The Paranoid Villain's Redemption Plan

[Completed. The next story, "After Rewriting the Immortal Venerable's Character Setup," is available in the author's collection!]

Jiang Lian transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the master of the villainous big boss, and is bound to a villain redemption System.

If he can keep the villain from taking too many lives before the story ends, Jiang Lian can return to the real world.

The System says the villain is ruthless and extremely wary. But the Jun Weiming Jiang Lian meets is still an innocent little dumpling who climbs into his arms every day.

When Jiang Lian goes out, the child huffs and puffs as he chases after him on his little legs.

When Jiang Lian returns to the sect, the child whines that his hand hurts and asks him to blow on it.

He's simply adorable.

The mission goes smoothly until someone schemes against Jiang Lian's disciple. With no other choice, Jiang Lian dies alongside that person and fakes his own death to escape.

As he lies dying, he sees Jun Weiming's face crumple in despair. The facade of obedience he had been pretending to wear shatters piece by piece, revealing a furious rage that makes one's blood run cold.

·

Jun Weiming is reborn. In his previous life, he was bullied and neglected, so he willingly immersed himself in a mountain of corpses and sea of blood, becoming the ruthless Demon Venerable feared throughout the cultivation world.

In this life, Jun Weiming thought the tragedy would repeat itself. As he struggled through his frail childhood, however, a pure-hearted person gathered him into his arms and brought him to a warm cave abode, gently soothing him to sleep.

That person was pure and fragile. Jun Weiming couldn't bear to stain him with his own monstrous nature, and had already resolved to keep the beast in his heart hidden forever.

Until the day that person was about to die in front of him, yet still told him not to grieve too much, or he would come back as a ghost to pester him.

Jun Weiming's heart was shattered.

·

Later, Jiang Lian wakes up in the Demon Venerable's bed.

A sturdy chain is wrapped around his wrist, its other end fastened to the wrist of the Demon Venerable, rumored to be cold and cruel.

Jun Weiming has captured everyone who ever harmed them, pointing them out to Jiang Lian one by one from across the room.

Jiang Lian turns his head away, not wanting to look, but Jun Weiming pulls him close and presses a spirit fruit that nourishes the body to his lips, leaning in slightly. "Master, please eat some."

Amid the clinking of chains, the Demon Venerable's low voice carries a hint of pleading. "If you eat one, I'll let them live one more day. How about it?"

A seemingly gentle but secretly twisted, possessive disciple x a sickly, proud, delicate master

[Preview]

"After Rewriting the Immortal Venerable's Character Setup"

In her previous life, Su Ning trusted the wrong person. A scumbag coveting an immortal treasure drove her to self-detonate. After her death, she discovered that her world was an open-world game and that she was just an NPC tucked away in some obscure corner.

After angrily tearing up the character profiles for herself and the scumbag, Su Ning is reborn as a little potted plant in the Immortal Venerable's bedchamber.

She hears that the Immortal Venerable is hideous, vicious, and likes to eat children. Su Ning's eyes widen in shock, and she carries her flowerpot toward the exit of the palace.

But she runs straight into a cool, aloof man.

The man picks up the flowerpot and places her somewhere with more sunlight.

"Grow up quickly. Then I'll settle the score with you for getting my clothes dirty."

Su Ning is moved to tears: Ah, he even begrudges a single piece of clothing. He must be a poor soul oppressed by the brutal Immortal Venerable.

-

The man often comes to water Su Ning, carries her out to sunbathe, and keeps her company through the long nights.

The man is perfect in every way, except for the line of gray text above his head that makes him look so dim.

"Nothingness."

Su Ning secretly uses her leaves to rub away a little of that annoying gray text each day, hoping it will make the man happier.

As the text disappears, the possessiveness in the man's eyes grows stronger by the day.

The day Su Ning takes human form again, the man's character description is erased completely.

The man presses his forehead tightly against Su Ning's. His overwhelming desire rasps his voice.

"I've seen you in my dreams."

"One thousand and one times."

"Today, my dream will come true."

Trembling in his caresses, Su Ning is horrified to discover that the text above the man's head has changed from "Nothingness" to "Desire."

-

A strange character description appears above Su Ning's previously empty head.

"The Immortal Venerable's one true love."

Thinking of how the Immortal Venerable is hideous, vicious, and likes to eat children, Su Ning's eyes widen in shock once more. She escapes the immortal palace with the man.

On the way, they encounter the scumbag and his sweetheart, both coveting the immortal treasure.

Gritting her teeth, Su Ning shields the man behind her, ready for a hard-fought battle.

But the scumbag respectfully falls to his knees and carefully addresses the man behind Su Ning as the Immortal Venerable.

Su Ning: ...Huh?

Intended message: Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil.