[Two Male Leads + One-on-One Romance + Save-Point Reloading + Cultivation + Pure Love]
The villain Bai Jueyi awakened too, and he did so before anything had happened.
He was still whole, not yet the villain who would be torn apart by five horses, and he hadn't lost his cultivation.
What's more, he awakened two Systems: a save-point System and a check-in System.
The good news: the Systems were powerful. The save-point System let him control time, while the check-in System could easily grant him divine artifacts.
The bad news: why did the check-in System require so much fuss... Wait, no, it needed his Master to help?
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Xie Zhehan had once been the sect's most brilliant talent. Then, while saving all living beings, he contracted a grave illness. His cultivation stopped progressing, his meridians ruptured, and he suffered unbearable pain. He had already prepared himself for death.
Until one day, a person showed up at the Xuantian Sect's disciple acceptance ceremony and, in front of everyone, demanded his Master's clothes, insisting that he take them off right there, while they still carried his scent...
Xie Zhehan was nearly too furious to speak. Then he realized time had turned back.
The person who'd just been brazen enough to lust after him was now standing properly and saying they admired him and wanted to become his disciple. When he refused, time turned back again. It was as if the other person planned to wear him down until he agreed.
Xie Zhehan: ...
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Bai Jueyi got his wish and became Xie Zhehan's disciple, then leisurely began his path to a comeback. It wasn't until one day that he realized his Master had remembered everything from before the save-point reload all along.
Xie Zhehan: “Disciple, you're the one who led me down this path, where I'm no longer much of a Master, and we're not quite Dao companions either. You have to take responsibility.”
Oh no. His Master was hooked.
