[ CW ] Tell a love story , including a plant , in 5 sentences .

The emperor's oldest gardener tended to many bonsai trees in the royal garden, but he gave special attention to a pine with an odd placed trunk. 
 
 His father, a lowly shrubber, had carried it over the mountains in his youth, to seek out work in a distant land. 
 
 Try as he might the gardener could n't get it to grow in one desirable way or another, but secretly cherished this plant above the others. 
 
 One night he dreamed the solution and jumped up in the dark to trim a length of the trunk but a bit too far. 
 
 As autumn came and went the tree withered and died, but the memory lived on in the gardener's mind.
