I Fear Death, So I Got a Happy Ending with the Puppet Demon Lord

[The Emotionless, Wicked Puppet X the Timid White Moonlight He Covets]

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Zhu Qingluo transmigrates into a mildly terrifying xianxia novel, only to become a prisoner on her very first day.

She nearly gets hacked to death by a bunch of minor characters driven mad by qi deviation, too.

Timid Zhu Qingluo: QAQ Mom, I want to go home!

At the crucial moment, a handsome boy drenched in blood drops from the sky, covers her mouth, and drags her into a hidden alley.

Then he turns around and takes care of the crazies who were chasing her.

But saving her gets the boy chopped to pieces, too.

The gears unique to puppets lie scattered across the ground. Only his dark, unblinking eyes remain, gazing at the tear-streaked girl.

After a brief faint, Zhu Qingluo finally realizes that in this turbulent, unfamiliar world, she has nowhere to go and no way to protect herself.

All she can do is tremble as she begs the expressionless boy's “corpse parts” beside her for help.

“P-please, I’ll get you out of here and help you find all your limbs and repair your torso. In return, protect me for ten years. N-no, just five!”

A bloodied little finger crawls out of the corpse pile and clumsily hooks around hers.

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From then on, the two wander through a world teeming with demons and monsters. She teaches him to speak and write, teaches him about love and hate, and gives him the name Zhi Xuanxiao.

In return, he keeps watch at night and kills their enemies, making sure she sleeps soundly.

Yet Zhu Qingluo is still terrified by the inhuman things about the boy.

When she sees with her own eyes how he skins someone who hurt her and turns them into a human-skin puppet, Zhu Qingluo hides under the bed, shaking all over, and grows afraid of her protector once more.

Zhu Qingluo: TOT I’ll do whatever you want! Please don’t kill me, waah!

So when the boy says he wants to feel the warmth of a human embrace, Zhu Qingluo gives in and lets him hold her all night.

He’s curious about the taste of nuptial wine, and Zhu Qingluo agrees to that, too. She puts on a red wedding dress with him, and they bow to Heaven and Earth.

Even when he keeps learning about the pleasures of the flesh, again and again, she...

Then one day, the late-arriving NPC System comes online and spoils the novel and her fate for Zhu Qingluo:

Zhi Xuanxiao will become a great demon who brings destruction to the world.

And Zhu Qingluo has transmigrated into the first unlucky cannon-fodder character he casually kills on his path to becoming a villain.

Terrified by the truth, Zhu Qingluo shudders and runs away that very night.

She doesn’t get far.

The wind howls, and thunder crashes as rain pours down.

Zhu Qingluo wakes from a nightmare and is horrified to find strings restraining her hands and feet.

The boy is soaked through, sitting in the shadows beside the bed. His handsome, pale face looks like that of a water ghost who has crawled up from the underworld.

Strings run from his ten fingers. He raises one.

And Zhu Qingluo’s arms open against her will to embrace him.

Just as Zhu Qingluo thinks he’s about to kill her and turn her into a puppet, the boy’s cold, greedy kiss falls upon her.

“Five years isn’t enough, and even ten is too short. A Luo, you’re staying by my side for the rest of your life.”

[Reader’s Guide]

* One-on-one romance, happy ending

* Not a strong heroine or a powerhouse female lead. A melodramatic romance with mutual healing. The male lead has a mild imprinting attachment to the heroine early on.

* Later parts include faked death, coercion, and confinement in a locked room.

* This is not the final blurb. It may be revised before the novel officially begins, but the core premise will remain unchanged.

[Blurb dated 2024.09.15]

Theme: Love makes people brave.