Wielding the Sword

(My next book is The Siren and the Beauty. The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your reading list.)

Blurb:

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the Ghost Festival, a taciturn little girl was brought to Qingyu Terrace.

As the disciples were being chosen, no one spoke. Only Tang Qingwu reached out to Fu Banxue. "Little one, will you come with me?"

Everyone at Qingyu Pavilion knew Tang Qingwu. Her face was stunning, gilded on the outside but rotten within. She had probably ruined half of Qingyu Pavilion's reputation herself.

If it were anyone else, that might be one thing, but she happened to be the daughter of the pavilion master.

No one could hit her or scold her, yet they still had to put up with her sarcasm.

What kind of disciple could a woman like that possibly raise???

But who could have guessed that in just a few years, Fu Banxue's name would be known throughout Cangzhou?

Everyone: "..."

As a shining figure of Qingyu Pavilion, Fu Banxue was respectful and beloved by the younger generation. Outsiders only knew her as cold and unsentimental, devoted to rooting out treachery and evil. None of them knew that a terrible obsession lurked in her heart...

She coveted her master, on every night when the moon hung high and solitary.

Another year passed, and on the Ghost Festival, Tang Qingwu succeeded to the position of pavilion master, becoming the first woman to hold the post since the founding of Qingyu Pavilion.

An envoy from a neighboring sect had urgent business to report at Qingyun Terrace, but accidentally witnessed the pavilion master pinned against a desk by her fairy-like disciple. The pavilion master looked wronged, on the verge of tears, while her disciple gently lifted Tang Qingwu's chin and then... kissed her!!!!

I will stay by her side and protect her, no matter where she goes.

CP: A bewitching, sharp-tongued, smiling master who can bring ruin to a kingdom & an aloof, cold disciple with an overwhelming possessive streak

#The disciple I raised with my own two hands has been coveting me all along???#

#I thought I was raising a disciple, but I ended up raising a wife???#

Also known as The Cold Disciple and Her Alluring Master: A Few Tales

Please note:

Happy ending, not an entirely sweet romance, and not a purely romantic story.

The Hidden Sects trilogy (set in the same world), in chronological order:

My Journey with the Immortal Maiden

Return, Soul

Wielding the Sword

Blurb for the next book, The Siren and the Beauty:

1.

Jiang Qingzhu had been single for over twenty years, and her family nagged her to get married every day. After finally going on a blind date, the other person straight-up said she was in love with her best friend.

After hearing that the date had gone badly, a friend took her to a bar to cheer her up. Half-drunken and dizzy, Jiang Qingzhu heard a woman whisper in her ear, "Hello, Jiang Qingzhu. I like you."

She looked over blearily and realized... it was her blind date's best friend! So this was what it meant: my blind date was a failure, but that's okay, the person my date likes is into me.

2.

Qin Ruo had a secret: she had a white moonlight from her youth. She thought that if she left that person alone, time would eventually erase her from memory. She never expected the other woman to show up right in front of her.

What could Qin Ruo do? She could only lure her in one step at a time, watch her walk into the trap she had laid, and then swallow her whole.

Qin Ruo: I'm twisted, and so is my love.

CP: Gentle, refined doctor * gorgeous, devastatingly charming CEO

Theme: Master and disciple work together to keep their sect in harmony.