Name: After I Died, I Discovered My Disciple Had a Secret Crush on Me
Author: And Crossing the Long Wind

Synopsis

[On September 12, chapters 1-24 will switch to paid access. Thank you for your support~] [The full manuscript is complete]

Please add my next books to your reading list: The Female Demon Lord Arrives at the Dali Temple or After Binding the Wrong System, the Demon Lord Starts Pursuing Me. Please give them a follow~

CP: Female master x male disciple / sect bigshot x gloomy puppy / emotionally stunted x sensitive and insecure

[Plot-driven] A hundred years ago, Bai Yuheng sealed the demons with her own body, nearly perishing in the process. Only a wisp of her soul remained in the world.

A century later, the seal containing the demons was destroyed. Her soul gathered again, allowing Bai Yuheng to regain her body and some of her cultivation.

To find out the truth behind the seal's destruction without alerting anyone, she concealed her identity and returned to the Tianyan Sect. She defeated every new disciple who challenged her and became a prospective disciple of the sect.

After Bai Yuheng successfully completed the entrance trials, several elders fought to take her on as a disciple, impressed by her rare talent and exceptional aptitude for cultivation. Unable to agree, they left the choice to her.

Bai Yuheng smiled brightly. Under the curious, expectant gazes of the crowd, she pointed toward the silent man seated in the place of honor.

“I choose him.”

Pei Yuan.

Her disciple from years ago.

*

Pei Yuan was born in the filth, an evil creature by nature, hated and shunned by everyone.

When he was pinned in the mud, barely clinging to life, a goddess descended from the heavens and slaughtered all the demons who had tormented him.

Pei Yuan looked up at her from the filth.

She smiled gently and reached out to him. “Would you come with me?”

Pei Yuan's ears rang. His cold, hard heart pounded fiercely.

“...I will.”

Pei Yuan became a disciple of Bai Yuheng, the Immortal Luan Monarch of Wangxian Mountain. He went from a despised, bullied evil creature to a respected disciple of the Tianyan Sect.

He thought he could stay by her side for the rest of his life.

But during that war, he watched her die with his own eyes, her soul scattering into nothing.

He was so close. Just a little closer, and he could have held on to her as tightly as she had once reached out and pulled him from the mud.

*

Pei Yuan couldn't refuse the new disciple, so he accepted her, but paid her little attention.

Bai Yuheng didn't mind. She investigated her case while he went about his own business.

She only occasionally wondered why her disciple had grown so cold and distant.

Until one day, she discovered his secret. When he was poisoned with a love potion and consumed by desire, he called her name.

Bai Yuheng: ...?

Well... that came out of nowhere.

The disciple I raised like a son is fantasizing about me!? (/Д`)

But later, for some reason, even this “Master” began looking at her in a very different way.

Oh, you little rascal, keeping one girl while eyeing another!

Wait! Why am I jealous of myself?

_§:з)))"∠)_

Standalone arcs:

1. The Female Ghost of Furong Town

2. The Ghost Lord of White Bone City

3. The Human-Skin Lantern of Jiangzhou

4. The Yin Soldiers of Shangjing

5. The Netherworld's Hidden Realm

6. In production...

[IMPORTANT] *Plot-driven.* The romance mostly comes in the middle and later parts.

*My writing may be rough, so please subscribe with care. Thank you for supporting the official version. [IMPORTANT AGAIN]

*An expert at max level returns to the beginner's village. Her abilities are average at first, and her true strength hasn't fully recovered.

*My own take on cultivation, entirely original worldbuilding. The cultivation levels are: twelve stages: Transcendence, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Solidifying the Foundation, Returning to the Void, Breaking Through, Tribulation Transcendence, Deification, and Unity.

*Ensemble cast, slow burn, with a plot like an anthology series (one arc per volume; plot over romance).

*My first attempt at this type of story. I write what I like and don't provide content warnings, so please read with care if that's a concern. [See the author's note in Chapter One for details.]

Please add my upcoming books to your reading list~ The Female Demon Lord Arrives at the Dali Temple: Overpowered female demon lord x righteous-to-a-fault junior minister of the Dali Temple, wicked woman x delicate flower.

After Binding the Wrong Romance System, the Demon Lord Starts Pursuing Me: What happens when a Demon Lord gets a romance heroine's script...

CP: Sweet and earnest righteous girl x love-struck villain / carefree little salted fish x career-minded go-getter

After years of being single, Ying Ruzhuo swore that before she died she would enjoy life and fall in love at least once.

She had barely closed her eyes when she realized she might have transmigrated into a book.

She had landed in a cultivation novel about spirits and monsters that she'd read recently, as a minor character with the same name, the daughter of the Cloud Sect's leader.

The original owner was a delicate beauty. Ying Ruzhuo secretly rejoiced, thinking she could lie flat and take it easy, but...

Can someone tell me what this Dragon-Aotian System is supposed to be!?

Ying Ruzhuo, born to toil, with the body of a peony spirit: Damn it!

She got mad for a moment out of sheer anger (〃>皿<)!!!

With tears in her eyes, she packed her things and set out on the path of fighting monsters and leveling up.

*

The Demon Lord Ying Wuxu was feared throughout the Three Realms, a bloodthirsty, merciless killer.

One day, his cultivation went awry and he nearly exploded.

But he was saved by something called a Romance System.

Xiao Ai: [Please claim your Romance Handbook, Host. Let's begin our sweet journey to love~]

Ying Wuxu: “Get lost.”

Pfft

He spat out a mouthful of black blood.

Sweet Xiao Ai smiled. [Rule one of the Romance Handbook: Be a gentleman. Don't use foul language around women~]

“...”

[Please take a look at the person you need to pursue~]

“...”

Controlled by an unknown force, Ying Wuxu had no choice but to lie low. He glanced at the delicate beauty he could kill with one hand.

Once he got rid of this ridiculous System, he would destroy the whole world with a single strike.

The Demon Lord at first: I want to kill you.

The Demon Lord later: (wagging his big tail) (looking up at her with pleading eyes) Don't you love me anymore? ...You haven't smiled at me all day... (looking pitiful)

Ying Wuxu: (cold-hearted) Ruzhuo: (stunned) Get away from me. I'm cultivating the Path of Emotionlessness.

Falling in love will only slow down how fast I can draw my blade!

*

The Tianxing System Assignment Office has suffered a major malfunction. At this moment, the System is assigning a task to a Host...

The Romance System, Xiao Ai, has successfully come online: [Congratulations, Host, you are now bound to the Romance System. I am your love mentor...]

Huh?

Why is its Host a man?

And a terrifying Demon Lord, at that!?

*

[System connection successful. Congratulations, Your Lordship, you are now bound to the Dragon-Aotian System. I am your...]

Huh?

Why has my Host turned into a delicate beauty!?