The Goddess Knows Not the One Beside Her Pillow

From the day she awoke, Princess Yu Yuan of Great Yu remembered only one thing: she had once been a goddess who suppressed the Demon Realm, transforming herself into a tower to seal it away for ten thousand years. Now reborn, her sole mission was to repair the Heaven-Piercing Tower and restore the seal.

To fulfill her mission, Yu Yuan had to find the legendary "formation core." And her gentle, jade-like fiancé, Su Jichuan, who indulged her in everything, was the perfect "useful tool" in all the world.

Yu Yuan swung her dagger, her voice light and casual. "Young Master Su, I'd like to borrow some of your heart's blood."

Su Jichuan smiled warmly and offered his chest without hesitation. "If A Yuan wants it, take it."

Yu Yuan thought she was simply winning over a softhearted, easy-to-handle mortal. Her mind was entirely on restoring the seal, and she had no idea that the one she had awakened with her own hands was the supreme ruler of the Demon Realm, whom she had trampled beneath her feet and ground to dust ten thousand years ago.

He wore the guise of a gentle fiancé, laying his plans step by step. Every act of obedience was a trap meant to lure her into the abyss.

On the day her memories returned, Yu Yuan pointed her divine sword at his throat. He seized the blade with his bare hand and slowly drove it into his own chest, smiling with a madness tinged with sorrow. "Ten thousand years ago, you abandoned me for all living beings. In this life, I insist that you betray them for me."

His false tenderness was a snare, his endless obedience the bait. He had lain in wait for ten thousand years, plotting every step, all to keep her bound at his side.

[Reading Guide]

Characters: A clear-headed goddess focused on her mission × a seemingly sweet but secretly twisted, obsessive, and unhinged Demon Lord

Core: Fated enemies in a past life × a fake fiancé in this life

[Bonus Scene]

Lately, Yu Yuan had felt that something about her fiancé wasn't quite right.

She casually mentioned wanting a rare spirit herb, and the next day it would appear at her bedside. She needed his heart's blood to set up a formation, and he offered his chest without so much as furrowing his brow. Even when she complained offhandedly in the middle of the night that the Demon Realm's remnants were a nuisance, those demons would vanish without a trace the next day.

Yu Yuan stroked her chin and nodded to herself. Not bad. This useful tool was not only obedient, but exceptionally capable. He was practically made for her.

And in the dead of night, unseen by anyone, the Demon Lord's gentle smile faded. He pinched out the last wisp of demonic qi and gazed down at the sleeping girl beside him, his eyes filled with ten thousand years of obsession and possessiveness.

His subordinate demon general trembled. "My lord, you command all demons. Why put yourself through this?"

The man kissed the girl's hair, his voice low and dangerous. "Put myself through it? If it means keeping her by my side, I'd gladly pretend to be obedient. I'd even die one more time."

"After all, my goddess can only be mine."

Sleeping Yu Yuan rolled over, completely unaware that the useful tool she thought she had under her thumb had long since decided to love her for the rest of his life.

Theme: A goddess with ten thousand years of lost memories awakens, accompanied by her nemesis, the Demon Lord. Together, they face the choice between good and evil, break the shackles of Heaven's laws, and reshape the order of the world.