A Pot from the Start

Shi Cheng transmigrates to a desolate planet.

A line of text slowly floats across her vision:

[Earn your first diner's praise to unlock the beginner's gift pack.]

Looking at the barren wasteland around her, where not even a bird would bother to land,

Shi Cheng: ???

Where is she supposed to find customers?

On a whim, she makes a pot of egg fried rice.

A man appears before her, with a broken dragon horn growing from his head and dressed in an antique robe.

The man finishes the fried rice,

gulps down all the cola,

and, as Shi Cheng stares in shock, transforms into a colossal dragon that blots out the sky.

A faint dragon's roar comes from the clouds:

"Delicious!!!"

In an instant, sweet rain falls from the heavens, and rainbows fill the sky.

Enormous fish and livestock come crashing down from above.

Shi Cheng looks at the things in front of her and falls into deep thought:

Is this... payment?

A restaurant opens in a poor, backward little town on the wasteland.

At first, no one pays any attention to the tiny place.

Until, one day, it becomes the number one farm in the stars.

People discover that a guardian stands beside the young farm owner.

It is the five-clawed divine dragon everyone thought had gone extinct long ago.

Reading tips:

1. The setting and species are a wild mash-up, with tons of creative liberties. Don't take it too seriously.

2. The heroine is an amazing cook. A lighthearted food and farming story.

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Blurb:

After graduating, Ming Ti returns to her hometown and reopens the local convenience store.

She starts living a carefree retirement years ahead of schedule.

One morning, while brushing her teeth in her backyard,

a man goes "splat" as he falls out of the sky.

He has black hair and eyes, and six black wings on his back.

Cosplay?

Filming a show?

The man pulls off a pair of black wings and kneels on one knee, offering them to her with reverence and awe.

In exchange for the tube of toothpaste in her hand...

From that day on, all sorts of strange characters occasionally drop into her backyard.

The problem is, they always leave something behind and take something of hers in exchange.

For instance, a stunning beauty with a human body and a snake's tail trades scales for a flowerpot full of dirt;

a giant octopus trades a plastic fake eyeball for a broom;

a robot trades a tiny chip for a wrench.

And so on.

Then she discovers that

the black wings, which turned into children's toys, really let her fly when she puts them on!

That scale can change the weather however she wants;

that eyeball fills her with energy and cures every illness;

that chip turns her phone into a supercomputer...

Later, the world undergoes a transformation.

Their world is merging with other worlds.

Fire-breathing dragons appear in the sky;

the giants drink lakes dry;

nameless horrors lurk in the dark and watch;

intelligent machines take over the streets overnight...

Special investigators discover that the big shots from these other worlds are looking for a woman.

They say she is their savior.

Later still, Ming Ti realizes that

the street where she lives seems, perhaps, maybe, to have become the entire Federation's forbidden zone?

#How the Random Junk I Handed Out Turned into Sacred Relics of Salvation#

#Call Me Your Savior, and Whoever Just Called Me Mommy, Step Forward!#

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