The Cannon Fodder Master Awakens [Book Transmigration]

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Shi Suiren is the youngest elder of the Tianquan Sect. After living for three hundred years, she finally learns that she is the cannon-fodder master in a xianxia novel.

A transmigrator is about to take over her body, accept the novel’s protagonist as a disciple, and help him cultivate an unrivaled path.

Shi Suiren regains control of her body seven years later. The protagonist, whom she helped rise to prominence, has become a renowned prodigy, while her own cultivation has been cut in half, leaving her a useless elder.

She can put up with all that, but she searches the entire sect and cannot find the sweet, pretty little disciple she took in seven years ago: Gu Yaoxing.

Shi Suiren loses it.

Shi Suiren later learns that Gu Yaoxing is the Demon Emperor’s daughter, as well as the sickly, vicious supporting villainess in the novel, who will become its greatest antagonist out of her obsessive love for the male lead.

While the transmigrator treats the protagonist like her own child, she abuses and whips Gu Yaoxing in every way imaginable. In the end, she even destroys her immortal meridians and demotes her to the lowest grade of medicinal servant.

When Shi Suiren finds Gu Yaoxing, the young girl is so starved she’s skin and bones, fighting with a crowd of other test subjects over scraps of spoiled food on the ground. When she sees Shi Suiren, she cowers, screams, and sobs.

Shi Suiren doesn’t care that the girl bites her hand until it bleeds. She pulls her tightly into her arms.

“Don’t be afraid, Xingxing. Your master is back.”

Shi Suiren doesn’t believe in any of that nonsense about transmigrating into a book. She regains her former peak, cripples the transmigrator, then beats up the Dragon-Ao-Tian protagonist, who only knows how to live off others, and kicks him out of the sect.

She doesn’t believe in any nonsense about wicked villainesses, either. She brings the now cold and timid Gu Yaoxing back to the sect, softens her with kindness, and teaches her with tenderness.

She’s almost too good to her, insisting on holding her at bedtime, feeding her at meals, and even personally washing her back when she bathes.

Years later, the girl has grown into a woman as cool and pure as frost. Not only has she restored her immortal meridians, she has even surpassed the protagonist to become the Tianquan Sect’s most outstanding prodigy.

Shi Suiren is very pleased. She packs her things and prepares to cultivate the Unfeeling Way. But just before she leaves, her usually aloof disciple climbs onto her bed, her gauzy robe half-open, a sword pressed to her snowy-white neck.

“Master, please don’t abandon me.”

Shi Suiren decides that her teaching methods must have been the problem. With no other choice, she puts her plans to cultivate the Unfeeling Way on hold and starts teaching her disciple about proper conduct and ethics instead.

One day, she gets far too drunk. When she wakes, her beautiful and peerlessly pure disciple is limp in her arms, eyes red. Her lips are wet, and she trembles as she kisses Shi Suiren’s fingertips.

“Master… please. Your disciple wants more.”

Shi Suiren: “!!?”

What do you do when the disciple you finally managed to reform turns dark in a completely different way…?

[Levels of cultivation in this story: Mortal, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Void Refining, Great Ascension, Tribulation Transcendence, Ascension]

[What to know before reading]

● Gentle, exiled-immortal master x cold, possessive disciple

● One-on-one romance, happy ending, older master-younger disciple

● My own take on the cultivation world. I make all the rules.

● This isn’t tagged as a wish-fulfillment story.

● The romance is the main focus. It’s mostly about the couple falling in love, with very little plot.

● A supporting character will have an unrequited crush.

…Divider…

Next historical girls’ love novel: The Treacherous Minister’s Guide to Self-Preservation. Blurb below.

Yun Yan transmigrates into the body of a notorious, wicked minister from history.

The minister marries an unfavored princess to avenge a personal grudge. Though she keeps up appearances, she abuses and torments the princess in private. When the truth comes out, the princess inherits the throne and orders Yun Yan to be torn apart by five horses, leaving her body in the wilderness.

When Yun Yan opens her eyes, it’s her wedding night. She holds a long whip. A dignified, solitary woman is bound to the bed, her clothes disheveled, phoenix eyes bloodshot, and wedding finery scattered across the floor.

Yun Yan freezes. She throws away the whip, her legs going weak as she unties the woman. Then she takes off her cloak and covers the woman’s battered body.

Then she turns and smashes her head against a pillar, spraying blood three feet.

Yun Yan doesn’t understand transmigration and has no experience with it, but as an agricultural science graduate student, she knows a little about scientific breeding and improving farm tools.

To save her own life, she has no choice but to serve diligently as an official, promote farming and sericulture, and build waterworks. Meanwhile, she pampers the princess, providing her with fine clothes, good food, jewelry, and hair ornaments.

Even when the princess has those kinds of needs, Yun Yan can only bathe, burn incense, grit her teeth, and do her duty, day after day, until she’s dizzy with exhaustion and her wrists ache.

After enduring this day after day, the princess is finally summoned back to the palace and ascends the throne. Yun Yan thinks she can return to the modern world and rides off in delight.

But halfway there, someone throws a hood over her head and kidnaps her. When her vision clears, the woman in imperial robes leans over her. A fingertip lifts Yun Yan’s chin; desire blazes in her eyes, and her red lips are dazzling.

“My dear minister, where do you think you’re running off to?”

1. By-the-book, honest woman x pampered, beautiful woman

2. Sweet, everyday romance, one-on-one

Theme: Treat every life with kindness