Working Odd Jobs at the World-Destroying Demon Lord's Home

Word had it that the cultivation world had changed hands once again. Xuan Wuwang, the Demon Lord sealed away by the Ten Thousand Sects, had slaughtered his way through the cultivation world, flattened the Immortal Cloud Terrace, and taken the supreme throne.

People said the demon was as temperamental as he was ruthless, killing people as easily as cutting grass. The former immortal lords had either willingly become his lackeys or been reduced to prisoners.

But none of that had anything to do with Yi Lan. She was just an ordinary mortal. What did it matter who was in charge? Would it affect the three spirit stones she got each month?

Then one day, a broker showed up and offered her a job that paid ten spirit stones a month: doing odd jobs for a wealthy family.

The mansion where she would work was as deep and imposing as a palace. Her new employer sat in the depths of the main hall, looking as if he were carved from ice and snow. His temper didn't seem very good, though. On her very first day, he crushed the core of a captured immortal cultivator right in front of her.

He gave her a strange look and asked what she thought.

For some reason, heat surged in Yi Lan's chest, and the truth slipped out before she could stop it. "I just mopped that floor, you bastard! Are you going to clean up all this blood?"

I'm doomed!

Though she didn't know what kind of magic this was or how it worked, Yi Lan figured she was about to lose her job.

But her employer didn't kill her or fire her.

He raised an eyebrow, walked through the blood with his boots, leaving bloody footprints everywhere, and said coolly, in an infuriating tone, "Clean it up."

Yi Lan: ...

She worked hard for a while under her awful employer's exploitation. Then she noticed that he seemed to prefer killing people in the courtyard...

That was great. She didn't have to clean up after him.

She kept quietly getting by for a while. One day, her crazy employer was in a foul mood again, and asked if she was afraid she'd suddenly lose her life one day.

Once again, the truth escaped Yi Lan before she could stop it. "No."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm very careful about slacking off. I'm not so lazy that I become an eyesore, and I'm not so hardworking that I make people jealous. No one would choose to kill someone as inconspicuous as me."

Her employer didn't get angry. He even smiled.

Suddenly, he pulled her in close and told her that she had once been his cultivation partner. They'd fallen out for some reason, and then she'd lost her cultivation and descended into the mortal world. Now, at last, he had confirmed who she was.

Yi Lan thought it sounded a little far-fetched, but then she considered the twenty spirit stones in her savings and decided he didn't seem to have any reason to lie to her.

"If we're cultivation partners, can I get a raise?"

Her employer's face darkened again.

Yi Lan was about to say, "Never mind if you can't." But he dragged her onto the bed.

Later, Yi Lan started to believe him a little. After all, her employer treated her well and let her take whatever spirit stones and treasures she wanted.

But sometimes she wondered if they had been enemies in the past. He was awfully rough when he kissed her...

One day, a handsome and powerful cultivator found her and said her employer was actually the dishonorable great demon lord, while she was the divine maiden Ruo Yilan, who had once sealed the demon away! He asked her to work from within and help get rid of the demon.

Somehow, her employer found out about it and asked what she had said in response.

Yi Lan figured this time she really was going to die! Because what she'd said was: "He's my dearest husband now. It'll cost you extra."

As always, the truth came tumbling out. Her employer listened with his arms crossed for a moment, then curled his lips into a smile. "Dearest husband?"

He didn't kill her, but he did bully her until she was nearly dead...

Later on, Yi Lan finally remembered!

The truth was a little like what both sides had said, but also a little different from both.

Either way, Yi Lan decided that the bastard Xuan Wuwang had to die!

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