A jaded apocalypse sweetheart who's given up and decided to lie flat vs. a rugged ancient-world man who spent ten years in the army, lost his entire family, and still lives stubbornly on
Shi Youyou had spent ten years scraping by in the apocalypse and was still only a Level Three weakling.
She had a mutated wood-type ability that could extract vitality, but limitations on her power meant she could only use it like an ordinary wood-type ability.
After dying, she accidentally transmigrated to a remote mountain in another world, in ancient times.
The mountains were green, the waters clear, and life was abundant. But Shi Youyou's heart was even more jaded than the apocalypse. All she wanted was to use her pitiful ability, which had fallen from Level Three to barely Level One, to lie flat and quietly die in the mountains.
Unfortunately, something fell from the sky and accidentally drained the little vitality she had managed to preserve.
Shi Youyou: ...She wanted to lie there for ten years before dying, not ten days.
But since the thing could only move one hand and was willing to pick fruit for her, she'd reluctantly forgive him.
Gao Bai enlisted at fifteen and returned ten years later, only to find his family home overgrown with graves. As he went up the mountain alone to cut timber for beams, he was bitten by a poisonous snake and fell into a ravine.
As it turned out, not only did he survive, he even found himself a little lady as lovely as a fairy.
The little lady was delicate and charming. Gao Bai had planned to raise her like a daughter, but whenever she was thirsty, he had to soothe her; whenever she was hungry, he had to soothe her; when she was in a bad mood, he had to soothe her, and when she was in a good mood, he had to soothe her even more.
Every time she called him "Big Gao Bai," his heart softened. In the end, the daughter he was raising became his cherished wife.
P.S. A mutated wood-type ability can only draw vitality without harming the target's body. If it encounters someone with little vitality but a fierce will to survive, it will instead restore their vitality.
So the male lead, who spent ten years in the army, is covered in wounds, and still stubbornly lives on, is the perfect counter to the female lead's ability.
Theme: Life grows toward the sun.
