[Dual male leads + devoted to each other + aristocratic academy + cold outside, warm inside, obsessive, dark-skinned nine-tailed fox top + outwardly gentle, inwardly strong, beautiful yet tragic human bottom + extreme height difference + humans and demons coexisting + symbiotic contract + possessive obsession + mutual salvation + sweet and angsty romance + multiple couples]
Cen Yao knows all too well what it means to be poor.
To pay off his debts and save his mother, he applies to Aether Academy, where tuition is fully waived.
Only on his first day does he learn that the school is a sanctuary for demons, and humans are walking all-you-can-eat buffets.
There's only one rule: find a demon partner and form a PAL contract, or die.
Demons all over the school are after his rare spiritual aura. Some want to eat him, some want to imprison him, and some want to tear him apart and swallow him whole.
Late one night, in a corner of an abandoned school building, he finds a black fox covered in blood and on the brink of death.
Nine tails, golden eyes, and an aura of murderous fury.
Yan Jue, the last descendant of a thousand-year-old black fox royal bloodline.
Everyone warns him: that demon is the most dangerous one in the whole school. Touch him and you're dead.
Cen Yao doesn't listen.
Later, when someone pierces his heart, a black fox tears open his own chest and places his heart inside Cen Yao.
From then on, their two hearts beat in sync, their lives bound together: if one suffers, so does the other.
Yan Jue is violent and bloodthirsty toward the whole world, but always shields Cen Yao.
“Don't touch him.”
“Look at him again and I'll tear out your filthy eyes.”
“He's mine. No one else can have him.”
Cen Yao: “...Could you take your tail off my waist first?”
