Master Wen's Down-and-Out Junior Brother Has Returned

Xu Chao came back to life after dying. The only problem was that he had been dead for a very long time: ten thousand years. The senior fellow disciple who had grown up with him and struggled alongside him to reach the Golden Core stage had transformed into the very top of the cultivation world's food chain. Needless to say, his senior brother had grown old and become an honored ancestor revered by everyone. That also meant he was rich. When they were young, they ran around trying to get their hands on a Profound-grade weapon. Later, Xu Chao lay in his senior brother's arms while their disciples and descendants offered him a Heaven-grade weapon as tribute. When they were young, he once slurred to his senior brother, “When I'm rich someday, I'll buy a whole bottle of Nascent Soul Pills and eat one, then dump the rest!” Later, his senior brother opened the treasury for him. Over the years, he had stockpiled a hundred thousand catties of Heaven-grade spiritual pills for Xu Chao's personal fortune. When they were young, they braved the elements and had no fixed place to call home. After meeting his senior brother, Xu Chao heard a rumor: “Of all the spiritual veins under heaven, Wen Chaoxi owns eight tenths. Everyone else in the world shares the remaining two.” In a nutshell: Old men are great, old men are wonderful, and old men come with a pension. Warnings: 1. The love interest is no good person. He's ruthless and extremely hypocritical. 2. The love interest is incredibly old, but looks young. 3. The whole story is slice-of-life, ridiculously sweet, and tooth-achingly sugary. 4. The love interest is a gentleman, and both leads are each other's only partners. The setting is already so fantastical that it's only natural the love interest has remained pure and innocent all these years. 5. The author's writing is poor. The early part of the story is scattered, but a main plot will emerge later. 6. The character art is from the first cover. ******Author's Upcoming Story****** “I'm a Dragon. How About a Ninth-Rank Official Post?” Synopsis: Yuan Rutan is the last dragon from the primordial age. By the time he hatched, the human world had changed beyond recognition. To be safe, Yuan Rutan disguised himself as a human. Over the course of more than a decade, he grew from an infant into a handsome young man. But Yuan Rutan couldn't keep lying low anymore. What kind of miserable life was this? The village chief threw his weight around, the clans closed ranks, there was a flood every three years and a drought every five, and the county magistrate was corrupt... He'd had enough. Once he realized there were no threats in the human world, he revealed his true form and headed for the capital to demand justice from the human emperor! * Jian Fu had seized the throne illegitimately, and the old ministers repeatedly insulted him. Jian Fu cut down those who criticized him, one after another. He thought that if he focused on being a good emperor, the nagging voices would eventually die down. But in the seven years since he took the throne, every year had brought disaster. With ill omens in the sky, opposition among the people grew louder and louder. The ministers joined forces and pressured him to write an edict confessing his sins. Weariness mingled with the darkness in Jian Fu's eyes. He silently agreed. On the eve of the ceremony, Jian Fu offered incense and prayed: If Heaven would show a favorable sign, he would be willing to do anything that wasn't too unreasonable. At the grand ceremony, the emperor stood atop the sacrificial altar. In an instant, dark clouds blanketed the sky. Lightning flashed and thunder roared. The ministers fell to their knees, crying out that it was a terrible omen. But then the clouds parted, and golden light stretched for miles. An ancient true dragon, almost identical to the one in the paintings, soared out and coiled around the emperor. The ministers were stunned. They fell to their knees and cried, “The true dragon's chosen son!” But on the altar, Jian Fu thought of the prayer he'd made the night before. He had no idea what the true dragon before him was after. Just then, a young man's voice rang out in Jian Fu's mind. “I'm a true dragon. Asking for a ninth-rank official post... isn't that reasonable?” Jian Fu: ? * True dragon bottom × emperor top. A sleepy, clueless bottom and a domineering, fatherly top. * Ignore the time spent as an egg. This is an age-gap romance, with the top twelve years older than the bottom. * Both are each other's only partners, emotionally and physically. The top has no harem. * Synopsis written on October 8, 2024. Theme: Break through adversity and never give up even the slightest hope.