Being a Master Is a High-Risk Profession

Being a master is a high-risk occupation. One wrong word and your disciple might pin you down.

To clear masters' names, Mo Linlang, who died unexpectedly, was bound to the "Disciple-Raising System." He can only return to the real world after raising a good disciple who is upright, wholesome, and has no desire to pin his master down.

So Mo Linlang works hard to take on disciples, but fails every time.

With his first disciple, Mo Linlang follows the principle that a strict teacher produces outstanding students, keeping him on a rigid path. Who knew that after being repressed for so long, the kid would fall straight into demonic cultivation?

Wen Chengyan's dark eyes turn cold as he looks at him. "You were born with an alluring physique, Master. Why cling so stubbornly to those rules? You suit your current appearance much better."

Mo Linlang: ...

With his second disciple, Mo Linlang switches to a carefree, hands-off style of teaching, giving the disciple whatever he wants. The kid turns out well, except... he's set his sights on his own master?

Mu Chengshu's eyes are bloodshot as he tells him, "This disciple has no other wish. If I could cultivate with you, Master, I'd willingly accept three thousand precepts!"

Mo Linlang: ...

After failing twice in a row, Mo Linlang learns his lesson and carefully picks a little beggar who's blind, so he can't possibly give anyone a cold look or get bloodshot eyes. On a rainy day, Mo Linlang holds an umbrella over him. "Be good. Call me Master, and I'll take you home and raise you. How does that sound?"

Hearing the gentle voice and familiar tone, the little beggar grits his teeth and clutches the hand holding the umbrella over him.

Later, after discovering that all three disciples he took in were the same person, Mo Linlang, thoroughly exposed in every way, lies peacefully on his disciple's luxurious bed.

Mo Linlang: "Actually, this world is pretty nice. Look, even my little shackles are made of real gold!"

System: ...

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Everyone knows that the supreme ruler of both the immortal and demon realms has someone irreplaceable in their heart.

Demon Lord Wen Chengyan willingly had himself imprisoned beneath the Evil-Suppressing Pagoda for the white moonlight in his heart. Immortal Lord Mu Chengshu, meanwhile, defied convention for the cinnabar mole on his chest. It's truly heartbreaking.

Mo Linlang, who sacrificed all his cultivation for the Demon Lord and then scattered into nothing for the Immortal Lord: "Thanks for asking. I just made the same mistake every master has made."

Important notes and content warnings:

1. A terrifying menace to children, an expert at exposing his master's secret identities, loyal-dog top x secretly accomplished and never short on secret identities, laid-back bottom.

2. Bottom's perspective, age-gap master-disciple story, both top and bottom have multiple secret identities. A colorful mix of sweetness and melodrama: the main storyline is candy-colored, and the bottom is laid-back and spoils the top, but the memories associated with the top's two previous identities are heartbreakingly tragic.

3. The top has an eye condition but isn't blind. It will improve soon after the bottom takes him in.

4. This is a very clichéd younger-top master-disciple story, but this frog really loves it! I'll do my best to make it less clichéd (bowing in advance, )

Premise: You reap threefold what you sow