As the apocalypse’s top scientist, able to keep his hair perfectly in place even while surrounded by zombies, Su Chen never expected a bowl of steamed eggs with lard to be his undoing. When he opens his eyes, he’s become a five-year-old chubby boy doted on by his entire family, with a chicken drumstick in one hand and a sugar biscuit in the other. His three older sisters even take turns massaging his legs and shoulders.
Looking at the drafty mud-brick house and the patches on his family’s clothes, Su Chen, a workaholic to the core, falls into deep thought: How did these living conditions make me grow a double chin?
His family is so poor they can barely scrape by, yet they’re raising him like a pig. Su Chen can’t take it anymore and pulls potatoes and chili peppers from his spatial realm. He only meant to make a little money and improve their lives, but then, as he keeps growing crops...
His harvest reaches 3,000 jin per mu, stunning the emperor, and his chili sauce becomes a nationwide hit. Munching on compressed biscuits, Su Chen frets: Wasn’t I supposed to lose weight scientifically? How did I accidentally lift my whole family out of poverty and into prosperity? Well, in that case, he’ll farm, open shops, pursue an official career, and climb the ladder to the very top, one step at a time...
