[A cool and reserved master + a younger, possessive disciple + mutual healing] Modern office worker Xie Qingshu unexpectedly transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation. She devotes herself to training, hoping only to return home as soon as possible.
By chance, she takes in a little disciple with a tragic past, only to learn that she is inside a novel called The Guide to Killing Your Master and Attaining the Dao, and that she is the wicked master who will be stabbed through the heart by her disciple.
To stay alive, she decides to raise him well and steer clear of the original plot at every turn. Once the boy can stand on his own, she’ll have done her job and can quietly take her leave.
But as her disciple grows up, the look in his eyes grows more and more unsettling. Before she can make sense of her feelings, the same dream keeps returning. In it, the boy stands in a gray-white void and speaks in a low voice:
“Master, you raised me for ten years. You can’t get away.”
She also gradually realizes that something is wrong with this world: memories are being changed at will, modern simplified characters appear unexpectedly on a stone stele, and a faint electronic hum sounds in her ears.
The fate of transmigrating into a book that she believed in seems to be nothing more than a false outer shell.
Beneath this flawed world lies an answer she never could have imagined.
