The Great, Great Demon King

A companion piece to The Daily Life of a Live Streamer in the Immortal Realm. A fantastical, silly romance wrapped in a transmigration-into-a-book premise.

As a social phobic, He Xiao found great comfort in the ongoing novel The Cultivation World's Most Beloved Darling.

Other people liked the aloof male lead, the beloved female lead, and the spirit beast that shed pearls whenever it cried.

He Xiao had more peculiar tastes. She liked the great Demon King of the demon realm: the one who was blind, slaughtered his way through the demon caves, murdered his father to seize power, and was as sinister as he was cunning.

He embodied every unlikeable trait in the book. At their first meeting, he even helped the beloved female lead unlock the achievement "crushed to dust and scattered to the winds," earning himself the nickname "Old Bastard Dog."

The Demon King really was a bastard. He and the female lead never had a chance of becoming a couple, so the author promptly moved him from the book's second male lead slot to the very end of the supporting cast, where he appeared only as background scenery.

He Xiao cautiously tapped out on her keyboard: [Does the Demon King not get any more scenes...? Day 19 of missing him...]

Other readers soon swarmed her, turning it into a thread titled [What Kind of Freaky Couple Is This], [Ha, the Demon King Old Bastard Dog deserves more scenes?], and [Can you stop disrupting the author's writing process?]

He Xiao didn't dare comment again. Sitting in the dark, she murmured to herself,

"I feel like... he's had a pretty hard time, too."

"I kind of want to hug him..."

The next moment, everything went black.

When she opened her eyes again, white bones howled throughout the demon caves, starving corpses wailed, and countless demons flew toward her, laughing wildly and shouting, "Your Majesty, a living person has arrived!"

The greatest villain in the book gazed at her coldly and raised a hand, about to unleash the ultimate attack that would "crush the female lead to dust and scatter her soul."

At that moment, an artificial voice rang out in He Xiao's mind.

[Transmigrate Into a Book Mission 1: Give the Demon King a hug]

He Xiao: H-help...

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[He Xiao's Diary]

After spending half a year in the book with the Demon King, I transmigrated back.

After turning heaven and earth upside down, he couldn't find me, dead or alive. So he broke through the dimensional barrier and transmigrated into the modern world in search of me.

I think he wants to strangle me.

But he says, "I missed you so much."

-I searched through countless fragments of souls, and kept every one that looked like you.

Written on April 19, 2021. Probably opening at the end of the year.

Theme: As long as you have a goal, keep working toward it