My Disciple Went Mad After I Faked My Death

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The last mission Tao Li had to complete before retiring from the Mission Management Bureau was to reform the deranged protagonist of a xianxia novel.

In the original story, the protagonist was cold-blooded, ruthless, and vicious.

When he was young, his entire clan was wiped out. He fled in disgrace, fell into darkness, and became the Demon Lord. To take revenge, he slaughtered all of the Nine Provinces.

Tao Li, who had been handed a script where she was supposed to wipe out the male lead's entire clan: ...?

In the end, she kept her secret identity under wraps and brought the battered little wolf cub back to her sect.

She bandaged his wounds, fed him pills, took him as her disciple, and taught him almost everything she knew.

Thanks to Tao Li's tireless efforts, the little wolf cub finally grew into the elegant young man she had hoped for.

If his master said east, he would never go west.

If his master said she wanted to touch his tail, he would immediately rub his fluffy, soft tail against her.

...He was unbelievably obedient.

Tao Li was very pleased. With the mission nearing its end, she picked the right moment and prepared to make her escape.

Then, during a demon-slaying mission, an unforeseen turn of events threw everything into chaos.

Without hesitation, Tao Li stepped in front of her disciple and let the beast's claws pierce her heart.

As she lay dying, she remembered to tell him, "Shanlan, after your master is gone, you must live well."

Her disciple had always been so obedient. Tao Li closed her eyes in peace, giving his fluffy tail one last ruffle.

But she was in such a hurry to log off that she missed the trembling hands that could barely hold his sword.

And the pair of blood-red, shadowed eyes that looked ready to weep tears of blood.

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Half a year after faking her death, the System suddenly came looking for Tao Li and told her that her mission had failed. She had to go back and fix things.

Tao Li thought the System was messing with her.

Her little disciple had been so obedient and she'd taught him so well. How could he have gone mad and fallen to darkness just because she died?

The System sighed. "Go back and see for yourself."

When she saw her little disciple again, he stood atop a mountain of blades and sea of flames.

Below him lay a field of corpses and bones, and his robes were soaked in blood. He was nothing like the obedient boy Tao Li remembered.

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Gu Shanlan believed that good fortune had to balance out. Otherwise, how could he have met such a wonderful master?

When he was injured, his master fed him pills.

When his meridians were completely destroyed, his master defied fate to change his destiny.

He was the wolf clan's ill-starred child, hated by everyone, yet his master never once looked down on him. She even promised to protect him forever.

He had always been obsessive and gloomy, cold-blooded and merciless. But he was willing to pretend to be the kind of well-behaved disciple his master liked.

Until the day she died.

Gu Shanlan's hair turned white overnight, and he became a demon.

Carrying her now-cold body on his back, he kowtowed every three steps and crawled on his knees up ten thousand steps to heaven.

With empty eyes, he sought out the immortals said to be able to bring the dead back to life. In a hoarse voice thick with blood, he asked them again and again, grieving.

"Can you save my master?"

Can you save her?

[Reading Guide]

1. A slice-of-life romance with a slow start, one-on-one pairing, and both leads' first time.

2. The heroine is not the one who wipes out the male lead's clan.

3. This story uses my own worldbuilding, with plenty of personal additions.

4. I recommend buying one chapter at a time. There are countless good stories out there. If it's not to your taste, please leave, and don't attack the characters.

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Blurb for the upcoming novel, Reborn to Hear My Nemesis's Thoughts:

The day Jiang Qianhua died, snow fell in June and strange signs appeared in the heavens.

Before her corpse had even grown cold, the man she was about to marry embraced her younger sister and gently comforted her, promising to take care of her from then on.

On the day her parents buried her, they personally gouged the divine bone from her body and respectfully offered it to her enemy, all to protect the immortal sect.

Jiang Qianhua believed she had devoted her life to her family's immortal sect, and had never wronged her fiance or her parents in the slightest.

She had never imagined that this would be her fate after death.

When she opened her eyes again, Jiang Qianhua found herself back on the day her parents were discussing her marriage.

The Jiang family's eldest daughter, usually obedient to her parents, barged into the assembly hall without a word and coldly tore up the marriage contract sent by her fiance in her previous life.

As her parents stared at her in utter shock, Jiang Qianhua declared, "I will marry no one but Meng Li in this life."

Everyone in the immortal sect thought the eldest daughter had gone mad.

After all, she and the Demon Lord Meng Li, the man she planned to marry, had been at each other's throats for centuries. They were enemies known to all.

But Jiang Qianhua clearly remembered what happened when she died in her previous life and her soul left her body.

Meng Li had led a hundred thousand demon soldiers in a furious assault on the Immortal Capital, sparing no expense. After avenging her, he cut off his own breath and was buried with her, joining her in the underworld.

On the day Jiang Qianhua was carried back to the demon realm in a grand bridal sedan, with a wedding procession stretching a thousand miles, her nemesis wore a brilliant red wedding robe. He lowered his head and said coldly,

"Jiang Qianhua, I never thought you hated me this much. You'd even go so far as to marry me just to disgust me."

Yet at the same time, Jiang Qianhua heard another voice: [Oh my god, Qianhua really married me! I wouldn't even dare dream of something this amazing!]

Jiang Qianhua: "?"

She soon realized it was Meng Li's inner voice.

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On their wedding day, Jiang Qianhua laid down three rules.

The first was that they could share a bed, but Meng Li wasn't allowed to touch her for the time being.

Meng Li scoffed. "You think I want to touch you?"

That voice said: [It's fine, it's fine. I'm just glad Qianhua didn't make me sleep in the study. I have to take it slow, or she'll think I'm a pervert!]

The second was that Meng Li could no longer refer to himself as "this lord" in front of her.

Meng Li sneered. "The eldest daughter of the immortal sect sure is demanding. Nothing is allowed."

That voice said: [Ahhh, Qianhua, I'm sorry! It's my fault for getting used to putting on airs in front of my subordinates. I deserve to die!]

The third was that Meng Li had to rein himself in.

Meng Li narrowed his eyes. "Rein in what?"

That voice said: [What, what, what? Qianhua, can you be more specific? I really don't understand!]

Jiang Qianhua: "...Sigh."

At first, Jiang Qianhua thought she and Meng Li would be enemies for life, always at odds and never making peace until one of them died.

Later, she learned that Meng Li had already fallen deeply in love with her back when her heart still belonged entirely to her fiance in her previous life.

Theme: Love life and make it extraordinary.