Lin Nan, 26, has a severe case of social anxiety. Her biggest dream is to be invisible.
The day she gets laid off, she buys a lottery ticket on a whim and wins five million yuan. With this "windfall" in hand, she makes a decision no one can understand: she returns to her village to farm.
While sorting through her father's belongings, an old jade pendant unexpectedly recognizes her as its owner. Hidden inside is a mysterious spiritual spring. It makes crops grow like crazy and gives them extraordinary quality, but it has one fatal flaw: it needs powerful emotional energy to work.
And as someone with social anxiety, the only situation that reliably gives Lin Nan intense emotions is being watched by a crowd.
And so her life starts veering off course:
Her mother drags her to a public square dance. Three hundred people watch her die of embarrassment, and the tomato seedlings shoot up a foot.
She's forced to perform a comedy skit at the village gala. The whole village watches her die of embarrassment for the second time, and the cucumber vines cover their trellises.
A video goes viral online. Hundreds of thousands of people watch her die of embarrassment for the third time, and the bok choy is ready to harvest.
The more she humiliates herself, the better her crops grow. The better her crops grow, the more attention she gets. And the more attention she gets, the more she humiliates herself.
It's a perfect cycle, a social-anxiety sufferer's worst nightmare, and a comedic life straight out of a farming novel.
When her produce catches the attention of agricultural experts, when the village chief wants to turn her into an internet celebrity promoting rural revitalization, and when the video of her "mechanical-dancing auntie" performance passes a million views...
Lin Nan stands on the field ridge, staring at the crops growing like mad, and falls into deep thought.
"Dad, did you give me this jade pendant so I'd become an internet celebrity?"
@ Is a light comedy farming novel that makes people laugh and follow it. The social fear heroine's growth line is real and touching, and the anti-routine setting of Lingquan is innovative. If it can speed up the pace of the villain line and enrich the supporting roles, it is expected to become a dark horse in the same genre.