[A master who has lost all cultivation and pretends to be fine x A Miao girl who plays the pig to eat the tiger]
Huo Yunliu was the foremost sword cultivator of Guiyun Sect. Handsome and refined, aloof and otherworldly, he was a beacon of righteousness in the eyes of the world.
Who knew something would go wrong during his seclusion, leaving him without a shred of cultivation overnight? The disciple selection ceremony was fast approaching, and the matter could not be made public. To complete his task, Huo Yunliu decided to take on an obedient disciple as a shield. He reasoned: As long as the disciple is useless enough, no one will notice that her master is even more useless.
At the selection ceremony, Feng Qi, chosen by Huo Yunliu as his personal disciple, felt her heart sink. This is bad!
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Feng Qi forced a smile. "My spiritual roots are terrible. I'm not suited to sword cultivation."
Huo Yunliu: "I choose disciples by fate, not talent."
Feng Qi stared at him in disbelief. What fate? This is clearly an ill-fated connection!
Feng Qi was actually Feng Qi, a guardian of the Five Immortals Sect in the Western Regions. She practiced both medicine and poison, and her mastery of Gu techniques had reached perfection. She had infiltrated Guiyun Sect to find an old acquaintance who carried her life-bound Gu. Feng Qi thought: As long as she acted weak enough, she could take care of things without anyone noticing.
Once they returned, Huo Yunliu tossed her a wooden sword. "Figure out sword intent for yourself first."
Feng Qi made a show of practicing a few moves. "This disciple understands!"
Huo Yunliu sat in tranquil meditation and secretly cultivated; Feng Qi stirred up trouble and quietly refined poisons.
A Gu worm boldly crawled across his shoe. Huo Yunliu flicked it away with his scabbard and expressionlessly sent it back where it came from.
One night, he coughed up blood and fainted. Feng Qi quietly appeared in his cave residence, lifted his chin, studied him with a smile for a moment, then popped one of her sect's secret pills into his mouth.
While Huo Yunliu was unable to move, she hooked a finger beneath his robes, peeling them away layer by layer...
Fully conscious, Huo Yunliu felt the tips of his ears quietly turn bright red.
Feng Qi looked him over from every angle. This probably wasn't the person she was looking for. She straightened his robes, then turned and ran.
Huo Yunliu: ?
After that, her master's gaze grew more and more strange.
Thinking he had seen through her, Feng Qi mixed a muscle-relaxing powder into a pear blossom cake and offered it to him.
Sui Cheng thought...
The next day, Huo Yunliu stood in front of her, full of energy.
"Qi Qi, watch closely. I'll teach you this sword form just once."
He slowly went through the entire sword form, his white robes fluttering and his sword intent awe-inspiring.
Feng Qi: ?
She mixed an even stronger drug into an osmanthus cake and confidently brought it to her master.
Sui Cheng thought...
Before dawn, Huo Yunliu was already urging her out of bed.
"Qi Qi, your master is taking you into the secret realm today."
A single blast of sword energy shaved half a mountain flat inside the secret realm.
Feng Qi: ...Impossible! Her poisons never fail!
Every day, she racked her brains to "poison" him, exhausted herself, and even ran out of pills.
Who knew her master would actually break through!
Damn it! The people of the Central Plains play dirty. She's going back to the Western Regions!
Feng Qi packed up and tried to run in the middle of the night, only to have her way blocked by a white figure standing with his hands behind his back.
"Qi Qi, where are you going? What about the cakes you were supposed to make for your master today?"
#Master~~ time to take your medicine
#My master is the one who forced me to betray my teacher
#A disciple who gets more "kidney deficient" the more she practices vs. a master who gets more energetic the more poison he takes
[Reading Guide]
1. Old-school master-disciple trope, light and sweet story, one-on-one, both devoted only to each other, happy ending
2. Redemption, healing, a journey toward each other
3. Both are strong, not a female-lead-power-fantasy story
4. Poison is also medicine
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Theme: Accepting the gifts life has to offer
