Douluo Dalu: Plants and Trees

1. This is a sequel to Flower Sea, but its content has almost nothing to do with the original Douluo novel.

2. This story leans toward mystery and deduction, and is set in Britain in 2018. Yue Guan and Tang San are having relationship problems, and Yue Guan has run away from home, but there will be no groveling-after-the-breakup arc for Tang San.

3. By mortal reckoning, this story takes place about 1,000 years after the end of Flower Sea. But one year in the divine realm is about five or six years in the mortal realm, so Yue Guan is about 200 years old by divine reckoning. Both he and Tang San have changed quite a bit over the past few centuries.

4. Some of the deduction methods and character roles are inspired by The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Many original characters will appear, including the female lead.

5. The female lead was born in 1995. She will not have a romance with Yue Guan. Their partnership is that of detective and forensic doctor/assistant, patient and caregiver. There is very little romance in this story. The focus is on the dynamics of conflict and cooperation between the sexes.

6. The female lead's appearance and mannerisms are rather strange. Readers probably won't like her much early on, and most of the characters in the story find her off-putting, too. Her greatest strength is her intelligence, but she has many flaws. Broadly speaking, she is an incomplete antisocial personality, with a highly aggressive nature.

7. Yue Guan and the female lead will clash and work together. His screen time and importance will gradually increase as the story progresses. He could be called the only unofficial member of the main cast. He doesn't really care about the people or affairs of Earth, either, and in the early chapters he mostly does things like "a blind man discovering a plot point."

8. The Douluo God Realm is mentioned only briefly, but it plays an important role in a hidden storyline. It also has little to do with the divine realm in the original Douluo novel, and will be explained in detail before the main story begins.

9. There are a few scenes of female-female romance.

10. This is a serious story, and the clues in the mystery plot are rather scattered. The goal is to practice character development through this work. I'm not here to love every character, only to deepen the portrayal of human nature and make the characters as three-dimensional as possible.

11. Some cases are adapted from other literary and film works, some from real cases, and some are original.

Theme: Conflict and cooperation between the sexes, the challenges women face and their pursuit of self-fulfillment, and the dark side of society