Director! Another Batch of S-Ranks Has Arrived

After transmigrating to the interstellar era, Chi Xingmu nearly got sent on a blind date. In a fit of determination, he made a bet and set out to run a zoo.

His marshal older brother deliberately made things difficult for him, while his domineering CEO second brother was forced to watch from the sidelines. It was all thanks to Chi Xingmu’s unusual constitution: not only could he often find “missing” animals around the zoo, but wild animals also came to join him.

Chi Xingmu welcomed them all and added every one of them to the zoo.

Before long, a miraculous zoo became an overnight sensation on the Imperial Star.

Snow leopards performed tricks by jumping through flaming hoops, while black bears loved to box whenever they had a spare moment.

An oriole stood in front of a microphone and sang, with a musical ear that rivaled top-tier stars.

Every animal in the zoo seemed to have gained human intelligence. Even the blue-and-white giant python loved to perch in a tree and study, sometimes wrapping its tail around a pen to help visitors solve a few advanced math problems.

A secret had recently been circulating among the Empire’s elite.

All the S-rank ability users had lost their spirit forms.

Spirit forms and their owners shared a bond of understanding, and owners could even sense things through their spirit forms. It was an intensely private connection.

But all the spirit forms were now in Chi Xingmu’s zoo.

Top-tier star: My oriole would never be that casual!

Academy of Sciences chief: My python wouldn’t solve problems for people either.

Not even the Empire’s marshal, financial tycoons, or the most honored emperor in the Empire could escape Chi Xingmu’s charms.

The big shots acted disdainful in public, but secretly bought tickets and ran into one another at the zoo.

There they saw their emperor lying beside Chi Xingmu, cuddling the emperor’s spirit form...

Come on in and enjoy:

“Every Animal in the Zoo Has Gained Human Intelligence,” “What It’s Like to Be Outperformed at Studying by a Snake,” “The Art of Jumping Through Flaming Hoops,” “So the Pop Star I’ve Been Following Is Performing for Tips at the Zoo,” “The Day Every S-Rank Ability User Lost Their Spirit Form,” “The Day Every S-Rank Ability User Found Their Spirit Form at the Zoo,” “A Leopard’s Got It Rough, But Won’t Say a Word. He Doesn’t Want to Perform, Either, But If He Doesn’t, He Won’t Get a Wife.”

Author’s worldbuilding:

1. The recipient has a special mental power that strongly attracts S-rank spirit forms and can help them advance.

2. Spirit forms can travel far from their owners. The farther away they are, the weaker the connection becomes. But when a spirit form returns to its owner’s mental sea, the owner receives all of its memories.

3. Spirit forms are very similar to ordinary animals: they can eat, drink, and be petted. The recipient came from Earth and doesn’t know much, so he doesn’t recognize spirit forms.

4. There are very few spirit forms above S-rank in the Empire, and they all belong to influential figures in their respective fields. So this story also has some power-fantasy elements~

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Lan Xi saved a boy being abused at home in a dream.

From then on, his boss, the world-famous, powerful Federal Adjudicator, suddenly started acting strangely.

In the dream, Lan Xi shielded the battered boy, bandaged him up, then, overcome by mischief, tied an absurdly huge bow around the bandage.

The next day at work, his boss, a war god who wouldn’t utter a sound even if run through in battle, suddenly cut his finger on a sheet of office printer paper and came to ask for a bandage.

In the dream, Lan Xi made the frail boy try a strange new recipe he had invented, saying, “Kids should eat more to help them grow.”

The next day at work, his cold, ruthless boss, who had relied on nutritional fluids to maintain his vital signs for over twenty years, suddenly brought up an old grievance. “...The cream biscuits you brought on your first day at work six months ago. You didn’t save any for me.”

So that day, Lan Xi ranted to the boy in his dream, claiming his boss was nuts, and recited a whole list of his boss’s many flaws.

Then, in the middle of the night, Lan Xi woke up to an unexpected apology call from his boss. The Federal Adjudicator’s voice was slightly hoarse as he asked Lan Xi to forgive him.

Lan Xi was completely baffled.

He tugged the boy in his dream closer and speculated, “Could it be that he...”

The boy waited for his answer, eyes full of anticipation.

Lan Xi looked on the verge of tears. “Could it be that he’s going to fire me tomorrow because I step into the office with my left foot first?!”

Ye Shi was a Federal Adjudicator who had recently left the front lines to recover from his injuries. Lately, he had begun reliving nightmares from his childhood again and again.

He struggled repeatedly through disjointed, jumbled gray memories, sinking deeper each time, and his injuries kept getting worse.

No one knew what the always-composed Adjudicator, who brushed off pain as if it were nothing, went through every night. They only knew that his already reserved nature was becoming even colder and quieter.

But on the day his mind came close to collapse, a boy appeared in his dream.

It was his most disobedient subordinate, always going against his boss and always able to leave people speechless

But in that moment, the boy shielded the battered Ye Shi, protecting him without reservation.

From that day on, the boy became a regular in his dreams. Ye Shi didn’t know who he really was. The boy bandaged his wounds, cooked for him, and stayed by his side almost constantly.

Watching the boy’s bold, carefree smile in the daylight, Ye Shi suddenly felt closer to the human world than he had ever been.

And he wanted to make that one and only piece of his human world his alone.

Theme: Everyone has a purpose and a talent to offer.