Alas, My Venerable Master Is Alluringly Charming

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Blurb:

Yu Danru transmigrated into a cannon-fodder character in a xianxia novel.

Her original self was unruly and arrogant despite being useless at cultivation, and eventually died beneath a demon beast's claws. Her poor master received the news and promptly died of grief.

Faced with two choices, a gruesome death or a life of keeping her head down, Yu Danru decisively chose the latter.

As it happened, her master had suffered severe injuries and was on the brink of death, so Yu Danru began working diligently to care for her.

She thought her master would grow plump and healthy under her careful attention. Instead, her master became more and more frail, until she couldn't manage a single part of her daily routine without Yu Danru tending to her.

Why was she getting worse the more Yu Danru cared for her? Looking at her master, who could no longer even lift a sword, Yu Danru nearly went gray with worry.

Then one day, she saw her master standing beneath the bright moon, chatting and laughing as she slew countless demons. Demonic blood sprayed everywhere, yet not a drop touched her master's white robes.

Yu Danru suddenly realized the truth: her master had been putting on an act the whole time.

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Everyone said Xiao Yunyue had brought disgrace upon her sect by taking on an incompetent disciple.

Other people reached Foundation Establishment while she was still at Qi Refining. They reached Core Formation while she was still at Qi Refining. They reached Nascent Soul while she was still at Qi Refining.

Xiao Yunyue also felt she'd been cursed with an unfortunate disciple. Other people's disciples were wondering how to defy their masters and destroy their sects, while hers was as clueless as a block of wood, never once responding to her advances.

So she had no choice but to give in more and more, making herself increasingly frail so she could keep Yu Danru by her side.

Xiao Yunyue watched with her own eyes as her disciple restored her shattered soul, unblocked her spiritual aperture, and rapidly advanced in cultivation. People began to look at Yu Danru in a new light. Rumors even spread that the neighboring sect's leader planned to marry his own daughter to Yu Danru to form an alliance.

That night, Xiao Yunyue went to see Yu Danru. She covered her lips to cough and casually wiped away the blood at the corner of her mouth. "Since you're going to marry, I should keep my distance. From now on, we should never see each other again."

But her disciple's palm vines flourished and wrapped around her, pulling her into an embrace. Suppressing the hostility in her eyes, Yu Danru said, "I promised to serve you for the rest of my life, Master. Are you going to break your promise first?"

This woman had been the one to make the first move, yet now she was trying to leave without a trace of mercy.

That only made Yu Danru want to keep her by her side even more, so she could be the only one to call this woman her master.

1. Alluring master x wooden-headed disciple. They switch roles, with the master taking the lead early on and the disciple later.

2. Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Void Refining, Body Integration, Great Ascension, and Tribulation Transcendence.

Theme: Even in adversity, one must strive to grow stronger.