The Villain I Support Can't Possibly Be a Hopeless Romantic

Xi Xu transmigrates into a disposable strategist in a power-struggle novel and is forced to bind himself to the "Villain Development System."

Mission objective: Help the ruthless crown prince, Shen Gusa, kill his father and seize the throne, becoming the archetypal villainous tyrant condemned by the whole book.

Failure penalty: Bleeding from all seven orifices and having every meridian shattered.

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He carefully schemes for years, becoming the crown prince's most trusted and powerful minister. He sends the protagonist's rival to the execution grounds, takes a poisoned arrow for Shen Gusa, and even personally drapes the imperial robes over him.

Until one night, while helping the crown prince change clothes, the System suddenly shrieks:

[Warning! Future tyrant's corruption level: -99%. Love-brain levels off the charts!]

Xi Xu: ?

He watches helplessly as the crown prince, who should have been sinister and cruel, takes his bloodstained fingertips, dark obsession surging in his eyes.

"How about I give you half my throne?"

"This realm is drenched in bloodshed... Why don't you teach me how to love someone?"

Crown prince gong x powerful minister shou

Reader's guide:

* Both are each other's only one, with mutual secret crushes.

* The seemingly innocent but secretly scheming crown prince is reborn

* Just read without thinking too hard

* The characters' values don't represent the author's

Theme: For him, it was more a desire to conquer.