The Cold-Hearted Demon Lord

Lu Ciwan woke from the darkness to find himself lying in a pitch-black cave. There was nothing around him except for a soft, white little dumpling. And the dumpling called him Daddy. That was when he remembered: he was dead, and had been for over five years. * He also remembered that he had been a demon lord who fell for Jiang Qiuwu, an immortal of the righteous Qianqiu Sect. He had loved the immortal deeply, so he sneaked into the sect and pursued him. The immortal sect forbade them from being together. For his beloved's sake, he endured humiliation and hardship. While the immortal was in seclusion, he sealed away his own magic and suffered the sect's insults and mistreatment. They forced him to reach into blazing coals with his bare hands to retrieve the golden hairpin his beloved had given him as a token of their love. To win the sect's favor, he gathered spirit mushrooms and immortal herbs with his own hands, ignoring the thorns that tore his skin and left countless scars that would never heal. To continue the immortal sect's bloodline, he even went into a demon lair to find a spirit herb and fed it his own blood until it produced a child belonging to the two of them alone. In the end, the righteous sect told him that the immortal was cultivating the Heartless Way. He was merely a tribulation in the immortal's path. Only after he died could the immortal overcome it. Now he was reborn, but his heart no longer stirred. From now on, he would be the cold, heartless demon lord the righteous sect had always claimed he was: free and unrestrained, and never to love again. * Jiang Qiuwu had thought Lu Ciwan was merely a stepping stone on his path to immortality, someone he could coldly cast aside once he had served his purpose. But the Heartless Way he cultivated tormented him day and night, bringing him endless suffering and nearly draining away all his cultivation. Only when night fell and the pain erupted did he finally realize: Lu Ciwan was his only cure. The Heartless Way demanded a heart free of love, yet Jiang Qiuwu loved Lu Ciwan to the very depths of his soul. Theme: ...