[A doting thousand-year-old demon on the receiving end × a cold on the outside, warm on the inside, tsundere top]
He is the loneliest sinner in the Five Realms, and a spark that never goes out through countless cycles of reincarnation.
Lan Jie, a star essence left behind when Nuwa repaired the heavens, was given form by Chi Jiu, a nine-tailed fox demon. But when the Calamity of Chaos arrived, he became a sacrificial offering.
“I, the demon lord, have lived barely a few hundred years as a fox. Why should I enter a place of eternal torment for the sake of all living beings?”
He fled into the ancient divine artifact known as the Wheel of Fate and arrived in the human world.
A thousand years passed, and the world changed. Lan Jie went from a demon reviled by everyone to the emperor who ruled the human world from behind the scenes.
All his old friends were dead. The name of Lan Jie, the ancient fox demon, and the memories of his past were sealed away in old books, hidden from the light of day.
Then, by chance, he encountered a face he knew all too well: confident, arrogant, utterly imperious. Even the man's name was exactly the same as that of the divine lord from long ago.
“You... don't recognize me anymore?”
The other man looked at him indifferently. “Have we met?”
“No. Maybe I mistook you for someone else.”
He knew he couldn't be mistaken. This might be the only person in the world connected to him by fate.
Seven deadly trials, each stained with blood.
Lan Jie watched helplessly as that wisp of a soul faded away in one body after another. At last, he tore open the thousand-year game laid by the mastermind behind it all.
“Will you choose all living beings, or him?” The man sneered as he pierced the dome of heaven, and the crack matched the fate that had been set in motion years ago.
Beiming gripped Lan Jie's trembling hand. Spiritual energy mixed with blood seeped between their fingers.
Beneath the hazy moonlight, a bright-eyed immortal seemed to laugh softly under the moon once more. “Little fox, what trouble have you gotten into this time?”
