We Agreed It Was a Substitute, So Why Is This True Love?

[The Thrill-Seeking Demon Princess VS the Always-Lazy First Prince of the Yaos] Mutual salvation + multiple storylines running in parallel, They all call me the villain, but if you cut open my heart, there is only one person inside. On a bloody night in the Yao Realm, she offered a Soul-Returning Pearl as her betrothal gift and named the sharpest blade she could find: “First Prince He Yuanning, I want him to be my husband.” The world said she was mad: a Demon Princess dared to marry a Shura. Little did they know that ten years ago, he had been the little fox she held close, with a tiny cinnabar mark on the tip of his ear. Ten years later, he wielded his blade to slaughter a city, staining the red wedding silk with blood, using the bell she had given him. The marriage contract was sealed, their birth dates bound like a curse: “Eternally bound, we burn together; the heavens fall, and all becomes dust.” She wagered the Demon Realm itself just to hear that familiar bell once more. He washed away the blood and embroidered a tree of late-blooming roses for her. But when the truth came to light, the bell concealed a divine-slaying flame sigil, and the back of the marriage contract bore the array for an end-of-the-world sacrifice. She wielded a fan that could overturn the heavens; he held a red silk ribbon that could slay the moon. This time, would they be each other’s scabbard, or each other’s blade? The blood moon is about to rise, but the bell still rings The first to fall in love will be the first to die. A warning: the protagonists are not necessarily good people, and the villains are not necessarily bad. There are some ensemble elements; the two protagonists simply get a little more page time than everyone else. There are many couples. While out on a trip, the princess found a fox. After spending some time together, it disappeared without a trace. When she met someone in the Yao Realm, Mu Zhilu thought: Why do I feel that a fox might be connected to the First Prince...