(My darlings, be sure to read the blurb!!!)
[Coming of Age] [Older Top Master, Younger Bottom Disciple] [1v1 Pure Love]
Gentle, scheming, doting father-type beauty of a master as the top x proud, bratty, stubborn donkey of a web-novel male lead as the bottom
Blurb:
Shen Yu is the male lead of a dark cultivation novel from Dianjia.
In the original book, Shen Yu starts out as an orphan. After luckily managing to join a sect, he suffers all kinds of misfortunes: his fellow disciples ostracize him, numerous demonic cultivators ambush him, and his unscrupulous master targets him.
Though he has always endured in silence, one day the luckless Shen Yu is falsely accused of murdering several fellow disciples and ends up having his spiritual roots severed and being expelled from the sect.
From that moment on, Shen Yu, consumed by hatred for his sect, falls into demonic cultivation and turns completely evil.
According to the novel's plot, after being expelled, the male lead thrives in the demonic path.
He will stir up one storm after another and slaughter his way across the world.
When his cultivation reaches the Mahayana stage, the plot reaches its climax.
He returns to the sect and exacts bloody revenge on his master and everyone else.
What's more, because the path to ascension has been severed, the male lead, now completely corrupted, sacrifices the entire cultivation world to forcibly open a path to the immortal realm.
In the immortal realm, the protagonist remains cold and heartless, beginning a new round of "kill, kill, kill."
Looking at the novel as a whole, even among all the books on Dianjia, this is a very standard dark-fantasy plot.
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That is, if no one had reached out to the young male lead.
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Year 1843 of the Qiyuan era.
He Jingchun, an elder of the Tianyan Sect, pulls the male lead out from behind all the other geniuses and declares before the entire cultivation world, "I will take this person as my disciple."
Year 1849 of the Qiyuan era.
He Jingchun heals the old injuries that damaged his disciple Shen Yu's spiritual roots.
That same year.
He Jingchun and Shen Yu return to his old home together and bury the remains of Shen Yu's parents.
Year 1855 of the Qiyuan era.
With three strokes of his sword, He Jingchun severs Shen Yu's spiritual roots and expels him from the sect.
Year 1961 of the Qiyuan era.
More than a hundred years later, the Blood Soul Demon Lord Shen Yu has reached the Mahayana stage.
After surviving his tribulation, the first thing Shen Yu does is return to the sect. In everyone's eyes, he is bent on revenge as he invites his master to "tour" the demonic cultivators' secret realm, the Bloodsea Palace.
When He Jingchun accepts his invitation,
Shen Yu thinks that perhaps no one would believe him if he told them, but throughout these hundred years, he has always remembered someone's teachings. His hands have been stained with countless drops of blood, yet he has never killed an innocent person.
Only Shen Yu knows how he managed to endure these hundred years while harboring dark, unspeakable feelings for his master.
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And somewhere unknown to Shen Yu,
thousands upon thousands of people who already know their fates in the story are quietly doing the same thing:
Even if the protagonist turns evil, don't expect him to follow the plot.
A few reading tips:
(1) Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Body Integration, Tribulation Transcendence, Mahayana.
(2) No favoritism, happy ending, 1v1 pure love. Our adorable couple is inseparable, and they are each other's first and only love.
(3) Both leads are strong. I love a happy, all-together ending.
(4) I'm neither a top stan nor a bottom stan, just a shipper through and through. There are lots of foreshadowed clues, and some may not be revealed until the final chapter.
(5) No evil female supporting characters. Women are amazing.
(6) The canon pairing will not be broken up or reversed, but feel free to ship the others however you like. Darlings are welcome to imagine yourselves as the female characters' lovers; they're truly charming (screams) (fidgets).
Theme: As long as oppression remains, resistance will never cease.
