They say the head of the Demon Cult's leader, Yu Xiangsi, is worth a fortune. Xu Shengxuan, who only wants to earn money to treat her adoptive mother's illness, grits her teeth and takes up the martial world's bounty.
Worried her assassination attempt might fail, Xu Shengxuan has a sudden inspiration and simply disguises herself as a man.
The plan goes more smoothly than expected.
She becomes Yu Xiangsi's personal attendant.
Unfortunately, she serves the demon every day, bringing tea and helping him bathe and dress. She gets close to him eight hundred times a day, yet never gets a chance to strike.
Then the demon is betrayed by his subordinates, drugged, and forced to flee while injured.
Xu Shengxuan's eyes light up. "A heaven-sent opportunity! There's no time to lose!"
She sneaks into the secret chamber where Yu Xiangsi is hiding.
But the demon, normally cold-blooded and ruthless, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, has his clothes half off. His upper body is bare, and he is panting heavily.
Seeing the demon's dark eyes fixed on her, Xu Shengxuan feels a chill run down her back. "Something's wrong. This doesn't seem like a sedative..."
She turns to run, but it's too late. The demon drags her straight onto a stone bed.
After a chaotic night, Xu Shengxuan panics.
Fortunately, the demon thinks he spent the night entangled with a man.
Once she is back in her female form, Xu Shengxuan takes a large amount of his gold and silver and slips away for good.
After more than a year of hiding, she finally hears that the Demon Cult has given up pursuing her.
Xu Shengxuan breathes a sigh of relief, then spots the highest-paying bounty available and, unable to resist the money, takes it.
The mission is to marry a female bandit on behalf of a small sect's young master.
She has to disguise herself as a man again.
She figures it will be fine.
But just as the bridal sedan gets underway, Xu Shengxuan's ears ring, her vision blurs, and her consciousness fades.
When she opens her eyes again, Xu Shengxuan is back in the demon's lair, her hands and feet shackled in heavy chains.
She looks at the tall, familiar figure before her and stiffens.
Xu Shengxuan is numb. "...I'm doomed!!!"
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In all his life, Yu Xiangsi has hated being deceived most of all. Yet he repeatedly lets the eccentric, money-loving young woman who keeps provoking him get away with it.
He lets her take a bounty to assassinate him.
He lets her approach him disguised as a clumsy attendant.
He lets her escape and hide from him.
Conquering his nemesis brought a little human warmth to Yu Xiangsi's life as a demon who was close to death.
Until she appeared again, rushing off to "save" some young sect master and getting tangled up with another man.
Yu Xiangsi felt like he couldn't breathe again.
It seemed time to make her face the truth: she was already spoken for.
//Blurb written on 2026.1.3, screenshot saved
[Reading tips]:
·Eccentric, energetic money-lover x indifferent, ruthless Demon Cult leader
·A sweet story about two little bitter melons healing each other
·There's a reason the male lead considers the heroine his nemesis
·Around the middle, there will be a dramatic rivalry between the young sect master in the blurb and the male lead
·It's listed as fantasy because some of the worldbuilding leans more toward fantasy~
Theme: A sweet little story about two people healing each other =w=
