I See the Green Mountains

After graduating from college, Tang Xin returned to her hometown and took over the inn her parents ran at the foot of Huangshan. She never expected that the life awaiting her would be nothing like the leisurely existence she’d imagined, sipping tea and enjoying the scenery as an innkeeper. By chance, she gained the ability to understand the creatures living in the mountains. From then on, every night the inn welcomed special guests from the mountains. A dawn redwood about to be illegally felled came to her for help. A stump-tailed macaque warned her about a forest fire. A big yellow dog asked her to rescue its owner, who had fallen down the mountain… Before long, things started taking a strange turn. A good-for-nothing lynx that couldn’t hunt came to her inn seeking adoption. A serow mocked for its ugly appearance came to her in tears, asking for a new skin. A koklass pheasant begged her to turn it into a phoenix… Listening to their increasingly outrageous requests, Boss Tang smiled faintly. “Do I look like a turtle in a wishing pond to you?” One day, Another new guest arrived at the inn. “Unusual disturbances are occurring deep in Yishan. If they’re left unchecked, this world will collapse. You must stop it from happening.” At the time, Boss Tang was explaining fire safety to the villagers, teaching the monkeys to behave politely toward tourists, and delivering food to support the employees at her inn, all at once. Hearing this request, with her hair sticking up like a bird’s nest and dark circles under her eyes, she pointed at herself. “Save the world… Huh? Me?”