I Clear the Name of a Fallen Villain on a Dating Show

My new novel, After the Little Monster Was Taken In, is complete. Its blurb is at the very end.

Mu Yao is a carefree little tree spirit living in the forest. One day, after reading a novel, he transmigrates into the arms of Lu Xi, the book's ruthless, murderous, cold-blooded villain who kills without batting an eye and shows no mercy to beauties...

Mu Yao looks at his position, one hand on those abs, the other on that handsome face, then looks at the villain's gloomy expression and slowly gives a tragic smile.

Mu Yao: I swear, I'm not a pervert. Do you believe me?

Villain: Hmph.

Mu Yao plans to flee overnight, but gets bound to a villain-rehabilitation System.

System: [You must redeem Lu Xi.]

Mu Yao: [What if I can't?]

System: [Then you'll die.]

Mu Yao: [...]

Mu Yao: [I have one last question.]

System: [What?]

Mu Yao: [How much is Lu Xi paying you?]

System: [Will you pay double?]

Mu Yao: [No, I was just asking.]

System: [...]

From then on, Mu Yao exhausts himself trying to redeem the villain, but Lu Xi only gets darker with every attempt. In a fit of pique, the audacious Mu Yao waves a hand and not only gets the villain onto a variety show called Come Home, but also starts serializing fanfiction about the two of them.

Only when filming begins does Mu Yao realize that this is actually a dating show!

Mu Yao: I don't understand, but I'm deeply shaken.

With no other choice, Mu Yao has to take the stage himself and play his villain's adorable little wife.

The other guests are surrounded by pink bubbles, while the villain and his little wife act like a dad taking his son out.

The other guests go on sweet dates, while a father figure has a heart-to-heart with his disobedient eldest son.

The other guests go through the adjustment period of dating, while the father figure enjoys the pleasures of family life.

Viewers: What a moving father-son bond!

Mu Yao only wants to redeem the villain so he can stay alive and go home, but the villain's gaze grows increasingly strange.

Mu Yao: What? Weren't they a moving father-son duo? How did things suddenly change?

A tree spirit bottom who switches effortlessly between adorable little wife and fiery little pepper x a top who keeps switching between devoted father and shameless rogue

The top isn't actually his father.

After eighteen years, little monster Wu Huai finally does something brave: he escapes from the monster village.

Then a human takes him home.

This human is fierce, a lot like the monsters in the village, but somehow a little different.

The human speaks to him gruffly, but also gives him all the good food. The monsters in the village are mean to him and steal his food.

The human frowns and says he's a handful, but gives him everything he wants all at once. The monsters in the village just corner him and threaten him.

The human complains that he's a little stutterer, but gets angry when someone else calls him that. The monsters in the village spread his flaws around to everyone.

After observing him very carefully, Wu Huai decides that this human is a good person.

The little monster originally plans to stay at the human's house for a while, then move out once he's saved enough for rent.

But things don't go according to plan.

One day, he discovers that the monsters from his village have also come to the human world. They bully him like they always do, but the human who took him home sees them.

The human says, "Little stutterer, if someone bullies you, bully them right back. Don't be afraid. I'm here."

Oh no. He's a little bit smitten.

Suddenly, the name little stutterer, which sounds disgusting when the others say it, makes him feel safe when this human says it.

After that, Wu Huai falls for him more and more.

Although this human is as gruff with him as the monsters in the village, Wu Huai can't help falling for him.

What Wu Huai falls for is how the human cares about every little thing he does, and the soft heart beneath his fierce exterior.

But Wu Huai doesn't dare show how he feels, because he's not only a monster, but a despised rat spirit.

He doesn't steal, and he's very clean, but people still don't like him. After a lifetime of being disliked, he knows that a little mouse spirit will be hated no matter what.

Until one day, his identity is exposed. He waits for the human to treat him like the other monsters do, but the human says, "So what if he's a little mouse spirit? He's my little mouse spirit."

*

Xin Zhou goes to the hospital, and the doctor tells him he has a terminal illness and only three months to live.

On his way home, he picks up a little mouse spirit.

After much deliberation, he decides to spend those three months raising the little mouse spirit until he's plump and well-fed, as a way to build up some good karma.

In his final days, he makes all his arrangements. He entrusts his wall of sneakers to his best friend, the little mouse spirit to his parents, and his inheritance to the little mouse spirit.

Just as he's preparing to die in peace, the doctor tells him he was misdiagnosed.

WTF?

Can he take it all back now?

Friend and parents: Dream on.

Only the silly little mouse spirit brings him all the things he left behind, holding them out to him.

As if offering him his whole heart.

He ruffles the little mouse spirit's head, grumbling fiercely: What's mine is yours, and what's yours is still yours.

Little mouse spirit: Is something not quite right here?

A timid little mouse spirit bottom x a fierce celebrity top

Theme: We should cherish nature.