After Exile, I Built a Fortune with the Villain-Saving System

Next up in my collection: "A Wrong Note". You're welcome to add it to your library! The blurb is at the end.

A self-conquering, beautiful but tragic man, reborn x a resilient little ray of sunshine who transmigrates into a book

[Blurb]

While being exiled, Song Tiaotiao, the illegitimate daughter of the Duke Who Guards the Nation's household, awakens memories of her past life. She discovers that she has transmigrated into a male-lead revenge power fantasy, and become the male lead Gu Chengjue's original wife, whom he married in place of someone else and who died early from hunger and cold.

Forget it. She and Gu Chengjue have been enemies since childhood, and dying of hunger and cold sounds utterly awful.

Luckily, though the northern frontier is bitterly cold, it has plenty of resources, making it a great place to get started on a grand infrastructure project.

"Congratulations, Host. You have been bound to the Villain-Saving System."

Song Tiaotiao looks at Gu Chengjue, collapsed unconscious outside her door. What happened to the perfectly good male lead? How did he end up a villain?

Though it's called the Villain-Saving System, under the System's careful guidance, the path to saving Gu Chengjue starts looking more and more like winning his heart.

Thanks to the efforts of both the System and Song Tiaotiao, the aloof beauty who once dazzled the capital gradually descends from her pedestal.

Gu Chengjue raises rabbits and learns to cook by Song Tiaotiao's side. His icy eyes gradually soften into spring waters. He even secretly makes her little gifts, and when he gets drunk, his cold persona falls apart completely.

By the time Song Tiaotiao catches on, her points in the shop are skyrocketing every single day.

Does saving a villain mean getting rich?

She can't let the points go to waste. She buys tools to build a cozy home, then starts a restaurant with oil, salt, sauces, and vinegar. Another day of getting rich!

Gu Chengjue, heir to Prince Ning, was a brilliant young man with numerous military victories to his name. But after his father was falsely accused by treacherous officials, his father was sentenced to death and the whole family was exiled to the northern frontier overnight.

The Ning household suffered heavy losses on the journey. By the time they reached the frontier, only three women and two men remained.

He nursed his hatred and kept a low profile, finally avenging himself at twenty-nine and ascending the throne.

He thought he would live out his days alone, but his adopted younger sister Song Zhaozhao, insatiable in her ambition, secretly poisoned him. Before long, his life was burning out.

When he opened his eyes again, he was eighteen, newly arrived in the northern frontier.

His mother and sister-in-law were healthy, his nephew was still alive, and so was the girl who loved to argue with him...

This time, he would live differently.

Just as life was steadily improving, a woman came to their door.

She was the legitimate daughter of the Duke Who Guards the Nation's household, the woman Song Tiaotiao had married in place of, and the heroine of this story, Song Zhaozhao.

Song Tiaotiao had thought Gu Chengjue would go back with Song Zhaozhao and live happily ever after.

But Gu Chengjue's gaze was sharp, his sword almost drawn.

[Little Scene]

Song Tiaotiao sits down beside Gu Chengjue.

She strokes him once.

System: "Reward sent."

She strokes him again.

"Reward sent."

She strokes him again.

"Song Tiaotiao, how long are you going to keep touching me?"

Song Tiaotiao looks up. The cold-faced young man gazes down at her, his eyes deep and intense. "Is there nothing else you'd like to do?"

Reading Guide:

1. Both leads are each other's only partners, with a happy ending. They are each other's first love.

2. The heroine was transmigrated into a new life as a baby and regained her memories. In his previous life, the hero cared only about revenge, with no romance.

3. The story leans toward romance.

[Coming Soon]

[Next Story's Blurb]

Shu Rao was born into the Earl of Yongan's household. With skin as smooth as jade and striking beauty, she was renowned throughout the capital.

But one day, she was set up and fell into the water at a palace banquet.

As her consciousness faded, she heard a cold voice devoid of emotion drift past: "Would you be willing to marry me?"

The next morning, when she awoke, before she could worry about her reputation, word reached her that the Duke of Ying's household had come to propose marriage.

But Shu Rao could not forget the graceful young man beneath the crabapple tree, his pipa string faltering when they first met.

Perhaps it was love at first sight.

In her fluster, for the first time in her life, Shu Rao forgot to restrain herself and mind her manners, and spoke to him.

Unexpectedly, the handsome young man only smiled coldly, his words full of scorn.

She later learned he was Pei Jin, the famously stubborn son of the Duke of Ying.

On their wedding night, the bridal curtains glowed red in the warm candlelight.

Shu Rao was nervous, yet hopeful.

When the wedding fan was lowered, she raised her eyes timidly.

Pei Jin, his wedding robe loosened, looked down at her with an unreadable gaze. "Between us, things will go no further than a respectful marriage."

Shu Rao tried her best to bury the flutter she had felt at first in her heart, and quietly agreed.

At first, remembering Pei Jin's late-night embraces, Shu Rao still foolishly hoped she could warm his heart of stone.

But as time passed, after one disappointment after another, she finally took Pei Jin's warning to heart.

Everyone in the capital knew that Pei Jin, the Duke of Ying's only son, was cold-hearted and arrogant. Even with scholarly honors to his name, no high-ranking official wanted to send his daughter to suffer at his hands.

And sure enough, after their marriage, he was cold and distant toward his wife.

Everyone thought their marriage was doomed, and Pei Jin had thought so too.

But as he felt Shu Rao's smile grow fainter whenever she looked at him, and her heart drift further away, he became so restless that he could not sleep all night.

Only when Shu Rao handed him a letter of separation and said they should each find their own happiness did he finally understand what he truly wanted.

But before he could try to stop her, an accident at the hunting grounds left Shu Rao missing. No one was left to care about his joys or sorrows.

Years later, Pei Jin schemed and struggled until he finally secured another chance to see Shu Rao.

At the temple where people prayed for love, Shu Rao smiled sweetly as she brushed an apricot blossom from the hair of the man beside her.

At the sight, Pei Jin tasted blood in his throat.

What he had never been willing to give Shu Rao, someone else now had.

At last, Pei Jin understood: the pain of pining for her all those years had been nothing at all.

Theme: Different perspectives, different endings