[Probably a very long novel. I'm not opening it until I've written more than half of it.]
The Gao family is renowned for making incense. For three generations, they have made incense from flowers. Perhaps their perseverance moved the heavens, because Gao Chuyao's generation finally produced someone with a spiritual root.
Gao Chuyao was immediately sent to an immortal sect. Unfortunately, the dignified sect looked down on such unorthodox methods and kicked her straight into the lowest-ranked disciple's palace, where she would have to go home if she failed the assessment a year later.
Gao Chuyao thought, How could my family possibly be unorthodox?
That is, until she opened the doors to the disciple's palace. Inside was a gathering of all sorts of talents: vegetable sellers, cooks, dog trainers, acrobats...
Her mouth twitched. She must have opened the wrong door.
She closed it and opened it again. Everyone stared at her brightly and asked, "Fellow cultivator, what path do you practice?"
After a while, Gao Chuyao found herself eating barbecue and watching a dog perform tricks while selling incense at the immortal sect.
Maybe this life wasn't so bad? But why did someone keep stealing her incense?
When Gao Chuyao finally caught the thief, she discovered it was a little black snake that loved coiling around her like an accessory. In that case, she might as well keep it as emergency rations.
Ji Cheng'an was once a prodigy among Buddhist cultivators. After being ambushed, his soul fell into the Animal Realm, one of the six paths of reincarnation, and he became a crippled black snake.
He had lost all six senses and should have fallen into darkness to await death, but just before he died, he smelled a faint floral fragrance and regained his senses.
Buddhist cultivators believe in purifying the six senses, but snakes are jealous by nature and lustful, so Ji Cheng'an ignores Gao Chuyao during the day but secretly clings to her at night.
Note:
Romance to plot ratio: 3:7.
Theme: Facing growth
