[Slow-Burn Healing Story / Plant-Based Cultivation / No System / Lighthearted Comedy / Female Lead's Growth / Open-Ended Multiple Couples, Including BG, GL, and BL / Subverting Tropes / Cross-Species Friendship / Equal Spiritual Bonds and Mutual Salvation, No Forced Canon Pairings]
I'm a black-hearted flower, and I've left the cultivation world completely baffled!
Other people transmigrate as princesses or empresses. Hua Shangqing, on the other hand, transmigrates into a black penny after dying suddenly.
The moment she comes back to life, she witnesses an ethical nightmare: "If you love me, eat me" / "I'll eat you."
She thinks she'll spend her whole life as a spectator in these remote mountains, but then a bolt of lightning strikes, pulling her right out of the ground and turning her into a human!
She thinks the worst is over, but the cultivation world is even more of a mess.
Everyone wants to capture her, the "only plant in ten thousand years to gain sentience," and refine her into a pill.
Luckily, though the road is fraught with danger, she also "picks up" quite a few companions: a narcissistic fox with nine tails who sings off-key; a pandasque beast who dreams of becoming a farming expert; the ferocious Taotie, so hungry it eats dirt but refuses to touch even one of her leaves; and the young master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, who holds the secrets of fate in his hands, calls her "Flower Fool" to her face, yet would gladly take every heavenly tribulation for her behind her back, among others...
To stay alive, Hua Shangqing decides to hide her identity and enroll at a top cultivation academy, where she starts a chaotic campus life.
Skipping class, scaling walls, and gossiping; farming, putting on a show, and raising flowers; and teaching a lesson to the oddballs who don't know who they're messing with.
She wants to keep a low profile and grow in peace. But when she's framed, and the unjust "iron laws of Heaven" threaten to crush everyone she cares about...
Hua Shangqing finally decides she's had enough! This flower, dismissed as a mere "resource," is determined to bloom more spectacularly than ever in this merciless world!
This book is really like a meeting of carrots... A gathering of talented people stews into a pot of hodgepodge, which tastes delicious.