Yan Shu woke up with a farming System, transported from the apocalypse to a dying interstellar age on the brink of disaster and famine.
He stood on the planet with the highest radiation levels in the entire empire, about to face the grim fate of exceeding the safe limit and having everyone sent to a garbage planet.
Yan Shu: "?"
Dream on!
It was time to show them what rabbits could do with a farm!
Vast rice fields were no dream, and I can make green hills and shady trees grow like nobody else!
But when he saw seeds costing four digits apiece on the shelves, he silently opened the random trader gifted by his farming System.
He was figuring out what he could trade when a wary, babyish voice came from inside it. "Who are you?"
Yan Shu quietly tossed aside the "trash" he had meant to trade and smiled like a wicked old wolf.
"Sweetie, how old are you? Want to hear a story? Aladdin's magic lamp, three hundred bedtime questions, or Superman saving the world? All it takes is one piece of fruit or one seed."
From then on, by day he began his interstellar farming career, taking on the world, and by night he diligently embarked on the hard work of telling stories to a little kid.
Thanks to all his hard work (and seed-scamming), the planet with the highest interstellar radiation levels, where not a single thing could grow, gradually came back to life.
Yan Shu became famous across the stars. Just as he was about to reach the pinnacle of success, he realized something was off about the wealthy little kid on the other end of the trader.
The voice grew older by a year every month, and the stories he liked changed from Superman to histories of war, three hundred ways to kill someone... and Brokeback Mountain, a story about what happens between two men?!
"What story are you telling me tonight? It's cold under the covers."
Listening to the voice in the trader slowly grow deep and seductive, Yan Shu regretted everything. He was just about to set the kid straight when...
His trader suddenly ran out of energy, and at the same time, the empire's notorious tyrant published a wanted notice.
Gender: Male.
Hobbies: Farming and storytelling.
Yan Shu: "???"
The empire's tyrant, Othas, knew someone who had been with him through his happiest early years, his lonely childhood, and his darkest adolescence. But one day, that person vanished from his world.
He swore to find him, traveling across the sea of stars and through time and space, no matter the cost, yet he could never find him.
Just as he was about to abandon the dull empire and crush this world, a seed he had once sent to the one person who mattered appeared before him.
In an instant, his world came back to life.
P.S. The blurb has been screenshotted.
Theme: Keep striving even in adversity