The Divine Maiden and the Mad Hound

Blurb: Mu Wan brought a young man back from the Posuo River. His name was Chu Yanzhi. He was lean and bony, with several blood-red mandrava blossoms winding across the left side of his face, and he was terribly ugly. He had no spiritual roots, and the blood of the Northern Domain's demonic wolves ran through his veins. He was a monstrous half-breed despised by the entire cultivation world, and they bullied and humiliated him. Only Mu Wan protected and indulged him, adding a vivid splash of color to his pitch-black life. She sank into his bones and was branded onto his heart. But Mu Wan did all this only to purify the sacred soul of a divine lord within him. The lord had accidentally entered an evil creature's body while undergoing a tribulation. She had to kill the creature and bring the lord's sacred soul back to the divine palace. She gave him the greatest warmth, even using dual cultivation to draw the miasma from his body into herself. Until the day Mu Wan plunged her Demon-Slaying Sword into his heart without hesitation, drawing out the divine lord's sacred soul. Clutching his chest, he stared at her for a long time, his face pale. At last, he swallowed a mouthful of blood and fled in disgrace to the Northern Domain of the Heavenly Mountain. On the day he became the new king of the demon realm, he slaughtered the entire cultivation sect. He even laid waste to the divine palace in the heavens. Blood flowed down the three thousand celestial steps into the lakes and seas of the mortal world. To save all living beings, Mu Wan proved her Dao with her own life, and her soul dispersed into heaven and earth. Chu Yanzhi had no heart and no feelings, but at that moment, he frantically chased that wisp of her lingering soul all the way to the Peak of Eternal Night. Whenever he fell, he immediately got back up, in a pitiful state. The Demon King's love came late, but it burned fiercely. Every meridian connecting his flesh and bones ached as if being torn apart because of her. According to a little demon's recollection, on that day the Demon Venerable endured ninety-nine heavenly bolts of lightning just to protect the wisp of her soul in his arms. Three hundred years later, the mortal world had moved on. Mu Wan was reborn, and became Chu Yanzhi's new Demon Queen... (This is ridiculous.) Content warnings: 1. The male lead pursues the female lead after losing her, and there is a replacement trope. 2. An obsessive, bloodthirsty male lead who is extremely insecure in love x a cool-headed, healing heroine with principles. Upcoming novel: Bound to the Sickly Villainous Chancellor Shu Yao transmigrated into a book and was forced to bind herself to a cannon-fodder character. The System told her that if she wanted to escape the world of the book, she had to fill the pitiful young master's trust meter. The good news: she's the young master's sister-in-law. The bad news: on the very first day after her transmigration, the old rich landlord's eldest son suddenly died, leaving her a new widow. Her terrible relatives want to seize the old landlord's property and bully the young master in every way they can. The young master suffers from a chronic illness and has an eccentric temper. "Come on, tell us where the property deeds are!" "What use is all that money to a sickly weakling like you?" "..." The slender, cold young man stood silently in the snow, not a trace of feeling in his deep-set eyes. They were as still as a dead pool of water. When Shu Yao saw him being bullied, she stepped in front of him to protect him. She kept protecting him for the rest of her life. From the scheming inner household to a shabby, impoverished hut and then the treacherous court, she was always by his side. The frail young man eventually became a powerful official whose name shook the court. She quietly tallied up his trust points and prepared to leave. Ji Shijing was born emotionally detached. He was indifferent to life and death and thought himself above all things. To him, everything in the world was fleeting. But one day, a woman who had been beaten and covered in wounds protecting him smiled and said, "Young master, don't be afraid. If they come again, I'll protect you again." What a foolish woman. Yet later, through countless nights of surging affection and feverish desire, the arrogant, all-powerful chancellor would bow his head in submission to her alone. "Sister-in-law, please take pity on me. Don't leave me." #She is the deepest desire he has buried in his heart# Core theme: Be a good person.