Garbage human! YOU ARE THE ONE TO SAVE THE DEMON TRIBE FROM EXTINCTION?!
Alt Name(s): 我老婆是魔王大人 Release Year: 2017
Completion Year: 2023
Author: Rong Rong, Chihung Yao
Artist: DW
Description: Listen up folks! I’m living my life with the demon queen!
Synopsis: Xiang Ye, near-friendless high-school student, whose parents have been overseas for years, goes to bed after marathoning an MMORPG raid event (the only social contact he has) on his summer vacation. He wakes up face to face with the Demon Queen of another world; Lady Isabella, Seventh Queen of the House of Osa, is steaming livid at her head priest for summoning a pathetic excuse of a "legendary hero" while a hostile army is ramming their front door. As the last of her magical power bleeds from her wounds and she takes on a human appearance, the summoning priest teleports them away, but enemy scouts from the near-psychotic Red Dragon Legion chance upon them and slaughter her guards, unaware of her true identity but all too eager to kill humans and demons alike. Xiang Ye's only hope for their continued survival in human lands is to proclaim Isabella as his human wife...
Tropes included in the work:
- Abusive Precursors: The only reason the 'gods' created mortals was to consume them for magical power.
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head: The author has a real fondness for illustrating the characters doing this. Even Dorona is shown pushing down on Isabella and Xiang Ye's heads when warning them about how dangerous Tols Angus is as Xiang Ye promised Sophisas vengeance for his adoptive father.
- All for Nothing: Xiang Ye and Isabella pursued and defeated the weakened Raymond Sasso, in order to prevent Isabella's true identity from being exposed. Lillian ends up finding out the truth using memory magic on Raymond's corpse and reveals it to the Regent. All hell breaks loose.
- All-Powerful Bystander: The Ark society has power surpassing even the gods, but they sit back and watch. They explain that their only purpose is to maintain the stability of the barriers between dimensions, and hint that the last time they tried to directly interefere with a mortal world it went really badly.
- Ancient Conspiracy: The gods were technologically-advanced horned giants who devoured the life energy of mortals to power their magic. They only abandoned the world because they needed to hibernatenote , and they have instructed the world's leaders and their successors to keep feeding them sacrifices. Which explains the Crapsack World Villain Ball every faction leader has been humping.
- Anti-Magic: The "Absolute Belt", especially atop a particularly tall glacier, that leads to the final portal of the first half of the class tournament. In this area, nobody can use "boundary force." Fortunately for Xiang Ye and the forging branch, their special ability does not need boundary force.
- Applied Phlebotinum: "Gold Alloy Crystal" is used by the "Forging" branch to make their drawings real.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: With the exception of the child king, every member of the Tols royal family is a major Jerkass. The Regent is a human supremacist, his sons are entitled bastards, Prince Rennes is an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy and Penny is a Combat Sadomasochist. Even the child king's father was a jerk for sentencing the Barol clan to genocide because he feared their power. Oh, and he murdered Tols' wife to harden him up. The child king himself is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who endorses all of the above because he's given up on humanity facing the gods directly.
- Armies Are Evil: At least among the humans.
- Red Dragon Army was openly engaged in Rape, Pillage, and Burn upon Isabella's people and the Demon territory, even raping and murdering Isabella's handmaidens just off-panel.
- Purple Dragon Army not only charged exorbitant prices for alloy crystals, and embezzled a significant portion of the proceeds, but actively attempted to murder Martin, Isabella, Modo, Eli, and Xiang Ye under Yalu's orders, so he could keep his illegal monopoly, brought about by Yalu's exaggeration of "ground dragon" infestation in the mines.
- Black and Grey Armies happily engaged in genocide.
- Only the White Dragon army has been shown acting decently, and even they were compromised by The Regent, Tols Angus.
- Awesomeness Is a Force: The most powerful wielders of "Boundary Force" can use it not just to cast magic, but project killing intent into the environment to intimidate others. Xiang Ye first experiences it when facing the entrance exam at the CQC class. The fact that he was still standing, even if paralyzed with terror, is considered quite impressive.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The entire forging class, including the teacher Ashtone Martin, and also the protagonist, are all extremely odd and easily excitable, but their talents at making weapons, armor, etc, especially once Xiang Ye "invents" modern equipment, vehicles, and weapons, is so vital to the Human Tribe that they can't be dismissed simply.
- Cast from Hit Points: The ultimate "Gold Alloy Crystal" transmutes any solid material into whatever the user desires, but it also saps the user's consciousness. Martin, the only human wielder of the ultimate crystal, went from a Bishonen to a middle-aged bald moustachio.
- Competence Zone: The main cast's generation of students is stated to be abnormally strong.
- Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story: Xiang Ye proclaims that he was taken captive and enslaved by the Demon Tribe as a small child when faced with the Human Tribe's soldiers to explain why he doesn't have any knowledge of many human customs, politics, or "common sense."
