A Bite of My Master

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A master who earnestly cares for her disciple, only to be drawn in and fall for him & a disciple who cautiously tests the waters at first, then goes all in and drops the act

To improve my cultivation and ascend as soon as possible, I dug out my disciple's peerless spiritual root and grafted it onto myself. From then on, my cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds.

I thought I could ascend without a hitch, but on the day I underwent tribulation, all eighty-one bolts of lightning struck me. I couldn't withstand them and died on the spot.

Only during the tribulation did I learn that an ordinary cultivator's body couldn't contain my disciple's spiritual root. If it were forcibly fused, the user would be reduced to dust and soul on the day of tribulation.

Think that's the end of me?

No. I was reborn.

As luck would have it, I was reborn after I had already dug out my disciple's spiritual root and grafted it onto myself.

Remembering how I was struck dead in my previous life, I decided to return the spiritual root to my disciple.

The plan went smoothly. Before long, I saw a tribulation just like the one from my previous life and guessed that my exceptionally gifted disciple was undergoing it.

A cultivator who saw it cried out in terror, "This is an ill omen!"

I laughed. "Why all the fuss? This is clearly an auspicious sign."

My smile had yet to fade when the first bolt of lightning struck me.

"?"

"Didn't I... already return the spiritual root?"

But after just nine of the eighty-one bolts had struck, I ran to find my dear disciple.

He was lying on his side with a smile on his lips, as though he'd known all along that I would come.

"Master, have you come to try again?"

My disciple shifted over and patted the space he'd made. "Then come. I'll help Master remember."

I suddenly remembered that on the night I returned the spiritual root, I may have... done something with this fellow that I hadn't done in my previous life.

"No need." I turned and fled in disarray.

Not long afterward, I was struck again. This time, I was so badly hit I couldn't even get out of bed.

My disciple came to see me and said that whenever a tribulation was about to arrive, only being with him could keep me safe.

I believed him.

A month later, no tribulation had come. The sect happened to be recruiting new disciples, so I turned down my disciple's invitation and went with my senior brother, the sect leader, to look for promising candidates.

I spotted someone who seemed just right and was about to accept them when the tribulation struck and knocked me unconscious.

When I woke up, I found myself lying in my bed. Vines had spread all over the room, sealing every door and window without leaving the slightest gap. They were wrapped tightly around my body, and I couldn't summon a trace of spiritual power.

"Is Master planning to take another disciple?"

I watched helplessly as my disciple approached me, vines climbing up with every step he took.

He bit me, his eyes both dazed and sinister. "Only I can resolve the tribulation. Give up on that idea, Master."

Me: Are you crazy? When did I ever say I was replacing you?

1. Digging out the spiritual root really happens, but there's a reason.

2. The disciple can transform in thirty-six different ways. Vines are only one of them.

3. The main story is written in third person.

My next book: He's Got His Eyes on Me

Blurb: After finishing the novel she'd followed for three years, Qi Jiulian flew into a helpless rage at her screen.

You heartless author! You actually killed Lou Yu!

Lou Yu, the third male lead whose popularity far surpassed that of the main couple, was a one-of-a-kind jiao in the world.

Yet the author wrote him as a lovesick fool, madly in love with the female lead and willing to give her everything, only to die after cutting out his heart to save her.

Furious, she typed a thousand-word review. Before she could post it, she transmigrated into a character in the book.

Qi Jiulian: I'm going to fix your awful plot right now.

She began coming up with all sorts of ways to keep Lou Yu away from the female lead and cure him of his lovesick foolishness.

When Lou Yu tried to shield the female lead from harm, she shoved the female lead aside. When he tried to dig out his demon core to save her, Qi Jiulian grabbed the female lead and ran.

At last, she saw him return to normal. Overjoyed, she accidentally got hurt. When she woke up, she saw Lou Yu draining blood from his own arm beside her bed.

She sat bolt upright in fright. "What are you doing?"

Lou Yu smiled. "Jiao blood can heal your injuries."

Qi Jiulian was stunned. "Wait, why are you acting like a lovesick fool again?"

*

Lou Yu's entire life had been controlled by the plot. He was helplessly "in love" with the female lead and destined to die for her.

Given another life, he picked up his blade, wanting only to destroy this false world, but a girl threw herself into his arms.

Her eyes were full of him, joy overflowing in her gaze as she barged savagely into his dark, muddy world.

But a tiny touch wasn't enough for him. He greedily wanted more. Through all those nights of coveting her, all he could think about was locking her by his side and taking whatever he wanted from her.

He only acted normal for her. How else could he lure her to his side?

Lou Yu used every ounce of tenderness and depravity he had in this life, asking only that his sun shine on him alone forever.

Bonus scene:

After all her efforts, Qi Jiulian finally saw Lou Yu give up his lovesick ways and devote himself to self-improvement. Delighted, she arranged to go out with someone else.

She had barely stepped outside when something cold coiled around her.

Lou Yu wrapped his arms around her from behind. His jiao tail lifted the hem of her clothes as he leaned close to her ear, his breath dangerous. "Where do you think you're going?"

Completed: Bewitching Fox

Blurb: Xiao Yu transmigrated into a sacrificial fox in a xianxia novel.

In the book, this fox was sent by the villainous Demon Lord to seduce his nemesis, Wen Yu, but failed and was killed. When Xiao Yu transmigrated, the original fox was in the middle of seducing Wen Yu.

Wen Yu looked at her with an indifferent gaze. "A demon?"

Xiao Yu clutched her drafty clothes and immediately switched sides. "Spare me, Daoist! I'm a good person! No, I'm a good demon!"

In the book, Wen Yu had let the original fox go and hadn't killed her. Xiao Yu figured that rather than getting killed, she should expose the villain's scheme to win Wen Yu's trust, save her own life, and then run away.

After hearing her confession, Wen Yu smiled faintly. "They sent you to seduce me?"

Xiao Yu nodded repeatedly, but then he changed the subject. "Then seduce me."

Xiao Yu: That wasn't in the book!

She thought that exposing the villain's scheme would let her escape, but Wen Yu ordered her to stay by his side.

As they spent time together, Xiao Yu felt that something was off about him. After a while, she couldn't take it anymore and wanted to run away, but accidentally caught Wen Yu wantonly slaughtering people in the night.

His white robes were stained crimson, and blood flowed like a river beneath his feet.

"Everyone calls me Sword Venerable Wen Yu," he said, walking up to Xiao Yu and leaning down. "But they don't know I have another name: Sheng Li."

His appearance left Xiao Yu's head spinning, but then a thought struck her.

The villain in the book was called Sheng Li. Good grief, she had to be seeing things.

*

Wen Yu considered himself a gentleman who never overstepped his bounds.

Until one morning, when he saw the ruffled fur on the little fox's tail and the dark circles under her eyes.

The little fox woke up looking exhausted and resentful.

Only then did he discover that a demon lived inside his body. At night, the demon took over and did the very thing he'd been longing to do.

So he stopped holding back and laid a hand on her.

Bonus scene:

Years later, Xiao Yu bit her lip as the person behind her set the pace, silently grumbling, "The book was all lies. He's supposed to be long dead by now..."

The person wrapped both arms around her and leaned close to her ear. "What storybook has my little fish been reading? Tell me, and I'll learn from it."

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