It Turns Out I'm My Wicked Disciple's White Moonlight [Reborn]

[One-on-one romance, happy ending. The leads only love each other, body and soul. The male lead appears in Chapter 19 and is seen on-page in Chapter 21.] In her previous life, Shen Tingxu was the leader of the righteous path, revered by countless cultivators. Yet she was killed in an ambush by Jun Wuwang, the disciple she had raised herself. Seventeen years later, she was reborn as Jiang Wan, a traitor who had been cast out by the righteous sects and, in a fit of anger, defected to the evil sects. Now the immortal sects were in decline, and the evil sects were divided. Even Jun Wuwang, the treacherous disciple who had killed her, had somehow fallen on hard times. Shen Tingxu could only say: Hah. It serves them right! Living a second life, she didn’t hate Jun Wuwang, but she had no desire to be involved with him either. Who could have guessed that her treacherous disciple would come to her on his own, his attitude toward her growing strange in a way she couldn’t explain? The righteous path issued a warrant for her arrest, and her disciple helped conceal her identity. She deliberately disrupted the evil sects’ plans, and her disciple turned a blind eye. It wasn’t until she offended experts from both sides and her disciple betrayed his own sect for her, drawing pursuit from the righteous and evil paths alike, that Shen Tingxu finally panicked. Something was wrong! Why was he so good to "Jiang Wan"? Was this girl his beloved? If her disciple found out Jiang Wan had been dead for a long time, and that she was an impostor using her identity... Well, then he’d have to kill her a second time. Clutching her secret identity close, Shen Tingxu fled overnight, only to be drawn into a conspiracy and nearly killed by the mastermind behind it. At the critical moment, her disciple appeared again. Without hesitation, he shielded her and staked all his cultivation to save her from danger. Seeing his clothes stained red with blood, Shen Tingxu felt a rare twinge of guilt. She said, "Jun Wuwang, I’m not Jiang Wan. I’m Shen Tingxu." I’m your teacher, your enemy, the person who took over Jiang Wan’s body, the murderer who slaughtered countless people in the Western Border, the person you should hate! So hate me. Don’t save me. She thought that once he learned the truth, her disciple would be shocked and furious, and hate her even more. But not a trace of surprise appeared in his eyes. Instead, seeing that she was safe and sound, he spat out a mouthful of blood and smiled. He smiled and said, "I know." He had always known. There had never been some beloved who appeared out of nowhere. The person he held in his heart had always been her, and would always be her. As the leader of the Misty Sect and the foremost figure of the Western Border, Jun Wuwang’s life had been one long, chaotic struggle. As a boy, he was raised as a pawn in the restoration of the Yong Dynasty, made to commit all manner of bloody killings. When he grew up, he was forced to shoulder the responsibility of protecting the Western Border and toil for the livelihoods of millions of commoners. The gentlest years of his life were spent learning in the Qixia Sect. As snow fell around them, he listened to the woman beside him tell stories. From then on, a thread of moonlight remained forever in his heart. Through countless years, after enduring countless trials and tribulations, it could never be dispelled. Reading Guide: 1. This is a low-magic, low-martial-power setting. Cultivators are stronger than ordinary people, but not by much. Please skip if that’s not your thing. 2. The female lead was not killed by the male lead. Really! This will be explained later. 3. The female lead isn’t a saint, but the male lead is an absolute saint. Please skip if that’s not your thing. 4. The main plot mostly follows the two leads. The flashbacks focus more on the ensemble cast, with two long solo flashbacks for each lead to fill in the plot and tie up loose ends. Please skip if that’s not your thing. 5. The male lead appears in Chapter 19 and is seen on-page in Chapter 21. If you only want to read the romance, you can start with Volume Two. 6. There’s a small GL side couple, but they’re background characters with almost no scenes. Please skip if that’s not your thing. If you’re interested, please check out the author’s next novel: Surveying the Shape of Mountains and Rivers [Metaphysics] Have you ever wondered what would happen if, one day, every terrifying tale told by your elders came true? Ever since I stepped into the abandoned village near my hometown with an archaeological team, a strange and terrifying world has opened its doors to me. Eerie corpses buried upside down in upright coffins, brutal sacrifices in abandoned mine tunnels, and an unknown evil spirit said to be sealed within the mountains... One by one, the things that had existed only in my grandfather’s stories appeared on our path. Is this reality, or an illusion? I never believed in feng shui, Taoist magic, or any such nonsense. I only joined my friend’s archaeological team as a guide for the tens of thousands in wages. But when I found myself truly caught up in it, I was astonished to discover that the geomantic practices of the Form School, which I had learned as a child from an old man through my grandfather’s connections, weren’t entirely fiction. They even became the only weapon I had to keep myself alive. Can we really escape this place? Or will we be caught up in an even more terrifying ancient conspiracy? "Those people... They’re all watching us." "Yes, but we have to keep going. We have to keep moving forward." Keep going, escape this place, and survive. Theme: Respect science and oppose superstition.