One-line summary: The pitiful little thing you picked up isn’t helpless. He’s a madman who will destroy the world.
[An intense push and pull between salvation and reverse taming]
“Once, in a desolate wilderness, I brought home a little demon covered in wounds.
He had beautiful eyes, and he looked at me with gentle dependence. I pitied his loneliness and nursed him back to health. I loved watching him smile quietly beneath the pear tree in the divine temple. For a time, I thought I had found a poor little thing with nowhere to call home.”
No one could have imagined that the Goddess’s moment of compassion would bring home not a fledgling in need of protection, but a madman bent on destroying the world.
Pei Xiu, a monster born in the Abyss, an anomaly the Heavenly Dao cannot abide.
The day he lost his memory, the Goddess cast a glance down at him from the highest heavens, becoming the first splash of color in his black-and-white world.
“Come home with me.”
The goddess took pity on him, bringing him from the mud into her temple. She gave him a name and sheltered him from the storms. He hid his ferocity and pretended to be the gentle boy she loved most.
He was enthralled by this game of salvation, willingly crouching at her feet and playing the pitiful castaway. Yet every night, he indulged in a vile, dark desire for the star of the game
He wanted the goddess all to himself.
When his disguise fell away, his fangs finally showed.
The demon consumed by wicked desire willingly put on the leash called “love.”
And she held the other end.
“Your Highness, I’ll gladly be your blade and serve as your loyal attendant. I’ll go wherever you command.” He bent to press his lips to her hand, as reverent as the most devoted believer. “The Four Seas and Ten Continents, the Demon Realm, the Netherworld… Whatever you desire, I will lay it all before you.”
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