Grow Flowers with Science, Get Rich with Metaphysics

[Coming soon. If you're interested, come add it to your favorites!] For generations, the Duan family had been jewelers. Duan Ying watched his father gamble on rough gemstones until the family was ruined, and could only hide his love of gems deep in his heart. He studied and worked as expected, never imagining he would have anything to do with jewelry again for the rest of his life. Then the gears of fate began to turn. After a new manager arrived out of nowhere, Duan Ying took vacation to clear his head and accidentally triggered a transmigration passage. The good news: as soon as he arrived, a kind beastman rescued him and took him in. The City of Rocks was full of gems, making it a great place to be. The bad news: the City of Rocks was home to many beastman races, whose food was rough and whose society ran on the rule of the strong devouring the weak. Outside the city, magical beasts were also waiting for a chance to strike. As Duan Ying worked hard to adapt to the new world and survive, luck smiled on him again. The gems in the beast world contained different kinds of energy. After accidentally absorbing some, he triggered another transmigration and returned in the blink of an eye to the familiar Earth. He had spent eight days in the beast world, but only eight hours had passed here. After experimenting for a while, Duan Ying confirmed that gems could let him travel between the two worlds. This ability became his trump card, and the gems he brought back from the beast world could also make his jewelry dream come true after all these years. After all those adventures, Duan Ying could no longer put up with his manager's unreasonable behavior. He got into a huge argument with him and walked away with a severance package worth N+1 months' pay. The next day, Duan Ying returned to where he'd first transmigrated and rented a small house. He opened jewelry stores in both worlds. Beastmen and humans alike loved the brilliant jewelry he crafted, and for different reasons, his stores became hugely popular on both sides. Reader's guide: The career is the focus, romance comes second; the love interest is a younger black panther. [Story Synopsis] Lin Tingyue got into a university in a major city after doing exceptionally well on the college entrance exam. Unfortunately, luck wasn't on his side. His major was obscure even on campus, and he gave up working in his field to toil for three years at a job he hated. When his good friend developed health problems, he finally woke up to the obvious truth: there's no point making money if you're not alive to spend it. After quitting decisively, Lin Tingyue wanted to find an easygoing job. He didn't mind earning less, but reality told him the road ahead would be full of difficulties. Older office drones were harder to exploit than fresh-faced young recruits, and he couldn't find a new job. Then the safety pendant he'd worn for twenty-six years suddenly broke. Soon afterward, Lin Tingyue had a dream. The lake spirit of his hometown, whether real or not, urged him to hurry home and farm. The lake spirit had a connection to the Lin family ancestors, but now that belief had faded and fewer people lived in the area, the god created by human worship was about to disappear. It thought this college graduate could bring new life to Moon Village, so it planned to lend him some of its power and work together for mutual benefit. Lin Tingyue couldn't resist the temptation. His childhood dream had been to cover a mountain in roses and build a rose estate to live in, so he went home. Reality told him that roses were actually just garden roses, and that office drones hoping to get rich by growing flowers were only qualified to run farms. Flowers could be admired, eaten, and put to use, and by-products could be developed too. At first, growing flowers required a lot of investment but brought in no returns, so Lin Tingyue had to find other ways to make money. With a mountain at his back, there were countless tempting wild goods to gather... In a nutshell: City jobs are full of schemes. Better to go home and grow flowers, enjoying a happy life with flowers by the door, vegetables behind the garden, fruit on the mountain, and someone by your side in bed. Reader's guide: The CP is Lian Xiao; the career plot is far, far more prominent than the romance; other characters' romantic relationships are also described. Friendly discussion is welcome, everyone! 23333 Theme: Change your life with your own two hands.