After Faking a Marriage with the Demon Lord

[New novel on my author page: "Meow Be Thy Word." Take a look if you're interested~]

The Shen family's prodigy, Shen Buyu, tries a secret technique to summon a soul into a new puppet of her own making, hoping to deal with her father's plans to find her a husband. To her surprise, the spell summons Lin Zizhou, the Demon Lord.

Before meeting her father, Shen Buyu earnestly tells him, "Let me make this clear: we're love at first sight, so don't let the truth slip."

Lin Zizhou, who's only just woken up: "You expect me to listen to you?"

Word spreads that the Shen family's young prodigy is getting married. The young masters and wandering heroes around the martial world all breathe a sigh of relief: She's finally getting married?

Then they hear that her husband is Lin Zizhou, and the gossip-loving crowd of the martial world says: What a poor guy.

#A little awkward around each other at first#

#Only later do they realize they're sworn enemies#

Reader's guide:

1. Before Chapter 17, the leads meet and some backstory is explained. There are no romantic feelings yet. The wedding arc and the sweet enemies-to-lovers storyline begin after Chapter 17.

2. Sweet romance, married first and falling in love later. The hero is gentle on the outside but fierce within; the heroine is fierce on the outside but soft within. Her point of view, one-on-one romance, happy ending.

3. Updated daily. I'll take a break if something comes up.

4. Content warning: The end of Volume 2 (Chapters 43-44) is poorly written. I recommend not buying it.

Upcoming novel "Meow Be Thy Word" blurb

There are countless adorable cats in the world, but Miao Miao is the only one in the entire Tianling Realm obsessed with cultivation. After more than five thousand years of hard work, she's finally about to cultivate nine tails. Then, after the heavenly thunder strikes: Stupid tribulation! You ruined my tail! What cultivation? I'm done!

Her sisters in the clan chime in at just the right moment: What's the point of spending your whole life cultivating? Come eat, drink, have fun, and fall in love!

Is love really something you can just decide to have?

The "Heavenly Fate Secret Art" Miao Miao found says: A thread links two people across a thousand miles; fate is decided by heaven.

Lin Yan, the one who gets "linked," finds a hand-sized glass lamp with a little cat inside who speaks in a soft, sweet voice (not really).

The little cat grants his every wish and gives him whatever he wants, raising Lin Yan from a pitiful nobody with nothing into the senior disciple of a renowned sect.

Then the little cat's true identity is exposed.

Lin Yan: Who are you?

Miao Miao: Your wife.

(It's a known fact that humans can't resist a good thing, and cats are no different.)

At first,

Miao Miao: Just how useless are you? You can't even master the Stone Shield Spell, a basic Foundation Establishment technique?

Lin Yan: I'm only at the Qi Refining stage.

Later,

Miao Miao: Have you eaten?

Lin Yan: Not yet.

Miao Miao (What kind of lousy sect doesn't even provide meals?!)

#Online romance, and the reveal doesn't kill you#

#That demon with the knife absolutely isn't my little sweetheart#

A powerful, flirtatious, outrageously arrogant demoness heroine x a seemingly gentle but secretly ruthless sword cultivator hero who plays the fool to catch the tiger

A recommendation for my friend's male-protagonist romance, a Western Crossover:

"[Western Crossover] Faking My Death Is Fun for Now, but Later Comes the Shura Field" by Xie Fengjun

Synopsis: I was a jerk to this guy. Oh, and that guy too.

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