GCCB Chapter 62

Every devil who becomes The BOSS (with capital letters) will always have a palace called Demonic Palace.

After Fu Wang toyed with Mengze to its metaphorical death it ended up merging with the continents of the human realm, however most demonkin still lived in this place, so this place also received a new name, the demon realm. What an extremely obvious choice for a new name. Anyway, when Fu Wang was the big bad in the past, he sanctioned a large area within the demon realm and built the Demonic Palace atop that place.

After being forced to embarrassingly experience “I’ve taken down this demon realm for you”, “Whoever lights the fire must put it out”, “This weather is most suitable for killing someone” and other different levels of embarrassing of villainous – ergo, domineering ceo-like – declarations, Shu Yu had finally become calm. 

The elders of the demon clans also calmed down. They used a single day to efficiently repair the Demon Palace that had been abandoned a few centuries ago and then very respectfully notified Fu Wang. Thus Fu Wang, satisfied, moved in with his luggage (fish) for a temporary stay. 

In the past when acclaimed as the Devil Lord, Fu Wang had quite a few subordinates who followed him, but then he went off his rockers and killed many of them; and when he was imprisoned, the remaining ones also ran away. But now as soon as Fu Wang returned, another round of followers came running over. 

Although there was no mistake that Fu Wang was a terrifying monster, because he had unrivaled and overwhelming power, a considerable portion of the demon race – which revered the strong and powerful – seemed unafraid of death and still wanted to follow him.

Fu Wang didn’t refuse the minions that came knocking on his door. Sometimes he would go meet those people while bringing Shu Yu by his side. Oftentimes, the little minions below would be kneeling with wild-eyed excitement and fervor as they spoke, and Fu Wang would absently listen as he held a Shu Yu-sized pillow in his arms. He would be kissing her cheeks and caressing her hands, as if he had contracted skin hunger.

In the beginning Shu Yu would still wriggle a bit, but then she realized that Fu Wang wouldn’t fix this habit no matter what, so she gradually got used to it. 

Things like displays of affection in public? You just have to get used to it.

But there was one thing that Shu Yu could never get used to, and it was how Fu Wang had become a psychopath who randomly killed people. Although he had also killed others before, that was for the sake of survival, but now, it was like he had a complete and utter disregard for any and all life, the way he did as he pleased was simply shocking.

Since there were those who revered power coming to submit to him, naturally there also existed those who clung to their hatred and wished to throw the gauntlet. In just the last few days, there were quite a few brave warriors that rebelled against the Devil Lord and came to assassinate him, but they were all killed by Fu Wang with a wave of his hand, fully demonstrating his professional ethics as a villainous boss.

Sometimes when Shu Yu looked at him she would enter a slight daze. Was this really still Fu Wang? Although she knew that he would definitely have changed after having experienced what he did, the current situation was much more severe than she thought. Shu Yu even felt that maybe one day, if Fu Wang got triggered by something, he would finish her off as well. 

Oh right, hadn’t she already been taken out once?

Shu Yu was a bit dispirited as she thought of these things. She felt like Fu Wang definitely didn’t like her anymore now, and as to why she was brought back to life and still brought by his side, maybe there was some other reason? 

In the gaze of the Fu Wang from before, she could clearly see the warmth, tenderness and love, but she could see nothing in the eyes of this Fu Wang.

It was so that sometimes when she watched him kill others with a smiling face, Shu Yu would feel scared for a brief moment. She never thought there would be a day where she would be afraid of Fu Wang.

Because of this, even though Fu Wang acted as if he were besotted with her and placed extreme importance on her person, Shu Yu still felt a little sad. But she didn’t know how to deal with this kind of hurt, so she slowly became more silent. She was never very lively by nature, and with a heart burdened with things, she became less and less inclined to talk. Everyday she would be carried and held by Fu Wang, sticking together and doing nothing, she could waste an entire day just by spacing out.

On the fifth day after her resurrection, a large group of demonkin came from outside the Demonic Palace, their leader a demon of mixed heritage. It’s said that he used to be a subordinate of Fu Wang and after having heard news of his return, he came from miles away in the north of the demon realm with a group of other demonkin to vow his allegiance. 

Shu Yu was carried off by Fu Wang to meet said subordinates. The two meter gym bro with bulging muscles stood in the middle of the hall, his voice bellowing like a ringing alarm, spittle flying in the air.

