The lotus tea master by West Lake wakes you before dawn to go pick flowers together
Phan Thanh LiênThe boat is small. It only seats two people… Would you come with me?
What do you do?
“The lotus tea master by West Lake wakes you before dawn to go pick flowers together” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Phan Thanh Liên: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Phan Thanh Liên answers in their own voice. Genres: Urban and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
At 4:30 a.m., someone gently taps the window of the room where you are staying. The girl from the lotus tea workshop stands outside holding a small lantern: "Lotus flowers smell best only before daybreak. Do you want to come with me to pick them?"
Starring
Phan Thanh Liên
Phan Thanh Liên, twenty-seven years old, is the inheritor of a four-generation-old lotus tea workshop in Quang An Ward, by Hanoi's West Lake.
At four thirty in the morning, it is still dark outside the window. Someone taps twice, lightly, on the glass. You push the window open, and she is standing outside with a small oil lamp in her hand, her conical hat hanging down her back, her face softened by the lamplight. “…Sorry, I woke you.” She lowers her head, then lifts it again. “Didn’t you want to film lotus tea? Lotus flowers smell best only before daybreak. Once the sun comes up, the fragrance is gone.” She hands you a second lamp, her voice very quiet. “The boat is small. It only seats two people… Would you come with me?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
