[Rebirth + read this for the villain’s power-trip moments + she chases him to win him back later]
Villain power-trip moments: She kills whoever she wants, has exceptional martial prowess and brains, and only does what pleases her.
In her previous life, Jiang Chenlin kept her true nature well hidden, focused solely on climbing to the summit of power so she could lock the person she loved most in a gilded cage.
What if her beloved has found someone else? Arrange to have them strangled.
What if her beloved escapes? Torture anyone who knows where he is.
What if her beloved ends up hating her? Impossible.
She was hailed as the greatest villain in history, but in the end, she lost by a single move and was killed by the one she loved.
Then she discovered she wasn’t dead. She had become a ghost, trapped by her beloved’s side, witnessing all his suffering. Only when he took his own life did she finally awaken as if from a dream and realize how wicked she had been. Could she really have been wrong?
In this life, she wants to be kinder to herself. Love and hate are things she should avoid.
But she is rescued by a warm-hearted person, and at first, she wants nothing more than to live a quiet life from then on.
Then she accidentally learns that he was the reason for all the misery in her life, and is consumed by a deep, conflicted hatred. Where will their relationship go from here?
[When a beautiful, strong, tragic, and unhinged woman stops turning into a dark yandere] [When a gentle and refined persona meets reality] [How a villain saves the world]
The hero’s perspective:
He set out to find the little beggar he had once hurt by accident, all because of his misplaced kindness, only to be told she had disappeared.
The person he rescued in the freezing snow turned out to be no little rabbit, but a thousand-year-old fox. He was always taking her side and protecting her, yet he still couldn’t compare to that other man.
With his heart broken, he quietly returned to his secluded family estate. But when a certain woman finally came to her senses, she actually followed him all the way there…