After Raising a Demon, the Beautiful God Ran Off Pregnant

From the moment of Their birth, They were destined to become God of Gods.

Long, flaxen curls, pale blue eyes as serene as a winter lake, and footsteps that scattered golden light and brought lotuses into bloom. Noble, sacred, and breathtakingly beautiful.

A god found an orphaned little demon with caramel-colored eyes that always gazed at Them with sweet devotion.

Every day, the little one brought Them a white rose. The god would lower Their eyes but never refuse.

The little demon grew ever more attached, refusing to sleep apart from Them and winding his slender tail, tipped with a triangular arrowhead, around Their arm.

Sometimes Their thigh.

Then one day, the little demon disappeared. A handsome man, impossible to look away from, leaned over and trapped the god between his arms and a sea of white roses.

"The child form was an act. So was being helpless and alone."

"But my obsession with you is real."

"I came from hell, and I fell in love with you at first sight."

-

Three thousand years ago, Zachariah opened his eyes amid a sea of blood.

The awakening of the future Lord of Hell shook the Divine Realm, and the God of Gods personally arrived at the Sea of Sin.

The newborn little demon didn't know that the Lord of the Gods had come to punish him. He gazed up, entranced by that aloof, dazzling figure.

He wanted chains to grow from his bones and trap Them in the rusting depths of the sea.

He wanted thorns to sprout from his blood and become Their first and final cage.

The god's voice was cool, Their tone solemn, as They asked whether he had any last words.

The demon had just made a vow to himself. Now he stared at Them without blinking and whispered:

"I want to... No, I will make you mine."

-

The God of Gods disappeared.

No one knew whose honored guest, prisoner, or caged bird They had become.

When They appeared again, They were holding a tiny baby.

Everyone said the God of Gods had no feelings and no heart.

But when They looked at the soft little one in Their arms, something in the frozen glacial wasteland that had never thawed began to melt, ever so gently.

That was Their divine child, the future new god.

Their only child.

The young god had flaxen curls like the god's, but his eyes were caramel-colored, not blue, and he had an innate love of white roses.

He had an angelic halo, but no wings.

And a demon's tail.

The Divine Realm erupted over this discovery.

#Who defiled His Majesty#

#The pairing is obscure enough already, but did it have to be this bizarre#

#I think I know who the other lead is, but is this really a pairing we can ship#

[Reading Guide]

* An unruly demon top x an aloof, untouchable god bottom, Zachariah x Jiang Xiao, one-on-one, happy ending

* Not Western fantasy. An original, blended world setting

* (Fake) age-gap raising-up romance + love and hate + running away while pregnant

* The little one's story can be found in the completed novel in my author column, The Fierce and Adorable Young God Becomes the Beloved of the Modern World

Theme: Care for the vulnerable and work toward shared prosperity