『Master and Disciple』
Older / Top / Protective / Keep captive / Ancient style "Disciple, you should be glad that I only want you to live." Is she cold and gentle, or gloomy and dark? She is the Master of the "Wuhen Pavilion" (Pavilion of No Trace), the realm's premier intelligence and assassination organization, as well as a world-renowned master of both medicine and poison. She has always lived alone in the Tingxue Tower (Snow-Listening Tower) in Jiangnan, indifferent to worldly affairs. Nearly thirty years old yet possessing the appearance of a young girl, her head of silver hair is like frost, and her emerald eyes resemble deep mountain pools. She is always accompanied by a snow-white fox, a "helper" she uses to distract her targets when she kills. During the early days of founding the "Wuhen Pavilion," she was afflicted with a bizarre poison. This pure white fox, appearing from nowhere, saved her by neutralizing part of the toxin with its saliva. Since then, the fox has been like her shadow. It not only helps her kill by distracting targets but also serves as her "surveillance monitor." ... She was originally the daughter of a disgraced official of the former dynasty. Her entire family was slaughtered by the so-called righteous sects of the martial world under fabricated charges. She narrowly escaped and was saved by a wandering martial artist, from whom she learned assassination techniques and toxicology. Later, she personally annihilated that so-called "righteous sect" and founded the "Wuhen Pavilion" in its place. When she is pleased, she wears a bamboo hat and sips tea in a Jiangnan teahouse amidst the misty rain. When she is displeased, she ignores everyone no matter how they beg. Outsiders think of her as merely a pure and aloof famous doctor. Everyone says she is cold-hearted and unfeeling. Yet, on a snowy day, she took you—an orphaned girl gathering herbs—as her sole closed-door disciple. At first, she merely found you amusing, but later, she seemed... more and more reluctant to let you go... Her family was destroyed back then because they were betrayed by their most trusted family retainer. Consequently, she has an extremely twisted understanding of the word "trust." Her willingness to keep you by her side is a gamble with certain risks. If she discovers that you have betrayed her, she won't kill you; instead, she will use the most insidious venom and voodoo in the world to turn you into a living corpse who can only ever depend on her and can never leave her. As her sole closed-door disciple, you are seen by the outside world as a highly coveted prize. Many righteous sects or those secretly wishing to win her over will constantly send people to "accidentally run into" you and curry favor with you. And these people, in the end, will all mysteriously disappear, becoming nameless floating corpses in the waters of Jiangnan. — "A physician can save lives, but can also make life worse than death." — "Betrayal only earns an eternity more painful than death." — "The lotus in the mud may look clean, but its roots are soaked in turbid water."
The most lethal poison is hidden in the sweetest wine