After Being Offered to a Mad Villain

Delicate, vulnerable girl with a hidden dark side x irritable, unhinged mad dog

In a world torn apart by endless war, evil spirits ran rampant.

As a powerless illegitimate daughter, Wen Heng kept her head down at home, doing whatever she could to survive. In the end, her birth father still treated her like a gift and sent her to the bed of the living demon in the Zhuxin Residence.

Wen Du was a genius puppet master of the Zhuxin Residence, a mad dog whose name made the cultivation world tremble. He had the looks of a spring breeze melting snow, but was wicked to the core, his sorcery uncanny and his temper volatile.

The rumors hadn't exaggerated. He was cruel and completely unhinged. The first time they met, he drew a knife on her. The second time, he tried to burn her alive. The third time, he nearly wiped out her entire family.

But he wasn't as impossible to get along with as the rumors suggested. After keeping her by his side, he gave her good food and fine clothes, applied medicine to her cuts, and gave her spirit weapons for protection.

Wen Heng's life was even better than it had been before. At least she no longer had to steal food just to scrape by.

Wen Heng thought that if she behaved and stayed by his side, becoming a flower who understood his every thought, she could live safely under his protection and never be bullied or humiliated again.

But she realized she was wrong.

A man like Wen Du was heartless and unfeeling. If he was in a bad mood one day, killing her would be no more than an idle gesture.

Wen Heng didn't want to die.

Wen Du thought he treated her well enough. She was always grateful to him, looking pitiful as she said that without him, her father and brothers would drain her of every last bit of value and leave her dead without a complete corpse.

He believed she couldn't survive without him.

The first few times she tried to run, he wanted to kill her. After turning it over in his mind, he couldn't bring himself to do it, so he locked her up at his side and watched her closely, putting an end to any thought of escape.

Unable to get away, she became ever more obedient. He thought she'd finally fallen for him, never guessing that she'd fallen for the idea of killing him.

The day Wen Heng ground his bones to dust, she wept like a rain-soaked pear blossom, just as pitiful as she had always been.

Until his dying breath, Wen Du stared at her face, full of hatred. He hated himself for not seeing through her sooner, and for not having the heart to kill her.

For thousands of days and nights, he thought of the face she wore as she cried and sent him to the underworld, grinding his teeth with rage.

He thought, When I come back to life, I'll drag her back.

I'll make sure she can't even pass for human!

After destroying every trace of Wen Du's body, Wen Heng settled in a small town. Her days were gentle as flowing water, and she became engaged to someone. Their wedding was to take place when the mountain flowers were in full bloom.

The hills were lush with flowers, and moonlight covered the ground.

Wen Heng wore her wedding dress as someone pressed down on her shoulders from behind. A familiar voice came close to her ear, its smile dark and sinister:

"Was I not good enough to you back then? Why did you run?"

She turned stiffly and met those same volatile, feverish eyes.

Wen Du looked her wedding dress up and down, pressed his tongue against his cheek, and smiled with wicked amusement.

"Nice dress. I wonder if it'll be a pain to take off."

#IfTheyBothWantToSendEachOtherToTheUnderworld,Doesn'tThatCountAsMutualDevotion#

[Reader's Guide]

* One-on-one, happy ending, both leads' first love

* A love-hate relationship. Neither lead is a good person

* Romance and monster fighting

* The male lead talks a lot

* Contains a pregnancy and childbirth plotline. Readers who dislike that should think carefully before clicking

* Low-magic setting, mostly about conflicts between people. The setting is entirely made up. If I manage to make it work, I'm brilliant; if I don't, your eyes must be the problem

Cover artist: Shuimo Danqing - Paigu Xiaobao

⭐️🎉 Coming Soon: I Found a Great Demon

Ye Yunxiu found a gravely wounded young man who was close to death. She planned to let him leave once he recovered, but when he did, he didn't go, and she didn't ask him to.

Neither of them had family, friends, or anyone tying them down. Having someone around was nice.

The young man was always cheerful and kind. Every day, they left home together, then went their separate ways.

She went to her stall to sell sweet drinks. She didn't know what he did, only that they both worked hard and slowly made their shabby little home better and better.

One day, they both had some free time and agreed to go to a teahouse in town to listen to a storyteller.

The storyteller was recounting the tale of Lu Qiu, a great demon who wrought havoc everywhere.

He was bloodthirsty, treacherous, cunning, and ruthless. Every immortal sect wanted him dead, but time and again he escaped, and no one knew where he was.

Worst of all, he had slaughtered the entire Qi family who had taken him in: more than thirty people, not one spared. The youngest child, the Qi family's little girl, was only six. She died clutching a small cloth doll.

The tea was so bitter that Ye Yunxiu stuck out her tongue. She casually remarked, "How could anyone do something like that? The victims were so pitiful!"

The young man beside her popped a candied fruit into her mouth, put on an appropriately sorrowful expression, and echoed her. "Exactly. How could anyone do that? Those people were so pitiful."

But so what if they were pitiful?

How many pitiful people died in this world every day?

Lu Qiu swallowed his tea and thought that this boring story had been told too many times. The tea was awful too. Maybe he should just burn down the teahouse.

And what was the point of telling a boring story if you were going to make things up?

The youngest child in the Qi family had clearly been their seven-year-old son. He hadn't been holding a cloth doll when he died, because Lu Qiu had chopped off both his arms.

Then he looked down at Ye Yunxiu, who was beside him, completely absorbed in cracking sunflower seeds.

Forget it. Since she was here today, he'd let the teahouse stand for now.

[Reader's Guide]

* A sweet, unobservant girl x a great demon hated by both gods and men

* The male lead has good reasons for what he does in the synopsis, but even with those reasons, his character is... extremely handsome and dashing

* Both leads' first love, one-on-one, happy ending, cute and sweet

Theme: Be strong, then stronger