Twenty-four-year-old office worker Lin Xiaoxiao kills every plant she tries to raise, except for the cactus on her balcony, which survives no matter what she does to it.
Sealed inside that cactus is Cang Wu, a thousand-year-old great demon.
One day, after working overtime, she came home and grumbled to the cactus, “Can cultivating immortality pay a thousand a day?” To her surprise, Cang Wu answered: one thousand for each day of cultivation.
Determined to save up for a house and retire early, Lin Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth and began an extreme routine: working 996 by day and cultivating at night.
She only meant to earn some extra cash, but discovered she had a natural wood spirit root and had unexpectedly gained a cactus pocket dimension.
As spiritual qi revival swept through Yunjiang, cultivators and supernatural creatures of all kinds began watching her from the shadows, dragging her into a perilous whirlpool.
And that aloof, sharp-tongued thousand-year-old demon, whose possessiveness knew no bounds, gradually changed from her “daily-pay boss” into a bond she couldn’t shake.
Lin Xiaoxiao finally understood: cultivating immortality wasn’t a side hustle, but a survival skill. And in this deal, she seemed to be putting her heart on the line too.
