Lin Qianqian, a high school sophomore who stayed up late cramming for exams, opens her eyes to find she's become a good-for-nothing junior disciple sent up the mountain by a cultivation clan. Her spiritual roots are impure and her aptitude mediocre. Everyone says she'll never even get through the sect's introductory training. As luck would have it, the master who takes her in is the top sword cultivator in the cultivation world: aloof, chaste, and unyielding. He formed his Golden Core at three hundred and ascended to the Deity Transformation realm at five hundred. Hardly anyone in the entire Qingyun Sect dares breathe loudly in front of him.
Her master's rules are endless: get up at the third quarter of the Yin hour, keep your back straight while standing, focus while drawing in qi, and if you get your sword forms wrong, the ruler comes out. Lin Qianqian gets punished until she's squealing every day, but gradually she realizes that the kneeling mat beneath her knees is her master's heart-protecting armor, the blanket he puts over her when she falls asleep during evening lessons is made of thousand-year fire silkworm silk, and every cultivation manual in the library has annotations in his hand. He says, “A strict teacher makes good students,” but secretly spoils her rotten.
From awakening her Spirit Resonance Physique to making a name for herself in the sect's grand competition, from mutual respect between master and disciple to feelings quietly taking root. She wheedles and acts cute, and he indulges her with a stern face. She slacks off and causes trouble, and he punishes her before worrying over her. Everyone in the sect knows that Perfected Xuanxiao dotes on his little disciple like crazy. Only she foolishly thinks he treats everyone that way.
Until one day, someone says to their faces that there's something improper about their master-disciple relationship.
Her master shields her behind him and says, loud enough for everyone to hear, “She's mine. Who are you to pass judgment?”
A sweet, adorable girl × a cold-faced master. A modern girl transmigrates into the cultivation world, where she's spoiled and grows more powerful all along the way. Everyday life is so sweet it makes your teeth ache, and all the angst happens to other people.
It began as master and disciple, and ends with them growing old together.
