I, the Demon Lord, Am Implementing the Three-Child Policy

Li Qingwei never imagined that she was not the Daoist partner Xun Ju had chosen and bonded with. From the very beginning, she was merely a tool destined to be sacrificed by him.

She killed in the name of the justice he preached, never allowed to rest as she helped secure his position.

Yet he was making love to another woman.

Just as she had lost all hope, she saw his sworn enemy, the Demon Lord, in pursuit. With nowhere left to run, she leaped to her death, believing there would be another life.

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When she woke, she was half-dead and lying on the Demon Lord's golden silk couch. The pillow beside hers bore a crease, as if someone had lain there not long ago.

The unreliable demon doctor told her, "You probably hit your head. You don't remember anything."

She opened her eyes groggily.

There was the Demon Lord, so outrageously handsome it was almost unfair, using his alluring eyes to spin a tale in broad daylight. "I've been by your bedside for ages, dear wife. You're finally awake."

And the roles he had forced upon the people around him included two other "friends" from Valley of Villains.

A young man who had been poisoned countless times since childhood was summoned before her. Uncomfortably, he called her, "Mother."

Meanwhile, the Sixth Lady, who was said to seduce men with her heartstrings and had killed countless men in a single night, came to her too. Reluctantly, she said, "Mother."

She woke from a nap to find herself not only with the Demon Lord as her husband, but also with the most wicked young people of their generation as her children?

Li Qingwei turned over and lay low, not exposing anyone's lies. She wanted to see how the Demon Lord would keep up his act, and how long the two children, both no ordinary people, could maintain their disguises.

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But as the act went on and her belly grew round beneath her hand, she had to tell her two "thoughtful" children, "Next year, you'll have a little brother or sister."

And that damned Demon Lord finally broke into a triumphant, delighted grin.

[Bonus scene:]

Xun Ju could never believe that the woman who had once stood by him without question had married and had a child with the man who killed his father. All she had left for him was an indifferent gaze and absolute silence that bordered on contempt.

[This one is still practice writing an ensemble cast.]

Blurb recorded on September 19, 2022

Theme: Love is a kind of ability. Either you're born with it, or you're born without it.