After Learning the Plot, I Protect My Reborn Cannon-Fodder First Disciple

Free-spirited, powerful Immortal Venerable top x gentle, composed, reborn chief sword cultivator bottom

[Top's perspective]:

Yue Wubie, Supreme Elder of Suixing Sect, happens to obtain a book. It tells the story of a pair of ill-fated lovers who overcome eighty-one trials and tribulations before ascending to godhood. She is a supporting character in the story.

Not only does she provide the protagonists with spirit stones and divine artifacts to help them level up, she even drags her gentle, composed disciple into the story. Her disciple dies as a cannon fodder, taking a tribulation for her.

More importantly, her disciple seems to have been reborn. But in this new life, she doesn't even try to stay away from her master. Instead, she keeps wanting to take tribulations for her again.

Tsk. She doesn't know how to cherish herself. She needs to be punished.

But how did the punishment end up taking such a strange turn?

[Bottom's perspective]:

Jun Mengzhi has loved her master for two lifetimes. But as Suixing Sect's chief disciple and eldest senior sister, she can only keep her love buried deep in her heart, never daring to let it show.

Unexpectedly, an accident exposes her feelings for her master, and her fellow disciples despise her while the world curses her. Then, while her master is in seclusion, her spiritual roots are destroyed and she is expelled from the sect.

She believes she will never see her master again in this life, but fate takes an unexpected turn and she dies taking a tribulation for her master.

When she opens her eyes again, she has been reborn. In this life, she will cultivate diligently and keep her love completely hidden, hoping only to take the fatal tribulation for her master, so that her master can perfect her Great Dao and ascend to godhood.

But... why is her master's gaze growing stranger and stranger?

Bonus scene:

During an adventure in a secret realm, Jun Mengzhi breaks the sect rules to protect her fellow disciples, then goes to the disciplinary hall to accept her punishment. To her surprise, her master is the one administering it.

Jun Mengzhi is anxious, afraid of disappointing her master. Despite her injuries, she kneels in the hall and asks to be punished.

"Do you know that three hundred strikes of the blackbone whip could take half your life?" And she's already badly injured.

Yue Wubie speaks coldly, without a trace of warmth. Jun Mengzhi hears her and shuts her eyes, lowering her head as she admits her fault. "This disciple asks to be punished."

Fine. What a stubborn little fool, as dense as a block of wood!

Her disciple knows how to protect her reputation at every turn, but doesn't know to ask her for help when there's trouble?

Such inflexibility certainly deserves punishment!

Seeing her master's displeasure, Jun Mengzhi smiles bitterly at her own foolishness. She has angered her master again, so she decides to endure whatever punishment her master gives her, without a single complaint.

There is punishment, as it turns out.

Just not that kind.

In the Cold Jade Cave Abode, bound with red silk, she receives whip strokes that neither hurt nor leave a mark, yet make the usually composed chief disciple cry for half the night.

After that day, Jun Mengzhi never dares look directly at a whip again. Her master's "punishment" was so severe that it left an indelible impression, one she will never forget.

Theme: Be kind to others, cherish yourself, and don't sell yourself short.