A Heart of Pure Devotion

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For some reason, Jing Ruirui couldn't stand Shen Lu and had always thought of him as her nemesis. She assumed Shen Lu felt the same way.

Until she realized she'd dreamed about him three nights in a row.

In her dreams, she was the Supreme Empress Jing Wuyuan, and Shen Lu was the Asura General Jiang Yuchuan.

Historical records say that in the year 314 of the Shun Dynasty, Jiang Yuchuan closed the border and slaughtered an entire city, leaving hundreds of thousands dead or injured.

In the year 315, Jing Wuyuan issued an imperial decree ordering Jiang Yuchuan's death by a thousand cuts, then ascended the throne.

Thus began the Shun Dynasty's centuries of prosperity.

Jing Ruirui: Well, damn.

So they weren't nemeses. They were mortal enemies.

When enemies meet, their eyes blaze with hatred.

On the basketball court, Shen Lu took a flying ball for Jing Ruirui and got hit hard.

Jing Ruirui's eyes immediately reddened.

Shen Lu smiled helplessly. "Why are you crying? It doesn't hurt."

Jing Ruirui: "Bullshit!"

Their classmates: ???

Have our department's two gorgeous nemeses finally gotten together?!

Another day, another heartbreak for everyone in the department.

*I once loved you deeply, and I still do.*

A spicy little firecracker who can play the innocent flower or a strong female lead VS

a scheming, ruthless male lead who loses fans every time he opens his mouth, and would rather talk than lift a finger.

[Synopsis of Picking Up a Demon Lord After Transmigrating into a Book]

Lu Wenyan transmigrates into a xianxia novel as a cannon-fodder supporting character with a lovesick brain. To imbue her senior brother's life-sword with a spirit, she willingly jumps into the Soul-Devouring Pool. Before she dies, countless ghosts tear at her, leaving her in unbearable agony.

Lu Wenyan: What? If I buy a standing ticket tonight and get out of here, is it still in time?

System: Complete the plot, and you'll receive one chance to be reborn and a cultivation level ten times your own limit.

Lu Wenyan: Suddenly, I feel like I can do this after all!

So she diligently follows the plot. When the time comes, she willingly sinks into the pool and fakes her death, ready to live freely as a carefree little immortal, far from it all.

System: The Host's soul is incomplete. You cannot receive the second reward. Find all the pieces of your soul and try again.

Lu Wenyan: ...What a garbage System! Are you messing with me?

She has no choice but to return to the Soul-Devouring Pool to find the missing pieces of her soul. There, she discovers that the mountain sect has been blown up by the Demon Lord, who is notorious for killing without blinking. And wouldn't you know it, she gets caught red-handed.

Lu Wenyan: ...Why aren't you staying in the Demon Realm, Your Excellency? Why come out looking for trouble? QAQ

I'm tired. I don't want to live anymore. Might as well die.

*

Xi Feibai runs into trouble during his tribulation. Badly injured and on the verge of death, he flees to the human realm and becomes a human boy with no magic left.

As he's barely clinging to life, a pair of soft hands helps him up, tends his wounds, and gives him medicine.

Then she poisons him into silence.

Demon Lord: ...The moment I recover even one percent of my power, you're dead.

Later, Xi Feibai realizes that Lu Wenyan genuinely doesn't know what the medicine does. He watches her waste her days instead of practicing, with her thoughts full of nothing but her senior brother. She goes blind testing medicine for him, then nearly gets captured and turned into a human cauldron while seeking a spiritual herb for him.

What an idiot. The righteous sects really are full of idiots.

She probably won't even survive long enough for him to recover one percent of his power.

The Demon Lord is a man of his word. Lu Wenyan really doesn't live to see him recover his power. She jumps into the Soul-Devouring Pool right in front of him.

*

They say the entire Cangxiao Sect was massacred.

Covered in blood, the Demon Lord slowly and brutally pulls the life-sword out of the sect's eldest disciple. A chilling smile touches his lips. "The suffering she endured, I'll make you repay a hundredfold, a thousandfold."

A demon general drags someone in and throws him to the ground. "We missed one."

"Kill him." The Demon Lord speaks casually, raising his eyes to look at the unconscious person on the ground.

Xi Feibai: ...Wait.

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

2. Not orthodox cultivation fantasy, with a mountain of original worldbuilding.

3. The male lead isn't a good person. A Demon Lord should act like a Demon Lord.

4. No matter how powerful you are, you can still have a secret crush.

Theme: Love and peace.