After the White Moonlight Provoked the Obsessive Villain

Workaholic Baby x Gentlemanly Scoundrel

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The day Wen Zhixi was born, the Wen family set off fireworks over Harbor City for three days and nights.

This long-awaited young master was nevertheless told he would not live past the age of three. With no other choice, the Wen family found him a child bridegroom to bring him good fortune.

Wen Zhixi was beautiful and clever, a cello prodigy praised by everyone.

Yet for some reason, whenever he and his child bridegroom appeared together, everyone’s attention turned to the latter.

Wen Zhixi worked hard and studied diligently, but he could never outshine his good-for-nothing child bridegroom.

Then, on the day of his coming-of-age ceremony, Wen Zhixi learned that his child bridegroom was the male lead of a rags-to-riches story.

And he was the beautiful, spoiled, short-lived cannon-fodder white moonlight in the book.

Once he died of illness, his child bridegroom would pretend to be heartbroken and unable to forget him, winning his family’s sympathy and using them as a stepping stone to get close to the most powerful man in the story.

He learned all this on a rainy day. Three bodyguards took turns holding umbrellas over Wen Zhixi. His child bridegroom followed behind, so Wen Zhixi told the bodyguards to throw away the man’s umbrella. Then, heartbroken, he walked on and crashed straight into the arms of a tall man.

Wen Zhixi looked up and saw the man’s face.

Pei Yanli, heir to a top-tier wealthy family: refined and dignified, polite and kind. He was the powerful man his child bridegroom would eventually seduce!

The thought of the two of them living happily ever after while his whole family played the villains, serving as seasoning for their romance, left Wen Zhixi feeling miserable.

He fainted in the powerful man’s arms.

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To protect the villain’s family, Wen Zhixi decided to become good friends with the powerful man first.

Things went smoothly. Pei Yanli started giving him clothes and cakes and showing up at his performances. Even when Wen Zhixi told him not to become a love-struck fool, the powerful man looked puzzled but never showed the slightest impatience.

He was indeed as gentle, considerate, and understanding as the book described.

It was just that, after learning Wen Zhixi had a child bridegroom, he suddenly smiled in a terrifying way.

When a typhoon approached, Pei Yanli invited Wen Zhixi to his estate. Wen Zhixi happily accepted. Pei Yanli personally prepared a table full of soup and dishes for him, and Wen Zhixi sweet-talked him with practiced ease: “You’re so wonderful. I’m so jealous of your future boyfriend.”

“Someone as great as you mustn’t let a freeloader trick you.”

Pei Yanli curled his lips into a smile. “Then would you be willing to be my boyfriend?”

Wen Zhixi: “...?”

If it meant keeping them apart, that could work too, right?

The mountain estate was battered by torrential rain for seven days and seven nights.

It didn’t take long for Wen Zhixi to learn just how capable Pei Yanli was.

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After going to great lengths, the child bridegroom finally got together with the Pei family’s adopted son. He brought the adopted son to cut ties with Wen Zhixi and ingratiate himself with the powerful man.

Pei Yanli held Wen Zhixi in his arms and looked at the child bridegroom, pleased. “Call him sister-in-law.”

Only then did Wen Zhixi realize he had gotten everything completely wrong!

The powerful man was no sweet, innocent male lead at all. He was the original story’s deranged, ruthless villain!

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Both are virgins; a one-on-one romance about a young couple

If the child bridegroom doesn’t count as a relationship, they’re each other’s first love. Xiao Yan has a thing about emotional purity, and the leads only have eyes for each other. The powerful man may be older, but the age gap is no more than three years.

Theme: Protecting the people you want to protect