My Disciple Looks at Me Strangely

Blurb: Ever since Qu Yunzhu transmigrated to the cultivation world, her life had been smooth sailing, right up until the day she took on a disciple named Zong Zhengqing... Zong Zhengqing couldn't understand it. He had clearly died, so how had he come back to life, and why was he a child again? At this point, he had just been captured by a rogue cultivator. He hadn't yet escaped, joined that tiny sect where he was bullied, or stumbled into a demonic cultivator's cave, gained an inheritance, and embarked on a path with no way back. He still remembered that not long after he escaped the rogue cultivator's lair in his previous life, disciples from a major sect arrived and rescued the children who had been captured with him. More than once in his previous life, he had wondered: If he hadn't run away back then, would his fate have been different? This time, Zong Zhengqing didn't run. He waited and waited, and sure enough, disciples of Guidao Sect rescued him. Not only did he enter the sect's outer court, he also made it in time for its once-every-fifty-years outer disciple tournament. He cleared round after round and made it to the finals, then even snatched a seal from the tournament's secret-realm competition, earning himself a new master. It was huge and dazzling. His new master had to be a powerful cultivator with money to burn. When he came out of the secret realm, Zong Zhengqing could barely contain his excitement as he took out the enormous, glittering seal. But when he looked up expectantly at the young female cultivator who reluctantly stepped forward, he froze as if struck by lightning... How could it be her? How could it possibly be this good-for-nothing? Zong Zhengqing stared in disbelief. He didn't pay much attention to the cultivation world's spoiled heirs, but even he had heard of this woman's reputation. She was lazy and stingy, and, despite being over a thousand years old, was still stuck in the late Golden Core stage. She couldn't hold a candle to her father. Every time she advanced, she only started working hard when the age limit was nearly upon her, then went right back to eating, drinking, and having fun. She was a rare oddity in the cultivation world. Zong Zhengqing met the woman's look of disdain and nearly choked on his frustration. How dare she look down on him? The first half of her life, she relied on her parents. The second half, on her husband. If you ask why, she's just lazy. Theme: A pampered darling and a scheming black lotus.