A Hapless Master and Her Four Disciples

Advance preview: My Little Childhood Friend, the Immortal Lord. The blurb is at the end.

Blurb: After receiving a confession from the guy she’d had a crush on for ages, Yi Die toppled backward in her excitement and, as luck would have it, transmigrated. The identity she ended up with was the real-life version of a gorgeous, powerful, tragic heroine. Things were pretty miserable.

At first, Yi Die decided to set the original owner’s grudges aside. She’d transmigrated with a System mission, and the System had prepared four genius disciples for her. If she trained them into outstanding people who could stand tall beneath heaven, she could go back and be reborn.

Naturally, she chose to complete the mission and be reborn. She wanted to go back and have a sweet romance with her dream guy.

So, if she had to take disciples, she’d take them. If she had to train them into capable people, she’d teach them.

Who knew that all four disciples she picked up would be hopeless romantics, and every one of them would resist cultivation more than the last?

Just as Yi Die was locked in a battle of wits with her four disciples, constantly chasing them down to make them cultivate, someone leaked the information that she was a transmigrator.

Now her former fiancé, a scumbag and one of the four great beauties of the cultivation world, the lofty Young Emperor, was coming to kill her.

The young lord of Phoenix Hall, Immortal Lord Lan Feng, who had fallen in love with the original owner at first sight and secretly protected her for 120 years, was coming to kill her, too.

Even her handsome eldest disciple, who had a crush on the original owner, seemed to hate her. He was cultivating with all his might, hoping to kill her one day.

Yi Die could only think that perhaps she wasn’t here to complete a mission at all. Maybe she was here to battle these former lovers, a bunch of walking disasters.

Second version: After Yi Die transmigrated into the body of a big shot from a certain sect, she was tasked with training four outstanding disciples. The System had already picked them out for her. They were all geniuses, so Yi Die thought the mission sounded pretty easy. As it turned out, all four disciples were hopeless romantics.

One was a yandere, constantly thinking about the senior sister from his sect’s rival, and lived by the motto: “If you love her, take her into the grave and spoil her there!” Another was a simp, constantly groveling to the female disciple under Immortal Lord Lan Feng, who couldn’t stand Yi Die, making his master lose face every day.

At least the third disciple was a girl. She seemed otherworldly and aloof, like an ice beauty, and looked easy to train. Who knew the young woman was narcissistic to the bone, convinced every male cultivator in the world was in love with her? Still, she was quite proud of it. “It doesn’t matter if they all like me. My heart belongs to Immortal Lord Lan Feng alone.” Who was Immortal Lord Lan Feng? Yi Die’s own fiancé! That obnoxious peacock she couldn’t stand. Yi Die thought, Fine. For the sake of my disciple’s cultivation, let’s happily call off this engagement. As if she’d marry a phoenix.

Then there was the eldest disciple. He was exceptionally handsome, with a sinister, icy air. The moment he joined the sect, he was crowned the most beautiful senior brother of his generation. Yi Die thought he was worth investing in, but when she opened the System, she saw: “Greenie, Greenie, Greenie, Greenie, Greenie, where are you? Greenie, Greenie, Greenie...” The endless muttering rang in her ears like a curse, going on all day and night.

Who on earth was Greenie, and how dare this demon ruin my disciple’s cultivation? Yi Die angrily investigated everyone in the sect, but found nothing! One day, she went to keep an appointment left behind by the original owner and waited for an hour at Willow Hall, but no one came. On her way back, she opened the System. “Master, Master, Master, Master, Master...” Oh no! Greenie had turned into his master!

Her disciples were hopeless!

Yi Die was furious. She invoked her privileges as a big shot and added a new rule to the sect: “Everyone must cultivate. Romance is forbidden!”

Advance preview: My Little Childhood Friend, the Immortal Lord. When Ke Ran woke up, she discovered she had become the childhood friend of the male lead in a xianxia novel. The original owner had it rough. She had always loved the male lead, Gu Yao, but after a girl who appeared out of nowhere entered his life, he gradually drifted away from her. All she could do was use her innate gift as a spirit cultivator to protect the hundred thousand mu of immortal farmland on the male lead’s estate, spending her life pining in vain until she died of sorrow.

When Ke Ran read the book, she felt especially sorry for the original owner.

Now that she was the original owner herself, all she wanted to do was curse. To hell with silently protecting him! To hell with a hundred thousand mu of immortal farmland!

With a skill like this, she could grow crops and make a fortune!

But first, she had to fight the male lead for a treasure! Ke Ran could become a famous spirit cultivator because the male lead had gifted her a treasure. According to the original novel, he found it in a secret realm when he was six.

So when she was six, Ke Ran stuck close to Gu Yao. She didn’t just share meals with him; she even had to share a little blanket. “Gift” her what? She’d take the treasure for herself!

Then she successfully got the treasure and began dreaming of her grand plan to become a spirit cultivator. She would farm, make a fortune, and become the richest woman in the cultivation world!

Then she discovered that she had to learn the Cloud Cauldron Sect’s immortal arts to use the treasure. Her dream of becoming the richest woman crashed in an instant, and she couldn’t escape the plot. Not only could she not simply dump Gu Yao, she also had to go to the Cloud Cauldron Sect and watch him become utterly bewitched by the girl who appeared out of nowhere.

But it didn’t matter. She didn’t love Gu Yao. Whether he fell for that girl or a goddess, whether they loved each other so passionately they’d die for each other, none of those plot points had anything to do with her.

She would quietly develop her skills, quietly cultivate, and, while she was at it, quietly pick up the gentle, beautiful third male lead. Why love the heroine? Wasn’t she lovely, sweet, and rich?

Gu Yao had known ever since he was little that the chubby little girl from the neighboring immortal estate was a troublemaker. She’d been causing him grief since she was three. She was also obsessed with money, always shouting that she’d farm, become the richest woman, and marry a beauty to live happily ever after. Farming and becoming the richest woman were fine, but marrying a beauty and living happily ever after? Who gave her the nerve? The moment she snuggled up with him under a little blanket when they were six, she was destined to be his wife, Gu Yao’s. She’d already taken advantage of him, and now she wanted to find another beauty? Dream on!

Theme: Teacher and disciples learn from each other and grow together.