When the Lanshang Sword is drawn, demons must die.
Yet one demon keeps leaping about beneath its blade: the Demon Lord Yan Zhuo.
What no one knows is that the notorious Demon Lord Yan Zhuo has gaps in his memory. He has forgotten his past life and has no idea where to go or what to do.
His luck is terrible. As soon as he comes out of seclusion, his spiritual energy is unstable, and an invisible hand of fate pushes him straight into trouble: he runs into Murong Yue, emperor of the Winged Clan, who carries an ancient demon-slaying sword.
Murong Yue has long white hair, pale blue eyes, and looks like a celestial beauty, but he's here to kill demons!
Just as Yan Zhuo steels himself for a brutal fight,
Murong Yue says, "There's no demonic aura on you. You can go."
Yan Zhuo: ???
Am I deaf, or are you blind? But the spiritual energy on him really is soothing. It even calms the demonic energy raging inside me.
They say the Lanshang Sword leaves wounds that never heal, and that the pain returns whenever the sword or its master appears. It's only a legend because no demon has ever survived to bear a wound. They all die outright.
Yan Zhuo knows the rumor is true, because he has just such a scar across his chest.
Deliberate protection, familiar spiritual energy, an old wound that aches...
Is Murong Yue friend or foe?
Yan Zhuo wants only to live freely for the rest of his life, thinking of himself alone. Murong Yue, on the other hand, only resents how little time he has, with heavy responsibilities and an urgent task.
Amid shifting schemes and treacherous plots, the pages of memory slowly unfold. It turns out the two have been entangled for a long time.
The Demon Lord bares his heart to the Winged Emperor and is rejected. He bares it again, and is rejected again... But a true hero dares to face a challenge. And so he fights, loses, fights again, and keeps coming back.
A morally ambiguous, easygoing pursuer who is stubbornly devoted to one person x a cool, distant, duty-bound, deeply loyal beauty with a tragic fate. A reunited lovers story, happy ending.
Premise: Cherish the present.
