Is the Demon Sovereign Still Undercover in the Cultivation Sect Today? - Chapter 3

Senior Sister Su failed to rescue me.

Whatever technique Huayin practiced, it took him only a few breaths to carry me to the Demon Realm.

An enormous carved bed stood in the middle of the hall.

I looked at Huayin in horror.

He gave me a long sidelong look. “Whatever you’re thinking right now, I suggest you stop…”

But the more you try not to think filthy thoughts, the more they multiply.

Long after Huayin had left, my little face was still practically radiating smut.

It was rather embarrassing.

Huayin had told me to stay put. Though that wasn’t exactly how he’d phrased it.

“Remember the Netherworld Blood River? It’s not far from here.”

I have few virtues, but I do know how to take advice.

A little later, a demon woman entered the hall.

She gave me a somewhat perfunctory bow. “Greetings, Immortal Maiden. I am Meiniang. If you need anything from now on, you may give your orders to me.”

“Aren’t those people at Myriad Swords Mountain supposed to be good fighters? Why’s this one so weak…?”

“Holy shit…”

Meiniang frowned.

I swiftly amended, “Holy… How can there be a lady as beautiful as you in this world?”

I carefully tried to draw her out. “You’re so powerful. Why have you been sent to me?”

Meiniang looked tired. “His Sovereignty has commanded it. As his subordinate, I must obey.”

…

But that wasn’t what she was thinking.

Her mind said, “Because His Sovereignty is out of his damn mind.”

This lady was a keeper. She even bad-mouthed the boss.

I picked up plenty of Demon Realm gossip from Meiniang.

Unfortunately, a lot of it turned out to be about me.

Once, she suddenly gave my stomach a discreet look.

“Doesn’t look like there’s a baby in there…”

“Pff—cough, cough, cough…” I nearly choked to death on my tea.

“Are you all right?” Meiniang patted my back gently.

“They say pregnancy makes you stupid for three years. Does it start the moment you’re pregnant?”

“Cough, cough, cough…”

After hearing ten or so versions of the Demon Sovereign’s coercive romance with an immortal maiden, I saw Huayin again.

Strictly speaking, I heard him first.

“Runt.”

“…”

“Don’t pretend. I know you heard me.”

I had to open my eyes.

Huayin sat at the head of my bed, making himself thoroughly at home.

As Lord Yinghua, his white robes had made him seem untouched by worldly dust, elegant and proper.

Who would have thought he’d look… quite that good in purple, too?

White hair and violet eyes. Such a dated, edgy combination, and yet it somehow looked amazing on him.

“What are you thinking?” His hair spilled like water across the bed.

We were so close.

For a moment, I lost myself. “That your white hair doesn’t look quite like an ordinary person’s.”

It was a white shimmering with every color. Very… beautiful.

Huayin narrowed his eyes dangerously. “Are you saying I’m not normal?”

I hadn’t seen him in a dozen days or so, and now he’d learned to twist my words?

The more I said, the more trouble I got into. I obediently shut up.

He was still displeased. “Not speaking? Are you cursing me in your head?”

“No!” I protested my innocence.

Huayin turned his face away. “It’s not fair.”

I was a little startled. What wasn’t fair?

Looking decidedly unhappy, he threw out, “Tomorrow, I’ll teach you demon cultivation techniques.

“If you can’t learn them, jump into the Netherworld Blood River yourself.”

I had no time to wonder how I’d annoyed him. All I could think was that Meiniang was right. The Demon Sovereign was out of his mind.

I clung to Meiniang’s leg and sobbed.

But she calmly tapped the center of my forehead. “Didn’t you know? You’ve always had demonic power inside you.”

“How is that possible?” My eyes went wide.

“Why wouldn’t it be? Though before this, we all thought…”

I had a bad feeling.

“Thought what?”

“Ha ha. Nothing.”

“Thought it was because you were carrying His Sovereignty’s child…”

I asked weakly, “Is there anything else I don’t know?”

“Of course not,” Meiniang declared with absolute conviction.

“Unless you don’t know you’re missing a piece of your memory.”

Excuse me? What?

Thanks. I really hadn’t known that.

“There are so many things I can’t remember. Do you think… I’ve lost my memory?”

“…”

I ventured, “I heard the Demon Realm has a Glazed Soul-Turning Lamp…”

Meiniang was adamant. “Impossible!

“Even if our Glazed Soul-Turning Lamp can erase memories without damaging the soul, and even if only the Demon Sovereign can activate it,

“that doesn’t mean His Sovereignty used it on you.”

Listen to yourself. Does that sound like a denial?