The Tsundere Demon King Wants to Win Me Over

Bright, sunny ray × proud, aloof iceberg | Healing type × ruthless type | Spiritual power inhabitation

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Jin Wuhuan, the youngest ruler of the Demon Realm, has stacked corpses beneath his throne and spilled blood across the Six Realms.

He keeps to himself and trusts no one.

After an accident, his spiritual power became lodged inside an ordinary human girl for three hundred years.

She had only average talent. After three hundred years of cultivation, she was still the worst in her sect, spending her days tending flowers, slacking off, and feeding birds.

The ninety-ninth time he sensed her nearly injure herself while practicing swordsmanship, he decided to take back his spiritual power early.

He had known from birth that spiritual power recognizes its master.

But when he raised his hand to call it back, nothing happened.

He tried again, and still nothing.

On the third try, his own spiritual power flung him away...

Only when the silver glow nestled inside Su Ruo stretched lazily toward him did Jin Wuhuan realize that his spiritual power didn't seem to want to come back.

Later, he accidentally discovered that whenever Su Ruo's feelings for him grew, he could reclaim a little of his spiritual power. So he took the assumed name "A Jin" and approached her as a wandering cultivator, reclaiming his power bit by bit.

His spiritual power let him learn what she liked and sense her emotions, making it easy to become her "friend."

He accompanied her as they rode their swords to see the lights of countless homes, formed a pact to slay an ancient demon beast, and, in his spare time, helped tend and water her flowers.

As his spiritual power gradually returned, his heart suddenly clenched when he saw her smile brightly at her senior brother.

He could feel her heartbeat there, growing faster and faster, but it wasn't for him.

The usually cold and aloof Demon Lord's lips curved into a faint smile. Oh, I'll remember that.

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For three hundred years, Su Ruo had dreamed of the same person.

She could never make out his face, and he never spoke. He simply watched her in silence, his red eyes holding something she couldn't understand, profound and heavy.

She asked her senior sister about it. Her senior sister said she'd been single too long and was just desperate for a man.

Su Ruo: ...

Later, she met a wandering cultivator named A Jin.

He was somewhat aloof, but they unexpectedly got along. He knew that she liked listening to thunder, understood whether her smile was sincere or just for show, and sometimes stood watch beside her while she slept. When she woke, she would find him watching her, his gaze exactly like the gaze of the person in her dreams.

Su Ruo thought he must have put a spell on her.

The more she restrained herself around him, the more intense her dreams became.

Until one night, the person in her dream was no longer a blurry silhouette. It was A Jin.

He clasped her wrist and devoured her with his deep gaze, inch by inch, his eyes turning red. "Ruo Ruo, look closely."

"It's me. It's always been me."

Note: One-on-one pairing, happy ending. The heroine has a vague crush on her senior brother early on, but that's all. The hero is devoted in both body and heart.

Theme: Wherever the heart finds peace is home.