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It is a good, solid story with an engaging plot.The MC is a 1000 years old demon overlord, with a fresh and interesting personality. He originated as an adult modern man transmigrating into an unhatched demon egg. He spent years being formed while listening to his mother's stories about this new world. Once hatched he grew up, learned and lived like the other immortal demons around him, yet always retaining a more balanced point of view due to his memory of a mortal's life. His unusual (for a demon) kindness, his optimism, helped him overcome centuries of loneliness due to his bad reputation among the demons. His character realy shines through in the story.The plot itself is composed of mini-arcs, each dealing with a particular relationship. Beyond the main pair, the only positive CP in the story involves a battle couple, companions since birth. All others are tragic as they represent a forced love, an immoral love, or a socially unacceptable love:Captor and captive, s*aver and s*ave, General and singer, Guardian and ward, Stepmother and stepson, Buddhist Master and disciple.This is actually a large plot point, because the punishment of Heaven and the judgement of society are instrumental to motivation behind the main villain's actions, as he is one of the people above.In fact, Heaven itself — the Great Dao, the law that governs the universe — can be considered as an important character in the story. It is Heaven that created the different realms and Heaven that destroys them. After being dissatisfied with the gods, immortals, ghosts, demons, Heaven created the weak and frail humans; to protect them, Heaven then punishes the most powerful players in the other realms, solely for being too big of a threat. This forms the core of the conflict, as the people being destroyed for such a reason are obviously not happy about it.
