I Saved The World By Farming and Building a Farmhouse Inn

[New serial: I Became a Clan Leader by Farming and Firing Pottery Kilns. Coming soon: A Haven in the Human World: My Stuffy Boss Becomes My Wife. So delicious.jpg]

Tong Zhanyan was a fifth-year student at the Agricultural Science Academy. In his fourth year, someone else's graduation project ate his.

With graduation approaching, he didn't want history to repeat itself. Tong Zhanyan swore to protect his graduation project with his life, and then he really died.

When he woke again, he had become a freshman at Sidi Military Academy. Knowing he would have to study for another four years before graduating, he nearly rolled his eyes back and passed out.

Ten thousand years later, every plant on Earth has mutated. Food consists only of various synthetic nutritional liquids, and many people have fallen into violent states after going so long without consuming plants.

To prevent the situation from getting worse, countless people have tried to grow crops. But they lost the ancient methods of cultivation long ago, and decades of research have yielded no progress.

This was good news for Tong Zhanyan.

The bad news was that his school only had a combat program.

Unwilling to fail to graduate again, Tong Zhanyan resolutely started farming.

Qing Jiyue is the only heir of the Qing family, one of the four great guardian clans. The strongest fighter at Sidi Military Academy, he is a refined and aloof rising star, admired and envied by everyone.

But Qing Jiyue knows that his grandfather has already fallen into a state of deep violence, and his father developed symptoms several years ago. As the next head of the Qing family, he is destined to succumb to it too.

Until he gets a strange roommate.

After watching Tong Zhanyan somehow bring several droopy, wilted plants back to life, Qing Jiyue resolutely sends his spirit beast to befriend him: the only S-rank spirit beast in the entire Second Military District, a white tiger.

Zhanyan is a cat person, a serious one.

For his sake, Qing Jiyue even teaches his spirit beast to meow.

The livestream starts with five sickly little seedlings, moves on to greenhouses full of all kinds of vegetables, then becomes a large farm resort open to the whole world. Before long, the school creates a whole new program just for Tong Zhanyan, and his name quickly becomes famous across Earth.

Livestream 1:

"You have to prune it, and prune it hard. If you don't prune it hard, it won't grow," Tong Zhanyan says, snipping twice with his shears.

Outside the livestream:

"He, he, he..."

"Get the emergency pills! Go fetch Elder Xu's emergency pills!"

"And Elder Wang's respirator."

The tomato plants, which had finally grown lush and leafy, are suddenly reduced to bare stalks. The Planting Alliance's Research Headquarters descends into chaos.

Livestream 2:

"Five mu of land per person is a killer... How about a raffle? The winners can come over and... dig for free?" Tong Zhanyan thinks he might be getting a little carried away.

The next day, the global public network, which hasn't suffered a slowdown in a thousand years, grinds to a complete halt.

Internet company: Emergency repairs in progress...

■New serial: I Became a Clan Leader by Farming and Firing Pottery Kilns [Beastfolk]. So delicious.jpg

After transmigrating to a primitive beastfolk world, Du Nanshen is carried back to the tribe by a huge, lame tiger.

In the tribe, the females can transform into beasts. They are all strong and fierce, able to tear apart black bears with their bare hands. The males can't transform, so they make a living gathering fruits and vegetables.

Du Nanshen can't hunt, and he doesn't recognize any of the plants. Seeing as he'll starve to death if he doesn't get married, he has no choice but to fire pottery and start farming.

The tribe is extremely primitive. Their pots and bowls are made of fruit shells, their food is always roasted, and their weapons are primitive too.

Du the Shady Dealer: How about some pottery? How about iron tools? Interested in a sale?

Every winter, the tribe doesn't have enough food, and many frail old people and children starve to death.

Du the Hoarder looks at the cellar full of fruit and cured meat and burps: We really can't eat it all. How about helping us get rid of some?

In spring, illnesses spread widely, and even the tribe's strongest beastfolk fall ill.

Du the Witch Doctor: How about some antibiotics?

After the crisis passes, Du Nanshen looks at the smiling clan leader, priest, and a whole group of guards before him. He can't help twitching his mouth.

Everyone: How about becoming clan leader?

Looking at the females behind the crowd, whose eyes are practically glowing as they stare at him, Du the Catch of the Day says: I suppose that works.

But before he can get comfortable in the clan leader's seat, the neighboring tribe comes crying to him: Food, food, we're hungry.

Du Nanshen: ...

Du Nanshen: Then let's merge the tribes.

After another winter passes, Du Nanshen looks at the world gradually recovering outside the tribe, then turns to look at the ever-growing patches of green eyes inside the tribe. He sighs.

It's better to stay busy. Maybe he should go unify the East as well?

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Of all the females, only the huge, lame tiger who brought Du Nanshen to the tribe never looks at him strangely. So whenever Du Nanshen needs help or has something good to share, he goes to him. The two are closer than anyone else in the tribe.

The tribe's other females: !!!

The lame tiger quietly hides his little paws: There's no way he could ever like me.

●Coming soon, so delicious: A Haven in the Human World: My Stuffy Boss Becomes My Wife

Xu Baiye is suddenly laid off. Afraid of ending up on the streets, he panics and takes a temporary job at a company called "A Haven in the Human World."

The boss is a handsome man in glasses who is painfully strict about everything, while the employees are a bunch of tough guys with tattooed arms who pull out knives at the slightest provocation.

Xu Baiye always thinks their company is just a security firm that works on both sides of the law, handling debt collection, domestic abuse cases, and stalkers.

Until one day, he sees a ghost carrying its own head, sobbing as it enters the boss's office, while everyone else acts like it's perfectly normal

Boss: "You take this case."

The literally head-hugging ghost: "Waaah..."

Xu Baiye: ( ºΔº )

Xu Baiye: ???

Xu Baiye: ...Hey, give me a second. I might need to quit first.

Boss: "Two days off a week, meals and accommodation provided, flexible hours, go home whenever you want, five types of social insurance and a housing fund, one free medical checkup per month, full reimbursement for any medical problems discovered, at least five company-paid trips a year, and an annual bonus. If you resign, you'll owe a penalty... eight digits."

Xu Baiye: ...I love this company.

Employees who died from bullying, wives murdered by their husbands, children hunted by evil spirits...

With his brute strength and his desire to win the eight-digit Best Employee Award, Xu Baiye works his way from rookie to veteran.

But everyone makes mistakes. One day, drunk at the celebration banquet, Xu Baiye walks into the wrong room on his way back...

The next day, Xu Baiye's door opens to reveal his boss standing outside with all his belongings.

Boss: "What's happened has happened. You have to take responsibility."

Xu Baiye: ...Could it be that I just saw you taking a shower?

Boss: "You still have to take responsibility."

Xu Baiye: ...May I ask what era you're from, you stuffy old-fashioned man?

Boss: "Three thousand years ago."

Boss (adjusts glasses.jpg): "Is there a problem?"

Xu Baiye, forced to give up half his bed, lies awake for half the night, still unable to figure it out.

Looking at the man sleeping soundly beside him, he gives in to a wicked impulse, rolls over on top of him, and says, "You want me to take responsibility, and you want to get married, right? How about we consummate the marriage first?"

The old-fashioned man (surprised, blushing, obedient.jpg): "...Okay."

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