The Retired Top-Tier Star Takes Up Farming Online

Bai Shuhan was a top-tier star who had weathered countless storms. On the night he accepted his Best Actor award, he made a high-profile retirement from show business, then vanished without a trace. No one could have imagined that he had gone into seclusion in a small village, happily farming. But before long, the village chief signed a contract with a reality show to help develop the local economy. And no one had even told him! Bai Shuhan was coming back from the fields with a hoe when he ran into his junior, the new-generation sensation Gu Ming. Bai Shuhan: Thank goodness I'm wearing a mask! He won't recognize me, he won't recognize me, he won't recognize me... That very night, though, Gu Ming showed up at his house. "Senior, I'm here to stay with you." Bai Shuhan was horrified. "What are you planning to do to my vegetables?" Gu Ming put on an innocent face. "Senior, shouldn't you be asking what I'm planning to do to you?" Gu Ming faced countless hardships during his trainee years, and it was a single word of encouragement from his senior that lit the way forward. At last, he began to make a name for himself, but Bai Shuhan retired from show business without a word, and Gu Ming never got the chance to thank him. When they reunite: Gu Ming: You must have been blacklisted by the filthy entertainment industry. I'll help you make a comeback. That is, until he discovers that Senior's family owns a company listed among the country's wealthiest. Gu Ming: You must have been pushed out by your brothers and exiled here! Let's fight our way back! That is, until he discovers that Bai Shuhan owns a huge number of shares in the family business. Gu Ming: Fine! Then you must be so passionate about agriculture that you devoted yourself to farming! That is, until he discovers that Bai Shuhan often can't even manage to grow vegetables. Gu Ming: You must be... All right, whatever Senior does is right. Current top-tier star, wolfish younger seme x former top-tier star, devoted-to-farming uke Here's a little sneak peek at my upcoming novel! "Gaming Is No Match for Studying" Two transfer students arrive at Mingxi High School in their senior year. One is a carefree slacker who listens to music, skips class, and plays video games every day. The other is single-mindedly devoted to studying. All their classmates are worried for the hardworking Chen Cuo, afraid Xu Chuzhou will lead him astray. They keep coming up with ways to separate the new desk mates. But after the first monthly exam, their class has the two highest scorers. Xu Chuzhou, the class-skipping gamer, ranks first from the top. Chen Cuo, who buried himself in his books... ranks first from the bottom. The whole class is stunned. Xu Chuzhou teases his bookish desk mate. "Want me to tutor you?" Chen Cuo smiles faintly. "No need... I just haven't studied the second-year material yet." One weekend, at an internet cafe, Chen Cuo taps his desk mate on the shoulder while he is playing ranked. "Want me to help you?" Xu Chuzhou stares at the desk mate who has no business being here. "W-Want to try?" Then he watches the bookworm dominate the game, and after the match, flash two adorable canine teeth. "We won!" Xu Chuzhou: I was terrified... It isn't until after graduation, when Xu Chuzhou gets into a professional youth training camp as he'd hoped, that he discovers his desk mate is error, a world champion who retired a year ago due to an injury. This time, they'll fight side by side. "The Immortal Venerable Breaks Character Every Day" Everyone in the cultivation world knows Mu Chuihan, the Immortal Venerable Yuelin, as aloof and otherworldly, radiant as moonlight, yet cold-hearted and distant. Mu Chuihan himself has something to say about that. He's grown tired of maintaining his aloof persona for hundreds of years. He's ready to let loose, take on a new body, and experience life among ordinary people. There's just one problem: the incarnation he fashioned himself seems to have gone wrong. It's become a top-grade cultivation furnace, penniless and awaiting auction. Mu Chuihan: How thrilling. At the auction, he is sold for a fortune, placed in a golden cage as a gift for Lord Tingyun, Ye Tingjiang. Before meeting Ye Tingjiang, Mu Chuihan thinks: Forget it. If we're going down, we'll go down together. A new body means another chance at life. After meeting Ye Tingjiang, Mu Chuihan's eyes light up. "Immortal Lord, you are so handsome." "Immortal Lord, are you married?" "Come on, Immortal Lord! Top-grade cultivation furnace, no false advertising. Try it and see!" From the seme's perspective: Ye Tingjiang has always hated two kinds of people. The first are like Immortal Venerable Yuelin, arrogant and keeping everyone at a distance. The second are like the cultivation furnace Fuyan, who make no effort to improve themselves and rely on their looks to please others. Unfortunately, he has become addicted to the latter, and his desire is turning into tenderness. Until one day, he discovers that the two are actually the same person. Ye Tingjiang: All these years, I've been wrong about you! Theme: Farming brings prosperity.