The Sinister Demon Lord Only Wants to Pretend to Be Innocent

[Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger, Dark and Scheming Younger Top x Gentle, Pure White Moonlight Bottom]

Wei Ling was a prodigiously gifted young Demon Lord. His scumbag father shattered his spiritual core, causing him to fall into the mortal realm, where he spent three years adrift after losing all his cultivation.

Three years later, he was handed over to a mortal older brother.

Before meeting this mortal brother, Wei Ling was firmly instructed: "When you see the eldest young master later, get down and kowtow to him first."

Kowtow?

Wei Ling ground his teeth, thinking viciously: These lowly mortals aren't afraid of shortening their own lives?

But now he was in no position to resist. He could only swallow his hatred and obediently answer.

It wasn't until the carriage stopped before the city gate that Wei Ling lifted the curtain, dragged his battered body out, and prepared to kowtow to that older brother.

His mortal brother, Wei Ji, sat astride a horse. Looking down at Wei Ling's shaky movements, he couldn't help clicking his tongue.

Then he dismounted and lifted Wei Ling straight out of the carriage.

"Why are you so light?"

Wei Ji held him, his face full of surprise, with a hint of concern and tenderness Wei Ling had never seen before.

Wei Ling was stunned.

After a long moment, he sized up the situation and called the other man, "Brother."

*

Wei Ling discovered that his brother was so guileless that he actually felt sorry for him, raising him like an innocent little white flower.

He personally brought him clothes and fed him, taught him to read and ride, took him out to see the world, and even had him learn to be a gentleman and master the art of strategy...

His brother nursed Wei Ling's wounds, spoiled his palate, and helped him grow taller...

And also helped his schemes grow deeper and his intentions go crooked.

The young Demon Lord secretly recovered his cultivation, plotted to kill his father and take revenge, and, with his heart stirred by love, wanted to make his brother his own.

By a twist of fate, he read a few little romance stories. Following their instructions, he finally found a way to sleep with his brother.

When Wei Ji woke up, he looked at the red marks all over his body, then at his innocent, bewildered younger brother. After a long silence, he lowered his head and blamed himself. "It's my fault."

Wei Ling secretly wiped the heat-inducing Gu from his fingertips and revealed an innocent smile.

What Demon Lord?

He's just a little white flower.

*

[Wei Ji's perspective:

Wei Ji raised Wei Ling with his own hands.

He taught his younger brother to ride, shoot arrows, read, and understand proper etiquette, raising him from skin and bones until he stood half a head taller than Wei Ji himself... Even after Wei Ling slept with him, Wei Ji only felt guilty for not having taught him properly.

It was only when Wei Ji personally witnessed Wei Ling slaughtering his way through a sea of corpses in the blink of an eye that he learned his younger brother was the Demon Lord who ruled the spiritual realm.

Wei Ling walked toward him step by step, wiped the blood from his fingertips, then gently cupped Wei Ji's face as he always had and comforted him: "Don't be afraid."

How could Wei Ji not be afraid?

He was a mere mortal, no more than an ant. Before a cultivator who could reach the heavens, he had not the slightest chance to resist.

But Wei Ling had treated him well, after all...

Wei Ji lowered his eyes and leaned into Wei Ling's hand cupping his face. His lashes trembled with fear as he murmured a plea: "For the sake of how good I was to you once... let me go."

*

1. Younger top; the younger brother is the top. They are not related by blood, and the relationship is devoted and exclusive.

2. The younger brother's perspective is a satisfying revenge story about playing the pig to eat the tiger and making a comeback; the older brother's perspective is a bittersweet tale of pure love, hatred, and love entangled. It's actually quite sweet, shifting from the bottom doting on the top to mutual affection. The plot leans toward the top's perspective.

3. Emphasis: it shifts from the bottom doting on the top to mutual affection. Extreme top stans, stay away!

4. The worldbuilding is mostly made up. Don't overanalyze it. Sending everyone hearts!

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How Could My Husband Be a Dragon-Ao?

(Also known as: How Could My Husband Be the Demon Lord?)

While gathering herbs in the back mountains, Shen Guijin found a beauty.

The beauty's clothes were half undone, his eyes were red at the corners, and his whole body was burning as he burrowed into Shen Guijin's arms. It was obvious he'd fallen victim to the Harmony Sect's dirty trick.

Shen Guijin: "..."

Why can't I just have a normal life?

He had once been the Dragon-Ao of the cultivation world, striding freely through both the immortal and demonic realms. Bound to the Dragon-Ao System, every day he was either making a comeback or on his way to a comeback and a face-slapping triumph.

Shen Guijin was truly tired.

He no longer wanted a life full of upheaval. He only wanted to open a medicinal garden, grow a few acres of spirit herbs, and become an unremarkable medicine cultivator. That was why he had found this place, far from both the immortal and demonic realms: he just wanted some peace and quiet.

He examined the beauty's spiritual roots and discovered that his cultivation was mediocre, as if he were an ordinary person. He was also deeply poisoned and would die if left untreated.

Helpless, Shen Guijin wanted to be a gentleman, but saving someone was an urgent matter. In any case... Ahem. Afterward, feeling guilty, he said to the beauty, who had woken up looking dazed, "If you're willing, I'll take care of you from now on."

The beauty stared blankly at him for a long moment. "So... you're my husband?"

Oh no! The beauty had lost his memory!

But that was fine too... Shen Guijin thought. It seemed he really would have to take care of him.

*

Yin Yan was the Demon Lord of the Netherworld Mountain. After an enemy framed him with an aphrodisiac, his meridians were obstructed, leaving him stranded in the wilderness, where an unremarkable medicine cultivator picked him up and made him his husband.

Before regaining his memories, he was completely obedient to his husband, Shen Guijin. Shen Guijin treated him well, too, and, feeling indebted to him, personally cooked his meals and prepared his medicine every day... Their life together was quite happy.

But...

When Yin Yan suddenly regained his memories, he found it extremely hard to accept... How could he have become someone's husband? He was the Demon Lord!

Humiliating. Utterly humiliating!

Yin Yan had meant to kill Shen Guijin, but then he thought of how attentively the man had cared for him... Forget it. He was his savior, after all, so Yin Yan would spare his life.

So he left a note and went away.

But after returning to the Netherworld Mountain, Yin Yan found himself sleepy and nauseous. He summoned a physician, who examined him and told him he was pregnant.

Yin Yan: "Huh?"

He, the Demon Lord, had been slept with several times by a lowly medicine cultivator.

And now he was... PREGNANT!

Later, they each found out who the other really was.

Shen Guijin: What? My frail husband, who can't even take care of himself, is actually the Demon Lord?

Yin Yan: What? How could my useless, utterly unremarkable husband be the Dragon-Ao?

(Please add it to your collection, Orz)

Theme: Growing through pain, and taking pleasure in it.