Everyone Waters Plants, but I Water Them with Milk Tea [Interstellar]

A couple of upcoming stories I recommend: "An Ancient Spy Returns to Her Old Trade in the Entertainment Industry (Launching in Early March)" and "Taking My Bed Across the Ocean [Natural Disaster]" What would it feel like to wake up and find that all the plants around you had grown to towering heights, while you yourself had turned into an orchid? Pi Qianlan, gently prodded awake by a vine, really had to admire her own ability to sleep through anything. But even if her name had the word "orchid" in it, that was no reason for the universe to play this kind of joke on her! Yet no one could tell her how she had gotten here. In this strange place, she didn't dare ask anyone for help except herself. No matter how close to breaking down she felt, her first step had to be to do everything she could to stay alive. The urgency of survival kept her nerves taut at all times, but what could she even do? Then she discovered that the plants here were all devoted to natural fruit juice and nutrient solution. How was Pi Qianlan, who drank Yan Yue Se and Cha Dao every day, supposed to survive?!! And so, a milk tea shop quietly opened in a treehouse on Plant Planet. Reading all the signs and descriptions posted outside the shop, passing plants shook their heads unconvinced. These days, what could taste better than their own freshly squeezed juice, besides the nutrient solution every plant needed? Then a sunflower, having forgotten to bring its nutrient solution, ordered a strange drink called Mango Pomelo Sago. With the resigned attitude that drinking anything was better than nothing, it gritted its teeth, stomped its foot, and gulped it down. A few seconds later: "Boss, give me ten more cups!!!!!!" It could taste every flavor in the drink, and it had tried them all before, so how could they be this delicious together!!!! Plants needed water to grow, but ever since a milk tea shop opened in the treehouse on the street corner, all the plants on Plant Planet took pride in managing to get their hands on a cup. A grapevine cradled its milk tea in satisfaction. "I've been eating the grapes I grow myself for decades, so why can I never get tired of the boss's Succulent Grape drink?" A golden mango chimed in. "And the boss's Watermelon Boba! I've had my fill of the one from my own tree, but this drink is my one true love!" Nearby, the male lead, a certain lemon, watched the shop prepare its Smashed Lemon Tea and silently covered his head. [Tip: If you enjoy the shopkeeping parts, you can start at Chapter 8, when the shop officially opens~] [Content warning: Some chapters may contain upsetting depictions of predatory lending. If that's not your thing, feel free to skip them! It won't affect your reading. (A quiet plea for mercy: it's already written, so I really can't change it. I've adjusted the anti-piracy settings to give these chapters some leeway! Please be gentle, please be gentle.)] "An Ancient Spy Returns to Her Old Trade in the Entertainment Industry" Hao Xia, a secret agent from the Great Liang Empire, arrived in a completely unfamiliar era. The moment she opened her eyes, a camera bright enough to blind her was practically shoved in her face. After taking a quick look through the unfamiliar memories in her mind, Hao Xia, who in her previous life had worked diligently to gather intelligence for her country, couldn't help but wonder: What on earth was so fun about the entertainment industry? But mindful of the obsession etched into the original owner's heart before her soul disappeared, Hao Xia could only reluctantly take her place on the upcoming show. But then, the online commenters, who had been ready to mock her as usual, noticed something strange. Hao Xia, a C-list actress with a terrible reputation, seemed like a completely different person on the dating show. Gone was her habit of clinging to anyone she saw to grab some attention. Instead, she became more and more charming, genuine, and considerate. The way the male contestants' eyes grew increasingly captivated by her was enough to show the impact of her sudden transformation. Netizens: Whoa, she might actually be kind of appealing! Not sure yet, let me watch a little more... True to her professional instincts, Hao Xia turned everyone's impression of her around on the dating show. She rescued the reputation the original owner had dragged through the mud and earned herself the title of "the internet's ideal girlfriend." After the show ended, Hao Xia planned to take a hands-off approach and enjoy the hard-won second life she'd been given. But as she watched her follower count climb and saw fans online pleading with her, Hao Xia, who in her previous life hadn't even dared to mention her own name, felt a strange desire stir within her. To live another life openly, to tell the whole world her name, to have the whole world adore her: these were things she had never dared to dream of. Since she had this opportunity now, staying in this murky industry didn't seem so difficult after all. Besides, the original owner's beloved "day job" was child's play for her. It was her old line of work, after all. So, on a survival variety show, a male celebrity who worked out regularly and was packed with muscle was preparing to claim first place. Then he turned around and saw a certain actress, recently hailed as "the internet's ideal girlfriend," scaling walls, leaping over rooftops, darting like a rabbit, and bouncing all over the place... On various film sets, senior actors who had sneered at Hao Xia for becoming a "variety-show personality" blinked and saw that the moment she stepped in front of the camera, she seemed to have become someone else. Every frown and smile was so convincing that she looked as if she'd stepped right out of the script. From then on, the entertainment industry's jaw-dropping stories about Hao Xia became more and more numerous! And the internet's trending topics, which at first had been #HaoXiaGetOutOfTheEntertainmentIndustry #HaoXiaStayAwayFromMyIdol gradually became #PleaseGiveMeAHaoXia #IdolMoveAsideAndLetMeAdmireHaoXiaSister'sBeauty #WuwuHaoXiaSisterMarryMe and eventually #WhoaAreHaoXia'sLegsSpringLoaded #MomAskedWhyI'mWatchingTVOnMyKnees #HaoXiaTheWomanWhoSteppedOutOfTheScript #I Owe Sister Xia A Best Actress Award "Taking My Bed Across the Ocean [Natural Disaster]" Everything had changed. The moment she opened her eyes, the whole world was different. Chang Ruijia had stayed up all night and only just fallen asleep. Now she stared at her surroundings, dumbfounded. Global temperatures had shot up overnight. Glaciers melted, and sea levels rose. The entire world had turned into an ocean in a single night, and human civilization had been wiped out. But the world had still left humanity a chance to survive. The household item each person had used most often over the past year became their sole means of transportation. Everything people did from then on had to happen within that tiny space. And so, on the calm surface of the sea, all kinds of wonders could be seen. A photographer perched on a suddenly gigantic camera lens, a beauty blogger on a makeup cushion, a food influencer on an enamel pot... Chang Ruijia had it pretty easy. As a super-lazy person who would lie down rather than sit and sit rather than stand, her survival gear was a comfortable, soft, outrageously expensive, fully automatic bed, plus all the snacks and daily necessities she'd left scattered across it. Chang Ruijia flopped onto the bed. At least if she died, she'd die in comfort. But then a mechanical voice suddenly sounded in her mind. "Slash the price! Slash the price! Just slash it once, and pick whatever you want!" This is the Slash Price System, at your service! Chang Ruijia looked at the familiar "Slash" app that had appeared out of thin air before her. She raised an eyebrow. Wasn't this her chance to stay alive? Theme: Create value with your own hands