Name: I Haven't Been a Demon Lord in Years
Author: Seeking Dreams by Night

Synopsis

Main story complete, extras in progress ◎ Completed: Saving My Life in the World of Comics ◎ Coming soon: The Dejected Cannon Fodder After Infinite Resets. If you're interested, add it to your favorites~ Muah~

Gentle senior brother with a noble heart who wants to save the world x gloomy junior brother, the former demon lord, who knows the malice in people's hearts

"I was born precocious. I learned at an astonishing pace, was mature beyond my years, and never forgot anything I read."

"They all called me a genius, but they didn't know I had a body attuned to all yin, that I lived alongside evil, spoke with ghosts and monsters, saw the world's hidden treachery, and understood the wickedness in people's hearts."

"One day, a divination declared me a lone star of misfortune, doomed to bring disaster and bring harm to my family and friends. Overnight, I fell from the heavens into the mud."

"My family despised and abandoned me. My old friends pitied and humiliated me. Thankfully, my senior brother recognized my worth and saved me from the chaos, allowing me to escape the mire."

"He brought me to Wandao Sect, took on the duties of a senior brother, cared for my daily needs, and also assumed the role of a teacher, instructing me in the Daoist tradition and helping me establish my Dao heart."

"I may not like this cultivation world, but since my senior brother wants me to follow the righteous path and make something of myself, I'll be his most obedient junior brother, carry on his legacy, and become the new foremost figure of the righteous path."

"To me, he is my senior brother, my teacher, and someone I cherish too much to ever reach."

"My senior brother was born with a sword bone. On the day of his birth, auspicious clouds filled the sky and divine birds circled overhead. Now, he is as bright and pure as the moon, with an extraordinary bearing, formidable strength, an unwavering Dao heart, Heaven and Earth's blessing, and a noble heart for all under heaven. He is unquestionably the representative of the new generation."

"But though my senior brother is upright, though he is compassionate, though he cares for all under heaven, why can this world still not accept him?"

"Without my senior brother, who would give a damn about that so-called greater good?"

*

Everyone knew that Pei Chuyi was the leader of the righteous path, while Jiang Yu was the Demon Lord. They stood on opposite sides, righteous against evil, in a relationship where one had to die for the other to live.

Pei Chuyi thought so too. For the sake of the Great Dao and the common people, he had to kill Jiang Yu.

During the war between the immortals and demons, Pei Chuyi ventured alone into the deepest demon lair, facing the demon lord single-handedly with the resolve to die.

He had expected a brutal battle, but the demon lord met his blade and actively sought death.

As he died, the other man seemed to murmur, "Why is the world... so unfair to me?"

The words bothered Pei Chuyi so much that he tossed and turned all night before eventually drifting off.

When he awoke, Pei Chuyi found that the world had changed. He had returned to the day after he formed his Nascent Soul.

He planned to nip the problem in the bud and kill the demon lord before he could grow up.

But he hadn't expected that the demon lord was now a scrawny child, barely five feet tall.

His heart softened, and he brought the child back to the sect.

From then on, he gave the lonely, wandering little beast a home.

*

A white-robed immortal picked up a filthy boy. From then on, the world had one fewer demon lord and one more spirited young man.

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The cover uses a template.

Mostly told from the bottom's perspective, though it starts from the top's.

Coming-of-age, older top, one-sided feelings on one side (not much focus on them), mostly just the top and bottom, with mutual feelings that are unshakable.

Please leave lots of comments! You might catch the author slacking off~

The Dejected Cannon Fodder After Infinite Resets

Blurb:

My name is Sui Yi. Just like my name, my existence is "whatever," neither here nor there.

For reasons unknown, I reset countless times, returning to the same starting point again and again, only to end up an ordinary nobody every time.

Only later did I learn that I was a character in a business management game.

As an "unavailable" character, I was destined to be a cannon-fodder side character in this world, forever trampled underfoot by the protagonists.

So I gave up. I gave up struggling and gave up everything.

The only thing I wanted to keep was the guitar in my hands. That alone was enough.

It was raining hard that day. A little tipsy, I was utterly dejected, slumped beneath the eaves with my guitar in my arms. The rain still dampened my hair.

Unexpectedly, I ran into a five-star character from the game.

He took me in.

When I opened my eyes again, I had become an artist under the game's player character.

It was my first time becoming a member of the player character's company.

But I wasn't the protagonist. In the end, I'd just become another nobody, wouldn't I?

*

Shine! Super Star, a groundbreaking, highly open-ended VR game, finally launched after decades of adjustments and testing.

Players soon discovered its one-of-a-kind character: Sui Yi.

He was handsome, beautiful, and exceptionally talented, yet also dejected and gloomy.

When alone, he was like a mushroom in the corner, lifeless and devoid of energy.

But whenever he stepped onstage, he became the brightest star in the crowd, setting off fireworks of pure black and dazzling color.

This contradictory, chaotic flame soon drew everyone's attention.