After Failing to Ascend, I Save the World Through Farming

Lin Luxi is a wood-spirit-root genius with the best chance of ascending to immortality in a thousand years, but the Heavenly Dao strikes him down and sends him to a modern-day Earth devastated by an alien invasion and ecological collapse.

The world he sees is covered in yellow dust. No green plants can grow in the bleak, barren land, and humanity struggles just to stay above the poverty line. The people who once ruled the entire planet have dwindled to one in ten. He, too, has been struck into a frail boy with the same name and surname, afflicted with a genetic disease and sent to the wasteland to grow crops, where they can squeeze out the last bit of value from him.

To keep cultivating in this world, Lin Luxi makes two plans:

1. Get along with the people around him and act like a harmless, ordinary "mortal."

2. Work hard at farming, gather spiritual energy, and ascend as soon as possible.

To carry out his plans, Lin Luxi uses his innate ability to sense plants and starts growing rice, pumpkins, tomatoes, watermelons, and more with his own hands.

At first, the villagers watch him grow crops without regard for the cost and say:

"First, we have to meet our rice quota. It takes a lot of effort just to keep the rice from mutating, so you can't grow so many vegetables all at once and expect them to ripen."

"Pumpkin leaves are as thick as cardboard now, so they aren't edible. Don't waste your time. Focus on the pumpkins instead. You might still harvest a few little ones."

"The United Nations has already given up on using high-quality farmland for watermelons. Planting them is hopeless, and only wastes humanity's food and resources!"

Later, when they see the crops growing in beautiful successive harvests, with amazing yields and fresh, healthy looks, the villagers go wild!

"How did you grow your pumpkins? They're bigger and more plentiful than they were before the counterattack!"

"You can just plant the tomato seedlings you gave me, and they'll grow normally without any special care. What did you do?"

News of the boy's high-yield crops spreads far and wide. Everyone believes the Agricultural Research Institute will take a keen interest in him.

But before anyone from the institute arrives, news that a group of genetic-disease patients in China have recovered spreads across the planet like a thunderclap!

Meanwhile, the madman next door, who had been tormented by genetic disease, suddenly gets better and eagerly competes to help Lin Luxi with his work.

Gradually, all kinds of important people who usually appear only in the news start turning up in the impoverished village: the country's highly respected chief scientist, a medical researcher who has devoted his life to overcoming genetic disease, and even the nation's leader, making a discreet appearance...

Just as the villagers grow uneasy, the United Nations starts distributing seeds that can grow normally despite radiation and are said to alleviate genetic disease.

People around the world erupt: "Did the United Nations leader get possessed by an alien? People can get better just by eating, without seeing a doctor?"

Later, after the truth comes out, people are left red-faced and teary-eyed with excitement. "We were so ignorant! We were so ignorant about the experts' work!"

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Ji Fanlin, the youngest major general in the United Nations, is exposed to radiation and develops a severe genetic disease while fighting an alien warship.

One day, he receives a secret mission: pretend to be an ordinary person who has lost his memory because of genetic disease and move into the home of a mysterious boy.

The boy is pale and frail, spending every day out in the fields. He shares his meals and his bed with the major general.

Every day, the major general thinks about how to uncover the boy's secrets.

Gradually, he discovers that more than learning the boy's secrets, he wants to know how to make the boy look at no one but him.

#A post-apocalyptic farming story against a backdrop of genetic disease and food shortages#

#The setting isn't too different from life today. The story is mainly about the protagonist rising to the top through farming#

The author's other ongoing novel is also available.

After They Begged Me to Live, I Stopped Treatment

After being diagnosed with malignant lymphoma, Chen Fuzhi feels little emotion.

The doctor reassures him that, although the disease is at stage three, there is still a chance of recovery with treatment.

Chen Fuzhi calmly accepts reality, thanks the doctor for his kindness, then turns around and tosses the diagnosis into the trash.

He doesn't want treatment. Maybe he lived such a hard life because of debts from his previous life. He wants to spend the six months he has left living for himself.

He's an orphan. He has biological parents, but both treat him like dirt.

His biological father is a wandering painter who spends his life in pursuit of himself, with his eyes on beautiful landscapes and exotic customs. He abandoned Chen Fuzhi when he was four and never contacted him again.

His mother was a young woman who bravely chased after love, unwilling to be trapped in a life whose end she could already see. She left him with his maternal grandparents and ran away from home.

Later, she married a famous rich man in a very public ceremony and constantly told everyone how happy her family was and how much her husband loved her. She had only one child during her marriage, and she treated Chen Fuzhi as a stain on her life, doing everything she could to hide his existence.

When she saw him again, she looked at him like an enemy and threatened him not to come looking for her again and ruin her happiness.

The dear friend he considered his salvation also died unexpectedly at a pivotal moment in their lives, leaving behind a younger brother who had only him.

Chen Fuzhi took up his friend's burden and raised the boy. But the ungrateful pup came to hate him, pinning him to the bed and violating him brutally: "You asked for this by being such a slut. You were nice to me because you wanted me to do this to you, weren't you? You deserve it!"

Nobody in this world loves him.

Chen Fuzhi is sick, not only with physical pain but with mental anguish as well.

But the people who ignored and hurt him regret it when they learn that his life is about to end!

Selfish biological father: "Dad knows it's too late now, and nothing I say can change that, but I'm still begging you. Don't give up on yourself. Once you're better, you can punish me however you want."

Cold-blooded biological mother: "I only just realized that everything I've spent my life pursuing was wrong. Mom really regrets it. I'm begging you, please get better. I'll publicly admit everything I've done wrong online, and I'll do everything I can to help your career. Just forgive me, and please don't punish me with your life."

Treacherous scum top: "Fuzhi, I really do love you. I was young and stupid before, and you have to let me make mistakes! Think of your brother. He definitely wouldn't want to see you treating yourself this way. Once you're better, let's get married overseas..."

Chen Fuzhi looks at their faces, full of remorse, and coldly pulls their hands away. "It's too late..."

Later, Chen Fuzhi meets someone gentle and powerful, someone with beautiful hands that use a scalpel to cut open the skin of the dead, again and again.

Chen Fuzhi runs his fingers over the person's fingertips, unable to let go. "After I die, could you be the one to cut open my body with your own hands?"

The person looks at him tenderly, then firmly pulls him back into the sunlight with warm hands. "I won't let that happen."

Reader's Guide:

1. The bottom's state of mind in this story is unhealthy. Don't imitate it.

2. The story switches tops. Everyone alive in the blurb ends up dead.

3. The top appears late and is completely devoted to saving the bottom.

4. If anything makes you uncomfortable while reading, stop in time!

Theme: Even when trapped in hardship, keep striving to change your fate