A Master Cannot Become a Wife

[One-on-One, Moon-Hating Romance, Female Master and Male Disciple]

[Burdened with the World, Beautiful and Tragic x Love-Brained, With Eyes for One Person Only]

In her previous life, Zhong Xuanshuo returned from his travels with his newlywed wife and brought her to the immortal sect to pay respects to his master.

When he turned around, he saw his beloved wife lying dead at her feet, her heart clutched in her hand, blood pooling all around her.

From then on, his life held nothing but hatred. He tried to assassinate her time and again, but failed every time, until at last he died on the path of revenge.

When he awoke again, he found he had been reborn to the time before he took a master.

The first thing he did was refuse, in front of the entire sect at the initiation ceremony, to take Bai Jin as his master. In the eyes of the world, Bai Jin was a peerless cultivator, a leading figure of the immortal sect who carried the world in her heart.

He swore he would grow stronger and expose the true face of this self-righteous murderer who had killed his beloved wife!

When their paths crossed again, he discovered that Bai Jin had taken a disciple.

He thought, Could this person be doomed to repeat my fate, losing his beloved wife to murder and dying himself?

He could never let that happen.

So he watched their every move closely, only to discover that...

Bai Jin treated this disciple with a devotion that could make her risk her life.

To save him, she was willing to ruin her path of cultivation by interfering in mortal politics.

To protect him, she would give up a piece of her soul without hesitation.

To help him recover, she even washed her hands and cooked for him every day!

He had thought he couldn't care less about such things, so at first he only sneered: How utterly hypocritical. Sooner or later, she'll show her true colors.

But later, he found he could no longer control the jealousy that drove him nearly mad.

Because no one knew, not even he himself remembered, that when he was young, he had once been infatuated with her, his master, with a love that had sunk deep into his bones...

He had once yearned for the bright moon hanging high above, and hated that it shone on everyone but him.

*

After Zhong Xuanshuo died in his previous life, Bai Jin, consumed by guilt, traded her life to turn back time and start everything over.

She watched him be reborn with hatred in his heart, watched him refuse to become her disciple in front of everyone and join someone else's school.

Believing she had atoned for killing his wife, she concealed the truth of her rebirth and resolved to use the little life she had left to fulfill her final wish in this world: to save someone she had failed to save in her previous life.

But why, in the course of all this, was the disciple who hated her to the bone beginning to lose control more and more often?

*

When he had just been reborn, Zhong Xuanshuo said, "Bai Jin, I will kill her!"

When they met again: "She's changed. She's not the same cruel, cold-blooded person from my previous life. I can't kill her."

After confirming she really was the Bai Jin from his previous life, he gripped her throat and threatened her: "Once this crisis facing the sect is over, I'll kill you with my own hands!" So why couldn't he bring himself to do it? He didn't know either.

But there would be no later.

Bai Jin ultimately died in that crisis, and because he still hated her, he did nothing. He could only watch as the disciple she had taken in this life carried her away.

Numbly, he stared at the spot where she had last disappeared until his eyes burned and his tears ran dry.

Bai Jin was dead. He had finally avenged himself, so why wasn't there even the slightest trace of happiness in his heart?

He went mad by day and sought death by night, until one day...

The wife he had searched for everywhere since being reborn suddenly turned up.

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Reader's Guide:

1. A tragic, messy romance full of angst. The heroine is the hero's wife from his previous life, but neither of them knows it.

2. Both leads are reborn. In their previous life, the heroine felt only the bond between master and disciple, while the hero was extremely, extremely love-brained.

3. The main characters each have at least two secret identities. The heroine's true form is the strongest.

Next novel: "A Xi," a chaotic, angsty ensemble with a slight everyone-loves-the-heroine vibe. Click the announcement to go straight there

[Expected to start in November]

[Resilient Girl x Mad Ghost]

After the old woman who had taken her in died, A Xi was driven out by the neighbors. She swallowed all her grievances and tears. Hearing that the Western Realm prospered through alchemy and paid exceptionally well, she set off for it, working along the way to earn money.

Though she was an orphan, she believed she could make her own way in the world.

Months later, A Xi arrived in the Western Realm. After night fell, she went looking for somewhere to sleep and slipped into a garden under cover of darkness.

Through the swaying tree shadows, a faint glimmer of firelight flickered. A Xi looked toward it and saw a pale face, stunningly lovely as a peach blossom.

A young man emanating a chilling aura of ghosts was staring at her.

*

Xi Chuan, ruler of the Western Realm, defied the Sacred Way and showed no reverence for the sages. He led the three provinces of the Western Realm to declare independence, standing in opposition to the Sacred Way that ruled the world. It was said he was volatile and merciless, and that his harsh rule had made the laws of the three provinces rigid and drained them of all human feeling.

When Xi Chuan discovered the girl who had trespassed into his garden, he assumed she was a spy for the Sacred Way. To test her, he kept A Xi at his side, pretending to trust her while secretly watching her every move, waiting to see when she would betray him.

But time and again, when she was at her most desperate, the girl clasped his hand and said she would never leave.

At last, the ice around his heart melted, and he believed her.

He thought she was a precious gift from heaven, the only salvation in his dark life.

But just as he decided to confess his feelings, he learned who she really was.

It turned out she was no orphan. She was the current leader of the Sacred Way, and the fiancee of his younger brother, born of the same mother.

That aloof sage, untouched by the world, had taken his mother from him. The radiant Sacred Way had killed his father and lured away his closest friend. And now they wanted to take his wife, too?

For the first time, he felt that fate was unjust.

Whoever she was, whoever she loved, whatever her reason for approaching him... he would never let go. Even if he became a ghost, he would haunt her for all eternity.

Reader's Guide:

* Xi Chuan (chuan)

* A Xi has a full name, which she uses after her background is revealed.

* A slight everyone-loves-the-heroine vibe, with many unrequited crushes on her. Expect messy elements such as [Older Brother Steals Younger Brother's Wife] [Rivalry Between Men] [Disciple Oversteps Their Place] [Pseudo-Girls' Love Tension] [Multiple Secret Identities].

Theme: Through every hardship, never forget your original purpose