I Tamed the Violent Villain

(Pre-release: After Abandoning the Sinister Crown Prince. Please add it to your collection! The blurb is at the bottom~~)

[Blurb]

Shi An was recommended a strategy game.

After browsing through a whole collection of character profiles, she picked one she especially liked: the target was a frail, pitiful little thing at first, then a possessive, lovesick villainous mastermind later.

Shi An studied the story carefully and found out that the villain killed a hundred people to offer as a sacrifice to heaven every year on his birthday. So she decided to focus on his birthday.

She set the game to a point before the target turned evil, and prepared a heartfelt birthday surprise for him every year.

Just as his corruption level was steadily dropping and the mission was about to be complete, her phone exploded.

When she opened her eyes again, Shi An had become the third young lady of the Chancellor’s household, who had been unconscious for years.

Five years had passed since she last saw the villain, and his corruption level had reached the maximum.

System: Please pursue the target again. Complete the mission to return home.

Shi An: Forget it. I’m tired.

Mu Chiqing had drifted through countless cycles of rebirth, suffering abuse and oppression in every life. No matter how he fought back, he couldn’t break free.

Just when he thought this was simply his fate, someone different appeared.

That person only appeared on his birthday, once a year, but brought him salvation. He couldn’t help wanting more.

Mu Chiqing desperately tried to hold on to that light. He did his best to become the kind of person she liked, humble and friendly, treating others with courtesy.

When he thought he had become good enough to ask if she could stay forever, she suddenly disappeared. She didn’t appear even on his birthday the following year.

From then on, the darkness in his heart grew and grew until he became the regent everyone feared.

One day, the regent’s carriage collided with the carriage of the Chancellor’s third young lady.

Everyone pitied her. She had been unconscious for years, and just after waking up, she had offended the monster who killed without batting an eye. Who knew if she would survive?

Outside the carriage, the third young lady quietly apologized.

Mu Chiqing trembled all over. His salvation had returned.

This time, he wouldn’t ask if she could stay. He would imprison his light.

Pre-release historical romance: After Abandoning the Sinister Crown Prince (Double Rebirth)

In her previous life, the only truly outrageous thing Wen Yu ever did was beg the emperor to grant her wish to marry Xie Changqian.

At the time, she was still the honored legitimate daughter of a marquis’s household, while Xie Changqian had been convicted and imprisoned. As the emperor’s fifth son, he had been made a prince before coming of age. He was the only one among the Great Heng princes to receive such a title, yet in a single night he had lost the emperor’s favor.

The emperor asked her, “Are you willing to be confined with him in Prince Gong’s residence, never to set foot outside for the rest of your life?”

Wen Yu answered without hesitation, “Your subject is willing.”

In only two years, Xie Changqian regained the power he had lost and returned to court. He was valued again and named Crown Prince.

Everyone said His Highness the Crown Prince was gentle and kind, disciplined and courteous. Wen Yu thought so too, until he inherited the throne and she saw his true face.

He was gloomy and cruel, vengeful over the smallest slight, and cold-hearted toward everyone. Only with her was he utterly obsessed.

That sick obsession meant Wen Yu could never again leave the palace.

He forbade her from speaking to others, looking anywhere else, or even appearing in public.

In the gilded palace he had carefully built, Xie Changqian kept her locked up, asking again and again, “A Yu, will you stay with me for the rest of your life?”

Unable to endure it, Wen Yu tried to escape, but fell and died.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the day Xie Changqian’s troubles began.

Her father urged her to put her family first. Calmly, Wen Yu said, “I’ve thought it through, Father. Please send a letter ending my engagement to Prince Gong’s residence.”

After ending the engagement, she was still the highborn daughter of the marquis’s household, admired by all.

She thought she and Xie Changqian would never cross paths again in this life, but she never expected that he had returned just as she had.

And this time, he was confined in Prince Gong’s residence for only a month.

The marquis’s household worried that Prince Gong would take his anger out on her, so they selected a new husband for her. Beneath the spring sunshine, she walked side by side with a young heir, the corners of her lips raised in a smile.

In the shadows, Xie Changqian’s eyes were bloodshot, his desire to possess her surging violently, on the verge of spiraling out of control.

[Bonus scene:

After they married, Xie Changqian had worn Wen Yu out. She kicked him. “Get away from me!”

Xie Changqian grabbed her ankle and kissed it. “Kick me again, darling.”]

* The male lead is truly insane, nasty and twisted, with pathological possessiveness and need for control.

* The heroine really doesn’t want him anymore and seriously considers getting engaged to someone else.

* A “taming the dog” story, happy ending.

Theme: Keep your heart turned toward the light.