Nie Qing transmigrates into a cultivation world, and from the start, her senior brothers remind her that she must teach her disciples everything she knows.
Following their instructions, she goes to the commandant's residence in Chentang Pass and meets Li Jing's third son, Nezha.
Only then does Nie Qing realize: the awful master who dotes on his disciple in the myths was actually me.
Nezha pulled out a dragon's sinews to make a belt for his father and killed Lady Shiji and her attendant at the age of three. Quite a record.
Fortunately, there's still time.
She patiently teaches him, shaping him little by little through her influence. She hopes her Nezha baby will understand his own strength and grow up well, without ever needing to have lotus roots for bones and lotus petals for flesh.
Her efforts pay off. Though he never loses his mischievous nature, he does grow into a good boy.
She is deeply relieved, and keeps all her magical treasures for the three-year-old to protect himself. She is extremely worried about him being sent to the Investiture of the Gods battlefield as a child laborer.
On the first day Nezha is gone,
darkness falls all around her. A blazing, dazzling fire lotus blossoms beneath Nie Qing's feet like a magic formation, imprisoning her. Then the Red Armillary Sash binds her arms, and she falls backward into an embrace fragrant with lotus blossoms.
His brows are set with murderous resolve, his beauty striking beyond compare. He buries his face against her neck and protests:
"Master, why do you show him affection, but refuse to care for me?"
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Nezha was fated to undergo 1,700 killing tribulations. His parents didn't dare teach him, while his master was destined to live alone and bereft because of the great calamity.
After becoming a saint and receiving a divine title, he enjoyed the offerings of incense and believed he had put everything behind him. Then he learned that in another timeline, someone had loved him fiercely and taught him with all their heart.
At first he felt indifferent. Then he grew envious, and finally jealous. Why did that foolish, mischievous child get to receive such selfless love?
You should love me, more than you love him.
Even if we're the same person.
Reader notes:
1. Taiyi is gender-swapped.
2. Little Nezha is a family bond; only grown-up Nezha is a romance.
3. Unrelated to the plots of My Heroic Husband and Yang Jian.
Theme: An unhappy childhood takes a lifetime to heal