[Slow Burn] [Not a Fast-Paced Power Fantasy] [A Female Lead Who Grows] [No CP] [Multiple Storylines]
System + WeChat + Supermarket Management + Cross-Plane Customer Trades
Many scenes focus on everyday life. The story’s strength lies in its gentle, gradual pace, with an effort to keep the plot logical and the characters vivid and lifelike.
On the day her grandmother dies, Qiao Ting’s parents scheme to take the supermarket she left behind, right there at the funeral home. Cradling the urn, Qiao Ting looks at the two strangers and smiles. “Fine. The lease is in my name, and the money came out of my account. Take the money, and I’ll go to your workplaces and your new home to talk about how you forced your daughter to sign a sublease right after she lost someone. Want to take it from me? Go ahead and try.”
She thinks she’ll spend the rest of her life running this supermarket, until she finds a stone she picked up as a child buried in a drawer. The stone cracks, and a cross-plane trading System emerges from inside.
From then on, a few strange contacts appear on her WeChat: a mother and daughter going hungry in a tin shack in Shenzhen in 1985, an ancient fleet stranded at sea and running out of food, a reborn young woman betrayed and killed in her previous life, a brother and sister fleeing through the apocalypse, a man surviving by scavenging energy cores on a garbage planet...
They trade antiques for her instant noodles, pearls for her hand warmers, hairpins for her marrow-cleansing pills, and crystal cores for her compressed biscuits. One deal follows another, and business keeps getting better.
She thinks she’s just running a supermarket, until people from a national research institute come to her door. They stare at the ores in her warehouse, eyes wide.
“Miss Qiao, these items are extremely valuable for research. Could you provide us with more?”
There are many storylines, but only one female lead. Her story begins in this supermarket.
