[《[Western Crossover] After My Romance with the Gloomy Reverse Damian Went Up in Flames》《After Meeting My Reverse Damian Online, Our First Meeting Went Up in Flames》《After Getting Engaged to the Gloomy Reverse Damian by Contract》《[Journey to the West] After Casting a Love Spell on My Nemesis Nezha》Seeking advance readers~~~]
As the youngest Miss Holmes, Saga accidentally transmigrated through time during a blind date, landing in twenty-first-century Gotham. Even the man across from her had been replaced with someone else.
Back in her own nineteenth-century era, every man she met on a blind date had been after the Holmes family's reputation and wealth. Not one of them was sincere.
So this time, she deliberately pretended to be poor, hoping to test her date's character.
She never expected that... her new blind date... aside from having a very handsome face, would turn out to be just as poor as she was.
And... he was rather frail, coughing up blood at the drop of a hat.
He was practically the perfect man to marry!
“Hello, Miss Saga. I'm honored that you chose me. I promise I'll treat you well from now on.” The young black-haired, green-eyed man who called himself “Damian Todd” shook her hand and made his promise with shy earnestness.
Saga sensed that something was off, but didn't think much of it. Her date was beyond reproach. After they married, she could work hard and earn more money, and surely their life together would keep getting better.
And so she began an exciting life: an ordinary office clerk by day, then sneaking out to solve cases for extra cash after her husband fell asleep.
Things were going just fine until one day... at a crime scene... she saw her frail husband standing beside a corpse, his expression cold and indifferent. A few drops of blood spattered across his face made him look even more gloomy and sickly.
He saw her too, and immediately looked at her in panic, trembling with fear. “Saga, I... I was definitely asleep. How did I end up here? I... I'm scared.”
“...Put away that still-smoking gun of yours before you say anything else.”
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They each had their own motives. To investigate each other's identities, they tacitly agreed to move into the same bedroom and sleep together, hoping to keep an eye on one another at all times.
Neither of them got what they wanted.
Her sham of a husband... even started using his charms to seduce her. Somehow, he made a plain, battle-worn set of pajamas look like seductive lingerie...
Coughing up blood in the wind, so pitiful and irresistible...
And... and letting her... use whatever little toys she wanted on him...
She couldn't resist and fell for it completely.
Fortunately, she'd already made a deal with a client called Tin Can, who could send her home in a time machine.
So, after uncovering the truth behind a certain case, she left without saying goodbye and set off on her journey.
But the moment she got home and opened the door, she found not her two brothers waiting for her, but her sham of a husband, Damian, sitting on the sofa and waiting for her with an air of leisure!
He'd changed his entire outfit. Gone were the cheap long shirt and trousers he'd picked up at a five-yuan shop. Now he wore a perfectly tailored shirt and trousers, a million-yuan luxury watch on his wrist, and a steely gaze beneath a gentle smile.
He came up to her, spoke kindly, and took her left hand. With a click, he snapped a cuff around it and his own. “Saga, why didn't you take me with you when you went to visit your family?”
“Were you angry because I didn't satisfy you enough last night?”
Saga: “...”
Stop talking, you bastard! Besides pretending to be sick, poor, and weak, what else have you been pretending to be?!
· Damian used Red Hood's surname for the blind date ()
· There will definitely be some OOC, so please go easy on me qvq~~
· In this reverse-order version, Damian was raised by Bruce from a young age and barely saw his birth mother. The other Robins came later, but Damian is still the youngest. At this point he's still more on the heroic side and sticks to the no-killing rule, though that may change later. (The “gloomy” in the title refers to some changes in his personality after he meets the heroine, not his original personality.)
· I'm sorry that I didn't understand this setup thoroughly enough, which left some readers confused. At this point, all I can say is... read on if you can accept it. If you can't, then perhaps we'll meet again another time qvq
--Here's the blurb for the first advance-reader request, with love~
《[Western Crossover] After My Romance with the Gloomy Reverse Damian Went Up in Flames》
Floy had no idea why she'd suddenly started following Damian Wayne, the new transfer student in her department. She knew perfectly well he was someone she absolutely couldn't afford to cross.
But he skipped class eight days out of ten and still managed to get the highest grades in the department, snatching away the scholarship she relied on to survive;
His vibe was strange, he never looked anyone in the eye, and he once stepped on her foot without apologizing, making her hate him even more;
What she hated most was discovering one day that he'd vanished into thin air behind a wall, without a trace.
A monster like that... He had to be nonhuman, so she naturally needed to keep a close eye on him. Who knew, she might find inspiration for her next paper.
