How Did My Aloof Master Become Obsessed with Me?

The aloof master Shen Qingci wakes to find himself at the mercy of a mad, tyrannical demon lord. Bound in netherworld cold-iron chains and surrounded by a sea of blood-red spider lilies, his spiritual power sealed and bite marks still on his neck, he hears the other's bloodstained whisper echo in his ear: “Master, at last you belong only to me.” Shen Qingci is the aloof master revered by everyone in the Qingyun Sect. He once found the dying young Jinyuan in the snow, taught him swordsmanship, protected him as he grew, and treated him as his own. He never knew that Jinyuan had buried his feelings for his master deep in his bones, where they twisted into an obsession. Jinyuan goes mad and turns demonic, sealing his master's spiritual veins and life meridian, then imprisoning him in a cage. His love is deranged, yet he handles it with painstaking care. Shen Qingci resents his coercion, but unable to escape or break free, he can only glimpse the vulnerability hidden beneath his mad disciple's frenzy as he wavers between resistance and surrender: A humble plea from a child abandoned and raised in the Demon Abyss, terrified of being abandoned again. As the truth of the past is gradually revealed, the sword that severed the spiritual veins all those years ago is found to have concealed a desperate attempt to save a life, while years of obsession lie wrapped inside this forbidden love. From their forced struggle to...