Plato? Don’t Make Your Brooding Disciple Laugh

[Two male leads + transmigrate into a book + reborn + System + younger love interest + both are each other’s only one + obsession + on-screen comments]

After Shen Qingci transmigrated into a book, he spent every day pondering one question: How could he convince his reborn, corrupted disciple that all he really wanted was to follow the plot and go home?

On the first day, he whipped Xie Wuwang thirty times, as the System instructed.

Xie Wuwang broke through to the Golden Core stage on the spot. With red-rimmed eyes, he said, “Master, you did well. I want you to hit me again.”

Shen Qingci: ?

On the tenth day, he pushed Xie Wuwang into the Abyss of Falling Demons, as the System instructed.

Eighty-one purification arrays lit up at the bottom of the abyss. Xie Wuwang grabbed him and jumped in with him, asking as they fell, “Master, are you giving me a great opportunity, or joining me in death?”

Shen Qingci: ??

On the thirtieth day, he publicly humiliated Xie Wuwang by calling him a “furnace cauldron,” as the System instructed.

That night, Xie Wuwang climbed in through the window and branded a life-bonding mark into both their souls. “If Master says I’m a furnace cauldron, then I’ll be Master’s alone.”

Shen Qingci: ???

“Xie Wuwang,” Shen Qingci finally cried in despair, “I’m not your salvation!”

The young man on his knees lifted his face, his eyes filled with obsession and madness accumulated over two lifetimes. “I know, Master.”

“But I only want you.”

“I want you in life, and in death.”

He had meant to follow the villainous script, but instead became the only sweetness his wicked disciple had known in either lifetime.