Shen Yue, an overworked office drone, transmigrates into a story set in a bygone era, becoming a cannon-fodder young woman sent to the countryside who won't survive three chapters.
A System? A script? She's got both, but all she wants is to quietly watch the drama unfold.
As the original story's hero and heroine fight tooth and nail over a spot on the list to return to the city, Shen Yue munches sunflower seeds beneath the village's old locust tree, thoroughly enjoying the show.
When the village beauty sneaks into the woods at night with a local hooligan, Shen Yue grabs a little stool and claims the best seat in the house.
She's determined to be a self-sufficient couch potato, quietly make a fortune, buy a house, and put her feet up.
Until one day, a man fresh off the battlefield, so fierce that his presence could stop a child from crying, blocks out her sunlight with his towering frame. His name is Lu Changfeng.
The man looks down at his military boots, now covered in sunflower seed shells. His voice is as low as a cello's. “Comrade, enjoy the show if you like, but don't litter.”
Shen Yue: ...These seeds don't taste so good anymore.
Later, word spreads through the whole village: Shen Yue, the laziest young educated woman and the biggest sunflower seed fanatic, has been cornered by Lu Changfeng, a man with an unfathomably powerful background. His eyes are red at the corners, and his scorching fingertips stroke her slender waist. His voice is so hoarse it's almost unrecognizable. “Yueyue, stop watching them. Look at me... I'm sweeter than sunflower seeds.”
