Tea at the Last Greenhouse

Suyi is pouring tea for a camera crew when the street outside fills with black spores. She is the face of a powerful cultivator she has never met in person, the polite woman who answers challenges, calms rivals, and smiles for someone else’s name. What no one knows is that her focus can push plants past their limits, and she has been hiding a garden that should be impossible in this dry climate. When the shelters start falling, she keeps choosing the dangerous jobs because the people around her keep getting hurt. Her hands shake only once, after she fails to protect someone in time. After that, her care turns hard, and the first people who call her weak learn how wrong they are.