I Accidentally Formed a Daoist Partner Pact with My Disciple

Coming soon: Forced to Bind a Romance System with the Dragon-Proud Protagonist. See my author page~

Crybaby, jealous, scheming puppy seme × (supposedly) calm and restrained, but actually oblivious-to-his-own-love uke

Cang Yu × Yi Ling

Yi Ling's death was absurd.

His cultivation had greatly diminished, and while he was completely off guard, his first disciple, whom he had raised himself, cut out his core and shattered his bones.

Reborn, Yi Ling looked at his little disciple, Cang Yu, who had been freezing in the snow for a long time. His fingertips trembled.

In his previous life, he'd driven the boy out of the sect, letting him have his spiritual bones gouged out and fall into demonic ways. Only when the boy's soul was about to scatter did Yi Ling learn that all his supposed crimes had been fabricated by that first disciple.

Yi Ling raised a finger and touched Cang Yu between the brows.

"From now on, you'll be my disciple."

But Yi Ling didn't notice that an extra stroke had been added to the contract formation.

It wasn't until months later, when his chest began to burn, that he realized...

The master-disciple contract had become a cultivation-partner contract.

What's more, he could sense Cang Yu's emotions.

Yi Ling pretended he was going to take his former first disciple in as his student, and suddenly...

His heart filled with grievance.

Yi Ling looked up in astonishment and met Cang Yu's eyes.

Bruises still lingered around the boy's neck. Now he was biting his lips until all the color had drained from them, while a red mark at the corner of his eyes made him look as if he were about to shed cinnabar.

...How could he take anyone else as his disciple again?

He just didn't know why things between them were becoming less and less like a master and disciple.

Until one day, while teaching at Shangqing Academy, some disciples egged him on to demonstrate the cultivation method for partners.

"Fine."

Under Cang Yu's trembling gaze, Yi Ling agreed.

He had intended to use this to investigate why his cultivation had stalled.

The moment his palm touched Cang Yu's dantian, the meridians that should have circulated spiritual energy suddenly twisted into threads of passion.

Yi Ling realized in shock that his fingers were undoing his disciple's sash against his will.

"How can this be? The conditions for paired cultivation turning into dual cultivation..."

Yi Ling fought to stay conscious, but saw Cang Yu's Adam's apple bob as he bent over him.

A hoarse "Master" rang out in his sea of consciousness.

The intense adoration surging through his heart seemed about to drown him.

That cry of "Master" was like a splash of ice water. Yi Ling snapped his eyes open and forced himself back to his senses through the pain.

The day Yi Ling was gravely injured, Cang Yu carried him back to the cold pool to heal.

The boy's brows were frosted as he transferred his breath to Yi Ling, but a vast sea of grief surged from the depths of his sea of consciousness, shaking Yi Ling's heart meridian with pain.

Yi Ling's fingertip touched the dampness beneath the boy's eye. With a sigh, he stroked the boy's trembling back.

"Don't cry."

The boy suddenly seized his wrist with such force that his knuckles turned white. His lips and tongue attacked with the heavy taste of blood.

The delusions churning in their sea of consciousness became real, trapping Yi Ling in burning restraints.

"Are you going to abandon me again, Master?"

"I won't allow it..."

[Bonus Scene]

One night, Yi Ling woke, scorched by a wave of heat. The inside of his frost-colored robe had turned the red of begonias.

Cang Yu's delusions churned in his mind: his own long hair loose as he was pinned against a screen, his tailbone pressed against Cang Yu's burning palm.

"Xuan Yuan, what are you thinking about?"

Yi Ling teleported to the cold pool and frowned as he touched the man's reddened eyes with a fingertip.

Cang Yu gripped his ankle and looked up at him.

"Master was clearly the one at fault. When we made our contract back then, you weren't chanting the master-disciple contract at all."

"The cultivation-partner contract can't be undone."

"Why not accept the mistake and make the best of it? Master, how much do you think dual cultivation can raise our cultivation?"

[Reading Guide]

1. Both the seme and uke are reborn.

2. All characters are men, and all are gay. Neither the seme nor the uke is a perfect saint. They are exclusive to each other in body and heart.

3. The seme and uke are each other's first love, first kiss, and first time. No switching or breaking them up. Their feelings for each other are intense and obvious, and they're both hopeless romantics. Truly hopeless romantics, to the point that they'll only consider the other person and not themselves! Both of them!!! If you can't accept that, please don't read.

Coming soon: Forced to Bind a Romance System with the Dragon-Proud Protagonist

This is also an ancient-style danmei novel.

Blurb:

Jiang Tongjing was a new employee at the transmigration agency.

His first mission was to save the Dragon-Proud protagonist whose story had gone off the rails in a web novel on a certain website.

Because his beginner permissions were locked, he could only take on the role of the book's cannon-fodder villainous senior disciple from the same sect as the protagonist.

Since the mission was so difficult, the main System gave him 100 chances.

Jiang Tongjing used 99 of them and still failed.

He never dwelled on things, so naturally he blamed all his failures on his villain-reform System.

The System got angry.

So, on his last chance to transmigrate into a book, Jiang Tongjing opened his portable System and went pale.

He saw that his System had changed its name to "Archrivals Must Fall in Love System"!

The System said without expression, "The next plot point is [Hold the battered Dragon-Proud protagonist and tend to his wounds through your tears]. Host, please complete it promptly."

Jiang Tongjing: "..." Could a web novel on that site really have a plot like this?!

Fortunately, he used his informational advantage along the way. By ignoring the System's instructions, he still managed to complete every plot point. In the end, he and the Dragon-Proud protagonist became sworn brothers with a perfectly innocent relationship. After the protagonist became a Sword Venerable and proved his Dao, Jiang Tongjing faked his death and hid in the System's barrier, eating and drinking to his heart's content.

Who knew that one day the Dragon-Proud protagonist would show up with a pile of betrothal gifts, shatter the barrier with a single sword strike, and cross dimensions to drag him out?

During their argument, the System accidentally bound itself to the Dragon-Proud protagonist, too.

And as a result, the Dragon-Proud protagonist learned everything.

Dragon-Proud protagonist: "So you're the villain and I'm the protagonist... We're archrivals?"

Jiang Tongjing nodded furiously. "Exactly, exactly! That's why archrivals can't be together!"

The Dragon-Proud protagonist sneered, grabbed the System, bypassed its permissions, and issued a new System mission himself:

"The next plot point is [Engage in dual cultivation with the Dragon-Proud protagonist for three days]. Host, please complete it promptly."

"Whether you and I are archrivals or cultivation partners, I'll decide that for myself.

"But it seems you can't tell the difference."

Jiang Tongjing: "..." Help!!!!

Theme: Treasure the person in front of you.