The Demon Lord I Must Save Is Acting All Wrong

A pure-hearted, beautiful, powerful, tragic demon lord × a slow-witted, sarcastic savior

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In her previous life, Si Xiaoxiao was a corporate drudge. The Heavenly Dao summoned her and told her that if she entered the cultivation world and saved Fu Zhongjian, the demon lord destined to destroy the world, she could be reincarnated as an upper-class elite in her next life.

Si Xiaoxiao: You can count on me.

Inside the tower, a black-haired man was wrapped in chains, his gaze as fierce as a wolf's.

Si Xiaoxiao boldly announced: I'm a goddess sent by the Heavenly Dao to save you. According to the script, we'll experience a grand romance across ten lifetimes, then go through you chasing me and me fleeing, broken hands and feet, tribulation-induced amnesia, seeing someone else in my place, and terminal illness misunderstandings before finally getting together.

The man in the tower: And then?

Si Xiaoxiao: Then I'll persuade you not to destroy the world.

The man in the tower: Untie me now, and I won't destroy the world.

Si Xiaoxiao: Fine.

The chains came off. The man in the tower swore to Heaven that he wouldn't destroy the world, but nothing happened.

Si Xiaoxiao: Were you lying to me?

The man in the tower panicked: Do I look like the kind of ingrate who repays kindness with betrayal? Besides, why would I destroy the world?

Since the outcome is good, the problem must be with the process.

Si Xiaoxiao dragged the man off to jump into the River of Forgetfulness.

The man in the tower: I'm saying, you're my lifesaver, but now you're trying to take my life. Isn't that, isn't that a little too much?!

Si Xiaoxiao: Enough talk. Let's get on with the script!

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Fu Zhongjian is waiting for a goddess to return and keep her promise.

In his previous life, she descended into the tower and freed him from years of confinement. She said she had come to save the world. Fu Zhongjian thought that he was part of the world, too, so she ought to save him as well.

But the goddess saved the world and gave her life. She brought him a ray of light, then took it away again.

Liar.

Fu Zhongjian gazed at the goddess in his arms, her breath faint. Resentment and fury stained his eyes crimson.

But the goddess only gave him the same gentle smile as before, touched his face, and said, "In my next life, I'll save only you."

How could he trust a liar's words?

Fu Zhongjian carried the lifeless person in his arms toward the distance.

A liar's words, a liar...

"Even if it was only a game, even if you were only trying to comfort me..." He tightened his embrace, his steps growing more resolute. His unshakable obsession drove him forward: he had to find her, hold on to her, and bring her back to fulfill her promise.

"I'll find you, too, and make you keep your promise."

Warning: The hero only knows how to revolve around the heroine.

Theme: Saving others is saving yourself.