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Returning Home as a Dad: My Rural Life with a Spiritual Spring

share time: 2026-01-28 12:31:10

Shen Chuan, an overworked office worker, was revising his 18th proposal draft overnight when he suddenly received a package from his hometown—a paternity test for his 3-year-old daughter, Xiao Tang. It turned out his ex-girlfriend had secretly given birth to their child years ago and now, terminally ill, entrusted the child to him. Desperate, he quit his 996 job and returned home to inherit his grandfather’s abandoned orchard. To his surprise, he found a spiritual spring behind the orchard that made crops mature overnight—strawberries grew as big as fists, tomatoes tasted as sweet as honey. Even more ridiculous, he bonded with a sarcastic "Rural Cultivation System" that mocked him: "Host, your cabbage is worse than the fairy palace’s pig feed." While handling Xiao Tang’s endless questions (e.g., "Dad, why is our carrot taller than the teacher?"), he used the "immortal fruits" from the spring to pay off debts and make his orchard famous online. Coincidentally, Su Xiaotang, the new volunteer teacher next door, not only helped Xiao Tang with homework but also secretly cared for the orchard. When he was about to confess with a hand-grown rose, an ancient book floated up from the spring, saying: "The guardian must pass three tribulations—love, wealth, and immortality." Looking at Xiao Tang munching on an immortal peach in his arms and Su Xiaotang smiling at the door, he realized: the sweetest "fairy fate" had long been hidden in the rural warmth.

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