RUNA_HADES
A dedicated university student, driven to exhaustion while perfecting her thesis, closed her eyes for the last time-only to awaken in a world she never could have imagined. She had been reborn as Yue Yanran, a mortal girl in a land where the air pulsed with spiritual energy and tales of immortal sects and demonic realms were real.
Pushed by her family, Yue Yanran reluctantly stepped onto the path of cultivation, stumbling through her strange new life in confusion. The truth struck like lightning during the Stairway Ascension Test, the first trial of the Grand Disciple-Accepting Ceremony. She had offered a simple kindness to a fragile-looking girl who, in return, softly gave her name-Zhou Rongchen.
The name unlocked a buried memory. Zhou Rongchen. She knew this world. It was the setting of a xianxia novel her roommate had urged her to read-a story she had devoured in one night. And Zhou Rongchen was no helpless girl.
He was the Great Demon Sovereign, the villain of the tale. Betrayed and overthrown, he had hidden himself by assuming the guise of a female cultivator, biding his time within the most righteous of sects. One day, the protagonist would uncover him, and his desperate escape would stain the mountains with blood. His humiliation would curdle into hatred, and he would rise again to wage war-only to be defeated, ensuring the hero's triumph and love.
And now, Yue Yanran had befriended the little, vulnerable-looking girl who was, in truth, a millennia-old demon lord in hiding, destined for ruin. Any reasonable transmigrator would run far, far away.
But Yue Yanran's lips curved into a smile.
For Zhou Rongchen had always been her favorite character. And she had no intention of letting his story end the way it was written.