[Flirtatious, deceptively innocent shizun bottom x unhinged, love-brained, gloomy top]
A hundred years ago, when Yan Linchuan brought Yuan Jin back to the sect, everyone said the boy had the eyes of a predator and was surely no good. Yan Linchuan defied the opposition and took him in as his only disciple.
He devoted himself to raising and caring for his disciple, only to discover, to his anguish, that he had developed feelings for Yuan Jin that went beyond their master-disciple relationship, despite cultivating the Ruthless Dao.
He buried those feelings deep in his heart and always kept his behavior proper, never crossing the line. Yet on the eve of his disciple's coming-of-age ceremony, he got drunk and fell asleep in Yuan Jin's room.
The next day, in front of the sect's main hall, there was a huge bed and a red curtain. Yuan Jin flicked the curtain aside with his sword. Before the eyes of everyone present, Yan Linchuan stood barely clothed, his fair skin marked with red traces of debauchery.
Yuan Jin looked at him with contempt and pity. "Shizun, the way you feel about me only makes me sick."
Humiliated before everyone and with his Dao Heart shattered, Yan Linchuan asked to be struck by ten thousand bolts of golden lightning. His body was obliterated, and from then on, no one spoke the name of the radiant immortal lord again.
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A hundred years later, the arrival of a guest elder sent by Shangyuan Immortal City caused an uproar throughout the sect. He looked exactly like Yan Linchuan, the immortal lord who had died by his own hand.
Before long, however, the guest elder gained a reputation across the cultivation world for being a flirt who led people on wherever he went.
Everyone: They don't look alike at all.
Only Yuan Jin goes mad. After his shizun died, he finally realized that he had imagined everything and believed the lies of petty people.
His shizun was the person who had treated him best in the world.
He had always believed he would never be able to atone for his sins in this life, until he accidentally saw a Ruthless Mark on the guest elder's lower back.
No matter the cost, he will win his shizun back.
Synopsis posted on [2025.11.6]
Theme: You calculate the Heavenly Dao. I calculate how to make you fall in love.