The Villain Is Someone Else

[Synopsis in first person, main story in third person] [Strong female lead, possessive romance]

When I was thirteen, an evil spirit called the System found me and said that I would become the villain's fiancee in a storybook. I would love him without being loved in return, and meet a tragic end.

At first, I didn't believe it. I trained hard, working ten or a hundred times harder than before, and gradually became one of the most gifted disciples in the sect.

When I became the next young master of the Sword Pavilion, he arrived.

The young man wore the plainest clothes, yet smiled with such radiant warmth and gentle grace. Who could have guessed that beneath that sunny face lay a heart as black as pitch?

Remembering my agreement with the System, I smiled too. I knew I had to have him.

I would keep a close eye on him, restrain him, and imprison him by my side until he was completely unable to escape me. I would complete my mission to protect the protagonist, then abandon him and ascend to the upper realm.

Everything went according to plan. Using my identities as his senior sister and fiancee, I kept him firmly under my control and gave him no chance to harm the protagonist. I placed a restriction around his neck and kept track of his every move.

He was helpless. He couldn't resist. In the end, he fell for me.

Until the System finally found time to check on my progress, and the two of us discovered, to our utter horror, that I had fallen in love at first sight with the wrong person. He wasn't the villain who looked like a gentleman on the outside but was rotten within. He was damn well the heavens' own son, the protagonist of the story.

I held out my hand, and the person who had been arguing with someone else just a moment earlier immediately returned to my side, as if he were already used to being controlled by me.

I asked the System, “Can I still ascend to the upper realm?”

“...” The System said, “Actually, aren't you the real villain?”

“...”

*

Shen Jiang was reborn, back to before he had entered the sect. His memories of his previous life were far from pleasant. When he saw the person in front of him trying to take his jade pendant, he hesitated, then chose not to resist.

He entered the sect under someone else's identity. He had no desire to reclaim his former status. He only wanted to see what kind of vicious infighting his enemies from his previous life were getting up to now.

Who could have guessed that the moment he entered the sect, he would run into the fiancee of the person whose identity he had taken?

He had no grudge against her and didn't want to get involved with her. But somehow, step by step, he fell into her palm.

The world said she was kind, serene, and chaste. But when she was with him, it was as if she had become someone else. Shen Jiang soon found himself unable to cope.

He thought that it was fine if he didn't take revenge or ascend to immortality.

As long as she kept loving him like this forever, what was wrong with being under her control forever and living off her?

But one day, she suddenly came to him and said they had to part, completely and forever, because she had fallen in love with someone else.

Shen Jiang finally realized that some people really couldn't be allowed to stay.

His parents had spent their lives telling him not to show mercy, but never succeeded. She managed it with a single sentence.

Theme: Treat others with kindness