The Demon Lord Can Read Minds

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Mu Chenzhou is transported into an angst-filled novel, where he becomes the devoted second male lead who can never win the heroine’s heart and eventually turns evil.

He diligently follows the plot, dutifully playing his role as a tool. For the heroine, he climbs immortal mountains and descends into the underworld, has his spiritual roots crippled and his bones carved out, and becomes a broken wreck. He only needs to fall into demonic cultivation, level up into a ruthless second male lead, wreak havoc, then peacefully accept his scripted death and fake his own death to escape.

But the story’s dark, twisted villain, the Demon Lord, ignores the main characters and instead focuses on messing with him every day. He destroys immortal mountains and lays waste to the underworld for him, restores his spiritual roots and bones, patches him up, and interferes in everything, forcibly pulling him back from the brink of demonic cultivation.

Mu Chenzhou: Are you trying to provoke me? Is this really how it’s supposed to go, bro? I genuinely don’t have time to mess around with you.

Even stranger, the Demon Lord always seems to know what he’s thinking. Mu Chenzhou doesn’t even need to say some things aloud for the other man to understand.

So the Demon Lord must know about his plan to fake his death, too!

Years later, Mu Chenzhou, senior disciple of the Xiaoyao Sect, fails his ascension tribulation and dies, his soul and cultivation extinguished. When the Demon Lord of the demon realm hears the news, he is devastated, and his cultivation plummets.

Mu Chenzhou, who has changed into a secret identity and plans to seek refuge with the Demon Lord: “Huh???”

What happened to our unspoken understanding?!

You Jingchen was born with blood-red eyes that let him read people’s minds.

As the Demon Lord’s son, he is viewed with suspicion by his father, feared by his birth mother, and kept at a distance by his siblings. By the time he carves a path of blood to the Demon Lord’s throne, the ugly, filthy thoughts of those around him have only grown worse.

Unable to bear it, he often covers his eyes with white gauze and avoids meeting outsiders.

Until he meets a boy whose mind is often blank, and whose words never match his thoughts.

Maybe mind reading isn’t so bad after all.

● A brooding Demon Lord gong x a resilient, openhearted shou

○ I should have stayed away from you. I’m sorry, I just missed you too much.

***Reading Guide***

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending. The gong can read minds, but the System is automatically blocked from his ability.

2. Many original world-building details, and there is a System.

3. Cultivation has ten stages: Qi Refining, Cyclone Illumination, Fasting, Light Opening, Nascent Soul, Out-of-Body, Spirit Division, Integration, Great Ascension, and Divine Entry.

Theme: Love requires mutual trust.