I'm Really Not the Great Demon King

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Here's the blurb for this novel:

Question: What's it like to transmigrate into a book as a family outcast who is abandoned by his family, then sacrificed, and finally left with no intact corpse?

Shao Jishu: Thanks for asking. It's amazing!

In his previous life, orphan Shao Jishu never left the hospital from the day he was born. He transmigrates into an ongoing novel he hadn't finished reading before he died, The Struggle for Supremacy: The Sword Saint's Unusual Path on the Xuanhuan Continent, and becomes a tragic cannon-fodder character.

When he opens his eyes, the scene where his family abandons him is just beginning.

When he hears he is to be exiled a thousand miles away to a desolate place, Shao Jishu immediately packs his bags and leaves without a backward glance.

A thousand miles away? Great! Food, drink, and money for the taking.

The little spirit beasts he casually picked up are pretty capable, too.

The one that can spray water irrigates the fields, the strong one pulls the plow, and the flying one keeps the wild birds away.

He doesn't even have to pay anyone to work for him.

This life is peaceful and pleasant.

His only problem is that the neighbor keeps showing up to mooch off him.

Sigh, what a nuisance. But he doesn't seem very bright, so never mind. I'll consider it charity.

At least he's strong. Now there's someone to handle killing the chickens.

*

In his previous life, Ye Yaoquan, master of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, foresaw that one person would overturn the world.

Unfortunately, it was already too late. Everywhere that person had passed was now a sea of corpses and blood.

In the end, Ye Yaoquan had no choice but to die alongside him, and only then did peace return to the world.

Reborn, the first thing he thinks of is snuffing out this demon before he can grow up.

But he never expected...

The Dry-Bone Black Tortoise that once flooded a hundred thousand miles is now focused on irrigating two mountainsides every day.

The One-Handed Qilin that once shattered mountains and rivers with a single step is trying to make the tool behind him easier to use.

The Half-Winged Demon Phoenix that once burned a hundred thousand cities is curled up in the arms of that great demon, whining that it's tired today.

Ye Yaoquan: ???

What's going on?

Were the three great demonic beasts, who once killed gods and Buddhas alike, really like this in private?

And how come Shao Jishu doesn't even dare to kill a chicken?

Weren't you the great Demon King in your previous life?

[Cover artist: Shui Mo Dan Qing - Yi Xu]

Content warnings:

The gong briefly has one true identity and two secret identities in the book, at different times.

The shou has two names, one from before and one from after transmigrating into the book. They are not typos.

Coming Soon 1: My Favorite Escaped After Becoming the Demon Lord's Darling

"One pretends to escape, the other really gives chase."

Zhu Hanqing accidentally transmigrates into a book,

landing in an outrageously melodramatic romance about winning back a lover.

Unfortunately, he transmigrates as the "wife."

Zhu Hanqing smiles scornfully.

He's a man through and through. How could he ever get together with another man?

And having a child at the end of the story? Utter nonsense!

But he's lost his memories, so he has to be careful.

Though things get off to a difficult start, with him opening his eyes to a huge red bed,

Zhu Hanqing relies on his memories and does everything he can to change the plot.

At last, he escapes the side of the moody, possessive Demon Lord.

The world is vast, with plenty of opportunity. Now that he's free, Zhu Hanqing is happy and carefree.

He writes poetry with a charming, refined poet.

He spars with a cold and aloof Daoist sage.

He shares drinks with the lively and spirited prince of the demon clan.

But what pleases him most is meeting a lifelong friend along the way.

His friend is handsome, gentle, and easygoing. They hit it off at once.

They can talk happily about anything, from poetry and literature to the meaning of life.

They even have remarkably similar tastes in food.

The two travel together across the land.

Then one day, an accident occurs.

To protect Zhu Hanqing,

his friend suddenly transforms into the Demon Lord who imprisoned him at the beginning!!!

Zhu Hanqing: Is it too late to run now?!

It wouldn't be right to abandon my friend just like that. [Thinking]

*

Everyone knows that Demon Lord Feng Heng is cold and heartless.

For centuries, nobody has even seen his true face.

He acted on impulse and kidnapped a pretty young man from outside, keeping him by his side day after day.

Everyone envies the young beauty, who seems to have risen to the top overnight.

But only he knows

that all the young beauty can think about is escaping.

If that's what you want, I'll let you go.

If I don't, you'll never know that none of those people are even one hundredth as good to you as I am.

Sharp-tongued shou x possessive gong

Note: There is no childbirth in the main story. The extra chapters feature unconventional childbirth.

The gong is possessive and disturbed, and not a good person.

The shou thinks he's straight.

Cover artist: y Cai Yu [Guang Ming Ding]

Coming Soon 2: The Little Fox Escaped from the Crematorium

The little fox has always thought he was an especially lucky little fox.

When he first took human form, a kind senior disciple found him and brought him back to the sect.

All the senior and junior disciples in the sect doted on him.

The sect leader traveled thousands of miles just to find him a ten-thousand-year-old elixir.

His uncle-master taught him to cultivate every day, saying that combining his inherited memories with human cultivation methods would make him stronger.

His senior disciple ignored the sect's rules and took him to explore a secret realm, nearly losing his soul and spirit while protecting him.

But who knew that from the very beginning, it was all an enormous conspiracy?

The sect leader gave him the elixir to strengthen his soul.

His uncle-master taught him to cultivate so his flesh and blood would grow resilient.

His senior disciple risked his life for him so he could temper his immortal bones in the secret realm.

It was all so they could tear out his tendons and bones.

Their ultimate goal was to refine him into a pill

and rebuild the body of the book's universally adored junior disciple, who sacrificed himself to feed a demon.

Given another chance, the little fox doesn't want to repeat the same mistakes.

He won't forgive those who hurt him, and he won't forget the pain.

He takes the book stored in his mind and leaves the sect.

But why have the people in the sect all changed?

What used to be exploitation seems to have turned into genuine affection.

Still, the little fox has no interest in getting involved.

He starts wandering around aimlessly, hiding wherever he can.

At last, he finds somewhere safe and peaceful.

Only after living there for a while does he discover that he has a neighbor.

The neighbor is quiet and keeps to himself, barely seeming to exist.

The wary little fox is very pleased by this.

But word spreads that the little fox has immortal bones.

A large crowd of cultivators gathers outside his home.

Outnumbered, the little fox prepares to blow himself up,

when

an immense burst of spiritual power freezes everyone in place.

No one dares approach.

At that moment, his neighbor, dressed in white, steps in front of the little fox.

"Who dares take my fox?"

*

Later on:

"Y-you're going to tear out my tendons and bones too? Sob..."

"You're mine from head to tail. Taking only your tendons and bones would be a bit of a waste, wouldn't it?"

Reborn little fox shou x powerful immortal gong

The sect's reckoning takes place early on and has nothing to do with the gong.

The gong spoils the shou.

Theme: Punish the forces of evil