I Picked Up a Demon King for a Husband

Blurb

"I Picked Up a Demon King to Be My Husband" / 2026.3.15

Shen Yuening, a traveling doctor in the jianghu, lives in Qingshi Town at the foot of Xingchen Mountain. She has no grand ambitions in life. All she wants is to earn enough for steamed buns with her house calls, then lie flat and live a lazy life.

That life came to a definite end after she went up the mountain to gather herbs and found an injured “pretty boy.”

Once he recovered, he followed Shen Yuening everywhere. Not only did he promise to help her carve out a territory among the demon and immortal clans and build her medical career, but he also went so far as to swear they would live and die together.

In her experience saving people, this was what it looked like to meet a pervert and a lecher.

“Thanks for the offer, but I don't need to carve out a territory, and I don't want to swear that we'll live and die together.”

Shen Yuening firmly and decisively rejected his “kindness.”

“Practicing medicine among the immortal and demon clans is the ultimate dream of human doctors. Why don't you want it?” he asked, staring at her in confusion.

She stared awkwardly at the pretty boy before her, bit her lower lip, and put her hands on her hips. “I hate taking shortcuts more than anything. Even if I had a chance to practice medicine among the immortal and demon clans, I'd make my own way with my own skills.”

“You don't want it, so I'll give it to you anyway. I refuse to believe there's a girl who could turn down such a tempting offer!”

Demon King Mo Chen looked like he couldn't bear to see her waste her potential, his teeth grinding loudly.

“This is how you repay me for saving your life?” Shen Yuening shouted at him.

Demon King Mo Chen leaned against the railing with his arms crossed. “What's wrong with love at first sight?”

Bonus scene

Sipping pear-blossom wine while leaning against the second-floor railing of Huaman House, Shen Yuening watched the Demon King drinking wine she had drugged. He had his arm around the courtesan and was making his way upstairs, looking delighted and triumphant.

She was so furious she nearly fainted.

All because she had once saved his life, he insisted on repaying her by swearing they would live and die together, and by helping her expand into the demon clan and develop her medical career.

Today she had dragged him to a brothel to listen to music, hoping to teach him a lesson and make him give up the idea. She never expected him to be so at home there, so thoroughly in his element.

Damn it, he had turned the tables on her. As she watched him chatting and laughing with the courtesan and entering her private room, she couldn't help jumping down from the railing and following right behind them.

He had been drugged. If he really spent the night in the courtesan's room, she'd have to pay two hundred taels of gold for it.

She wet her finger with saliva and poked a hole in the window paper, peering eagerly inside.

“Why is nobody here? I clearly saw them go in together.”

Muttering to herself, Shen Yuening slowly pushed the door open and went inside.

She looked around, then walked over to the bed, where she found the Demon King with his clothes in disarray, dead drunk.

Shen Yuening covered her mouth, her face turning bright red. Just as she was about to flee, he grabbed her from the bed and pulled her into his arms, pinched her chubby cheek, and kissed her hard.

Reading Guide

1. Bickering enemies, funny banter, and everyday antics.

2. The aloof immortal is an obsession, but the sharp-tongued, fiercely protective Demon King is the one she truly loves.

3. The male lead was once the candidate most likely to ascend to godhood in the immortal realm, but his rival, Immortal Shangxian Shubai, schemed to send him to the demon realm to fend for himself.

4. Mainly from the female lead's perspective, with some from the male lead's. One-on-one romance.

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Blurb, First Draft, 2026.6.3, marriage before love

To escape her parents' pressure to marry, Su Yingying, the daughter of a silver mine owner who has never traveled far from home, sets out alone for the capital, a thousand miles away, to find the childhood sweetheart she has long yearned for.

On her way, she is ambushed by bandits in the middle of the night. Desperate to survive, she accidentally runs into a mass grave.

There, she finds a man covered in blood and barely clinging to life.

“So what if you're handsome? What happens to you has nothing to do with me, miss.”

She crouches beside him, muttering to herself, but keeps glancing at the jade pendant at his waist.

If she pawned it, she could get by in the capital for a while.

Su Yingying is about to take the pendant and leave, but realizes he isn't quite dead yet. Her compassion gets the better of her, so she carries him to a nearby cave, tosses him a piece of flatbread, and hurries away.

She does find her childhood sweetheart, but also discovers that he has just taken a wife.

He agrees to let her into his household, but only as a concubine.

Heartbroken, Su Yingying slaps him and walks away without hesitation. Passing the mass grave again, she plans to return the man's jade pendant and go home obediently, as her parents wish.

But the man has vanished.

Five days later, Jiang Yingying is daydreaming by the carved window of her room when she sees a tall, handsome man in red riding a warhorse through the courtyard gate and slowly into the residence.

A procession of betrothal gifts stretches behind him, and onlookers swarm toward the household.

Her father tightly clasps her hands, his eyes rimmed with red. “Yingying, since things didn't work out with your childhood sweetheart, marry him and make a good life together. He may not measure up to your sweetheart, but he's spent his entire fortune to marry you.”

“Just look at how handsome he is, and how he won't take a concubine!” her mother hurriedly adds.

Su Yingying had been planning to run away from the wedding, but seeing the man makes her hesitate.

“Miss, if you won't marry me, please return my jade pendant,” the man says, standing before her with a deep gaze.

Su Yingying stares at him in shock. Why does this man look so familiar?

Bonus scene

Jiang Yuanshi, the Prince Regent, studied under the current chancellor. Abandoned by his father as a child in the death-row camp on the frontier in Mozhou, he survived day after day of killing and was secretly trained as an executioner.

His mentor gave his life to help him rise step by step, until he held high office and helped the young emperor ascend the throne. He was later made a pawn and hunted down.

As long as the jade pendant remains, the truth will eventually come to light.

Su Yingying is increasingly certain she married the wrong man. He may be exceptionally handsome, but his arrogant manner is truly hateful.

Ever since she learned how important the jade pendant is to him, she has taken charge and kept him firmly in hand.

Recently, the couple attended the Prince Regent's victory banquet at the palace.

By an incredible coincidence, they ran into her childhood sweetheart and his wife at the banquet.

Already in a foul mood, she sees the man ask for the jade pendant again. In front of everyone, she raises it above her head, threatening to smash it on the ground. “Jiang Yuan, if you won't play along with me, believe me, I'll smash it to pieces!”

Everyone present stares in shock, faces deathly pale, all watching the reckless Madam Jiang.

“I hear Lord Jiang married a fearless woman. He's in for it now.”

“Lord Jiang has won countless battles and just reclaimed Mozhou. Even the current chancellor is wary of him. Would he really fear one woman?”

The man smiles helplessly. Just to indulge her ridiculous urge to one-up someone, she insists on making the act convincing.

Trying to make her childhood sweetheart jealous this way is ridiculous. “Su Yingying, if you have the nerve, let's make it real!”

A proud, fiery Persian cat girl × a gentle tiger who spoils his cat

Theme: Love knows no rank