The Boy I Rescued Turned Out to Be the Villain

When Xu Qingning was young, she met a boy.

That year, the rain fell heavily in Yongzhou. Mud and rocks had collapsed onto the road. In the wilderness, with no one around, a boy from who knew where lay face down by the roadside, dressed in filthy clothes.

Moved by a moment of compassion, Xu Qingning jumped down from her carriage and walked over to him.

Her slender, pale hand reached out to the boy.

The boy was on the verge of death. In his delirium, he seemed to see a celestial maiden from the Ninth Heaven. She pitied him and saved him, pulling him out of the mire and wiping the rain from his face.

The boy's pitch-black eyes fixed on the scene before him. He feared that if he so much as breathed wrong, this dream would vanish.

When her soft fingertips brushed his brow, a jolt ran through the boy. His lashes trembled, and he silently made up his mind.

When Xu Qingning set off again, the boy insisted on following her.

Xu Qingning sighed softly. She had only meant to help and had never expected anything in return. Yet whenever she met the boy's unfathomably deep, dogged gaze, she always found herself at a loss for words. Somehow, it seemed there was something she was overlooking.

On New Year's Eve, the little town glittered with lights. Xu Qingning watched the fireworks with others, while the boy quietly took it all in, his gaze unreadable.

When she turned around, he playfully pinned her in a corner against the wall. He seemed to have been drinking, and the faint scent of wine drifted over as he whispered against her ear, "Choose me, or him?"

Xu Qingning's heart fluttered. She had never seen the boy so out of control. His eyes were red, and the ribbon in his hair had come loose. The next moment, he lowered his head toward her. Xu Qingning's eyes widened, but the boy only chuckled and rested his chin lightly on her shoulder.

His beautiful, striking face showed a hint of satisfaction, and his eyes gleamed with deep possessiveness.

Xu Qingning kept having the same dream. In it, she was imprisoned in a splendid palace. Every night, someone came beneath the moonlight. In the dream, he murmured, his gorgeous eyes fixed on her. "Ningning, you can't get away from me."

He slowly took her hand and pinned her against the wall, whispering close to her ear. His restrained voice echoed again and again.

It was like a dream, like an illusion.

After the last snowfall in Yongzhou, Xu Qingning fell seriously ill. She remembered the absurd events of her previous life and looked at the beautiful, intimidating boy before her. His dark eyes gradually merged with those in her dream. Xu Qingning sighed deeply and decided to stay away from him.

Pei Zhi, the new emperor of the Fufeng Kingdom.

He had risen to power over the blood of his own clan, with a ruthless hand. Abandoned as a child, he was dragged into a wolf's den in the wilderness. The wolves raised him until he was seven, when someone happened to rescue him.

His rescuer had ulterior motives and intended to train him into a cold-blooded killer, constantly testing medicines on him. With unyielding determination, he fought his way out over piles of corpses.

He spent everything he had trying to escape their control, and nearly died outside Yongzhou City.

Then, one day, as rain poured down, he was so weak he could barely lift a finger. He thought he was about to die there, never expecting her to appear. When her gentle presence swept over his senses, he opened his eyes and seemed to see a celestial maiden from the Ninth Heaven.

The boy's mischievous lips curled slightly. He thought she had come to take his life too, but the girl's gentle eyes held a trace of pain as she softly wiped the grime from his brow.

The boy's expression shifted, deep confusion flashing in his eyes.

But that single moment of compassion and salvation made him submit to her completely for years to come.

#In their previous life, he watched over her in lonely solitude. In this life, she is his greatest salvation#

A cool, gentle beauty who struggles to express herself & a proud, flamboyant, ruthless young man with a roguish streak

One-on-one, both leads are sexually inexperienced

2. The setting is entirely made up, so please don't overanalyze it

On the day of her wedding, after her father entrusted her to the son of an old friend, a sword gleaming with cold light lifted her veil. The boy from her dreams asked coldly, "Who are you marrying?"

Behind him, blood snaked across the ground. Her future husband's entire family had been slaughtered, and she, dressed in her wedding gown, was carried away by the boy to a place no one knew.

He imprisoned her. She spent her days in tears, until she finally fell into a deep sleep from which she never awoke after an avalanche.

That absurd and strange dream ended there.

When she woke, Li Yin found herself back before she had ever met the boy.

Her father was still alive, and the Li family was still prosperous.

She was relieved, thinking that in this life she must never show him compassion. But amidst the clamor of the crowded street that day, she turned and saw the dirt-streaked face.

In her heart, she remembered the lonely winter when the boy carried her on his back through the cold snow.

Once again, she felt compassion for him. This time, however, she would treat him differently.

She taught him poetry, literature, and etiquette, hoping to raise him into an upright and resolute paragon, so that he wouldn't repeat the same mistakes.

She thought she had done her part and was ready to find a suitable match, but the boy cornered her against the wall. His eyes reddened, and he parted his lips. "I'll ask you again. Who are you marrying?"

Only then did Li Yin realize that he had remembered his previous life all along.

[Male Lead's Perspective]

When he was at his lowest and most wretched in his previous life, she brought him back to her home. Xue Ziyan had thought she was the salvation of his life, and he cherished Li Yin as if she were his own lifeblood.

But he never expected that this drop of lifeblood would become a thorn lodged in his heart.

He couldn't pull it out or make it go away. Every time he touched it, the pain was unbearable.

Later, he understood the source of that pain:

Li Yin didn't love him.

She treated him like an ordinary servant. When she was in a good mood, she might tease him; when she was in a bad mood, he would be punished too.

At first, her gaze always held a hint of careless disdain, as if she looked down on lowly people like him. Later, Xue Ziyan began to see a trace of timid fear in those beautiful eyes.

Li Yin was afraid of him.

He laughed madly inside. In that tender place deep within him, unseen by anyone, he was clearly falling for her, inch by inch.

But he hadn't been able to keep Li Yin.

So, the first time he saw the person in his heart in this life, he resolutely grabbed the hem of her clothes, just as he had in his previous life.

From that moment on, whatever happened, he would never let go.

Li Yin belonged to him.

That was the faith he had held dear and never wavered in.

Delicate young lady × a wolf pup who hides his true nature

1. Both leads are reborn.

2. The previous life has a bad ending; this life has a happy ending.

3. In her previous life, the female lead was spoiled and willful, while the male lead was obsessive and gloomy.

4. In this life, the female lead has turned over a new leaf and wants to make up for the regrets of her previous life. The male lead is still the same, but now he knows how to disguise himself: a big bad wolf in sheep's clothing.

5. Previous life: an insecure, sensitive little freak & a dazzling, spoiled young lady

This life: a big bad wolf in sheep's clothing & a young lady who thinks she's clever but still gets devoured bit by bit

Theme: Perseverance always pays off