Official Synopsis

In a Mary-Sue novel, the readers all liked the Devil Venerable, the second male lead who devoted himself whole-heartedly to the female lead. However the female lead only loved the male lead who ab*sed her physically and mentally.

Readers: Why doesn’t the female lead like the Devil Venerable?!

Devil Venerable: This Venerable also wants to know. But what I really want to know is why I even like the female lead at all.

In order to understand why the female lead wasn’t attracted to him, the self-conscious Devil Venerable brutally interrogated the entire cast of characters from the novel.

Background characters: I have so many things I want to say but I don’t dare to say it to his face!

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After obtaining the book, the Devil Venerable discovered that the book described the world he lived in. This book said that after he sacrificed himself for the female lead, the fourth male lead, his silent and loyal subordinate Yin Hanjiang, blackened and attempted to kill her as a sacrificial offering for his lord.

Devil Venerable Wenren È: Yin Hanjiang, this Venerable wants to know why you wanted to kill the female lead.

Yin Hanjiang was silent.

Wenren È: If you refuse to speak, this Venerable will cut out your tongue and have it with alcohol!

Yin Hanjiang: …

Wenren È: What the hell are you blushing for?!

Wait... Blushing?

Yeah. I can not stress enough how much of a freak4freak situation is going on here. You might assume from the synopsis that it's just Yin Hanjiang that's a weirdo about their relationship, but actually neither of them are normal about each other. Nobody in this book is normal tbh. But Wenren È is so stupidly overpowered and Yin Hanjiang is so stupidly devoted that they can just get away with being outrageous. At one point Wenren È destroys an entire landmass because Yin Hanjiang got an ouchie.

I want to talk a little bit more about how this novel treats the concept of love. A lot of people will say it's very AroAce friendly and I agree. I don't think they actually clearly define what their relationship is, other than that they love each other and that's enough. Also Wenren È literally goes around asking people how someone could fall in love if it makes someone act so foolishly. Granted, his only frame of reference is a teenage girl who is inexplicably devoted to her two-timing (and three-timing, and-) boyfriend. But still.

At the end of the day, multiple characters get their happy ending by realizing they don't have to fall in love with someone because they feel like they have to, or because that's how things should be, which is a surprisingly refreshing perspective for a romance novel.