The Bookkeeper Drops His Disguise, the Demon Lord Arrives

The money-loving, fiery young owner of a bodyguard agency VS the martial arts world's public enemy, who's pretending to be harmless while hiding her true strength.

A penny-pinching boss VS a short-tempered accountant

Also known as: My Frail Wife Who Can't Do Anything for Herself | The Martial Arts World's Public Enemy Gets Reworked Into an Accountant | I Don't Want to Do the Books, I Just Want to Kill People | The Bride Who Was Married Off for Good Fortune Wants to Inherit Everything

I've given up. I'm done. Being a Demon Lord is exhausting!

Blurb 1:

Five years ago, the demoness Hong Gu fell to her death from a cliff after a battle at its edge.

Five years later, a delicate-looking bookkeeper hobbled between shops, keeping their accounts.

Hong Gu was perfectly content with her quiet, ordinary life. She concealed her identity and even shunned women's clothing, dressing as a man every day to escape the grudges and tangled passions of her past.

Who could have known that her former sect-mates would come looking for her one after another, bringing up the identity she'd forgotten for five years?

Why give up the fearsome title of Demon Lord to become such a pathetic bookkeeper?

Mountain Lord! You must avenge yourself! You must restore the sect!

Everyone hoped she would awaken with the Demon Lord's ruthless resolve.

Only Su Xiaoyue knew that what the Demon Lord truly wanted was to remain that gentle little bookkeeper.

Blurb 2:

Qiu Hong, known throughout the martial world as the Demon Lord Hong Gu, had a twisted temperament and ruthless methods. Calling her the martial world's public enemy would hardly be an exaggeration.

Besieged by the orthodox sects and betrayed by her trusted confidants, Qiu Hong was attacked from all sides. The lucky survivor went into hiding to escape the pursuit, disguised herself as a man, and took a job as an accountant at a bodyguard agency.

Who knew the head of the household would force her to become a live-in son-in-law, claiming their birth dates were a perfect match?

Ridiculous!

How could I, the lord of Luofeng Mountain, become a live-in son-in-law?

A man may be killed, but not humiliated!

Hah! I don't want you as my son-in-law either.

Su Xiaoyue grumbled and rolled her eyes at her.

A widow whose husband had died before they could consummate their marriage, Su Xiaoyue had no husband to serve and no children to care for.

She spent her days doing the books and counting money. Life couldn't be better.

But her relatives coveted her inheritance. To prove that Su Xiaoyue was an ill-omened woman who brought death to her husband, children, and family, they carefully selected a sickly man to marry into her family, waiting for him to die so they could kick her out of the bodyguard agency.

Why should I let them?

Ha! I'm staying right here in this money pit.

Someone! Get my live-in son-in-law the best doctor.

The doctor said her new husband had once suffered a severe injury that severed all her meridians, and that she couldn't be cured.

The doctor also said my live-in son-in-law was a woman.

A woman?

No matter. As long as she stays alive, she'll always have the place of my husband.

Her live-in son-in-law did her the favor of surviving month after month. Even when her uncles secretly poisoned her, she stubbornly lived on as if nothing had happened.

Later, it seemed her live-in son-in-law wasn't as simple as she appeared.

Whatever. As long as she stayed alive, that was enough.

Only... this live-in son-in-law was far too fond of getting handsy, as if she meant to make me her wife.

The live-in son-in-law had a point: she'd endured more secret attacks and poisonings than she had back when she was the Demon Lord.

I can't risk my life and get nothing but the title of live-in son-in-law. I deserve some compensation, don't I?

Kisses for my wife, hugs for my wife.

Growing ever bolder, she couldn't wait to whisk her beloved away to share a night of passion.

Su Xiaoyue hugged her abacus and shot Qiu Hong another look, as if she were a starving ghost come back to life.

Qiu Hong invited her, “Wife, how about coming with me to Luofeng Mountain and living the good life?”

“Are you sick? Luofeng Mountain is where little ghosts live. Who'd go live with ghosts? You're a sickly thing, so you're not going anywhere. Wait here while I make money to support you.”

“Okay.” Qiu Hong smiled. Being supported felt pretty wonderful.

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Reader's Guide:

1. Both leads are romantically exclusive; there is an eight-year age gap.

2. Her disguise as a man is exposed quickly, but it'll take much longer for her Demon Lord identity to come out.

3. Qiu Hong is love-struck in the beginning and still love-struck later. All right, she's completely love-struck from start to finish.

4. Qiu Hong had a first love in her youth.

Theme: The greatest joy is beyond joy; the greatest renown is beyond renown.