Raising a Demon [Reborn]

Love and hate | Rekindled romance | The scorned lover's groveling redemption

The Demon Lord Qing Zhen found a phoenix egg. According to prophecy, it would hatch into the heaven-sent star destined to strike him down with a sword.

Qing Zhen tossed the egg into the fire, intending to have roast phoenix for dinner.

Unexpectedly, it hatched right there into a tiny phoenix the size of a chick.

The little phoenix had soft feathers and a bright red beak, like a good-luck charm.

He had none of the pride of a chosen one. His cries were clear and bright, and after taking human form, he ran around in beautiful feathered robes. He wanted Qing Zhen to feed him and hold him while he slept, and he treated the Demon Palace like his own nest.

Qing Zhen taught him spells and took him to see the world.

The little phoenix followed him everywhere, ignoring the immortal sects' warnings and vowing to become the Demon Lord's consort.

Qing Zhen, so thoroughly pestered that he'd lost all desire to destroy the world: "..."

On the day the Demon Lord went into the mortal world to undergo his tribulation, the little phoenix's feathered robes fluttered as he chased after him and plunged into the cycle of reincarnation.

During their brief lifetime in the mortal world, they fell in love, stayed by each other's side, and became husband and husband.

But a great fire consumed his beloved and their young child. Cradling the beloved's remains, Qing Zhen wept blood and died as snow fell in midsummer.

He returned from his failed tribulation, his powers greatly diminished. Beneath the sky screen, amid billowing clouds, he turned around and was pierced through the chest by the Heavenly Prince, clad in feathers.

The little phoenix, clad in golden feathered armor and radiating divine light, wielded a demon-slaying sword and cast him into the Desolate Abyss, where he was sealed for all eternity.

The prophecy had come true.

Yan Xiao, son of the Heavenly Emperor, entered the game, slew the demon seed, succeeded to the throne, and ushered in ten thousand years of peace.

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Ten thousand years later, a rare and precious thought-fruit grew in the demon-shrouded Desolate Abyss.

The Immortal Realm picked the unripe fruit, intending to remove its resentment and bring blessings to the world.

Qing Zhen opened his eyes and found himself reborn by the edge of the Desolate Abyss as a fruit.

The noble immortal before him, dressed in phoenix feathers and coldly aloof, was none other than the Heavenly Prince who had risen to power over his corpse, now the Heavenly Emperor, Yan Xiao.

The harmless little immortal boy reached out and wound his arms around the beauty's neck. The Heavenly Emperor, dressed in phoenix-feather robes, carried him back to the Immortal Realm.

This time, he would repay every slight and avenge himself.

Later, demonic energy coiled around the Heavenly Emperor's bedchamber, never dissipating.

The Demon Lord in black stepped on the phoenix's tail feathers and held the cold, aloof beauty with his swollen belly captive in his arms. He kissed the trembling feathers by his ear, and with a flick of his fingers, the celestial palaces of the Ninth Heaven crumbled and fell apart.

He cultivated the heartless path, so Qing Zhen would shatter his Daoist heart.

He hated Qing Zhen's face, so Qing Zhen would make him look at it every day.

[Reborn, vengeful and vindictive Demon Lord gong x cold, gloomy beauty Heavenly Emperor shou]

★Reader's guide★

1. One-on-one, both are each other's first. The blurb isn't the whole truth.

2. A happy ending with a mix of heartbreak and sweetness. Please check the tags if that's not for you.

3. Both gong and shou get their own groveling redemption arcs. Not suited to extreme character fans.

The original blurb was screenshotted on 2024.8.1.

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