Cheerful, sunny girl x cool, gentle male master
[My master was the one who tempted me onto a path where I was neither a proper disciple nor quite a lover.]
As the youngest disciple of Qingchen Sect, Chu Yi has had a terrible reputation for years, leaving chaos everywhere she goes.
People say she's been spoiled into bullying men and women alike and doing as she pleases. She even dares to sneak a look at her master while he bathes.
Chu Yi has thought back to that night countless times.
After the dignified, aloof divine official shed his fine robes, not even the misting steam could conceal his snow-white skin and slender waist.
Such heavenly beauty, such a flawless face. Nothing else could compare.
Falling in love with her master was only natural.
The young have nothing, except a sincere heart burning with passion.
The day disaster struck, Chu Yi did not hesitate to gouge out her own eyes, just to obtain the spirit medicine that could save her master's life.
Several months later, Chu Yi, blind and stripped of her cultivation, felt her way to her master's sickroom, only to hear the clamor of drums, flutes, and suonas shaking the heavens.
Her master was getting married.
Her master had become someone else's husband.
Her empty eye sockets could shed no tears. Chu Yi turned away and never came back.
*
Years passed before they met again.
Now a goddess, Chu Yi learned for the first time that even someone as powerful as her master could end up kneeling before her, clothes in disarray.
She pressed her foot against the young man's chin, forcing him to raise his face.
"Master." She smiled sweetly and lowered her head. "Long time no see."
The pale-faced young man glared at her and spat out two words: "Wretched disciple."
Chu Yi didn't like this stubborn, haughty side of Chu Yanliang.
She wanted to know what expression that cool, beautiful face would wear if he begged her with his tail between his legs.
The red curtains swayed, and the chains chimed softly.
For three thousand long nights, even an immortal as pure as the snow on a mountaintop was forced to become a pool of spring water, struggling on the edge between pain and pleasure.
*
Chu Yanliang rose to fame in his youth. Wherever his sword pointed, evil spirits scattered, and everyone revered him as the divine attendant.
But he had a secret.
He defied all proper relations and fell in love with his young disciple.
He committed a grave offense and fell in love with a lofty goddess.
He deserved to die ten thousand deaths.
So when he became the prisoner of the new goddess, the only thing Chu Yanliang wished for was death.
But...
Each time he was forced to raise his head and accept her,
at the edge between pain and pleasure, those hidden, shameful desires and joys grew wild in the cool, restrained divine official's heart.
If only he could stay by the goddess's side forever,
then humiliation and punishment would be blessings and rewards.
1. This is a heterosexual romance, a heterosexual romance, a heterosexual romance! The dynamic does not determine who takes which role.
2. One-on-one, both leads are virgins, and they have only ever loved each other. There are no other romantic subplots!
3. This is a long novel with many ensemble scenes. The romance between the leads will develop gradually, so the pacing will be slower, but every event mentioned in the blurb will appear in the story!
Theme: I resent the moon hanging high in the sky, shining on everyone but me.
