Martial Arts Domination | Enemies to Lovers, Married First
Rebellious puppy vs. tsundere kitten
Song Yan, daughter of the Martial Alliance Chief, had a demon fiancé held hostage on Mount Hua ever since she was a child.
The Demon Cult's young master, Yu Liu.
Rumor had it he was as beautiful as an immortal, with a noble and gentle air.
The Demon Cult members often said, "Our young master is pure-hearted and mild-mannered. He wouldn't even step on an ant by the roadside."
Then they handed her a book called The Art of Managing Your Husband.
They declared with great conviction, "Miss, you're strong and healthy. Once you're married, you must keep the young master in line and make him obey the three rules of wifely virtue."
Song Jinye: "What three rules?"
The cult members shook their heads sagely. "A man follows his wife after marriage, and after his wife dies, he follows his daughter. In short, he must do as you say."
Her senior brothers and sisters said, "Junior Brother Yu may have a bit of a temper... ahem, but he's very modest and polite. He's a good kid."
They stuffed a book called How to Win an Argument into her hands.
Song Jinye understood. Her fiancé, whom she had never met, was noble and gentle, with a kind nature.
[2]
When she first entered the martial world, Song Jinye disguised herself as a man and took the name Yu Liu to avoid trouble, using her fiancé's identity to travel the jianghu.
Unexpectedly, she got caught up in a martial arts feud and met a vicious young man with a sharp tongue and a cruel heart: Song Yanchou.
The two were natural enemies, full of malice toward each other, and both wanted the other dead.
That is, until the day their identities were exposed.
A huge river barge arrived to meet them.
The man everyone feared was nothing like he had been before. Sword in hand, he stood aloof and composed.
He ordered, "What are you all standing around for? Leave no one on that ship alive."
Song Jinye asked the person beside her, "...Who did you say he was again?"
"The moody young master of the Demon Cult."
Song Jinye was dumbstruck.
The young man showed no restraint. He insulted everyone there, friend and foe alike.
"You're all just ants. Do I really have to deal with you myself?"
"What? You can't win, so you've come crying to your young master? Hoping I'll be magnanimous?"
"Even a dog is more useful than you. Bunch of idiots."
The next moment, without a hint of hesitation, the young man said with heartfelt sincerity, "Kill her."
Song Jinye: "..."
[3]
To complete their sect's mission together, the two natural enemies decided to put aside their hostility for the time being and work together for mutual gain.
Then they learned that two people in the group would have to pretend to be married to lower the enemy's guard.
Everyone turned to look at them.
Yu Liu's face darkened. "Absurd."
Song Jinye smiled without a trace of humor. "Are you insane?"
For the sake of the greater good, the two had no choice but to compromise.
By day, they treated each other with impeccable courtesy. By night, they clung together in a passionate embrace.
* A truly married couple in disguise.
* A righteous young woman raised crooked in the Demon Cult vs. the Demon Cult's young master, raised to be upright by Mount Hua and taught the virtues of etiquette and loyalty from childhood, yet rebellious to his core and determined to make his fiancée empress.
* Disguising themselves as each other + mutual identity reveals
Theme: Cultivate yourself, manage your family, govern the state, and bring peace to the world.