She Wants to Retire Early

Here's a fresh and spicy upcoming story! The blurb for "Disaster Strikes, Frenzied Stockpiling [Infinite]" is at the very bottom.

Blurb for this story:

[Note: This really is a farming story]

Xin Tian always thought she was ordinary.

After being reborn, she did the most extraordinary thing of her life!

She left behind the glittering life of a top-tier city and boarded a high-speed train to a tiny backwater town!

Life in Zhuangcheng is cheap. Renting a three-story villa costs just 10,000 yuan a year!

Zhuangcheng has tons of delicious food: wonton noodles, congee cooked with fresh ingredients, fried milk, white-cut pig's trotter, and endless Cantonese dim sum...

The people in Zhuangcheng are warmhearted, and everyone treats her so well!

Her only problem here is that she eats too much...

Xin Tian decides to return to her dream and grow tomatoes!

She develops new varieties: banana-flavored tomatoes, dark chocolate tomatoes...

At first, no one believes in her, until her courtyard is filled with yellow, orange, and black tomatoes...

Everyone is stunned! She hasn't just managed to grow them, she can even control how sweet or sour they are! The texture is incredible!

Her dad gives up trying to persuade her to take the civil service exam, her mom stops urging her to study abroad, and her boyfriend shows his support by buying her a house!

Her teacher invites her enthusiastically: "I've always known you were a genius. Come to my lab, and let's create even more possibilities together!"

As soon as the tomatoes hit the market, everyone goes crazy for them! They repeatedly trend online and make their way into supermarkets!

Customers are furious: "Why are so many people competing with me for tomatoes? I've been waiting for a whole week, and still can't get any!"

Xin Tian timidly raises her hand: "Sorry, everyone, but I want to take a vacation..."

Everyone answers in unison: "No!"

May everyone find the light, fear no darkness, enjoy delicious food, meet sincere friends, and encounter kind strangers.

May your eyes always shine with hope and your hearts always hold a dream!

Note:

1. A relaxing, feel-good story to read over a meal. Forget your worries as soon as you finish!

2. A heroine who grows over time. At first she's timid and socially anxious, and she majored in botany. Her greatest golden finger is herself.

3. Please don't associate the story with any real places or reality.

4. Lots of food, no awful characters, no catfights, no domineering CEOs or celebrities. A warm, everyday story.

[Upcoming] "Disaster Strikes, Frenzied Stockpiling [Infinite]"

Zhou Shanshan returns to the time before disaster struck.

Her parents are still alive and well. Her boyfriend hasn't died for her yet, and the plants and cats at home haven't mutated...

This time, she's going to protect her family!

She thought it would be hard to convince everyone, but before she could even get her speech ready, her boyfriend met her with the secret code: "Should we stock up?"

"Let's do it."

Zhou Shanshan follows her list as she shops: instant food, frozen food, everything in the hot pot supermarket, drinks and condiments, the pharmacy, household goods, pet supplies, grain and cooking oil...

"Ibuprofen? Get it."

"Canned food? Get it."

"Powdered milk keeps well. Get it."

"Oxygen concentrators, nebulizers, pulse oximeters... We need those too."

After stocking up, Zhou Shanshan immediately quits her job and takes all her relatives and friends to buy a large, newly built villa in the countryside.

Everyone thinks she's gone crazy.

Only she knows that Earth is about to freeze over.

At last, the blizzard arrives.

Zhou Shanshan and her family hide in the villa, gazing out at the snow swirling through the sky and the bitter wind howling outside.

Their ample supplies give her a powerful sense of security...

Zhou Shanshan only wants to live her own life and help the kind neighbors who've treated her well whenever she can. Yet she unexpectedly becomes "the gourmet of the apocalypse."

The terrifying mutated creatures in everyone else's eyes are, to her...

[This rampaging duck has more than ten heads. It'd be perfect for spicy duck neck!]

[This man-eating fruit bursts with juice, and the flesh is so thick. It's delicious!]

[This fire-breathing hypnotic flower is basically a portable heater!]

She even starts a neighborhood delivery service.

"One serving of ice-chilled raw fish monster. Pick it up from the delivery locker."

"One serving of cold red-vine tentacle melon. Five times the price, because I don't like you snatching medicine from the elderly."

"One serving of sea monster tail in savory sauce. It's free for you, Grandma."

Who could have known that large numbers of people would awaken supernatural abilities? Some start looting supplies everywhere, while others defend their homes.

Zhou Shanshan's family is terribly worried. What are we going to do? None of us awakened any powers.

Zhou Shanshan: It's fine. I awakened the ability [Claim as My Own]. I can absorb other people's powers!

With a deafening crash, the stray cats she'd taken in transform into giant feline beasts, treating the ability users who charge at her door like cat toys...

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Scenario 2: Global Coma, Butterfly Swarm Invasion

Scenario 3: Ancient Behemoths, Neon City

Scenario 4: Global Desertification, Ruins at Sunset

Scenario 5: Giant Babies Run Rampant, Humanity's Fishing Plan

Reading Guide:

1. A warm, feel-good farming story, lighthearted and healing.

2. A heroine who grows over time. The heroine is the strongest.

3. Lots of stockpiling and food scenes.

Other Completed Stories

"Hong Kong's Top Talent Agent" (1990s Hong Kong, an immersive taste of the joy of getting rich!)

"The Entertainment Industry in the Sixties" (1960s Hong Kong, a cozy family, and all about eating and drinking)

"Inventing Things in Cuba" (A sunny, cheerful trio and their everyday money-making schemes)

Other completed stories:

"She's Not a Pig-Butchering Scam Screenwriter": When a screenwriter is kidnapped to northern Myanmar and ordered to write a script, she decides to take them all down and make the scammers pay.

Theme: Even above the mire, there is a starry sky. Amid the mundane world, cooking smoke rises thick and strong.