The Dragon Seal

Upper Couplet: The young "Little Sun" dies and returns ten years later as the Great Demon King, seeking vengeance. Lower Couplet: His childhood sweetheart, the widower, tends his grave for a decade only to find the white moonlight now black. Horizontal Scroll: Wife and child alive, revenge plot foiled. The good youth Wei Zhao plunges into the Profound Ice Abyss only to discover he is but a character in a book. Spoilers reveal his happy life is an illusion—fated to become the Demon King, only to be slain as a mere EXP boost for the protagonist. The blackened young man, Gui Zhao, claws his way back from the abyss—his face unrecognizable, his nature twisted, his heart set on vengeance. Especially when he finds his childhood sweetheart already has a daughter who can fetch soy sauce. Then he realizes… that's *his* daughter too. The bewildered blackened boss: …Huh???