How to Tame an Obsessive Demon Lord

Only after a sword pierced her heart did Shen Lianqing learn that she was a supporting female character in a cultivation novel, whose sole purpose was to let the male lead kill his wife to prove his Dao and ascend in broad daylight.

She had been an ordinary mortal. Once, she had sneaked into a manor hoping to find something to eat, only to stumble upon the household being slaughtered by its enemies.

As she hid in a woodpile, trembling with fear, a young man fell beside her, drenched in blood and barely breathing: Jiang Yanbai.

Amid the cries of slaughter all around, she saw the light had gone from the boy's eyes, yet they remained clear and gentle as a deer's.

Shen Lianqing had no idea where she found the courage. She gritted her teeth, dragged him into a wood cart, and hauled him out through the piles of corpses.

Jiang Yanbai was no ordinary person.

He joined Tianmen and endured ten years of hellish cultivation, breaking through to the Transcendent Realm as a mortal and making his name known across the seven continents overnight.

Everyone knew he had a little wife he treasured like a precious jewel. Yet on the very day he became a god, his wife disappeared.

Rumors said he had killed his wife to prove his Dao, abandoning his beloved in order to ascend.

Only later did people witness Jiang Yanbai defy the Heavenly Dao to find his wife, personally shattering the divine bones in his body. The once proud and exalted Divine Venerable turned out to be nothing but a madman who could not have the one he wanted.

Yet none of this had anything to do with Lianqing.

Shen Lianqing hated him with all her heart.

After being reborn, she returned to the day the Jiang family was slaughtered. Thin as a reed, Shen Lianqing went to that woodshed once more.

She would end the life of the man she had once loved with her own hands.

But the stars shifted in an instant. Jiang Yanbai was nowhere to be found that day. The one who appeared before her instead was Jiang Qi.

He was Jiang Yanbai's closest blood relative, the younger brother whose name Jiang Yanbai would still call out in tears in his dreams ten years after the massacre.

Silently, Shen Lianqing put away the blade in her arms and took the still-young, scrawny wolf cub with her.

Jiang Yanbai had once said that Jiang Qi's talent for cultivation was in no way inferior to his own. If he had lived, he would have become a young genius renowned throughout the world.

But he would not survive. The flesh around his wounds was rotting, and his forehead burned like hot coals. Shen Lianqing tried everything, but could only keep him alive by a thread.

Half-awake, Jiang Duanqi watched the woman kneeling in the icy river, praying for medicine, so thin she looked like little more than a skeleton. He wondered how a god could be so wretched.

He asked, "Who are you?"

Shen Lianqing's lips moved slightly. "Your widowed sister-in-law."

"I'm so tired. Am I going to die?"

"No. You won't." Shen Lianqing's voice seemed to merge with the snow and ice all around them. "Your life belongs to me. Even Heaven can't take it away."

Later, Jiang Qi really did survive. When he opened his eyes, he looked at her in astonishment and heard her say three things:

"From now on, your name is Jiang Shu."

"I want you to become the greatest cultivator there is."

"Then I want you to kill someone for me."

"Why?"

Shen Lianqing answered quietly, "To avenge your brother."

Fine, fine, all right. Jiang Shu thought. He would do whatever Shen Lianqing told him to.

Shen Lianqing had snatched him from Heaven's grasp. She was his sister-in-law, the person who loved him most in the whole world, and she would never lie to him.

To make her gaze, always fixed on the distant horizon, fall upon him, he would do anything.

Though he couldn't remember who his brother was, Jiang Shu thought with a strange sense of comfort:

Thank goodness you're dead, Brother.

Naturally wicked younger man x pure-hatred, unhinged warrior

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