The Gu family's eldest daughter, Gu Shuang, is a woman you do not want to cross: arrogant, domineering, and brazen.
That's what everyone in the capital says.
Even Nan Qi thinks his former fiancee is an arrogant, hopeless scoundrel.
Until the day he was confined to his residence,
the young woman snuck into his chambers in the dead of night,
gently smoothing the furrow between his brows
and murmuring, "Don't be afraid. I'll stay by your side."
Crown Prince Nan Qi is gentle and courteous,
but sadly has no particular talents and has fallen out of the emperor's favor. He's bound to be deposed sooner or later.
The rumors sound so convincing
that even Gu Shuang believes her princely cousin is a poor soul, unloved by his father.
Until one dark and windy night,
she sees with her own eyes that this seemingly frail, gentle crown prince,
who couldn't hurt a fly,
breaks an assassin's bones one by one.
He was a demon from the abyss, but that soft murmur made delusions bloom in his heart.
She had meant to lead him through the torturous sea of hell and give him a life of peace and happiness,
but she never expected to willingly give him both herself and her heart.
A demon wearing a sheep's skin, pretending to be pitiful, the vicious elder cousin × A dazzling younger cousin, playing the fool while hiding her true abilities
P.S. The younger cousin is ridiculously strong.
---Bonus Scene---
At first:
Gu Shuang, fawning: "I, your humble subject, will serve Your Highness and help you ascend the throne."
Nan Qi, smiling gently: "You're arrogant and obnoxious. Maybe I should just kill you."
Later:
Gu Shuang, forced into the job: "I, your humble subject, will serve Your Highness and help you ascend the throne."
Nan Qi, eyes bloodshot, voice pleading: "A Shuang, I've secured the throne you wanted me to sit on. The mountains, rivers, and everything beneath the heavens, I'll lay it all at your feet. Can't you stop thinking about leaving me..."
-----------Content Warnings------------
1. They are not actually cousins.
2. A very loosely constructed setting and a sweet romance. The author has made up a mountain of details.
3. The political scheming mainly serves to pave the way for romance, so please be understanding if you value airtight plot logic.
The next serial, Saving the Pitiful Little Villain (Quick Transmigration), is currently underway.
The following planned novel is Mistaking the Demon Lord for My Junior Sister. Please add it to your reading list!
Mingzhu, the eldest young lady of Wanxian Sect, is the daughter of the leader of the cultivation world's greatest sect, and her mother is descended from Nuwa. She was born with profound cultivation, a glittering family background, and a life that always goes her way. People call her "Lady Good Fortune."
But on the night of her sixteenth birthday, she had a dream. In it, she was the fake heiress in a story about a true and false heiress. The true bloodline of Wanxian Sect was actually the new junior sister who had just joined the sect. In the story, afraid her identity would be exposed, Mingzhu did all sorts of awful things to persecute the junior sister. Once the truth came out, she was cast out of Wanxian Sect and left to wander the streets, where she died fighting stray dogs for food.
When Mingzhu woke and discovered everything in her dream was true, she went to tell the leader of Wanxian Sect and his wife. The couple accepted the junior sister back into the family, and Mingzhu was allowed to stay at Wanxian Sect.
The sect leader and his wife treated Mingzhu as affectionately as ever. But whenever Mingzhu saw the junior sister's beautiful, ethereal face, so thin and wan, she felt she owed her a great deal.
So at the initiation ceremony, when the junior sister said she liked Mingzhu's jade pendant, Mingzhu gave it to her without hesitation. At the gathering of the sects, when someone slandered the junior sister, Mingzhu stepped in to shield her. In the lush, verdant secret realm, when the junior sister was gravely injured and unconscious, Mingzhu applied medicine and watched over her all night.
The more time Mingzhu spent with her junior sister, the more adorable she found her.
She was beautiful, talented, and very clingy. Most of all, she loved tugging on Mingzhu's sleeve and calling her "Big Sister."
Until the day the entire cultivation world laid siege to Wanxian Sect. When Mingzhu was surrounded and saw no hope, her junior sister appeared in red, golden blade in hand, and shielded her.
In the bleak sunlight, the golden blade flashed like lightning and a shooting star. The wielder stood proud and untamed. Only then did Mingzhu suddenly understand two things.
Her junior sister was actually a young man.
And that young man was the legendary Red-Robed Demon Lord who killed without blinking.
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The Demon Lord, Rong Mu, had his identity switched in childhood and suffered through endless hardship, which twisted his nature and filled him with hatred for the world.
At first, Rong Mu stayed by Mingzhu's side only because he wanted to see how amusing it would be if this "Lady Good Fortune" who had stolen his identity no longer had any good fortune in life.
He never expected that later he would willingly place every good thing in the world before her, wishing only for her to enjoy long life and good fortune, year after year.
A gentle, resilient ray of sunshine × A twisted, world-weary Demon Lord
A story of redemption
Theme: Don't judge people by their appearance
The Moonlit Mistake
All the Kids I Created Turned Dark
Finding Out the Cult Leader Is the Villain
Finding Out My Father Is the Villain
Mistaking the Demon Lord for My Junior Sister
I Drove the Tyrant Mad
A Marriage Decree
A Guest Arrives on a Cold Night
Saving the Pitiful Little Villain [Quick Transmigration]
The Golden Branch Above
Meng Nujiao
Crossing the Azure Dragon
Can you write an article for Song Jiuzhi again? It's a pity to read it.
I didn't expect that I'd almost finished the novel and still have to endure such a critical blow.
The supporting cast really knew the outcome would not be good from the beginning, but they were still so sad.
"Cheng" is a big bug for the author~
I go, this is too bold, this hero and heroine. . .
What kind of heart does this old emperor have? He doesn't want a child!
In the struggle for imperial power, I don't think either Nantun or Nanqi is wrong or right, but the pair in the Southern Song Dynasty... Can't reconcile themselves.
Ah, this is wrong. Then what should Nan Jiao and the heroine be called after? The generational hierarchy is so messed up.
The ending of "Sa Hua Hua" ~ It's great to watch, Shuang'er and Prince really match each other, woo woo woo, Nan Sui and Song Jiuzhi also make a good couple, but they are not the protagonists, so they don't have a happy ending, alas...
Very pretty