A Romance in the forest

Precious nma Romance

She broke into a forbidden forest to save her brother's life. The forest decided to keep her.Lin Yue has 72 hours before her 8-year-old brother Hao Hao's lungs fill with water and he dies. The only cure is a myth - Bai Lin Cao, a white flower that blooms once every 60 years, only inside Mistwood Nature Reserve. A forest closed for a century.She climbs the fence at 6 AM with no permit. Just a notebook, her grandmother's thermos, and a prayer whispered in Igbo.She doesn't expect to get caught. She doesn't expect the ranger to be beautiful. Cold. And 1000 years old.Chen Mo has guarded Mistwood since the Tang Dynasty. He was created to collect a debt - when humans take from the forest, a daughter of their blood must return and stay forever. He has collected seven girls. He has watched them turn into trees. He swore the eighth would be different.But the forest recognizes Lin Yue. The mist parts for her. The white flowers glow gold when she touches them. And a faceless spirit made of dead leaves calls her childhood name "Yue'er" in her dead grandmother's voice."The blood remembers, even when the child forgets. Your ancestor promised. You are the payment."Lin Yue didn't make the promise. Her great-great-grandmother did, 100 years ago, to save her husband. Now the debt is due.Chen Mo should hand her over. That is his duty. Instead, he breaks a 1000-year-old vow, turns his own hands to bark to shield her, and whispers, "Don't let go."He was made to be a guardian, not a man who falls in love. Every time he feels, he becomes wood.She was made to be a sacrifice, not a girl who talks to trees.Together, they must find a loophole in a promise written in blood - before the forest takes her voice, her memories, and finally, her life. She tears a glowing petal in half and receives a mysterious green seed that pulses like a heart - Chen Mo's original human heart from 1000 years ago.He waited 1000 years to feel his heart beat again. She came to save her brother.Some promises are written in bark and blood. PART I: THE TRESPASS (Chapters 1-5)Our story opens in a forest Mistwood, a reserve on the border of China, created by an ancient migration of seeds. Mistwood is closed on Tuesdays. Lin Yue, 20, a second-year botany student at ESUT, is desperate. Her 8-year-old brother Hao Hao has "mountain water fever" - his lungs are filling with fluid. Parklane hospital says only Bai Lin Cao, White Forest Herb, which blooms once every 60 years in summer, deep in Mistwood, can save him. Her professor says permit takes 3 weeks. Her brother has 3 days.At 6:04 am, she climbs the fence with a notebook, thermos, and backpack. She prays in Igbo and Mandarin to the trees: "I mean no harm."She is caught by Chen Mo. Description: Tall, 26-looking, river-stone eyes, ranger uniform, hair damp, name tag crooked. He is cold: "Permit." She begs. He gives her 2 hours, with 3 rules: Don't touch, Don't get lost, Don't talk to trees. His ears turn pink on rule 3.As they walk, mist parts for her. A butterfly lands on her notebook. The forest is awake. Deep underground, something 1000 years old opens one eye.They find the herb under the ancient camphor tree - small white 5-petal flowers glowing. Lin Yue tries to photograph. Chen Mo stops her: "It's not supposed to be blooming." This herb blooms every 60 years, but only when a daughter of debt returns. A petal falls into her notebook and glows gold. Temperature drops. Phone loses signal. Mist swallows path.A voice calls: "Yue'er..." - her childhood nickname only her dead grandma used. Chen Mo steps in front of her: "Don't answer." He reveals forest chose her. The petal glows gold.Something begins to walk toward them.PART II: THE DEBT REVEALED (Chapters 6-10)

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