The Beautiful Villain Wants to Climb to the Top by Outworking Everyone

[The next novel in the same genre, "My Flower-Demon Husband Who Died Young," will be opening soon. Its blurb is at the very bottom.]

Blurb:

[Free-spirited, forthright Phoenix Goddess] [Obsessive, lovesick Demon Lord split into fragments]

The first time Yao Guang saw Tai Sheng, he was at a corpse-demon wedding banquet amid rotting bodies. Dressed in red, his gaze was cold, and he was breathtakingly beautiful.

The last time she saw him, he had become her husband in name. He was dressed in red again, lying in a coffin and telling her to leave, though his words said one thing and his heart another.

Time turned back, giving them another chance. Yao Guang killed every demon and monster in his path and took him in as her disciple. The courteous, proper young man retreated from her step by step.

Just as Yao Guang was about to give up, the young man, stripped of his coldness and utterly soft and helpless, suddenly went into heat amid a beast stampede inside the Soul-Suppressing Tower. His face flushed, he beckoned her closer and asked her for a kiss.

After staying single for ten thousand years, Yao Guang was stunned by his mesmerizing beauty and fell helplessly under his spell.

When demonic chaos engulfed the world, Yao Guang saved a young boy named Xiao Ping among the humans.

He was obedient and sensible, but was bullied everywhere because he was deaf. Yao Guang felt for him and promised to visit often.

After she left, the boy grew despondent and became cold, cruel, and vindictive. When Yao Guang still hadn't returned after ten years, he drove away everyone with ill intentions, then pretended to be pitiful and stabbed himself with a pair of scissors to force her to appear.

The Demon Lord emerged, and on that very same day, the seal on the divine official Si Yuan was lifted.

Though he clearly had no interest in love, he climbed into Yao Guang's bed because of a love poison. And even though he knew perfectly well that she had a husband, he kept insisting he would be content as her concubine.

He was ashamed, but accepted his fate.

Who could have guessed that after a night of passion, Yao Guang would push him away and tell him she didn't need him to take responsibility?

Si Yuan realized he had lost his memories of the night... until the divine physician came to examine him and discovered three souls hidden in his body...

Reading guide:

* The male lead is split into fragments. He repeatedly loses his memory and regains it in pieces. Expect melodramatic jealousy, with me getting jealous of myself and me becoming the third party to myself.

* The male lead is a repressed, unhinged obsessive, completely consumed by love. In front of the female lead, he's shy and devoted, and always the one in the more vulnerable position emotionally.

* One-on-one, both leads are devoted only to each other, happy ending. Not a multiple-male-lead story.

* Mostly sweet and satisfying, but the male lead will suffer. The female lead saves him.

* The male lead seems younger than the female lead, but is actually older. His identity will be revealed later.

Coming soon:

Everyone in the Three Realms knew that Luo Ling, the cold-hearted and stern divine official of the Tribunal, had personally branded a lotus demon with the Heartburn Seal, condemning her never to become a god for all eternity.

From then on, she became a calamity demon despised by everyone.

While the white lotus lived, she healed the people and saved the common folk, but no one saw it. All that remained were the tales of the black lotus blooming at night to slaughter the world.

Ji Yan quietly looked up at the divine official whom the world praised as the most "impartial and incorruptible" in the Divine Realm.

Last night, on the bed, she had softened her voice and coaxed him to blossom for her. The two of them had done every kind of outrageous thing, only for it to turn out that she had been trying to trick him into confessing.

Ji Yan smiled. "My lord truly does reward and punish with perfect fairness. One night of your favor is already a generous gift."

She was forced to answer for the crimes of her past. Each time the Heartburn Seal flared, it burned her soul for a hundred years. If she offended again after a hundred years, she would be reduced to ashes.

When they met again, she had been sent down to the mortal realm as punishment, where she endured endless torment in the Eight-Direction Reincarnation Mirror.

He came beneath the moon and slaughtered the sects that had conspired with evil spirits and put on a show of loyalty while secretly defying their orders. Then he pieced her shattered divine essence back together.

When the Heartburn Seal burned out and the great demon's power scattered in the rain, Ji Yan forced herself to place a kiss on Luo Ling's cheek. She smiled in despair. "Lord Luo... Did that sin-seal... burn to your satisfaction?"

Then the Eight-Direction Reincarnation Mirror shattered, and the mortal world was forced back a hundred years.

Only then did everyone learn what sort of people the flower demon had killed.

But those slain by the Heartburn Seal could never be brought back to life.

*

The flower demon, who had once done countless good deeds, had fallen, and the only God of War in the Celestial Realm had also resigned. Evil had returned, and no one could oppose it.

The Heavenly Emperor swallowed his pride and sent people to ask Luo Ling to return several times.

But the divine official, usually so disciplined, was lying in the courtyard, basking in the sun. The man pressed close to her side had an arm around her waist, his fingers stroking her sash. His expression was displeased, but his voice carried a teasing invitation: "You already agreed to see him yesterday. Today, you're definitely going to do as I say."

The envoy's heart skipped a beat. As he stepped inside, he came face-to-face with the black lotus, once notorious for slaughtering her way through the Three Realms. She glared at him viciously. Trembling, he finally managed a few words of good fortune: "M-May you live in harmony for a hundred years."

"A hundred years isn't enough." Ji Yan's expression instantly turned cold. She laced her fingers through Luo Ling's, her voice full of possessiveness. "I want us together for all eternity."

Reading guide:

1. A beautiful but tragic, love-obsessed male lead, split into fragments: a gentle, healing white lotus and a bewitching, unhinged black lotus, both in love with the female lead. The female lead is a captivating beauty who knows how to draw people in, and a cold-faced divine official.

2. The male and female leads find their way to each other, with a happy ending. Since the male lead is split into fragments, the female lead gets to enjoy the company of both. You know what I mean.

3. The original blurb's core plot remains mostly unchanged. The male and female leads' names have been adjusted, along with some of the settings and worldbuilding.

Theme: Overcoming prejudice