The Merman Demon Lord Charges into an Angsty Novel

[I scored 100 points in a showdown with the Heavenly Dao] [The Demon Lord becomes the Sword Venerable's pet mermaid] [The Beloved: Reborn and Doted on by My Heavenly Master Husband]

Xu Rujiao is a little mermaid. At eighteen, he accidentally transmigrated to the cultivation world and became a demonic cultivator. After five hundred years of struggling and grinding, he rose to become a Demon Lord and finally got the chance to go home. He immediately returned to his original world, only to open his eyes and find his tail wrapped around a man's waist.

Xu Rujiao: I'm home? Yay!

The man grabs his tail and pins him to the bed, asking in a low voice, “A demon cultivator?”

Xu Rujiao: Help! Why are the people from the cultivation world still after me!

His former fiance and stepmother barge in just then: Caught you in bed together!

Xu Rujiao: ?

Well, looks like marriage is the only way to settle this.

As it turns out, Xu Rujiao is living inside a melodramatic novel. He's the protagonist who gets abused by the scum love interest for 300 chapters, followed by three chapters of the love interest desperately trying to win him back.

Xu Rujiao quietly hides his identity as a Demon Lord, afraid of giving himself away in front of the Sword Venerable, who has slaughtered countless demons. But the force of the novel's melodramatic plot is too strong, constantly breaking up the couple and twisting the story. He clings to the Sword Venerable's leg and refuses to get divorced.

Until...

The Heavenly Dao, exiled from another world, says, “Work with me. Help me kill the world's consciousness and take its place. I'll make you the Child of Fortune, the one and only protagonist!”

Xu Rujiao: “I'm in!”

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Fu Junli was once the Sword Venerable revered by the righteous cultivators. During the war between the righteous and demonic factions, everyone placed their hopes in him, expecting him to lead the righteous faction to victory. But no one knew he had already been consumed by inner demons, his ruthless cultivation path shattered, until he finally fell. Yet he did not die and vanish from the world. Instead, he came to another world and became a blind, lame rookie actor, caught in bed with Xu Rujiao.

The other man saves Fu Junli from the abyss of inner demons left by the war between the righteous and demonic factions. To help Xu Rujiao, Fu Junli also pretends to be his Heavenly Master husband and fights against the plot.

But the world's consciousness refuses to accept their relationship and keeps trying to take Xu Rujiao away.

In the end, the Sword Venerable picks up his sword once more.

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Xu Rujiao scratches a malicious ghost to death with one swipe. “Ha! Pathetic. You could train for another five hundred years and still never beat me.”

The Sword Venerable hurries to the scene, worried about his wife, who is afraid of ghosts. “...Jiaojiao?”

Xu Rujiao: ?!!

Xu Rujiao hurriedly hides his ferocious side and throws himself into the Sword Venerable's arms, all meek and pitiful. “Hubby, sob! That fish was so scared!”

Sword Venerable: “There's ghost energy on your nails.”

Xu Rujiao: “...”

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1. The sweet, easygoing protagonist who refuses to follow the angst plot, paired with the Sword Venerable whose Dao heart has been destroyed but who spoils his beloved. 1v1, each other's first love, super sweet romance!

2. Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Severing, Deity Transformation, Body Integration, Mahayana, Tribulation Transcendence

Theme: Warm your beloved with love.