The Demon Lord Doesn’t Want to Become a Demon [Matriarchy]

Blurb:

A once-proud prodigy falls into ruin and is trampled into the mud. The immortal sect fears Lin Qiyue's strength and only wants to send her to the Execution Immortal Platform as soon as possible. After enduring endless torment and torture, Lin Qiyue's eyes remain clear and scornful until the very moment of her death.

"What do you have to be so high and mighty about?" her former junior sister says contemptuously. "Did you think things would always be like they were at Unjuan Peak, with Master protecting you forever?"

Lin Qiyue says nothing.

"Forget it, Senior Sister. Master is very disappointed in you. Otherwise, why would he still have time to marry someone else when you're on the verge of death?"

"...What did you say?"

Her junior sister continues, "Unjuan Peak is about to have a new mistress. What, Senior Sister, are you still clinging to those feelings of yours?"

"..."

"You defied all that is right. You're unfit to be an immortal, and even less worthy of being Master's disciple!"

Lin Qiyue lowers her eyes and chuckles. "So what if I defied all that is right? Whatever I want must be mine. If I want someone, no one else can have him!"

Her face, like a distant moon over green mountains, is ethereal and captivating, remote and cruel. Seeing the dark energy appear between Lin Qiyue's brows, her junior sister cries out in terror, "...You've fallen to demonic cultivation?"

"Isn't this what you all wanted?" Lin Qiyue snaps the Immortal-Binding Chains around her. "After putting me through all that, I have no interest in playing with you anymore."

A beauty lives in the Waterside Pavilion. Before each seclusion, Demon Venerable Lin Qiyue spends half a month there. When the midnight wind blows, the demonic beasts on patrol can hear soft whimpers as they pass by.

"Dear Master, does it hurt?" Lin Qiyue looks with interest at the marks on Shen Hanzhou's body. "Wouldn't it be better to stay here obediently? Why do you keep trying to leave?"

Shen Hanzhou opens his mouth, then falls silent when he realizes he still can't speak.

"You're always so good at sweet-talking me and tricking me. If I catch you taking one more step out of the Waterside Pavilion," Lin Qiyue suddenly rises and says coldly, "everyone from Unjuan Peak will be buried with you!"

"..."

"Remember this: alive, you are mine, Lin Qiyue's. Dead, you'll still be my ghost."

From Shen Hanzhou's perspective:

No matter what, Shen Hanzhou will never leave Lin Qiyue.

His Qiyue is brilliant, peerless in all the world. During their days in the immortal sect, he watched her grow up bit by bit and shine brighter and brighter. The seed hidden in the darkness took root little by little. Heaven knows how happy he was when everyone told him that it was he who had stirred Qiyue's disrespectful feelings.

Greed, anger, delusion, fear, and sorrow: it's all Lin Qiyue. Every bit of it is Lin Qiyue. He could hardly be happier to be bound by her side, never going anywhere.

Whatever Lin Qiyue gives him, Shen Hanzhou accepts with joy.

But one day, Lin Qiyue suddenly changed. She wanted freedom for herself and wanted to give someone else the place that had always belonged to Shen Hanzhou. How could he allow that?

The leads are devoted to each other. It looks like they both suffer, but actually only one does. Happy ending.

A powerful female lead who grows into her strength, with her true abilities concealed VS an exceptionally domestic male lead

Content warning: The story has a harem-like tendency along the way, but ends one-on-one.

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