Picking Up Wood in the Stars

After a car accident, Li Naihe, an intangible cultural heritage carver, transmigrated. What a tired old trope.

Li Naihe transmigrated into the body of a little girl who did odd jobs in a prison and raised her younger sister, who was two years younger than her.

When she carved lifelike objects, they all came to life.

A passerby took pity on the girl selling things to earn money and bought a little wooden bird. When he unexpectedly encountered a star beast attacking him, the carving came to life and carried him away from it in its beak.

"Master, could you sell me another protective talisman in this interstellar age?"

"Sell it to me. I'll pay double."

"Master is as pure and noble as the breeze and bright moon. Surely you don't care about money?"

Li Naihe: ...No, that's not me. I never said that. Don't slander me.

At last, she saved enough money to attend a junior military academy and awaken her psychic manifestation.

The result astonished everyone. Li Naihe's spirit form was an utterly ordinary roadside Chinese parasol tree.

Except she could carve it into any shape and enlarge it.

Under the teachers' bewildered gazes and her classmates' contemptuous stares, the tree shot upward, towering beyond the heavens.

A celestial wonder appeared. People who had no idea what was happening hurried to its source and asked the others who had gathered to watch.

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Li Naihe accidentally wandered into the newly built chapel at school.

She found someone standing beneath the statue of a god.

Beneath the enormous statue of the God of Light, that person wore a white robe edged with gold. His expression matched the statue behind him, compassionate yet indifferent.

Only later did she learn that his spirit form was a phoenix.

Legend had it that the divine bird known as the phoenix roosted only in Chinese parasol trees.

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Wu Ziyu was an ordinary Beta, and also an undocumented person at the very bottom of society.

When she was eight, her luck finally changed. Someone took notice of her mother's exceptional pastry-making skills, and Wu Ziyu was brought along with her into a mansion.

It was there that Wu Ziyu met her comeuppance.

An Omega who could only sit in a wheelchair, with delicate features like a doll in a New Year painting.

He had the serene beauty of a jade-faced bodhisattva, inspiring reverence, yet he was also haughty, sharp-tongued, and difficult to please.

Wu Ziyu went to bed later than a dog and got up earlier than a chicken every day. She was treated like the ultimate workhorse and regularly subjected to his cruel, cutting words.

Her one-word motto: endure.

But one day, that Omega differentiated into an Alpha, recovered the use of his legs, and insisted on living in the dorms with her.

Wu Ziyu's life became even harder. After she awakened as a Sentinel, even the classmates who had once disliked her began looking at her strangely.

That didn't affect her daily life, though. What terrified her most was the frightening Alpha in her dorm.

The way he looked at her gradually changed, his gaze growing darker and more inscrutable.

Wu Ziyu was genuinely afraid that one day he would kill her.

Note: The protagonist has no special companion.

There may be technological reproduction.

Theme: See the past through the eyes of the future.