Gu Xi is a first-year student in the College of Agriculture at Qinghe University. He ranked third from the bottom on a botany quiz and even put a hole in his tennis racket. He thought the biggest hassle of the semester would be losing a bet and running errands for Ji Linghua from the student union for a week.
Until all thirty dishes of rice seeds in his seed science lab sprouted toward him at once.
That evening, Shang Chi, a new transfer student in Class Two of the College of Agriculture, stopped him outside the old gym and accidentally called him “Lord Divine.”
Gu Xi: “...It's modern times, you know.”
But from that day on, strange things kept happening on campus: figures reappeared at the site of a fire from twenty-seven years ago, an abandoned shrine sent an invitation with no postmark, and a flower bed full of withered plants was suddenly crawling with corpses of divine insects overnight.
Every time Gu Xi solved one of these supernatural mysteries, he recovered a fragment of his memory.
A thousand years ago, he had been a god in charge of grain and abundance. Because of the Seasons God, both of them had been demoted and reincarnated as humans. Shang Chi, meanwhile, was a bird Gu Xi had rescued from a swamp.
Worse still, the divine decree that had found them guilty was waking up too.
The old gods demanded that Gu Xi hand Shang Chi over, promising to restore his divine status in return.
Gu Xi crumpled the decree into a ball. “I don't want a divine title. No one touches my bird.”
Theme: I crossed the torment of time to find you.
