After Tearing Up the Bad Ending Script, I Became the Male Lead’s Beloved

Ji Qinglin transmigrates into a revenge novel as a vicious cannon-fodder character.

The original owner coveted the male lead's looks and took advantage of his fall from grace to humiliate and imprison him. Once the male lead turned the tables, he was pulverized to dust and died without a complete corpse.

The System promises: survive for three years, and you'll return to the modern world with your salary intact.

Looking at the black-lotus male lead pinned beneath him, Ji Qinglin numbly gets out of bed. Maybe this situation can still be salvaged...

From then on, through every peril and conspiracy, Ji Qinglin's shadow is always there to shield Xie Yun. The man everyone once despised manages to protect the male lead until he becomes the number one cultivator in the world.

Xie Yun's initial murderous intent gradually turns into deep infatuation. He loves Ji Qinglin to the bone, craves this exclusive affection, and hates the scheming behind his tenderness.

When the three years are up,

Ji Qinglin fears Xie Yun will go mad after he leaves, so he cuts off all ties in the cruelest way:

"I've never liked you. Everything I did before was just using you."

Then he fakes his death, escapes, and breezily returns to the modern world.

He thinks Xie Yun will hate him, and that once he's hated him long enough, he'll naturally let go.

Who could have guessed that only two peaceful years later, the System would malfunction and haul him back? "Warning! The male lead has abandoned immortality and fallen into demonic cultivation. He's destroying the world!"

When they meet again,

the former leader of the righteous path has become a mad demon everyone wants dead, and all he wants is to track down the "faithless scoundrel" who left him.

PS:

Top: A sharp-tongued, overconfident dragon of a hero early on, then a controlling, brooding love-struck obsessive later.

Bottom: A hammy, goofy troublemaker, seemingly hated by all but secretly adored by all. Staying alive comes first, but somehow he turns the protagonist into his own dog.