The Fairy’s Inheritance Is a Male Demon

Beautiful, adorable immortal maiden pretending to be aloof × mischievous puppy pretending to be a flirt

Mutual stand-ins (fake)

Also known as "The Second Time I Fell in Love with You"

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Cultivators live for thousands of years. The renowned Immortal Maiden Shu Yao is the most powerful cultivator in the world today. So she has come to this realization: over a long life, it's impossible to love just one person.

She is aloof and cold, even cruel. Everyone bows before her, daring not to defy her.

And yet one person is outrageously bold.

He points at Shu Yao and scolds her: "You're on death's doorstep, and you're still putting on airs?"

Shu Yao raises a hand and chops down an old tree. "Is that any way to speak to your master?"

But he's right. She is indeed on death's doorstep, and the only thing that can save her is a keepsake left behind by her elder sister.

They share the same mother, and no one can tell them apart.

Shu Yao curls her little finger at the disciple who loves nothing more than provoking her. "You followed me because you like this face of mine, didn't you? Just think of me as her. What's wrong with looking at something and remembering someone?"

He Yan's mind goes blank. She doesn't even mind that?

She narrows her eyes, mischief filling her heart. "In exchange, be bait for me!"

Later, he did become bait, and eventually understood that his master had repeatedly tolerated his transgressions not merely because she had a soft spot for him, but also because beneath her merciless mask, she was longing for someone else. If the authorities can set fires while the people aren't allowed to light lamps, then this is only fair.

Even so, he gently tugs at her sleeve and asks, "How about we stop being master and disciple?"

Shu Yao replies firmly, "No. Who else besides a disciple would bury me?"

He Yan lifts his pretty face, refusing to give in. "Didn't you say that over a long life, it's impossible to love just one person?"

"What do you mean? You, or me?"

Shu Yao had long since thought through the question: what if she had never had a twin elder sister at all? But she had no proof, because she had lost her memories from eight hundred years ago.

He Yan was even less willing to say that he was the very keepsake Shu Yao had been desperately searching for, now turned sentient.

Content warnings:

Fantasy cultivation setting, happy ending

Romance novel; the xianxia setting is just its outer shell

No three-life love story or reincarnation

No cultivation-level power-up plot

Male lead is sexually inexperienced; female lead is not (umm, actually, it's hard to say)

There are secret identities, and identities will be reversed (strictly speaking, it's hard to define the male lead's true form)

Theme: Let go, and obsession will fade