[Modern Horse Trainer Lin Fei vs. Mad Hostage Prince from an Enemy Kingdom, Xiao Mingye]
[One True Pair, Both Pure, Transmigrate Into a Book, System, Redemption, Obsessive and Unhinged Villain]
The first time Lin Fei sees Xiao Mingye is at a racetrack buried beneath swirling yellow sand.
He is being dragged along the ground by a wild horse, his skin torn and his clothes soaked in blood.
The onlookers watch coldly. He raises his eyes to her, their depths utterly lifeless.
The System gives a chilling prompt: Save him and stop him from slaughtering the entire city in the future. If you fail, you and the world of the book will be destroyed together.
She gives him medicine, and his corruption value shoots up.
She brings him bedding, and his corruption value surges.
With no solution in sight, Lin Fei steels herself, bends down, and kisses him on the lips.
The corruption meter freezes completely.
The System crashes and shuts down.
And Xiao Mingye, who was supposed to lose all humanity, engraves that unexpected kiss into his very bones.
She manages to tame a ferocious beast, giving him a weakness that belongs to her alone.
An imperial decree of betrothal arrives, and she is promised to the young general who has been her childhood companion.
On the night of the wedding, Xiao Mingye storms the general's residence alone.
He pins her hard against the cold courtyard wall, his fingertips brushing the nape of her neck. His eyes red, he speaks in a hoarse, obsessive voice:
"That kiss counts. You said I was the one in your heart. You can't take it back."
The court closes in on them, forcing them to abandon everything and flee under cover of night.
Through hardship and danger, they make their way back to his homeland, the Xiao Kingdom.
The hostage prince who once suffered every humiliation rebuilds his homeland from the ruins.
Everyone says the fate of a doomed side character has already been written, but Lin Fei stays by his side, taming wild horses and bringing order to the chaos.
He rules over a vast realm, yet from beginning to end, she is the only one in his heart.
