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In Troubled Times, My Turtle Has Got Me Covered

share time: 2025-12-14 00:35:06

Modern office worker Lin Xiaoman died from staying up late playing a "turtle-raising mobile game," only to wake up as a starving beggar in a troubled era. The "Turtle Immortal System" she’s bound to gives her a mission right away: "Raise a turtle as your boss—it’ll keep you alive for more than three episodes!" This turtle is indeed magical: it can sniff out buried grain reserves, deflect assassin’s blades with its shell, and even "crawl back into its tank" three days early to warn of heavy rain?! To make things more absurd, the "sickly scholar" she rescues is Chu Zhao, the third prince being hunted by power-hungry ministers for extermination! Forced to team up with Chu Zhao to complete the system’s "turtle-style tasks" (like making the turtle bite Chu Zhao’s boot strap), Lin Xiaoman uses the turtle’s abilities to save drought-stricken victims with found grain, block poison arrows aimed at Chu Zhao with the turtle’s "shell shield," and even help the army avoid enemy fire attacks by the turtle’s "wall-crawling warning." Originally just wanting to muddle through life, she’s gradually moved by Chu Zhao’s obsession with "feeding all the people in the world." While outsmarting the system (like the turtle throwing a tantrum and stealing the emperor’s roast chicken from the imperial kitchen), they work together to turn the tide: from begging on the streets to entering the East Palace, from being hunted to quelling warlord rebellions. And that turtle—once Lin Xiaoman’s "slacker partner"—actually holds the map to the late emperor’s hidden granaries?! Amid the laugh-out-loud "turtle assists," two people who never wanted to be heroes end up becoming the warmest light in the troubled times.

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