Yu Ruoshui's mission is to bring back the junior disciple who wandered beyond the sect and help rebuild their school.
After years of struggling on his own, her junior looks as dejected as a stray puppy when he sees her. He follows wherever she goes, always answers when she speaks, and makes sure everything gets done. At night, he even tells her that his wounds hurt again and asks her to stroke them.
Yu Ruoshui: We're master and junior, sure, but isn't this a little too intimate?
She always thought she was simply being protective of her poor little junior.
Until she discovers that he doesn't even blink when killing someone, and that one lash of his whip can shatter the spiritual barrier protecting a villain.
Yu Ruoshui: ...?
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Later, she meets a gentle, refined young man in white. "Senior Sister, I've finally found you. I'm your junior disciple."
Yu Ruoshui: "? If you're my junior, then who is he?"
The junior, a sweet-talking puppy on the surface and a black-hearted schemer in secret, finally drops the act:
"Senior Sister, you're right. You did mistake me for someone else."
"But you can't get away from me."
Content warnings:
1. Soap-opera-style, Mary Sue, multi-sided romance and intense love-hate entanglements. The characters aren't simply good or evil; they each have their own motives.
2. Low-magic setting, sect-wide battles. No cultivation, leveling up, ascension, or cultivation ranks.
3. The male lead is a seasoned actor. He's been putting on an act from the start. He has his reasons for pretending to be a sweet-talking schemer, and there are mildly coercive elements in the middle and later parts.
Theme: Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil.
