After the Villainous Evil Dragon Was Tamed

"Big sister, he's dead. Now no one will compete with me for you. Surely you'll look at me now."

"Mingwei, you don't understand love at all."

This was the final conversation between the heroine of A Parting in Autumn and the villain before she took her own life while pregnant with the hero's child. It turned a story that should have had a happy ending into a tragedy, and the one to blame was Gu Mingwei, the great villain who tried to force the heroine to love him in the later part of the book.

Gu Mingwei was a younger brother the kindhearted heroine had taken in. In truth, he was the only young master of the Black Dragon Clan, who had gone missing. He acted obedient and well-behaved in front of the heroine, but was ruthless behind her back and could not stand the thought of anyone else being in her eyes. When the hero appeared, Gu Mingwei secretly framed him again and again. When he failed to break them up time after time, he forcibly kept the heroine by his side and then killed the hero, ultimately driving the heroine to take her own life.

Qin Ning hated him most of all when she read the book. If he hadn't forcibly separated the male and female leads later on, the couple, who were already married and expecting a child, would soon have had their happy ending. Perhaps her hatred ran too deep, because she was transported straight into the book and became a cannon-fodder female side character from the same clan as the heroine. Her father was the sect leader, and she was arrogant and overbearing.

In the original story, this character's main purpose was to compete with and bully the hardworking heroine. Later, Gu Mingwei dealt with her in secret, and she met her end with her body and soul destroyed.

But she had arrived early, before the heroine had found Gu Mingwei. Thinking of the evil things he would do later in the story, she got to him before the heroine and took him in herself.

If he liked forcing people to love him so much, then she would make him personally experience what it was like.

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At first, Gu Mingwei really was a little lamb in disguise. No matter how she treated him, he pretended to be weak and helpless. But she could see the hatred and malice he kept buried deep in his eyes. Qin Ning had always known he was wild, and she wasn't afraid of him. Instead, she slowly coaxed him into showing his true nature, baring his teeth like a vicious dog. When he was in a good mood, she would patiently stroke him. When he displeased her, she would cast him aside like a worn-out shoe.

Only after the vicious dog's gaze had finally shifted away from the heroine and he had become genuinely docile did she let him go.

Unfortunately, the vicious dog she thought she had tamed still bared his claws at her. He abducted her. She thought the plot from the later part of the original story would now happen to her instead of the heroine. But the vicious dog bound himself of his own accord, carefully reaching out his tail to touch her fingers. He looked at her and begged humbly, "Ningning, please... love me."

Only then did Qin Ning understand. He was still a vicious dog, but he had willingly placed the leash in her hands.

[This is probably a story about a heroine who only wanted the hero to understand the consequences of forcing someone to love him, but accidentally tamed a vicious dog/dragon.]

[Readers who are devoted to the male lead, beware! The male lead will probably suffer a lot! Neither lead is a particularly good person.]

Theme: Respect other people's freedom.