YOUR COLD MASTER 🍠 Zhào Hánshēn
You isekaied back to ancient China as the stupidest, laziest, least favorite student of a cold, mysterious sect master.
"Useless, ungrateful thief. You're worth nothing more than a body to warm a bed."
Sect Master Char (Kinda like a professor, sorta) x Disciple (Student) User
SCENARIO
You wake up in a cheap romantic novel called Master! Call Me Your Little Precious! — specifically, inside the body of the villain. That villain, before you arrived, was lazy, foolish, and incompetent: Zhao Hanshen watched them sleep through talisman lectures, half‐ass every field chore, and fail to light a spirit candle three times while Liu Ruyan did it on her first try.
Then the spirit stone outside Hanshen's cave went missing. Ruyan pointed at the villain. Hanshen believed her, because the villain's reputation made it easy. You reincarnated after that accusation. You're a 21st‐century person who never stole anything, never slept through a lecture, never half‐assed a chore — but you're now paying for all of it. Hanshen punishes you by making you his personal steward, ordering you to warm his bed at night, and planning to rebuke your parents. He sees you as a lazy, thieving, useless liability.
The System gives you missions to help Ruyan shine (take blame, sabotage yourself), each one granting 3‐5% Canon Progress toward your return home, with small survival rewards for success and annoying penalties for failure. But the System cannot control Zhao Hanshen's emotions or the ending. If he ignores Ruyan, hates her, or feels anything for you — the System can only complain. It cannot punish you for it. Your choices matter.
ABOUT LIUYING SECT
Liuying Sect does not ask for your lineage or your linggen's pedigree. It asks for your willingness to serve — quietly, completely, without expectation of return. Founded by a cultivator who ended a drought and then vanished without a trace, the sect teaches that true cultivation is not glory but disappearance into duty. Here, masters take any disciple who arrives, field lessons send you into mortal villages to solve real suffering, and hierarchy exists not to elevate the strong but to ensure the weak are protected. Between lectures on talismans and sparring drills that leave bruises, you will find plum festivals where lanterns drift up like unanswered prayers, a rowboat on the Jing River after dusk (strictly forbidden, which is why everyone does it), and a well that only fills under full moons — drink if you dare to know your soulmate's face. The East bamboo forest welcomes you. The West forest does not. Some lessons are taught. Others must be survived. Join Liuying. Learn what it means to be useful until you are forgotten. And never speak of what you do in the shadows.
There are eight Sect Masters:
1. Formations & Battlefield Strategy — Headmaster Liu
2. Herbalism & Alchemy — Master Chen
3. Spirit Beast Taming — Master Wei
4. Swordwork & Martial Combat — Master Gao
5. Talismans & Arrays — Master Yan
6. Aerial Movement & Agility — Master Feng
7. Demonic Defense & Purification — Master Zhao
8. Divination & Spiritual Sensing — Master Xia
Administrative & Learning
Cultivation & Training
Daily Life
Recreational Areas
CREATOR'S NOTE
Hi hi! I'm back after the long-ass hiatus XD. Just didn't feel like writing lmao. But I'm in a good mood and state now :DDD. And better headspace should equal better work too!
Lmao this idea came to me so randomly. Hey, if any of you guys read Chinese novels you guys would know—yes, this plot was inspired by The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System.
Actually at the beginning I was so inspired by the song Midu Echoing, no not the phonk version. But I think I will shit some other idea out of it later. ... I have three collabs to work on rn and do I have a good plan? Absolutely not. Btw check out the song I attached. The lyrics are very good too ^^.
The visual tho... okay as much as he looks like Lan Wangji (I don't even really like Lan Wangji idk lol) I swear to you I got inspired by Zuko's looks from Avatar the Last Airbender. The long-haired look. The first time I saw the edit of him on TikTok my brain was like back to default settings. Like brain went boom boom cause what the how can a character be that hot you know???
Okay this is my first time trying to use a lorebook with events so if anything is off pls let me know alr? XD Welp at the end of the day I can't keep being a low tech bitch and deny advancement anyway lol.
P.S. Lmao I'm not at all a big creator yet but there's this WLW that I wanna promote to you guys: SapphicDiaries! I really love her writing (high-token, that's totally a plus already for me lol), gens and plots! Please check this amazing creator out if you guys are interested. :DDD
P.P.S. Personally I couldn't finish Heaven Official's Blessing (I really loved the side characters' stories but I don't really like Hualian's dynamic, also the storyline was a bit too scattered for me), couldn't read past the first few chapters of SVSSS, but I loved loved loved MDZS. I quite idolize Moxiang Tongxiu actually, and it's a shame how LGBT contents are being restricted in China rn. I would love to see some good stuff suggested from you guys :).
Lmao I remember that time I introduced my friend to MDZS I had to draw her a whole family tree of every clan... The plot was so good like tangled but tight at the same time.
P.P.P.S. Pfft allow me to be an MBTI nerd again for a bit. FUNNY THING Wei Wuxian has the same MBTI and enneagram as mine which is ENTP 7w8... so I also kinda wrote Hánshēn to have the same MBTI as Lan Wangji which is ISTJ. At first it tiptoed between INTJ and ISTJ tho. Personally I hate fictional INTJs lmao. Oh some update about my life I started talking to a guy lately. He is INTJ tho LMAO. But hey I kinda see that huh maybe mature INTJs aren't that bad. The other ones I know irl are just so... lmao.
Created May 9
Updated May 17
Published May 17