The Collection Everyone Knows About

A top who pretends to be aloof but is secretly snarky vs. a genuinely aloof and vicious bottom

When Wu Qing was young, he became famous. Later, he set off a calamity that devastated the world at Qiuming Mountain and died a miserable death.

Later, he was reborn as a boy and taken back to the sect by his former disciple.

Wu Qing took things as they came and had no aspirations for the great path. He spent his days eating and waiting to die, and life was passable enough.

Until he sneaked down the mountain and overheard the widely known gossip about himself and his disciple.

A tea drinker said, "I heard the calamity that devastated the world started because Immortal Zun Tuling's master couldn't have him, so he flew into a rage and brought calamity upon the three realms for Immortal Zun Tuling's sake."

Another tea drinker said, "That version can't be right. Otherwise, what's with the corpse Immortal Zun Tuling has kept hidden in his bedroom for three hundred years?"

Wu Qing spat out his tea. "What corpse?"

The second tea drinker looked at him with disdain. "What a country bumpkin. Everyone knows Immortal Zun Tuling hid his master's corpse in the main hall for three hundred years. What's wrong with you?"

The country bumpkin, who had only just crawled out of a pile of corpses: "..."

Wu Qing almost spat out blood. He never would have guessed that after three hundred years, Xie Shi would have such a macabre taste.

Keeping a corpse in the bedroom was one thing, but why make it common knowledge?!

Theme: Don't buckle under pressure when facing a threat.