Master, My Ruthless Dao Heart Has Crumbled Again

[Young Tyrant Disciple Top x Cold, Beautiful Master Bottom]

1.

In his previous life, Jian Fanzhi had been cultivating the Heartless Dao in peace.

Who could have known he would get caught up in the karmic entanglements surrounding his master, Gong Guan? A villain skinned him alive and tore out his tendons, leaving him blind, crippled, and utterly useless.

Out of guilt, Gong Guan pressed his cool lips to his disciple’s and lied, “Only by doing this with your master can your wounds be healed.”

Jian Fanzhi didn’t understand, but he nodded and accepted it. He thought, I’m Master’s only disciple, so I ought to be the one he loves and marries.

That was, until he caught his master treating someone else the same way.

2.

After being reborn, he hid his feelings and resumed cultivating the Heartless Dao, yet he could never forget the warmth of his master’s lips.

Gong Guan’s words, “I don’t need you to cut out your heart to prove your love,” left Jian Fanzhi with no way out.

For your sake, I bore every karmic debt, overcame every calamity, and defied the Heavenly Dao.

And now, with one careless sentence, you think you can spend your life with another man, just the two of you?

“Master, you can’t.”

In the end, he still turned his master into this. Gong Guan clutched the corner of his robe, never imagining that the obedient disciple he had raised with his own hands would one day pin him to the bed… and refuse to see reason.

Now, you can only look at me.

[Bonus Scene]

As snow fell thickly, Gong Guan gazed quietly at Jian Fanzhi.

“Because of me, you’ve spent so many years living in hell.”

He didn’t know that, to Jian Fanzhi, anywhere his master was felt like heaven.

[Reader’s Guide]

1. One-on-one, sexually exclusive.

2. Includes a “pseudo” replacement trope.

3. Some coercive romance. Readers who are extremely possessive about their preferred dynamics should steer clear. The top loves only the bottom and will do anything for him, with a slightly obsessive, devoted-dog streak.

Disclaimer: Love on the Heartless Dao is an elaborate unreliable-narrator trick.

Theme: Even when trapped in despair and stripped of everything, we still have the courage to start over.