The Demon Goddess Only Wants the Phoenix Seal

When the strongest Demon God of the Three Realms gets her hands on a palace-intrigue script.

Rong Nianyi says: How hard can it be to become empress?

You'd think this was a brainless power fantasy about an overpowered expert crushing everyone beneath her.

But the moment she enters the palace, she discovers that the favored consort smiling sweetly at her is a thousand-year-old snake demon.

Looking around, there are barely any normal people in the entire imperial palace besides the emperor!

Rong Nianyi: Gods, demons, monsters, whatever you are, once you get here, you'll all be crawling at my feet.

Witchcraft and frame-ups?

Rong Nianyi: Why not take a look at which one of us is the Demon God?

A plague runs rampant?

Rong Nianyi: Come here. I'll get you a guaranteed spot as an imperial physician.

A gift gets switched?

Rong Nianyi: I'll turn your own trick against you and have your whole family executed.

Faking a pregnancy to compete for favor?

Rong Nianyi: I can even use spiritual power to conjure twins. What can you possibly do against me?

Rong Nianyi counters every move as she climbs from Noble Lady to Noble Consort, and finally becomes empress.

She only meant to make a quick stop in the mortal world, get the phoenix seal, then fake her death and leave.

But she never expected that the usually aloof, ascetic young Daoist, who always scowled at her, would burn himself to ashes and forge a Golden Core to save her life.

Looking at the young Daoist, now reduced to nothing but a painting, Rong Nianyi's gaze turned cold. "Fool."

*

Later, everyone said the Demon God had no heart. None of them knew that deep within the palace, she nourished a wisp of the painting's lingering soul with her own lifeblood, day and night.

An immortal lord sighed. "Your obsession runs too deep. You've already fallen into demonic cultivation."

Rong Nianyi gently stroked the scroll and said nothing.

In her ten thousand years of life, she'd done one foolish thing.

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending | Demon God heroine x a Celestial Master transformed from the Imperial Seal, both with secret identities, slow burn

2. Monster-hunting arcs and palace power struggles unfold in parallel. Not a brainless power fantasy: expect both angst and sweetness.

3. The heroine enters the palace as part of a mission. She has no real involvement with the emperor and never shares his bed.

4. The hero sacrifices himself midway through the story. They reunite with a happy ending, and the romance runs throughout.

Theme: An obsession that transcends life and death