The Tsundere Junior Brother Will Never Be a Dog

I've been stuck while writing, so I'm reworking the plot. Updates will be sporadic. (Falling to my knees in surrender)

A clueless, money-loving senior sister x a proud, sharp-tongued junior brother who lives to study

Mu Xi is the good-for-nothing senior sister mocked by the entire sect.

While her fellow disciples draw on the righteous energy of heaven and earth to practice swordsmanship, she handles the whole process of weeding, digging, and planting in the back hills.

While her junior brothers and sisters go down the mountain to train and slay demons, she crouches nearby and takes advantage of the chaos to dig thousand-year-old mushrooms off a tree spirit.

Even the new junior brother, who has only been in the sect for six months, has surpassed her in cultivation.

Mu Xi doesn't panic: rare treasures are just gold and silver in disguise.

Her opposite is the exceptionally gifted junior brother Yan Zichu, a sword prodigy who became the foremost swordsman at a very young age.

Mu Xi's biggest connection to Yan Zichu is that whenever everyone praises him as a "born genius" and "peerless in swordsmanship," they single her out as a cautionary example.

But that's fine. She loves being a plain, honest farmer (who loves money).

In Mu Xi's eyes, Yan Zichu is arrogant and showy, picky and fastidious, and has no redeeming qualities besides his stunning, androgynous beauty.

Most importantly, something seems to have gone wrong in this junior brother's head. After class, he always takes a detour past her experimental field and looks up with a cold snort.

He keeps this up for three whole years.

Only later does she realize...

Her junior brother wasn't trying to pick a fight.

He was showing off his plumage.

Trying to win her over.

A little spoiler in advance: Though it may seem like the male lead is nowhere to be seen at first, he's actually right under your nose, even if he seems far away. It shouldn't be hard to guess who the male lead is, right? If you really can't figure it out... (sighs at the sky) then all I can do is cry...

Theme: Say it out loud if you love someone