any flora. It is only spread among people who walk in the woods. Starting from this leaf, he learned to remember every name she said - Golden Lotus, Dendrobium Drumstick, Gap Orchid, Stone Bean Orchid. He wrote those names in his observation journal, starting from the question mark on the first page that almost penetrated the back of the paper with so much force: The prognosis is uncertain.
Three years later, the diary filled three volumes. He learned to measure time with her ruler, and she put his name on official reserve documents. He placed the first bag of seeds she taught him to harvest in the palm of her hand on New Year's Eve, and she said he would make an extra cup of coffee every morning from now on. He said yes.
Later someone asked her how she fell in love with him, and she said: He was just lost, and I happened to know how to get out.
A rainforest story that begins with a leaf. It's about waiting, about growth, about two people who measure the world with different scales and finally take root in the same place.
Concept: The core concept of "Mountain Sour Horn Leaf" is to explore how two completely different value systems can understand and achieve each other in the collision through the encounter between a botanist and a developer. Su Yulin's way of protecting the rainforest is to wait - it takes two years for an epiphyte orchid to sprout from seed to bloom, and twenty years for a cut down banyan tree to regenerate in another form. Gu Huaijin's business world uses ten years to measure the project cycle and the return on investment to measure the value of decision-making. He learned another ruler from her - the growth rhythm of life itself cannot be compressed, but it is worth waiting for. What they jointly protect is not only a rainforest, but also a belief - belief that data can convince prejudice, belief that waiting can change inertia, belief that two people who measure time with different rulers can eventually find a common measure on the same piece of land. This is a novel about growth: the growth of plants, the growth of emotions, and the growth of people after they learn to see the world in another way.