What Exactly Is Your Relationship with the Demon Lord?

[The full story is complete. Bonus chapters are being released one by one!]

☆Synopsis↓

#What do you do when you ship a couple and end up in the pairing yourself?

#My demon lord's beloved is actually me?

☆ A gossipy, shameless bottom who loves gossip x an inscrutable, icy, devoted, tsundere top

☆ Told mainly from the bottom's perspective. Synopsis↓

1.

Gu Yaoye, a ne'er-do-well from the demon realm, died horribly in the battle between immortals and demons in his previous life.

In this life, he somehow found himself reborn as Yaoye Sword Master, an unbeatable righteous cultivator with a stacked set of buffs and extraordinary talent.

As long as he didn't cause trouble or get exposed this time around, he was guaranteed an easy win... or so he thought.

No one had told him that the demon lord, who had betrayed the immortal sect and killed even the previous demon lord in his past life, was the original host's junior fellow disciple!

"Senior brother."

The young demon lord looked at him and called him that. Gu Yaoye was horrified. He was done for. Was there any way he'd survive this?

Wait. Why was the demon lord looking at him so strangely?

Could it be that the demon lord and the original host... had been an item??!

2.

Gu Yaoye didn't have many hobbies, apart from reading romance stories and shipping couples.

And the demon lord in this life had thoroughly awakened his love of gossip:

One was the aloof Sword Master senior brother, the other a fallen demon lord.

What exactly was their relationship? This was so exciting! Could they be... each other's one true love??!

Using the original host's face as a disguise, Gu Yaoye began testing the waters:

He ruffled the demon lord's hair, and the demon lord's ears turned scarlet. He stood up for other disciples and got scolded.

He complimented the demon lord, who accepted it readily, but when Gu Yaoye tried to get a little closer, the demon lord told him to get lost.

You say they're just bros? Who blushes every time his bro gets a compliment?

You say there's something going on? Who treats his one true love like he's about to kill him?

Alas, the demon lord's heart was as unfathomable as the ocean floor. Gu Yaoye turned everything over and over in his mind, but still couldn't figure out what was going on between them!

Until the demon lord took him away and called him by his childhood nickname.

Gu Yaoye: ?

So the demon lord had known from the very beginning that he wasn't the original host?

But how could Gu Yaoye not know that he and the demon lord had any kind of relationship in their previous lives?!

After shipping couples for so long, the person he liked... turned out to be me?!!!

Oh my god, why didn't you say so sooner!

☆The top's perspective↓

Duan Qingkuang didn't know how things had gone so wrong in his previous life.

He always seemed to be one step too late, making the wrong choice at every turn, until the person he loved in secret died right in front of him.

Countless fine raindrops slid across his eyes, leaving him with only one desperate wish:

If it were possible, he would trade all his cultivation in this life for a chance to save him.

When he woke again, he discovered he had been reborn and returned to the past.

When they met again, he recognized the familiar figure at a glance. His wish had come true.

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But why was this person constantly clinging to him in this life?

*Reading Guide

▪️ Both leads are reborn. They're virgins, and it has a happy ending. This isn't traditional immortal cultivation, but leans more toward cultivation and monster-fighting. The setting is entirely author-created, and the story is fairly sweet, so rest assured!

▪️ The top was very restrained in his previous life, but can no longer hide his feelings in this one. The bottom was rather oblivious before, but is halfway to figuring things out now!

▪️ There is a section where the bottom believes he's a replacement.

▪️ Important: There is a huge twist in the second volume, personality changes, and an explosion of intense romance!

The top knew the bottom's identity from the start, which is why he treated him that way! The relationship between the two of them and the original host, and what happened to the original host, will all be explained later! No spoilers.

*The cover features the characters.

Theme: People can overcome fate.