My Yandere Master Keeps Me Locked Up

One rainy evening, she found a baby in a mass grave.

The child grabbed her finger and wouldn't let go.

She took the baby with her, without trying to justify what she'd done.

Su Yuan has a shoddy five-element mixed spiritual root. She's widely regarded as a useless cultivator: slow to cultivate, weak, and at the bottom of her peers. Sweet and kind, she's afraid of dying and prefers to laze around. As a child, she thought the world of her master. When she grew up and sensed something was off, she began keeping her distance.

It's not that she doesn't like him. She knows...

The way those eyes look at her has never been the way a master looks at a disciple.

On the day she came of age after reaching Foundation Establishment, Su Yuan thought things would gradually get better.

She didn't know it was the beginning of something else.

The array securing her cave abode was fitted with a new lock, and only one person could open it.

The jade pendant at her neck was carved with dragon patterns she couldn't understand. It rested against her skin, warm to the touch.

One by one, the people who got close to her inexplicably vanished from her life.

And the man who kept her trapped was always gentle in tone, always calm in expression, and always waiting ahead of her on the path to escape.

“Yuan'er, it's time to come home.”

She fled, was caught, grew angry, cried, and begged.

The slender white dragon-crystal chain around her wrist wouldn't budge. Its other end looped around Li Yuan's wrist, held casually, as if he were leading something along