Senior Brother, Don't Cry

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The Su family of Huamen has welcomed a young child with exceptionally pure spiritual roots. The immortal official Hua Yin descends to the mortal realm to preside over the child's initiation ceremony. At the Star-Awakening Platform, the infant Su Zhengtao opens his eyes and immediately gets angry: Who are you? You're not Hua Yin, damn it.

He drank a little less of Granny Meng's soup than he should have, and still remembers which bastard killed him with a single sword strike in his previous life, stole his opportunities, and took his destiny.

Disrespecting an immortal official enrages the heavens. The helpless infant tumbles off the Star-Awakening Platform and lands hard in front of Hua Qianse, the young sect leader. He hasn't even started crying, but the six-year-old Hua Qianse is already sobbing his heart out.

The entire immortal sect thinks he's crazy. Only his childhood friend and senior brother believes his wild ravings.

Hua Qianse swears up and down that he believes him, while writing down his nonsense in the Heavenly Record.

Su Zhengtao, who gets expelled from the immortal sect as a result: You believe nothing.

Hua Qianse: Sniff.

To prove he really believes him, Hua Qianse follows Su Zhengtao through heaven and earth, challenging the Heavenly Palace with his sword and vowing to help his junior brother find the heartless bastard from his past life, as well as his replacement, the heavenly official.

The immortal sects: Challenge the Heavenly Palace? Young Sect Leader Hua? Impossible. That must be Su Zhengtao pretending to be his senior brother.

Su Zhengtao, who has successfully become a public enemy of all six realms and a stray dog: ???

Su Zhengtao: ...Enough. Stop following me. I don't love anyone. I only want revenge.

Hua Qianse: Sniff.

Su Zhengtao: ...Fine, you can come along.

The moon was bright that night. Su Zhengtao glanced back without thinking. Wait!

Suddenly, it struck him... Could this foolish senior brother, who always follows him around and only knows how to whine, really resemble that heartless bastard from his previous life?

Hua Qianse: I'm not. I didn't. Sob sob sob sob sob.

As Su Zhengtao finally begins to uncover a corner of the truth, he traces cause and effect back through the fall of the Heavenly Way.

As it turns out, in both his lives, he's been betrayed by the same person, and protected by that same person, too.

The top's blurb from another dimension:

God: ...Flowers can't grow in Yuezhou.

Hua Yin: QAQ

God hesitates, then gives him a seed.

Hua Yin waters it every day with his tears and his love, waiting day after day, night after night. In the end, a fig tree grows.

Hua Yin: ...

Hua Yin: Cut it down.

Reading Guide: Hua Qianse/Hua Yin (a sweet-looking, dark-hearted girl-top) x Su Zhengtao (a sharp-tongued bottom who picks fights with heaven, earth, and immortals).

Zhengtao means fig. The author looked it up on Baidu.

One-on-one in both past and present lives.

Note: Some elements are inspired by lunar soil being unable to grow vegetables, Dream of the Red Chamber, and The Little Prince.

Coming soon: Zi Gui (Reborn)

Shen Xiaochen (Shen Shuangxu)/Wangqiu (a monk in his past life, a prince in this one; top) x Ling Jiechun (Ling Zigui) (a playboy bottom who turns over a new leaf and focuses on clinging to his enemy's coattails)

After being reborn, Ling Jiechun reflects on his mistakes. His enemy is too powerful, so maybe he should just give up on revenge.

After a fierce inner struggle, Ling Jiechun stops resisting and focuses on currying favor with the enemy who killed him, hoping to coast to an easy victory.

But after swearing an oath of loyalty, he looks up and discovers that his enemy and new master's sworn enemy is his childhood friend from his previous life.

The childhood friend who was supposedly deeply in love with him in his past life looks at him as if they've never met, his face full of murderous intent and practically saying, "You corrupt traitors in cahoots are all dead meat."

Ling Jiechun: Don't do that QAQ

The top's point of view: I was reborn to avenge my childhood friend, but then he joined the enemy's side QAQ

There's no scheming for power here, just farming and falling in love as they head toward the peak of life together.

Theme: No one is perfect. We should learn to tolerate each other's flaws