Wen Xunchun is a minor background character in a cultivation novel.
He knows that the people who take him as their master are a group of future protagonists, destined to become legends and powerful enough to destroy heaven and earth.
Watching the innocent, adorable little brats around him, Wen Xunchun proceeds with caution at every turn. At last, the day comes when all his disciples have graduated.
But just as he is preparing to retire after a job well done, the plot takes a sharp turn...
His handsome eldest disciple suddenly locks him in a secret chamber, insisting that Wen Xunchun will bring disaster upon the world in the future, and this is the best way to deal with it.
Wen Xunchun: ?
His composed second disciple pulls him out of the secret chamber, then cruelly rips out his immortal bones. He keeps saying it's for Wen Xunchun's own good, because fate cannot be defied, and Wen Xunchun is destined to be a harbinger of doom who will destroy the world.
Wen Xunchun: ??
His irreverent third disciple doesn't further torment his broken immortal bones. He merely severs the tendons in Wen Xunchun's hands and feet, then lays out several golden chains in different colors and says with a smile, "Master, take your pick."
Wen Xunchun: ???
Unwilling to die just like that, Wen Xunchun immediately fakes his death and escapes.
Two hundred years later, Wen Xunchun reaches the peak of cultivation and rises from his coffin.
His disciples have indeed become legends, but they no longer hate him as much as they once did.
They line up at Wen Xunchun's feet, weeping and begging for forgiveness.
Wen Xunchun feels nothing at all, except when he sees Renday, the one he once overlooked, now a prisoner after taking revenge on Wen Xunchun's behalf. Then his conscience troubles him.
Renday's existence was an accident.
He had no part in the plot, so Wen Xunchun naturally ignored him.
But Renday was the only one who struggled for two hundred years, all for the sake of avenging Wen Xunchun.
While carrying out his revenge, Wen Xunchun rescues Renday.
He never expected that the obedient little brat from two hundred years ago, after being battered by the hardships of life, would grow crooked into a dog who stakes his claim.
Wen Xunchun tests the waters a few times and decides Renday can still be saved.
Just as he regains his confidence and prepares to be a proper master, making good use of what little conscience he has left, Renday goes all out and turns the tables, defying his master and betraying his teacher.
Wen Xunchun: ...
Wen Xunchun nearly puts the lid back on his own coffin.
*A beautiful master who plots revenge, paired with a doggy disciple who goes completely mad without his master and is always ready to destroy the world.
Theme: Keep moving forward, and look ahead.
