Su Xiaowan was a corporate drone in her past life and a cannon-fodder character in this one.
She transmigrated into the cultivation novel Nine Heavens Immortal Path and became a cannon-fodder character with her name: the girl the male lead flicked away over a tea egg, whom the female lead's suitors humiliated by rummaging through her belongings, and who was eventually devoured by demonic beasts, leaving not even a whole corpse behind.
Faced with such a terrible hand, she made a decision that would defy her ancestors: no cultivation, no competing for favor, and no involvement in the plot. She would feign illness and flee to the medicinal herb garden on the back mountain, grow vegetables and live healthily, keep her head down until the end, then open a milk tea shop and enjoy the rest of her life.
The ideal was wonderful. Reality was harsh.
The vegetables she planted sprouted overnight and gained sentience in three days. The scallion roots she casually stuck into the soil grew into an ancient sacred herb that had been extinct for three hundred years. The spiritual energy in her garden was so concentrated that the Alchemy Peak sent people to steal from it in the middle of the night.
Even more outrageous was this:
The original story's aloof, haughty heroine, Bai Ruosheng, leaned over her food counter, crying and calling her "Big Sister."
The original story's frosty male lead, Gu Linyuan, who never spared anyone a glance, came by the garden every day "just because" to bring her medicine, soup, and osmanthus cakes, his ears red as cooked shrimp.
Then there was Zhao Yuanlang from the outer sect, who picked fights with her every day; Xiao Yingying from the inner sect, who came to discuss business; and Lin Mo from Alchemy Peak, who stole vegetables, had an allergic reaction, and rolled around on the ground...
She wanted to avoid the crowds, but the herb garden was busier than a vegetable market.
She wanted to be invisible, but the whole sect had its eyes on her.
She wanted to lie flat, but ended up as the sect's beloved darling.