As Shu Yu dozed off as if there were repairs and renovations going on in the apartment upstairs, she suddenly heard, “… so in order to celebrate the return of the Devil Lord, this subordinate proposes to go to the human realm to hunt humans, so that the might of our Lord is known…” and instantly became wide awake. 

She suddenly sat up from Fu Wang’s embrace.

Her movements attracted everyone’s attention. The gym bro below who was speaking wiped away the dismissiveness in his gaze and reluctantly opened his mouth, “Does Lady Shu have any advice?”

Owning up to the Devil Lord’s high profile, in just a few days, nearly all the demons within the demon realm knew that the Devil Lord had a woman who he extremely adored by his side, whose face was exactly the same as that of the Fox Clan’s Saintess, Tianfeng Jinyu. The demons, logically, regarded her as the substitute lover of the Devil Lord. They had to show her respect because of the Devil Lord’s menacing authority, but every one of them were as unimpressed and dismissive as this mixed demon.

Shu Yu could see what these demons’ actual thoughts were, but she didn’t want to get along with them anyways, so who the hell cared about what they thought? She still hadn’t dealt with her own moods and really didn’t want to waste her energy on these demons. But this time, she couldn’t just sit back and watch.

“What’s wrong, does Xiao-Yu dislike his proposal?” Fu Wang’s expression was indecipherable as he stroked Shu Yu’s hair and inquired. He naturally could see what was on Shu Yu’s mind, that’s why he was waiting— waiting and watching, to see how much Shu Yu could endure him.

Shu Yu looked at the mixed demon who didn’t look happy, then looked at Fu Wang. She opened her mouth, “Can you not randomly kill innocents?”

“Then, what qualifies as an innocent?” Fu Wang was smiling.

“Those who haven’t deliberately tried to harm you, can you not go out of your way to kill them?” Shu Yu was unsure if the current Fu Wang would listen to her, but opened her mouth to explain anyway, “I used to live in a different world from you, and I was taught since young that killing others is not allowed. However, I used to live at a relatively peaceful pace. You and I grew up in different worlds and have different upbringings, the demon realm is much more dangerous than my world and the law is that the strong prey on the weak. Killing is very common to you, so I’ve never asked you to stop killing others, after all, this is an irreconcilable gap between our cultures.”

“The people of every world have their own laws of survival. I have no reason to force you to do things according to my ideals. In my eyes, it’s wrong for you to kill others, but maybe in your eyes, the way I used to insist on not killing others was the most stupid thing. We are both not wrong, it’s just that we were taught different views while growing up.”

She genuinely liked him, she wanted to be with him, that’s why she has been searching for an angle where the two of them could get along. Before, Fu Wang would restrain himself in consideration of what she thought, he would step back for her and not let her feel an ounce of trouble, but the current Fu Wang wouldn’t.

After being together with this Fu Wang, Shu Yu slowly realized just how much the Fu Wang from before had loved her, he had changed almost everything about himself for her. She once thought that she already cared very much about Fu Wang, but it wasn’t until now that she gradually realized that Fu Wang loved her more deeply than she did, so that’s also why he suffered more than she did.

Fu Wang quietly listened to her words. He lifted a lock of hair near her ear and brushed his nose against it, scenting it lightly. He was still relaxed and unhurried, and asked, “So?”

Shu Yu took a deep breath. “What I think is, for those who want to hurt you, you can kill them of course, but don’t deliberately go and kill those who haven’t harmed you, no matter if they’re demons or humans.” Having to watch every day as someone died in front of her over a trivial matter and the killer even wanting to be affectionate with her there, it was so very awkward. 

As soon as she said this, the expressions of the demons below them changed, unable to suppress their dissatisfaction. 

They were all vicious demons, some of them had even followed Fu Wang and watched as he almost slaughtered all five demon clans, they simply couldn’t understand Shu Yu’s words and thought that she was laughable. Killing and power were the things they pursued, and it wasn’t even a big deal to sacrifice some humans. Or better said, in rules of their midst, the weak didn’t even have the right to live.

Shu Yu ignored those demons and stared intently at Fu Wang, slightly nervous. They have been lovers for so long, and it was only now that she could sense the obstacle wrought by racial differences. And, she also wanted to know if this Fu Wang would care about her thoughts and opinions, if he would compromise because of her.

Fu Wang’s lips were slightly curved, “If I’m not willing to listen to you, will you leave me?”

