Su Wan is the youngest female academician in Huaguo of the twenty-third century, an expert on the genetic sequences and toxic compounds of 390,000 plant species around the world.
When she opens her eyes, she has become the most good-for-nothing legitimate princess of the Great Yan Kingdom. Every plant that comes near her withers. She is the empire’s only “plant-extinguishing body,” a disgrace to the royal family.
Faced with the empress’s hostility, her fiancé’s indifference, and the ridicule of the entire court, she yawns.
“Orchids planted in volcanic rock? Just say you want hot pot.”
“That’s pokeweed fruit, not a thousand-year-old ginseng root. Eat it and you’ll have diarrhea in no time.”
“Regent, your natal spirit plant has the roots of a heartbreak vine in its soil. If you don’t change it soon, your cultivation will be ruined.”
One remark makes the empress lose her composure. Another earns her a ten-thousand-year blessing from the sacred tree in the forbidden grounds. Yet another tears open a shocking conspiracy. While the cultivation world still gambles with their lives to make pacts, she is already grafting and crossbreeding plants, growing them without soil, and using pheromones to repel pests. When an ancient ruin opens and everyone fights tooth and nail over a few weeds, she sighs and rubs her temples. “That’s a genetically defective GMO lotus. Why are you fighting over it?”
She thinks she is quietly building up her strength, until the sacred tree bows to her and all plants submit. Then the ancient Qing Emperor, a monster who has lived for ten thousand years, chases after her calling her “Teacher”
The entire cultivation world goes mad.
