Back to the Villain's Youth

"In the mood for a sweet little redemption story?"

At sixteen, Hua Yao dreamed of the mortal world a hundred years in the future, laid waste, with demons running rampant.

It all began with Jiang Songhe, an outer-sect disciple she'd met only once. Amid a mountain of corpses, clad in white and expressionless, he slaughtered over a thousand members of the sect.

After waking, Hua Yao went looking in the back mountains. The calamity who would slaughter over a thousand members of the sect in the future was now just a thin boy, curled up under the abuse of his fellow disciples, covered in blood and silently enduring it.

Hua Yao's grip on her sword faltered. She should have waited for everyone to leave and then killed him with one stroke, but instead she swept his fellow disciples aside with one hand and said in a trembling voice, "Stop."

After that, she took the quiet, distant boy into her care, patiently guiding him and teaching him to be kind. Once there was not a trace left of the person he would become, she breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to marry the dual cultivation partner her sect had chosen for her.

That night, amid the red candlelight, she did not find her husband waiting for her. Instead, she saw Jiang Songhe in white, his sword stained with blood and his eyes full of obsession.

The moonlight was beautiful, and the young man's crimson eyes were like a sunset that would never sink beyond the mountains.

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After a life-changing ordeal, Jiang Songhe returned to a hundred years earlier.

As he was being bullied, blood from the wound between his brows ran over his lips and down his neck, like his silent, unchangeable fate. Just as he raised his hand to cripple these people as he had in his previous life, he suddenly heard someone say, "Stop."

A girl in a white dress arrived gracefully and stood in front of him.

He looked at her, unmoved.

He knew who she was: the prodigy everyone in the sect called the Goddess. Rumor had it that she cared for all living beings, did good deeds every day, and had taken it upon herself to bring peace to the world.

The girl sent the others away and took his hand.

At first, he thought, She's only pretending to be kind. Give it enough time, and she'll show her true colors.

Later, he realized... there really was such a person in the world.

At last, he gazed up at the Goddess before him with reddened eyes, pleading in his infatuation: A Yao, could I be the one you care for most?

Love me.

1. One-on-one, sweet redemption story, happy ending.

2. Blurb written on December 16, 2023, and a screenshot has been saved.

Theme: Love all living beings.