Her meals had already turned into him, how could she leave! And according to her many years of experience in reading novels, if she said yes then he would blacken even more and then finish her off, right! 

Shu Yu wearily shook her head, her eyes slightly dark, “I will feel sad.”

Suddenly, a burst of loud laughter rang through the great hall. Fu Wang was there, laughed merrily as he looked at Shu Yu, his laughter was so inexplicable that Shu Yu was bewildered, and it also caused the demons who had looked so dissatisfied just moments ago to turn ashen white. 

They were all too clear about it, the Devil Lord’s moods were the most volatile. If he laughed then he was definitely going on a killing spree. When he went on a killing spree, he did not care whether they were or were not his subordinates.

Just as some demons were nearly unable to stand on their feet, they suddenly heard the Devil Lord say tenderly, “Then I will listen to Xiao-Yu.”

The mixed demon cried out in shock, stepping forward as he said, “Devil Lord! How can you be swayed by the thoughts of such a weak thing!”

After just one sentence, all four of his limbs were cut off in unison, a bloody line also appeared on his throat. However the demon did not die, and some blood frothed out of his mouth in gurgles.

“I just promised Xiao-Yu not to kill indiscriminately, otherwise all of you, who’ve dared to look at my Xiao-Yu with such eyes, deserve to die.” Fu Wang withdrew his hand, his voice was gentle, but the demonkin present could hear the murderous intent within his words. 

They were confronting reality. This was still that terrifying Devil Lord. They shouldn’t have pushed their luck, the Devil Lord didn’t care about their lives at all, just like how they didn’t care about the lives of humans.

Looking at the demons groveling for mercy, as well as the mixed demon lying half-dead bleeding from his four stumps, Shu Yu suddenly got the feeling that she had become kind of like a demonic enchantress that seduced the emperor. This sense of “the tyrant has killed his loyal ministers for his favorite concubine”, was this really okay?

Do the best you can, without regrets in your heart, that was all Shu Yu could say.

As someone who has received twenty years of modern education, it was impossible for her to be indifferent to killing, but after coming here for so long she also understood that there were times when the only way to survive was to kill, that was also why her hands had become bloodied that time. But being able to kill and killing indiscriminately were ultimately different things. She probably wouldn’t be able to completely change Fu Wang, but at least, she could stop some unnecessary tragedies from occurring.

In this moment, Shu Yu seemed to suddenly have found her new goal—— Become an agent of peace in another world, stopping the demon king from blackening further, and saving the world.。

That said, wait a minute, wasn’t that too hard? And it sounded too middle-school syndrome.

“If Xiao-Yu doesn’t want me to go and kill innocents arbitrarily, then she has to stay by my side and look at me with her own eyes. And don’t ever let me have the time to go think about those things, otherwise maybe one day I will go insane, and run to the human realm to go on a killing spree.” This is what Fu wang told Shu Yu, after having sent away the terrified demonkin subordinates.

Followers, they had always been dispensable entertainment, but he didn’t need them. What they did, whether they died or lived, he didn’t care. However since they could force Shu Yu to speak, then they were at least of some use. If Shu Yu had words suppressed within her heart, then he would wait and see when she would wish to speak them.

Shu Yu stared at Fu Wang with wide eyes. Was he threatening her to kill people if she dared to leave him? But she wasn’t thinking about leaving. And what was with the part about not letting him have the time to think about those things? He had so much free time now, did she have to go find things for him to do now?

Fu Wang, seeing her miffed expression, got close and murmured in her ear, “Xiao-Yu can keep me in bed. As long as I’m on you, I won’t have the time to think about those things, isn’t it right?”

“Blackened Boss” Fu Wang, CORRUPTED written with capital letters.

“Alright.” Shu Yu decided to sacrifice herself for the greater good and become a person with integrity and empathy.

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Fish.

Stick.

Fish on stick.

Fish eats the stick.

And then the stick eats fish.

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Shu Yu: Our bodies are made from the same material, why am I the only one who feels tired?

Chapter Description:

That one who mentioned duck blood in spicy chili oil¹毛血旺 This is a chinese food called duck blood in spicy chili oil, it’s also a play on word saying “blood fest” since the main dish is blood, and the bloody spectacles mentioned in different parts of the chapter., I’ve remembered you.

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  毛血旺 This is a chinese food called duck blood in spicy chili oil, it’s also a play on word saying “blood fest” since the main dish is blood, and the bloody spectacles mentioned in different parts of the chapter.