How to Break Up After Getting Involved with the Male Ghost Villain [Book Transmigration]

A laid-back girl x a smiling, clingy, ghostly villain * Hua Sui realized something was wrong only after her memories returned. The person she was dating was none other than Xie Yunsu, the malicious big bad from the original novel. In the original, he was a hedonist who did whatever he pleased, bound by no principles or moral limits. Everything he did was simply for fun. She, meanwhile, was the original male lead's early-dead first love, a saintly guiding partner and an upgraded version of the ever-present wise old mentor, indispensable to his rise to greatness. To escape the constraints of the plot System, she had to follow the original storyline, guide the male lead onto the right path, and then take a blade for him and fake her death during the final mission. So here's the problem: #How to break up amicably with a psychopathic villain #How to stop him from wanting to kill the male lead * After binding to the System, Hua Sui's life became a constant tightrope walk. On one hand, she had to follow the original storyline with the male lead. On the other, she had to find a way to keep Xie Yunsu from discovering what she was doing. In the end, all her efforts were in vain. By day, the radiant Immortal Lord Yao, Xie Yunsu, leaned against a corridor pillar. Moonlight bathed his pale face as he watched them with a smiling gaze. Hua Sui: “I can explain... Never mind, I can't explain this.” * “My Sui Sui, how can you look at anyone else?” Xie Yunsu smiled, his eyes curving. His face was almost too beautiful, and the moonlight falling over him made him seem half-god, half-ghost. “Here's what I'll do. I'll give you a chance. If you guess correctly, I'll spare his life for now. If you guess wrong, ” He stopped, as if struck by an amusing thought, then tilted his head. His smile grew brighter. “I'll kill him. Sound good? ^_^” 1. The male lead is in the strongest-of-all category! 2. Written to indulge my personal tastes! Not a strong female lead story, and not a story that fetishizes the heroine! The male lead is absolutely stronger than the heroine in combat, but her sanity is off the charts. The male lead is an indescribable entity to her. Expect mild psychological horror and coercive sex (very niche preferences, so please don't read if that's not for you). 3. Romance-focused, but not a traditional fluffy romance! There will be mind games and push-and-pull; neither lead goes all in from the start. The plot will develop from the characters' own perspectives. Everything serves the two leads and their relationship! Everyday-life feel, slow burn! 4. Colloquial writing style ahead! Expect some terrible jokes! 5. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. 6. Not a cultivation novel; cultivation is just background. Lots of original worldbuilding. Another upcoming novel: What to Do When You're Stalked by a Dark, Unhinged Yandere Cheng Mianxia is a shut-in with severe social anxiety. She transmigrates into an unread cultivation novel as a low-level outer disciple. She binds herself to a [Chosen One Simp System]. The System says that if she earns enough points and completes the final mission of taking a sword for someone, she can fake her death and go home. Desperate to return home, Cheng Mianxia steels herself and forces herself to act against her nature, nervously playing the devoted little simp. Before long, the whole sect knows that Junior Sister Cheng Mianxia from the Spirit Plant Peak is so infatuated with Senior Brother Xie, the aloof beauty, that she's practically gone mad. Mianxia puts up with all the mockery and contempt, convinced that if she can just hold on until the day she takes the sword, it will all be over. Until one night, she wanders into the back mountain and meets Xie Zhizhao, cousin of the male lead Xie Yunxiao. Her peaceful life is shattered. Xie Zhizhao was born just three days after Xie Yunxiao, yet grew up to be his complete opposite. Rumor has it he's the bastard child of the Xie family's eldest daughter, conceived when a demonic cultivator violated her. His aptitude is mediocre, his temperament gloomy and withdrawn, and apart from his impossibly beautiful, almost demonic face, he's good for nothing. Cheng Mianxia feels sorry for him. She thinks they're both outcasts, but beneath the cold moonlight, she sees a side of him utterly different from the one he shows by day. His eyes curve with a delighted smile as he calmly forces the fellow disciples who bullied him by day to drink poison. Cheng Mianxia's heart pounds as she witnesses the scene. She doesn't want trouble, so she turns to flee. But in the next instant, he blocks her path like a ghost. The young man bends down, picks up the pitifully ugly sword tassel she dropped in her panic, and holds it out to her. “Junior Sister,” he says softly, smiling innocently. “Why are you running?” Cheng Mianxia grips the tassel and looks up into his handsome, almost ghostly face. She feels as if she's fallen into an icy abyss. He's going to kill her. She thinks. But he doesn't. He simply stares at her for a long time with a gaze so intent it's chilling. Then he smiles, his beautiful, almond-shaped eyes curving in a way that seems almost too lovely to be real, and asks brightly: “What's your name?” Clutching the tassel, Cheng Mianxia is overcome by an unprecedented wave of terror. It seems she's caught the attention of the monster she should never have provoked. * Later. Cheng Mianxia finally reaches the System's final mission: take a sword for Xie Yunxiao and fake her death to return home. A rain of swords pours down from the sky. She closes her eyes, ready to be free. The pain she expects never comes. Instead, she falls into a cold embrace. Xie Zhizhao, now the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons, crushes the deadly sword light with ease. His eyes brim with a madness bent on destroying everything. His fingertips brush her neck, and his voice is so gentle it sends a chill down her spine. “You want to die for him?” His smile is hard to read. “Did I say you could?” * Xie Zhizhao has a secret. Cheng Mianxia has always thought they first met by chance that night on the back mountain. But that's not true. He first noticed her when she lowered her head and nervously offered Xie Yunxiao the ugly little sword tassel she'd woven herself. She had very beautiful eyes. Perhaps a little too beautiful. It seemed no matter how often Xie Yunxiao rejected her, nothing could dim their light. How annoying. He thought. So annoying it made him want to ruin her. Or perhaps simply make her his. * So there was no such thing as coincidence. Only Xie Zhizhao knew that everything was the result of his painstaking, deliberate scheming. * ① The male lead is a dark, possessive type. The heroine is an ordinary, sweet girl who only wants to go home and live a peaceful life. She's mildly reclusive and socially anxious, has no golden finger, and knows very little about the original story. Please read with care if that bothers you. ② The heroine won't fall for the male lead for a long time. Please read with care if that bothers you. ③ One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins. ④ Lots of original worldbuilding; this isn't a traditional cultivation novel. ⑤ Romance-focused, with relatively little plot. (Blurb archived January 15, 2026) Theme: Use cleverness to overcome strength, and gentleness to overcome force.