[Scatterbrained, money-loving, all-rounder mentor x jealous, loyal, clingy war god] [Hilarious, trope-subverting comedy + raising a sworn enemy + making a fortune + cross-dimensional redemption + unrequited first love + historical power struggles + satisfying female-led story]
Carrot is bound to the [Rival-Raising System]. Her mission is to travel back to ancient times, raise the future Prince of Lanling who will kill her in the future, then take him out.
Looking at the future war god, shivering with hunger in a corner, she pinches his still-chubby cheeks and declares, “Call me mentor! I'll teach you how to survive, and help me make money while we're at it!”
The System wants her to raise her enemy? She'll make him help her get rich instead!
Using wood ash and lard, Carrot concocts “Ghost Valley Divine Soap” and secures angel-round investment from a famous courtesan.
She teaches him Z-shaped movement to capture market share and uses KPIs to manage their little workshop, keeping all the shares and account books firmly in her own hands.
But he keeps sticking his nose into more and more of her business
When she accepts pastries from a refined merchant, he sets fire to the man's storeroom that very night. When she exchanges a few extra words with a handsome general, he has someone beat the man so badly in a sparring match at the training ground that he ends up bedridden the next day.
She plans to maximize his value, complete her ultimate mission, and make a graceful exit.
But when he stands bloodied, shielding her; when he has achieved fame and success yet lets her kill him 120 times in a game, then asks with red-rimmed eyes, “Am I finally worthy of dying by your hand?”...
The System sounds the alarm like crazy, but as she looks at the huge profits he's brought in, recorded in her ledger, and at her heart, soaked through by his jealousy, for the first time she can't bring herself to finish him off.
How is this raising an enemy?
Clearly, the System forced her to raise herself a lifelong, jealous money tree and guardian deity!
Oh no! After she left, he went completely insane. Somehow, she turned this revenge plot into a story of redemption.
