Help! What Do We Do If Humans Turn Into Pets?

Xia Qingyan wakes from her hibernation pod, and three thousand years have passed.

To her shock, after leaving Blue Star, humanity's intelligence has gone unrecognized across the stars, and humans have fallen to the status of pets kept by alien species.

The interstellar verdict on humanity: This species is plagued by excessive emotions. Its reason is easily disrupted, making its intelligence unstable and its decision-making weak.

Its greatest strength is its artistic talent, born of emotion. Humans can entertain and comfort intelligent life across the stars, making them suitable pets.

The aliens tell Xia Qingyan: The artistic talent of humanity's descendants is in decline. We awakened you so you can teach the younger generation, improve their professional skills, better entertain and serve alien intelligent life, and increase the value of humans in the pet market.

Xia Qingyan is screaming inside, gritting her teeth, but outwardly she is compliant and gentle: Emotional art, is it? Don't worry, no one can surpass humanity.

One year later.

Human talent shows and variety programs of every kind sweep across the stars. Humans sing of the twists and turns of history, recite the rise and fall of civilizations, and dance as splendor fades away, teaching alien species the taste of tears.

Three years later.

The value of humans soars. Owning a human pet with emotional intelligence becomes a status symbol among the upper classes.

Five years later.

The upper-class human pets across the stars flee as a group, steal an alien reserve warship, and vanish into the vast universe.

Ten years later.

Ancient and distant Blue Star has risen again. Humanity appears above the planet in ten thousand upgraded interstellar warships, new cannons at the ready. Overwhelmed by the show of force, the alien species have no choice but to request peace talks.

Humanity's demand: Send all our people home, or face war.

The interstellar diplomats are dumbfounded and bewildered. Weren't humans emotional creatures? How did they advance by leaps and bounds and develop against all odds to reach this point?

Xia Qingyan's gaze burns with conviction and clarity: You don't understand the human spirit.

In the five years before she awoke, the emotions she awakened were ideals, humiliation, and forbearance.

In the five years after, the emotions driving humanity forward were solidarity, determination, and resilience.

The pinnacle of humanity's emotional art is to create a miracle for the sake of a dream.

Among the great powers of the stars, humanity will have its place.

Theme: Humanity controls its own destiny