99 Lives to Win Over My Heartless Dao Master

[First-person narration] [Normal heroine vs. Abnormal master]

I'm a good-for-nothing woman who transmigrated here, and I've been scraping by in an Unfeeling Dao sect for three years.

I have my kind, gentle, courteous, frugal, and forbearing master to thank for that. He's handsome and good-tempered, neither cold nor intimidating, and he's a wonderful teacher. He's practically the perfect master from all those legends.

I secretly like him.

But he's an Unfeeling Dao swordsman, and I'm an Unfeeling Dao disciple. This relationship is a little too fantastical, shocking, and scandalous, isn't it?

Naturally, as I drifted through life with that thought in mind, I never expected that one perfectly ordinary day, my master, renowned throughout the cultivation world as a "good master," would use the most vicious, debauched forbidden dual-cultivation spell on me.

Bound by the forbidden art, my body was trapped like a puppet and unable to move. I only had time to see a flash of obsession and madness in his eyes. My master even smiled gently as he said he would refine me into his life-bound sword spirit, so we could be bound together for all eternity and ascend to the ranks of the immortals.

...Oh my god, man, what are you doing 0.0

My girlish heart shattered.

Could you at least have told me sooner that you were a pervert?

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Don't worry, I didn't die, because my long-overdue System finally showed up.

It said I'd transmigrated into a novel with resurrection save points, and my mad, deceptively gentle master was the target of my affections. Current affection level: 1. It was because his affection was so low that he'd killed his beloved disciple and refined her into a sword spirit, setting himself on the path to corruption.

The System wanted to persuade me to obediently fall in love with him, but I refused. I wanted to be free.

Well...as it turned out, I'd underestimated my master's strength a little.

I gave him pastries. After he ate them, his face turned rosy and his autumn eyes brimmed with affection, as if the poison I'd given him were an aphrodisiac.

I tried to assassinate him. His inner robe hung loose, his long hair fell over his shoulders, and he told me to push the knife a little farther in. I missed.

I reported him, then fled overnight. Two hours later, he caught me like a ghost and asked me, wounded, whether I thought Master was boring and wanted to change masters, taking someone else as my master instead.

...I'm out of ideas.

With nowhere left to turn, I finally resolved to win him over.

I carefully chose an early save point on a dark and windy night, then found my master pretending to practice the zither. Giving up all hope, I told him as plainly, simply, and directly as I could: I liked him.

Then one of the zither strings suddenly snapped, making me jump.

The moon rose over the willow branches, but the atmosphere was awkward. After a long silence, he finally spoke. To my surprise, he asked me, a little nervously, whether I was just playing with him.

"I'm not," I told him. "I've admired you for a long time. Please stop trying to kill me..."

I didn't finish, because I saw the affection level above his head, frozen at 1 like a mountain of ice for ten thousand years, suddenly shoot straight to full, nearly overflowing.

At the same time, a flood of thoughts appeared on my master's expressionless face:

[ I want to possess Shuer forever. I don't care if I drag her into hell with me...as long as she never realizes that it's hell. ] [ I must keep up the appearance of a gentle master until the day I die, and keep Shuer in the dark. That way, I can have her. ] [ I love Shuer so much, I love Shuer so much, I love Shuer so much, I love Shuer so much. Shuer is so cute, so cute, so cute, so cute. ] [ She said she loves me. She's mine. She's mine. She's mine. She's mine. She's mine. ]

See? I told you all from the start.

...He's a complete lunatic.

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Heroine: Shen Shubing. Hero: Feng Zhuoxue. Single-couple romance, one-on-one, happy ending.

[Blurb saved: 2025.10.23]

[Content warnings]

- Feng Zhuoxue is the male lead, and he's not normal. In the beginning, the more he loves, the crazier he gets, and he kills without hesitation. Dark obsession warning.

- Not a strong heroine! Not a powerful female lead! Different save-point routes lead to multiple endings, including open, bad, and happy endings!

- Purely written to indulge personal preferences. No suggestions, please. Written for fun.

- First-person narration.

Theme: Love can redeem a life.