I Turned the Mad Demon Lord into My Loyal Hound

[An emotionally steady young woman devoted to immortal cultivation × a cold and ruthless demon god with a love-addled mind who could go berserk at any moment]

Yu Xingluo is a naturally good-for-nothing orphan. In the filthy killing arena of the demon realm, she saves the most cruel and heartless demon god in the world.

She is kind and stubborn, foolishly hoping to soften him with her innocence.

He is a gloomy, world-weary monster without a heart, wanting only to flay her, drink her blood, and devour her whole.

Knowing she cannot escape, Yu Xingluo can only use herself as bait, feeding the demon with her flesh and blood.

She willingly becomes his pawn, entering the game herself. She gets into the greatest sect under heaven and becomes the strongest sword cultivator, the focus of everyone's attention.

With an obedient look, she smiles at him with clear eyes. "I'll do whatever you say."

But the demon god knows she only wants to use his power to fulfill her ambitions for revenge, step by step.

Even so, after a long time, the demon still never dealt her a fatal blow. Instead, he slipped into her room night after night, using food as an excuse to kiss and nibble her to his heart's content.

But the young woman was devoted to cultivation, indifferent to desire, and paid it no mind.

She continued to care for him and warm him, as always, but she would never love him.

No one knew that the demon, born cold-blooded and heartless and viewing all living things as ants, had developed feelings for one person alone. With every deepening of his affection, his bloodlust became harder to restrain, until he completely lost his reason.

On nights when she slept, he willingly endured the agony of having his sinews pulled and bones cut, forcibly carving the thread of affection from his heart, all so he would not hurt his beloved in the slightest.

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Later, Yu Xingluo finally got her revenge and attained the Dao, ascending to immortality.

After becoming a stunningly beautiful princess of the divine race, she put her past behind her and busied herself arranging her wedding to the Son of Heaven.

When the auspicious hour arrived, the joyous wedding procession let out a bloodcurdling scream, and blood spattered in every direction.

She lifted the curtain. Outside the bridal sedan, the demon's wedding robes were stained crimson. He stepped over a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, ignoring the sword in her hand as he clutched its blade with a fierce grip.

The sword tip pressed against his heart.

His voice was hoarse with tears. "You're so cruel..."

That night, the demon tore at her wedding dress like a madman, kissing her as he wept and begged for her favor. "Please, love me. Don't love him, all right..."

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Only later did she learn that after her death, the demon god had willingly cut out his demon bones and extracted his divine marrow, then fallen into the underworld to protect her soul. By now, he had become an evil ghost.

Yet he endured the burning karmic flames and climbed all the way up through the levels of hell, just to return to her side.

[Reader's Guide]

* Third-person narration, no transmigration, no System. It may be a slow burn, with plenty of romance.

* The aloof beauty is pursued in a groveling, regret-filled romance; the male lead only loves the female lead.

* The female lead is weak early on and invincible later.

* Both are each other's first, happy ending.

Pre-release: "After I Mistook My Beautiful Master for Someone Else and Pushed Him Down"

Ruan Miaoyin transmigrates into a redemption story as a background-character doomed extra. According to the System, it's a beginner's perk, and the mission is super easy.

According to the plot, she's the dark moonlight of the villainous male lead in his early years. His love for her grows increasingly obsessive and twisted, but their master-disciple relationship forces him to keep holding back.

All she has to do is tease and toy with him to her heart's content, make him drop his pretense and spend a night with her, then dump him and torment him until he turns evil and becomes a demon. The sweet, innocent female lead will take care of redeeming the big villain later.

Ruan Miaoyin looks at her master's beautiful, desireless face and swallows. "How thrilling!"

And so she begins her daily assortment of suicidal stunts: trampling the sachet her master made for her into the mud, defying him, and recoiling from his touch...

But no matter how outrageous she gets, her master just smiles at her lovingly, his voice filled with tender affection. "This is my first time taking a disciple. I haven't done a good job. Don't be angry, Miaoyin."

Ruan Miaoyin: What? He's really that patient?

Why doesn't he seem obsessive or twisted at all? It feels more like the ancestor is treating her like a child!

To keep the plot on schedule, Ruan Miaoyin can only throw caution to the wind and grit her teeth through a scene where she forces herself on him. After all her hard work, she finally tempts the Immortal Venerable, who has held back and restrained himself for a thousand years, into breaking his vow. They spend a night tangled together, unable to get enough of each other.

Unexpectedly, the transmigration agency sends a warning in the middle of the night, and even the unreliable System gets scolded along with her. What the heck?! You're supposed to be the master seducing the disciple, not the disciple seducing and pushing down the Sword Ancestor!

Ruan Miaoyin: What? But I don't have a disciple!

Supervisor: You came a year too early. You won't take in your disciple until the end of this month!

Ruan Miaoyin: Oh, for fu...

She hurriedly leaves her master a letter, saying she was drunk last night and mistook him for someone else, and telling him not to take it to heart (though it seems like that's making things worse?).

Then she promptly takes in a disciple and leaves overnight with her villainous little disciple to travel the world (actually, to lie low).

Just when she thinks the storm has passed, she hears that the aloof, transcendent Immortal Venerable has suddenly gone mad, spending every day tormenting and interrogating the major sects about where they've hidden Miaoyin.

The entire immortal sect is on its knees, begging to know: What kind of divine treasure is this "Miaoyin"?!

Ruan Miaoyin is close to tears.

When she finally sees her master again, he looks at her with the same tender affection as ever, but the obsessive desire in his eyes seems about to burst forth

"Are you done playing your punishment game, Miaoyin?"

#Now it's Master's turn.

Theme: Good and evil both meet their just deserts.