"A marriage is something that naturally happens between two people who have been with each other for a very long time. They understand each other, support each other, and share the same ideas for the future."
Song Jia looked at the Great Demon King and said the following words seriously.
"Do you think the two of us fit into any of those categories?"
The Demon King lowered his head. He gazed at Song Jia's 'I'm sincerely trying to educate others' expression and felt a bit funny. In fact, there was no one in the entire underworld that would dare speak to him like this. He was the Great Demon King, the terrifying existence that was above millions of demons.
He was the cruel demon who eradicated three demon lords and their three courts; the one who made the other seven lords submit to him and make him their monarch. Just by looking at the seven deadly sins that each demon lord had mastered, one could easily see how inherently difficult this was.
He made himself so strong and powerful that the people with the potential to kill him had been reduced to a very, very limited few. Going against him, was the same as going against a god. In the same vein, the people who weren't scared of him...really could only be counted by one hand.
The Great Demon King looked at Song Jia who was still earnestly teaching him.
He then nodded his head, "I understand."
Song Jia breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's good that you understand. Rushing through marriage..."
"So, Jia. Let's get married tomorrow."
"..."
The Great Demon King leaned forward and cupped her cheeks. He looked at her with an intense and serious expression.
"Jia, I suddenly understood. The reason why I kept waiting all these years, why my soul could never be content and kept hungrily searching for something to fulfill it. When I saw you today...that kind of happiness, that kind of relief...there were no words that could describe it."
It was the feeling of being empty and yearning for something you didn't know, then suddenly realizing that you've finally found it. You finally got back the treasure you didn't even know you lost in the first place.
"That's why, Jia, I understand. I need to marry you as soon as possible, and tie you down with me. In that way, I'll never lose you again."
He buried his face in her neck, and kissed the spot where her neck met her shoulder. He craved to inhale her scent, which had the fragrance of flowers. Every time he breathed in her scent, it reassured him that she was already beside him.
However, the Great Demon King was still afraid. She was inside his arms right now, but he had the uneasy feeling that she could disappear at any time. This kind of terrible fear slowly eroded his heart, and he could not help but tighten his grip, as if to crush her skeleton and engrave her flesh into his own body.
He was desperate for any kind of commitment that could make her stay with him.
The Great Demon King suddenly resolved himself.
"I already decided. Jia, we'll get married tomorrow."
He knew she needed time to accept him, but he couldn't wait anymore. He had always been cold and indifferent to battles, fights for power, political affairs, and women. But right now, he couldn't control his emotions from overflowing.
Obviously, they've only just met. There was no explanation as to why he was feeling this way. But it was as if it had been deeply carved into his heart by a blunt knife, the feeling of how painful it would be to lose her. Right now, he couldn't gamble, and didn't dare to gamble.
Even if people called him unreasonable, senseless, foolish, or crazy, he didn't care about all of these things!
The only thing that mattered to him was that he couldn't lose her.
The Great Demon King gazed at Song Jia with a tender look. He caught a lock of her hair and kissed it.
"Jia, don't worry about it and get some rest. I'll take care of everything."
Song Jia, "..."
She felt that this was not a simple matter of just having different brain circuits anymore.
No, this was also a matter of having a language barrier between them!
What she wanted from him...was not this kind of so-called 'understanding'!
...
Soon, the news of the Great Demon King about to marry his queen spread all over the underworld.
Just the two words strung together, 'Demon King' and 'marriage,' made everyone who heard it question the news in disbelief.
Demons didn't believe in love and monogamy. They were beings who propagated temptations and sins, so it was a matter of course that to them, the sanctity of marriage was simply a joke.
"How could the Great Demon King marry? Are you sure this isn't just one of your usual lies?"
"I'm telling the truth! How could I dare to make up stories about His Majesty? I heard that he was going to marry his queen tomorrow!"
Some of the demons didn't believe the news, while others were more curious about the Great Demon King's bride.
"Queen? Did the underworld have a Great Demon Queen before?"
"Pei, of course not. There were women who ruled over us before, but they were still called as kings."
"Do you have any idea on who it could be? I'm betting on the two demon lords, Chuljang and Piencheng..."
"I think it's more likely to be Demon Lord Piencheng. Didn't she like His Majesty?"
"Ah yes...that's true..."
There was a reason as to why they only speculated about one of the demon lords being the Great Demon King's bride and didn't consider any of the less powerful demons.
In the underworld, they admired the strong and disdained the weak. How could their Great Demon King, the strongest demon in the underworld, marry a low-ranked demon?
All of them expected that their future Great Demon Queen would also be a powerful demon. That's why, it could only be either the demon lord Chuljang of the 『Ira』court and demon lord Piencheng of the court of『Luxuria』.
In their minds, only those two were suitable to become their Great Demon King's bride.
...
Meanwhile, in the sixth court of 『Luxuria』.
An unnatural silence hung in the bedroom of the lust demon lord, Piencheng. The succubus who had been tasked to investigate the news wiped away her sweat, feeling as if a sharp blade was pointing at her throat.
"Is it true? His Majesty is going to hold his wedding tomorrow?"
Piencheng's voice was still soft and gentle, without any hint of anger. She was lying down on a chaise lounge sofa dressed in a silk robe, her left hand holding a glass of wine. She took a sip as she waited for the succubus' report.
"Yes, my lord. I heard it directly from the servants in the Demon King's castle. Lord Songdi is already preparing her wedding dress, and His Majesty himself is taking care of all the preparations."
Piencheng laughed.
"As expected of someone who even seduced me. He's really unpredictable." Piencheng tapped her lips. "Doesn't he know that's one trait all seducers need to have? To constantly surprise and interest someone, never making the target become bored."
Piencheng narrowed her eyes. In her mind, she replayed the Demon King's expression as he interacted with the child demon. Unconsciously, she bit her lower lip and drew blood. The pain made her rein her emotions back in, clearing her head.
A seducer's first weapon was to cloud the mind with emotions. Once that was done, they would have often trouble seeing things as they were. She knew better than to act out of jealousy, and create an irreparable mistake.
She didn't have much time to break the two of them apart. Because the wedding was already set for tomorrow, she could only act now.
She immediately made a decision.
"We can't target His Majesty."
The hardest person to seduce was someone who was fully satisfied with his partner. Piencheng reviewed his emotions towards the child demon with detachment and knew that attacking the Great Demon King would only result in failure. In the short span of time that His Majesty had met Yanluo's attendant, he had already...
Piencheng dug her nails into her palm and took a sharp breath. She ignored the pain in her heart and said, "We can only target the bride."
The succubus widened her eyes. "My lord, you want to seduce the child demon?"
"Not seduce." Piencheng shook her head. She curved her lips up, a cold light flashing across her eyes.
"Manipulate."
The art of seduction was a game of psychology, not beauty. A successful seduction starts by penetrating the defenses of the target and learning their insecurities, then seducing them by filling in those insecurities with attention and care.
Piencheng wasn't a demon lord of lust for nothing. In terms of psychological manipulation, if she claimed to be number two, nobody would dare to become number one.
Piencheng could immediately tell that the child demon's heart was closed shut, not easily letting people in. This kind of person, once their trust was betrayed, they would never give that person another chance again.
Piencheng traced the outer rim of her glass with her finger and laughed.
Then, she would just have to make sure that the child demon's heart would be closed shut forever.
A/N:
One chapter update for today
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