A Guide to Prospering with Herbs from Another World

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After an unexpected awakening, Shen Jiang learned that she was a minor character and a cannon-fodder extra in a book.

As the heir to a family of traditional Chinese doctors, she had always had everything she needed. Shen Jiang was dumbfounded:

The good news: she could foresee the future.

The bad news: her family was about to be destroyed.

Shen Jiang was stunned, and the worst was yet to come.

She had acquired a door that periodically opened into another world.

And that door dropped her straight into the lair of the most vicious dragon in that world.

To save her life, Shen Jiang claimed to be the evil dragon's most devout believer, saying she had traveled thousands of miles just to behold his magnificent presence.

The evil dragon gleefully handed his new believer the "weeds" that had been bothering him for ages. "Go on, show me your sincerity."

The evil dragon assumed that once the human saw those weeds, she would give up and reveal her true nature.

But to his surprise, he was met with his believer's cheers and praise.

Shen Jiang's eyes lit up:

A human-height "little tower" of cistanche? Pull it out, pull it out.

Don't underestimate that clump of red berries. The roots of notoginseng are buried beneath it. Dig them up, dig them up.

Whenever she went down the mountain, she treated the sick, helped the needy, and even caught bugs and dealt with pests. The villagers kept showering her with gifts, and she successfully brought the great dragon plenty of new believers.

The evil dragon was very pleased with his new believer. The tiny human pulled weeds with utmost devotion, cheering excitedly from time to time. Clearly, she considered it the highest honor to serve the noble and mighty dragon.

The dragon was so pleased that he casually bestowed upon Shen Jiang a mountain...

full of weeds.

As if she'd unlocked the secret to flattery, Shen Jiang kept at it, building up the great dragon's reputation and successfully earning herself even more "mountains." xN

One day, the evil dragon decided his most loyal believer deserved a special reward. He dressed up and blocked Shen Jiang's path. "My faithful believer, tell me your heart's deepest desire!"

Shen Jiang gazed at the dragon as if he were the God of Wealth. She paused, then shyly fidgeted and said, "...Could you take me to explore a few more mountains?"

The neighborhood was baffled when the barely surviving little clinic suddenly became popular, with people even lining up outside.

An envious person took a photo and mocked it with the caption, "Little Clinic Disgraces Its Ancestors, Resorts to Scarcity Marketing."

Just as online users were about to unleash their fury, they noticed that the person at the front of the line was none other than business tycoon Mr. Wang, along with Yao Qian, a Best Actress who had won the Golden Dragon Film Award five times.

After digging up information on everyone in line, netizens let out shrieks of disbelief.

What the hell!

Didn't everyone say traditional Chinese medicine was a scam?

With so many big shots lining up to be fleeced,

who on earth was the owner of this clinic?

[Modern setting meets another world!]

[An adorable girl on the surface, a master bluffer and career-driven heroine] x [An absurdly powerful, self-deluding romantic dragon]

Reader's Guide:

1. My take on Western fantasy. Everything is my own invention.

2. I researched the medicinal herbs. Corrections are welcome if I got anything wrong.

3. Content warning: career comes first, romance second.

4. The beginning is a little rough. She's a cannon-fodder character at first, not some big shot.

Coming soon: My Cat Keeps Its Secret Identity Under Wraps Every Day. Please add it to your reading list!

High school student Ling Yun was transmigrated into a cat.

The good news: she was still in her original world, and her caretaker was a cat lover.

The bad news: the cat lover was her most hated rival, Yi Sheng, a rich jerk with more money than morals!

Ling Yun had heard that Yi Sheng was rich, but seeing his mansion, thousands of square meters in size, and dozens of servants with her own eyes left her rattled.

She wanted to scratch him!!!

He was already so rich, yet he still had to compete with her for those measly scholarship pennies.

She was going to fight that rich bastard!

But she had barely hissed when Yi Sheng lovingly popped a treat into her mouth.

His sincere, unguarded smile made Ling Yun's brain short-circuit. Her little cat face went blank.

The cool, aloof Yi Sheng at school was a cat slave at home?

Distracted for just a moment, Ling Yun was scooped into her caretaker's arms and kissed several times before he gently rubbed her belly.

Ling Yun's pupils dilated in shock: Help! (The cat's face was utterly hopeless.)

But Ling Yun soon realized that the life of this wealthy young master wasn't nearly as glamorous as she had imagined.

A dead mother, a troublesome father, a stepmother constantly stirring up trouble, and a broken-hearted boy.

The stepmother deliberately drove a wedge between father and son, making their relationship tense. Ling Yun watched Yi Sheng stubbornly refuse to explain himself, only for his troublesome father to slap him hard.

The righteous little cat extended her paw. Every morning, she dipped it into the stepmother's drinking cup and washed it, successfully giving her a case of athlete's foot in the mouth.

Ling Yun: "Surprised? Delighted?"

The stepmother deliberately dumped the cat at a garbage dump in the north of the city, then lied to Yi Sheng that the kitten had run off on its own. Yi Sheng frantically went out to look for the cat, but found nothing. Late at night, he walked down a deserted road, his eyes bloodshot and his gaze wild.

Little did he know, the clever cat had already eaten her fill and made it home on time. When Yi Sheng saw the little cat crouching secretly by the gate and yawning, her bright, round eyes rekindled all his hope.

Ling Yun: "You're holding me too tight! I can't breathe! Let go! Let go, @?*#!"

The stepmother didn't give up. After successfully conceiving a son, she tried to go after her stepson and poisoned Yi Sheng's food.

Ling Yun happened to witness it all and sighed to herself: We were master and servant, after all. Since you've worked so hard scooping my litter, I'll save you one last time.

Years later, Ling Yun had returned to human form and become a sleep therapist.

On the day she met her patient, she discovered that it was none other than Yi Sheng.

The CEO was worth hundreds of millions, yet suffered from severe insomnia.

Ling Yun put on her professional hat and got straight to business: "What do you think about when you can't sleep?"

She thought he might say his multimillion-dollar deals, or the glamorous actresses he was rumored to be dating on and off.

But Yi Sheng gave a bitter laugh and said, "A cat."

"A silly, adorable cat who went through so much hardship with me."

The emotions she'd just worked up vanished the moment she heard his second sentence. Ling Yun grumbled to herself: Who are you calling stupid, you idiot!

Her grumbling and complaints came to an abrupt stop when she saw a tear at the corner of Yi Sheng's eye.

If President Yi found out that after turning back into a human, she'd been living the good life, eating well and feeling great... would he choke her to death with red eyes, or decide she was a crazy doctor with no professional ethics?

No way. If her identity was exposed, she was definitely in for trouble.

She would protect her secret identity to the death!

Bonus Scene

At first:

In a dark room, her caretaker sat staring at his mother's portrait, a glimmer in his eye.

The cat silently edged closer, pretending to comfort him, her eyes shining: The bastard's finally looking vulnerable for once. I should enjoy this view up close!

Later:

After seeing Yi Sheng act like a clingy cat-obsessed creep and witnessing him break down in tears, Ling Yun secretly swore: To keep myself from getting killed and silenced, I must never reveal my true identity.

[Incredibly oblivious, technically alive but spiritually dead girl] x [A scheming puppy with two faces, one in public and another in private]

Theme: I decide my own fate.