After Provoking the Black-Hearted One, He Fights for Me at Every Turn

This book is also known as The Matchmaker in a Redemption Story [Book Transmigration]

One day, Fu Mingtang woke up and discovered she had transmigrated into a book.

She picked up the script and took a look: childhood friends, senior brother and junior sister, and a vicious, vindictive black lotus?

She got it. She just had to redeem the villain and keep the world from collapsing!

System: Not quite. You've been assigned to the Matchmaker System.

Fu Mingtang: ...What? You mean I'm supposed to be a love-life security guard?

The System smiled gently. Yes. Your tasks include dealing with all the girls crushing on the male lead, as well as stopping the female lead from being stolen by all the male supporting characters. A friendly reminder: pay special attention to the major villain, who has an unrequited crush on the female lead.

Fu Mingtang: Ha. Ha.

So, is it too late to play dead?

In a nutshell: my miserable life of returning reborn only to end up as a supporting character all over again.

--Female Lead's POV--

In the original story, the villain Xie Heng was the sect's youngest disciple, hopelessly in love with the female lead, Jiang Rao. He had a handsome, harmless face, but a hidden blade behind every smile, and was ruthless and cruel. After enduring betrayal by his fellow disciples and rejection by the one he loved, he dragged the whole protagonist team down with him, determined to die alongside them. He was the gloomy, obsessive type through and through.

Knowing what he was really like, Fu Mingtang spent every day on edge, racking her brains and treading carefully.

Including, but not limited to:

When the female lead was hurt, she brought her medicine.

When the female lead was sad, she comforted her.

When the female lead fought, she... cheered her on from the sidelines.

In short, she shut down every chance Xie Heng might get to approach the female lead.

Until one day, someone cornered her at the edge of a cramped bed. The gauze curtains fell, blocking out the last ray of sunlight.

The young man curled his lips, but there was no warmth in his smile.

"Tangtang, do you really like Senior Sister that much?"

"Enough to... not even care about your own life?"

"If that's the case, how about I kill her?"

Fu Mingtang: ...

Help! When did the plot start going this way???!!!

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At first, Fu Mingtang only wanted to finish her mission and get home as quickly as possible.

But later, she realized that Xie Heng wasn't the irredeemably evil, cold-blooded monster depicted in the original book.

Every year on his birthday, he secretly bought himself a sugar figurine. When he hadn't slept well, he would look listless and avoid everyone all day. And over a cold pastry, he once traveled a great distance to avenge a child by killing their enemy.

Fu Mingtang couldn't help thinking that, setting aside his status as a villain, he was really just a boy of seventeen or eighteen.

--Male Lead's POV--

Xie Heng had a ridiculous dream. In it, he fell in love with Jiang Rao and became rivals with Fu Yunjing. Then his love went unrequited and his obsession turned him into a demon. As for how it ended... he couldn't remember, but it probably wasn't good.

At first, the young man only scoffed and paid it no mind. But as time went on, certain scenes from the dream began to play out in real life.

To find out whether the dream was real, Xie Heng decided to start at the source: Jiang Rao. But every time he tried to approach her, someone else would whisk her away first, as if he were some kind of monster.

Finally, after someone deliberately interrupted him for the umpteenth time, Xie Heng looked at Fu Mingtang, who was smiling brightly and asking if he wanted to go out with her. His dark eyes narrowed, and he couldn't help pressing his tongue against his back teeth.

He should have been angry, but at that moment, all he could think was: how could anyone's smile be so dazzling?

...So dazzling it made his eyes ache and his heart go numb.

What Xie Heng didn't know was that the first meeting he had scoffed at was actually a reunion he had longed for countless times, but never gotten.

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Reader's Guide:

1. The leads are mutually in love, and this is a one-on-one romance. The plot in the blurb will be explained later, so read without worry~

2. I'll add more later if anything comes to mind~

Blurb screenshot dated 2026.06.02

Theme: Love makes roses bloom in the wilderness.