After Pretending to Be a Villainess, the Fallen Antagonist Fell for Me

Wen Ruanruan transmigrates into a school story as the universally hated, vicious villainess.

The System issues its mission in an icy voice: [Insult Jiang Jin, rip up his homework, and mock him for being a motherless stray, or die of a broken heart.]

But when she sees blood seeping through the bandage beneath Jiang Jin's uniform...

"Can't even afford a bandage, you pauper?" She tosses him a medicine box stuffed with candy. "Take it. It's expired."

"Your homework is trash!" On the backs of the torn pages, she has taped bills, each one a little plea for him to keep living.

"Stay away from me, you're disgusting!" Yet in the pouring rain, she stubbornly holds an umbrella over his shoulder, soaking half her own body.

Jiang Jin thinks Wen Ruanruan has gone crazy.

The rich young lady who once led the bullying against him has lately been "accidentally" spilling hot milk tea on her own shoes, "slipping" painkillers into his schoolbag, and even "inadvertently" livestreaming his alcoholic father: "How many years do you get for domestic abuse? Anyone know?"

Late one night, he opens the diary she tore apart and discovers that beneath every scrawled "Go die" is a line in tiny writing: [I got him to eat properly again today. Yay!]

Until the day he sees her sharing an umbrella with a gentle uncle...

"Was it fun, playing me?" Jiang Jin pins her against the equipment-room wall, his fingertips brushing her bloodstained earring. "Pretending to like me, when you were really using me as his substitute?"

The System is frantically warning her in her head, but she reaches out and covers his eyes. "Silly, whenever I lie... I touch my earlobe three times."

Later, on the day the world collapses, Jiang Jin, eyes red, places seventeen candy wrappers in her palm.

On the back of each one is a weather forecast: [March 5: Sunny, a good day to meet.] [April 20: Rainy, a good day to fall in love.] [May 17: ...A good day to meet again.]

#He wins himself over with his own overthinking#

#Every time she bullies him, she sneaks him candy on a knife's edge#

#What he thought was a substitute romance turns out to be a story of salvation#

◆Character Whiplash◆

On the surface: spoiled rich girl x beautiful, strong, tragic psycho

The truth: tearful coward afraid to die x lovesick fool who wins himself over

"Choose one of two deaths"

The second male lead waves a guardianship agreement. "She'll bear the Wen name until the day she dies!"

Jiang Jin raises his bloodstained physics competition gold medal:

"But when she secretly kept my photo, her heartbeat shattered the wiretap."

The System breaks down: Corruption level -100%?

Jiang Jin bites her trembling fingertip:

"Now it's my turn to tame you."

[The central trope]

"I pretended to be the knife aimed at you, but you gripped the blade and said it was the sweetest candy in the world."

Theme: Comfort and healing.