The Demon King has emerged, and the world is in turmoil.
Qianli, a wine-making girl from an immortal sect, struggles to stay alive. One day, she is accidentally caught up in a melee and nearly dies, but a junior brother saves her.
Her savior, the junior brother Chen Wuqi, is just as unfortunate as she is. Born with a demonic nature, his meridians have been ruined. He is bullied mercilessly, left hungry, forced to sleep in a drafty room, and made to wash the entire sect's swords in the bitter cold.
Qianli brings him fresh meals and a fluffy quilt, and keeps him company as he washes swords by the banks of the Ruoshui River.
But her benefactor is a strange, aloof man who shows no gratitude at all.
After his bowl is kicked over yet again, she blinks her big eyes and pushes over a sesame flatbread she stole from the kitchen. “All right, stop pretending. In this world, staying alive is what matters.”
What else can she do? She has to keep him happy.
Qianli decides to leave as soon as he has recovered.
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Chen Wuqi was born with the power of a Demon King, but his poor constitution makes it impossible to control. He allows himself to be captured on purpose and enters the Quyang Sect to rebuild his meridians.
The humiliation he suffers at the hands of ordinary people is no more than a passing cloud to him.
He has long since transcended the need for food. Whenever he goes to bed, he can simply make a hand seal and settle into the most prestigious palace in the demon realm. To wash swords, all he needs to do is move a finger and command the Ruoshui River.
That's what he says, but the demon realm's guardians watch from the shadows as:
The young Demon King dutifully eats the simple meals she brings, covers himself with a quilt, sleeps in a drafty room, and washes swords in the Ruoshui River with his bare hands.
Even after the water ravages his hands until they are bloody, he keeps a cold face and stubbornly insists, “Young Mistress Qianli keeps stringing me along while giving the senior brother a birthday present. How fickle of her.”
The entire sect gave the senior brother a birthday gift. She really can't understand how his mind works.
One day, his wounds finally heal.
She brings out a jar of wine to celebrate. “You're better now, so I can leave without worrying.”
But when she wakes up, she finds herself bound in a wedding dress.
Black miasma shrouds the sect's immortal mountain. Chen Wuqi, dressed in the Demon King's wedding robes, grabs her by the throat. “All my life, I have wanted only one person.”
What shocks her even more is the discovery that she mistook her benefactor for someone else. He wasn't the one who saved her back then.
Now there's only one thing to do: run!
A mighty demon king X a little fairy
A wicked, domineering man X the one who knows how to deal with wicked, domineering men
A feigned romance mixed with true feelings X true feelings mixed with a feigned romance
A sweet romance
The heroine has no emotional attachments and will dote on the hero in his wicked, domineering way
Theme: Everyone is born equal
