The Demon Lord Is Always Getting Jealous

-The End-

[Gentle, polite, and sweet beauty x Tsundere, sharp-tongued, hopelessly lovestruck Demon Lord]

Shen Jin first heard of "Demon Lord Xie Huai" in a book called Biographies of the Demon Lord.

The Demon Lord in the book was devilishly charming and arrogantly charismatic, adored to the point of madness by eight beautiful fairies, and always surrounded by admirers.

Shen Jin believed it all, kept her distance from demonic cultivators, and devoted herself to cultivating the Great Dao.

Then one day, a character from the book suddenly appeared before her in the flesh.

Shen Jin's heart raced. Her mind flashed through 180 scenes of the Demon Lord showing off, and she braced herself to resist him to the death before suffering physical and emotional torment.

Was she about to become the Demon Lord's ninth romantic conquest?!

The next second, she heard a cool, low voice, as cold as snow: "Oh? Playing at amnesia? Shen Jin, are you going to abandon me after having your way with me?"

His voice rose at the end, tinged with reproach.

He was nothing like that "devilishly charming and arrogantly charismatic" overpowered Demon Lord. He sounded more like a widow who'd been mourning for 800 years.

Shen Jin: "...This has to be fake."

After that, the Demon Lord went on a full-on rampage down the road of "destroying his own character."

Shen Jin was curious about who she had been before losing her memories. "What was I like? Was I more impressive?"

Xie Huai replied blandly, "Not really. You were just more infatuated with me."

Shen Jin: "...Has my appearance really not changed at all over the years?"

Xie Huai's handsome brows drew together slightly. "Not much. But your eyes looked a little better before."

Shen Jin: "?"

Xie Huai suddenly understood. "Maybe there used to be a light in your eyes when you looked at me."

Shen Jin: "…"

A light? More like a laser.

*

The day Shen Jin claimed first place on the Lingyun Ranking, snow fell from the sky.

The dueling platform was instantly covered in frost. Shen Jin leaped down the steps and went to find Xie Huai.

Dressed in white, the man was as cold and clear as snow. He gazed at her with a rare gentleness. "Shen Jin, there are no pear blossoms in September, so I'll give you a snowfall instead."

"The snow won't melt."

If it melted, I wouldn't be able to hide how much I love you.

*

Xie Huai was once a sword-cultivating prodigy. One dazzling sword strike could make snow fly across a thousand mountains, and his name resounded throughout the nineteen provinces.

Even a hundred years after he turned demonic, legends of him still circulated through the cultivation world. In the Void Refinement stage, he crippled a Mahayana-stage demon cultivator with a single sword strike, making the Ghost City of the Demon Realm tremble at the mention of his name.

After Shen Jin recovered her memories, she once asked Xie Huai, "You were a dazzling sword prodigy. Why would you throw it all away and become a demon?"

Xie Huai only looked at her and didn't answer.

Whenever he thought of her, he couldn't stop his longing from growing like a weed.

Since she left, demonic obstacles had taken root and multiplied.

Coming Soon: The Overpowered Hero Is Bewitched Again!

[Cool, detached, carefree fairy who just wants to lie flat x Overpowered, possessive, hopelessly lovestruck Demon Lord]

In her previous life, Ju Kunyao was a Buddhist disciple, a reincarnated Buddha who had spent a thousand years accumulating merit and doing good. She'd even give a couple of steamed buns to a hungry dog on the roadside.

But that wasn't her true nature. Her lifelong wish was to live a carefree life, do nothing, and lie flat.

On the day of the war between the immortals and demons, she exhausted her life's cultivation to reform the great demon of the Demon Realm, then entered the cycle of reincarnation with him.

Heaven gave her another chance. This time, she was born with the memories of her past life into a wealthy family. She had everything she needed from childhood and could lie flat without a care.

Ju Kunyao: I've spent a thousand years doing good and building merit. I deserve this.

This time, she was determined to lie flat for the rest of her life. But to her surprise, the little beggar on Linshui Street next door turned out to be the reincarnation of that great demon from her previous life!

Seeing the little beggar go from house to house, pitiful yet stubbornly enduring, Ju Kunyao's compassion kicked in again.

She brought him home, taught him how to survive and how to do good and accumulate merit, determined to raise him into the world's greatest good person.

But she never expected the little beggar to have a heart set on cultivation.

To keep the same tragedy from happening again, she had no choice but to accompany him to the Ascension Platform and start out as an outer disciple.

But the great demon's behavior became more and more bizarre...

When he was bullied and neglected by the sect:

Xiao Chi: "So what if I'm an outer disciple? One day I'll stand at the top of the world and earn everyone's admiration!"

When people misunderstood him and mocked his mixed spiritual roots:

Xiao Chi: "Just you wait. One day, I'll rule this entire world!"

Ju Kunyao: "...Nice."

He even started treating her as his cultivation partner, protecting her at every turn. He'd rather haul slop himself than let her suffer the slightest hardship. "A-Yao, you've had a hard time following me. I swear I'll never let you down!"

He went to work in the mortal world for three months, then spent the ten low-grade spirit stones he'd earned on a defensive artifact for her. "Keep this. One day, I'll get you something even better."

Life was hard, but...

Ju Kunyao: Isn't this exactly the carefree life I wanted? Time to lie flat!

*

Xiao Chi suffered through hardship his entire life. He longed for things he could never have, but when he was fifteen, humiliated and forced to survive by groveling, he met Ju Kunyao.

A merciful goddess from the heavens reached out to him.

For his sake, she even joined him on the path to immortality and lived alongside him as an outer disciple, in a world utterly unlike the mortal realm.

Then Xiao Chi swore he'd treat her well. Even if he was as lowly as dust, she would be a free and unrestrained ray of light.

He practiced his sword every day with everything he had, training until nightfall. Yet he still watched the girl he loved die in a horde of magical beasts.

In that instant, his heart turned to ashes. He joined the Demon Realm, and when he returned, he was its Holy Son. More importantly, his A-Yao hadn't died after all.

Overjoyed, he carefully dressed up for once and went to fetch her, bringing a pile of top-grade artifacts he'd spent years selecting for their beauty and practicality.

But when he saw her, he could only watch as another group of people, dressed in fine clothes and carrying themselves with extraordinary grace, knelt before her in unison.

Only then did Xiao Chi realize that the merciful goddess had never belonged to him alone.

*

The day Ju Kunyao was taken back to the Buddhist sect, the sky suddenly changed.

She turned and saw Xiao Chi, missing for so long, standing with the demonic cultivators, demonic energy raging around him.

Ju Kunyao: "?"

So all those years of trying to set him straight were for nothing?!

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