Only as Lu Zhi lay dying did he learn that he was the villain in a book. Even more ridiculous, the heroine was his younger sister, who would later claim that he had colluded with mutant plants and kill him in the name of justice.
Reborn, Lu Zhi decided to head for the City of Death where he had died in his previous life. He wanted to see whether those people would survive in the end.
But he found that the City of Death, which would later be filled with man-eating plants, was still just a wasteland. A frail little leaf poked out from beneath a tile.
Hua Xi, starving and barely resisting the urge to eat a flower growing in contaminated soil, asked, "Do you want to live? If you help me grow Guardian Flowers, I'll make you stronger."
Lu Zhi agreed without hesitation, and so began his diligent career as a gardener.
But the more he planted, the more things seemed off. Weren't these plants a little too weak? Besides providing shelter and purifying the air, what could they even do? They were so docile they didn't have a temper at all.
Hua Xi: You want something that can fight? That's me!
She stretched, then tossed away the little intruders who had crept up to attack under cover of night.
Legend says that the gods had hearts, and that when the world was destroyed, they left a pure land in the mysterious East. Its air and water were untouched by pollution, its plants grew to enormous sizes, and people lived in flowers and drank sweet nectar.
Hua Xi: So her Guardian Flowers could do all that, besides turning unpleasant gases into food for her?
Theme: Live your own life
