I’m Broadcasting Potato Planting in the Interstellar

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Luo Jiang, a nominated geologist from the previous life, finds himself stranded on Red Star, where even basic meals are scarce. With his awakened supernatural ability, he gains favor from the Imperial Marshal and successfully acquires a useful item — a small thumb-sized die.

This die allows him to conduct unknown tests.

From then on, he disguises himself as an Alpha and successfully infiltrates the military district. Using potatoes brought from his previous world, he promotes cultivation and starts livestreaming.

A refugee from the lower echelons of Red Star, Luo Jiang rises as a star in interstellar livestreaming, becoming the wealthiest person in the Empire and the envy of the entire galaxy.

“They say this broadcaster is underage?”

“With such beauty, surely an Omega!”

“Turns out he’s actually an Alpha?”

Luo Jiang, who appears to be an Alpha but is actually an Omega, thrives effortlessly.

However, he catches the attention of the Marshal.

During a distant journey, Luo Jiang goes into heat, releasing sweet pheromones throughout the fiercely powerful battleship. Despite his attempts to flee, he cannot escape the Marshal’s intense gaze.

With crimson eyes, the Marshal asks, “Among the Alphas present, whom will you choose?”

Luo Jiang swallows hard and points to someone.

Immediately, the door locks, and the Marshal’s powerful pheromones overwhelm him.

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Qi Ningshu is an exceedingly rare super SSS-level existence in the Empire, with the ability to detect lies.

His transcendent status and unique ability make everyone powerless before him.

Except for Luo Jiang, whom he meets on Red Star.

From beginning to end, Luo Jiang lies to him, even about his gender.

He silently watches this little trickster, gradually falling into his trap, until finally, he makes him his.

Main Characters: Luo Jiang, Qi Ningshu

One-sentence summary: I’m planting potatoes in the stars.

Associated Names
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我在星际直播种土豆
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Stardust555
Stardust555 rated it
August 12, 2024
Status: c15
Rating: 2.5/5

I normally wait until I'm further into a novel to rate but this novel was just so frustrating in its setup.

Summary: MC wakes up in someone's body (unclear if he transmigrated or isekai'd) in an interstellar age on a desolate planet. All he has with him from Earth is a single potato. MC decides he wants to plant the potato somewhere and is searching for good soil to plant. Somehow, the potato never goes bad even though it takes him months to find some place. As of chapter 15,... more>> he still hasn't found a place to plant the potato. In search of good soil, he joins the military while hiding that he's an omega for some reason. He then proceeds to deal with some annoying stuff. His powerups and abilities are so nonsensical too.

Setting:

This is an interstellar ABO world. They can travel through space but can't develop a good radar detector for space. MC's eyes are somehow more accurate and far reaching than the military's technology because he has night vision. W h a t ? Make it make sense.

On top of that, it's unclear if MC transmigrated with his body or entered someone else's body because apparently, he was a geologist and now, he's 16 but also, he discovers a shed to live in which had drugs that disguise omegas as alphas. So, is he in the body of the one who lived in the shed?

We learn that disguising as an Alpha on the desolate planet makes sense because omegas, who take on the "female" role in society, are rare on a planet as poor as that one. It's safer for MC to pretend to be an alpha. Then the military comes, and they say they're only recruiting alphas and are testing people, yet somehow MC fools the scanner without actually doing anything. Then MC's weird ability makes its debut and helps the military out of a tight spot. Afterwards, it seems like ML isn't that weird or annoying, but it goes away when they land on the capital planet because then ML reverts back to your typical cold alpha male bullshit. It's your typical arrogant and self-conceited CEO routine with no uniqueness or charm.

It's even more frustrating because MC is underage. They enticed an underage alpha who looks like he was starved and desperate to join the military, which is child labor, then they assign him to an actual effing pe*vert who starts abusing his authority in order to force MC to sleep with him. Note, despite knowing that this pe*vert has a reputation for this stuff and that the vulnerable teenage MC is in danger with him, no adult in this situation tries to help or reassign MC. When ML sees MC looking tired he's more upset at him for being lazy and not having learned the proper salute yet. ML's lieutenant? Adjutant? Buddy? Whatever, is aware of the pe*vert's tendencies and reputation and mentions it to ML, who scoffs that it can't be avoided (?). Really wanted to reach into the screen and beat up ML for that. BUT, ML's bff, brother-in-arms, numero dos, whatever, also does nothing to help despite arguably having enough influence to either reassign MC or warn the pe*vert.

