After Faking My Death, I Became the Black Moonlight's Vermilion Mole

Vengeful, cold-hearted, unhinged younger seme x gentle, sickly, flirtatious older uke who doesn't realize it

Black Rose is a melodramatic tragedy. The heroine, Chi Huo, is obsessive and cold-hearted, and never lets an insult go unpunished. Her path of revenge and putting scumbags in their place is incredibly satisfying. Wen Er, the story's most vicious villainess, ultimately has her hands and feet broken by the heroine, then is thrown off a cliff to die full of hatred.

Wen Er was unlucky enough to transmigrate into the body of the fake heiress who shared her name.

Fortunately, she arrived just as the real heiress, Chi Huo, was brought home. The villainess hadn't yet had a chance to bring disaster upon herself, so Wen Er still had time to make things right.

She personally took care of Chi Huo in every little detail of daily life. She sought revenge on everyone who had ever bullied Chi Huo. When Chi Huo was injured and unconscious, Wen Er climbed three thousand stone steps, bowing with every step, just to pray for a strand of bodhi beads for her.

Wen Er couldn't lie to herself: she had fallen in love with Chi Huo.

Even luckier, Chi Huo loved her too.

Lost in her happiness, Wen Er forgot Chi Huo's cold, calculating nature and ignored the scheming in those eyes.

In the end, Wen Er discovered that it had all been wishful thinking. After having her feelings toyed with, she suffered a mental breakdown, pulled away from Chi Huo, and resolutely jumped into the sea, where she drowned.

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Chi Huo grew up in an underground dogfighting ring, where her heart was tempered into something ruthless and cruel.

One day, when she was twelve, she finished a match and stepped out of the ring. A beautiful, smiling older girl ignored the blood covering her and pulled her into an embrace. "You must be Chi Huo. I'm Wen Er. Did you know you might be Wen Mao's daughter?"

Wen Mao was a prominent business magnate, and Chi Huo's only hope of escaping hell.

The girl's gentle, sickly smile kept Chi Huo from pulling away. She even handed over the crucial proof of her identity.

The next day, one of Chi Huo's legs was broken. Only then did she realize Wen Er had tricked her into handing over the evidence, making it impossible for her ever to return home.

From then on, Chi Huo trusted no one.

When she returned to the Wen family, she looked at that radiant smile and wanted to tear Wen Er's skin off and rip out her tendons on the spot.

Strangely, Wen Er didn't secretly make things difficult for her. Instead, she cared for her at every turn and even declared that she had fallen in love with her.

Watching Wen Er confess her love so earnestly, Chi Huo's dark eyes glinted with amusement. She forced herself to endure the disgust and play along, just so she could watch Wen Er break down and go mad when the truth finally came out.

But when Wen Er really did jump into the sea to kill herself, Chi Huo felt no joy at all.

In the days that followed, longing clung to her like a bone-deep curse, tormenting Chi Huo day and night until she could find no peace.

"Wen Er, I miss you so much."

Those belated words could only be spoken to a broken strand of bodhi beads.

Reader's guide: 1. Wen Er didn't actually drown. She faked her death.

2. Chi Huo really is cold and unfeeling in the beginning, and lacks the ability to process emotions like a normal person.

3. A melodramatic wife-chasing crematorium story.

November 30, 2023

Theme: True love still exists in this world