[A bossy mushroom girl with zero awareness of gender but a very curvy figure x an aloof, sensitive, sharp-tongued little stickler]
[A short, sweet bedtime story, about 200,000 words]
Lu Yao is a little lingzhi mushroom.
Growing on a steep cliff, she has lived safely for hundreds of years without being picked by an herb gatherer or eaten by a small animal. If she can just make it through this winter, she'll be able to take human form.
One afternoon, a young man yanked her out by the roots.
He stuffed her into a pitch-black backpack, then set her on a chopping board, raised a knife, and started to bring it down toward her head.
Terrified out of her mind, Lu Yao grabbed the boy's chapped hand in desperation and took a hard suck of his blood.
From that moment on, they were bound by a pact.
They shared one mind and one heart, and would live and die together.
*
Chi Budao is a little cultivator with a tragic past.
A gambling-addict father, a mother who died young, a revolting sect, and a broken boy.
People call him the bastard child of a slave girl and a demon. They hurl insults at him and beat him, while only his senior sister treats him with genuine kindness.
His senior sister mends his clothes, applies medicine to his wounds, and remembers his birthday.
He believes she's the most important person in the world, so he's willing to risk his life climbing high cliffs to gather spirit herbs for her. He stays faithfully by her side, follows the rules, and never looks at another woman.
Everything changed one night as he was brewing medicine for his senior sister.
That lingzhi mushroom suddenly sprang up from the chopping board and nearly chewed his hand to pieces.
The knife clattered to the floor.
Outside the door, his senior sister heard the noise and was about to come in.
Inside, the lingzhi in his arms transformed into a naked young woman.
**
Lu Yao is spoiled, vulgar, bad-tempered, and lazy.
She spends all day clinging to his senior sister, acting cute and playing the victim, and easily steals all of her affection.
Chi Budao hates Lu Yao more than anything.
But when his senior sister discovers that he isn't the orphaned Demon Emperor she's searching for and abandons him in the demon's lair, leaving him to be cursed by thousands and pierced by countless spells,
Lu Yao is the only one who stands in front of him to protect him.
[A few details]
* No plot involving a transmigrate-into-a-book conquest System. The senior sister is simply an undercover agent, and she isn't villainized.
Theme: Protect wild plants
