Turns Out She Was Only Repaying a Favor

Yu Xiaoxi had only just regained her senses after years of being mentally disabled when disaster struck her family. Thankfully, a benefactor rescued them and saved the lives of all five family members.

Overcome with gratitude, Yu Xiaoxi wanted to repay him. But before she had the chance, she died unexpectedly. With her last breath, she swore that she owed him five lives and would repay the debt in her next life, no matter what it took.

Who could have guessed that when she opened her eyes again, she would find herself in the body of Yu Hanxi, the woman her benefactor was about to marry?

Well, the chance to repay him certainly came sooner than expected.

It turned out that she had originally been Yu Hanxi, a daughter of a prominent family. Three years ago, a woman who had transmigrated had taken over her body, and with nowhere else to go, her soul entered the body of the mentally disabled Yu Xiaoxi. Now that the transmigrator had died unexpectedly and her soul had returned to the modern world, Yu Hanxi could finally return to her own body.

Looking at the husband she had acquired out of nowhere, she remembered the oath she'd made as Yu Xiaoxi and gritted her teeth. She would keep her promise, treat him even better than before, repay him fivefold, then gracefully bow out and leave the household through divorce.

The trouble was, her benefactor was powerful and influential, as well as beautiful and ruthless. Repaying him was no easy task. With no idea where to begin, she could only treat him even better, so well that he began to suspect her motives.

His pale fingers closed around her throat. Looking into his cold, beautiful, and ruthless black eyes, her instinct to survive sparked an idea. She whispered in her defense, "I do all this, of course, because... I like you."

Later, just as she had finally reached the point where she owed him only one last favor, her benefactor held her captive against him. His crimson lips drew close to her ear, his voice icy: "I want you to keep loving me... Even if it's an act, you will keep it up for the rest of your life."

At a young age, Luo Fuming had risen to a position of power. Beneath the pale, alluring beauty of his face lay ambition and a willingness to do whatever it took. People called him the Ghost of the Underworld.

For political reasons, Luo Fuming sought to marry the Yu family's eldest daughter, Yu Hanxi. They made an agreement: as long as she cooperated with him, they would part on good terms once everything was settled.

Then one day, she accidentally witnessed something she shouldn't have.

After crushing the neck of the person in his hand, he stood amid a sea of dark red blood. He thought little of it, except that his wife in name only probably couldn't be allowed to live.

But instead of panicking and crying out, she calmly told him that given the situation, she had a better option than killing her to silence her.

Impressed by her courage, he didn't rush to take her life.

Later, after she repeatedly risked her life for him, he thought that if she truly loved him so much, perhaps he could let her stay by his side forever.

But when his usually gentle, smiling wife heard this, her face turned deathly pale. That very night, she fled.

Only then did Luo Fuming understand: he was the one who had fallen so deeply, while she had only been repaying a debt of gratitude.

Reader's Guide

1. A ruthless, cold, bewitchingly beautiful, utterly unhinged male lead VS a female lead with no interest in romance, intent only on repaying her debt and leaving the past behind.

2. The male lead is genuinely insane due to his unusual past, and has no conventional sense of morality. Later, he goes mad with love. Readers who can't handle that should take care.

3. The female lead is a native of this world. A transmigrator took over her body for three years. After returning to her original body, she has both her own memories and the transmigrator's, so modern expressions occasionally slip out.

4. Happy ending, single-couple romance.

Theme: Repay kindness with gratitude.