By the Time I Learned He Was the Villain, It Was Too Late

Please add my upcoming book, My Archrival Was Reborn Too, to your reading list~

A recommendation for my friend Springs' completed novel, Long Afterward.

Nan Ningmeng's fantasy serial, The Dragon's Guidebook, has its blurb at the very bottom. Take a look if you're interested~

Blurb:

Rookie Jiang Miaomiao was kicked by the System into an S-rank world to play the villain.

The moment she arrived, she gave up and took up banditry.

“This mountain is mine to open, these trees are mine to plant. If you want to pass, leave a Golden Core as your toll!” Jiang Miaomiao said fiercely.

Su Pingyuan froze, then replied, “I don't have a Golden Core.”

“Then come with me!”

“...Are you sure?”

Next thing she knew, she was on the wanted list, and once she landed there, she never got off it.

Advance blurb: My Archrival Was Reborn Too

In her previous life, Lin Mu, the exceptionally gifted and overbearing only daughter of the Water Dragon King, took a pretty boy as her husband.

Before she could even kiss him, he stabbed her to death on their wedding night.

Lin Mu: “...?”

Lin Mu: “If I had another chance, I'd cut him into a thousand pieces!”

Later, she did indeed get reborn.

But can someone explain why she was reborn in that damned pretty boy's body?

What kind of joke is this?! Am I supposed to kill myself?

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Lately, the capital has been turned upside down.

The Water Dragon King's youngest daughter and the Marquis of Nanping, who had no connection whatsoever, somehow ended up together.

And then

Young Marquis Chu's temperament changed completely. Who would have thought that someone so unassuming and delicate would charge into the Underworld alone? Not only did he beat the Yinshan Ghost King into submission, he even tore a hole in the Underworld!

The other one was even more unbelievable. She acted like a completely different person. She was already powerful, and now she'd gotten clever too! She'd outsmarted several great clans and seized all those heavenly treasures for herself!

The two of them even turned the demon realm upside down together, leaving the people of all three realms furious.

When they heard the emperor had arranged a marriage between these two troublemakers, the elders of the noble families all breathed a sigh of relief. The common folk burned incense and prayed that the two ancestors would spend their lives fighting each other instead of going out to wreak havoc again.

But the two people in question rushed to the palace one after the other.

Chu Yuanrong: “Your Majesty, this humble girl is licentious and knows nothing of propriety. I truly am not worthy of the Marquis of Nanping.”

At this, Lin Mu knocked her head hard against the ground. “Although I am good-looking, I'm not very capable in that department.”

Emperor: “...What's wrong with that? Doesn't that make you an even better match?”

Blurb for Springs' completed novel, Long Afterward:

Ye Qiwen's first impression of me was: What's with this girl acting all tough, like Xu Wenqiang?

My first impression of Ye Qiwen was: This guy is exactly the sort of person the school's discipline committee would target.

Later, we became deskmates.

He told me: Cheng Xiaozhao is actually as silly as Bald Qiang!

I said... I didn't say anything then, because I'd just eaten chocolate and couldn't open my mouth.

The day I saw Ye Qiwen again, he looked me up and down. “Cheng Xiaozhao, don't think that just because you're tall, this dress looks better with high heels.”

I raised my left heel slightly and glanced down. “Can't be helped. I probably can't wear high heels anymore.”

He froze, then actually crouched down to look at my feet. “Is it that bad?”

I shook my head. “It's not too bad, actually.”

In the night, he stayed crouched there, looking up at me, a few lines creasing his brow. His face was as stunning as ever. “Let me carry you for a while.”

Looking at him, I asked almost without thinking, “How long is a while?”

He said, “As long as you want.”

Blurb for Nan Ningmeng's fantasy serial, The Dragon's Guidebook:

Jun Xiao was transmigrated into a cannon-fodder female character in an old-school male power fantasy. She died in front of the arrogant dragon-like male lead in the very first chapter, becoming the opportunity that allowed him to join a prestigious cultivation sect.

To survive, Jun Xiao devoted herself to cultivation for a hundred years. She became beautiful and powerful, looking down on all living things, and finally overturned her destined death. But through a series of twists and turns, she unexpectedly ended up with the arrogant dragon-like protagonist as her disciple: six-year-old Yan Li Chao.

Fine, she could be his master. Once he finished learning, saving the world would be his responsibility.

Then she could travel the world, sample every delicacy, admire every beauty, and live the life she'd dreamed of in her previous life.

But just as she packed her bags and prepared to retire after completing her mission, Yan Li Chao, who had united the three realms, grabbed her by the back of her collar.

“Trying to run away? How about taking me with you?”

The Demon Venerable Yan Chao Li woke from a deep sleep to discover that he'd somehow returned to the age of six. He immediately suspected that everything around him was part of someone else's scheme.

He was especially wary of Jun Xiao, who had died young in his previous life but was now his master. The little Yan Chao Li's wide eyes were full of suspicion.

Did she covet his bloodline? Want to seal him away? Or plan to sell him to his enemies?

Whatever her reason, he had to nip it in the bud before things got out of hand.

But Jun Xiao didn't care at all about his suspicions. She repeatedly risked her life to protect him, even giving him her most precious personal sword, and poured her heart and soul into helping him grow.

Yan Chao Li suddenly felt that giving her his life in return might not be such a bad idea.

Theme: Life is full of ups and downs, and everything is strangely and mysteriously intertwined.