[Abandoned draft. Even after writing over a hundred thousand words, I still feel like everything is wrong. Writing it has killed my soul. I have no idea when I’ll restart it, and if I do, I’ll probably have to rewrite most of it. Not recommended.]
# I sat bolt upright on my deathbed. The Demon Lord has become me! #
Lin Lan is a new employee at the Transmigration Bureau. For a reward so generous it could let her retire on the spot, she decisively accepted the Bureau’s long-standing, impossible mission:
Reform the world-destroying Demon Lord, the villain Xiao Fengqing.
They said the villain was born with a demonic nature, obsessive and sinister, leaving rivers of blood wherever he went.
She expected to meet some demonic overlord from the heavens, a scumbag among men.
But the moment she entered the mission world, Lin Lan was dumbfounded.
Her target was as noble and upright as a breeze beneath a bright moon. He was covered in blood after being attacked by evil cultivators, yet he still defended the weak. Even as he lay at death’s door, he called out to her, "Miss, run!"
How could he have been born demonic? He was clearly a saintly man whom fate had tormented to the brink of death!
"Who wouldn’t turn evil after going through that?" she grumbled as she set about rescuing him.
Through dark and stormy times, they supported each other through their hardest years. But just as dawn was about to break, she became a sacrifice meant to drive the villain to darkness, dying before his eyes.
Witnessing this, Xiao Fengqing’s Dao heart collapsed, and the demonic seed was about to consume the last of his reason.
After enduring countless hardships to reach the eve of victory, Lin Lan flew into a rage. She grabbed the demonic seed before the villain could and shouted, "Let him go! Come after me instead!"
The villain’s descent into darkness was put on hold! Nobody was touching her retirement fund!
The next day, the Three Realms were shaken.
The three most powerful sects of the Demon Sect were slaughtered, and a new Demon Lord appeared out of nowhere.
The many immortal sects were terrified. They hurried to visit Xiao Fengqing in the middle of the night. "We’ve heard you and the Demon Lord have a deep history. Could you... ask her to tone it down?"
Xiao Fengqing looked at Lin Lan, perched on the throne and smiling as she toyed with his life-bound sword: ...
And so, their roles were reversed.
Now Xiao Fengqing had to coax her.
But was this right? Was this really how the story was supposed to go?
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Transmigration Bureau: So you’re saying you told the villain every day to be an upright person, then turned around and became the Demon Lord yourself?
Transmigration Bureau: Impressive.
The male and female leads are good people from beginning to end.
The heroine isn’t very strong at first, but she’s incredibly good at clearing missions.
The hero is smart, talented, and genuinely kind, but his life has been so hard that there’s an inescapable aura of the supernatural whenever he’s in a relationship.
Theme: Good people deserve good things
