Song Tingwen’s progress in winning over the villain reached 90 percent when she suddenly learned from the System that this was the villain’s second life: he had been reborn.
Remembering that the villain’s mother died giving birth to him, his father died when he was five, he was bullied throughout elementary and middle school, his adoptive parents treated him like a walking blood bank in high school, he loved the heroine but couldn’t have her, and in the finale he turned evil and took everyone down with him...
Song Tingwen wanted to run, but Chen Nanyan pressed a knife to her neck. Blood ran from his brow into his eyes as he laughed maniacally. "You want to leave me too? Then let’s die together."
The mission to win him over failed, and the System gave her one more chance: go back to the villain’s youth and save him.
When she returned to the world of the book, Chen Nanyan had no memories of his past life. He was leaning against a wall, covered in blood.
Song Tingwen thought for a moment, picked up a stick from the roadside, and decided to send him to hell ahead of schedule.
Beneath a sky full of stars, Chen Nanyan looked up at her and gave her a weak smile. "Are you here to beat me too? Could you not hit my face? My mom will worry when she sees it."
The next second, Song Tingwen dropped the stick and ran toward him without hesitation.
She knew how redemption stories went. If the mission failed, she could always die again.
*
Chen Nanyan had long since grown used to the world’s coldness, and had no expectations of human warmth. Then Song Tingwen appeared and planted a sky full of stars in his broken, shadowed world. He began to yearn for every bit of sunshine she gave him.
[Warm, healing little angel vs. sinister, lovesick villain]
Theme: The meaning of loving and being loved
