My Disciple Says He's Not a Green Tea Cannon Fodder

[The paywall has been removed. Updates will be occasional from now on.] Blurb: Ling Changhao, respected and esteemed Sect Master of the Nine Profound Sect, is handsome and highly skilled, but has terrible judgment. When he finally agrees to take a disciple, he chooses a green-tea pretty boy with no redeeming qualities besides his face. Sect Master Master: Powerful, stern, proper, and fiercely protective. Pretty-boy disciple: Weak, pitiful, beautiful, and a green tea. Everyone is frustrated by the pretty-boy disciple's lack of ambition and hates his green-tea ways. Then one day, the Sect Master falls. Without his master's protection, the pretty-boy disciple, who has nothing going for him besides his face and enemies everywhere, is sure to be surrounded by wolves and kicked while he's down... kicked... No one dares kick him!!! Everyone: What the hell! He's clearly a ferocious beast in human form! Sect Master, come back and get your beast under control! The master, now a little yellow chick being squished and kneaded by his wicked disciple: ... Blood Curse Masters use blood as a medium and bonds as their threads. Their curses are impossible to resist. As the last evil Blood Curse Master in the Spirit Realm, Wu Yue infiltrates the Nine Profound Sect to exact revenge and, along the way, complete the third stage of his blood refinement. He swallows his pride and becomes his enemy's disciple, all so he can trick the man into becoming his Dao companion, build an intimate bond with him, and then sacrifice him to the heavens with a blood curse to complete the refinement. His bad friend digs up various master-disciple dark-romance stories from a certain small world and uses them as reference, creating the character most likely to achieve his goal: a talented, beautiful, strong, tragic, universally adored protagonist who grows more powerful over time. Wu Yue sets off with the script in hand, full of confidence. Then, from the start, a twist of fate makes him the universally hated, green-tea pretty boy of the entire sect. Wu Yue: ... Wu Yue grits his teeth. Being hated by everyone is fine, as long as his master likes his type. So he uses every trick in the book to seduce his master. Just as he thinks the time is right and prepares to deliver a spectacular backstab to his esteemed master, another mishap occurs: His master suddenly falls and becomes the enemy of the entire cultivation world. His enemies swagger to his door, ready to take their anger out on him, an easy target. Easy target Wu Yue: ... I have a whole lot of things to say, but should I really say them? Wu Yue angrily reveals his secret identity, stomps a group of Earth Immortals underfoot, then furiously manhandles the bald little yellow chick in his arms. "I was this close to killing my nemesis with my own hands, and you trash beat me to it! So all my time undercover was for nothing!" Ling Changhao, who was just about to tell his disciple who he really was: the fake little yellow chick, the real Vermilion Bird Divine Lord: ... Question: What do you do when you suddenly realize your young disciple has a warped moral compass? Answer: He's your disciple, so you have to set him straight, even if you have to do it on your knees. What else are you going to do, kick him out of the sect? Warnings: 1. The bottom has a warped moral compass early on and is somewhat chuuni and tsundere. He gradually matures later. 2. The characters' values in the story do not represent the author's values. 3. The Blood Curse Masters and many other elements in the story are the author's own inventions. 4. The top spoils the bottom. A tsundere, terrible-actor, green-tea Blood Curse Master disciple bottom x a powerful, gentle, and morally upright Vermilion Bird master top Coming next: The Master's Style Is Too Unconventional Blurb The senior disciple has always treated being the Sword Sect's number-one senior disciple as his life's mission, striving for perfection and making sure no one can surpass him. The first thing he does every day is open the Sword Sect app forum and check whether he has the most support among the candidates for number-one senior disciple. However, being the senior disciple is a high-risk job. One self-important, overpowered junior brother after another keeps trying to push him aside and use him as a stepping stone. The senior disciple smiles proudly, revealing all his secret identities. His alchemy, formations, talismans, artifact crafting, cooking, music, chess, calligraphy, painting, and looks are all the best in the world. He makes them kneel obediently and call him Grandpa. One overpowered junior brother successfully uncovers the senior disciple's weakness. On the Sword Sect app forum, the post "The Sword Sect's Senior Disciple Is Supposed to Be a Swordsman, So Why Is His Swordsmanship Trash?" gets pinned and highlighted. The senior disciple's popularity plummets. And so the senior disciple shuts down. The server crashes, too. Everyone in the Sword Sect, from the elders to the chore disciples, nearly goes into cultivation deviation. That day, someone is shocked to see the stern, aloof, and majestic Sect Master, who looks like an immortal, gently coaxing his senior disciple at the door to his room: "Qingqing, no matter what happens, you'll always be perfect in my eyes. No one can compare to you." Each elder writes a 3,000-word essay praising the senior disciple. The true disciples lead the inner disciples in daily declarations of love and praise through megaphones, complimenting him from the tips of his hair to the soles of his shoes. The Sword Sect disciples cry out together with heartfelt sincerity: "Senior Brother, you're the most precious treasure of our Sword Sect! Please pull yourself together, don't break down!" A split-personality, tsundere, scheming green-tea senior disciple bottom x a stern, powerful master who dotes most on his eldest disciple Also known as: #Did Senior Brother Break Down Today?# #Senior Brother Broke the Plot# #Senior Brother Is Amazing, But He's a Ridiculous Green Tea# #Let's Discuss: How Many Secret Identities Does It Take to Maintain the Perfect Senior Brother Image?# #The Overpowered Junior Brother Is Impressive, But Senior Brother Has Too Many Secret Identities to Keep Up# P.S.: 1. This is a ridiculous, absurd story. Don't look for logic in it. It's already dead. 2. The pairing is with the master. Completed works: The Enemy's Beauty Trap Is Too Powerful [Quick Transmigration] My Wife Is an Evil Male Supporting Character I Returned from Another World and Somehow Became a Good-for-Nothing The Cannon Fodder Top Returned with His White Cat Wife Theme: Selflessness