[My Death-Faking Escape Got Me Summoned Back by the Sweet-on-the-Outside, Dark-on-the-Inside Male Lead is now underway. The blurb is at the bottom. If you're interested, please add it to your favorites!]
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#I Love Her, She Loves Him: The Male Lead's Two Lives of Falling to Darkness#
Clear-headed sweet girl X refined scoundrel
After learning that her cousin had died in battle, Ruan Rou lost all hope and tossed her embroidered ball. It happened to hit the top scorer, who was parading through the streets with flowers in his hair. An imperial decree arranged their marriage, and she became Shen Zhiyan's wife.
Shen Zhiyan was as pure as the breeze and moon, gentle and refined. Everyone said that Ruan Rou was blessed to have married him.
When her mother-in-law looked down on her and her sisters-in-law ganged up on her, he stood up for her. At banquets, he lifted her skirt and fixed her hair, served her food, and blocked her from drinking.
Ruan Rou was grateful, but her heart had been reduced to ashes, and she couldn't offer him a sincere love.
Who could have guessed that three years later, her cousin would return from the dead, just as the Grand Secretary found the daughter he'd lost many years ago and proposed an alliance with Shen Zhiyan once more?
Ruan Rou asked to be divorced. Shen Zhiyan fell silent, then agreed. He swiftly signed the divorce papers, then hijacked her carriage on its way home and locked her away at an estate outside the city.
Trapped and distraught, she watched disaster befall the Ruan family a month later. Her father was executed for treason, her mother took her own life, and Ruan Rou could neither call to Heaven nor plead with the earth. In the end, a cup of poisoned wine took her life.
When she opened her eyes again, she was back six months earlier, still Shen Zhiyan's wife. Though he seemed to be made of gold and jade, she now saw the cruelty and extremism beneath the surface.
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Shen Zhiyan had been uneasy of late. First, he learned that his wife of three years loved someone else. Then he dreamed she died in a ruined house. Jealousy and suspicion tore away the mask he'd carefully worn for years, revealing his twisted and vicious nature.
He no longer cared about being kind or magnanimous. If he couldn't have her heart, he would become her prison and keep her within arm's reach for the rest of her life.
Content Warnings:
1. The blurb is told in third person from the perspective of the previous life. The female lead is reborn from the start, while the male lead's previous life is revealed through three dreams. The beginning is a little slow.
2. Possessive coercion and an HE where the couple reconcile.
3. One-on-one romance, and both leads are sexually inexperienced. Uh... the female lead is physically pure in both lives. As for her heart, she loved her cousin in her previous life and was grateful to her husband. At the start of this life, she remains wary.
5. The male lead isn't a good person in the conventional sense. He's genuinely insane and truly unscrupulous. If this bothers you, feel free to drop the story without telling me.
6. This is not a story about an all-powerful heroine. The female lead is somewhat passive by nature and can be held back by family and friendship, but she won't just go with the flow. Overall, she's a cute, sweet girl with a heart turned toward the light.
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"When the Villain Is Won Over by the Male Lead"
In the years Zhou Qianxue spent far away at Sword Pavilion, the only person he held dear was Senior Sister Wen Su, whom he'd never met.
She sent him clothes to wear and a sword tassel to hold, sharing warmth and comfort with him. Every month, she'd also send a letter reminding him to practice diligently.
He was grateful to her.
Ten years later, he heard devastating news.
His senior sister had fallen to demonic cultivation and betrayed her sect, killing her master and slaughtering her fellow disciples. Zhaokong Mountain was strewn with corpses, and not a single living creature could be heard.
By the time Zhou Qianxue arrived, Wen Su had taken the sect's most precious treasure and fled to the Demon Realm without looking back.
He knelt for a long time before the mountain gate, sobbing until his cries seemed to tear his heart apart.
Over the next hundred years, Wen Su became Zhou Qianxue's whetstone. He tempered himself again and again, never giving up.
When he finally reached the pinnacle of the sword path, he looked back and realized that deep within his unyielding sword heart, one inner demon had always been hidden: Wen Su.
*
Wen Su was the ace transmigrator of the Space-Time Bureau. Risking life and limb was part of her daily work: taking someone else's identity, living someone else's life, and fulfilling their unfulfilled wishes.
This was her final mission. She'd been cast as the villain, and her interactions with the male lead included, but were not limited to:
Drawing his hatred, getting herself killed, diligently serving as a high-level boss for him to farm points, and leading Zhou Qianxue to "stumble into" a secret realm to seek opportunities while he was chasing her...
Retirement was just around the corner, so Wen Su grew a little slack and quietly built up some affection points in a few inappropriate situations.
When the mission finally ended, she drove a sword through her Purple Palace on the Sea of Biliang and successfully faked her death. As she fell from the sky, she looked back one last time and saw Zhou Qianxue sitting dazed on a cloud, the corners of his eyes red, as though he were crying.
She thought with some regret: See you again, young man!
Too bad there would be no next time!
*
Wen Su never imagined that when she opened her eyes again, she would be Zhou Qianxue's fiancee: an ordinary woman who couldn't cultivate, and the first soul she'd killed back then.
This is ridiculous!
The System, which was always with her, was offline. There was no one to tell her why time had turned back.
[Emotionally Steady and Worldly Demon Realm Lord Senior Sister X
Upright and Gentle, Sweet on the Outside and Dark on the Inside Sword Sovereign Junior Brother]
Theme: Learning to trust and love
After reading it, I feel that all the suffering comes from the heroine's father?
It ended a little hastily
The awesome male protagonist, who can compare with this green tea thought?
Ah, the shamelessness of these two is breathtaking
Is it funny that the heroine just invites an unmarried princess to live in her home?
The development of this article is really inexplicable, the emotional thread is pulled back and forth, but it is not explained clearly. The plot point is also very sudden. I don't know when the heroine will understand it, and I don't know where the male protagonist will understand it again. I just need to say that the protagonist understands it. It has no beginning and no end, and it is very confusing.
Actually I don't hate Xiuxiu, she has an indescribable resilience
When will the male and female protagonists be able to make it clear? They've been pulling back and forth.
Hahahahahahaha, jealous husband
Why don't you just call me the eldest princess's mother in this article?