Transmigrated as the Villain's Doomed White Moonlight

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[Upcoming works in my author profile: "The Right Way to Raise a Villainous Male Lead" and "I See the Immortal Lord Has Many Ailments." Add them if you're interested.]

Novel blurb:

Meng Qingqing transmigrates into a book, becoming the doomed early-departing white moonlight whom everyone in the story treasures above all else.

Her target is Xiao Zekai, the famous pitiable, frail villain of the book.

He has a compassionate heart like a bodhisattva, yet everyone looks down on him. He's a timid crown prince everyone can bully, but also a formidable villain who turns the tables in the end.

The System tells her that she has only half a month to live, and that her extended lifespan is inversely tied to her target's feelings.

When he's happy, she dies. When he cries, she lives.

She needs to stay alive to win him over.

To buy herself more time, Meng Qingqing begins all kinds of daring, life-threatening antics.

But as her affection score steadily rises while her life points remain stuck, she begins to doubt everything.

*

One day, rebels lay siege to the capital. With no way out, they choose Meng Qingqing, his wife, as leverage against him.

The throne or his beloved: he has to make a painful choice.

With her life points on the brink of zero, Meng Qingqing stands nobly and looks tearfully at Xiao Zekai atop the city walls.

Xiao Zekai sweeps his hand, and a letter of divorce flutters down. Their love and loyalty are severed.

At the moment her life points hit zero, her affection score finally reaches its goal. She sees Xiao Zekai's disbelieving face and watches him stumble toward her.

In the end, she smiles faintly and dies perfectly on cue.

But the System sends her back again.

It says her mission is incomplete.

By then, three years have passed since she left.

Awkwardly, Meng Qingqing looks at the great villain and tyrant Xiao Zekai, staring blankly at her, and raises a small hand in a friendly greeting.

The next second, she's in a warm embrace. A moment later, a cold blade rests against her neck.

Xiao Zekai's low voice sounds in her ear: "I won't let you leave my side again."

Meng Qingqing: Thanks, I really appreciate it.

*

Everyone knows Xiao Zekai is cold-hearted by nature, having killed his sister and wife and committed every kind of evil. They say he has no heart and cannot feel sorrow.

Yet there are rumors that someone once saw a broken Xiao Zekai outside the city in the first year of Jingyuan's reign.

He wept tears of blood and sobbed in the snow, holding the lifeless body of a woman, looking withered and utterly bereft.

Many years later, another rumor began to spread: His Majesty's beloved has returned, and with her, she has brought back his heart.

Content warnings and reading notes:

1. The heroine's main task is to win over her target. Her side task is to make the hero angry every day to extend her lifespan.

2. The hero really is only pretending to be frail. He's not a good person in the traditional sense.

3. The hero is a chronic overthinker who views the heroine's actions through an idealized filter of his own making.

Upcoming novel:

[Chasing-the-wife-to-the-crematorium trope + everyone's darling in this life + silly story + fully written]

[Please add it to your collection. Help every hopeless writing dream come true.]

Jiang Qie is the great demon whose very name strikes fear throughout the cultivation world.

She has never shown mercy, committing arson, murder, kidnapping, and every other evil.

She abandons her master and betrays the Dao, cold-blooded and ruthless. Once she's learned all she can, she runs off, establishes her own sect, and makes a point of opposing all the immortal sects.

She has never been pure or celibate, going against the path of heartlessness she cultivates. Her guests fill the world.

In the end, she's hunted down by the immortal sects, killed by the very immortal lord who embodies ethereal grace. Her body and soul are destroyed, bringing her evil life to an end.

After being reborn, Jiang Qie, who once stirred up chaos everywhere, finds herself in the body of a famous good-for-nothing.

And she's the disciple of the immortal lord who ground her bones to dust.

She thinks it over again and again, and reaches just one conclusion: Run! Run without stopping!

But the immortal lord, who once kept her at arm's length and remained untouched by worldly dust, becomes her greatest obstacle.

So, in order to escape, Jiang Qie starts acting outrageous.

Shamelessly, persistently, and with absolutely no dignity.

She thinks she has it in the bag, but discovers that the cool, aloof immortal lord seems to have something seriously wrong with him.

Jiang Qie: I cling to you even though you have a cleanliness obsession.

Pei Tingzhi: Be careful not to fall.

Jiang Qie: I feed you food that's impossible to swallow.

Pei Tingzhi: Truly ambrosial.

Jiang Qie: I seduce you, even though you're supposed to be pure and celibate.

Pei Tingzhi: We can read the Pure Heart Sutra together.

I see the immortal lord has many ailments.

I imagine the immortal lord must see me the same way.

One day, the truth of Jiang Qie's rebirth comes to light. She's ready to fight back, but discovers the immortal sects have changed their attitude toward her.

Confused, she hears a piece of gossip about herself.

The peerless genius cultivator, renowned for self-restraint and propriety, went mad after her death, turned white-haired overnight, and nearly fell into demonic cultivation. He left an indelible impression on the immortal sects.

She suddenly remembers the words Pei Tingzhi never finished saying on the day she died.

She was gone too quickly, and the words fell to the ground.

"I love you. For a hundred years or a thousand, my heart will never change."

*

Pei Tingzhi loves Jiang Qie.

Before he could confess, he lost his chance forever.

Day after day, year after year, it went on like this.

At last, the one he'd lost returned.

This time, no matter what, he absolutely will not let her go again.

"Your heart is full of hatred and resentment. You hate me, yet you've forgotten me.

But from now on, I will be the only one in your eyes and in your heart."

Content warnings:

1. Most of the setting is the author's own invention. Don't scrutinize the logic too closely. This is my first time writing a xianxia story, so please forgive any shortcomings.

2. The characters aren't perfect and have flaws.

3. The past and present lives are interwoven.

4. One-on-one romance.

5. More warnings will be added if I think of any.

Theme: There is true love in the world, and warmth is always waiting