My Archrival, the Demon Lord, Has Searched for Me for Years

[I'll update when I have time (I'll definitely update once this gets 50 favorites). I'll definitely finish this story properly.]

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Qi Chuzi, the greatest battle god of the Nine Heavens, had never lost a fight across the Four Seas and Eight Desolations. In all six realms, the only one who could fight her to a draw was her sworn enemy, the Demon Lord Ming Zhenyu.

When the Fox Clan of Qingqiu was wiped out, the two clashed once again. At the critical moment, Qi Chuzi's soul unexpectedly traveled a hundred years into the future.

During those hundred years, the battle god loved the Demon Lord, while the Demon Lord would rather die than accept her.

The battle god pursued the Demon Lord relentlessly. To marry him, she even willingly swallowed a Spirit-Sealing Pill, losing her powers and becoming no different from an ordinary person. Her love was wild and unrestrained, and all six realms knew about it... These were the symptoms of being poisoned by the Bone-Love Flower.

To find a cure, Qi Chuzi approached Ming Zhenyu, the sinister and brutal Demon Lord, cold-hearted and merciless.

At first, all Qi Chuzi did was follow Ming Zhenyu, and he used demonic energy to grip her by the throat.

His gaze was icy. "Qi Chuzi, don't think I won't dare to kill you."

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The battle god became the Demon Lord's wife, a wife as powerless as an ordinary person. At that time, the demons captured spies from the Immortal Realm, including the battle god's deputy general.

Corpses covered the ground, drenched in blood. Qi Chuzi looked at Ming Zhenyu with a pale face, begging the Demon Lord to spare them and let her deputy live.

The deputy detonated his core, trying to take Ming Zhenyu down with him. In an instant, Ming Zhenyu shielded Qi Chuzi in his arms.

His voice was cold. "I'll be waiting for you to kill me."

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It was only later that Qi Chuzi learned the Demon Lord cared neither for beauty nor power. He was simply searching for a certain woman, and he was even willing to use an ancient, forbidden Soul-Gathering Array.

Ming Zhenyu had become consumed by his obsession with finding the woman he loved. He had even put aside their past enmity and taken in his sworn enemy, Qi Chuzi.

Before the forbidden array, he spoke gently. "I promise I won't take your life."

He had also once ordered his subordinates, his voice fierce: "Without my command, no one is to lay a hand on her!"

After the array was activated, Qi Chuzi appeared within it. Mistaking her for the woman he sought, Ming Zhenyu played into her hands. To cure herself and destroy his demonic meridians, Qi Chuzi went along with it.

Who could have known that before long, Ming Zhenyu would find the real woman? By a twist of fate, Qi Chuzi was framed. She killed that woman with her own hands, crushed the soul of the Demon Lord's beloved, then jumped into the River of Forgetfulness in search of her family.

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Later, they say that after the truth came out, the Demon Lord's temperament changed completely. He charged into the Celestial Realm covered in blood, but there wasn't even a trace of her to be found...

[Old synopsis below]

The battle god Qi Chuzi had been reborn.

One moment she was fighting on the battlefield. The next, she was in her sworn enemy's bridal sedan.

Qi Chuzi, dressed in a wedding gown: "..." This is ridiculous!

The Demon Lord had once been ruthless and vicious, a mass murderer. Yet when Qi Chuzi entered, she saw him embroidering.

Qi Chuzi: "!"

...I must have come in through the wrong door.

It turned out that even the arrogant Demon Lord had a lost love, a woman who had died hundreds of years ago. He was embroidering something needed for an ancient, forbidden Soul-Gathering Array.

Once activated, the array would cause countless casualties and lay waste to all living things. So Qi Chuzi sabotaged it in advance, and then... didn't have time to escape.

Outside the array, the Demon Lord's eyes reddened.

Inside the array, Qi Chuzi was dumbfounded.

"...I'm telling you, I'm not your lost love. Do you believe me?"

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To break the Demon Lord's obsession, destroy his demonic meridians, and stop him from uniting the six realms,

Qi Chuzi played along and accepted the identity of the "lost love" the Demon Lord had given her.

Just as his obsession was about to be broken, the lost love appeared, and his obsession turned into an unbreakable knot.

Qi Chuzi nearly choked to death.

The lost love wanted nothing more than to be reincarnated.

Qi Chuzi never expected to fall into the River of Forgetfulness on her way there. The last thing she saw before she died was him risking his life to protect the lost love, his eyes filled with her.

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Later, they say the Demon Lord's temperament changed completely. He killed the "lost love" with his own hands and charged into the Celestial Realm covered in blood, but there wasn't even a trace of her to be found...

[A somewhat aloof, ridiculous battle god x a Demon Lord who clings to his reputation for chastity]

[Note: 1. The male and female leads are sworn enemies. In the early story, the heroine truly sees the hero as her opponent. Happy ending.

2. The hero loves only the heroine from beginning to end, playing the role of a devoted lover. The heroine is his lost love.

3. Somewhat old-fashioned, with a bit of melodrama.

4. There will be one percent flashbacks, though they're not exactly flashbacks, just scenes from the male and female leads' past together.

5. The hero's groveling arc should start early (probably).]

[The synopsis was recorded on 2022.6.5]

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