After Deceiving the Male Lead, the Sickly Villain's Plan Backfires

[Upcoming titles: The Green Tea Villain Is Waiting to Be Fed Like a Good Boy Again Today and When an Asexual Gets Cast as the Shameless Bottom. Please show your support.]

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[We're about to reach the climax and wrap things up, so let me take my time writing QAQ.]

Jing Duanshui transmigrated into a dark power fantasy as the mastermind, a villain with a thousand secret identities.

To the world, he was a pampered, useless beauty. In secret, he used all sorts of secret identities to make enemies of the male lead: he was the Demon Lord who destroyed the male lead's cultivation, the Demon Emperor who dug out his spiritual core, and the poison master who drew his spiritual blood to make medicine.

When he transmigrated, the original owner was on the verge of being exposed.

If he sat around and did nothing, the male lead would turn him into a human-skin puppet. That was the grim fate awaiting him.

But there was good news.

Because of the original owner's sabotage, the male lead had lost his memory.

So, under the male lead's bewildered gaze, the hypocritical immortal lord lifted his chin and said haughtily, "Before you lost your memory, you were my lowest-ranking servant."

Jing Duanshui tricked the male lead into signing a master-servant contract, then, after his actions were exposed, tricked him into falling off a cliff and sealed him away.

With everything settled, he began a leisurely life of pleasure.

The original owner had recently acquired a young martial nephew, an innocent passerby who was officially described as harmless in the original story.

Jing Duanshui decided to train the boy into a useful tool.

But he never expected that one day his young martial nephew would casually strip away his villainous secret identity.

The seemingly harmless young martial nephew transformed, wearing the male lead's face as he gave him a sweet smile.

With bloodied fingers, the young martial nephew slowly traced his cheek, his voice filled with eerie delight and tenderness:

"Long time no see, my pretty little prey."

[From the top's point of view]

Qiu Li should have lost his memory after suffering severe injuries, leaving him weak and helpless.

But by a stroke of fate, he retained his memories. His zither master's bloodline also awakened by chance.

He gained the ability to turn anyone with whom he shared a karmic bond into a puppet.

And the deeper the karmic entanglement, the easier it was for him to control the puppet.

The hypocritical immortal lord constantly made things difficult for him and persecuted him.

The white-haired zither master smiled maliciously.

He was quite pleased, since everything the immortal lord did only deepened their entanglement.

The arrogant immortal lord would make a beautiful puppet, controlled at will and reduced to quiet sobbing.

[Reading guide]

A scheming, adorable bottom x a gleeful top who loves playing along with his husband's act

The original owner is the protagonist bottom.

Basically, it's about a calculating little beauty who transmigrates into a book and tries to manipulate the top, only to get outmaneuvered and bullied instead.

The author's and the top's thought processes are a little weird. This is self-indulgent writing, so if it's not your thing, run!

Overall, it's a sweet story, though the sweetness may be a little strange. If you have any triggers, check the comments for the warnings. If they're accurate, I'll add them to the blurb.

The first few chapters are a bit messy, the logic has gone to the dogs, and they haven't been revised yet. If you can't handle that, leave now!

Silly little me has set up all the plot points to give the couple plenty of room to get creative with their romance. Of course, most of it can be explained away!

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Next up: The Green Tea Villain Is Waiting to Be Fed Like a Good Boy Again Today

Jiang Qinglan was supposed to inherit his family's private restaurant as planned and become China's youngest master chef.

But after waking up, he found himself tossed into a supernatural novel as the gatekeeping demon of a haunted hotel.

In the book, he saw the first half of Jing Nanqi's life. Though a ghost, he was kind and harmless, and as a result, he was bullied relentlessly.

Jiang Qinglan decided to make sure the poor thing was well-fed. "Why don't you stick with me from now on? I'm a great cook."

The pitiful little thing looked up at him with tearful eyes and softly agreed.

*

What Jiang Qinglan didn't know was that the poor thing was actually the biggest villain in the book. He was a vengeful ghost formed from countless malicious intentions, and had been born without a sense of taste.

Everyone feared him, but Jiang Qinglan firmly believed he was pure and harmless.

"Try my cooking." The young man held a cake out to him, a dusting of white flour still on the tip of his nose.

That day, for the first time in his life, the evil ghost tasted sweetness.

*

Everyone except Jiang Qinglan knew that the scariest thing about the haunted hotel wasn't its gatekeeping demon, but the poor little thing following the young man around.

He was the Lord of Terror, coiled like a venomous snake beside a rose. He smiled only at the little rose, and bit everyone else when they weren't looking.

The evil ghost hated the players. They stole Jiang Qinglan's attention, and they always got to eat the delicious food he made.

He just wanted to hide the young man in his room, make him cook for no one but himself, and watch his wings flush red whenever they touched.

"Big brother, I'm scared. Those players are always picking on me," the Lord of Terror said in a sweet voice, nestled in the young man's arms. "They're all up to no good."

"I'm not like them. I only care about you, big brother."

A possessive, green tea villain top x a gentle, sunny bottom

Another upcoming title

After the Useless Beauty Usurps the Throne

The once illustrious Feng family fell, and Feng Zhixue was plunged into the gutter overnight.

Feng Zhixue knew he was done for. He had an excessively beautiful face and a domineering, arrogant personality that had made him plenty of enemies.

After waking from a dream during the night shift, Feng Zhixue discovered he was a cannon-fodder villain in a book.

The male lead in the book was his dowdy little servant, Yan Chenlu, a prince who had been raised among commoners.

Before long, Yan Chenlu would be welcomed back to the royal family in great splendor, while Feng Zhixue would die on a snowy night, forgotten by everyone.

Feng Zhixue wanted to survive and return to a life of pampered luxury.

So, relying on his knowledge of the plot, he stole Yan Chenlu's identity and became the empire's most honored prince, just as he wished.

*

The imperial life was opulent and indulgent, yet thoroughly strange.

For instance, an ancient voice often whispered in his ear with a thick, slippery undertone.

For instance, his desk was always piled with love letters covered in slime, their crooked handwriting scrawled across the pages.

For instance, every day he had the same dream: soft tentacles wrapped around his body, dragging him into a sweet, dark abyss.

Feng Zhixue suppressed the unease in his heart, nervously concealing his identity as he worked to win over his fake brothers.

*

Later, when the truth came out, Feng Zhixue thought he was going to die horribly.

But he never expected his fake brothers to look at him with increasingly strange expressions.

Even more unexpectedly, the male lead whose identity he had stolen pulled him into his arms. Cold fingers traced the corner of his reddened eye, and a voice that clearly wasn't human came from his throat: "Darling, look. I've given you my identity, everything I have."

"Now it's your turn to make it up to me, isn't it?"

In the darkness, the shadow of the young emperor trembled twice. A monstrous appendage slowly reached out from the shadow and coiled around Feng Zhixue's calf.

A Lovecraftian top x a useless beauty raised in luxury

Theme: The environment and the way others see us can affect our behavior, so we should consider issues from multiple perspectives.