Why Won't the Male Lead Kill Me Yet?

[I occasionally fix typos, awkward sentences, and punctuation. Pirated copies contain many errors and omissions. I’m only responsible for the official version.]

The System told Qu Liushang that she had transmigrated into a book.

As the villainess, she had to complete the mission of being killed by the male lead, Mu Congjia, to get back home.

The girl listened, then calmly questioned it. “I don’t believe you. Prove it to me first.”

System: ???

After looking over the evidence, the girl thought for a while and then asked, “Can we skip all the bad stuff and go straight to having the male lead kill me?”

The System choked. “…Sure, I guess. Once you’re dead, the male and female leads can get their happy ending either way.”

After that, the System watched coldly as Qu Liushang chose to take the blame for everything.

Her senior sister’s snakebite, her junior brother’s broken leg, her master coughing up blood…

One incident after another became entangled with her, and the mission seemed on the verge of success, but the final step kept running into unexpected trouble.

Mu Congjia, the universally admired senior brother and male lead, never laid a hand on Qu Liushang. Instead, he protected her every time, and the way he looked at her grew increasingly strange.

She’d committed enough crimes to deserve death, and the male lead still wouldn’t kill her!

Not only that, he took both of Qu Liushang’s hands in his and said, his gaze inscrutable, “I don’t want to kill you. I only want to marry you.”

System: Damn, the male lead’s gone crazy!

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Later, Qu Liushang fled the sect and pulled off something huge: she stole the sacred mountain-protecting treasures of several major sects.

The area outside the sects descended into chaos. She was branded a demoness, and several immortal sects sent people to her door to demand an explanation from Mu Congjia, who was handling affairs on their behalf.

So on the day snow fell from the heavens, everyone saw Mu Congjia, dressed in blue, standing before Qu Liushang. At last he drew his sword and plunged it mercilessly into her heart.

#Shangshang, from the very first day I entered this sect, I was preparing to destroy it#

#I want everyone to die, but you alone, I want you to live#

1v1 (Qu Liushang and Mu Congjia), HE, both leads are virgins

Reader’s notes:

1. The heroine’s name comes from the homophone of “qushuilius hang.” The hero is a black-hearted schemer beneath a gentle exterior. This is a redemption story.

2. I’m no good at writing blurbs and don’t know how to spoil things. All I can say is both paragraphs of the blurb have twists, and things aren’t as simple as they seem.

3. The hero still suffers plenty, while the heroine does not.

4. The leads only love each other, with no one else involved.

[This novel has been completed for a long time. The following contains spoilers about its setup, so please leave now if you mind spoilers.]

5. Qu Liushang did not transmigrate into a book and is not a villainess. She is the actual heroine of the book mentioned by the System. The System is lying to her.

6. Shuyi is not the heroine mentioned by the System. The System belongs to her, and she is the one who transmigrated into a book.

7. In the latter half of the blurb, the male lead used an illusion on everyone, with the heroine’s agreement.

The relevant setup is explained from Shuyi’s perspective in Chapter 78.

[No matter how distorted or derailed the plot becomes, no matter what outside forces stand in their way, they will fall in love.]

Theme: Judge by actions, not thoughts