The Matriarchal Founder Once Said She’d Never Marry [Matriarchy]

A hardworking, earnest, adorable male lead x a split-personality Demon Lord who wants to destroy the world

The female lead has multiple secret identities and is genuinely powerful. The villain is the female lead herself (literally), and the male lead can bear children.

The male lead's perspective features more in the early chapters. Happy ending.

In his previous life, the male lead was a mad, obsessive sort, and he and the female lead were enemies.

Mu Lingchen was an outer disciple of the Tianxuan Sect. When he was granted special permission to enter the Sword Mound, he unexpectedly acquired a strange broken sword.

He wasn't discouraged. Instead, he treasured the sword as if it were priceless.

Ignoring the strange looks the sect elders gave him, he took the sword everywhere, soaring through secret realms and cleaving yao beasts in two...

But one day, the sect master mysteriously pulled him aside and told him that the sword spirit of his sword was the sect's founding ancestor. He was stunned.

Before he could recover, he watched helplessly as his sword ran off with the Demon Venerable.

Mu Lingchen: ??????

Back when Chu Ji challenged the Heavenly Dao, she had waded through countless people's blood to reach where she was today, and had become what she was now, able to survive only by relying on the demonic tree's power.

Her old companions, who had once walked beside her, were nowhere to be found. She was still searching for them, wandering aimlessly and hoping they would return, longing for the day she could finally lay down her burdens.

Just as she thought she'd have to keep going alone, that person appeared...

The one who had once crossed swords with her had lost his edge and said he would stay by her side forever.

Following her heart, Chu Ji finally recovered the memories she'd lost and the heart she'd misplaced...

A little clarification: Chu Ji lived for tens of thousands of years and was constantly losing things. If she still hadn't learned to cherish what she had after all that, that would be too much. Readers looking for a groveling-chase romance or a couple who torture each other probably won't enjoy this, so please feel free to give it a pass. Thank you.

The flashback chapters about their past lives will be quite heartbreaking, though.

While revising, I realized the early chapters really do have some issues. If the premise sounds good, feel free to save the novel for later and wait until I've finished making some minor revisions (chapters that haven't been revised don't have titles).

Theme: Men should stand on their own