Dusk's Bitter Feast

[A god who protects the world in silence VS a demon who can destroy it but knows nothing of the world]

There are always greed, hatred, obsession, and resentment in this world that cannot be resolved.

When the wooden chopsticks that had accompanied Si Miao for a thousand years pierced her brow, she finally remembered that night of bloody winds and rain, and the corpses filling the city.

Blood poured from her. Her luxurious clothes were soaked in it, yet not a drop belonged to her. She had killed everyone, only to discover that she alone could not be killed.

But when a firefly butterfly, its whole body engulfed in flames, came to rest on the hilt of the sword that pierced Si Miao's neck, she finally stirred. Facing the indistinct figure before her, she rasped, "Kill me."

A thousand years later,

She has long since forgotten her past and become an immortal, uninjured Judge of the Underworld, unaware that the firefly butterfly that took her away a thousand years ago has returned to her side.

But what she finds even more unimaginable is that when they meet again, what you think is a chance encounter is actually the result of a plan he has been laying for a full thousand years.

-- Next novel: "The Demon Venerable Is Reborn and Cleans Up the Entertainment Industry" --

1: After the female demon lord who once ruled the cultivation world is killed by her own disciple, she unexpectedly is reborn and transmigrates to the 21st century, into the body of Gu Jiusī, a B-list cannon-fodder actress who can't do anything right and excels at courting death.

The first thing she sees when she opens her eyes after being reborn is the culprit who killed her: her dear disciple, Xie Yao! But whether by fate or sheer coincidence, the "Xie Yao" before her claims he's a husband she picked up for free.

An enemy turned family? Rebirth turned transmigration? Is this an accident or a coincidence? A human scheme or a trick of fate?

Gu Jiusī decides to find out for herself in this new life.

Her free husband, Shen Yao: "Honey! Take me with you!"

Gu Jiusī gives him a look and quietly says, "Get lost."

Shen Yao: "You got it!"

2: Gu Jiusī is known as "the entertainment industry's drug lord." She's an incorrigible troublemaker who throws her weight around in showbiz, banking on being the only daughter of the Gu Group.

In major productions based on hit IPs, they use digital face replacements or stand-ins for her. She never shows up on set, but parties and drinks outside of work, until every director in the industry blacklists her.

But no one expects this scandal-ridden "biggest drug lord in the entertainment industry" to become a sensation with viewers on a variety show, earning the nicknames "the only real person in the industry," "the entertainment industry's police department," and "the industry's gossip field."

Have the fans lost their minds, or have the viewers gone astray?

It turns out that the newly internet-savvy Demon Venerable was sexually harassed by a famous director and called him out by name on Weibo: "Your dick isn't even as big as my pinky, and you still whip it out to show me? Have you no respect for me? @Director So-and-So"

The comments section descends into chaos, and the entertainment industry is thrown into turmoil. Ever since our Demon Venerable went online, this sort of thing has become commonplace. Viewers cry, "Are we allowed to hear this?" From then on, Gu Jiusī, the only real person in the industry, becomes a gossip-generating machine in the eyes of passersby, the one and only in her fans' eyes, too intimidating to mess with in the eyes of her rivals, and... in the eyes of the shipping fans...

Wait! Where did those shipping fans come from?

"Me!" Shen Yao squeezes out of the crowd, looking bashful. "I'm the one who started shipping us."

Passersby: "No way, that's Shen Yao! His mother is a three-time Best Actress winner, his father is a Forbes Top Ten billionaire, he started out as a child star, and he won Best Actor as soon as he came of age. I mean, are we allowed to hear this?"

The Saturn fans: "I can't look. I can't listen. He's totally blinded by love, and it's embarrassing."

Gu Jiusī: "..."

3: After filming wraps on "Free and Easy Journey," a reporter asks Shen Yao in an interview, "It's been three years since you won Best Actor and stepped away from the screen. Why did you choose to film 'Free and Easy Journey' instead of making a movie?"

Shen Yao: "I've been acting in movies since I was a kid, and I've never had the chance to try a TV drama. For one thing, it was something new. For another, I really liked the script for 'Free and Easy Journey.'"

Reporter: "Many viewers thought you had already retired from the industry. What made you decide to come back?"

Shen Yao: "I ran out of money, so I came back."

The reporters exchange glances, wanting to ask more, but the interview is already declared over.

The moment the director calls cut, Shen Yao rushes off after an actress, fussing over her. "The interview's over. Want to go home together tonight? You want that red-and-white thing we had last time? Sure! It's called hot pot. Huo guo, that's right! Let's go. Hold my hand, please~ Gu Jiusī, just hold my hand."

Reporter: "Th-this... can we publish this?"

The crew: "Who could have guessed the Best Actor was such a lovesick fool?"

Theme: Help others and yourself; everything comes with a price.