The Pitiful One I Raised Turned into a Villain

*Both leads are powerful. The male lead is an obsessively devoted, yandere loyal dog; the female lead thinks he's a bad guy.

*No scenes of the male lead abusing the female lead. Any questions will be explained later.

1.

To play a trick on her sweet-and-innocent younger sister, Xu Mingtang snuck out of the house in the middle of the night to hunt a snake in the deep woods.

Unfortunately, she didn't find a snake. Instead, she came across a boy dressed in little more than rags.

The boy was stunningly beautiful, with delicate, bewitching features. At that moment, he was hiding in the grass, gazing at her timidly with amber eyes.

"Who are you?" Xu Mingtang raised her bow and studied the scars on the boy's body with a wary gaze.

The boy blinked slowly and tilted his head.

Xu Mingtang frowned. ...It seemed he couldn't speak. Was he mute?

Out of kindness, she took the poor mute boy home and hid him in her room.

On the first day she took him to eat, she noticed a problem: the boy only ate mice, snakes, wild rabbits, birds... and he ate them all raw.

It was as if he had been raised by eagles.

To test her theory, Xu Mingtang generously taught him to write, speak, and study the Four Books and Five Classics. The first thing the poor little thing learned to say was, "Thank you, Miss."

Xu Mingtang was overjoyed, completely unaware that the poor little thing's gaze was growing darker and more distant.

2.

Later, Xu Mingtang was to be married, and the poor little thing disappeared.

They met again on her wedding day. Her entire fiance's household had been slaughtered, and she was the only one left alive.

The infamous, cruel, and wicked emperor of the capital strode toward her step by step.

He held a sharp, long sword in his hand. Blood dripped like beads into a vast pool of it.

The boy came through the blood, bent down, gripped her chin, and smiled eerily. "Miss, aren't you happy to see me?"

"Why are you suddenly about to cry?"

His rough thumb awkwardly wiped away the tear at the corner of her eye. "If you cry yourself sick, I'll be heartbroken."

Only then did Xu Mingtang realize that the young emperor before her had been longing for her for a very long time.

Message: Stay true to yourself and learn to love and protect