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Ning Chao transmigrated into an explicit novel and became a nameless cannon-fodder character.

To stay alive, she hid away in a remote village and lived a quiet life.

Later, she found a gravely wounded, blind young sword cultivator on the brink of death and carried him home.

The young man was named Xu Hui. He didn't say much, but he was very polite.

One time, by accident, she "took advantage" of him.

At the end, he clutched her sleeve. "Are you going to take responsibility for me?"

They went ahead and got married.

*

Married life turned out to be unexpectedly harmonious.

When she was ill, he would quietly make her medicine and porridge, then tuck the blankets around her.

When she casually mentioned wanting osmanthus cakes, he went out and bought some before dawn the next day.

Every morning, he served her steaming hot food.

Ning Chao thought meeting him was the luckiest thing that had ever happened to her.

Until the day a powerful immortal sect came to their door, shouting that they had come to kill a demon.

She saw with her own eyes as her usually frail husband struck someone with one palm and turned them into a cloud of bloody mist.

A sea of demon guards descended from the sky and knelt in a mass. "We welcome the Demon Lord!"

She stared in shock.

His eyes were no longer empty.

He looked down at her, his gaze cold and fixed on her.

She suddenly remembered that, in the original novel, this Demon Lord had killed his father and brother and had no idea what love was.

Only a young lady from a major immortal sect had ever made him obsessively possessive.

Ning Chao didn't even pack her things. She fled in the middle of the night.

*

Later, she entered the Boundless Abyss and fell into an underground palace where no sunlight could reach.

Corpses littered the ground, their blood still wet.

Someone dragged her away. She gritted her teeth and lied. "My husband is the Demon Lord of the Demon Realm. Do you dare touch me?"

A man stepped out of the shadows, dressed in black with dark hair and striking features.

It was a face she knew well.

The sickly air surrounding him was gone, replaced by an imposing, sharp aura.

He smiled and looked down at her. "How come I don't know I have a mortal wife?"

He didn't remember her.

*

She was confined to the Demon Palace and made to do menial work as a servant.

Ning Chao thought that was how things would stay. She settled into her work and waited to hear news of him winning over the young lady from the immortal sect.

But one night, the unpredictable Demon Lord slipped into her servants' quarters.

His collar was open, revealing a stretch of collarbone and his sculpted waist and abdomen, like bait meant to tempt someone into committing a crime.

Ning Chao: ? Why does this feel familiar?

"Didn't you say you were my wife?" He came closer, pinning her beneath him. His warm breath fell against her ear. "Why are you so close to someone else?"

"Didn't you say we had nothing to do with each other?"

He gave a low laugh and rolled her earlobe between his fingers. "Nothing to do with each other? Then tonight, we'll make it official."

[Reader's Guide] 1. 1v1, happy ending, sweet romance where they dote on each other. Everyday-life story, not a typical groveling chase after the wife.

Theme: Resist fate