After the Villainess and Her Master Shared a Dream

[My xianxia itch is acting up again. I'll start when I have 300 favorites, so please favorite!]

Xi Shi is the sole disciple of the Qingxu Sword Venerable. Though her talent is mediocre and she is spoiled and willful, she is greatly adored within the sect and gets along just fine.

Until one day, she has a dream.

In the dream, she is an arrogant, vicious villainess. Her senior brothers and fellow disciples despise her, yet pretend to treat her well, all so they can refine her into a sacrificial offering and resurrect their lost love.

In the dream, she is chained before the Demon-Suppressing Tower and suffers one humiliation after another. Not a single person comes to her aid.

Xi Shi, who has just learned she's the villain: Fuck.

At the point of death, she sees a figure.

It is her unattainable, silent, strict master.

Xi Shi knows he is a man of impeccable character who prizes cleanliness above all.

But in the dream, his usually immaculate robes are soaked through with blood, and black energy seeps from his eyes. He has clearly fallen into demonic cultivation. He swings his sword, beheading his fellow disciples as blood spills across the ground.

Half-kneeling in the pool of blood, he holds her corpse in a desperate embrace, his breath scorching: “A Shi.”

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After waking, Xi Shi grits her teeth and vows to get even with everyone, one by one. Before taking action, she thinks of her master again.

Jiang Ningyan.

Cool and distant, a lofty beauty, with unfathomable cultivation. He has always kept to himself.

Xi Shi has always thought he loathes her.

After all, he is a genius while she is useless; he is composed while she is impulsive; he has the greater good at heart while she is selfish and willful. They seem to be opposites in every way.

But when she thinks of the person who gathered her corpse and avenged her all alone that night, Xi Shi hesitates for a moment, then decides to work hard at cultivating and become a good disciple.

So she does everything she can to be good to him.

At the sect tournament, she strives to place well and bring him honor.

When her master is afflicted with a chilling poison, she runs all over the place gathering medicinal ingredients.

At last, her reputation in the sect grows better and better. Whenever people see her master, they praise him for raising such a good disciple.

But by then, Xi Shi has gradually begun to notice something is off.

By day, her master is aloof and stern, never smiling at her. But when night falls...

In dream after dream, her master's gaze grows more and more smoldering and intense, as though he means to drown her in it.

There, they do all manner of indecent things.

With her earlobes burning red, Xi Shi finally understands.

This isn't some prophetic dream at all. It's her master's dream!

She struggles to keep her increasingly rapid heartbeat under control: No, this can't happen.

But then she realizes...

Oh no, her master isn't acting the same during the day, either...

[Reading Guide]

1. Older man-younger woman, master-disciple romance, one-on-one.

2. The blurb's details are due for polishing, but the premise won't change.

Theme: Older men really are irresistible.