The Villain Refuses to Become a Buddha

All forms are illusions. If you see that all forms are not forms, then you will see the Tathagata.

Chen Cuo knew he had no compassion of a bodhisattva and no desire to become a Buddha. When he awoke from his long slumber, the old bald monks of Lingchan Ancient Temple called him the reincarnation of Ksitigarbha at every turn, then cast him into a sea of hellfire for five hundred years, denying him release. After he accidentally escaped one day, he swore to make the people who had tormented him suffer the destruction of their souls. Even if they were dead, he would drag them from their graves and whip their corpses a hundred times before he was satisfied.

Yet though his heart was full of evil thoughts, every deed he did accidentally served justice. For reasons he couldn't understand, he also adopted a child and a fox. Along the way, he killed many people and, by chance, saved many others. But when his revenge was nearly complete, he learned that the person who had hoped he would become a Buddha and meet a good end, and the person he had hated for a hundred years for no reason, were one and the same. Long ago, Chen Cuo had already lost him. Even if he entered the Ten Directions of Hell and passed through a hundred cycles of reincarnation, he could never meet him again.

Told from the receiving partner's perspective.