A cute story (for the most part) about an intern God of Wealth who accidentally arrives on an abandoned planet filled with trash and radiation and has to build up his followers in an intergalactic era 2000 years in the future. The ML, Wen Xiaoyun, is a renowned general of the space fleet who also ends up stranded on the trash planet after a big space battle and has to pick up parts day after day to fix his communication device. I have to say, the premise is a bit out there. I had no idea what to expect after reading the summary, but I'm glad I picked it up as it was a fun and lighthearted read.
**Warning: Spoilers Ahead**
The first half of the story follows their life on the trash planet and is more slice of life as the MC, Zhuang Zhou, works his god magic to gain followers among WXY's men who came there to rescue their admiral. Then the setting of the story changes when they go back to the Imperial capital so that Zhou Zhou can gain more followers, and at that point there's a little bit more intrigue and drama as there are a lot of unscrupulous people who covet the miraculous things ZZ can do. I enjoyed the second part of the story a lot more as there is more plot and actual villains to root against.
The novel is written in a very funny and lighthearted manner which made it a fun read. For example, the crazy amount of bad luck some characters have when they mistakenly worship the wrong god or get on ZZ's bad side is hilarious:
"Admiral, I spoke to you about him before. My son is very talented. His physical strength and psychic powers are both S level and he's been wanting to join the 3rd Legion for a long time. However, a few days ago, he encountered some troubles and needed to stay in the hospital for 2 days. His injuries just healed and see, I immediately brought him over after his hospital discharge to see you."
Chen JianXiang hastily stood up from his chair: "Hello, Admiral! am......"
He didn't even finish speaking yet when the light hanging above his head suddenly fell down on top of him.
Chen JianXiang responded very quickly. However, even though he managed to avoid the major damage, it still hit him on the shoulder. With a crack, his arm broke.
Chen JianXiang numbly attempted to climb up off of the floor. He didn't even stand steady yet, and it's unknown if his foot got tangled on the wires of the lights or something, but his entire person fell forward and he smacked face first into the ground again.
In addition, he didn't fall very well. His head landed directly on a metal bump, knocking a hole in his head which instantly started bleeding everywhere.
Lieutenant Chen: "......"
Wen XiaoYun: "..."
And here is how WXY's men react to seeing Zhou Zhou offer food to himself in the communal cafeteria, since that's the only way he can taste the food as he can't taste it with his god body:
They already heard the news yesterday, that the Admiral brought back an extremely pitiful and well-behaved little friend. The Admiral even treated him especially well.
Who would have imagined they'd have the honor to see him in person today.
They saw them arrive hand in hand!
The Admiral even personally fetched food for him!
The Admiral has never treated anyone this well before!
Were they about to have an Admiral-furen soon?
Seeing the two sitting down, everyone felt even more excited in their hearts.
Each and everyone of them were doing their best to sneak peeks.
They even cheered internally!
Give him food, give him food!
Feed him a bite! Feed him a bite!
En?
Wait a minute.
Why's Madam taking out.....candles? An incense burner?
Everyone's faces very apparently turned dumbfounded.
After placing the incense burner and candles in the proper position, Zhuang Zhou placed the Divine Image in his hand into the set up.
He gave a glance at Wen XiaoYun and coughed softly, saying in embarrassment: "......En, you know. Before eat, always have to pay respect."
Wen XiaoYun's handsome face was unperturbed. His tone was soothing: "En, I understand. Not a problem."
But it wasn't all fun and games. Eventually we learn what happened to earth in the past to cause the human exodus and how ZZ ended up living on the trash planet for much longer than he realized, and it was all unexpectedly heart wrenching. But luckily ZZ has WXY with him now. With WXY, he will never lack for followers. There's one really sweet scene I loved among their interactions:
Zhuang Zhou asked: "You made all of these people......en, believe in the God of Wealth. Then, then how come you've never worshipped him?"
Having known each other this long, Wen XiaoYun has never worshipped before.
If he didn't believe in the existence of God before, that's fine.
But right now he clearly knew.......
Hearing this, Wen XiaoYun fell silent for a moment.
Zhuang Zhou thought he didn't want to say it. He was just about to end this topic when he heard Wen XiaoYun say.
"I don't want to be protected by him. He has to protect all of these people, but no one protects him." He said: "I want to become that person who can protect him."
I also really liked some of the side characters, such as Xiao Polan, ZZ's pet robot who becomes quite arrogant and starts treating WXY's vice admiral as his human slave XP Their ending was a bit unexpected for me as well, as I didn't foresee at all that Xiao Polan would "ascend" in his cultivation to become a real human being.