- Cool vs. Awesome: Some of the fights in the second half of the tournament are real nail-biters because of the fighting styles and powers on display. As a prime example, the battle between Xiang Ye and Nainai.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Xiang Ye asks Yi Bei to draw an outline of the thing she got stabbed with that took away her powers so that he could try and recreate it through his forging. After a few minutes of trying to recall what it was, Yi Bei sketches a rough outline of the object. Xiang Ye blanches when he sees that the drawing resembles a penis. Thankfully, the actual object is different from it.
- Easter Egg: The background characters will look familiar to sharp eyed fans. In Xiang Ye's undergraduate class, one of his classmates looks suspiciously like Doc Octopus. In chapter 150, among the audience are Picolo, Monkey D. Luffy, Naruto, Shin Chan, Nobita, Doraemon, Vegeta, Thanos, with the Infinity Gauntlet, even Ryuu from Yu Yu Hakusho!
- Exposition Cut: Xiang Ye, Martin, and Sophisas' explanation of the alloy stone price gouging to the King is cut.
- Fantastic Racism: Humans and demons look down on each other, and a brutal war over resources has led to immense resentment on both sides.
- The Force Is Strong with This One: Many characters react with surprise to strong displays of magic aura.
- Foregone Conclusion: The In Medias Res reveals a great deal that the author has planned for the ending.
- Isabella will somehow get her full powers back. She regains them from Lilian after defeating her.
- Xiang Ye will become the king of the humans.
- Xiang Ye will actively grind levels in badass like there's no tomorrow and it still won't be enough.
- This will all take place before Xiang Ye reaches adulthood, so in four years or less.
- Funny Background Event: Pretty much all over the place, but in the second half of the tournament, Aisi and Dorona learn that Xiang Ye is responsible for distributing figurines of them, at Martin's behest, and are not amused.
- Geometric Magic: Combined with Instant Runes. Mages use their boundary force to, very quickly, draw runes that cause spells to be cast.
- Giving Radio to the Romans: Xiang Ye uses Applied Phlebotinum to take all the technological blueprints he memorized as an honors student and materialize them in reality. The kingdom reaches 22nd century technology levels since nanoprinting entire structures for testing is hundreds of times faster than Earth's best 3D printers.
- Grey-and-Gray Morality: Both Humans and Demons have good and bad among them.
- Gunship Rescue: Eli and most of his CQC class find themselves about to drown in a lake, with a Kaiju bearing down on them? Along comes Xiang Ye in a speed-boat, picks them up, and then turns the boat into a submarine, armed with a mini-gun!
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Xiang Ye is looked upon as "useless lumber" because he doesn't have the ability to use magic, but when he joins the human "forging branch" with their unique ability to materialize objects from mental blueprints, his keen drawing skills and knowledge of modern tech makes him someone to be reckoned with.
- Horned Humanoid: Aside from Isabella, without her "aura," and the priest who summoned Xiang Ye, all the Demons have visible horns.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Chapter 4 makes it very clear that some demons can be better people than the worst of humanity; the former (queen's maids) sacrifice their lives to save their queen from the latter (Red Dragon Legion), who proceed to rape and murder them.
- In Medias Res: Chapter 1 shows Xiang Ye as the king of the Human Tribe and Isabella, as the Demon Queen, as his wife, with both of them Happily Married and going on adventures, then it segues into the synopsis above.
- Insult Backfire: After Xiang Ye defends a crippled Rennes from Buri and Bushi, they snidely comment about “how trash seems to pile together”. Xiang Ye then reminds them that he and Isabella had royally beat the shit out of them to the point of near death and humiliated them back in the tournament, so what does that exactly make them?
- Internal Reveal: In chapter 115 Martin reveals to his peers Aisi and Dorona Xiang is the one who created all the interesting technology, as well as the figurines of them which are selling so well. This last part severely pisses them off.
- It Can Think: The monsters can think and even have their own language.
- Kill Him Already!: Some of the tournament audience clamors for Xiang Ye to finish Rennes off.
- Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: The Human Tribe looks down on the Forging class, as "useless lumber", because none of them can use magic. This is despite the fact that the forgers produce their tools, weapons, armor, and just about all the non-living stuff that people need.
- Limited-Use Magical Device: Forgers can use standard magical attacks by crafting the appropriate sigil onto the alloy itself. There are two downsides to this. The first is the attack is typically weaker than a mage can produce. The second is that this will drain all the magic in the substance, and these alloys are expensive to buy.
- Made of Indestructium: Useless Lumber is nearly indestructible. Xiang Ye uses it to craft sturdy combat utensils.
- Marriage Before Romance: More like cohabitation before romance. Isabella Osa and Xiang Ye lived and adventured together for many months before entering the Demon Kingdom. After ousting Lilian, Isabella marries Xiang Ye before reclaiming her throne.