Anyway, when she came to her senses, she found herself riding a crummy old bicycle behind his million-dollar limited-edition luxury car, choking on his exhaust fumes.
Ptooey!
Worse... much worse... she'd stumbled upon her transfer-student classmate committing a murder! As he was disposing of the body... he accidentally noticed her spying, clamped a hand around her throat, and decided to kill her too!
Help!
“W-Wayne, I came to give you... a love letter!” In a moment of desperation, she pulled out a job application and played her part convincingly. “Y-You were so twisted just now, and I... I like you even more!”
Damian's bloodied hand finally loosened from her throat. His dark green eyes gleamed with amusement. “Really? Prove it.”
To stay alive, Floy could only squeeze her eyes shut in anguish and plant a kiss on his lips. “I'll only kiss you, darling.” Ugh.
Damian's expression turned terrifying, but the tips of his ears flushed a suspicious red. In the end, she escaped with her life.
...Then, for some inexplicable reason, she ended up with a deranged boyfriend named Damian!
She hated him even more!
Why did he have to keep her chained to his side whenever he killed someone?
Why did he insist that she write him a thousand-word essay singing his praises after he killed someone?
Wait... why did he have to kiss her too?! Don't... don't use your tongue, you bastard!
Later, a righteous little spider finally saw how trapped she was and offered to rescue her.
Floy wept with relief. She just wanted to go home to her own world and get away from her deranged boyfriend.
But just as she entered the space-time tunnel, a bat mask flashed past, and she blacked out.
When she woke up, the little spider was gone. In its place was a batarang pressed to her throat, while countless layers of webbing had woven into a cocoon around them, shutting out the light.
He looked at her with a faintly mocking smile. “You like webs?”
“Then cry to your heart's content in here, until I tell you to stop, ”
Theme: You can change yourself and find love at the same time.
That should not be a reverse order meter but a private meter, right? [Loading][Loading][Loading]
The reverse order is already a popular fan setting. The meaning is that the ages of all members are in reverse order. Mi should be the eldest brother. Although it is a fan setting, it is set like this for foreign girls and domestic people.
(Same as wondering how a person can reverse the order [loading]
And if you were raised by Bruce from the beginning, you wouldn't have become dank and dark at all. Not to mention that most versions of Bruce have the no-kill principle. Only those who grew up in the Assassin's League can be twisted (and even Mi who grew up in the Assassin's League is actually not dark). Let's just say that private settings are okay, but do they have to comply with a little logic... I feel like the author doesn't even understand that it's weird to put Mi and Tuan Chong together.
I quite like the setting of reverse order rice. I'm really confused when I click on it. Teacher, this setting would be more interesting than writing an original version. Now it feels like a forced change of head.
I don't understand what it means to have only rice in reverse order [biting handkerchief] Can anyone help me figure it out? [Biting handkerchief][covering face and peeking][let me be healthy]
Is the problem reverse order? Why does it seem to be in normal order now?
The author is great, please update it quickly, it's not enough! [Biting handkerchief] [biting handkerchief] [biting handkerchief]
Will we update this series in the next book? Really nice to read and good at writing
When does Saga go back in time?
Wait, why do I seem to have read the latest chapter somewhere? ? ?
That should not be a reverse order meter but a private meter, right? [Loading][Loading][Loading] The reverse order is already a popular fan setting. The meaning is that the ages of all members are in reverse order. Mi should be the eldest brother. Although it is a fan setting, it is set like this for foreign girls and domestic people. (Same as wondering how a person can reverse the order [loading] And if you were raised by Bruce from the beginning, you wouldn't have become dank and dark at all. Not to mention that most versions of Bruce have the no-kill principle. Only those who grew up in the Assassin's League can be twisted (and even Mi who grew up in the Assassin's League is actually not dark). Let's just say that private settings are okay, but do they have to comply with a little logic... I feel like the author doesn't even understand that it's weird to put Mi and Tuan Chong together. I quite like the setting of reverse order rice. I'm really confused when I click on it. Teacher, this setting would be more interesting than writing an original version. Now it feels like a forced change of head.
I don't understand what it means to have only rice in reverse order [biting handkerchief] Can anyone help me figure it out? [Biting handkerchief][covering face and peeking][let me be healthy]
Is the problem reverse order? Why does it seem to be in normal order now?
The author is great, please update it quickly, it's not enough! [Biting handkerchief] [biting handkerchief] [biting handkerchief]
Will we update this series in the next book? Really nice to read and good at writing
When does Saga go back in time?
Wait, why do I seem to have read the latest chapter somewhere? ? ?
Does the author dislike Tim?
I really like this chapter! ! !
Yami Yami🫣🫣🫣🫣