My Obsessive Disciple Turns Me into Ashes

(Note: This is the first novel I've ever finished writing in its entirety. It has quite a few flaws, and reading it may be uncomfortable, so proceed with caution.)

Feel free to check out my historical danmei novel next door, The Sickly Beauty Is Captured by a Sinister Villain.

You protect all living beings beneath heaven, and I'll protect you., Jiang Bai

Shen Pingyu is revered as the head of the thirty-three immortal sects, and has always treated others with kindness.

Although his eldest disciple, Jiang Bai, has a violent temperament, Shen Pingyu still patiently guides him.

Yet at some point, a feeling he'd never experienced before began to take root in his heart.

He knew it was a sin.

He tried hard to suppress it, but Jiang Bai pressed him at every turn, his clothes half undone. "Shizun, if you want me, you can just announce it to the world. Your disciple will gladly obey. Why hold back until your old ailment flares up?"

An overwhelming sense of shame forced Shen Pingyu to close his eyes.

Jiang Bai dragged him down from his lofty pedestal. Everyone believed he had died at Xianbiluo.

But that wasn't the truth. Jiang Bai imprisoned him at the Xuanbing River for three whole years, until he died after having his heart cut out.

Reborn, Shen Pingyu had come to his senses and was no longer obsessed with Jiang Bai.

But Jiang Bai had changed. He'd become obedient.

It wasn't until Jiang Bai betrayed him and nearly killed him that Shen Pingyu finally understood: this man was rotten to the core, and no one could change him.

Later, Shen Pingyu heard that Jiang Bai had died, torn apart by evil spirits in a gruesome death.

He didn't care. Whether Jiang Bai was alive or dead no longer had anything to do with him.

Evil forces ravaged the world, and corpses littered Mount Cangwu.

With nothing but his sword, Shen Pingyu stood alone between the world and its people. His white robes were stained with blood, and he was nearly at death's door, yet he refused to give even half a step.

"Shizun, you're going to die. What am I supposed to do?"

Jiang Bai, who should have been dead without a body left behind, shed his demonic aura, leaned down to whisper in Shen Pingyu's ear, and chuckled.

Shen Pingyu's sword hand trembled uncontrollably. How could Jiang Bai be the legendary Demon Lord whose very name struck terror into people's hearts?

Reading guide:

1. Jiang Bai is the gong, and Shizun is the shou. (Both are each other's first. The scummy gong used to have many ambiguous relationships, and they were extremely, exceptionally ambiguous! Important! The reason will be explained around the middle of the story!)

2. There's a minor GL subplot.

3. The gong has to win his wife back.

4. Happy ending.

Theme: Never bow to fate