During the annual holiday, Ye Taoyin returned to her hometown as usual. But this time, everything felt different, and the camphor tree in the courtyard seemed to have changed.
A young man claimed to be a tree spirit and asked to make a pact with her so he could travel the world. His goal turned out to be... finding food?!
That was how Ye Taoyin discovered that countless people were living with demons on their backs, and that evil spirits were behind the way human emotions had become stifled.
As she hunted down demons and fed the tree spirit until he was round and plump, the relationships between people began to change in subtle ways.
What exactly did the tree spirit bring into her life? A thirty-something woman's demon-slaying tale. Read the novel to find out.
Theme: A kite needs a string, just as life needs roots.
