When a God Falls into His People's Bathtub

Seeking support for the upcoming novel The Unfeeling Immortal Venerable Helps Me Hatch Little Turtles Blurb: Qiu Ju is a second-generation god, born with a divine title and granted a piece of land and a group of subjects by the Heavenly Court. But Qiu Ju isn't the diligent sort. When he forgets about his land, his people suffer droughts year after year and their crops fail. When he remembers them, a casual wave of his hand brings torrential rain and flooding. Then Qiu Ju slips and falls into his own land, forced to descend to the mortal realm. He contacts the Heavenly Court, and they say they'll retrieve him in a day. But one day in heaven is a year on earth... His land is poor and barren. How is he supposed to get through a whole year? He'll starve to death before he even makes it back to heaven! So Qiu Ju sets out to help his people prosper. They start making farmyard manure, and he teaches his people about hygiene while he's at it. They start growing mushrooms on a large scale, so they can enjoy fresh mushroom soup every day. Then they get some rice and soybean seeds from a neighboring tribe to add variety to their meals. Xiao Ji is the priest of this land. His people call him the god's lackey. He can't make the weather favorable for crops like the other priests, so no one trusts him either. One day, while Xiao Ji is taking a bath, someone falls into his bathhouse. Xiao Ji: "Are you the wife the gods sent me?" Qiu Ju is about to deny it, but Xiao Ji says, "That damned god finally granted me one wish. Otherwise, I'd have gone up to heaven and killed him myself." Qiu Ju: "..." I'll just put up with this for one day. One day after another passes. A day on earth is nothing like a day in heaven. Qiu Ju, who has never lifted a finger in his life, thinks: In a year, I'll have had a kid. What would the Heavenly Court even want me back for? To be a single dad? Seeking support for the upcoming novel The Unfeeling Immortal Venerable Helps Me Hatch Little Turtles Upcoming novel blurb: Jia You transmigrates into a book as Gui Jiayou, a lazy tortoise who has cultivated for ten thousand years. In the original novel, he was a foil to the original protagonist's love interest: stupid and greedy, he foolishly hoped to bear children for the unfeeling immortal venerable and make him fall in love. Of course, he eventually dies at the immortal venerable's hands, but he also helps the venerable realize that he loves the original protagonist's love interest. A textbook cannon-fodder character. When he arrives, the original character has just drugged the immortal venerable. His tortoise legs can't get moving properly, and he runs too slowly, so he's forced to spend three days and three nights with the immortal venerable. Once the poison has worn off, he runs away at the fastest speed his tortoise life can manage, all through the night to save his life. Somehow, he actually gets away. Who would have guessed that a month later, he would lay five tortoise eggs in his own cave! Everyone in the cultivation world knows that the unfeeling immortal venerable has hit a bottleneck in his cultivation and become much more violent. People urge him to descend to the mortal realm and experience life, to see all the love and romance of the human world. Perhaps it will help him advance in his cultivation. The immortal venerable descends to the mortal realm and comes back with a tortoise and five eggs, then starts helping the little tortoise incubate them. But when the little tortoises hatch, three of them have faces that look exactly like the immortal venerable's! Once the little tortoises can transform into human form, they look even more like him! Ha ha, it's not like they could be the immortal venerable's kids. Impossible, impossible. He's on the verge of ascending with his unfeeling cultivation. From the day the immortal venerable brings him home, Gui Jiayou wants to escape. This time, he spends an entire day dragging the little bundle of eggs along in his mouth. He barely makes it out of the immortal venerable's bedroom before being picked up and carried back. By the time the whole cultivation world is saying the newly hatched tortoises look like the immortal venerable, Gui Jiayou is trembling in his shell. Immortal Venerable: "Explain yourself." Gui Jiayou ignores the blazing sun outside: Tortoises are hibernating! Immortal Venerable: "I recall being poisoned once, three years ago." Gui Jiayou's shell trembles: Tortoises really are hibernating! The immortal venerable pushes the five little tortoises toward him. "I've had an epiphany. You can have your tortoises back. Raise them yourself." Gui Jiayou: I'm so slow. By the time I bring food back, they'll be mummies! He pokes his little head out and cautiously asks, "So... we have five children?" Theme: Do your job well, fulfill your duties, and take responsibility for your role.