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Inside the royal city of the Dayu Nation, a small, unremarkable alleyway now housed a general store.
At first, it was just a place where someone bought sugar as white as snow.
Word spread among the common people, and they rushed to find that this general store held wonders within; its goods spanned the four seas. Whatever you desired, you could find it here.
However, the shop owner was mysterious and eccentric. The stranger the item you wished to buy, the more bizarre the payment he would demand.
Two worthless little auks could be traded for a crate of gleaming, mirror-like glass.
Two utterly ordinary animal cubs could be exchanged for grain seeds that yielded a thousand jin per mu.
Two pots of commonplace flowers and plants could get you the formula for distilling alcohol.
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At first, Yin Qiufeng just wanted to make a small profit by trading between two worlds. But later, as he looked at the tasks issued by the system and the strange species he had collected in return, he fell into deep thought.
What was he supposed to do with these extinct/endangered animals and plants?
This is so not okay. So not okay.
Hearing that an animal and plant research expert, convalescing from an illness, had returned to live in the estate next door… Ahem, well, sorry about this, Mr Expert.
Expert Li Yan also fell into deep thought as he looked at the whitefin dolphin suddenly appearing in his bathtub, the clouded leopard cub rolling around on his sofa, the sarus cranes nesting in his manor, the extinct plants mysteriously popping up in his flower beds…
Until one day, Li Yan went out to buy soy sauce and saw the nearly extinct dove tree sapling on the windowsill of the general store not far from his estate.
Li Yan recalled—the first time the abnormal animals and plants appeared in his estate coincided quite closely with the opening of this young shop owner’s business.
Very well, you’ve successfully caught my attention.
The system, which had bound the wrong person, watched as events developed in a bizarre direction but ultimately veered back on track, and it too, fell into deep thought.
Bizarrely imaginative, money-obsessed shou (Yin Qiufeng) vs. Witty, talkative, but also not-quite-normal gong (Li Yan)
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Reading Guide:
Plot-driven, romantic subplot develops in the mid-to-late story. 1v1, both pure (SC).
Set in an fictional ancient world. Bringing resources back from the ancient past will not affect its development.
The ratio of modern to ancient content is roughly 50/50. Both the gong and shou are modern people and will not live long-term in the ancient world, fitting the “Modern Fantasy” genre.
A wish-fulfillment feel-good novel. Please don’t overanalyse the logic.
No need to announce if you drop the novel. This 1.55-meter-tall author will jump up and give you a kiss 😘.
One-sentence Synopsis: After trading between two worlds, he struck it rich.
Central Theme: Protecting the Earth’s environment is every individual’s duty and responsibility.
