I Mistook the Villain Boss for the Male Lead and Tried to Win Him Over

Mu Lingyin transmigrated into a cultivation novel aimed at male readers as the second senior sister of Tian Ni Sect.

In the book, the original owner and the young sect master Cen Jiqing had grown up together. She had been in love with him for years, and the sect master and his wife treated her with great generosity.

But after they married, Cen Ji subjected her to cultivation techniques that drained her essence until she perished. Only then did she learn that the Cen family coveted her Yin constitution. The rare treasures they had fed her were all meant to turn her into the finest cauldron in the world, so Cen Ji could rise to become Heaven's favored one in a single leap.

Mu Lingyin smiled at the gentle, refined-looking Cen Ji before her, while a stampede of thoughts thundered through her mind.

What a fine-looking beast. She was running away tonight. Why should she make things easy for him?!

[Warning: Host's current fate is strongly tied to Tian Ni Sect. If you act out of character in front of its members, your consciousness will be erased and the plot forcibly corrected!]

[Only by strengthening your ties with people outside Tian Ni Sect and transferring your fate can you escape your destiny!]

Mu Lingyin: "???"

She remembered that a pair of twins were imprisoned in the back mountain. The older brother, Jiang You, was the original male lead, born with a Pure Yang constitution. His younger brother, Qi Ya, was a villainous Boss born with a demonic seed. She absolutely could not provoke the Boss, but the male lead's powerful fate was just what she needed to use against the Cen family.

She went to the back mountain and found the most handsome, most miserable-looking poor thing.

"Are you Jiang You?"

The youth looked at her coolly and gave a slight nod.

Mu Lingyin played the part of Cen Ji's admirer in public. In private, she often brought the youth food and medicine, and shared the rare treasures the Cen family had given her.

Under the influence of the youth's fate, Mu Lingyin's progress toward changing her destiny finally reached its goal. On her wedding day, she fled Tian Ni Sect with Jiang You, then looked up at the sky and wept with joy.

"A You, you're free now."

The youth's gaze darkened slightly. "Yinyin, you won't abandon me, will you?"

She was at a loss.

Mu Lingyin thought Jiang You was strange. As the male lead, he refused to follow the plot and insisted on staying by her side, as if he had become addicted to being enslaved.

But one day, she accidentally stumbled into his cultivation grounds and saw more than ten bone tails fanning out behind the youth, each joint distinct, like a long whip.

In an instant, the bone tails coiled around her and pulled her into the youth's embrace, trapping her there.

"A-A You?!"

"I don't like hearing you call me A You over and over."

The youth's eyes were as red as blood as he bent down and brushed his lips against hers.

"Forget about that Pure Yang constitution. I'm better at nourishing you."

Mu Lingyin: "??!"

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Qi Ya had kept something from Mu Lingyin.

The older brother who had spent his life trying to kill him had already been buried by Qi Ya on the day he was reborn.

[Please Note Before Reading]

1. A clever girl with god-tier acting skills x a beautiful, powerful, tragic demon lord who's vicious on the outside and insecure on the inside

2. The male lead is reborn, but only has a small portion of his past life's memories. Most of the plot is driven by the female lead.

3. The original male lead is still alive.

4. I revised the blurb. I ran out of inspiration for the original idea and changed it. Sorry, orz.

[Archived with screenshots on June 8, 2026]

Theme: What matters is not the past already set in stone, but how we write the future