Tales of Demons

* Fantasy + mystery + episodic investigations, not an xianxia setting.

* A half-demon reborn who sees through everything x a book-transmigration survivor who's slow to grasp her feelings. A story of mutual testing that gradually blossoms into love.

Throughout the Great Zhao realm, wherever the Demon Suppression Bureau holds jurisdiction, humans and demons live side by side.

Fu Cha carries out orders and hunts criminals, caught between resolving the grievances of humans and demons. But one day, in a sudden and unpredictable turn of events, Qi Sheng, commander of the Demon Suppression Bureau, transforms into a half-demon. The situation grows tense. The demon hunter becomes a demon, and before he's even thrown into the Demon Locking Tower, his demon core is ripped out and he dies a gruesome death.

The small world, shaken to its foundations, restarts with the help of the Book Bureau's management System.

Shi Yao, the first to enter and complete the mission, looks at the script of what happened before and feels her heart sink.

Why is the male lead reborn?!

Following the principle of staying alive as long as possible, Shi Yao sticks close to the male lead and diligently completes the tasks assigned by the System.

A scheming monk in a temple, a kind couple behaving strangely at an inn, a missing heart, a lost child. One case after another: are demons to blame, or people? Clues that seem trivial and unrelated turn out, once untangled, to point straight to the imperial capital.

The male lead isn't a madman. He's really holding himself back!

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Qi Sheng has no parents and has never known what love is. When he suddenly transformed into a demon and had his demon core ripped out, he didn't think about revenge. He only wondered why.

After being reborn, he decides to use himself as bait, awakening his demon bloodline ahead of time to lure out the person behind it all. Perhaps as compensation from Heaven, the first thing he pulls out of the water isn't an enemy, but someone who has no idea how to hide herself.

She wants something, and so does he.

But he thinks he would gladly give her everything, as long as she never leaves.

He bows his head in submission.

[Bonus scene]

Commander Qi Sheng has always been known for his stern, cold demeanor and his lack of smiles.

At some point, all kinds of rumors began circulating in the streets. Looking into them, people found that they all came from the stories written by someone called Tao Yuan the Storyteller.

One story claims the commander is a half-demon. Another claims that at home, he wags his tail and begs his wife for affection, fawning on her like a servant.

What utter nonsense!

How could the dignified commander ever have tears in his eyes as he offers up his demon tail, pleading for affection? If anyone's going to write about them, it should be about him pinning his wife to the bed and showing off his prowess.

Shi Yao: ...Is it possible that both versions are true?!

Tips:

1. The female lead transmigrates into a book, and the male lead is reborn. Both are virgins. One-on-one romance.

2. There is a System, but it appears less often in the later chapters. No golden finger in the traditional sense.

3. My own original setting, with lots of personal additions.

4. More of an ensemble cast, slow burn. The blurb is terrible.

Theme: Stay positive even in adversity.