This is not a story about cultivating immortality.
This is a story about staying alive.
Just staying alive is hard enough.
There’s no need to save the world or do anything earth-shattering.
Being able to eat every day, get some sleep, and wake up the next morning, that’s good enough.
Shen Nian never accomplished anything remarkable in her life.
She didn’t save the world, defy fate, or ascend to immortality.
She just planted vegetables, ate, slept, and stayed alive.
Every now and then, someone came looking for her, or trouble came knocking.
If she could avoid it, she did. If she couldn’t, she dealt with it, then went back to lying around.
