Building Infrastructure in the Demon Realm

Zhou Ming transmigrates into a xianxia novel called The Heartless Path, becoming Zhou Jingming, the white-lotus senior disciple who is the soul of the entire story, the most deeply hidden villain, and the beloved of countless people at the Celestial Realm's Liuming Academy. He is the soul of the story because without his secret machinations, the pitiful protagonist bottom would never have been forced into a political marriage with the Third Prince of the Demon Palace. After finally escaping, the protagonist bottom would not have been misunderstood and rejected by the protagonist top because of the rumors Zhou Jingming spread. Zhou Jingming creates more obstacles for their rocky romance than anyone else, and provides the author with more material for their interminably long story than anyone else. He is the most deeply hidden villain because he single-handedly keeps the Liuming Academy running, the Celestial Realm's foremost institution for cultivating immortals. He is the headmaster's most capable right-hand man and the Celestial Realm's shield, hated most by the Demon Realm. Who would have guessed that someone like him would plot against the two protagonists, all because he envied the protagonist bottom's kindness and innocence? Fortunately, Heaven has eyes. The protagonist bottom awakens to the plot ahead of time. With his knowledge of how the story unfolds, he convinces the protagonist top, who then convinces his adoptive father, the headmaster. At the Spirit Pool ceremony, where they are to decide who will marry into the Demon Realm, they change their minds and send Zhou Jingming instead. “I hear the Demon Palace is depraved beyond belief. They call it a marriage to the Third Prince, but in truth, he'll be shared by the Demon Lord and his sons. What a pity. A senior disciple as elegant as him will become the demons' plaything...” “The Celestial Realm will keep turning without him. Everyone just calls him the Celestial Realm's shield because they admire him. Once he's gone, someone else will take his place...” Gossip drifts over from beside the bridal carriage, but Zhou Jingming doesn't hear a thing. He is absorbed in assembling the double-barreled shotgun in his hands. He has never even read a cultivation novel. In a world where men can be sent off in political marriages, a boy still needs modern weapons to protect himself. Some time later, news comes from the Demon Palace: the three princes have fought over Zhou Jingming so fiercely that the old Demon Lord has come out of seclusion early. A while after that, the old Demon Lord decides to marry Zhou Jingming himself, announces it to the world, and orders a grand celebration across the Demon Realm. People in the Celestial Realm watch the spectacle and marvel that sending the white-lotus senior disciple there was the right choice after all. He has the father and sons at the Demon Palace tearing each other apart, providing endless entertainment. Meanwhile, the protagonist bottom reunites with his biological father, a Celestial Lord. With everyone's blessings, he becomes the new shield of the Celestial Realm and marries the protagonist top, the Blade of the Celestial Realm. As the wedding begins in Xingzhou, earth-shaking cannons blast through the nine heavens. A gigantic airship, taller than the Heavenly Palace, descends onto the Cloud Shore, and countless tanks and cannons flatten Xingzhou... Zhou Jingming: Darling, do you like what you're seeing? The pale, handsome man standing in the shadows smiles, a rare sight on his face that has been frozen like a mountain for years. “Whatever the Demon Queen likes, this seat loves.” P.S. The three adopted princes of the Demon Palace are not the Demon Lord's biological sons. The Demon Lord has never married. He's a thoroughly respectable career man. Please add my upcoming novel, After Becoming the Love-Struck Junior Disciple, to your reading list, QUQ. Lin Qingyin is the beloved junior disciple of the Qingfeng Sword Sect. He is sweet-looking and adorable, and in a sect where everyone works themselves to the bone, all he wants is to laze around. Even the sect's most good-for-nothing senior brother looks diligent and ambitious next to him, and everyone loves spending time with him. In the melodramatic xianxia romance game Hidden Among Green Hills, Lin Qingyin falls in love with the young master of the Demon Sect, who is hiding in the Qingfeng Sword Sect while recovering from an injury. He agrees to conceal the young master's identity, then takes advantage of the sect's tournament to help him escape the Spirit Immortal Realm. This leads to the Demon Sect's invasion of the Spirit Immortal Realm. They slaughter everyone in the Qingfeng Sword Sect, from top to bottom, and don't spare even one short-legged dog. When the young master of the Demon Sect and his troops reach the dormitory where he and his junior disciple once spent every day together, he sees a blur of blue falling from the upper floor and vanishing into the bottomless abyss. The young master is beside himself with grief. Without regard for the consequences, he activates a blood-sacrifice formation, sending time back thirteen years, to when he had just entered the Qingfeng Sword Sect and nothing had begun. Just as the young master of the Demon Sect is about to approach the person he once loved, he discovers a group of suspicious impostors gathered around the junior disciple. They include the young master of the Demon Realm disguised as a short-legged dog, a sword immortal of the Heartless Path posing as the senior disciple, and a Ghost King of the Netherworld reincarnated as the junior uncle... As it turns out, each of them once let the junior disciple down in a past life, causing the Qingfeng Sword Sect to be wiped out and the junior disciple to take his own life. They have all used time-reversal magic to set things right. Now the entire Qingfeng Sword Sect has been infiltrated by the junior disciple's exes, leaving it as full of holes as a sieve! Strangely, no matter what they try, the junior disciple remains unmoved. He is still as cute and adorable as ever, but he no longer gives them any sweet romance. Once you've known what it's like to be loved by the junior disciple, you can't forget it. To win even the tiniest bit of affection, all these powerful figures pull out every stop and work hard to build up the Qingfeng Sword Sect. At last, they make it the strongest sect in the Six Realms. Something about this doesn't seem right. But the junior disciple's smile is so sweet. (Main character bottom, paired with the original second senior brother, the most good-for-nothing senior brother from the first paragraph. After being wiped out countless times, he evolves 0v0.) Theme: Hardship reveals true feelings