The Demon Venerable Has Pointed Ears

[Busy with work in real life, follow at your own discretion.]

[The story is nearing its end. I'll try to update roughly 10,000 characters a week. If that works for you, please read the blurb.]

The healer Yue Lingyao went down the mountain for experience and picked up a pitiful little demon slave.

She tended his wounds and treated him like family. When he chased after her, tail wagging and flowers held out in both hands, his eager eyes shone and his pointed black dog ears stood upright in the breeze.

But at the end of her training, the demon slave became a traitorous menace in the eyes of her fellow disciples. They pierced him through with countless swords and sent him plunging into the abyss.

Yue Lingyao, who'd been focused on healing people the whole time: ???

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Tens of thousands of years after the seal on the Demon Abyss was set, the Demon Venerable Li Huo awoke from his slumber. He remembered drawing a bow on the sacred mountain and wandering alone through the pitch-black demonic realm.

He also remembered what happened when his consciousness spread beyond his body: a certain young healer had rubbed his ears and tail, taken advantage of him, and cheerfully called him a good dog.

Li Huo, proud and headstrong to the end: ...

Fine, a dog it is.

If letting her call him "doggy" a few more times meant she might pet his ears and tail again, he could live with that.

Then he found out that the young healer who had once treated him so kindly had been locked in her sect's ice prison to reflect on her mistakes.

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Yue Lingyao was a disciple of a major sword sect, but she was born with damaged meridians and couldn't wield a sword.

She should have stayed in the medicine valley, picking flowers and selling medicine, enjoying a peaceful life as a healer. Instead, she somehow got mixed up with the wolf demon leader who had once unleashed a devastating catastrophe, the supreme ruler of the demon realm.

Yue Lingyao had been forcibly abducted from the ice prison to the demon realm. Clutching her spiritual herbs, she put her hands on her hips and glared indignantly at the man before her, his face cold and his long tail curled around her waist.

"I've told you, you're not my good dog. My dog is obedient and well-behaved, and even helps me grind spirit herbs!"

Li Huo's pointed ears stood straight up. He stared at her, his expression unreadable. Then he bent down, his cold eyes curving as he picked up a stone mortar and medicinal herbs from the ground. His jaw clenched and unclenched before he finally forced out a pitiful little...

"...Woof."

Yue Lingyao: ...To keep my dog from being bullied by bad people, I have no choice but to get stronger!

Content warning:

1. A violent, goofy healer x a loyal, protective Demon Venerable. One-on-one, both leads' first sexual partners, and a gender-bender romance.

2. An old-school redemption story with some angst for the male lead. I'm busy with work, so I'll try to update weekly and am working to finish it soon.

3. Next up: Please check out my upcoming story, Kidnap a Shadow Guard to Be My Cultivation Partner. A sweet gender-bender romance featuring a seemingly innocent but secretly ruthless Miaojiang saintess x a cold-faced but warm-hearted demonic sect shadow guard. Please give it a look, kind readers!

Theme: To love others, one must first love oneself