This Snake Demon Is Shaking My Daoist Resolve

[Two Male Leads / Plot-Driven / Ensemble Cast / Bittersweet Romance / Powerful Leads Save Each Other]

You mean to rid the world of every demon. Did you ever consider that you might be the one destined to fall?

The two things Shen Wenlan least expected in his life were

First, following his disheveled master back to the sect, only to be mistaken for a beggar.

Second, failing to exterminate a demon and becoming a wanted criminal instead, then picking up an enemy in a black robe streaked with sunset colors.

His junior fellow disciple thinks he's an idiot, and his master suspects he's a member of the Demon Cult.

He doesn't know the value of money in the mortal world, and uses silver as a hidden weapon to smack a dog on the head. Yet when Shen Wenlan is tortured and on the brink of death, he breaks into the imperial prison at night and says hoarsely, “Your life is mine. You are not allowed to die.”

When Shen Wenlan disappears, demonic power reduces the entire imperial city to ruins.

Only later does he learn

That the person who is always at his heels, calling him “Gege,” is really named Ye Xuanqing, and is the very demon he was supposed to destroy.

Before the battle to exterminate the demon, Shen Wenlan takes a fatal blow meant for him.

In a daze, he hears a wail ring through the heavens:

“You say demons have no hearts. Then what is this pain of having one torn out?”

Months later

A man reborn holds a sword to the new Demon King's throat,

but when memories surge back, his pupils tremble in shock: “Your wound... why does it hurt in my heart?”

Ye Xuanqing reaches out to touch his face, then suddenly laughs through his tears:

“You fool. Even when you choose to die... you have to take the most painful path.”

Upright Dao Lord × Future Demon King | Deeply Entangled Love | Life, Death, and Reincarnation

“You taught me kindness, and I became a demon for you.”

P.S. Ladies, don't be scared off by the synopsis. It's actually on the sweet side, and the romance isn't angsty. They both have that bittersweet devotion to each other. I'm just terrible at writing synopses.