After Faking My Death Better Than Anyone, I Just Want to Be a Layabout

Qin Zheng, the greatest sorcerer under heaven, defied convention and fate, using forbidden arts to live for three hundred years. The world hated and feared him, calling him a "demon."

Fortunately, two hundred and eighteen righteous heroes surrounded him at Bantiant Cliff. After a bloody battle that turned heaven and earth pale, the evil demon was finally slain.

The bad news: A hundred years after the demon's defeat at Bantiant Cliff, the immortal evil demon quietly came back to life atop a snowy mountain.

The good news: Having learned his lesson, the demon declared that being an overly bold target was too much trouble. He'd rather lie flat and be an unremarkable good-for-nothing.

The first step to becoming a layabout: live off someone else.

And so the infamous, max-level powerhouse transformed into a frail, foolish beauty and speedily attached himself to one of the richest and most powerful men of the age: Jiang Muyan, master of the Blissful Tower.

Jiang Muyan was young, yet already held great power. He was dashing, elegant, and rich enough to rival a nation. He seemed as untouchable as the moon in the sky, but fortunately, he was just as his name suggested: a man who cared about looks.

He fell for Qin Zheng at first sight, respectfully welcomed him to the Blissful Tower, and from then on treated him with tender devotion, granting his every wish and putting him first in all things.

With a fortune at his fingertips, Qin Zheng enjoyed the most comfortable life of a kept man and indulged in the most pampered, capricious lifestyle imaginable.

Then he discovered that his perfect sugar daddy had been secretly up to something all along.

Beneath Jiang Muyan's serene and noble exterior lay blood-red curse marks. He wasn't a young man of twenty-five. He, too, had used forbidden arts to gain eternal life, and had lived for at least a hundred years.

His identity and appearance were both false, and even his gentle temperament was a lie. Jiang Muyan had been consumed by demonic cultivation for years. He was a complete lunatic.

The more than two hundred corpses frozen in the secret chamber, the soul-summoning array that had endured for a century, the broken beauty held captive, the entire Blissful Tower... all were marks of his madness.

He had clung to life in this world, enduring a century of longing and stirring up storms of bloodshed, all for one dark, hopeless obsession: to resurrect his only master, the ghost sorcerer Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng, who had already come back to life on his own: ...? I suggest you don't go to all that trouble.

[Top, Qin Zheng: Clear-eyed loner, kept a low profile for three hundred years, the strongest fighter around, deeply calculating and unshakable]

[Bottom, Shen Buyan (Jiang Muyan): Seems like a carefree young talent, but is actually a world-weary maniac. Obedient and devoted to the top, but wants everyone else dead]

At ten, Shen Buyan endured a miserable life and wanted nothing more than to destroy the world. After Qin Zheng saved him by chance, he reined himself in and made Qin Zheng his one and only god.

At fifteen, Shen Buyan climbed Bantiant Cliff to save his master, but Qin Zheng forcibly teleported him away amid the fighting. The last thing Shen Buyan saw before he left was the moment his master's soul was utterly destroyed.

At twenty-five, Shen Buyan turned to demonic cultivation to attain immortality, honing himself into the sharpest blade in the world and setting out on a path of vengeance, fueled by blood-soaked hatred.

A hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye. He has personally killed each of the two hundred and eighteen enemies from Bantiant Cliff, yet his master still hasn't returned, despite Shen Buyan summoning his soul every day with his own heart's blood.

#He built the Blissful Tower in the depths of his grief. For a century, he languished in heartbreak, never finding a pure land, a walking corpse with all hope gone.

Until at last, he found a perfect vessel whose face matched his master's.

1: My own take on fantasy, with lots of original worldbuilding.

2: The top dies, the bottom goes mad. The bottom is naturally unhinged, obsessively in love, and has only ever acted obedient around the top since childhood. The top is emotionally stable and stays in control throughout.

3: Both are powerful. The top and bottom are the biggest villain bosses around, and everyone else's worst nightmare.

[Important]: This story has a [twisted moral compass]. Neither the top nor the bottom is [a good person], and both [lack a sense of morality].

The top disregards everyone else and does everything for himself. The bottom hates the whole world and does everything for the top, committing every kind of evil and destroying both others and himself.

Core theme: Those who never forget will eventually be answered