[Dark Healing][Psychological Gamesmanship][Slow-Burn Mind Games][Modern City][Transmigrated into a Book as a Villain][Brooding, Withdrawn Heroine][Cultivation][Possessiveness][Push and Pull to the Extreme][Mutual Redemption][Everyone Is Unhinged][Push and Pull to the Extreme]
Shen Du transmigrates into a book as a doomed villainous extra, with just one year left before the heroine “rips out his tendons, skins him, and feeds him to the fish.”
He sifts through the original host’s memories and quickly reaches one conclusion: there is only one way to survive. He has to make the heroine someone who doesn’t hate him before she turns evil.
So he starts showing her kindness. Returning her books, giving up his seat, bringing her an umbrella in the rain. Sure enough, the gloomy, withdrawn Wen Heng gradually softens. She goes from lowering her head and avoiding him to secretly following him, from saying nothing to clutching the hem of his clothes.
Everything is going according to plan.
Until one late night, Shen Du writes three words in his notes: “This is bad.”
Every time he treats her kindly, his ears ring, his head spins, and his heart races.
His kindness is taking a physical toll on him.
He thought he was taming a trapped beast.
But he never considered that the beast might bite its tamer in return.
As Wen Heng’s yandere index approaches its peak, as a second and then a third “yandere” set their sights on him, and as his own body begins to crave her presence against his will...
Shen Du finally realizes that redemption ends with him becoming the one who needs to be saved.
“I saved you because I wanted to live. But when I realized that the price of saving you was needing you... am I still myself?”
