Synopsis
Jiang Wanqing took in a male ghost with a tragic past, Xie Huaizhou.
His whole family had been slaughtered, his body was trapped, and his lonely spirit drifted across the wilderness with no one to offer sacrifices to him.
Jiang Wanqing: "I'll make pills and keep you fed."
The male ghost said nothing, so she took that as a yes.
She looked after him for three years, burning incense and paper offerings every day.
Until her scumbag father ordered her to take her stepsister's place and enter a secret realm to slay a demon.
Knowing she might not make it back, Jiang Wanqing prepared a way out for the male ghost in advance.
She took out a soul-nourishing jar. "You can hide in here during the day. It'll nourish your spirit."
Then she took out ten storage bags. "They're full of incense, candles, and paper offerings. Remember to burn them for yourself, okay?"
Xie Huaizhou: ...
Once inside the secret realm, Jiang Wanqing never expected it to be the very place where the male ghost was trapped.
Xie Huaizhou stood there in white, sword in hand, with the bearing of an immortal.
Jiang Wanqing: "I... I... I actually brought a ghost back to life?"
Xie Huaizhou: ...
Jiang Wanqing thought she was incredibly lucky. In a secret realm where others struggled just to stay alive, she had gained plenty of opportunities.
She and Xie Huaizhou helped each other along the way, their feelings growing deeper until they naturally came together.
One day, while Xie Huaizhou was away, a group of powerful cultivators gathered and tried to capture her without even asking why.
Jiang Wanqing saw with her own eyes as Xie Huaizhou fought his way to her like a madman, leaving the heavens drenched in blood.
She heard those people call him a demon.
She saw his hand trembling slightly around his sword as he asked with difficulty, "Will you still keep me?"
Jiang Wanqing smiled, tears at the corners of her eyes. "Abandoning your pet isn't allowed."
A kind, clever, resilient little ray of sunshine X a cold, dark, world-destroying Demon Lord
Coming soon: After I Wronged the Demon Lord, He Went Back to School. Blurb:
A transmigrated-into-a-book female swindler who tricks him into love and bed VS a world-destroying male courtesan who'll learn anything
Jiang Ningyue transmigrates into a book as an orphan. Her maternal family was slaughtered, while her scumbag father plays the devoted lover, holding his mistress close and eating steamed buns stained with the blood of her entire Jiang clan.
Ugh, what a revolting Phoenix Man!
And her half-sister, the original story's heroine Lin Zhizhi, wants her dead from the start.
Jiang Ningyue takes one look at her damaged spiritual roots. What a disastrous start.
Fortunately, the System gives her a way to survive: contact with her destined one can repair her spiritual roots.
Jiang Ningyue looks at her destined one.
He's dressed in white, bloodstained at the collar, innocent of worldly matters, and brilliant as the stars.
To stay alive, she tricks him!
So Jiang Ningyue tricks him into loving her and into bed... over and over... until her spiritual roots heal.
He's handsome and good in bed. Since she's already tricked him, Jiang Ningyue thinks: It wouldn't be so bad to make money and support him. Until one day, she accidentally discovers that the white-robed sword cultivator she's been tricking into love and bed is actually the world-destroying Demon Lord.
So Jiang Ningyue slips away and runs for it.
Three years pass. Jiang Ningyue assumes the Demon Lord will have forgotten their insignificant fling. But when they meet again, he pins her against his chest and asks over and over: Since you tricked me, why didn't you keep doing it forever?
Jiang Ningyue: ?
Later, Jiang Ningyue realizes the Demon Lord is getting stranger and stranger.
Demon Lord: You once asked why I couldn't use a sword despite being a sword cultivator. I learned. I'll perform for you.
Jiang Ningyue: ?
Demon Lord: You said you love spicy numbing spirit fish. I'll cook it for you.
Jiang Ningyue: ?
Demon Lord: And this book, The Art of Seduction, I've learned all the positions...
Jiang Ningyue clamps a hand over his mouth in one swift move. "Don't say another word!"
The Demon Lord has been studying every subject!
After every time they "get together," Jiang Ningyue can't help thinking that a Demon Lord who loves learning is terrifying, and might just be the death of her.
No wonder there are countless Demon Lords in this world, but he's the only one who can destroy it.
Learning really does change the world.
The Demon Lord's version:
Gu Mingye was born into a conspiracy and raised on lies and imprisonment. From the day he escaped the Gu family, he abandoned the Gu surname, changed his name to Xie Xingchen, and met his moon.
She smiled like a flower, tending his wounds, helping him claim treasures, turning against the righteous and making enemies for his sake. She never feared him or looked down on him...
Until one day, she disappeared. Only then did Xie Xingchen understand that everything had been a lie.
She tricked him only to stay alive.
She wants to stay alive? Then he'll take her life instead.
Content warnings:
1. The heroine only uses the hero for her own benefit at first. At most, she likes him a little, but not enough to overlook his identity as a world-destroying Demon Lord. She'll gradually fall in love later, so don't expect too much from her at the start.
2. The hero is deeply in love with her the whole time. The harder he acts, the softer his heart is.
Theme: Let love be the soil from which flowers bloom.
