Shui Miao studied biology, a field with abysmal job prospects, and graduated straight into unemployment. With no other choice, she returned to her hometown to inherit the department store. But after a shopping mall opened in town, her store teetered on the verge of bankruptcy, with losses for months on end.
Just as she was about to run out of money for next month's utilities and get thrown out by her landlord, Shui Miao got bound to a livestream System. Complete livestream tasks, and she would receive the corresponding rewards.
Shui Miao: Boss, would you be okay with me working around the clock?
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In the third year of the Chenghua era, a great drought struck. The rivers around Hanzhong dried up, the crops withered, and nine out of ten homes in Houqiu Village stood empty.
Old Lin, starving for days and unable to find food, came home to see his wife and young son passed out from hunger. He burst into tears and fell to his knees, begging the heavens for help.
As soon as he finished bowing, a curtain of water appeared before him. Amid a dazzling golden light, the face of a celestial maiden appeared before the Lin family.
"Hello, everyone! I'm your streamer, Shui Miao. Today, Four Waters Supermarket is having a huge sale! French mini-bread: not 998, not 998, just invite a friend to slash the price, and you can take it home for free!"
Old Lin was so dizzy with hunger that, in a daze, he believed the voice and lifted his wife's hand to make a swipe.
Then he received a bag of steamed cornbread from the heavens.
The cornbread was soft and sweet. Even his wife, whose teeth had gone bad, could eat it. After that, Old Lin kept recruiting people to "slash the price" in hopes of receiving more divine gifts.
Sweet buns that grew bigger, golden rice that resisted drought, black water that cleared the mind: all delicious, all astonishingly effective.
Gradually, the village, once abandoned by its people, came back to life. Everyone discovered that anyone living in the village could barter with the celestial being.
Even the emperor heard about it. So one day, a procession of sedan chairs carved with golden dragons came from afar and stopped at the entrance to Houqiu Village...
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As Shui Miao gained experience, more and more viewers joined her livestream.
"Old Lin," who loved buying grain;
"Dancing Little Dancer," who was fond of cosmetics;
"Scholar on the Road," who liked reading novels;
And "True Dragon Emperor," who was always asking about all kinds of restricted goods.
Their currencies were strange too: antiques, gold, century-old ginseng... After a while, Shui Miao not only exceeded her System tasks, but also turned her little shop into a supermarket chain, raking in money every day.
To thank her regular customers, Shui Miao decided to host a livestream giveaway. But when she looked at the setting on the other side of the camera, she realized something was wrong.
Her livestream seemed to be connected to ancient times...
[The ancient-era portion is longer at first. Once the story gets going, the heroine's perspective will feature more often. Overall, the modern-day portion will be longer than the ancient-era one.]
Coming soon: The Young Masters Join a Variety Show, and I Go Viral as Their Nanny
The young masters in the book were born with silver spoons in their mouths, but for various reasons, they grew up aloof, domineering, or even antisocial.
A System appeared and ordered Yan Ning to become a young master's stepmother, using motherly kindness to heal his psychological trauma.
?
Trying to convince someone to become a mother is asking for a lightning strike.
So she immediately applied to be the nanny for ten young masters.
Ten jobs, ten salaries, make the capitalists go broke, and no emotional investment required. What a sweet deal.
Young Master No. 1 gets drunk after a breakup. Afraid he'll catch cold sleeping on the floor, Yan Ning wakes him up with thirty hard slaps.
Young Master No. 2 gets into a fight. Yan Ning goes to school to sign the paperwork, berates the principal for picking on the crown prince, and the young master gets an expulsion notice.
The third young lady argues with her parents over an online romance and gets so anxious she keeps having headaches. Yan Ning's astonishingly bad hearing kicks in: "You found yourself an old man?"
The fourth young master, a child prodigy, cries and fusses at bedtime because he's afraid of the dark. Yan Ning installs motion-sensor lights by his bed, so they turn on whenever he cries.
Under her "care," the young masters stumble through life, getting knocked around by society again and again, and somehow they all end up getting better.
System: ???
Yan Ning works diligently and earns diligently, making a million a month at a young age.
What she doesn't know is that the young masters are taking part in the reality show Metamorphosis, and every move she makes is being livestreamed.
Viewers: [Holy crap, hahaha, wake him up already!]
[This is completely backward. The young master is begging the principal on behalf of the nanny.]
[Unbelievable. I got curious and looked up the third young lady's online boyfriend. Was he really an old man pretending to be young?]
[Hehe, I won first place in the Guess the Gender contest. Come try guessing too!]
[Is it just me, or does this nanny look familiar?]
[Replying to the above: I think she was the nanny at a few of the other young masters' houses too.]
And just like that, thanks to her "cloning technique," her title as "the most rebellious nanny," and her motto, "The highest level of being an office drone is making your boss die of embarrassment like an animal," Yan Ning became an internet sensation.
The young masters also came to see her as a confidante, family, and a big sister who understood them. They all offered her huge sums of money, competing to hire her as their sole caretaker.
Until
[Has no one noticed that Nanny Sis is actually pretty?]
[Ahem, I think the CEO uncle of Young Master No. 4 has been sneaking glances at Nanny Sis.]
In real life, Yan Ning also noticed the man staring at her. "Sir, is there something you need?"
The young man, worth tens of billions, cleared his throat a few times, the tips of his ears turning red. "Would you like to have dinner with me tonight?"
Theme: Helping each other makes life better
The setting is very interesting! I feel like it would be better if I wrote it longer, hahaha. It was very interesting in the early stage and felt a bit rushed in the later stage.
The pace is too hasty, especially the emotional line.
Let me make a small comment. One kilogram is equal to two catties. The emperor asked if the yield per mu reached 400 kilograms. He was asking if it reached 800 kilograms, right? And later it was said that the maximum yield of rice is 400 kilograms, is it also 800 kilograms, right? Later statistics showed that the corn yield per mu was 770 kilograms. Do you want everyone to be so excited? Also, since the anchor has noticed that the fans' names and language styles are different many times, shouldn't they also realize that something is wrong?
The update is too slow!
How can the immortal have time? Hahahaha, he is busy harvesting corn.
So what about the locusts, the little fried things?
Did ancient people have the concept of kilogram? No doubts?
Why hasn't the heroine discovered anything strange yet?
No more, I thought I could see the interaction today
The setting is very interesting! I feel like it would be better if I wrote it longer, hahaha. It was very interesting in the early stage and felt a bit rushed in the later stage.
The pace is too hasty, especially the emotional line.
Let me make a small comment. One kilogram is equal to two catties. The emperor asked if the yield per mu reached 400 kilograms. He was asking if it reached 800 kilograms, right? And later it was said that the maximum yield of rice is 400 kilograms, is it also 800 kilograms, right? Later statistics showed that the corn yield per mu was 770 kilograms. Do you want everyone to be so excited? Also, since the anchor has noticed that the fans' names and language styles are different many times, shouldn't they also realize that something is wrong?
The update is too slow!
How can the immortal have time? Hahahaha, he is busy harvesting corn.
So what about the locusts, the little fried things?
Did ancient people have the concept of kilogram? No doubts?
Why hasn't the heroine discovered anything strange yet?
No more, I thought I could see the interaction today
Nice(?? . ??)