- Muggles: People who posses very little boundary force cannot perform magic and are called useless lumber.
- Nuke 'em: One of the sketches Xiang Ye has is for a small tactical nuke. However, a normal forging stone is inadequate to make it. With Martin's Pale Moonstone pen, Xiang Ye does make one and uses to to destroy Rennes in their final bout.
- Official Couple: Xiang Ye and Isabella, after they officially marry in a royal wedding ceremony.
- The Quest: After the tournament, Xiang Ye and Isabella go on a journey to research the relics of the mythical God Tribe after learning of them from Martin. Eli and Modo accompany them.
- Rape, Pillage, and Burn: In chapter 4, some human soldiers chance upon Isabella's bodyguards, shoot them with arrows, and then once they're crippled, proceed to rape them, just off panel, with Isabella's castle burning in the background.
- Reality Is Unrealistic: Combined with Shown Their Work. There exists a very vocal community among the fanbase that decries the actions of the Regent and the reactions of the King and Imperial Leader as "cartoony" or "idiotic." Such actions are indeed the reason hereditary monarchies are considered a poor form of government, at best, in the modern day. When the King and Queen choose a Regent to be the mouthpiece of their underage son, in the event the king can't continue his reign until the boy becomes of age, said Regent becomes the mouthpiece for the king, having all correspondence between the king and the people go through him. If the regent is a corrupt asshole who shifts blame for his misdeeds to the underage monarch, there's not much, if anything, even the king's wisest and most loyal followers can do to stem the tide, let alone stop him.
- Real Politik: All the factions in the story act solely in their best interests in all they do, regardless of the methods.
- Relationship Upgrade: After experiencing many adventures, Isabella returns Xiang Ye's feelings. After ousting Lilian, Xiang Ye and Isabella Osa marry one other.
- Revenge Before Reason: So many follow this cause to the point of idiot plot territory. When somebody gets wronged, they immediately lash out without careful consideration of the consequences. The Regent exploits the hell out of this to start wars for his human supremacist agenda.
- Shotgun Wedding: Though there is no ceremony, Xiang Ye and Isabella Osa were married, at sword point, or at least that's the effect of Xiang Ye making that declaration when he found himself unarmed, surrounded by hostile battle hardened soldiers, with Isabella powerless, and also unarmed.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- A normal teenage boy, coming from a nation at peace, suddenly dumped right into the heart of a warzone, with no idea of the situation, culture, geography, or local politics isn't going to be able to do much. On the other hand, a normal teenage boy coming from a nation that achieved peace through superior firepower and technology, and then given a magical pen that can create almost any artificial tool imaginable? There isn't much he can't do; sometimes we take the wonders of modern-day technology for granted when compared to other world scenarios.
- A king that's still a child is going to be almost entirely at the mercy of his Regent unless he's got a powerful mentor shielding him, and even then there's not much he can do to go against the Regent directly, regardless of the Regent's actions. This gets subverted, but the theme is still consistent: the human kingdom is practically a third-world country compared to the gods' civilization, and the king couldn't be more externally pressured if an elephant fell on him.
- Even with magic, there are things this world and its people don't understand. The physics of Xiang Ye's world are still in this one but because of divergent paths, no one knows about them. Such as radiation and its lethal potential. Rennes ends up suffering from that when he absorbs the heat of a tactical nuke to survive it. He ends up suffering acute organ failure minutes later.
- Initially, Xiang Ye envisions himself as a typical "transported to another world" hero, but quickly backs away after witnessing the death of Isabella's underlings.
- Sweat Drop: The author represents surprise and nervousness with little transparent sweat drops.
- Teen Genius: Turns out Xiang Ye graduated from college when he was 14, hence his extensive physics/mechanical knowledge.
- There Is Only One Bed: Played for laughs. Xiang Ye and Isabella repeatedly face this situation, not exclusively with beds. She solves the problem by kicking him out.
- Tournament Arc: Starting in chapter 57, Xiang Ye, Isabella, and all classes at the Royal Academy, are participating in a two-part tournament. It continues for 93 chapters and concludes with Xiang Ye as the tournament winner.
- Trapped in Another World: Xiang Ye was summoned to the plains, and thanks to the Regent Tols Angus, there may no longer be a way back.
- Vagueness Is Coming: After meeting with Tols Angus, Guro Dita declares that it's all over and that no one can change it.
- We Have Become Complacent: Most of the antagonists have gotten so accustomed to being able to throw their weight around that they've taken to simply sitting on their laurels while making everyone else do their work.
- World of Badass: Everybody has to be able to kick ass. Not just the swordsmen, cavalry, and wizards. The forgers (blacksmiths), and even the chefs have to have some kind of combat utility. Xiang Ye's knowledge of modern tools, equipment, and vehicles has brought the long overlooked "Forging" Branch to center stage.