Also, in what world do you join the military and not get any training first? MC joins as a cleaner, meaning someone who goes and clear space debris. When he lands on the capital star, he's assigned to patrol the streets? Not as a cleaner but as something like a patrol officer walking his beat. HE HAS NO COMBAT TRAINING? WTF?

Note, all this is happening and MC is just stopping at random places on the streets he patrols to see if he can plant his (presumably plastic) potato. MC is also just really naive. He doesn't bother actually gathering information about the world he's in. He just does what's assigned and looks for places to plant the potato. Why??? He negotiates a salary at one point and just asks for crystals to feed his weird burden.

And all of this is without mentioning the weird pet/burden that targets MC for some reason. It feeds on core crystals, which with extrapolation I understand to mean NUCLEAR crystals that power star engines? That are apparently just lying around??? It's ability is to drain MC's finances, scan a field of land once while costing an astronomical amount of core crystals each time, and storing an even more astronomical amount of crystals inside of its dice-shaped and sized body.

ML is objectively one of the worst I've seen in a long while. Maybe I've just been spoiled with good MLs for a while now but he's so insufferable. He's irresponsible, callous, indifferent, arrogant, demanding, and insensitive. I've yet to see one redeeming quality in him. I don't expect ML's to worship the MC, but they should be decent enough people to not ab*se child labor, not consider people who are the society equivalent of women as "unstable factors" in society that he dislikes and they should be decent people who would take accusations of ab*se of authority and r*pe seriously. I'm so disgusted by him.

On top of all that, there is something in the summary about ML having the ability to detect lies. Where? What? When? MC's repeatedly lying, that's true, but ML doesn't ever catch him so ???

DNF?

I'm strongly considering DNFing this novel but I'll hold out until he actually plants the freaking potato. <<less
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User.948761
User.948761 rated it
August 3, 2024
Status: Completed
Not sure how I feel about this story. The novel verged farther from the summary than I thought. The plot was still interesting enough to keep reading but I was a bit disappointed. The summary made it sound like the primary focus would be on MC figuring out how to cultivate his potato in a foreign world and how to spread it out to other areas through live-streaming. And while it did happen... honestly it didn't feel all too important.

I would say the plot follows MC and his military endeavors... more>> if anything. With a focus on romance in the second half. And there is a major plot in this story. I did enjoy how MC is fairly independent while he knows how to move with the flow to his advantage. There were definitely some plot holes. But overall it was fine. I did skim some parts tho. So only 4 stars from me - rounded up from 3.5 honestly. <<less
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Wynnfield
Wynnfield rated it
August 11, 2024
Status: Completed
I love potatos as much as the MC, but the story was focused on anything but Potato farming. No, there wasn't much about live-streaming either.

This story was mainly focused on the MC helping out military works in the first half, and romance between the MC and the ML in the second half.

Which is totally fine if the title and summary didn't feel like clickbait now.

MC is a decent but naive person who stands his ground and focuses on wanting to better the world. ML is cold in the beginning but... more>> he becomes a simp later.

It was interesting at the start, but it felt like the author tried to include too many things and made the story lose focus.

Spoiler

World building - Only the first planet arc was properly developed. The whole "potato will save world hunger" thing didn't come into play since they sell other tasty vegetables and meat in grocery stores. The first time the MC cooked a meal (Before potato planting) for ML, he used Veges to stirfry a delicious feast and I had question marks in my head.

There's also a weird timeline flow of 2years passing but the potato still hasn't matured? (I'll bfr tho the timeskip was to make sure the MC (16 yo) was of legal age to marry 28 yo ML.)

There are several topics on s*xual harassment and racism, but none of it were really addressed.


Plot - I was lured by the Potatos, but the story wasn't about potatos. It's a okay story to pass time but it was so-so for me.
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