Tiedan Doesn't Want to Be the Demon Lord Today

[Scheming Demon Lord / Down-and-Out Little Mutt] x [Clever, Radiant Prodigy of the Righteous Path]

“I don’t want to be a pushover anymore!!!”

What Yun Shuyue regretted most in her life wasn’t losing all her cultivation and becoming the bride of an evil sacrifice... It was that just as she painted a forbidden formation with her blood and was about to summon a powerful expert for help,

a rock-hard, five-nut mooncake came flying from the heavens and struck the formation’s core with perfect accuracy!

At that very instant, white light burst forth! Crawling out were countless evil spirits from the murals of hell...

and a little! black! dog! with tangled fur and skin and bones!

It spat out the mooncake, its canine face full of disdain:

“Pah! Coarse and utterly unworthy!”

“How dare you offer a five-nut filling before this lord?!”

Yun Shuyue: ??? Weren’t you supposed to be an all-powerful expert?

The dog looked down on her: Ahem, in my past life, I was a Demon Lord who ascended to godhood.

Yun Shuyue: ...A dog god?

The dog: ???! Yan Xingchuan, the first person in the demonic path to ascend. Never heard of me?

Yun Shuyue: ...That ugly demon who was ground to dust by the Immortal Inspector a hundred years ago???

“Quit pretending, little bro. I’m calling you Tiedan from now on~!”

Worse still, the summoning contract came with a surprise bonus package: shared senses, shared pain and itching!

“Ahem, I can grant you three wishes.”

“Sever this damn shared-sensation link right now!”

“...The wishes conflict, the contract’s stuck. We’re bound together for life :)”

To break the bond, a girl and her dog are forced to join hands and venture into a strange waterside town shrouded in evil rites:

Clay Dolls Steal Hearts: A statue only works if you sculpt its internal organs into it. But what if the statue itself wants a “fresh” heart?

River Ghost Coins: The “toll money” at the bottom of the river. Pick it up, and you’ll pay with your life, or make someone else pay for you.

A Joyful Wedding in a Painted Prison: On her wedding night, she discovers an ancient painting hidden in her husband’s study. The woman in it looks exactly like her, but the inscription is dated a century ago. As the wedding candles flicker, the woman in the painting quietly turns her head and smiles at her sadly. “You’re here. Now I can leave...”

Mirage Island: “Young friend, you are blessed with great fortune. We grant you the chance to attain immortality. To enter the island: at a quarter past midnight, carry a single lotus lantern and wait quietly at the ferry landing behind the temple...”

Yun Shuyue: I really want to run away from this mess...

Tiedan (stealing one of her buns): Too late. The gods have blessed us, and fate has brought us together. We’ve had at least three wedding ceremonies by today.

Yun Shuyue: ??? When did that happen?!

A bickering, comic odd-couple romance~

Folklore, supernatural mysteries, and Chinese-style horror in episodic arcs~

The Demon Lord’s Woof Pack, solving mysteries and racking up wins!!

Updates reliably every other day. The full novel is already written, with over 140,000 words. Feel free to add it to your collection! (>.<)☆

Theme: Self-redemption and female growth