Master, Weren't You Supposed to Hold Back?

Mu Yue and her Master had spent years loving each other like family. Then, one day, her memories awakened, and she discovered that she and her Master were the protagonists of a melodramatic master-disciple romance written in the Book of Fates by the Star Lord Siming.

In the story, she, the disciple, falls in love with the Master who raised her from childhood. After he gets drunk, she sneaks into his chambers and pours out her heart to him. He struggles for a long time to understand his own feelings, but in the end, the two of them live happily ever after.

Mu Yue: ...

I wouldn't even dare imagine it.

Siming had swept his brush across the page and written this fate for one reason: to help her Master overcome his romantic tribulation.

Every day, Mu Yue looked at her Master's saintly face and simply couldn't bring herself to do it. As she ate the meal he had made for her, she struggled desperately with what to do. When she looked up, he was watching her fondly.

"Would you like another bowl?"

He looked like a kindly father who only cared whether she was eating enough.

Mu Yue decided to test the waters, so she gave her Master a love token in the form of a scented sachet. He merely patted her head and smiled gently, saying he liked it very much.

Did he even understand what it meant?

After Siming urged her again and again, Mu Yue steeled herself and sneaked into her Master's chambers. She made her way to the bedside, where her drunken Master lay with his eyes half-closed, his long lashes still, looking serene and lovely.

Mu Yue reached out with her wandering hand and gently opened his robe. When she looked up, she met his damp, hazy eyes.

His eyes were reddened at the corners, his lashes trembling. He was utterly unlike the white-haired immortal with three thousand strands of hair, a compassionate gaze, and an otherworldly air whom she knew.

Mu Yue gritted her teeth and continued, when suddenly a voice rang out beside her ear: [Wrong, wrong! The one going through the romantic tribulation is your senior brother!]

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Mu Yue summoned all the acting skills she had and pretended to be drunk too, closing her eyes and passing out beside the bed.

When she woke up, she learned that Siming's old eyes had played him false. Her Master, leader of the righteous path, was facing a tribulation of delusion. The one facing a romantic tribulation was someone else: her current senior brother!

I'm tired. Let's destroy everything.

Mu Yue gave up thinking, tossed her brain aside, and emotionlessly repeated with her senior brother everything she had done to her Master.

Ci Jing didn't know how to ask his little disciple why she had suddenly stopped clinging to him and seemed busy every day. Whenever he asked, she only said she had something to take care of, never telling him what it was.

Ci Jing watched helplessly as the house grew quieter and Mu Yue came home later and later.

In the end, he couldn't hold back any longer.

* The restrained one finally gives in

* Warning: Gentle Master loses control!

* I raised her, so naturally she can only belong to me

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Jiang Wu's memories awakened, and she learned that she was the childhood sweetheart who had just married the male lead in a story about a hero's rise to power. In the future, she would have to make way for his ambitions and be forced to become his secret mistress, imprisoned in a secluded courtyard.

Just then, he had accidentally fallen off a cliff. Everyone believed he had died without a trace and held a funeral for him. But Jiang Wu knew that a noblewoman had already rescued him, and he had lost all his memories. Once he had made a name for himself and recovered his memories, her nightmare would begin.

A System suddenly appeared. "The Supporting Character Comeback System has been activated. Complete your mission to escape the plot and regain your freedom. Choose your target: 1. Male lead Xie Yanhe; 2. Male supporting character Gu Qizhi; 3. A random character from the book. You have ten seconds to choose. Begin now."

"Ten, nine, eight..."

"Three, three, three! I choose three!"

In this story about a hero's rise to power, the male lead had no moral limits and used cruel methods. The second male lead enabled him and was cut from the same cloth. Even a random passerby had to be better than them.

"Binding a random supporting character. Host, your target is the male lead's older brother, Xie Yanci. Complete the mission by making him willing to marry you and love you deeply."

In the book, Xie Yanci was a refined gentleman. Born into poverty, he came first in three consecutive imperial examinations and rose to high office, wielding power throughout the court. Without him clearing the way for the male lead, the latter's career would have faced many obstacles.

Xie Yanci was the only decent man in the book: virtuous, capable of standing against the male lead, and best placed to infuriate him. Jiang Wu felt she had made the right bet. If she failed, she would have to find another way out.

At the moment, she was still Xie Yanhe's newly-wedded wife, dressed in mourning white and keeping vigil for him. The task seemed even more difficult.

To save herself and get revenge, she resolutely began pursuing this seemingly mild-mannered, proper man.

On a snowy, bitterly cold night, a young woman in mourning knelt on the floor of the funeral hall, tears clouding her eyes. "Elder brother-in-law, Xun Li isn't dead, is he?"

Xie Yanci lowered his gaze to the young woman, her eyes red from crying, and remained silent.

His younger brother had passed away, so he should take care of his sister-in-law. Seeing her sobbing uncontrollably, he could only say at last, "Xun Li is gone. I won't leave you to fend for yourself."

In the book, Jiang Wu declined Xie Yanci's kindness and struggled through life alone.

But she wanted revenge. She wanted to escape the life that had been arranged for her.

Jiang Wu moved in with Xie Yanci, showed him care every day, and gave him gifts for the holidays. It was as if she saw him as Xie Yanhe's stand-in. What was wrong with a young widow who missed her husband so much that she cared for her brother-in-law?

But several months later, her hands were bound and she was pressed onto the bed. As she trembled on the brink, the man buried his face against her neck and hoarsely called her "sister-in-law."

Later, when Xie Yanci saw a familiar figure resembling his younger brother in the capital, a chill ran through his entire body.

At some point, Jiang Wu noticed that Xie Yanci was always staring at her with naked desire. His dark eyes made her uneasy, and their plans to move into a residence in the capital were suddenly changed. He took her and fled for the southern frontier in the middle of the night.

"My dear A-Wu, will you marry me?" The man kissed her cheek and coaxed her softly.

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