Surprise! My Frail Husband Is a Demon Lord

For the third year in a row, Su Yao and her frail, delicate husband, Shen Sui, have been named the model couple of their village.

Su Yao runs a blacksmith shop to support the family. Her sickly husband, Shen Sui, struggles through his illness to cook for her every day, waiting for her at the village entrance in wind and rain.

Everyone who sees them says they're devoted to each other.

But Su Yao is on edge every day.

Because she's the Fire-Separation Immortal Lord, secretly descended from heaven to search for a missing immortal.

The most hot-tempered and destructive being in the immortal sect, she isn't someone the other immortals dare let act without restraint.

But now she's fallen at first sight for Shen Sui, a sickly scholar whose beauty surpasses that of all three thousand immortals in heaven.

She's terrified that one careless turn in bed at night will crush her extraordinarily beautiful, delicate husband and make him cough up blood.

So every night, she painstakingly restrains her immortal power, lying in his arms without daring to squeeze him too tightly.

She keeps up the charade day after day, waiting for him to die of old age so she can bring his soul back to the immortal realm to be nurtured.

But one day, while searching for her missing senior brother's magical artifact, she runs into her archenemy, the Demon Lord Yuan Lu.

He wears a black robe and a gilded owl mask that could stop a child's crying. His right hand has just pierced a little demon's chest, and blood drips from his fingertips onto the ground.

He picks up her senior brother's artifact, then disdainfully tosses it aside.

Furious, she charges at him.

They fight so fiercely in the secret realm that heaven and earth are shaken, until they finally knock each other's masks off.

And see the face they know better than any other!

Su Yao: "...Husband?"

The Demon Lord smiles faintly, his eyes narrowing dangerously. "Wife?"

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A little side story.

Su Yao boasts to the village women: "My husband is a renowned teacher, famous for a hundred li around. He's incredibly learned."

In the demonic realm, the demon generals watch their usually taciturn Demon Lord sitting on his throne with a displeased expression, poring over the Confucian classics for the imperial exams and forgetting to eat or sleep.

He even brings a teacher into the demonic realm to give him lessons.

One day, he suddenly decides he wants to go to the capital and take the imperial exams to become the top scholar.

The demon generals: "?"

Shen Sui tells a scholar from the neighboring village: "I've traveled to the ends of the earth, but I've never met anyone as pure and kind as my wife. Even when a bad person is right in front of her, she smiles like a flower."

In the immortal realm, the immortals watch Su Yao, the usually short-tempered Immortal Venerable of Artifact Refining, calmly crush an invading demon clan member into a delicate morning glory.

Su Yao speaks in a soft, sweet voice: "Waaah, I'm so scared."

The immortals and demons break into a cold sweat and step back three paces!

Theme: Love must be sincere.