A Cauldron’s Guide to Self-Rescue

How do you get revenge on someone?

Give them a brief glimmer of hope, then crush it.

Shang Yanci was on the verge of ascension when the Chao family framed him and locked him in a water prison, driving him nearly mad.

One day, the Chao family was wiped out, and their daughter, Chao Zhi, stumbled into the water prison as she fled. Shang Yanci narrowed his eyes at her disheveled appearance and said, “I’ll help you.”

He rescued Chao Zhi and fled with her, taking good care of her until…

The day they left the city, he abandoned her without her even realizing it.

Surrounded by wolves, Chao Zhi was powerless to resist. Just as despair overtook her, Shang Yanci returned to save her.

Chao Zhi sobbed in his arms, but Shang Yanci gripped her chin in disgust and said, “Get lost.”

His former tenderness had vanished, leaving only a dark, obsessive Shang Yanci.

He was about to begin a new round of revenge.

Chao Zhi knew he resented her, but she still had to beg him to spare her life.

“Perfected Xuanchen, the Chao family cut off your path to ascension. Let me make it right.”

Shang Yanci’s gaze flickered as he looked at Chao Zhi’s exposed pale skin. He gave a scornful laugh.

“I don’t need you to.”

To conceal the aura of a cultivation furnace, Chao Zhi still ended up entangled with him.

Shang Yanci returned to the Jingxu Sect, and Chao Zhi entered as his disciple.

By day, she cultivated alongside the other disciples and addressed Shang Yanci as her master.

At night, though they could barely stand the sight of each other, she and Shang Yanci shared a bed and cultivated together, replenishing one another’s energy.

One day, Shang Yanci began demanding kisses from her. He even forbade her from speaking to her fellow senior and junior disciples and made her report her daily itinerary to him...

Chao Zhi knew Shang Yanci had fallen in love with her.

Her chance for revenge had come.

“I love you,” she told Shang Yanci.

Shang Yanci was stunned. After all, Chao Zhi had always been so silent around him.

He sneered and leaned close, whispering in her ear, “You’re not worthy.”

In that instant, a crack appeared in Chao Zhi’s expression.

She didn’t know whether it was because her plan for revenge had fallen apart, or because of something else.

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Shang Yanci’s disciple, Yun Huizi of the Jingxu Sect, died.

After reaching the peak of her cultivation, Chao Zhi faked her death to escape Shang Yanci. She was going to avenge her family’s slaughter.

The path of revenge was treacherous. Chao Zhi faced danger time and again, and her identity was exposed.

Then Shang Yanci found her.

Her fellow disciples said the radiant and immaculate Perfected Xuanchen had worn himself down worrying over her and was on the verge of becoming a demon. They urged her to return with Shang Yanci for the sake of their former master-disciple bond.

Chao Zhi laughed. Radiant and immaculate? Shang Yanci?

Was it radiant and immaculate of him to abandon her, or to share a bed with his disciple?

Reader’s Guide

1. Both characters are mentally unstable. Their ideas about love are deeply twisted, and the things they do are unhinged. If the blurb is too much for you, read with caution: the story itself is even crazier.

2. They’re a pair of lovers bound by both sincerity and deceit. They do love each other, but that love is impure.

3. No misandry or misogyny. The story focuses on niche kinks, and both men and women get put through the wringer, with no limits on the content.

Theme: Get a good night’s sleep.