I Don't Have to Be This Master's Disciple [Book Transmigration]

[August 16, 2020, TBD]

Everyone knows that Fairy Fuyao was once the foremost figure in the righteous path.

Her beauty captivated all, and her cultivation was peerless.

Sadly, for the sake of all living beings, she ultimately perished alongside Jiang Jiu, leader of the demonic cultivators, at Ten Thousand Demons Mountain, plunging together into the abyss.

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Afterward, her disciple, Perfected Chenghua, vowed to wait for her for the rest of his life, hoping only for his master to be reborn.

This forbidden love between master and disciple ought to have been despised, but Perfected Chenghua's devotion was so sincere and moving that people gradually began to sing its praises.

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Fairy Fuyao herself, Meng Fuyu, had just one thing to say about it:

"Meow, what an idiot!"

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After transmigrating into this tragic xianxia romance that was only half-written, Meng Fuyu dutifully played the male lead Gu Cheng's master, all according to the arrangements of her idiotic System.

She was terrified of meeting the same fate as in the original novel, where she bullied the male lead too much and was killed after the resentful good-for-nothing male lead rose to power.

But this male lead didn't need a reason to kill people. She'd tried so hard, yet he still ambushed her while she was facing off against a demon. Just like that, she was dead.

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Fortunately, the System had at least five cents' worth of conscience. Before disappearing after the mission failed, it gave Meng Fuyu a hand.

Rescued, Meng Fuyu had lost all her cultivation and couldn't return. She had no choice but to stare awkwardly at the demon who had also survived, at the bottom of Ten Thousand Demons Mountain.

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Meng Fuyu: O.O

Jiang Jiu: -_-

Meng Fuyu: O.o

Jiang Jiu: >_>

Meng Fuyu: ...QAQ

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Gu Cheng loved his master, ever since the day she brought him home.

But Gu Cheng also hated his master, hated that she didn't love him, from his previous life... to this one.

Gu Cheng thought that if his master didn't love him, then he would destroy her cultivation, break her pride, and make it impossible for her to escape or take flight, so she could only depend on him.

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Later, his master returned.

She brought a man with her.

And she also put the entire cultivation world in its place.

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"Master," Gu Cheng lay sprawled on the ground, badly wounded, yet his eyes were full of hope. "Kill me."

Even if he couldn't be with his master, he was still her only disciple, the only one in her life...

The woman turned her head slightly. "Gu Cheng, I don't think I've ever said this, but whether I take disciples or not doesn't really matter to me. But if the disciple I take is you..."

As she spoke, a fierce flash of sword light severed the bond between them.

"Then I needn't be your master anymore."

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"So, were you just bored and helping the poor, did you get possessed by a wronged ghost while walking at night, or are you blind and delusional and in need of treatment?"

Jiang Jiu's eyes were full of the "tender concern" one might show an idiot.

"...Don't ask. The answer is, I'm a good actress and I felt like it."

Meng Fuyu smiled sweetly, while inwardly pulverizing the long-dead, piece-of-junk System another eight hundred times.

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Meng Fuyu x Jiang Jiu

Fairy Fuyao x Abyssal Demon Lord

All bark and bite x lazy, arrogant, and every word hits a nerve

Snark machine x sharp-tongued king

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◎Reader's Guide

1. The main story begins when the male and female leads "perish together." The System is already gone.

2. Disciple Gu Cheng is a complete lunatic. The female lead has never had any positive feelings for him.

3. Logic is dead. This is not traditional xianxia, and the worldbuilding is wildly unconventional. There are heaps of foreshadowing, and the writing is rambling and long-winded. That's just how it is.

Theme: Love is not about possession and taking. It is about protecting and healing.