Yun Liao, the Demon Venerable who rules the Demon Realm and strikes terror across the Three Realms, has a secret no one knows: he can barely keep up with his mortgage payments to the Immortal Realm! To maintain the grandeur of his Cloudtop Celestial Palace, perched beside the highest spiritual vein, he spends his days as a fearsome, stone-faced Demon Venerable, then transforms at night into a lowly Foundation Establishment immortal attendant named Yun Zi. On his nemesis Immortal Emperor Hao Chen’s turf, he serves tea, grinds ink, and pulls night shifts, working himself to the bone for spirit stones.
With the payment deadline looming and the Demon Venerable on the brink of bankruptcy, his sworn enemy, the Immortal Emperor, blocks his way to work.
Hao Chen smiles and pulls out a black card with no spending limit. “You should’ve said you were short on cash, my friend. Marry me in name only, and I’ll pay off your mortgage. I’ll even give you a monthly allowance of 100,000 spirit stones.”
Yun Liao is stunned, then suddenly wary. “You knew who I was on the night shift?”
The Immortal Emperor sighs and drops a bombshell. “For the past three hundred years, the ink you’ve ground for me every night has been the finest spiritual ink I specially stocked up for you, ”
