Have You Secured Your Master’s Favor Today?

Ling Xiaoxi was an obscure, registered disciple of Venerable Jing Shuang. His life had always been carefree, until the war between immortals and demons, when Venerable Jing Shuang died in battle. Everyone connected to him, including Ling Xiaoxi and the others, was inexplicably executed.

When Ling Xiaoxi awoke again, he had been reborn. It was the very day he had been beaten up by a gang of thugs, then rescued by the passing Venerable Jing Shuang and accepted as a registered disciple.

This time, Ling Xiaoxi was determined to become Venerable Jing Shuang's formally accepted final disciple! In his previous life, his master had died after falling into the Demon Abyss to save the world. This time, Ling Xiaoxi would stand proudly by his master's side and fight alongside him.

And so a final disciple appeared who stuck to Venerable Jing Shuang every day, waited on him hand and foot, brought him water to wash his feet, and even scrubbed him clean himself.

Later, Ling Xiaoxi noticed that everyone was looking at him differently!

The senior disciple looked at him with sympathy. "Xiaoxi, the cultivation world is different from the mortal world. You don't have to go that far."

The second senior brother was exasperated. "You have so much talent. Why throw it all away like this?"

The third senior sister's eyes sparkled. She kept pressing all sorts of storybooks from the mortal world into his hands, then pulled him aside for a whispered chat. "Our youngest is the one who gets it. A beauty on a lonely peak like Master... Just thinking about it gets me going."

At last, the sect leader came to speak with him in private. "Nephew-disciple, I shouldn't pry, but what exactly is going on between you and Junior Brother Jing Shuang?"

Ling Xiaoxi: ??? What do you mean, Master? What's gotten into everyone?

Venerable Jing Shuang: Nothing at all. They're just discussing what gifts to give me. Don't worry, Xier.

Little extra:

One day, Ling Xiaoxi walked into the bathhouse with his face bright red, his third senior sister's words still echoing in his head.

When Venerable Jing Shuang asked him what was wrong, Ling Xiaoxi answered before he could think.

"Senior Sister asked if you were big. I said I hadn't gotten a good look."

Jing Shuang fell silent. "Come in and bathe with me. Then you'll know."

(Blurb dated April 23, 2021; already posted on Weibo.)

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