Redeeming That Dark, Damp Villain

Liang Zhou transmigrated into a book, specifically a male-oriented cultivation power fantasy about leveling up, and was bound to a System called Eliminate the Villain's Corruption.

To lower the villain's corruption score, Liang Zhou died and came back to life over and over. Across three lifetimes, he'd been the villain's scruffy little dog, a revered sword cultivator and master of a sect, and a beautiful, bewitching demon... After years of patching things up, he checked the corruption score one last time and nearly spat up three liters of blood. The damn thing had gone through the roof!!!

The villain, Qiu Yiguang, was as beautiful as a woman, with sinister, vicious methods and a spiteful, honey-tongued personality. He was also a brilliant strategist who could predict every move, and an expert at reading people's minds. In Liang Zhou's words, he was an absolute force to be reckoned with, with an utterly excessive drive to succeed.

But after Liang Zhou's painstaking efforts to reform him, the villain's character had started to fall apart.

Around Liang Zhou, Qiu Yiguang was all smiles and deep affection. Behind his back, however, he sharpened his knives against the righteous protagonists, showing off the villain's brutal ways.

Qiu Yiguang: "To me, all living things are grass and trees, but you alone are moonlight."

Liang Zhou: "You can only choose one: love or your career." Choose me, or we're getting divorced!

The villain: "I'll choose my career."

Liang Zhou's eyes blazed. "Why?"

The villain: "Because a husband's career is his wife's glory."

"..."

The author has chained the top and bottom together with an enormous iron chain. It's romance-focused, all about the couple's awkward love diary. I wanted to try writing a gloomy, gloomy male ghost top.

Warnings: The protagonist, the bottom, has a bit of a saint complex. The blurb is lighthearted, but there will be angst in the main story. This is not a sweet romance, not a sweet romance, not a sweet romance.

Theme: Marriage needs love to sustain it