Genius Kid, Despairing Villain

Ying Yunzhao transmigrated to the world of cultivation one day, and the System told her, “The villain in this world is planning to destroy it. You are now one of the mortal orphans adopted by the villain at the orphanage he established in the mortal realm. Your mission is to save the world and the villain...”

Ying Yunzhao replied confidently, “Leave it to me.”

Within a month, she wolfed down meal after meal and became unbeatable in the city. The orphanage’s steward assessed her aptitude and excitedly reported to the Sword Venerable of Beiyuan.

“Immortal Venerable, this girl possesses a pure cultivation physique rarely seen in this world! She advanced to the second stage of Qi Drawing without any instruction. However... she also smashed all the nearby buildings while fighting.”

Yan Mingxiao thought to himself, “Such talent, and her only flaw is a somewhat unruly temperament. Nothing too serious. If I take her as a disciple and train her, she could become one of my most trusted disciples.”

And so it proved. After he took Ying Yunzhao as his disciple, she established her foundation in a year and formed her core in three. Her aptitude and talent even surpassed his own from back when he was the Venerable of Beiyuan.

Amid the envious gazes of countless sect elders, Yan Mingxiao slowly closed his eyes and recalled everything Ying Yunzhao had done since joining the sect.

He asked her to look after the spirit insects. She raised the pests, roasted the spirit insects for snacks, and even brought some over for him to try.

He asked her to keep the puppets in line. She turned them into lunatics, and when they defected from the sect, they destroyed all his carefully laid plans on their way out.

Looking into his disciple’s clear eyes, his hand trembled as he pressed his temples. Only then did he realize that back when he had thought “trusted disciple,” he should have added the words “major liability.”

After much soul-searching, Yan Mingxiao finally decided to let Ying Yunzhao stay quietly in the sect.

Then Ying Yunzhao broke through his wards, drained the spiritual ley line from the formation he had painstakingly set up in the sect, and dug out the remaining scraps of spirit stone to present to him like a prized treasure.

That was the end of his reminiscing, because

“Master, Master, I’m so bored. Give me a mission!”

Looking at his genius disciple, who had casually broken through the wards he’d struggled to set up and now wandered in and out of his cave abode as if it were her own, Yan Mingxiao shut his eyes in despair. He didn’t dare keep them closed for too long, though, afraid that if he stopped watching her, she would take something else from his study.

“Yunzhao, stay right here where I can see you. Don’t take a single step away, and don’t do a single thing. All right?”

Later, the villain, driven to tinnitus by the constant noise, carried an air of faint, persistent despair.

“Master, Master...”

He slowly closed his eyes, then suddenly let go of the obsession he had clung to all these years.

Forget it. How could he hope to teach all living things when he couldn’t even teach his beloved disciple?

Yan Mingxiao gave a pained smile and spoke softly.

“Yunzhao, stop calling. I’m here.”

Reader's note: Before the heroine reaches adulthood, the male and female leads have a purely innocent master-disciple relationship, with a little playful sparring.

[Coming soon: After Raising a Porcelain Doll Villain, Adopting a Tentacle Pet in a World of Ghost Stories

Completed works by the author: My Junior Sister Doesn't Get It, My Dao Companion Ascended to Godhood as an Evil Deity, So She Tearfully Inherited the Sect, After Picking Up the Wrong Fallen Immortal Nonhuman Master, How Did She Become a God? Little angels are welcome to visit the author's page!]

[Coming soon: After Raising a Porcelain Doll Villain

After a car accident, Ji Xiahua woke up in the hospital and found that she was completely unharmed. But her grandmother, who should have died years ago, was sitting by her bed in tears.

The old woman held her hand tightly and kept reminding her,

“Xiaxia, promise Grandma you’ll take good care of Qingze. He’s good to you, so you have to treat him well too. Understand?”

Who was Qingze?

A ghost-story novel suddenly surfaced in Ji Xiahua’s mind.

Xuan Qingze, the most powerful villain in the story, was a porcelain doll puppet who could take on all the pain and injuries of his contract holder. But once the accumulated damage reached a certain limit, the contract holder would die suddenly, and the puppet would begin attacking people indiscriminately.

And she was the disposable supporting character who had been bound to Xuan Qingze since childhood. So unlucky that before she even remembered the villain existed, she died from a string of car accidents and overwork, causing him to lose control completely and wipe out the entire protagonist group.

Ji Xiahua: ...She thought there was still time to save the situation.

She searched high and low but couldn’t find the villain. Exhausted, she nearly fell asleep, but the more she slept, the colder she felt.

When she opened her eyes, a tall, straight figure dressed in white, with a white cloth draped over his head, was sitting by her bed.

Beneath his white clothes, the man’s hands were pale and smooth as porcelain. Streaks of vivid red wounds slowly spread across his skin, a shocking sight.

His icy fingertips slowly traced a bright red word into her palm.

“Pain.”

Ji Xiahua took his hand and asked with utmost sincerity,

“Bro, where does it hurt? Do you need me to kowtow to you and burn incense and paper money? If there’s anything I can do, you have to tell me.”

Xuan Qingze slowly took hold of her hand and firmly placed one corner of the white cloth covering his head into her palm.

Ji Xiahua: ?

She asked hesitantly, “Do you want me to lift... lift your veil?”

Xuan Qingze: ?

Later, when the protagonist group regained their memories, they stared at the docile villain behind Ji Xiahua as if they’d seen a ghost.

“Boss, what do you mean, you and Xuan Qingze are together? So the world is at peace now?”]

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