[Money-grubbing, unhinged beauty x gentle high-and-mighty one driven to madness]
Training the dog and being trained | Forced submission | Hopeless romantic | Househusband | Incubus
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On the winter solstice, Sang Yu, an unaffiliated disciple of the Hehuan Sect, was so poor she froze to death.
Reborn, she learns from the Incubus System that she's the true daughter the Xianyang Sword Sect has been searching for.
As the foil in a cliched, sugary romance, she's supposed to envy the false heiress for being loved, disguise herself as the girl, and use a Wushan dream to frame, humiliate, bully, and toy with her aloof master, hoping to ruin his reputation.
But her master, who had repressed his feelings for years, is An Mu. Due to a misunderstanding, he's deeply in love with the false heiress...
To cover up the truth, he kills Sang Yu with a single sword strike.
After listening to the plot, Sang Yu smiles chillingly.
"If I'm going to die anyway, I might as well toy with that ugly thing who follows the heartless path."
The System brings up a reward: [One hundred taels of gold for an outstanding graduate of the Hehuan Sect].
Sang Yu tears off a short section of her outer robe, smooths her tattered clothes, and mutters as she accepts.
On the day she meets her target, Shen Lanan smiles down at her, his lashes half-lowered as he gently strokes her head, like a white-jade Bodhisattva pitying all living things.
She freezes for a moment, thinking only:
"I wonder what he'd look like when he cries..."
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Shen Lanan, the grandmaster of Youling Province, is modest and gentle. He cultivates the heartless path at the cost of his life and seals the demonic path with his life's cultivation. He's known as the Compassionate Bodhisattva.
A dream of Wushan, and they're entangled day after day.
The curtains fall. Blue orchid sleeves brush her face, and familiar silver bells ring clear and bright.
The wind tousles his black hair. His dark eyes glisten, yet he remains as gentle as the bright moon.
"Sang Yu, I know your pain. Don't come in. Turn back before it's too late."
On the day she reunites with her family, several murky energies swirl between her brows:
resentment, obsession, and fury.
Without someone to guide her toward goodness, her fall to demonic ways is imminent.
Shen Lanan's heart softens, and he makes an exception to take her as his final disciple.
He gently teaches her swordsmanship, passes on the spirit of the heartless path, and guides her toward goodness.
He meant to save her, but instead his own desire-demon took root, plunging him into hell.
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Sang Yu turns in her final project, and her identity as the heir to the Flower Demon is exposed, shocking the cultivation world and leaving everyone whispering.
Amid the scent of ink, Sang Yu faints after mistakenly humiliating the wrong person and being forced to fake her death.
She opens her eyes again.
In the dim dungeon, the gentle grandmaster she had humiliated countless times, who was supposed to be in the mortal realm tempering himself and severing his emotional attachments, has regained his memories.
His eyes are hazy. With his long, bony fingers, he gently lifts her chin. His crimson lips curve in a playful smile as he leisurely studies her, lets out a sigh, then restrains her and reaches lower.
"Sang Sang, I've searched for you for so long. Didn't you say we'd be entangled for all eternity?"
"So what if you're a demon? You've got me now. Do you still want to leave?"
#The number of heartless-path graduates in mourning is dropping sharply, and the Hehuan Sect says it has nothing to do with them#
#Hey!! Why is the grandmaster kissing that wicked woman from the Hehuan Sect in public?!#
#Can the gentle high-and-mighty one go crazy in private too?#
#What am I to you? Just entertainment, Grandmaster?#
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[Reader's Guide]
1. Single-couple romance, happy ending, lots of sweetness, with plenty of author's own settings.
2. A lovestruck grandmaster pursues her in this story.
3. The aloof one is brought down from his pedestal and becomes a gloomy big puppy later on. Lots of melodrama.
4. Focus on the romance. The heroine is genuinely unhinged and unpredictable, and may go berserk.
5. To be decided (haven't figured it out yet ^-^ hehe...)
Theme: A supporting character saves herself; even side characters have lives of their own.
A good description of the glutinous rice balls stuffed with black sesame seeds.