Overgrowth

Bruce Ye Science Fiction

Jo Ji-won wanted nothing more than to escape agriculture. Instead, she woke up on a train to a world where plants mutate into man-eating monsters—and studying farming is a death sentence.
At the Ninth Agricultural Research Base, she is a penniless Class C student with no connections and no hope. Until she discovers that the knowledge from her previous life gives her an edge no one else possesses. Her understanding of plant diseases, crop rotation, and mutation patterns allows her to save her classmates' crops, earn their loyalty, and attract the attention of the powerful Seoul Central Agricultural Research Institute.
But talent draws dangerous eyes.
Her "mother" is not her mother. Her roommate is not dead—she faked her own death and now serves a shadowy conspiracy. Her closest friend was a spy assigned to watch her. And her senior colleague, the man she believed was her only link to her former life, is the one who killed her professor and has been using stolen serum for decades to preserve his youth.
Ji-won is not an ordinary survivor. Her blood contains a unique serum that can cure the transformation consuming mutant organisms and allow humanity to evolve alongside them. Every mutant plant on the peninsula wants to consume it. And the people who claim to love her want to use it.
As Grade S mutant plants—intelligent, strategic, and relentless—converge on Seoul Central, Ji-won must journey to the nightmare island of Ulleungdo to unlock the truth about her own resurrection. She must confront the betrayers who shaped her new life. And she must embrace the power growing inside her—before the plants inherit the earth.
With an elite military unit at her side, a cold and lethal captain who has saved her life more times than she can count, and a slow-burn love that defies the end of the world, Ji-won must answer one question:
When the world is ending, do we hold onto who we were—or evolve into something new?

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