The Villainous Cannon-Fodder Master Reborn

[Will enter the paid section on July 13, starting with Chapter 26]

[Here's a preview of my upcoming novel, "After the Divorce, They All Regretted It." Blurb at the bottom.]

Song Shiyue was arrogant and tyrannical, hated by everyone under heaven. In the end, he fell into the hands of his disciple Wen Yao, who returned after falling into demonic ways. Wen Yao skinned him and tore out his sinews, leaving him dead without a complete body.

After being reborn, Song Shiyue gained a System and learned that he was the disposable villain in a dark, sadistic protagonist novel. To survive, he had to mend his ways and become a decent person. He would start by properly raising the young Wen Yao, who was currently clinging to his leg and crying.

Song Shiyue: Get lost. He prepared to draw his sword and kill Wen Yao.

But when he realized he couldn't kill him, he decided to raise him until he was old enough to kill and plunder.

He took Wen Yao as his disciple and watched the once-weak boy grow into a handsome young man.

From then on:

When Wen Yao was bullied, his master stood up for him.

When Wen Yao had no cultivation technique to practice, his master crafted a sword manual just for him and personally guided him.

When Wen Yao was afflicted by love poison, his master... his master offered himself.

Song Shiyue called all of this: making sure there'd be more of his disciple's inheritance to take when he finally killed him.

By the time Wen Yao became the number one person in the sect, his master accused him of falling into demonic ways. Unable to defend himself, with his master's sword pointed at him, Wen Yao leaped into an abyss from which no living person had ever returned.

Many years later, Wen Yao truly became a demon and fought his way out of the abyss. Holding the lives of everyone in the sect hostage, he made his way to Song Shiyue.

Song Shiyue thought he couldn't escape death and bared his neck for the killing blow.

But his disciple instead seized him by the throat and pinned him to the floor of the main hall. He lifted Song Shiyue's lapel with his sword and smiled.

"Master has always loved bright red. Today, it shall be your wedding clothes."

Song Shiyue: Weren't you supposed to torture me to death?

Song Shiyue: So I'm the one who got killed and plundered in the end?

Scheming, obsessive, and dark top who pretends to be a little ray of sunshine at first x sharp-tongued, soft-hearted, arrogant beauty bottom

Upcoming: "After the Divorce, They All Regretted It"

The Ninth Prince Shen Jiao was born with a pair of limpid, flirtatious eyes and a red beauty mark at the corner of one eye. When he smiled, his beauty outshone every other in the capital. With looks that could stir the passions, he fell for the top scholar, who already had someone in his heart, and caused a scene demanding to marry him.

After their engagement was set, Shen Jiao fell into the water a few days later and caught a chill. He changed his mind, wrote a divorce agreement despite his illness, and asked to leave the imperial family.

Shen Jiao dreamed of his past life, in which he married the top scholar only to be exposed as a fake prince who had been switched at birth. The top scholar's beloved was the real prince. Shen Jiao was thrown into prison, going from a glorious prince to a madman anyone could bully, and was finally burned to death in his cell.

But after the divorce, everyone who had once despised Shen Jiao regretted it!

The top scholar, who had hurled cruel words at him, knelt before him and begged him to take back the divorce agreement.

His Crown Prince elder brother, who had hated his spoiled ways, grabbed him by the shoulders and begged him to stay by his side.

The Regent Prince, his uncle, who had stayed at the border in his dream of a past life, rode back to the capital overnight and held him in his arms.

Probably a story about a pretty, silly bottom.

Premise: A sharp sword is forged through grinding, and plum blossoms grow fragrant through bitter cold.