After Taking in Four Disciples and Making a Mess of Things

[Planning a rewrite, so I recommend waiting until it's finished before reading] Coming soon: Black Moonlight Is Caught in a Love Triangle Every Day. Please add it to your reading list! Synopsis: 1. Just as Lu Yunzhao's attempt to ascend failed, she learned that she had transmigrated into a web novel. The Heavenly Dao had lost the opportunity meant for its chosen son, and would only let her ascend if she took the male lead as her disciple. Well, Lu Yunzhao had to hand it to it. So that day, the aloof and noble Venerable Zhaoyue, whose beauty could topple kingdoms and who seemed untouched by worldly concerns, pointed at the Heavenly Dao with her hands on her hips and cursed, "You old geezer, let's both sit this one out. Whoever becomes a god can be a dog!" Lu Yunzhao was furious. She wanted to rebel and do whatever she pleased. She had never taken a disciple before, but now she decided to accept a whole crowd of them. She just wouldn't take the fluffy fox the Heavenly Dao had mentioned. That would show him! So the Heavenly Dao gave her only three years to live, claiming it was giving her time to reflect. Lu Yunzhao: Reflect? Not a chance. I can only take on a few more disciples within three years so they can inherit my luck. 2. At the entrance examination, before Lu Yunzhao had decided which candidates to take, an artifact that had been gathering dust in her pocket sucked her into a small world. Disguised under a secret identity, she joined the group of candidates taking the entrance exam. By a stroke of luck, she bound herself to a strategy System. Once someone's affection for her reached 100 percent, she could borrow their luck, escape the Heavenly Dao's control, and go home. But what she hadn't expected was that the first strategy script she received was the tailored version of a certain sect's demonic maiden romance game. Lu Yunzhao: ? After successfully borrowing the man's luck, Lu Yunzhao and the other disciples returned to the outside world. When asked whom she would choose, she said, "When it comes to taking disciples, looks and family background don't matter. What counts is talent and ability..." Then she pointed at the refined, handsome young man from a prestigious family and said, "I'll take the best-looking one." And so Jian Wushu, one of the people whose luck she had just won over, became Lu Yunzhao's first disciple. 3. But thanks to the Heavenly Dao's interference, Lu Yunzhao failed to escape. Not only that, she discovered that her secret identity was already on the verge of being exposed to her disciple. By then, she had bound herself to a second target: a spirited young man from the demon race. Looking at her first disciple, who was on the verge of turning dark, Lu Yunzhao declared with conviction, "Having you as my disciple is enough for me. Really!" In the blink of an eye, the young man from the demon race became her second disciple. "You're so well-behaved. Who else would Master take in?" Before long, she had provoked a flamboyant, wicked demon lord in the Demon Realm. "I'm really not taking anyone else. There's room in my heart for only you all." Later, a bewitching cultivator joined her sect. Help! All I wanted was to challenge the Heavenly Dao. How did I end up in a love triangle among my four disciples? # By rights, this was supposed to be a face-slapping comeback story at the beginning. How did I turn it into a tale of disciples vying for their master's favor? # I, Lu Yunzhao, absolutely, definitely, without a doubt, will not take on any more disciples. Famous last words. # You really have to stop fighting! # An unconventional romance strategy and love triangle. The male lead is split into four parts, which eventually reunite as one. HE. The strategy comes first, and discipleship comes later. For specific content warnings, see the author's note in Chapter One. Coming soon: Black Moonlight Is Caught in a Love Triangle Every Day To retire early, Jiang Ning took on four black moonlight missions at once, helping future powerhouses complete their trials. Mission 1: Help a Buddhist disciple who wishes to save all living beings and vows not to become a Buddha until hell is empty, understand the Great Way and free himself from worldly desires. Mission 2: Help a disabled young man with a tragic past and an innocent smile reforge his broken blade and be reborn from the ashes. Mission 3: Make a bloodthirsty, utterly unhinged Demon God give up killing for love and devote himself to one person. Mission 4: Help a frail God of War, as ethereal as an immortal and as pure as moonlight, return to the Immortal Alliance and take charge. With the soul of a dedicated wage earner, Jiang Ning moved among four great powerhouses in the same world: She cast sultry glances from the arms of the monk who never gave in to temptation. She took in the disabled boy and used every means at her disposal to provoke and humiliate him. After the Demon God had given her his whole heart, she told him it had all been just for fun. As the frail beauty healed her wounds, she stole his spiritual root and cultivation. The missions were a success. The four powerhouses matured and transformed, then came to her door in the middle of the night to kill her. Jiang Ning: "Don't bother. I'll jump on my own." With that, she drove a sharp sword through her chest and plunged into the endless abyss. Having completed her work and retired, Jiang Ning went to live out her days a hundred years later. Who would have thought that the cultivation world, which should have been peaceful and blessed, was now on the brink of collapse? The powerhouses she had won over had all gone astray. The Buddhist disciple had fallen into demonhood, the boy had become a lovesick obsessive, the Demon God had gone on a killing spree, and the frail God of War had mastered the merciless Great Way. They scoured heaven and earth for her, intent on killing her to prove their Way. Jiang Ning: New face, same problem. No big deal. Until one day... The Buddhist disciple, a demonic mark between his brows: "I only ever taught this cultivation method to her. How do you know it?" The lovesick boy, his smile still innocent: "I burned every last bit of this salve, Sis. Where did you get it?" The Demon God, a lunatic through and through: "This sword was made from one of my ribs. No one but her could get near it." The cold and heartless God of War: "Your eyes are exactly like those of someone I once knew." Jiang Ning: "Is that so? What a coincidence. Haha." The four powerhouses: "And what about them? Who are they?" Jiang Ning: "Maybe they're your long-lost siblings. Same father, different mothers?" # The heroine is a master of time management. The male lead is tentatively not split into parts. Theme: Happiness matters most. Take care to live mindfully and savor life.