I Teach the Villain How to Be a Villain

After one reckless night, Sang Wan fled.

Later, she returned to the capital with a marriage contract in hand.

Her fiance, the Second Prince, had calculated that her birth chart was incompatible with the Crown Prince, who had been unconscious for months. She was forced to marry him in the place of another bride, to bring him good fortune and serve as a pawn.

Sang Wan's plan was simple: once the Crown Prince died, she would live quietly on the compensation money from the court.

Who could have guessed that the ministers would petition for her to be buried alive with him?

To stay alive and prove that the Crown Prince was still alive and well,

she relied on inside information from an immortal lord in her dreams and put her hidden skills to use, impersonating the Crown Prince and writing all kinds of letters to people throughout the court every day.

Not long afterward, Crown Prince Ling Chengyao woke up. Sang Wan had planned to leave, but her fiance constantly bullied and undermined the Crown Prince, while everyone around him took advantage of him. He always silently bore their mistreatment, and Sang Wan couldn't stand to watch.

The Crown Prince was too kindhearted. Thinking that they were at least husband and wife, Sang Wan decided to teach him how to become a villain everyone feared, so no one would dare look down on him.

Ling Chengyao listened humbly, maintaining his harmless expression as he asked, "If a villain falls for a woman who keeps trying to escape, should he use love to make her stay?"

"That won't work." Sang Wan, exasperated by his stubbornness, shoved a storybook in front of him and patiently pointed out the words. "You need to lock her up and force her to love you. Got it?"

"Got it." Ling Chengyao lowered his eyes and nodded, a strange look flashing through them.

As before, he remained gentle and dignified, cherishing her like a delicate flower and caring for her with all his heart.

But in bed, he stopped holding back. His energy was inexhaustible, and he was far too rough with her. Every time, she lost consciousness.

She thought the Crown Prince was simply a little too passionate in bed, nothing serious, until she learned that the ministers who had received her letters were suffering one misfortune after another. Only then did she realize that the Crown Prince was the living King of Hell who had shared that reckless night with her.

On a moonless, windy night, Sang Wan clutched her aching waist and tearfully carried a thousand taels in banknotes as she crawled out through a dog hole at the Eastern Palace. She looked up and saw him beneath the bright moon, wearing a vermilion robe embroidered with qilin and clouds. His gaze was dark, his lips curved in a sick smile, and the two chains in his hands clattered.

"Crown Princess, would you prefer a gold chain or a silver one?"

[Reader's guide]

1. Both leads are virgins, and the ending is happy. The female lead has the luck of a koi fish: the more maliciously someone treats her, the luckier she gets.

2. The male lead is no saint. He's a particularly hard-to-kill, scheming Crown Prince who can read minds. He also has a little-known secret identity: having seen the ugliness of human nature, he grew weary of the world. When he was eight, he once set off for the frontier to fight on the front lines because he didn't want to live. He fought against eight foreign tribes, endured hundreds of battles and countless severe injuries, yet somehow survived them all. He earned the title of "Mad God of Slaughter."

Theme: If you want to live well, use your head