Running a Zoo with the Beast-Taming System

The scandal-plagued star Jiang Nanxing has quit the entertainment industry. While packing to return to her hometown, she passes the calico kitten she feeds every day, and suddenly binds herself to a Beast Taming System from the cultivation world!

System: [Incredible! A beast-taming prodigy with astonishing natural gifts has been discovered!]

[Prodigy, fight! Tame the captivating yet dangerous ancient ferocious beast before you, the Xuan Zhe Wind-Riding Silver Cat!]

Jiang Nanxing stares in utter confusion as the calico cat exposes its belly and meows seductively. The System calls it an "ancient ferocious beast something-or-other cat"? What a loon.

She opens a cat treat and silently feeds it one. The satisfied calico rubs against her leg.

The System is stunned: [As expected of a prodigy! You subdued the ferocious beast in just 30 seconds. Your reward is a cottage in the suburbs. Please revive and build a sect of your own, genius!]

This thing is really nuts... Jiang Nanxing grumbles to herself... What does she need a cottage for?

But Jiang Nanxing has no choice. She follows the System's directions to the suburbs and finds a run-down zoo overgrown with weeds, sprawling across 500 mu…

The System calls this a cottage in the suburbs!?

System: [Give your sect a grand, impressive name, prodigy!]

But then again, the System must have its reasons. Jiang Nanxing sweeps her hand and declares, "Starry Zoo". Her sect is established!

In the days that follow, the sect keeps growing, with a Cat Cult, a Dog Cult, a Panda Cult, a Tiger Cult...

The System's rewards grow more and more generous.

Meanwhile, Jiang Nanxing has her hands full, so she starts livestreaming to recruit staff...

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At first, an animal zoo livestream appears online, recruiting people from all walks of life because they can't keep up with the work.

The streamer introduces the animals one by one: the gentle calico cat is called the Ancient Ferocious Beast Teng Snake Star Sun Cat; the vacant-eyed husky is called the Hellish Nether Treasure Dog.

And the tiger chased around by the cat, yowling, is called the Red-Flower White-Kirin.

Netizens: What kind of surreal streamer is this?

Just as they're about to close the livestream, they see the calico cat breathe fire, the husky spit ice balls, and the tiger weave flower garlands??

And then the scandal-plagued star Jiang Nanxing says to the camera with a straight face, "Today's magic show is over~ Come apply for jobs as snow shovelers, scorched-grass removers, flower-garland vendors, and more! You can watch magic every day, and the benefits are great~"

Netizens: Wait, you call this magic??!

Netizens: Hold on... I have a friend who wants to apply! Or we could pay to visit too!!

Preorder: Disaster, But I Bound a Showing-Off System. Please add it to your collection.

[Rose held in a dog's mouth] A preorder recommendation: Jiang Yuxia has just graduated and become a wage slave when she's forced to transmigrate into a famine dungeon.

Wearing a suit and high heels, notebook in hand, she stands on parched, cracked earth, with barely a thing in her pockets. Jiang Yuxia thinks she's done for!

The next second: [Showing-Off System loading... In this era of people eating one another, the Host has such style. Reward: 5 points. Limited-time shop now open.]

From the start, she exchanges her points for five loaves of bread in the shop. To show off, Jiang Yuxia approaches the gaunt, starving crowd.

Jiang Yuxia lifts her chin slightly. "Hmph, I eat one of these loaves and toss the next. Yep, just for fun!"

The hungry crowd: "Where did this little yellow-haired show-off come from? You're dead!"

"Is she stupid? Wasting food! I'll **** her!"

[Excellent, truly excellent. Hatred +100, jealousy +20, envy +50, total reward: 170 points. Limited-time shop open.]

Jiang Yuxia exchanges points for food and throws it out as she goes. "Imported chocolate? This isn't good enough for me. Toss it!"

"An energy bar this small? Who do you think you're looking down on? Toss it!"

The crowd, dizzy after being pelted with food: "Where did this Goddess of Mercy come from? No, she's our reborn parents!"

Frozen world.

Before the extreme cold strikes, the ordinary players in the dungeon despairingly close their eyes.

Jiang Yuxia suddenly appears and declares haughtily, "I'm holding a ball tonight. I don't want anyone skipping it."

The crowd: "Are you out of your mind? Everyone's about to freeze to death, and you're throwing a **** ball!"

Only when they are at death's door do they see an elaborate greenhouse stage slowly descending from the sky. At its center, someone holds a microphone and says, "You didn't arrive on time. I'm very angry."

The crowd: "Your Highness! Oh my goodness, my dear! If we'd known this was the kind of ball you meant, we'd have crawled there!"

#We were just being too loud earlier

#She's not showing off. She really is that fabulous. How could I possibly know her any better?

From then on, I, Jiang Yuxia, had no idea how to be low-key!

Other worlds to be determined...

Bonus scene:

[Host, see that person? His style is even higher than yours. Host, take him down at once.]

The newcomer is Qi Xun, the top player who cleared the game without taking a single hit. At 192 centimeters tall, with a strikingly cool face, he is unquestionably the center of attention the moment he appears.

As he sits down, Jiang Yuxia plants a foot on a chair and looks down at him. "Someone like you? I could sleep with ten of you in one night."

Qi Xun: "Sure. Let's try."

Jiang Yuxia: "?"

Dragged onto the bed, Jiang Yuxia props herself up the next morning, her waist weak and aching. She struggles to say, "N-not that impressive."

A large hand circles her delicate ankle and pulls her beneath him. "Fine. Then let's keep going."

Theme: I was just being too loud earlier