Li Qingshang transmigrates into a book, and the System orders her to win over the original story's gentle, warm-hearted second male lead.
But the moment they meet, Lin Weilin holds a knife to her throat.
Li Qingshang: ? What happened to him being gentle and warm-hearted?
And that's not the only problem. To Li Qingshang's dismay, Lin Weilin falls in love at first sight with the original heroine, just as he does in the book.
Li Qingshang flips the table: How the hell is she supposed to win him over now?
So Li Qingshang watches helplessly as Lin Weilin falls for the heroine.
Lin Weilin tells the heroine jokes.
Lin Weilin buys the heroine a hairpin.
Lin Weilin catches the heroine when she nearly falls into the water.
In the end, Lin Weilin rescues the heroine from the leather demon when she's on the brink of death, but forgets that Li Qingshang is still struggling to survive in the dungeon.
Li Qingshang feels a little sad.
All along, even though she knows there's no one in Lin Weilin's heart but the heroine, she's still done so much for him in silence. Not just because of the System, but because at some point, she really did fall for him.
But Lin Weilin never notices anything she's done. It doesn't even compare to a single smile from the heroine.
As the leather demon reaches out its sharp claws and lunges at her, Li Qingshang closes her eyes.
You can't force anything, including Lin Weilin's love. She was wrong. Her mission to win him over has failed completely, and it looks like she'll die here today.
But the pain she expects never comes. A blade flashes, clear as spring water flowing through bamboo
The leather demon's head is severed from its body.
Lin Weilin wipes his blade clean and smiles faintly.
"Li Qingshang, did you really think I would abandon you?"
·
Lin Weilin has been roaming the streets for as long as he can remember. At ten, he was captured and made into a hidden guard for the Prince's Manor.
The manor is full of dangers, and because his identity as a hidden guard must never be seen, Lin Weilin suffers every kind of torment.
Anyone can trample him. His life is worthless, and no one cares if he is killed.
After enduring all manner of inhuman training, Lin Weilin is finally forged into an indestructible killing machine.
But the first thing he does after joining the guard corps is turn on his master and assassinate the prince who painstakingly trained him.
Looking down at the body growing cold on the ground, Lin Weilin understands one thing: anything in this world can be obtained if you force it.
He had wanted to kill him for a long time, but every attempt had failed. He'd tried countless times, probably hundreds. At last, he succeeded.
Lin Weilin sheathes his blade.
So the world is simple after all. Just keep demanding what you want, and you'll get it.
·
On the run, he meets an unusually interesting young woman.
To save her life, she tells him that she is willing to stay by his side for the rest of her life, never leaving or abandoning him.
Lin Weilin sneers.
Never leave or abandon him?
His parents abandoned him when he was five. He was kidnapped into the Prince's Manor at ten. Everyone treated him like an animal and tormented him in every way. All his life, there have been too many people who've humiliated, abandoned, and abused him. He's never felt even a little love.
So how could anyone, in a world where no one has ever shown him the slightest kindness, be willing to stay by his side forever?
Lin Weilin thinks it's just crazy talk to save her own skin.
But the young woman is kind to him. She tucks him in, folds paper flowers for him, and makes tea cakes for him...
Lin Weilin has never experienced such kindness, and naturally, he becomes addicted to it.
Gradually, he gives up on wanting to kill her.
But Li Qingshang is kind not only to him. She also cares deeply for Qin Xu, who joins them later. Though Qin Xu has a face quite similar to Li Qingshang's, Lin Weilin finds her incredibly irritating.
But Li Qingshang likes her, and he can't bring himself to kill her. He can only go along with Li Qingshang and be kind to her too, hoping to win Li Qingshang's attention.
Look, I like the things you like, too.
But Li Qingshang doesn't care. Instead, she grows more and more distant from him.
Lin Weilin: ?
In the dungeon, Li Qingshang pushes Qin Xu into Lin Weilin's arms again, anxiously urging him to take her away or the leather demon will hurt her.
Lin Weilin sneers. She doesn't even care about her own safety when rescuing someone. Is Qin Xu really that important to her?
And what about him? Hadn't she promised never to leave him?
Lin Weilin grows irritable and flies back.
He draws his blade, and with one stroke, severs the demon's head. Blood sprays everywhere.
A smile appears at the corner of his mouth, sick with obsession.
He understands now. Li Qingshang values Qin Xu's life more than her own because she doesn't like him or care about him.
Good. That makes things much simpler.
If she doesn't like him, he'll keep her tied to his side, never letting her out of his sight. Given enough time, she'll come to like him.
If she doesn't care about him, he'll kill everyone she cares about, until he's the only one left in her eyes, the only person she can care about.
In this world, you have to force things if you want to obtain them.
Kind, innocent, radiant little-sun heroine × black-hearted, seemingly gentle but actually twisted, possessive, and obsessive yandere hero
[Both are devoted to each other and each other's first love. The heroine thinks she's doomed to unrequited love, but ends up driving the hero to forcefully claim her.]
Theme: Healing all those who have suffered
