The Villain I Raised Went Mad

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One day, while returning to the capital with her mother, Ji Shiyu hears a hoarse, stifled sobbing outside the carriage as they pass through the city.

A boy, as gaunt as a skeleton, is curled in a corner, enduring blows from a group of street urchins.

He is thin and pitiful, his eyes devoid of life, like a hollow puppet.

Ji Shiyu recognizes Jiang Yao at a glance.

As the Fifth Young Lady of the Ji household, adored by her family, Ji Shiyu has been loved by her parents and elder sister since childhood, and has lived without a care, wanting for nothing. But one thing weighs on her heart.

In her previous life, she was depressed and unhappy. Before she died, she learned that Jiang Yao had been cast out in the countryside and later died in the snow, with the Ji family, and even she herself, to blame.

Now that she has seen Jiang Yao struggling through hardship with her own eyes, Ji Shiyu cannot lay her troubled heart to rest: she has to save him.

Ji Shiyu takes Jiang Yao in and brings him home. In this life, she only wants him to be well.

By the time Jiang Yao is nineteen, he has become the most brilliant young man in the capital. Everyone says he would make the perfect match for the young Prince of Chu.

Ji Shiyu is delighted. As his adoptive mother, she starts worrying about his marriage and asks, "Would you be interested in Miss Zeng?"

Jiang Yao darkly crushes the porcelain cup in his hand, heedless as blood streams from his palm.

He pulls her into his arms, bites her jade-white ear, and whispers words as poisonous as a snake's.

"What would I want her for?"

"I already have you."

Ji Shiyu never imagined that, before she knew it, Jiang Yao's obsession with her had grown like a towering tree.

So when she wakes up after passing out in a dark underground palace, her hands and feet bound and unable to move, she is utterly panicked.

*

Jiang Yao has known since childhood that he is an orphan. With nowhere to call home, he can only wander the streets and beg to survive.

He is used to going hungry and being beaten. One day, he lifts his head.

Through his disheveled hair, Jiang Yao sees a pair of clear, pure catlike eyes.

Ten-year-old Ji Shiyu shows no trace of disgust. The beautiful, pampered little girl takes his dirt-covered hand and says, almost stubbornly, "Come with me."

She is so small and delicate, yet a beam of light falls across her dark hair.

At last, Jiang Yao has found the bright moonlight that belongs only to him.

Adorable, sunny heroine x obsessive, lovesick villainous mastermind

Please note:

1. One-on-one romance, single-couple romance, sweet and doting, a childhood-friends-to-lovers redemption story. Neither lead has ever held hands with anyone else, and both are each other's first love in both lifetimes.

2. The male lead loves only the heroine. He is good at disguising himself, sick and mad, and is tamed only by the heroine, behaving obediently for her.

3. Cover art by Hanqing Huaxuan, Moonlit Mistrust

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Lan Xi has skin like jade, a fragrant body, and a face as beautiful as a flower. Though she is a condemned woman, the tyrant chooses her and keeps her in a palace outside the city, visiting her at midnight to spend the night entangled with her, both of them blindfolded.

She even dies in bed.

Reborn in a new life, Lan Xi realizes she's inside an explicit romance novel. She is the character with the most steamy scenes with the tyrannical male lead, yet she dies in the end.

And that's not all: because of her, her elder sister Lan Xun is secretly killed by the tyrant.

Lan Xi: "We're such a tragic pair of sisters!"

After being exiled, Lan Xi decisively flees with her elder sister.

The two hide away in a remote town to survive. Lan Xi secretly investigates and hears that the dog of a male lead has gone missing, and the current Crown Prince is searching everywhere to kill him.

Lan Xi: "Hope you take him out soon."

At the time, her frail elder sister is in a wheelchair. Seeing the cool, beautiful woman at home, Lan Xi secretly makes up her mind.

They depend on each other, so she will treat her elder sister well.

At first, Lan Xun is deeply annoyed to have a younger sister. But later, the younger sister sneaks into her bed after dark.

Lan Xi is afraid of the dark and timid, insisting through tears and tantrums that she sleep with her.

That rainy night, she trembles and curls up against her, clinging to her like a delicate flower about to bloom.

Lan Xun instantly comes to her senses.

The love poison inside her has taken effect.

After that, Lan Xun can't bear to let her go and insists on holding Lan Xi as she falls asleep every night.

She seems addicted, wanting only Lan Xi to ease her symptoms.

So each night, tall Lan Xun leans against the door and beckons Lan Xi with a finger, her enchanting, luminous peach-blossom eyes drawing her in.

"Come here," Lan Xun says. "Let's go home and sleep."

Lan Xi runs over with a joyful smile and hugs Lan Xun. Ah, she loves her elder sister most of all!

Later, when the new emperor Zhou Xun ascends the throne, Lan Xi sees his face from a high platform. The man is handsome and radiant, with fiery peach-blossom eyes.

Isn't that her elder sister?

Lan Xi grits her teeth in disbelief. "Elder sister, is that why you're the tyrant male lead in an explicit novel?!"

*

To survive, Lan Xun has concealed her identity since childhood, swallowed a secret medicine, and become something half-human and half-ghost.

She can't even be a man. She must never fall in love, nor let herself feel desire.

But Lan Xi...

She likes burrowing into her arms. She sweetly calls her "Lan Xun" and willingly stays by her side.

Lan Xun can't resist. Each time she gives in, the poison only grows stronger.

Once the poison takes hold,

the one she loves can only be her antidote for all eternity.

Mischievous younger sister x the secretly lovesick, younger-sister-obsessed "elder sister"

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