Turns Out My Master Is a Scumbag

-- Seeking saves for the upcoming novel "A Kindhearted, Beautiful Big Brother Who Understands Me" (blurb follows this novel's blurb) --

As the youngest daughter of a cultivation clan,

Gu Linzhi doesn't need to bring glory to her family or inherit its estate.

Her greatest dream in life is to be an ordinary person, find a good man, live in harmony with him, grow old together, and become his wife.

Then she found one.

Then he broke her heart.

After waiting in vain for that mortal for decades,

Gu Linzhi stopped using the spell that kept her young, calmly packed her bags, and went home to let her family know she was safe.

Under the worried gazes of her family, she set out for the Xuan Dao Immortal Sect, the foremost sect in the cultivation world.

To hell with love! This old lady doesn't need it anymore! Cultivation is the true path in life!

Just then, Guan Cong, the Xuan Dao Immortal Sect's powerful Pureheng Immortal Lord, emerged from a century of closed-door cultivation to overcome his tribulation and take on disciples.

According to rumor, Guan Cong was an unparalleled cultivation genius, unseen in the immortal path for ten thousand years. He was sharp-tongued and cutting, but could pinpoint the heart of any matter with a single remark. Everyone he had advised had made great strides in cultivation.

There were countless people who wanted to become his disciple, and even more hoping to join his sect at this ceremony.

To strengthen her resolve to seek the Dao, Gu Linzhi refused her family's offer to pull strings for her and took on the hardest challenge directly.

And became Guan Cong's only disciple.

Amid the envious gazes of everyone around her, Gu Linzhi shut her heart to love and devoted herself to the Dao, yet she never once saw her master's true face.

Until one day, she saw one of the few portraits of the Pureheng Immortal Lord. She immediately turned and ran back to her residence,

kicked open the door to her master's cave, which was always kept shut in a show of mystery, and shouted,

"Get out here, you bastard!"

Sharp-tongued, acerbic, shut-in powerhouse hero X heart-locked, career-focused, fiery heroine

1. There are romantic rivals, including other characters who have feelings for the heroine.

2. There is a pursuit arc.

This novel will go premium on February 3. No anti-piracy chapter protection. Thank you, my dear readers, for your support. For those who like to skip chapters, here's a guide (based on the current draft):

1. The scenes described in the blurb are in Chapter 44.

2. Some "truths" about the mortal realm are in Chapters 52-54.

3. The leads first lay their cards on the table in Chapters 57-58.

4. The issue with the immortal internet comes up from Chapter 59 onward.

5. Chapter 91 explains the hero's true circumstances. The ending begins after Chapter 100.

-- Upcoming novel: "A Kindhearted, Beautiful Big Brother Who Understands Me" --

When Jiang Wannian was six, she visited Nethernight Valley with her parents and met Shang Li, a beautiful but frail young woman.

As they parted, Shang Li gave her a piece of spiritual bamboo. With it, Jiang Wannian and Shang Li became pen pals for ten years.

During those ten years, Jiang Wannian told Shang Li everything,

including how she and Song Yinghuai, the young master of the neighboring sect, went from mutual dislike to falling in love.

But just as their families began discussing a marriage, Song Yinghuai rescued a frail young woman and kept putting off the engagement.

He kept putting it off until the two of them entered the Immortal Palace Academy.

On the day of enrollment, Jiang Wannian and that young woman fell into the Cold Spirit Pool.

As she watched Song Yinghuai swim desperately toward the delicate figure sinking beneath the water, Jiang Wannian, with the cold spirit binding her hands, feet, and neck, couldn't even cry for help.

Just as she accepted that she was going to die, a strong arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her upward.

Sunlight streamed through the rippling water. She saw a piece of green spiritual bamboo, identical to the one in her hand, hanging from the neck of the person whose throat clearly had an Adam's apple.

And beneath his soaked clothes, a flat chest.

Before fainting, Jiang Wannian had one thought:

Oh no, I'm really going to die. Otherwise, how could I be so delirious as to mistake this male cultivator for Sister Shang Li?

Qin Shangli climbed the steps built from his fellow sect members' blood, one step at a time, until he became the young master of the valley.

The piece of jade-green bamboo he had given away at the age of eleven was what had pulled him back from the brink of madness and demonic cultivation countless times.

The girl at the other end of the bamboo kept chattering to him about her happiness, her joys, her sorrows, and her troubles,

giving Qin Shangli, who lived in an abyss, a fleeting taste of human warmth.

That was until the girl said she had fallen for someone.

Scheming, dark-hearted hero X sunny, optimistic heroine

1. The scheming childhood friend who arrives later wins the heroine's heart.

2. At first, the heroine thinks of the hero as her best girlfriend.

Theme: As long as you keep striving upward, you can achieve something.