The Love-Struck Villain Is Reborn

My next novel, "How to Have a Happy Ending with Your Childhood Friend After He Turns into a Monster," is now underway.

Lu Yan is exceptionally handsome and comes from Jiuxiao Sect, a renowned cultivation clan. His cultivation is on a par with that of his senior brother, the sect leader, so he has countless admirers. But he is chaste and self-disciplined, and not one of them catches his eye.

One day, his junior nephew Jin Xuanye accidentally gets poisoned by a love potion. As fate would have it, Lu Yan is suffering a cultivation deviation at the time, and seeing him makes Lu Yan succumb to worldly desires.

Lu Yan is on good terms with Jin Xuanye's father. He even held the tiny, soft Jin Xuanye at his full-month celebration. And Jin Xuanye is always respectful toward him, so Lu Yan despises his own shameful desires.

To sever those desires, he avoids Jin Xuanye at every turn, but Jin Xuanye keeps seeking him out.

No matter how harshly Lu Yan scolds him, Jin Xuanye never backs down.

Unable to avoid Jin Xuanye, Lu Yan secretly hurts himself to remind himself not to lose his head.

But in the end, he cannot control himself.

So, beneath his sanctimonious facade, he drives a wedge between Jin Xuanye and the childhood sweetheart he is promised to, and chases away all the women trying to get close to him.

He even gets himself half-drunk and shamelessly tries to seduce Jin Xuanye.

Unfortunately, not only is Jin Xuanye unmoved, he asks in shock, "Uncle-Master, I thought you cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness."

"I thought so too." Reeking of alcohol, Lu Yan tugs at his own clothes.

Later, he tries to seduce Jin Xuanye several more times, but fails each time.

Eventually, he simply slips Jin Xuanye a love potion, and finally gets what he wants.

Having acquired a taste for him, he imprisons Jin Xuanye and pleads almost humbly, "Xuanye, won't you fall for me?"

Jin Xuanye glares at him viciously. "In your dreams!"

As time passes, Jin Xuanye goes from resisting to submitting. In bed, Lu Yan even begins to think that Jin Xuanye might have some feelings for him after all.

One night, Jin Xuanye holds his damp body close, bites the tip of his ear, and murmurs, "Uncle-Master, I've been in love with you for a long time. I was only playing hard to get before."

At first, Lu Yan is skeptical. But when Jin Xuanye says it again, he cannot help feeling overjoyed.

Then, as the saying goes, pride comes before a fall.

He has no choice but to realize that Jin Xuanye hates him to the core. How could he have any feelings for him?

Relying on Lu Yan's inner core, Jin Xuanye becomes the strongest person under heaven in one leap, and ascending to immortality is just a matter of time.

When Lu Yan opens his eyes again, he discovers he has been reborn. Jin Xuanye is sitting beside him, and a cup of Nuer Hong wine is set before each of them.

He had slipped a love potion into Jin Xuanye's cup.

Having died once, Lu Yan has come to his senses. Jin Xuanye could never belong to him.

So he must keep being the chaste and self-disciplined Lu Yan.

But before he can speak and send Jin Xuanye away, his body suddenly grows hot. Clearly, Jin Xuanye has switched their cups of Nuer Hong.

Jin Xuanye stands up, looks down at him, and rubs his lips as he coaxes, "Uncle-Master, beg me."

"How to Have a Happy Ending with Your Childhood Friend After He Turns into a Monster" is now underway.

Blurb:

In a dim alley, It captured a boy: pale, beautiful, and delicious.

It eagerly wrapped its thickest tentacle around the boy's waist. Would the organs spilling out if it snapped that waist be as beautiful as the boy's face?

Unlike its kind, It was not a glutton. It could not even remember the last time it had eaten a human.

But now It was famished and needed to feed.

A slick, cool tentacle brushed the boy's lips, then forced them apart.

The boy's tongue was crimson, like the oriental poppies swaying in the bright sunlight that sometimes appeared in Its mind.

It was slightly dazed, and the rest of its tentacles involuntarily covered the boy's body.

So much slime left the boy utterly soaked and covered in Its scent, making him even more delicious.

Its stomach could not help urging it on: Eat, eat!

Many of Its kind liked to eat from the inside out. Supposedly, that made the food taste even better.

It wanted to try that, too.

So its tentacle slipped into the boy's mouth.

The boy seemed to say something.

It paused, and finally managed to make out the words, "Don't leave me."

What a strange human, asking a monster that ate people not to leave.

Of course It would not leave. It was about to eat the boy without leaving a single scrap.

One tentacle after another slipped into the boy's mouth. His face flushed red, but he did not resist at all. He only kept saying, "Don't leave me."

It glanced at the badge on the boy's chest, which represented the Monster Extermination Bureau, and wondered: Is he trying to lower my guard, then kill me when I least expect it?

Yet the boy remained docile, gazing at It with glistening eyes as if It were his entire world.

It could not help softening, even though monsters were not supposed to have soft hearts.

I'll wait until my heart hardens again, and fatten this boy up before eating him. It thought.

At the same time, It suddenly heard the boy confess, "I love you. Don't leave me."

A human loves a monster?

Could this beautiful human be an idiot?

Years later, when It drew the human it had once regarded as food into its arms, It felt every tentacle trembling. It kissed its human with the utmost devotion. "I love you. Don't leave me."

Creative intent: No matter how deep you sink, you can always turn back.