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Sunny girl x seemingly aloof beauty, secretly a lovesick yandere
Jiang Li has a bit of bad luck. After dying from overwork, she is dropped into a novel to follow its plot. But the System gives her the wrong script, and her target changes from an aloof beauty to Qi Wubei, who is always on the verge of turning dark.
She is destined to become a cannon-fodder female supporting character in this imperial-examination novel. Before Qi Wubei passes the exams, the original character treats him with contempt, from verbal abuse to throwing tantrums and beating him.
Before she can make it through three chapters, Qi Wubei gets sick of the original character's noise and has her killed.
Jiang Li: Q_Q
As a child, Qi Wubei lived worse than a dog in the Qi household. Even the servants took pleasure in bullying him.
Later, they all died, and Qi Wubei became even more sinister and obsessive. Everyone in the Qi family both hated and feared him.
Driven by the need to survive, Jiang Li can only swallow her fear and approach him. Then she discovers that although he is crazy, perhaps he can still be saved?
She tries to mold Qi Wubei into a healthy, handsome man in period style.
But as she works on him, Qi Wubei's gaze grows increasingly strange.
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Qi Wubei has been accustomed to the world's filth since birth. He keeps company with demons and fiends, and most enjoys watching his prey struggle in its final moments.
He never imagined anyone would tear a crack through his darkness.
At first, he waits for her approach with amusement, thinking of her as nothing more than an interesting prey.
Later, he is willing to use every despicable means at his disposal to keep her, begging her to love him.
And he willingly bows to her.
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On the day Qi Wubei passes the exams, Jiang Li is sure her mission is complete. She smiles at him, her eyes crinkling. "You have to behave yourself when I'm gone, okay?"
She leisurely waits for the System's reward, only to find Qi Wubei has completely dropped his mask and gone even more insane...
Jiang Li: ?
Notes:
1. One-on-one, both leads' first time. Alternate setting with original worldbuilding, so please don't nitpick the history. See the author's note in Chapter One for content warnings.
2. There isn't much of an imperial-exam plot, so I haven't added that tag. As always, this is a sweet little redemption story. The female lead has a bit of a golden finger, but not much.
3. The characters' beliefs do not represent the author's. The characters aren't perfect.
Blurb for How Did the Male Supporting Character I Redeemed Turn Dark?!:
A sunny girl who knows how to tame yanderes x a completely crazy, lovesick yandere
Jiang Nanzhi transmigrates into a book. To stay alive, the System tells her to win over the male supporting character, Jiang Ci.
The System describes him as gentle as jade, but the original character only started running a high fever and losing her mind after meeting him once.
Jiang Nanzhi silently puts a question mark next to that description.
After the System assures her again and again, Jiang Nanzhi decides to see for herself. She expects to meet a sinister, terrifying Jiang Ci.
Instead, she finds Jiang Ci living in a dilapidated courtyard, limping, and greeting everyone with a bewildered smile.
When Jiang Nanzhi speaks to him, he smiles and points to his ears.
It turns out he can't hear.
Oh, right. Jiang Nanzhi transmigrated into the book right as the story began.
Back then, no one cared whether he lived or died. He was merely a broken, withered leaf wandering alone beneath the heavens.
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Jiang Nanzhi has never met anyone like him. No matter how unfairly Jiang Ci is treated, he always just smiles and lets it go. He never gets angry.
Jiang Nanzhi thinks she misunderstood him.
She has to protect him. Someone as good-natured as Jiang Ci is bound to get bullied.
Jiang Nanzhi always thinks Jiang Ci is as gentle and mild as water, until the day she happens to see him smiling as he snaps the wrist and ankle of a spoiled young man who keeps trying to bully her.
As she watches him struggle and howl, Jiang Ci's smile only deepens...
Then he crushes the broken bones in his wrists one by one...
Jiang Nanzhi: ?!
Jiang Ci has never met anyone like her before. She's clearly afraid, yet she still refuses to leave. Most ridiculous of all, she feels sorry for him. She actually thinks he's a good person.
Jiang Ci smiles.
Would a delicate young lady like her still say such naive things if she saw him at his most terrifying?
But then...
She steps over the corpses, trembling with fear, yet still anxiously grips his hand and softly asks, "Does it hurt?"
Jiang Ci's wrist trembles ever so slightly.
He holds her tight.
If she chooses to stay, then she can never escape.
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Jiang Nanzhi: Target won!
Notes:
1. One-on-one, both leads' first time. The setting is very loosely based on reality, with lots of original details, so please don't nitpick too much. The characters' beliefs don't represent the author's. Love you all!!!
2. The male lead's health will recover later. This time, he's a true yandere with no empathy. The female lead is pretty good at this and isn't willing to make herself miserable just to win him over. She's quite skilled at taming yanderes.
3. As always, this is a redemption story with a very crazy male lead.
Theme: Love makes people brave.
Breaking Off a Golden Branch
After Accidentally Redeeming a Tragic, Powerful Villain
After Saving the Dark Lotus, He Went Even Crazier
My Stepson Took Me by Force
My Little Husband Really Loves Me! (Female-Dominated World)
Taking the Imperial Exams in a Matriarchal Novel
Jiangnan Has Nothing to Offer
One day, Jiang Li invited Qi Wubei to visit her boudoir at night, and Qi Wubei went happily. It was a wonderful night. Jiang Li opened the window and let him jump in. The tips of Qi Wubei's ears turned red, "I didn't expect that you like to be secretive." Jiang Li:? She blinked and took out a blank storybook with a stern look, "This is the preview of the author's next book "Why did the male partner of my redemption turn black!". You will collect it, right?" Qi Wubei tightened his grip: Just a copy... Jiang Li took out two more books and gave them to him: "It's too easy to just collect them, isn't it? In fact, there are two more books, "The Misguided Redemption of the Beautiful, Strong and Tragic Villain" and "The Captor's Wife." If you don't like to sleep at night, why don't you help her finish it?" Qi Wubei's hands shook: "Three, three books..." Jiang Li quickly took out the cat ears and put them on: "If you can make readers collect them, I'll let you touch the ears while writing, okay?" Qi Wubei looked at everyone in the third dimension: "Oh, you don't want to collect! It's best to sleep with one eye open at night!" After saying that, he touched his wife's cat ears hard qwq. (This is purely for fun and entertainment, and I don't mean to threaten everyone's collection. If you don't collect it, it's still my treasure, bum bum! ~)
Why is it a little confusing, some things are not explained clearly, let us guess by ourselves?
Seeing the conversation between the system and the main system, I couldn't help but yell something in shame.
Damn, why is it so sudden?
I felt a little uncomfortable reading this chapter
Hahahahahaha Xiao Qi, you can't do it~Tsk tsk tsk (manual dog head (top the pot lid to escape)
Woohoo, grandma really loves Lili.
Ahhh, the promise is actually this! Meow meow pear I can do it!!! (Sucks saliva)
What kind of compensation is that I can't listen to!!!!
It's June. Where's my advance payment?