Teacher! The Ball Has Gained Sentience

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Blurb One:

Shi Li is a piano teacher by profession and a video creator on the side. She's gorgeous and badass, with a huge following of adoring fans. But one day, while she's livestreaming at home, a girl's voice suddenly yells at her: "You haven't given me water in two months!"

The viewers are collectively baffled. "What water? Teacher, did you get a girlfriend?"

The usually solitary Ms. Shi is so startled by the girl who appears out of nowhere that she ends the livestream in a flash.

Her fans think she's rushing off to fool around, and start crying that they're going to unfollow her.

Bai Xing is a fluffy, chubby cactus spirit. She looks harmless, but she's actually ill-tempered and unreasonable, roughly as follows.

Jealous Cactus: You touched another girl's hand again today.

Ms. Shi: Are you sure I touched it and didn't just teach her?

Proud Cactus: I don't care! You aren't allowed to touch mine anymore!

Ms. Shi: Okay, I won't touch you.

Baffled Cactus: ??? The bad woman promised she only liked me! Waaah! (cries, turns back into a little ball, rolls into the flowerpot, and buries herself)

Ms. Shi is speechless... She takes her jealous little cactus and makes their relationship public.

Blurb Two:

Bai Xing has only just learned to take human form and has no idea how to use her limbs. Shi Li teaches her to walk with her legs, grasp things with her hands, and use her mouth for more than eating, including kissing. She also shows her all the body's other wonderful secrets...

What's more, by staying at Shi Li's side, Bai Xing observes all kinds of lives and comes to understand joy and anger, sorrow and happiness, partings and reunions, and love.

But Shi Li thinks she learns all the wrong things. She claims to be over two hundred years old and acts all high and mighty, and it's bad enough that she's acquired a taste for human food. The worst thing is that she climbs into bed and cuddles up to Shi Li for warmth in winter.

But what can Shi Li do? She raised this little cactus, so of course she spoils her.

Later, a little flower blooms on the cactus's head, then bears a seed pod. When it ripens, Bai Xing picks it and shyly, bashfully places it in Shi Li's hand.

Her teacher doesn't understand. "What is this?"

Bai Xing looks at her expectantly. "It's our baby!"

Note: This story contains original worldbuilding. If that's not your thing, please click away.

Suggestion: Search for "Bai Xing cactus" images before reading, and let your imagination run wild.

Logic [X] Fun [check] Sweetness [check check check]

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On the night she wins the Best Actress crown, Li Leyi dies and is reborn in a poor, remote mountain village, in an era of painful fashion choices.

With no money, she has to feed chickens, grow vegetables, and cook over a fire just to survive. But she's bound to a System that insists everything costs money.

Of course she prefers her comfortable life before, but all she has now is a tiny shack and a few acres of land. How is she supposed to get rich?! She can only make the most of everything by relying on her acting skills and knowledge.

To avoid taking the wrong turns and become rich again as quickly as possible, she approaches the village chief's only daughter under the name Li Leyi, flattering and ingratiating herself without a second thought. But she never expected that while pretending to be someone else, she'd fall for her first...

Li Leyi: Confessing is out of the question. She's just a means to an end!

Gan Xinyu smiles. "Keep acting, then?"

She's jealous both in reality and in the game. She's so obvious about it, yet still insists on denying it. Looks like a kiss is the only way to make her soften up.

??? Li Leyi just can't figure out whether her acting is the problem or the System's strategy guide is wrong.

Li Leyi: Think of something, quick! She wants to turn me gay!

System: Getting rich by taking a shortcut means you've achieved your goal, doesn't it?

Li Leyi: Holy crap, you lesbian...

Couple: A greedy, mercenary Best Actress who is always putting on an act x A cool and reserved local big shot

※The characters aren't perfect. Their personalities determine what they say and do, so please don't read if that's not your thing.

※A rural love (silly) story, set in an era of painful fashion choices. Please don't be scared~

Theme: People aren't born only to die. What matters is the journey of life. I hope that after savoring its bitterness and sweetness, its joys and sorrows, you can still hold on to your love for life.