The Plant Queen

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Also known as: After the Apocalypse, I Was Doted on by a Clan of Mutant Plants

[Disasters, zombies, evolving plants and animals: a mishmash of future world]

Blurb One:

The world fell into chaos, danger descended, and humanity, once at the top of the food chain, instantly plummeted from its lofty position.

Zombies, mutated plants and animals, and natural disasters lurked everywhere. The slightest lapse could cost fragile humans their lives.

Wei Ling was one of the lucky humans, among the earliest to awaken a power: water manipulation. Not long after the dangerous early days, large numbers of ordinary humans began awakening new powers. The early awakeners, however, were stuck where they were, unable to make further progress, and gradually became ordinary.

Before the apocalypse, Wei Ling went to a small village on the edge of Nan Province at her advisor's suggestion. She wanted to avoid a clingy, obnoxious suitor and study a special plant, so she began a life cut off from the rest of the world.

She had been researching for barely a month when an unwelcome visitor dragged her out of her absorption in her work. To her shock, the outside world had already fallen to the zombies.

Only Wei Ling among the group awakened a water-based ability in the crisis.

She didn't like her classmates, who had kept bothering her, but out of consideration for their ties as classmates, and because they were heading home the same way, Wei Ling grudgingly escorted them to the Nan Province base. She never expected them to stab her in the back on the way home, leaving her to collapse right outside her own door.

As she closed her eyes, Wei Ling's only worry was whether the cute, delicate plants in her house would die without her care.

When she woke again, Wei Ling found a strange man treating her home as his own, along with a bunch of dangerous but extremely clingy mutant plants.

At the same time, she realized she seemed to have been forcibly expelled from the human race?

Blurb Two:

Less than half a year after the apocalypse began, almost everyone knew how dangerous this mutated world was.

The flowers and trees once seen everywhere had become venomous snakes lurking in the shadows. Even the docile livestock and pets raised at home had turned into enormous, ill-tempered beasts.

The Thunderclap Squad was one of the strongest teams at their base. But on a supply-gathering mission, they walked into a trap and ended up in Country Z's largest oxygen forest.

The notorious star jasmine wrapped them into cocoons. Just when they had resigned themselves to their fate, the mutant plants carried them deep into the forest, where they witnessed a scene they would never forget:

The vicious star jasmine that had bound them had become a flower arch and a covered walkway, shielding them from the wind and rain.

The mutated Irish pearlwort had become a bona fide "swamp," but now someone was standing firmly on it, without sinking in at all.

The deadly mezereon, known as "death in three breaths," was being worn as an ornament...

A beautiful girl, almost eerily so, wore a flowing long dress, the kind hardly ever seen since the apocalypse. Her brows were slightly furrowed as her jade-white fingers brushed against the poisonous Dichroa febrifuga. Standing amid the mutant plants, she looked like a queen surrounded by her subjects.

*The story of researching rare plants at home, getting driven out by an obnoxious suitor, and discovering the world had fallen apart*

"What's so vicious about them? They're all my little sweethearts"

"Mutual affection is the way to go"

Theme: Finding a way to survive when all hope seems lost