[A fearless, free-spirited wild woman who stabs sharks with a wooden spear anytime, anywhere x a peaceful, nonviolent man who grows crops, stockpiles supplies, and scavenges]
Cheng Yixiao enters a raft survival game and drifts alone across the ocean. When she's thirsty, she collects seawater and turns it into drinking water. When she's hungry, she dives straight in and spears a shark. When she finds an island, she goes ashore to pick some fruit. Life alone is pretty delightful.
Cheng Yixiao, solo mode: Sharks? Just rations.
The only thing to trip up her smooth sailing is her spur-of-the-moment decision to take in a grown man she fished out of the ocean: Pei Yanjing.
At first, she thinks it's just one more mouth to feed.
She never expects the guy to do absolutely no work. He thinks it's too dirty to spear sharks in the ocean and too tiring to hunt wild boars on the island.
He's also quite demanding. Today he wants ore, tomorrow leather, and the day after that, he actually wants a sheep! Every day, he sends Cheng Yixiao back and forth between the island and the sea, making her travel miles to fetch things for him.
Meanwhile, he peacefully tends to his garden and pasture on the raft.
Cheng Yixiao, smiling: What if I want to return him? If he weren't so handsome, I'd have tossed him back into the sea already!
Then one day, Cheng Yixiao comes back to the raft exhausted after hauling two huge crates of materials off the island. She sits in the reclining chair Pei Yanjing made for her. On the little table beside her are the salmon salad and mango smoothie he prepared.
She looks around. Everything on the raft is neat and orderly. Plants grow in wooden tubs, cows and sheep graze in the pasture, supplies are neatly arranged in storage boxes, and fresh flowers sit in every vase. The whole raft has been completely transformed.
Watching Pei Yanjing diligently milk a sheep, she suddenly changes her mind.
Cheng Yixiao, sipping her smoothie: Maybe I won't throw him back into the sea after all. I'll keep him.
Another day, Cheng Yixiao happens to run into other players on an island.
The players are all filthy and teary-eyed as they watch Cheng Yixiao, glowing with health and clearly enjoying a good life.
Cheng Yixiao, hard at work chopping wood: It all started when I fished someone out of the ocean...
Later, people on the island gaze out at the sea from afar.
Whoa! A palace on the ocean!
Reader's Guide:
1. I'm working on the outline. The title and blurb may change slightly before I start writing, but the overall story won't change.
2. This is a feel-good story. The hero isn't useless. He handles farming, raising sheep, cooking, tidying the house, and improving their living conditions.
3. This is a game. Please don't harm wild animals in real life! Anyone who hunts wild animals indiscriminately is a moron!
4. I'll finish the outlines for these few novels, then start whichever one gets more favorites. I have a bit of a hard time choosing because I like them all...
5. I'll add more as I think of it.
Inspired by playing Raft, but this is not fanfiction. It includes lots of my own ideas.
Theme: Living well matters as much as staying alive.
