[Note added after finishing the story on 260520: OOC, OOC, OOC warning (repeating this three times because it's important). This was written in 2024, and a lot of it is made up. Read with caution if that bothers you~]
[An initially gloomy, later scheming and sweet-talking doctoral-student attack x a sunny, cheerful little blob of a bottom. Let your kinks run wild~ Read with caution; if it's not for you, just leave. Kisses!]
[Blurb]
"I may say every day that I'm going to rot away and stink."
"But being reborn as a pile of mud after I die? That's way too advanced!"
Deep beneath The Chasm, a certain pile of mud said just that.
"Oh well! So what if I'm mud? I can grow crops!
"I'm Hei Ba, and my first little goal from now on is to cover my whole body in flowers and become the most fragrant mud in the world!"
Hei Ba took three seconds to accept the fact that he'd transmigrated into a pile of mud, then set himself a grand goal.
And so the little mud pile happily began his foraging journey.
*
The Chasm was vast and sparsely populated, with all sorts of edible things waiting to be discovered. A thorough search was in order.
As the only mud in the area in the mood to rate food, Hei Ba happily kept a list of everything he ate.
What's this? More black mud?
Chomp! Ptooey! Disgusting! Cross it off!
What's this? A Rock and Hydro Yaksha possessed by karmic debt?
Chomp! Karmic debt, so fragrant! Delicious!
What's this? A stone hand?
Chomp, chomp! Help, the stone hand is beating up the mud!
What's this? A dying boy affected by Forbidden Knowledge?
Chomp! Oh, it's all hazy and smoky, with a roasted-meat flavor! So good! Hm? He's turning into a person?!
Hei Ba blinked at the human form he'd dreamed of, then happily picked up the boy and named him Baihua.
Later, after Huahua had recovered, Hei Ba learned from him that someone at the Akademiya could grant his wish to bloom.
Hei Ba, whose plants all died no matter what he grew, happily followed the boy on a journey of study.
*
The boy woke up one day to find himself shut inside a stone coffin. The only exit was blocked by a dark, muddy blob.
Seeing him awake, the mud cheerfully said, "General Monkey said you hit the back of your head and might forget your name! So from today on, you're called Baihua! Also, you seem to be a student at the Akademiya. Once you graduate, you can have anything! So hurry up and graduate!!"
The boy: "..."
Was it possible that not everyone who hit their head lost their memory? That name was awful. Who would use it?
Later, the boy changed his name to "Baihua" and, with Hei Ba, set off for the Akademiya to study (get his doctorate).
*
Baihua was a newly created experimental segment of the Doctor, the Second Harbinger of the Fatui, the most notorious and inhuman man alive. He had made the segment using himself as a template.
The Doctor was a man of great talent, but arrogant, selfish, willful, and willing to do anything to achieve his aims. Countless people loathed and despised him, while many others praised and followed him.
As they entered Sumeru, an experiment being secretly observed began in earnest.
Later, Hei Ba watched as segments of every age appeared, one after another, and grew quite troubled.
How was he supposed to deal with so many segments? Why did they all think that having a similar face was enough to impersonate Baihua and stay by his side?
The Huahua he'd picked up was the most special of all!
Baihua clenched his fists and swore to wipe out every segment of the Doctor, along with that bastard himself!
After all, Hei Ba only liked him!
[Akasha Hot Topics]
#A new student surnamed Bai from the Amurta secretly stole the Rtawahist's prized Ruin Golem on a moonlit night to plow fields. Was he restoring the [Cultivator] to its original purpose and staying true to his intentions, or did he have ulterior motives?
#[Vanarana News] Effective today, feeding mechanical parts to Kakavata, a specially appointed member of the garden, is prohibited! ! Even ore that can be turned into light energy is forbidden!! [Image: Kakavata sprawled on its back, stuffed.jpg]
#Damn it! Who picked every last flower from my thesis?! My new Sumeru Rose was in full bloom!!!
#[Unknown source] You're so high and mighty, so impressive, blowing up my lab and making "Miracle J" happy*#*…[Illegal user removed]
#[Chit-chat] As everyone knows, there are tons of male couples in Sumeru. Three are famous, known as...
#[Top comment] I know this one! One is the gold-standard sweet couple, one is the most bittersweet second-chance romance, and the last is called the Liyue Approved Son-in-Law Training Program!
[Tips]
1. The pairing is set: Baihua (a segment of the Doctor / a mechanical genius who hasn't done anything wrong), one-on-one, happy ending.
The new segment later becomes an Amurta student at the Akademiya, beginning a dogged journey of study. His advisor is Professor Tighnari, Naphis. He graduates successfully and returns to Liyue to become a live-in son-in-law (?). Sumeru and Liyue characters will appear along the way. Side pairings: Kaveh and Alhaitham, Cyno and Tighnari, and others.
Other segments of the Doctor will appear. There will be a little jealous love-triangle drama as he eats his own cooking. Except for the purely kind one (the main love interest), the other segments will pay dearly for their crimes.
2. The plot has been changed in many ways, so don't worry about checking every detail against canon~
3. Chapter summaries marked [Main] feature the Doctor himself. In this story, "the Doctor himself" refers to the strongest segment from the Sumeru main storyline, Omega Manufacturing.
Theme: Your fate is in your own hands
So Elhaysen is secretly saying (? Kawi is his wife [bad laugh]
Extra: Please give Dotore a good beating [Sunglasses]
What a stream of consciousness. I don't understand it at all?
Is that sweet thing Heiba eats what I think it is? Mi Qing or something? Then, what happened in the front and what happened in the back? I don't understand. I want more details here.
So Number Zero wants to fight for Baihua's body in the dream?
Little Flower Zero: (open screen)
Juvenile body: I am a vulgar person in Caonan!
Congratulations, lots of extras
Why haven't you finished paying it back? There are more and more.
Spread flowers [Spread flowers] (2025.2.11)
? ! Is this... The past that was destroyed? Heihei destroys everything and the world reopens again?
Seeing that there are many experimental bases that have been closed down and abandoned, I suddenly thought, wouldn't the rich want to kill him?
So Elhaysen is secretly saying (? Kawi is his wife [bad laugh]
Extra: Please give Dotore a good beating [Sunglasses]
What a stream of consciousness. I don't understand it at all? Is that sweet thing Heiba eats what I think it is? Mi Qing or something? Then, what happened in the front and what happened in the back? I don't understand. I want more details here.
So Number Zero wants to fight for Baihua's body in the dream?
Little Flower Zero: (open screen) Juvenile body: I am a vulgar person in Caonan!
Congratulations, lots of extras
Why haven't you finished paying it back? There are more and more.
Spread flowers [Spread flowers] (2025.2.11)
? ! Is this... The past that was destroyed? Heihei destroys everything and the world reopens again?
Seeing that there are many experimental bases that have been closed down and abandoned, I suddenly thought, wouldn't the rich want to kill him?