My Senior Brother Invited Me to Ascend, but I Want to Go to the Countryside to Help Farmers

[Complete] At seventeen, Qiao Hui went to the capital to sit the exam for a post as a female official in the Court of Agriculture. By chance, she came across the selection trials for the immortal sects and joined in for fun, just to give it a try. She passed the civil service exam and was accepted by the immortal sect. After weighing her options, she decided to study at the sect first. She had no interest in immortality or heavenly power. She only wanted to learn some magic, return to the mortal world to farm, cultivate better seeds, improve agricultural methods, and help her neighbors… While studying magic, she accidentally picked up her senior brother’s heart. She didn’t steal it, she picked it up! Somehow, she’d ended up with the sincere love of an aloof, high-and-mighty immortal! Her senior brother, born into a prestigious immortal clan: “Junior Sister, though you’re mortal, your talent is exceptional. I’ll support and guide you. We’ll ascend to godhood together, spend countless years together, and remain by each other’s sides for thousands, tens of thousands, billions of years…” Qiao Hui: “Huh? Ascend to godhood? Thousands of years? That’s like extending my studies by a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred million years! That’s way too long. My three-year term is up. I’m going home to take the civil service exam and continue working as a female official in the Court of Agriculture, studying farming.” Senior Brother: ? Her senior brother couldn’t believe it. “You’d rather be a mortal, live for only a few decades like a mayfly, and leave me alone in the endless passage of time?” She told him, “Senior Brother, you can marry a chicken and follow a chicken, marry a dog and follow a dog. You can come home with me.” Her senior brother scoffed. Her senior brother sneered. Her senior brother got so angry that he got angry for a moment. Then he deigned to lower himself, condescended to the mortal realm, and went farming with her for a few days. Watching her rush around in the mortal world, her senior brother said again, “Junior Sister, if you ascend to godhood with me, saving all living beings and delivering the people from suffering will be effortless…” This time, Qiao Hui wasn’t joking. She said solemnly, “Senior Brother, who decided that immortals get to look down on us from on high and keep talking about saving us? Instead of hoping some god or immortal will rescue the world, we mortals should rely on ourselves.” Seeing that she wouldn’t be swayed, her senior brother ground his teeth in secret frustration. With a cold face, he washed his hands and cooked with a cold face. Later, as the heavenly gate connecting the mortal and immortal realms began to fracture, she stood at the edge of the endless sea of clouds and looked back at her senior brother one last time. She had decided to return to the mortal world and stand with her fellow mortals. The setting sun was red as blood, shining over all the lands and kingdoms. Before she leapt through the heavenly gate, she saw a look on her senior brother’s handsome face she had never seen before: terror, sorrow, and anguish. He no longer resembled the serene, dignified immortal he usually was. [A genius farming-student junior sister x an aloof, privileged senior brother, BG, one-on-one romance.] The junior sister happily goes about her business in the fields, while her rich, beautiful, hollow senior brother throws himself at her, descends into madness, and drowns in a sea of bitter love. The aloof immortal turns into a lovesick ghost… A xianxia story with plenty of original worldbuilding. The immortal realm and the mortal world are parallel worlds with very similar landscapes, and there are no clear cultivation ranks in the story. There are three other upcoming stories on my author page. Feel free to check them out if you’re interested. Historical romance: “The Sinister Eunuch Pretends to Be a Young Scholar in Front of Her,” starring a fruit-tree expert heroine and the head of the Western Depot. Modern fantasy: “The Dream Lover System Has a Bug,” starring an ambitious news-industry workhorse heroine and a lonely young man in finance. Modern paranormal: “Spider’s Palace, 1994,” about a comic artist and her ghost husband, whom she took in as a child. [Please don’t bring up other novels or characters who don’t belong in this story in the comments. Thank you, dear readers.] Core theme: There has never been a savior, and we cannot rely on gods or emperors. Creating a happy life for humanity is up to us.