[A love-oblivious, honey-mad worker bee x a pure-hearted, kind, lovesick crybaby tree]
Xun Xiang is a clever young worker bee, shunned by her peers and often left with no nectar to eat.
But it’s all right. She has a towering tree of her own, its flowers blooming year-round, beautiful as white doves in flight.
Those flowers are all hers!
…
Bai Yu is a hundred-year-old dove tree. He spends years traveling abroad. Then, one year, with his first flowering season approaching, he rushes home, only to find a little worker bee perched on one of his flowers!
The sky is falling.
His first flowering season has arrived early, and, on top of that, she’s eating his nectar!
Blushing furiously and on the verge of tears, he pulls out the insecticide he just bought at a human market.
The little worker bee tumbles to the ground and transforms into a slender young woman.
His heart softens at once.
Never mind. She’s still just a kid. It’s only a little nectar.
…
Later, the little worker bee gets greedy and wants to taste his sweetest nectar.
Xun Xiang doesn’t understand. “I watered you for over ten years before you bloomed. Why can’t I have your sweetest nectar?”
Xun Xiang refuses to give up. She pins him against the thick trunk of his true form and says earnestly, “If you don’t agree, I’ll evolve a second time and go home to inherit my mother’s throne. Then I’ll have more nectar than I could ever eat, and I’ll never come see you again!”
After taking human form, Bai Yu has a handsome, lean, and graceful appearance. Now the worker bee has him in her arms, his face flushed pink down to his neck. Shining tears roll down his fair cheeks, and a rich fragrance fills the air.
“Do you know what this means?”
Xun Xiang sniffles and leans in to kiss his tears.
“I don’t know. Big Brother Bai Yu, your tears taste so sweet.”
Reader advisory:
① Gender-bender. The female lead has no special powers, but she is a bee.
② To a worker bee, nothing matters more than eating nectar.
③ To a flowering plant, flowers are its private parts.
④ A sweet little treat.
Theme: Go ahead and cry if you want to.
