Plucking Camellias

[An early work. I'll heavily revise it after I start writing "White Moonlight". Read with caution.]

That year, she gave relief to refugees, and the people called her a goddess reborn.

He wondered then: the goddess loved all the people of the world. Would she spare even a little love for him?

When the camellias bloom across the land next year,

he will pluck the most beautiful one

and give it to the icy beauty dressed in purple.

That was what he thought.

But there are no camellias in the underworld.

That "goddess" became a ghost and no longer remembered him.

A soul bearing memories of a past life vs. a deeply sinful ghost who drank Meng Po's soup

A gentle, mute man x an aloof, solitary female ghost

Reading guide:

Happy ending. A short bonus story about the male and female supporting characters from "The Unlucky Young Master's White Moonlight Is Actually Me"

Theme: A happy ending.