After the Substitute Black Lotus Is Reborn

Everyone thought I, along with the God of Yuanzhe, was the greatest divine couple in the Three Realms.

At first, I thought so too.

Though I was a lowly fox, Chu Cangyu gave me the blood from his heart to help me become an immortal. When I fell into the demonic path, he shielded me from eighty-one bolts of heavenly lightning. When I slaughtered the entire immortal realm, he destroyed half his divine essence to atone for the lives I'd taken.

Eventually, I turned from evil and became his consort.

Chu Cangyu was so good to me.

So that day, when I saw him return, his face cold, carrying a wounded man in white, I was chewing on a sweet osmanthus cake and bit my tongue hard.

The pain was excruciating.

The man's face looked seventy percent like mine. He was Lin Jue, the most beautiful immortal in the Three Realms three thousand years ago, who had angered Heaven's punishment and been cast into the cycle of reincarnation.

Me, barely a thousand years old: Oh, so he's the real white moonlight.

Later...

When Lin Jue cut out the blood from my heart, Chu Cangyu watched indifferently. When Lin Jue pushed me out to take the lightning tribulation for him, Chu Cangyu didn't say a word.

It wasn't that I didn't want to fight back. On the night of our wedding a hundred years ago, he had sealed my demonic powers.

Why did I agree? Because he said he would protect me for all eternity.

I believed him.

Later still, perhaps even Heaven thought I was pitiful. On the day Lin Jue was to enter reincarnation, a heavenly tribulation that came once every ten thousand years struck.

Of course, Chu Cangyu no longer had the strength to maintain the seal on my demonic powers. At last, I had a chance to escape.

But I didn't want to owe Chu Cangyu anything.

I'd repaid the blood from my heart and the lightning tribulation, but unfortunately, I had no divine essence.

So that day, I took out my demonic consciousness and destroyed my demonic body, wiping out Lin Jue's heavenly punishment.

How noble of me, sacrificing myself for someone else.

When I woke again, a thousand years had passed.

I returned to the mortal realm and became a happy little fox again, enjoying osmanthus wine beneath the trees and living a carefree life.

Until one day, I overheard some immortals passing by gossiping.

A thousand years ago, the God of Yuanzhe, who ruled the nine heavens and seas, suddenly fell into the demonic path, slaughtered all thirty-six heavens, and stripped Lin Jue of his immortal essence.

After that day, a forest of osmanthus trees suddenly appeared beside the Sea of Blood in the demonic realm. They say the trees have bloomed for a thousand years without fading, their fragrance reaching the immortal realm. It is the greatest wonder in the Three Realms.

I was chewing on an osmanthus cake and accidentally choked on it.

I laughed until tears came to my eyes.

A ruthless, haughty Demon Lord vs. a noble, obsessive deity

P.S.:

1. The story is written in third person!

2. The uke is Luo Xunjing, and the seme is Chu Cangyu (yu is pronounced with the fourth tone).

3. A melodramatic groveling arc: the uke suffers in the first half, the seme in the second, with plenty of suffering for both. Happy ending.

4. The characters' values don't represent the author's values, so don't read too much into it (doge, just trying to stay safe).

Theme: Personal growth