Hua Yingying is a tree that has cultivated for nearly three hundred years. Oh, no, she should be called a proper tree spirit now.
Perhaps Heaven was looking out for her. When she was still a seed, a greedy crow mistook her for food and carried her off. She fell into a spirit-rich canyon, where she took root and sprouted.
Creatures as slow-witted as trees usually need a thousand years of cultivation to develop independent consciousness. But they live long enough to grow at their own pace.
So Hua Yingying, who became sentient at just three hundred, seemed especially adorable next to the elders around her, most of whom were thousands of years old. They cherished and protected her like a precious treasure.
Unlike those elders who had lived for millennia, Hua Yingying was intensely curious about everything beyond the canyon. She couldn't wait to see the outside world.
One day, a red-eyed little boy came to the canyon. Adorable-faced and all alone, he sat beneath a gigantic blue jacaranda and cried into his knees.
Hua Yingying held back and held back, but finally couldn't resist asking, "Who are you? What's wrong? Why are your eyes leaking sparkly water?"
The boy was startled at first, but then told her his name was Fu Songming. No matter how Hua Yingying questioned him, though, he refused to say why he was crying.
He told Hua Yingying all kinds of things about the outside world. Before leaving, he promised that if she ever managed to take human form, she could come find him, and he would take her to see all the most fun places in the world.
That made her work even harder to absorb the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth and cultivate, hoping to take human form as soon as possible.
At last, she succeeded. Eagerly, she went to the place the boy had mentioned, but he was nowhere to be seen.
Later, she met a man who was blind.
He told her that before he lost his sight, he had once seen a blue jacaranda somewhere, so beautiful that there was nothing like it anywhere in the world.
Hua Yingying protested, "There's an even prettier one. Want to take a look?"
The man froze for a moment, then shook his head and said he could never see again.
"That's easy. I'll help you." Hua Yingying patted her chest and promised.
He had thought she was just saying it, but the girl really did keep her promise and restore his sight.
Later, Fu Songming also kept his promise and took her to see all the beautiful things in the world.
Gender-bender romance. The heroine occasionally changes form. Spirits have their own ways of having fun.
Theme: A promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold
