Liu Wenyu is a renowned master with formidable martial arts skills, but she is cold and terrifying by nature, distant and taciturn.
Rumor has it that Liu Wenyu was once gentle and radiant, with an elegant bearing. But after she overtrained and went into qi deviation, her temperament changed drastically. Only a unique and rare inner core can suppress her loss of control.
Yun Ling is the lively, adorable junior sister of the sect. Frightened by the rumors, she doesn't dare go near this terrifying master at all.
But after spending a long time with her master, she realizes that she isn't as frightening as the rumors say.
When Yun Ling asks her master for martial arts guidance, her master gives her everything she has to help.
When Yun Ling wants to go down the mountain for fun, her master escorts her the whole way.
When Yun Ling's mischievous streak takes over and she secretly takes a manual her master forbids anyone else to touch, her master even praises her cleverness and intelligence.
It isn't until Yun Ling is sealed inside a pill furnace to refine her inner core, suffering unbearable pain, that she learns the truth: she was chosen by Liu Wenyu as a vessel for cultivating an inner core. Her kindness toward Yun Ling was only meant to draw her into the scheme and use her body to cultivate it.
Yun Ling throws everything she has into breaking out of the furnace and escaping. The furnace explodes, and her soul is scattered along with it.
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After the junior sister disappears, Liu Wenyu no longer has an inner core to suppress her. Refusing to believe Yun Ling is dead, she goes on a killing spree across the four realms, searching only for her beloved disciple. Once more, she seems to have fallen into madness.
But Yun Ling really isn't dead. She has changed her appearance and become a disciple of a small sect.
At the martial arts tournament held once every ten years by the great sects, Yun Ling hears a familiar voice call, "Ling'er." She instinctively looks over and sees a familiar face.
Terrified, Yun Ling backs away again and again, trying to flee, but her body is firmly restrained by Liu Wenyu, leaving her unable to move.
Liu Wenyu inhales the fragrance on her skin, the possessiveness in her eyes growing ever more apparent. "My sweet Ling'er, you have no idea how hard I've had to search for you."
That night, the scenes in the storybooks that always made Yun Ling cover her eyes are reenacted all over her body by her master.
#I thought it was the inner core keeping her in check, but it turned out to be love#
*Possessive, secretly dark master x lively, adorable junior sister
Theme: Strive for a better life