My Master and I Become One

- A fated dead end. How can it be escaped?

- Take your place with my body, repay it with my life. From now on, you are me, and I am you.

A gentle, laid-back (and full of tall tales) master gong x a cool, aloof (and perceptive) disciple shou

Yan Bugui's greatest regret was making a pact with a spirit named "Zhong Buli." The spirit was greedy, sleepy, troublesome, and perpetually sick, with every unlucky trait imaginable.

Because of him, Yan Bugui answers a call for help and encounters a demon, gets trapped in a forest while inhabiting someone else's body, and even runs into the nearly extinct Ten Monsters of the Underworld while traveling by boat.

Yan Bugui puts up with it.

No, Yan Bugui can't put up with it.

That guy from the Hehuan Sect clearly knows how to get out, but insists he doesn't. Before Yan Bugui can even get angry after the lie is exposed, Zhong Buli clutches his chest, coughs out a puff of smoke, and plays weak. "Master, I can't walk anymore. Can you carry me?"

Another day, while Yan Bugui is sleeping soundly, a hand suddenly reaches over and starts groping him.

Yan Bugui turns around and glares at Zhong Buli, who embraces him and says, "I'm cold."

Outside, the summer cicadas can't stand it anymore and chirp nonstop.

Later, Zhong Buli's soul is shattered as he sacrifices himself to save Yan Bugui. Only then does Yan Bugui learn that his spirit pet is his heartless master, Zhong Li.

Yan Bugui hates him to death.

"A token is needed to pledge our love. Have you prepared one?"

"Could I offer myself?"

That day, Yan Bugui offered himself to Zhong Li as a gift, but after keeping him all night, Zhong Li plunged a sword into his chest.

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The Earth Fiend Star, a demon, an evil seed: these were Zhong Li's reasons for killing Yan Bugui.

But fate,

he insists on defying Heaven and changing it.

Gathering the three souls and seven spirits, I will exchange my fate for yours. Even if I must bear the tribulation, I will welcome it gladly. Yet when my soul returns to where it belongs, I suddenly want to see you once more.

Who could have guessed that he would become his beloved disciple's spirit pet?

That would be bad enough, but the little brat who once loved him so deeply now couldn't care less about him.

Even Heaven's will seems to oppose Zhong Li.

He is forced to die, yet dies unwillingly.

"Didn't you say you got together with me to find my weakness? Zhong Li, if the past hadn't surfaced in the Meng Po soup, how much longer would you have kept it from me?"

CP: A master who is a lofty flower on the outside and an indulgent disciple-spoiler at home, gentle and easygoing gong x a disciple who seems aloof but is actually prickly and perceptive shou

1. Both leads are strong. The gong tends to go with the flow, while the shou does the opposite. The main idea is that he won't make himself suffer.

2. One-on-one, both virgins, mutually devoted, happy ending.

Theme: With the world in your heart, nothing is to be feared.