The Villain Relies on Me to Stay Alive

Overworked office drone Zhong Xi transmigrates into an old-school angst novel as a disposable concubine-born daughter who is about to be casually crushed to death by the world-weary villain, Prince Ji, Feng Ji. She is forced to bind herself to the “Heart-Throbbing Touch Survival System”: only by continually touching the sinister, violent villain, who bears a bone-deep curse, can she earn points to stay alive. She needs a million points to return to reality. So, driven by a fierce will to survive, she begins all kinds of elaborate schemes to “accidentally” touch the villain: brushing his fingers as she hands him water, tripping and falling into his arms, pressing her palm against his while treating his wounds... Points +1, +1, +1...

What she doesn’t realize is that, through the strange “Shared Heart Calamity,” she feels the pain eating away at him and glimpses his shattered past. Her defenses crumble, again and again. And the Prince of Ji, who sees all living beings as ants and longs to destroy himself, goes from wanting to “crush her” to “letting her do as she likes,” then to “raising his hand and waiting for her to touch him,” until his obsession turns to madness: “Your life belongs to me, and so do you. Even in hell, you’re coming with me.”

When the truth about the System comes to light, a million points and true love stand before her.

When the will of the world strikes back, the imperial court closes in and evil spirits run rampant.

At last, she tears up the option to return: “Reset my points to zero. I’m buying the rest of your life.”

Tears spill from his crimson eyes, and his smile hurts more than a sob: “Fine. I’ll settle the whole debt, with interest, for all eternity.”

In this wildly entertaining love story, two people save each other and defy fate amid the push and pull between “touching him keeps me alive” and “touch him too much, and my heart might go astray.”